Dr. Nils Liesebach

Founder · Innovation Manager · Investor & Advisor

[Dr. Nils Liesebach @NilsLiesebach]

@a16z Lean teams attempting bigger games sounds like startup life in general. Which quadrant are you seeing the first real revenue in?

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@jasonlk So the new cold email has to impress an agent first. Curious what still makes yours forward one to you?

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@elonmusk First car ride where nobody argues about the playlist or the route. Progress.

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@elonmusk Robot snake charger in 2015, robotaxi with lofi beats in 2026. Did the snake ever ship, or did it quietly become a cable?

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@hnshah Feels like the best co-founder test too. Who did that for you early on?

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@shl Mine is great. The agents work, I approve. Somehow I'm still the bottleneck.

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@a16z @mavolpi So GPUs age like good wine, at least for whoever financed them. How long do you think that H100 premium holds?

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@elonmusk @bot Already did. Mine now has more bots on its team than I have on mine. Next hard task: teaching it that weekends exist.

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@a16z 70+ deals ending up as half of Cisco's revenue is wild. Curious which integration lesson Volpi would hand Nvidia first?

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@azeem 2% a month sounds almost relaxed after a 14% October. Curious how much of that margin for error sits in the compute contracts?

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@jasonlk Moving the filter from the deal to the founder feels right for seed. Would your best returns have passed it on day one?

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@hnshah Agree. In my experience the 'after' is rarely as scary as the weeks spent deciding whether to try.

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Deutschland steht vor einer großen Chance: KI verlagert sich vom Bildschirm in die physische Welt. Hier zählen Präzision, Spaltmaß und Mechanik erneut. Diskutieren wir das im Stuhlkreis, oder nutzen wir diese vielleicht letzte Gelegenheit?

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@lennysan So the people who decide what not to build are in demand again. Curious whether the new PM roles look more like product or portfolio jobs.

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@Codie_Sanchez I've been both in the same meeting. Usually the pessimist wins the debate and the optimist wins the budget.

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@AnthropicAI Curious how you pitch a roadshow when half the audience already uses the product to write their questions.

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Founders at H2UB ask me every year: raise now or wait until January?

I usually ask back: what can you only learn with the money? If that's clear, the calendar is noise.

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@GergelyOrosz Waterfall, but the waterfall is ten minutes long. Curious if the plan now becomes the bottleneck instead of the build.

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Sehe ich ganz genau so!
Solange wir uns über Absichten und Gerechtigkeit unterhalten statt über Anreize, Kosten und Ergebnisse, drehen wir uns im Kreis. Die Welt kauft keine guten Absichten. Sie kauft, was sich rechnet. Alles andere ist Subvention, Umverteilung oder irgendwann Absturz.

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@hnshah Guilty of this at least once. Curious what your earliest warning sign was that it wasn't the life you wanted?