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Antonio Bustamante

Antonio Bustamante

📍 San Francisco 🌁

From the publicani to AI VC - 5,000 years of venture capital

Technology has a way of disintermediating markets, but it also tends to consolidate them. That's because the function of leverage through technology, just like capital, isn't linear, but exponential. When we talk about "economies of scale", we simply state that pooling resources is more

What I look for in people - How I recruit and hire

I was running the numbers. I've interviewed between 700 and 1000 people in my life so far. I started interviewing people very early in my career because the company I joined right out of college was hiring aggressively – perhaps too aggressively considering they folded a few months after

retro 2023

Every year around this time I write a little retrospective on yearly highlights and learnings, but this is the first year since I have done it where I feel so much has happened, that one blog post won't be enough. This year I've learned a lot

Where are you in your customers' P&L?

also titled "Do robots dream of electric COGS". I'll keep this one short. I hope. This week's rant comes after years of working on B2B software. If you're building or investing in B2B software, hear me out. The 3 biggest pitfalls I&

Building products: The "Why? Ok, so?" framework

Also titled "Stop building things no one wants".

Building companies: Incentives from first principles

If you have a product or service and you're starting to build the organization that will support its growth, you've probably wondered how you should compensate the people working in it. This is what this post is about. Don't expect specific OTE breakdowns, templates,

Practical AI: AI for Enterprise, complex ontologies, and lots of data

also titled Do Androids Dream of Vectorized Ontologies? A recurring conversation I've had with friends building in the AI space is how to get started using LLMs in enterprise environments. The use cases are extensive, from transcribing and summarizing large amounts of data to drawing conclusions and sparking

Practical AI: Changing the way we do business

Explore the power of AI in transforming business processes. This article delves into the shift from improvisation to diligent experimentation in start-ups and how AI can elevate operations, from automating simple tasks to orchestrating complex processes.

AI is the next interface

AI is the human-computer interaction model we've been dreaming of since the idea of automation crossed our minds. It will not only replace ubiquitous interaction concepts like the mouse but also render 80% of today's software obsolete. GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out, is dead. That'

Kill the backlog

Most backlogs never get done, and those that do probably shouldn't have. If something matters, apply intentionality to it and ship it fast. The faster you ship, the sooner you learn and build what your user needs.