#75 Becoming a Rebel, Coding, Political Activism, His Story & How He Thinks, Tech and Exists, De-Risking Investments through AI with Keith Teare @ SignalRank

Keith Teare has decades of experience as an entrepreneur, with multiple success stories, starting in political activism, then tech. He is the Founder of SignalRank which is a data-only company using AI to transform the venture game, and has a weekly newsletter and show ‘That Was the Week.'

Your feedback matters - 1min: https://go.ggutt.com/talks

Where to find Keith

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kteare/

• X: https://twitter.com/kteare

• Youtube (That Was The Week): https://www.youtube.com/@kteare

• Substack (That Was The Week): https://substack.com/@thatwastheweek

• Book: Under Siege: Racism and Violence in Britain Today

Maria + GGUTT links

• X: https://go.ggutt.com/x

• GGUTT GPT [WIP] https://go.ggutt.com/gpt

• LinkedIn: https://go.ggutt.com/linkedin

• YouTube: http://go.ggutt.com/videos

• Rumble: https://go.ggutt.com/rumble

• TikTok: https://go.ggutt.com/tiktok

• Website: ggutt.com

• Notion: 🧠The Complete Business Innovation Pack for $1: https://cloud.ggutt.com/your-business

---
Timestamps

• 0:00 Introduction

• 2:29 Escaping irrelevance 

• 6:08 Education system: borderline pass/fail

• 7:04 Fail…then pass

• 8:39 Becoming a rebel

• 9:15 Strength, escape, control

• 10:30 British Army in Northern Ireland

• 11:17 Founding and leading the Irish Freedom Movement

• 11:44 Thinking that politics can change the world

• 12:06 Learning to code (for political causes) and making an impact

• 13:19 The scope of his ambition and survival mode

• 14:12 Making more money than he’s ever seen

• 14:34 Not liking the 1994 version of himself

• 15:19 Asking to be fired, starting again and going public

• 17:33 Writing a book ‘Under siege’ between politics and databases

• 18:43 Equity, raising capital and missing out on 195 million £ and the move to USA

• 22:40 Where are things bubbling up

• 24:11 Mobile, cloud, hardware and now AI and human abilities

• 30:52 Critical thinking, custom GPTs, tools and software

• 33:20 Keith’s primary use of ChatGPT at SignalRank

• 35:58 Keith’s approach to code and de-risking investments

• 38:32 How the idea behind SignalRank came up

• 40:15 Lean Startup and short-term thinking

• 41:54 Asking the right questions to build SignalRank with unbeatable predictions

• 44:26 Y Combinator v/s SignalRank algorithms

• 46:32 Turning qualitative data into quantitative data (question at 43:50)

• 47:06 What we look at to score investors: how good are they?

• 49:37 From data points to collective scores

• 50:26 His heuristic is the brain

• 51:22 Venture Capital is gambling

• 53:04 SignalRank’s algorithms removing randomness, opportunities and goal

• 56:47 Venture Capital is changing, Chamath Pallihapitiya’s speech and David Hornick’s response

• 58:08 SignalRanks is a Digital VC - data only

• 59:39 Starting to invest solving this access problem

• 1:00:44 Outside North America and Europe

• 1:01:34 An era of huge wealth and huge conflict

• 1:04:24 Where is Keith moving to, political activism and change

• 1:06:22 A dance between innovation and freedom, producing wealth and distributing wealth

• 1:08:12 Utopia removes reasons for wars

• 1:09:59 Silvio Berlusconi v/s Keith Teare

• 1:10:40 Keith on his GGUTT and solving human puzzles

• 1:12:05 Liking to talk