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.'
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Where to find Keith
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kteare/
Youtube (That Was The Week): https://www.youtube.com/@kteare
Substack (That Was The Week): https://substack.com/@thatwastheweek
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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
#75 Becoming a Rebel, Coding, Political Activism, His Story & How He Thinks, Tech and Exists, De-Risking Investments through AI with Keith Teare @ SignalRank