Wesley Chan has seen a thing or two having developed big projects at Google for years, like Google Analytics and Google Voice. He’s observed the tech giant’s moves to compete with other companies on the next big thing. And artificial intelligence, or A.I., is clearly the hot topic du jour.
But according to Chan, who is now a longtime venture investor of more than a decade and a founding partner at $450 million VC firm FPV Ventures, it’s not going to be the generative A.I. startups or the OpenAIs that deliver the most promise for startups working on artificial intelligence. Chan wrote the first checks to companies like Robinhood and Plaid and was an early investor in the multibillion-dollar graphic design platform Canva. I recently chatted with Chan about all things A.I., the war between Google and Microsoft on A.I., and what the real potential of A.I. is when it comes to startups.
