What You Must Bring:
- Experience in building a successful startup from 0 to 1 resulting in a financially successful exit (large or small) multiple times.
- Prior operating, product or engineering executive experience.
- Experience raising venture capital financing or have worked as an Angel Investor or for a VC in an investment capacity.
- Strategic thinking.
- Highly collaborative work-style, pragmatic, and resourceful problem-solver
- Capability and desire to build relationships and network within the venture industry
- Demonstrated problem-solving, quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, including deep familiarity with high-tech startup
- Approaches work with an unparalleled level of personal ownership, responsibility, integrity, and ethics
Nice to Have:
- MBA, Engineering, or other advanced degrees are a big plus.
- Sales or business development experience is a plus.
- Seen companies through the growth phase is a plus.
- Domain expertise to be better matched to a project is a big plus.
Characteristics:
- Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity.
- Leadership: able to influence others to follow you and lead the team to a brighter future.
- Grit. able to stick with projects and work hard through good and bad times. High pain tolerance and can perform well under stress or pressure.
- Scrappy: Takes initiative and proactively gets things done with low resources, but doing creative things, begging, borrowing, and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation.
- Ownership orientation: Demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature.
AI Fund Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AI Fund and has not been reviewed or approved by AI Fund.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as strong with great healthcare and dental coverage, plus vision insurance, long-term disability, and life insurance. Feedback suggests this aligns with tech-standard benefits for US roles at a small venture studio.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) plan with employer match for US employees. Feedback suggests this forms part of a competitive total package for fund roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support includes fully paid parental leave for applicable roles. Feedback suggests this is a standout benefit for an organization of this size.
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Who is AI Fund? We are a team of AI pioneers, proven entrepreneurs, seasoned operators, and venture capitalists that collaborates with leading entrepreneurs to solve big challenges using artificial intelligence. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, AI Fund is backed with $176 million in capital by some of the leading VC firms and investors, including NEA, Sequoia, and Greylock. How Are We Different? We work with entrepreneurs during their startup’s most critical and risky phase, from 0 to 1. At the earliest stages, your company strategy is still being formed, and you’re still on the path to demonstrating your idea’s full potential – this is a reality we understand. This is the period when decisions on product strategy, market fit, and team are most critical, moving fast and fixing parts of your business when you have limited resources is a challenge. We believe the best way to help entrepreneurs is by providing our time, expertise, and resources to help flesh out these key strategic decisions. Making the right decisions at the right time can often make the difference. We are here to improve these dynamics, at a time when the help matters the most. Why Work With AI Fund? Getting a startup from idea to Series A funding is not easy. We’ve been there and understand the challenges you must overcome. Whether you desire limited help and just want access to our unique ecosystems of AI experts and entrepreneurs or you would like our full support, we are interested in the opportunity to help in your success. We are flexible in how we work with companies, but ultimately, we are here to maximize your chance of success and accelerate getting your company to market. We provide the capital, expertise, and resources to accelerate the work required to minimize risks in your startup, help you rise above the noise, and make your company more attractive to new investors.
