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Bucky Moore
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Bucky Moore
@buckymoore
Partner @lightspeedvp
- Excited to share that I have joined @lightspeedvp to help drive their early-stage efforts in enterprise. Lightspeed has been on my radar for a while. 14 years ago, I noticed they were the lead investor in many of the startups we were tracking @Cisco. Lightspeed also had Cisco
- I’m embarking on a new chapter after 7.5 amazing years at Kleiner Perkins. I am grateful for the trust and collaboration that my partners and teammates placed in me, and will cherish the friendships and memories. In particular, @mamoonha who took a bet on me when it was far from
- It continues to surprise me how mad some people get when posed with the idea that hard work and sacrifice is necessary to accomplish great things.
- As a VC, there is no greater self-own today than being baited into punditry on the future of AI. No one knows, and the info asymmetry between those working in frontier labs and the rest of us is only growing wider…
- Replying to @creatine_cyclefor 2025 to be the “year of agents,” 120g daily is critical to ensuring the necessary rate of vibe-coding to deliver on these agentic workflows
- 🤔 Happy new year folks. I decided to share what I'm thinking about as an investor heading into the new year for the first time. To my peers who are veterans of the craft of "VC predictions," am I doing this right? 1/8
- We @kleinerperkins are excited to announce our partnership with @jarredsumner and @oven_sh as part of their $7m seed. Oven is building serverless hosting and CI for JS apps, powered by bun.sh. oven.sh (1/2)
- ‘22 is going to be an awesome year in infrastructure software. I see so many great companies out there that are ready to cross the chasm. Some thoughts from me on what is top of mind:
- We have partnered with @togethercompute, who announced their Series A led by @kleinerperkins today. @vipulved @ce__zhang @percyliang @tri_dao Chris Ré, and team are leveraging their immense AI systems engineering and research expertise to bring state-of-the-art compute
- Infrastructure in ‘23. Some thoughts from me on: - Javascript clouds - Workflow systems - The unbundled OLAP architecture - Foundation Models
- True story: 3 years ago, a very senior IBM exec asked me who they should acquire. I immediately responded with Hashicorp, and made the pitch. He had no idea who they were. Glad they figured it out. Congrats to all involved.HashiCorp is excited to join @IBM to continue building the platform of choice for multi-cloud automation. @armon shares his thoughts on how this serves our community, customers, partners, and product innovation: hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp… (link contains important information)
- We are thrilled to share that @LM_Braswell has joined @kleinerperkins as a Partner. She will be at the forefront of our efforts to partner with the best founders in infrastructure and AI. Welcome Leigh Marie!
- The two times I went against this advice early in my career both cost me a lot of $. Always bet on friends.just bet on your friends blindly. every single time.
