Co-founding companies together from idea to impact. AI Fund is a venture studio. We collaborate with entrepreneurs and corporate partners to create great companies that move humanity forward.
About the role
A Principal Builder decides which bets are worth making. The core of the role is technical insight applied to business judgment: seeing how a deep tech idea can uniquely solve a market need, and bringing the intellectual heft that elite founders and corporate partners respect in a co-founder. You drive each idea forward until it's either falsified and ended, or handed to a newly formed company.
What they're looking for
- Work with commercial partners, including corporates, VCs, and LPs, and with elite founders to identify, shape, and validate new company ideas
- Build the business case for ideas that hold up: market sizing, business model, go-to-market plan, and a clear written thesis for the company
- Decide which ideas to bet on, based on the size of the market opportunity and how uniquely AI can solve it
- Help recruit the founder. Explain the idea to potential founders and Engineers in Residence, and help bring the right person on to lead the Build
- Drive AI Fund's co-founding of companies with partners and founders, mainly through product, user, and go-to-market guidance during the 12-week Build
- Build the recommendation on whether AI Fund should invest at the end of the Build, then support the AI Fund partner on follow-on investment and portfolio support
More about this role
Mountain View, CA | AI Fund | Full-time
AI Fund is a venture studio founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in 2017. We build AI companies from the ground up with corporate partners, investors, and elite founders, backed by a fund from top-tier global corporations and VC firms. Our purpose is to build AI companies that move humanity forward.
A Principal Builder decides which bets are worth making. The core of the role is technical insight applied to business judgment: seeing how a deep tech idea can uniquely solve a market need, and bringing the intellectual heft that elite founders and corporate partners respect in a co-founder. You drive each idea forward until it's either falsified and ended, or handed to a newly formed company.
- Work with commercial partners, including corporates, VCs, and LPs, and with elite founders to identify, shape, and validate new company ideas.
- Build the business case for ideas that hold up: market sizing, business model, go-to-market plan, and a clear written thesis for the company.
- Decide which ideas to bet on, based on the size of the market opportunity and how uniquely AI can solve it.
- Help recruit the founder. Explain the idea to potential founders and...
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