#75 Becoming a Rebel, Coding, Political Activism, His Story & How He Thinks, Tech and Exists, De-Risking Investments through AI with Keith Teare @ SignalRank
January 4, 2024
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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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.'
Your feedback matters - 1min: https://go.ggutt.com/talks
Your feedback matters - 1min: https://go.ggutt.com/talks
Where to find Keith
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kteare/
- X: https://twitter.com/kteare
- Youtube (That Was The Week): https://www.youtube.com/@kteare
- Substack (That Was The Week): https://substack.com/@thatwastheweek
- Book: Under Siege: Racism and Violence in Britain Today
Maria + GGUTT links
- X: https://go.ggutt.com/x
- GGUTT GPT [WIP] https://go.ggutt.com/gpt
- LinkedIn: https://go.ggutt.com/linkedin
- YouTube: http://go.ggutt.com/videos
- Rumble: https://go.ggutt.com/rumble
- TikTok: https://go.ggutt.com/tiktok
- Website: ggutt.com
- Notion: 🧠The Complete Business Innovation Pack for $1: https://cloud.ggutt.com/your-business
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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