For five consecutive years, Silicon Legal has been recognized by PitchBook among the top 10 most active law firms in the VC space.¹ To celebrate, we invited some of our innovative entrepreneur and seasoned investor clients to share their lighthearted reflections from 2023 and predictions of what lies ahead.
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Jonathan Yaffe
If the venture capital ecosystem was a movie, what would the title of 2023 have been?
Apocalypse Now
Friend, Enemy, or Spouse?
| AI | Spouse |
| Web3 | Enemy |
| Future of Work | Friend |
In five words: What’s your most outlandish prediction for the venture capital market in 2024?
AI models all go open source and all the Billions invested into LLM companies are worthless
Who, what, or where did you find your greatest inspiration in 2023?
Radiohead
If you could rename one popular tech term to be more honest and descriptive, what would it be and why?
“Liquidation Preferences” = “Added-in Gratuity”
About AnyRoad
Founded in San Francisco in 2013 by brothers Jonathan and Daniel Yaffe, AnyRoad is the leader for experiential marketing software. AnyRoad is founded on the belief that real-life, in-person experiences offer brands invaluable opportunities to build long-lasting relationships with their consumers, ultimately creating a community of brand advocates and accelerating revenue growth.
AnyRoad offers the only unified platform for experiential marketing that effectively connects back-end processes like booking, ticketing, payments, and more, with first-party data capture, consumer feedback and analytics. Armed with the AnyRoad platform, leading brands across various industries are able to streamline and scale their event operations, drive continuous improvements in their strategy with actionable insights, and increase the return on investment from every experience.
About Silicon Legal Strategy
Silicon Legal Strategy is the premier boutique law firm providing targeted, bottom-line-oriented advice to technology startups, innovative entrepreneurs and seasoned investors. Trained at the top firms in Silicon Valley, our attorneys and staff are incredibly passionate about technology and have extensive experience representing early stage companies and investors. We are a known quantity in Silicon Valley, and work with or sit across the table from every major law firm in the area. Perhaps most importantly, we ourselves are entrepreneurs. We truly understand the challenges of a startup — like building and motivating a team, creating repeatable processes to ensure continued customer satisfaction at scale and dealing with infrastructure issues. We face these challenges every day — and as a result, are able to deliver more relevant, bottom-line-oriented advice. Put simply, we actually “get” what entrepreneurs are going through.