#75 Unveiling Keith Teare's Journey: Political Activism, Coding, and Tech Investments with AI

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 writes a weekly newsletter ‘That Was the Week’ which is also a show.

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Where to find Keith
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kteare/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/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

Maria + GGUTT
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GGUTT GPT [WIP] https://go.ggutt.com/gpt
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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

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