Fear & Greed in AI, The Rise of VC Kingmakers & Is Seed the New Sucker Round? | John Chen

John Chen of Fika Ventures joins Nick to discuss Fear and Greed in AI, The Rise of Kingmakers, and Is Seed the Sucker Round? In this episode, we cover: Differences Between Bay Area and LA Founders Lessons from Emergence and Building Fika Investing in AI Native Services and Copilots Challenges and Opportunities in Seed Investing Founder Profiles and Career Paths Connect with John: John’s LinkedIn:   / johnchen12   John’s X: https://x.com/thejohnchen?lang=en Fika Ventures’ LinkedIn:   / fika-ventures   Fika Ventures’ Website: https://www.fika.vc/ The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area. 🔗 Connect with Nick on LinkedIn -   / nick-moran-a738503   You can learn more about New Stack Ventures by visiting our website (https://www.newstack.com/) or LinkedIn (  / new-stack-ventures  . 🔗Link to our website: https://fullratchet.net/ 🍏Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎧Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/31D2vzs... Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social: Instagram:   / tfr_pod   LinkedIn:   / the-full-ratchet   TikTok:   / tfr_pod   Twitter: https://x.com/tfr_pod