How to Build a $1T Venture Platform with Daniel Dippold

How do you build companies worth hundreds of millions - and aim for a trillion-dollar venture platform?In this episode of Ventures from the Valley, host Victor Orlovski sits down with serial entrepreneur Daniel Dippold.Daniel is a 3x founder with over $300M in collective startup value, a Cambridge machine learning graduate, and an angel investor in 60+ startups since 2020 with multiple unicorn investments.He is also the founder of EWOR, a fellowship that supports top tech founders globally with up to €500,000 and bespoke mentorship from unicorn founders (Adjust, ProGlove, SumUp).In this conversation we discuss:• How Daniel evaluates exceptional founders• Why venture capital is a heavy-tailed industry• How EWOR helps founders build unicorn companies• The infrastructure behind startup success• Why small teams can build billion-dollar companies• The future of AI startups and foundation models• How venture investors identify breakout founders• Why the best founders focus on talent, money, and distributionDaniel also shares his perspective on AI disruption, venture capital, and the future of trillion-dollar companies.This podcast is brought to you by R136 Ventures, supporting visionary founders building the next generation of B2B and fintech companies.🌐 Learn morehttps://www.r136.vc/💬  What matters more for startup success — the founder, the idea, or timing?