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 distribution

Daniel also shares his perspective on AI disruption, venture capital, and the future of trillion-dollar companies.