The enterprise capital stars have been shining in Los Angeles this week on the Upfront Summit, an invite-only VC convention based by Mark Suster and recognized for going all-out.

For instance, there have been Coco robots serving drinks and numerous pink. AI was the discuss of the city once more and even some celebrities graced the stage, together with Woman Gaga, Cameron Diaz, Katy Perry and Novak Djokovic.

What might have been just a little completely different this 12 months, although, is that it’s been a tricky one for enterprise capital and startups looking for enterprise capital. Some media retailers even referred to as it out.

Keith Rabois, managing director at Khosla Ventures, briefly addressed rumors about what led him to depart Founders Fund earlier this 12 months. He spent a lot of this time onstage defending his transfer away from San Francisco.

Rabois didn’t come out and name individuals there “lazy,” although he did be aware that he is aware of founders who look elsewhere for expertise. That’s as a result of only a few individuals in San Francisco need to work 12 hours a day, six days per week as is the tradition in different cities, like New York, Rabois defined.

He tweeted afterward, calling the The Wall Avenue Journal story about tech leaders who left the Bay Space and are transferring again now “pretend.”

8VC common companion Joe Lonsdale mentioned “Woke thoughts virus,” which included every part from “ripping enterprise” away from corporations like Raytheon to the best way Google units up its search creates a “loopy ideological bent that’s not wholesome for our nation.”

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M13 companion Anna Barber captured Melinda French Gates onstage saying, “I see enterprise capital because the engine for social progress in the USA.” Whereas Upfront Ventures tweeted French Gates saying, “Take a look at a barrier in society and see if there’s a approach to take it down or search for an accelerant in society and discover a approach to make it sooner.”

Journalist Andrew Nusca caught Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon saying, “Right now basically 5 corporations management the web … we mainly made a Faustian cut price within the 2000s” once we gave them management in change for a richer expertise.

Karan Talati, CEO of First Resonance, tweeted that this was his first time on the summit, and “There isn’t a doubt that this 12 months’s emphasis on hardtech displays the thrilling wave of alternatives in manufacturing, aerospace, and power.”