CEO & Founder, Vezeeta
Search every verified Amir Barsoum interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote โ each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Amir Barsoum, founder and CEO of Vezeeta and managing partner of InVitro Capital, has been speaking about his approach to building AI-focused companies. He described InVitro Capital as a venture studio and fund that builds and funds companies from idea to exit, focusing on the intersection of AI and services. Barsoum stated that the firm seeks opportunities in "tech starved industries" with significant human capital requirements and scarcity. He noted that InVitro Capital builds companies with the goal of becoming cashflow positive within three to four years, describing this as "non-negotiable." Barsoum also said that the firm has grown to over 150 professionals and four portfolio companies in three years. Barsoum has expressed optimism about AI, calling it "a level of innovation that is almost as equal to electricity" that will "change every single thing around us." He acknowledged risks such as job security and the pace of change, but said he chooses to "jump onto it and ride the fascinating wave." Barsoum advised that workers do not need to "teach yourself super new science" to remain relevant, but rather need to learn how to use available AI tools. He also reflected on his experience building Vezeeta, noting that he initially held on too long to building electronic medical record software before pivoting to a consumer booking platform, which he called "the best decision in my career."
“I'm quite optimistic about AI which I think and I think most of the people in the world now think it's a level of innovation that is almost as equal to electricity and I think it's going to change every single thing around us and I see that from an optimistic lens not from a pessimistic lens.”
“We raised $70 million. In Vizita we raised $70 million over the course of five rounds. And the last one was kind of an exit to some of the shareholders and partial exit of myself and so on. So yeah, it's accurate.”
“We look at opportunities or ideas that are in tech starved industries. We don't like industries where there's so many people trying to go after it. We like opportunity that has a significant human capital requirement and usually when this happens there's a huge human capital scarcity.”
“Job replacement in the AI era is real. We're seeing it left, right, and center. We're seeing it in engineering jobs, customer care jobs, marketing, sales, operations. Structured jobs are going to be replaced and that will push humanity to upscale themselves and do more of the unstructured, more sophisticated jobs.”
“You don't need to teach yourself super new science to become relevant to the market. You need to deploy the mindset of learning the tools available in the market and maybe learning a little bit here and there, and you'll find yourself quite relevant.”
“Some industries like healthcare are more about trust than flashiness and innovation. People want to feel that they trust the provider more than feel that they are innovative because most people don't want innovation on their bodies.”
“Investment only is pretty boring for me. I'm definitely more of a builder than anything else. I love to be the builder, get the product market fit, scale it a bit, but then someone else should do the scalability part better than me.”
“From zero to one, from building from an idea to a company that is profitable, we kind of consume somewhere around 3 to 4 million which is incredible. Two years ago I would say it's impossible but I think we're seeing this very very possible now.”
“The most important thing is you solve the problem. When you solve the problem and have customers, now you are in business. Then you can start looking at how to scale that. Scalability comes later, not in the first year.”
“We are in a fascinating time that I would say in every three or four generations there's this level of invention. We could look at it from a scary pessimistic lens or we can jump onto it and ride the fascinating wave ahead of us and I would choose the latter and let's build together a different future to us and to our...”
“The real growth happens when you sit down in a coffee shop with your friend telling them, my God, I use this product, that it's amazing. So you want people when they buy your product and they're going to buy it by sales and marketing, but when they use it, start talking about it and that's the real growth.”
“We build through profitability. We are eyeing companies and we build companies that in three years time, they're going to be cashflow positive. We want to build real businesses. We don't want to build businesses that are going to pay back in 10 years time, we want a business that would pay back in three to four years t...”
“I think sales is the capacity to build bridges with your clients and your customers. And this is the bridge where information will flow through. I always think there's engineering here, there's customer here. And there's the bridge, which is the guy who's doing this, what you call it, what I call it sales or call it re...”
“The biggest evolution that's going to happen in the coming 10 years is changing the jobs of today that is done by humans to make it basically excluded and done by AI. And I do not envision this leading to unemployment. I'm actually envisioning this is the growth of the market size.”
“We build for profitability and when we are profitable, that's when we start thinking about what kind of exit options we have. I think we have three types of exit options in what we're looking at. Either it's a company that we want to hold and we don't want to exit, or exit to private equity, or sell to a strategic.”
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