Alex Iskold | 2048.vc
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VC | Lead Pre/Seed @2048vc | Pitch me http://2048.vc/pitch | Coach @HarvardHBS | Blog http://startuphacks.vc | Systems Thinker
At @2048vc we believe that - Smart vertical workflows can be - Data capture machines - Can become systems of record - Causing strong moats - Leading to platform opportunity - Enabling venture scale outcomes
How do you feel about AI replace HR in a first screen interview? Fine or disrespectful? Depends on a type of job? Not okay now but will be inevitable in the future?
Slightly different take: It is 100% a Google killer It takes time out of all other activities It drives different emotions from Facebook (what’s that btw?!) and X Different use case.
People think of ChatGPT as a Google killer but every day it’s becoming more apparent that it’s a Facebook and X killer. ChatGPT doesn’t (yet) have the social features but you leave every interaction feeling smarter and happier and it gradually eats away at time on toxic socials
Best non obvious consumer / prosumer AI companies you’ve seen recently? 👇
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Fundraising should be hard. When fundraising is too easy, it tricks founders into thinking building a business is easy. It should be hard to convince someone to give you millions of dollars that you’ll probably lose.
AI agent lifecycle in 3 phases: Phase 1: Can it do stuff? Phase 2: Can it do too much? Phase 3: Guardrails. Policy. Control. Every founder with enterprise aspirations needs a story for phase 3 Who owns it will be a huge question? Many will be role specific, i.e., security…
This is rather controversial take but been very top of mind so I will put it here for your feedback. What if we are getting AI agents vs software backwards. What if Software should be orchestrating Agents vs the other way around? I still can’t wrap my brain around why we…
It’s meaningless to collapse age to a single fitness metric but you can take things like HRV and RHR and other biomarkers and place them into age ranges and average. When you have exceptional / top ranges for most then you are effectively younger than your biological age.
The voice of reason...
A "MODIFIED SAFE" IS NOT A SAFE The point of the SAFE is that it's standard. Everyone knows they're getting a fair deal. Too many VCs claim they're "using a SAFE" when in reality they've added a bunch of special terms and conditions. If you don't see this in the doc, watch out.
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A future without disease IS POSSIBLE.
Find an idea so good it doesn’t matter how often you screw up.
Just asked the new OpenAI agent to book a restaurant. Had to stop it as it was on infinite loop trying to select the date in the browser. Anyone had luck getting this thing to work?
If OpenAI had to give the user back $1 every time after being corrected the model said - Oh, you are absolutely right … It would be quickly bankrupt.
Gotta love it when a random travel site in Italy makes you register and then emails you a registration confirmation with the password in clear text. 🤣🇮🇹🍕👏
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Can someone explain to me how Stephen Colbert show was burning $40M/yr on $70.2 million in revenue?
Math is deterministic based on a body of knowledge. Emails are not and open ended.
ChatGPT is now better at math than almost all humans, an incredible accomplishment. So it's interesting that it's still worse at writing cold emails than the average founder.
The more narrow, the more clear the ICP the higher the chance of focus, making customers happy and getting to early PMF. From their you can broaden and scale. Making initial ICP blurry almost always kills the lifoff. Product for everyone is a product for no one.
Small N with really strong engagement is exactly the type of signal you want to see