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Jaeden Schaefer

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AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

But what I'm talking about when I see AI and what I think a lot of these investors are looking for is AI that actually completes something.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

In the past, maybe I had to manually write a title and description for my podcast and

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And today, AI can grab the transcripts of the audio file and do that for me.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And if that's actually like accomplishing something for me, it's useful.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Whereas if it was just like, I don't know, a chat bar on the side where it's like, you know, ask me what would be a good description for this.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Type in your title and I'll give you some ideas like that is not useful.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

It's not automatically doing something for me.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And that example I just gave you is like very basic.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

I mean,

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

I think ideally you would upload an audio file and it would fill out all of the data and automatically find the best time to post it and look at your calendar and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Like it's just going through and automatically doing stuff.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

That is what they're looking for, not a chat bar on the side.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Okay, so what are they less interested in?

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

What are investors less interested in investing in AI right now?

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And what that is, is thin workflow layers.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So generic horizontal tools, light product management software, and surface level analytics.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

If an AI agent can replicate the core value quickly, I think investors are not seeing this as very defensible.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So maybe even some of my previous examples weren't the greatest because in a sense, what they want tools to be able to do is have some sort of custom data set, some sort of

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

you know, deep integration into something that's super, super critical.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And it's not something that just like a chat GPT or anthropic can can replicate easily.