Mercedes Bent
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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interact with an AI companion multiple times per week.
And this is already happening today.
And it's really that, and when they say AI companion, they're not talking about the open AI or anthropic chatbots.
They're talking about the AI characters, the ones that have a personality that talk to them like they're your friend.
And so when you think about that's going to become someone's primary interface to the internet in the future,
Well, then what would you build as a founder to distribute through characters and how would you change your product?
Is it that you have to build websites that are agent only facing and the agents are crawling the data and presenting it back to the user?
Or is it that you're inserting your ad in more character friendly language?
You're describing your product differently.
as a character's companion, as a character's accessory.
There's different ways you can frame yourself that will fit into these distribution modalities.
Trusting your gut when you meet incredible founders.
There's very little you can go wrong with when you know that you've seen – I mean, we've met thousands of founders.
I've met tens of thousands.
I'm sure you have as well.
When you see a founder who just spikes in a couple of areas or any area really that is so rare and distinctive that it stands out to you and you say, that was a strange conversation, that was different.
you probably should just trust your gut and back them.
I've made my most expensive mistakes when I had that feeling immediately in the meeting.
And then later on, as I tried to post-rationalize the numbers or this or that and explain it to my colleagues and eventually get whittled down to, oh, it's a competitive market.
There's a lot of people, you know,
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