Michael Gilroy

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E405: Why AI Has Made Venture Capital Harder (Not Easier) · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

They really, really do.

They already have the brand halo.

which, by the way, I would argue is slowly going away.

I think that brand halo exists more with first-time founders and with LPs who have known them for a very long time.

Mature founders who have been around, they know that, hey,

We're gonna be sold something that we don't get.

I'm probably gonna end up with two or three different board members over the life cycle of my company at this platform.

Unfortunately, a lot of GPs are leaving their firms right now to go and start smaller shops.

And they say, hey, they may pay the highest price and they may say the best things and they may send me the nicest things in a wind motion at the start of a deal or finish line of a deal.

but they're not actually going to do the things that they say they're going to do.

I also just want to say, this is a human capital business.

We're speaking in generalizations.

There are phenomenal individual investors inside of all of these firms.

And many of them are the reason why these firms earned the right to become a platform.

And so some of them do show up, but in aggregate, this is absolutely the truth on the ground today.

By the way, that's true on deal terms.

You can have somebody who works for somebody else going out saying, yeah, we can do this.

That changes the way the founder's running the process.

And those are kind of the worst outcomes there.

I would like to think I always had great empathy for founders before I was a founder myself.

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