Steve Lord
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 7 Apr
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We've talked a lot about how the venture ecosystem is sort of stalled, waiting for shoes to drop.
And I think that's still broadly true, except AI.
If you are AI, you you you look at the charts and they're all up and to the right.
The number of deals, the value of the deals, the premiums in terms of valuation on those deals, we've had mega
fundraisings from OpenAI and some of these other companies that have really skewed a lot of the numbers.
You take those out of the chart.
It's it's still pretty flat.
It's just really not getting much traction.
So I think the message for our founders is I mean, it's kind of twofold.
If you can put AI into your business to figure out a way to do it, because you'll get you'll be able to raise money easier for it, right?
And if you don't
get it in there.
I mean, you know, we had some conversations internally about this.
AI is gonna end up being even more this way than fintech was, right?
When fintech first came out, everybody thought it was just gonna be lenders and banks.
But then eventually, I think it was Indries and Horowitz that coined that every business is a fintech now, right?
Every business is going to be AI.
That's that's going to happen one way or the other.
Either you're selling it or you're using it, right?
Right.
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