Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

Founders Will Hack AI Systems #venturecapital #founder #siliconvalley #technology #ai

16 Feb 2025 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Charles Hudson, Feb 16, 2025) observing that founders will learn to "hack" or optimize their submissions to venture capitalists if VCs deploy AI systems to analyze companies. Hudson expects founders to modify what they send—not necessarily fraudulently—but to tailor materials to get favorable AI outputs, and he flags this as an unresolved arms-race concern.

And if I know anything about founders, if you give them a set of rules, somebody will figure out a way to hack or optimize it. And so I'm also just very curious in this arms race, if VCs start using more AI to analyze companies, that will provoke some response, which I have not thought through. What it will be from founders who will modify what they send us. I don't mean in a fraudulent way. They will optimize whatever it is that they send us to get a good answer out of the AI.