Precursor VenturesA classic pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm

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

16 Feb 2025 · 0 min

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Short clip from Precursor Ventures (YouTube) discussing the likely behavioral response from founders if venture capitalists increasingly use AI to analyze startups: founders will adapt and optimize what they send to VCs to produce favorable outputs from the AI, not necessarily fraudulently. The speaker frames this as an arms race with uncertain consequences.

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.