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What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347

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What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347

This Week in Startups

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This Week in Startups

This Week in Startups

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A VC roundtable examines where durable value may emerge as AI advances, from formal reasoning and vertical data to personal agents, AI-native founders, and the future of SaaS.
00:19
Deedy Das steps in as guest moderator
05:17
Formal domains let AI build faster
07:35
AI should learn from failure, not just success
11:19
Compute is a rich person’s game
13:24
Vertical context can beat general intelligence
24:18
The founder may outlast the data moat
27:40
Tiny teams can run thousands of agents
36:56
Trust is the real moat for personal agents
44:16
The category may be huge, but the valuation still matters
48:13
Personal finance is a prime agent opportunity
51:59
Agents may force businesses to clean up
57:14
Coopetition can turn partners into rivals
1:06:32
AI targets labor, not just software budgets
1:12:45
Go to the source
1:16:12
A prepared mind creates better investment opportunities

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VC roundtable with guest host Deedy Das
00:00
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01:23
OpenAI's math results and what's left to invest in
02:11
Formalizing taxes and code so AI can prove its work
05:10
Why science breakthroughs still need the real world
06:37
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09:44
Can startups compete with the labs on compute?
10:54
Private data and vertical AI as the moat
13:02
Would you invest in AI training data companies?
18:54
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20:34
What a great founder looks like in the AI era
26:29
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29:13
Is Instinct worth $10 billion?
34:35
Can Muse reach a billion daily users?
41:31
Favorite personal agent use cases
44:49
What happens when everyone's agent makes the same call
49:06
Factory vs. Cognition and VCs backing rivals
53:17
Is SaaS still worth venture money?
1:03:49
Where the panel gets its information
1:09:49
What a seed fund means in 2026
1:14:45

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Speaker 2: Hey everybody, welcome back to This Week in Startups. We're doing a VC roundtable, and you may notice this guy doesn't usually do the VC roundtables. I know, Jason is traveling, he is abroad this week, he is not here, but I'm not doing this by m...