What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347

Everybody, welcome back to This Week in Startups. We're doing a V C round table, and you may notice this guy doesn't usually do the V C round tables. I know Jason is traveling, he is abroad this week, he is not here, but I'm not doing this by myself. That would be ridiculous. We've got an amazing guest host stepping in. He is a partner at Menlo Ventures. Give it up for Dee Dee Doss, our special moderator of the week. Dee Dee, thanks so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me, Lon. This is uh These are quite big shoes to fill, as you know. I I talk I am not the world's greatest moderator, Jason J. Cal is, but I will try my best to entertain all the lovely folk. On stream here today. We we certainly appreciate your expertise. Uh stepping in as a guest host. That's gonna be amazing. And we've got an all-star panel for Didi's big week here. First up, Kanou Galati, she's a partner at Coastal Ventures. She's led investments in poly AI, Wabi, Sarbom, so many others. Kanu, thanks so much for being here. Very excited to be here. Awesome. And we've got Chris Farmer. He is the founder and CEO of Signifire, Grammarly and Alchemy, among the notable investments I see here in my notes. So Chris, awesome to have you. Thanks for having me. And finally, we've got Sheil Monat.

He's the co-founder and general partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures, Seed Stage Firm. They're investing in fintech and vertical AI startups, and a wonderful returning panelist to the show, one of our favorites. Sheil, thanks for coming back to the show. Glad to be here. Before we go into our big stories, I do want to take just a moment to thank our friends at Plaud. You may notice I am wearing My plod note pin right now. It helps me keep track of everything we talk about on the show. Also just all the conversations happening around the office. Anything that I need to keep in mind, it is constantly listening in. Only when I tell it to. I can turn it off if I don't want to share what I'm doing. And then it turns everything into these amazing AI generated reports and transcripts, whatever you need. You never have to like, oh what was that person saying? I forgot to do the thing. It's just recorded, it's saved, it's in your notes, it's ready to go. So you definitely want to check it out at plot. dot AI slash twist. And if you use the code twist, they're going to give you 10% off of your plod note pin. There was a look at one of those amazing transcripts. So thank you. To our friends at Plot and now

Finally, we could begin the V C round table. Dee Dee, where do you want to go first? I think you know the biggest news of today and of, you know, maybe I would reckon maybe the biggest news of of many decades, for me at least, is this Unbelievable math result. From opening.

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