Why New Yorkers hate AI Friends, Producer Claude gets an update, and the value of human writers in the Age of Slop | E2185

If you're a founder, this is the important lesson, if you raised venture capital before and your team, your team is made up of the people who raised venture capital and failed before, you're like level one in terms of fundable. Then if you had an exit and you returned your, you know, If you return people's money back plus a little bit, you're like level two. If you had a great return and you returned a lot of their money back, they had a great exit, now you're like level three. And if you IPO'd or you had like a billion dollar sale, now you're like level four.

So if you just like look at those levels of founders, level zero is you're just new to the game. Okay, go to Y Combinator, Launch Accelerator, Antler, Tech Stars, et cetera. But once you've raised venture capital before, now you can go to venture capitalists and say, hey, remember when I lost $4 million trying to do this crazy pendant company and it didn't work? Well, now I've got a better idea.

And here's what I learned from my pending company. And uh, you know, just putting the first two stories together. That actually makes you more, more fundable. This week in startups is brought to you by AWS Activate. AWS Activate helps startups bring their ideas to life.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (60 minutes, 11,433 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.