Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
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The VC decision making process can feel opaque and at times even capricious for entrepreneurs. Part of the reason is that many VC firms have complex internal partnership dynamics. This is especially true for larger firms with many general partners, since those firms need to have a way to come to decisions on deals. That often means that some partners are more senior and have greater say. It helps if your deal is brought to the partnership by one of those senior partners. But it does not follow that you should try to ‘switch horses’ if you are working with a more junior partner (unless you have a deal that VC firms are heavily competing for). The reason is that in most firms senior partners won’t take deals away from the folks who brought them in. And obviously it usually means you lose the junior partner’s support. Complex partnership dynamics may of course exist even when there are only a few partners. At Union Square Ventures we try to avoid this by having a consensus based approach in which everyone participates equally. We also tend to talk about deals early and often. Taken together this minimizes the risk for entrepreneurs that there is some last minute change of heart.
The VC decision making process can feel opaque and at times even capricious for entrepreneurs. Part of the reason is that many VC firms have complex internal partnership dynamics. This is especially true for larger firms with many general partners, since those firms need to have a way to come to decisions on deals. That often means that some partners are more senior and have greater say. It helps if your deal is brought to the partnership by one of those senior partners. But it does not follow that you should try to ‘switch horses’ if you are working with a more junior partner (unless you have a deal that VC firms are heavily competing for). The reason is that in most firms senior partners won’t take deals away from the folks who brought them in. And obviously it usually means you lose the junior partner’s support. Complex partnership dynamics may of course exist even when there are only a few partners. At Union Square Ventures we try to avoid this by having a consensus based approach in which everyone participates equally. We also tend to talk about deals early and often. Taken together this minimizes the risk for entrepreneurs that there is some last minute change of heart.
Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
Modeling The AGI Economy
Competition, Redistribution and the Fork Ahead
Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science
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