VC: Your First VC Meeting Will Be Agent-to-Agent | Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital)
About this episode
Auren Hoffman discusses the future of VC meetings and the impact of AI on capital raising.
Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital) joins the GTMnow podcast to share some of the most contrarian takes in tech today, from why AI moats are gone, to why your next VC meeting will be with a bot, to why AI is secretly going to trigger a baby boom. In this episode: - Why Auren runs 500+ AI agents to source deals, and what that means for founders raising capital - The "agent-to-agent" meeting prediction: by end of 2026, first VC conversations will be fully automated - Why every software moat has been ...
People in this episode
Guest: Auren Hoffman
Topics covered
- VC meetings
- AI technology
- automation
- capital raising
- contrarian views
Keywords
- VC
- AI agents
- automation
- capital
- baby boom
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Organizations: Flex Capital
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