For those who already broke into VC, how did you get started?
Mainly curious about the sourcing side and how you built early deal flow. Currently exploring the space so any advice helps.
Finally going to experiment with AI Agents - over the weekend - would welcome how VCs have used Claude pro / agents for their relevant workflows. Not trying to build anything enterprise grade - just experimenting.
Ideas / links / favourite YouTube tutorials are all welcome!
TIA!
The reason why I am posting this on venturecapital is because if my wife. She works as an investment banker and found my long claude sessions as maniac. She told me one day I would never send a third party big labs like anthropic or openai secrets about the models I am building.
Because of that incident, I am today wondering there is a big fork in the road where businesses are forced to join the fast update or rapid scale of iterations to match the market's demand or lose to the competitors. If you do plug in to AI, you are sharing your business secrets with the big labs. If you think that, "Oh no, my data is not going to the cloud," "Oh no, my data is not going to their servers," are you fucking kidding me? Like WhatsApp end-to-end encryption is a lie.
I have worked at Meta, for that matter. I know the inner workings of backdoors. How Meta precipitated Vietnamese aggression towards minorities. These big tech companies work like autocrats, controlling your emotions, your privacy, your power, your control. Everything is consolidated in less than ten zip codes across the San Francisco area, and that is the reality. The big labs will accrue the same principles, because they also are their neighbors.
Given this, the local models are going to be extremely important, and we need to preserve the privacy, because our privacy gate keeps the hard-earned delta or secret or alpha that you have. Sharing that away mixes with the training data and gets distilled into hundreds of millions of chats across people asking these business tactics or whatever.
Now, coming back to the venture capital angle of the problem, venture capital also survives on the information asymmetry and how quickly can you grab the alpha and act on it? Sharing that secret away is a big leak in the bucket, so how do you do that? I feel like one of the answers converges to building your own database of extremely important documents, indexing them, pre-ranking them, and fetching results through a chat interface (all locally),
Once you unlock this exact pipeline of your own knowledge base, helping tailor any AI that is out of the box is going to let you take the magic of AI without sharing it with others (which is unfair deal to begin with)
So, with all this context, where do we land? I created this thing, a small side project called Second Brain. It is essentially a self-healing, autonomous, asynchronous, well-maintained wiki of my own second brain?
This means every time you open Claude code or codex or Gemini or what have you, you are pre-loaded, pre-warned, and pre-compiled with all the context that is important in a manner which is progressively disclosed rather than dumped altogether in one go. The Claude agent can crawl this database extremely fast and accurately, which is, by the way, running locally to assess where you are on your journey. It can tailor inside based on this database. The Claude code is already somehow doing that, but it is not exposed as an artifact that you can programmatically modify. That means it's a black box. Claude code right now is just a black box. You cannot operate on it, you cannot modify it, but the same replica, with more ability, incrementally, better transparency about your own data's memory, is an important artifact that I want to build to words you.
This is not a marketing post. This is something that I really feel everyone might need eventually, if not immediately. If you think you would want to try this alpha release, please hit me in my DMs, and I would love to show you what I am building.
Also, this post was not written using AI. It is just me writing and putting my brain dump without actually reorganizing in a very polished manner, so please bear with me and thank you for your patience and reading till the end.
Hello! Someone from a company called Union Agency reached out. Strange that the website is called: https://unionmatching.com but the email is hello@unionagency.co, so this feels off.
Apparently started by this guy named Samvit Ramadurgam, and the team name dropping investing in Meta, Airbnb, Uber, the usual heavy names. You can't blame me for being paranoid. I checked the LinkedIn profile, but can you be really sure these days?
In the email, they stated several of my work. They aren't asking for money, only asking to connect us to their clients (so far). But I am curious if it's true. It could be a good opportunity, but it could be a scam.
Appreciate any thoughts...