A year ago, USV decided to explore what an AI native VC firm would look like. We hired Spencer who built a platform and a bunch of agents and wrote this post about all of that before departing to do a startup. And we paused our longstanding analyst program last year and saw how far we could get with agent analysts instead of humans analysts.
That experiment was incredibly successful and we got a very long way without human analysts but in the end we concluded we could not get all the way without them. So we announced last week that we are recruiting for two new analysts.
That led our friend and fellow VC Yoni Rechtman to ask on Twitter, "What, the agents aren't good enough???"
To which our partner Rebecca answered:
-reserves analysis and fund modeling
-LP reporting and company updates
-board meeting summaries and reports
-decks
Of course, this was all pretty predictable. Humans are going to be better at being human for the foreseeable future.
So if you are interested in a career in VC and your superpowers include these things:
-be immersed in networks of early day founders interested in our thesis areas
-be someone those founders want to share ideas with
-have great judgement of people and have interesting and compelling points of view
-be human with other humans and an organizer of great people together
Then you would be a great candidate for our new analyst program that will emphasize these things.
If you want to apply, you can do so here.