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  How Union Square Ventures Built an AI Brain for Venture Capital - Ep. 36 with
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  Union Square Ventures is building an AI operating system to support their
  investment team. But it’s not what you think: It’s a constellation of AI tools
  that captures and synthesizes the firm's collective wisdom. It’s evolving
  every day, and Matt Cynamon is the mad scientist in charge Matt calls himself
  a “regular” at USV. In practice that means he’s responsible for running
  experiments with AI for the firm. As an inherently curious person with the
  professional obligation to tinker, he’s built a suite of tools for the firm,
  including: The Librarian, a chatbot trained on around 15,000 articles from
  USV’s blog Portfolio Tracker, a GPT that analyzes the investments made by the
  firm Meeting Notes, a tool that makes it possible for team members to interact
  with meetings I sat down with Matt to talk about how AI is enabling him to
  bring his ideas to life as a generalist, get demos of the tools listed above,
  and exchange notes on all the other projects he has in the works at USV. We
  edit actionable insights extracted by an AI from meetings at USV and prepare
  them to be posted on the firm’s X handle live on the show. We even try out an
  art project at USV’s office called The Dream Machine, which generates art from
  conversations. This is a must-watch for anyone interested in riding the AI
  wave by learning how to ship useful products quickly. If you found this
  episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even
  more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT
  here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually
  only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more
  from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on
  X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Episode start
  00:00:52 - Introduction 00:01:56 - How Matt became in charge of everything AI
  at USV 00:06:22 - How AI empowers generalists to be creators 00:10:41 - The
  Librarian, a chatbot trained on everything USV has published 00:21:09 -
  Portfolio Tracker, an AI tool to track USV's investments 00:27:21 - The AI
  projects that Matt has in the pipeline at USV 00:34:33 - Meeting Notes, USV's
  AI note-taking tool 00:44:57 - Prompting AI to generate a post for USV's X
  handle 01:00:20 - Why it's important to diversify ownership over data 01:03:20
  - The Dream Machine, AI that generates images from conversations Links to
  resources mentioned in the episode: Matt Cynamon: @mattcynamon Union Square
  Ventures: @usv, https://www.usv.com/ More about the AI tools at USV:
  https://www.usv.com/people/the-librarian/,
  https://www.usv.com/writing/2024/02/ai-aesthetics/ The X post generated live
  on the show: https://x.com/usv/status/1847354782941663523
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# How Union Square Ventures Built an AI Brain for Venture Capital - Ep. 36 with Matt Cynamon

Union Square Ventures is building an AI operating system to support their investment team. But it’s not what you think: It’s a constellation of AI tools that captures and synthesizes the firm's collective wisdom. It’s evolving every day, and Matt Cynamon is the mad scientist in charge Matt calls himself a “regular” at USV. In practice that means he’s responsible for running experiments with AI for the firm. As an inherently curious person with the professional obligation to tinker, he’s built a suite of tools for the firm, including: The Librarian, a chatbot trained on around 15,000 articles from USV’s blog Portfolio Tracker, a GPT that analyzes the investments made by the firm Meeting Notes, a tool that makes it possible for team members to interact with meetings I sat down with Matt to talk about how AI is enabling him to bring his ideas to life as a generalist, get demos of the tools listed above, and exchange notes on all the other projects he has in the works at USV. We edit actionable insights extracted by an AI from meetings at USV and prepare them to be posted on the firm’s X handle live on the show. We even try out an art project at USV’s office called The Dream Machine, which generates art from conversations. This is a must-watch for anyone interested in riding the AI wave by learning how to ship useful products quickly. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Episode start 00:00:52 - Introduction 00:01:56 - How Matt became in charge of everything AI at USV 00:06:22 - How AI empowers generalists to be creators 00:10:41 - The Librarian, a chatbot trained on everything USV has published 00:21:09 - Portfolio Tracker, an AI tool to track USV's investments 00:27:21 - The AI projects that Matt has in the pipeline at USV 00:34:33 - Meeting Notes, USV's AI note-taking tool 00:44:57 - Prompting AI to generate a post for USV's X handle 01:00:20 - Why it's important to diversify ownership over data 01:03:20 - The Dream Machine, AI that generates images from conversations Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Matt Cynamon: @mattcynamon Union Square Ventures: @usv, https://www.usv.com/ More about the AI tools at USV: https://www.usv.com/people/the-librarian/, https://www.usv.com/writing/2024/02/ai-aesthetics/ The X post generated live on the show: https://x.com/usv/status/1847354782941663523

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