#18: Leverage on Humanity
Mercedes Bent, founder of Premise VC and formerly a partner at Lightspeed, joins Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson for the season's first guest conversation. She walks through the stack she uses across the five jobs of venture, sourcing, evaluating, winning, portfolio support, and exits, then demos the agents her team built to run an in-person community of roughly 450 AI engineers and researchers.
The through line is her argument that the obvious first use of AI, more volume at lower cost, is usually the wrong one. Getting to something genuinely useful takes second and third order thinking…
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