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68: Startups, AI, and the Funding Reset: What Investors Really Want in 2025

What if the future of startups isn’t decided by who builds the flashiest AI, but by who solves the right problems?

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In this episode, I’m joined again by my friend Thorgeir Einarsson, almost a year since we last spoke, to unpack how AI funding and investor expectations have shifted from hype cycles to hard realities. Thor runs PGO, a service that helps founders get truly…

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