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This is what the market got wrong about AI eating enterprise software. Building good software in the past was very hard. Yes, AI has made that a bit easier, though it’s still hard to build something that’s got good taste, differentiated, high quality, secure, and so on. But nevertheless, that’s only one component of building a platform that enterprises rely on. The plurality of costs in most enterprise software companies is actually on GTM, because at scale most enterprise software categories are tough to break into and need a heavy amount of consultative selling and support for implementation and integration of solutions. AI hasn’t reduced the need for that, and in many cases requires it even more now, as landscapes get even more busy and complicated for buyers to navigate through. If you make one thing cheaper and more abundant (development of software) then the new problem of discoverability and market differentiation (GTM) becomes the hardest part.

I've had my fair share of VC horror stories too. But dunking on VCs from one-off bad experiences is such a cheap take. The more interesting question is why it happens a lot. I briefly worked as a VC before. Having been on the inside, my take is that a lot of the bad experiences from founders come from the incentives of the job, not always from bad character. Let's start with portfolio math. A VC fund lives on power laws. Out of a portfolio of, say, 40 companies, one or two will return the entire fund. Everything else barely moves the needle. The VC can't tell which one you are. Predicting who breaks out is nearly impossible. Companies break out of nowhere, suddenly, years later. So you have a job where only the outliers matter, and no way to know who the outliers are. The only rational play is to keep every door open with everyone and occasionally commit. That's what ghosting, slow nos, and "let's stay in touch" actually are. It's not rudeness. It's often optionality. It also explains the thing every founder has felt: walking out thinking the meeting went great, when it didn't. When I worked as a VC, I was explicitly trained to make the founder feel like it's the best meeting they've ever taken, even when we thought they completely bombed. It's deceptive, but it's game-theory optimal. Why close a door you might want open a year later? Founders play a role in this too. A great founder knows how to run a "reality distortion field." Grandiose vision, clean narrative, a story that vastly understates how messy the real world is, all to pull in investors, talent, and customers. The best ones are incredible at it. Now picture being on the receiving end of that all day. Pitch after pitch, every founder feeding you the rose-tinted version, the vastly simplified and high level worldview, sometimes just straight-up lied to. It's a terrible information diet. You end up in an echo chamber where everything is vision and narrative and nothing is ground truth. That's where all the floaty, high-level VC speak, that founders hate, comes from. Live inside enough distortion fields and your own sense of reality drifts. The horror stories are real. And yes, there are genuinely bad people working as VCs, same as there are bad founders. But it's not a profession of villains. It's a job where the incentives subtly reward this behavior. Put most people in that seat and they'd do the same thing.

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