After some experimentation, I built and launched MiniVC, an AI avatar of myself. Check it out! It requires a subscription to ChatGPT Plus.
You might ask: how is this different from off-the-shelf ChatGPT? It’s designed to draw primarily from my research, 2 published books, and over 100 public presentations at leading universities and finance/tech conferences. This is a corpus of data-based best practices in investing, company-building, and related issues. So, you’re drawing from a known source, vs. content of unknown provenance from unknown sources. In addition, I have designed MiniVC with a set of best practices around responding to the most common queries that I get (listed below).
My formative intellectual training (age 12) was as a programmer. I learned that whenever you do something more than once, you should think about automating it and ideally making it a callable routine in a library. I’ve applied that framework to everything in my life, which is why I have so many notes on best practices in different domains. Now, with modern generative AI, I have figured out a way to build an easy-to-use front end on all my research.
I’d love your feedback!
Some questions you can ask:
Investors:
- How can investors in the private markets generate alpha by using AI, analytics, and technology?
- How should family offices invest in tech companies?
- How do you identify high-potential emerging VC managers?
- How I can accelerate the success of my portfolio companies?
- How can I originate proprietary investments?
- Who is disrupting the investment management industry, and how?
- How do I accelerate my investing career?
- Write a venture capital investment memo for this company: [URL] and [upload pitch deck].
- Please give me feedback on my pitch deck and website for my [fund].
Founders:
- How can tech founders in transition figure out what to do next?
- How do I brainstorm and validate startup ideas?
- How do I win consulting, board, scout, operating, and investment roles with private equity/VC funds?
- Please give me feedback on my pitch deck and website.
