Transcript of ‘How Union Square Ventures Built an AI Brain for Venture Capital’

The transcript of AI & I with Matt Cynamon is below.

Timestamps

1. Introduction: 00:00:52
2. How Matt became in charge of everything AI at USV: 00:01:56
3. How AI empowers generalists to be creators: 00:06:22
4. The Librarian, a chatbot trained on everything USV has published: 00:10:41
5. Portfolio Tracker, an AI tool to track USV’s investments: 00:21:09
6. The AI projects that Matt has in the pipeline at USV: 00:27:21
7. Meeting Notes, USV’s AI note-taking tool: 00:34:33
8. Prompting AI to generate a post for USV’s X handle: 00:44:57 
9. Why it’s important to diversify ownership over data: 01:00:20
10. The Dream Machine, AI that generates images from conversations: 01:03:20

Transcript

Dan Shipper (00:00:52)

Matt, welcome to the show. 

Matt Cynamon (00:00:53)

Hey. Really happy to be here.