Paul Hsu ⏩
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web3 VC ⏩ Founder & CEO @decasonic💡catalyzing the AI and web3 supercycle ⚙️ past: dot com VC • @zynga • product first, early stage VC 💯 not financial advice
web3 • AI • metaverse
Joined October 2008
I've been in VC since early web1. @ychernova leads with great insights into how our industry is evolving. Excited to announce with the WSJ our final close of our web3 native venture fund with $48.88M with 88 investors. @decasonic.
Paul Hsu, an ex Zynga exec now running crypto fund @Decasonic, expects gaming mergers like Microsoft-Activision to result in talent leaving big corps for startups. More on this & his Chicago-based $48.8M fund raised from Pritzker Org, Drive Capital, others
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The intersection of crypto and AI is accelerating revenue generation.
The Fastest Revenue Scalers are in Crypto. Crypto revenue velocity has increased as the ecosystem has evolved from protocols to applications that scale trading attention and monetizing market volatility. DeFi Protocol Era – crypto companies have historically been very fast at
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the rationale for an open, resilient, and programmable internet gains mainstream momentum.
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We further consider how each of our 74+ AI Agents enhance our investment alpha, scoring them across the types of AI capabilities: . 50% are Market Parity, . 30% are Differentiated, and . 20% are Frontier Innovative AI Agents. More to come.
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🏦 Domain-Specific Agents are the most exciting for venture capital: specialized AI built specifically for reviews of narrative, product market fit, token durability, network effects and speed in execution.
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👨💻 Developer Agents are accelerating our AI product expertise, along our strategy of AI building AI. This work compounds how AI agents prototype new AI agents.
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🗣️ Conversational Agents are enhancing founder and investor relationships by drafting up messages that capture reasons to work with our firm.
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💼 Business-Task Agents are streamlining operations by automating document processing, news aggregation, event monitoring, and portfolio management.
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📊 Analytics Agents are transforming how we interpret market, adoption and blockchain data, creating dashboards and generating business intelligence summaries that would take human analysts days to compile.
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🤖 Research Agents are revolutionizing due diligence by automatically sourcing and validating information from founder backgrounds, social media sentiment, academic literature, market reports, and regulatory filings. Imagine having an analyst that never sleeps, processing
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There are generally Six Archetypes of AI Agents - some views of how they may help venture capital:
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Background: What exactly is an AI agent? . Think of it as an autonomous digital assistant that can take actions, make decisions, and complete complex tasks without constant human oversight. Unlike traditional software that follows pre-programmed rules, AI agents can adapt,
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AI Agents can work 24/7, in collaboration, in ways that compound our human capabilities. We've deployed over 70 of these agents across our investment workflows to learn how they will transform the future of venture capital. 🧵 some details
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RT @NEARProtocol: The race to own AI is on and Big Tech is winning. They want your data. Your value. Your control. FORK THAT. NEAR was b….
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RT @rohitdotmittal: 10 years in the Bay Area taught me one thing:.Winning is the only metric that matters. Not your failures. Not your sac….
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across our strategy for humans, AI clones and AI agents, . AI building AI compounds speed. execution speed compounds success.
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we continuously upgrade through v-infinity. improvements are non-stop, esp as AI builds AI.
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RT @gregisenberg: shipping fast vs shipping smart. There's this weird thing happening in my founder friend group lately where everyone's ob….
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RT @StockSavvyShay: $HOOD CEO SAYS IT’S TIME TO MOVE BEYOND $BTC, $ETH & MEME COINS -- INTO REAL UTILITY. Vlad’s playing for something bigg….
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