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1/ @jstoffer and I are excited to share the final installment of our AI Unleashed series, covering @Maveron’s Power Redistribution focus area!

We've been thinking a lot about the relationship between labor and capital. In the white collar world, capital has clearly gained leverage as a result of AI. However, due to immigration and an aging workforce, it feels like the workers have the advantage in the trades and across blue collar jobs. Attached find our latest post from @simrangsuri in our series of startup ideas for 2025 based on Maveron's predictions and powered by AI. The focus here is a focus on both next generation unions for blue collar workers as per above and, also, for food delivery (which my teenagers can't seem to live without).

1/ Will VCs be displaced by AI agents? Recently, @simrangsuri and I conducted an internal experiment. We @Maveron fed our 2025 Predictions blog post into ChatGPT and Gemini to explore the business concepts it could spark. There was a flood of investable ideas, some of which have already shown up in seed company pitches we have seen. We'll walk through some of these in this thread.

With Inauguration Day approaching, it’s clear this administration aims to take a radical break from the past. This will likely lead to disruptive shifts in what industries are allowed to do and how dollars are allocated. We’re excited to share today our Maveron Trump Tracker, which covers Maveron’s core industries, each of which represents a meaningful percentage of consumer spend. Please reach out and share with us what you’re seeing and what predictions you have on where venture optionality will emerge from the Trump Administration. maveron.medium.com/the-maveron-tr…

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