Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, unpack their recent conversation with Sarah Tavel, Partner at Benchmark. Together they discuss their takeaways from Sarah’s recent decision to take a step back at Benchmark to fully focus on AI, getting into the lessons they can learn from that approach and what that means for the future of artificial intelligence. They also discuss the current state of venture in light of this decade’s AI boom, and theorize where this will put the ecosystem in the future.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 Welcome to Origins

0:48 How Do We Carve Out More Time For Thinking?

3:02 How Are LPs Handling AI Risk?

6:02 Can You Achieve AI Diversity as an LP?

Minisode: Can LPs Diversify in an AI-Obsessed World?

Origins: Inside Venture Capital