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I ask because that's where the VC money and hype was back then and yet to me it didn't seem as if YC founders were playing that game. I may have the wrong impression of the past. To me AI appears more "real" than crypto but that might be because it's the current thing.
New starup idea: build an AI that generates slidedecks with exactly the buzzword soup VCs are looking for this week. Obviously using reinforcement learning :)
Did many founders in the previous years before the SBF/FTX Incident work in cryptocurrency fields? I ask because that's where the VC money and hype was back then and yet to me it didn't seem as if YC founders were playing that game. I may have the wrong impression of the past. To me AI appears more "real" than crypto but that might be because it's the current thing.
“In 2022, when “Crypto / Web 3” was the hottest thing to work on, 33 YC startups were working in the space — in both of the most recent batches there was only 1.”
So that’s still only like 5% working on crypto stuff even during the mania I guess?