My guest is Anders from Foundry Ventures, a pre-seed investor in the Nordics who only backs AI companies.

He told me something he’s changed his mind on in the last 18 months, and it stuck with me.

He used to think AI was a big platform shift, but that company building stayed the same. Find product market fit, hire great people, follow the classic venture journey. He no longer believes that.

His view now: founders need to cooperate with AI to find the right problem, not just to build the solution. Because anything you figure out alone, a million other people got from the same prompt in ten seconds. The output is commoditized. The value is whatever you add on top of it.

And he practices what he preaches. He’s not an engineer, but he’s spent hundreds of hours building with Claude Code and Codex, because he believes you can’t invest in this space from the outside.

We also talked about why he thinks today’s companies will employ far fewer people within a few years, and why the answer is launching millions of small new companies going after problems nobody could solve before.

His advice for everyone, from founders to taxi drivers to his own kids: use the tools. That’s the only way to be part of this shift.

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