Claire Zau spent six years in venture capital and became the youngest investor to make partner at GSV. Then she did something very few other VCs were doing: she started posting social media videos about AI to inform the general public. A year, 337,000 followers and 1.6 million likes later, Lightspeed Venture Partners hired her in a role that's never existed in venture before: New Media and Investor. Fortune’s Allie Garfinkle sits down with Claire to talk about the AI bubble, AI education, the gap between Silicon Valley and the general public, and why one in three Gen Zers say AI makes them angry.

0:00 — From VC to Viral: How a Lightspeed Partner Built an Audience on Short-Form

0:29 — The Algorithm Is a Feedback Loop and VCs Are Finally Using It

8:37 — Why Some People Are Being Left Out of the AI Story

17:21 — Promethean Fire: The Case for Techno-Optimism When Everyone's Scared

11:23 — AI Literacy Is Like Sex Ed — You Don't Have to Love It, But You Need to Know

13:54 — The Real Problem With How People Are Using AI (And How to Fix It)

23:53 — AI Gives You Leverage, but Only If You Know How to Use It

24:49 — Can You Actually Build a Moat in AI? A VC Answers Honestly

28:21 — Why Early-Stage Investing Is Still a Bet on People, Not Products

30:29 — Bits and Atoms: The New Investment Thesis for the AI Hardware Era

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