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Today’s show:

VenturusAI founder Emanuel Ciciu joins Jason as he dives into the origin story of his new startup before talking about building vertical AI solutions (1:30). Then Blackbird VC's Samantha Wong gives a presentation at Angel Summit about identifying soon-to-explode startup markets (41:53).

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Time stamps:

(0:00) Emanuel joins Jason

(1:30) VenturusAI origin story

(5:20) The evolution of prompt engineering

(9:09) Embroker - Use code TWIST to get an extra 10% off insurance at https://Embroker.com/twist

(10:23) The true cost of building on top of a LLM

(12:56) Building vertical AI solutions

(18:15) VenturusAI demo

(23:36) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist

(24:42) VenturusAI path to 100 customers

(29:51) Next steps for VenturusAI

(35:40) Jason places a bet

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(41:53) Blackbird VC's Samantha Wong on identifying soon-to-explode startup markets at Angel Summit

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