How AI Helps Capital Raisers: Niche Investment Strategies Panel
AI That Gives Capital Raisers an Edge | Niche Investment Strategies (Ep. 5)
Founders, capital raisers and investors who want to hear how practitioners in different industries use AI, and where they say it should not replace their own work.
What stood out
- Pivot early when conditions change. Richard C. Wilson recalls that COVID left the club with 28 planned events and none could be held live. His view was that the faster and harder a team pivots toward a big wave of change like AI, the better.
- Ask many perspectives at once. Hyper Intelligent is built on 100 million data points. It uses 20 perspectives that vote and argue logical points with each other to help a user reach a decision faster.
- Feed old data into AI. Ry says the team drills in legacy asset areas where oil and gas is already known. They plug the reserves of old wells into AI, and use 3D seismic, to better understand what is going on underground.
- Do the fundamental work first. One guest warns that AI brings complacency and treats it as an easy button. They suggest spending 50 to 100 hours reading white papers, academic papers and textbooks, because investors can tell if a presenter knows the subject.
- Simulation can serve legacy operators. A guest targets older data centers with 2% vacancy or less. Their tool simulates the effect of adding batteries, more super capacitors or an upgraded HVAC system, instead of giving a one-time static report.
What you will hear
Richard C. Wilson explains that the Family Office Club moved toward AI after COVID forced it to drop 28 planned events. He highlights Hyper Intelligent, a tool built on 100 million data points across the club's tools. It draws on 20 perspectives, including feedback from 1,040 billionaire interviews and talks and from 1500 investors who spoke on the club's stage.
Ry describes using newer software and 3D seismic data in oil and gas, especially around older producing areas. Another guest, who builds modular data centers, uses AI for simulation but urges teams to do the reading and fundamentals first. A third guest says all of their investors are referrals, so they have not used AI at all.
On the record
- The Family Office Club had 28 events planned in the year COVID hit and could not host them live.
- Hyper Intelligent draws on 20 perspectives, including feedback from 1,040 billionaire interviews and talks and from 1500 investors.
- Ry says an AI search for the color red uses 10 times as much energy as a Google search.
Sources
From Richard C. Wilson's Centimillionaire Strategies YouTube channel: AI That Gives Capital Raisers an Edge | Niche Investment Strategies (Ep. 5). Quotes come from the video captions, lightly edited for readability. Figures are the speakers' own estimates and experience.
General education only. Not legal, tax or investment advice.
Quotes from the session
"There's never been a time in the world where you could ask for advice from the collective intelligence of hundreds of billionaires and get an answer in a second."
"People think it's the easy button to just turn off their brain and let the AI do all of the thinking."
"Spending 50 to 100 hours reading white papers, academic papers, textbooks. Do the old school approach."
Related questions
- How do I use AI to summarize investor meeting notes?Start with a transcript of the meeting, give it to an AI tool with a specific request, and say what format you want back.
- How do I use AI to write investor update newsletters?Give the AI your real source material, such as deal notes, closings and milestones, and ask it for a first draft in your own voice.
- Can AI answer investor questions inside a data room?Yes, AI can draft the answers, and that is how I use it.
Questions about this video
What is Hyper Intelligent?
Richard C. Wilson describes it as a tool built on 100 million data points across the club's tools. Users can ask it questions and it returns feedback from 20 perspectives that vote and argue with each other.
Why did one guest caution against relying on AI?
The guest says AI brings complacency, because people treat it as an easy button and stop thinking. They say poorly structured problems produce suboptimal results, so the fundamentals still matter.
Does every capital raiser on the panel use AI?
No. One guest says their work is relationship based and one-on-one, and all of their investors so far are referrals. They say they have not used AI and rarely use pitch decks or one pagers.
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