Jess Sloss

I founded Seed Club, a venture network that turns the conviction of the people founders most want on their cap table into coordinated capital. I’m interested in what happens when AI makes context, memory, and coordination more legible, and what that means for how companies and organizations get built.

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Week of September 28, 2026

AI floods drug pipelines, shifting value to physical testing

AI is generating compounds faster than physical infrastructure can validate them, making contract research organizations the near-term picks-and-shovels winners. The bottleneck is moving from discovery to wet-lab throughput, not from ideation to molecule.
  • AI-designed drugs are already reaching human trials.
  • The key open question is whether better discovery yields fewer expensive clinical failures.
  • Infrastructure, compute, and energy constraints draw parallel investor attention.

Startup funding logic is bifurcating into two extreme camps

The venture conversation is converging on a binary view: capital-light businesses should bootstrap, while moonshot or winner-take-most ventures should raise aggressively. The broad middle ground of moderately funded growth startups is losing its advocates.
  • Business type, not founder ideology, should determine the funding approach.
  • Anthropic chasing a two-trillion-dollar valuation is making junior VC roles look unattractive.
  • Legibility to capital is a practical skill technologists routinely undervalue.

AI models are weak moats, adoption curves may be overstated

Models are framed as the fastest-depreciating assets in the stack, making them poor investment theses on their own. Skeptics draw a direct parallel to the 2021 blockchain cycle, where widespread awareness failed to translate into durable, paid adoption.
  • Awareness and actual paid use are two very different adoption metrics.
  • Agent loop primitives are becoming table stakes, not differentiation.
  • Personal AI assistants already cost three thousand to seven thousand dollars per user annually.
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