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[Roman Iospa @DevelopAll]

Could this be one of the last Labor Days as we know it?
Not because jobs vanish next year. They won’t.
Not because AI and robots replace everyone. They won’t.
But the capability to replace a meaningful share of labor is emerging. Once a capability exists, we tend to use it.
For most of history:
Human → Labor → Output
We may be moving toward:
Human → Intention → AI + Robotic Labor → Output
The human does not disappear. The role changes.
We become the source of the idea, the judgment, the direction, the taste, and the intention. Execution increasingly sits with systems around us.
That is bigger than “which jobs get replaced.” It may change what labor means.
Today an idea still needs a team: researchers, programmers, designers, lawyers, marketers, sales, manufacturing, logistics, capital.
Over time, more of that stack may run through AI and robotics. Not perfectly. Not for everyone. Not immediately. But increasingly.
One person may command what once took 50 people, 500 people, or a corporation.
That does not make everyone a successful founder. Ideas, capital, trust, distribution, regulation, and judgment still matter. It does mean the distance between having an idea and testing it could shrink.
More people may become founders. In a literal sense, more people may also become capitalists: they direct productive capital that performs labor.
So the question is not only whether AI replaces workers.
It is what happens when more of us can command workers that are not human.
History is full of essential skills that later stopped mattering. Most of us cannot hunt a mammoth or navigate by stars. That did not make us lesser. Civilization changed which capabilities were valuable. AI will do the same thing, faster.
Execution may become less scarce. Judgment more scarce. Answers cheap. Good questions expensive.
Taste. Curiosity. Responsibility. Knowing when not to use the machine. Knowing yourself.
“What do you do?” has always been a question about economic function. Doctor. Lawyer. Engineer. Teacher. Founder. Those are not complete descriptions of a person.
If machines take more of that function, labor does not vanish. It moves — from the outside world toward ourselves and what we choose to create.
That is still labor. It is a different kind. Not a world without ambition. A world with more forms of it.
This is one reason I have been working on FlairScore.
I keep coming back to the gap between the capabilities a person possesses and the ones they can actually access and activate. People already carry enormous dormant capability that economic necessity never asked for.
If AI gives some of that attention back, the question becomes: what should I do with myself?
That may be one of the central questions of the AI age.
AI should help us see possibilities, challenge us, and help us execute. It should not decide who we become. The human must remain the source of intention.
None of this is guaranteed to be fair.
Who owns the AI, the robots, the compute, the energy?
If only a few can command artificial labor, power concentrates. If access is broad, millions get leverage that used to belong only to large organizations.
Human labor used to be the scarce resource. Artificial labor may become capital. Human intention may be what directs it.
This is not literally the last Labor Day. There will be jobs next year, and workers for decades.
There is an enormous difference between working because we choose to and laboring because survival requires it.
Perhaps future Labor Days will mark that shift: from physical labor, to cognitive labor, to artificial labor — and then to the work of becoming the person who decides what the technology is for.
The greatest accomplishment of human labor may be a world that requires much less of the labor we once had to perform.
The next task is not keeping humans busy.
It is helping humans become more fully themselves.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There's never been an investment like the investment in railroads. (This graph has a log scale!)

[nihal @nihalmehta]

The latest Carta data on $70B+ invested into Seed through Series C startups in 2025 highlights something many of us in NYC see every day.

NYC is now:
• #1 in Fintech
• #1 in Consumer
• #2 overall startup ecosystem
• Top 2 in AI, SaaS, Biotech, and Healthtech

But the most interesting takeaway isn’t the rankings, it’s the supply and demand imbalance.

Founder demand in NYC still significantly exceeds early-stage VC supply.

Which makes NYC one of the largest structural arbitrage opportunities in venture today.

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

People don’t want to buy software or platforms or even products

They want to buy outcomes

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

This is a big deal...

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

10 PRINT "ANTHROPIC + MICROSOFT + NVIDIA = MORE COMPUTE, COGNITION, AND CHOICE."

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

@DevelopAll @DivesTech @oklo The market is finally catching up to what many of us in venture are seeing: AI’s growth curve is now defined by energy, not compute.
And nuclear is emerging as the only scalable, reliable path forward.

Dan Ives is right the bottleneck is energy. The breakthrough will be nuclear

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

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#vc #startups #venturcapital

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

@DevelopAll @Snap Absolutely. If $SNAP were taken private by the right acquirer or consortium, its real value would unlock fast.

Cut out public market pressure, lean into Gen Z infrastructure & monetize behaviorally - this becomes a ~ $100B+ asset overnight.

#VentureThesis #PrivateEquity #VC

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

@DevelopAll @Snap Good take, many miss the not so obvious... ai + ar + data
Monetization for $snap will happen eventually in much larger numbers...

[S&P Global @SPGlobal]

The value of global funding rounds backed by #PrivateEquity and #VentureCapital rose to $189.93 billion in the first half of 2025 compared with $152.24 billion for the same period in 2024, according to @SPGMarketIntel data.

Discover more >> https://t.co/eFnLOo4w5x

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

Pentagon’s $400M preferred stake in @MPMaterials + 10-yr offtake & price floor is more than a win for one miner.
🛡️ Gov capital derisks U.S. rare-earth supply; 🚀 private & #VC dollars can now chase projects once “unexplorable.”
Blueprint for deep-tech & energy-security bets.

[Roman Iospa @DevelopAll]

This is Huge!! $MP Materials deal with Pentagon!
Great Job James Litinsky & Team @MPMaterials !!! 😉👍👍🚀📈

This is a monumental shift in the United States+ MP vs China!

Thank you for all your efforts!
A happy #MPLong 🚀

[Minh Q. Tran @Minh_Q_Tran]

Crucial Actions for Securing Venture Capital Investments: Discover the key measures to attract funding for your business. Explore this guide for insights. #VentureCapital #Startups https://t.co/LvLiSsdviP

[Peter Korbel @peterkorbel]

I've seen countless founders get caught up in planning and overthinking.
But the real ones are those who take action.

They move fast, iterate, and adapt.
Because they know that execution is what separates dreamers from doers.

#startups #fundraising #venturecapital #founder

[Dave McClure @davemcclure]

Lies, Damn Lies, and Startup Valuations🦄📈📉
https://t.co/SBVmDzwufA
Why Are So Many Busted Unicorns Still Valued Like It’s 2021?
#SiliconValley #Unicorns #VentureCapital @PracticalVC

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

Happy 4th of July! America is beautiful. Let's keep it that way... and progress....🗽🎆🎆

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

"Tech venture firms deploy private equity ‘roll-up’ strategy"
https://t.co/LfFXgvtFw0

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

@DevelopAll @thehill Important & unique perspective Roman. Tariffs aren't isolationism - they are a wake-up call for a world about to be reshaped by automation and AI. Great insights on strategic trade policy and the future of the global economy.

[Roman Iospa @DevelopAll]

Just published in @thehill:

"This isn’t a trade war - it’s tough love to prepare for a future reshaped by automation and AI."

Read the full piece here: https://t.co/TmyjnGGm0C
#TradePolicy #AI #Economy

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

Founders Fund’s new $4.6B fund indicates an era of big VC spending

https://t.co/oEhNlvk66V

[VC Venture Capital @VC_Capital]

RT @FortuneMagazine: The expectations going into this year were that the VC sector was due to get its groove back— as the Trump tariffs tak…