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Mikhail Grechishkin Mikhail Grechishkin

Building a tech-enabled VC firm

Mosaic is a partner-only firm. The sourcing, pipeline management, deck analysis, and meeting prep that would traditionally fall to a junior investment team is now handled by partners working alongside purpose-built data infrastructure and AI-native workflows, because two years ago we made the bet that intelligent machines could do it better.

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How will OpenAI compete?

OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experiences that haven’t been invented yet, and it can’t invent all of those itself. What’s the plan?

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AI eats the world

Twice a year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in November 2025: ‘AI eats the world’.

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What kind of disruption?

Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined markets. But what kind of disruption are we talking about ?

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Apple innovation and execution

It matters that Apple’s new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn’t realise. Is it more than that?

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Are better models better?

Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these models can’t do that. So what does ‘better’ mean, how do we manage these things, and should we change what we expect from computers?

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The Deep Research problem

OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.

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AI eats the world

Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. For 2025, "AI eats the world"

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Competing in search

Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?

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The AI summer

Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back. Every big company has done a pilot, but far fewer are in deployment. Some of this is just a matter of time. But LLMs might also be a trap: they look like products and they look magic, but they aren’t. Maybe we have to go through the slow, boring hunt for product-market fit after all.

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