You can't outperform a system engineered to misread you

Last week, I wrote about how AI is speeding up the parts of fundraising that were already mechanical, but it isn't going to build trust for you. Shortly after, I delivered a mainstage talk at MIT to a room full of AI leaders. My message was that AI won't solve systemic bias; we have to build beyond broken systems.

That perspective comes directly from lived experience. Scroobious is my second startup. At my first, we spun a medical device company out of MIT, raised nearly $10 million, launched an FDA-registered product, published evidence in medical journals, and secured paying pharma and clinical customers. Yet when we needed to raise a Series B to scale, we hit a wall.

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