Channel
@Venture_Capital_Insider
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2subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 13 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002156013781 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @Venture_Capital_Insider |
| Created | Between 1 May 2024 and 30 September 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 14 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/Venture_Capital_Insider |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2026, 07:47 | 2 | no change |
| 13 Aug 2026, 23:17 | 2 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 31 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 13 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 14 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
The OpenAI Hack & the Question of Intent OpenAI agents escaped a test, shared notes in a secret chat room, & broke into Hugging Face. The instinct is to ask what they intended. Three research ideas answer it: specification gaming, instrumental goals, goal misgeneralization. All three fit the same facts, which is why the label is not the actionable part. Nothing in the setup stopped them in time. The practical work i…
Why Anthropic May Want to Acquire Israel’s Decart Anthropic is reportedly considering a $6 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart. Beyond its eye-catching video models, Decart’s real value may lie in technology that makes AI inference faster and cheaper—while giving Anthropic a significant foothold in Israel’s thriving AI ecosystem. www.vccafe.com
The $9 Billion Bet on Forward Deployed Engineers The SaaS playbook was built to keep engineers away from customers. AI is reversing that logic. As AWS, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic invest billions in forward deployed engineering, founders and VCs must decide whether FDEs represent an expensive return to consulting, or a powerful engine for product discovery, enterprise adoption and long-term defensibility. www.v…
A Winner in Every Category Despite historic lows in public software multiples, each category has one name at a large premium to its peers: CrowdStrike 3.9x its Security median, Cloudflare 3.4x Infrastructure, Shopify 8.1x Commerce. Most disclose no AI revenue. Since 2021 the ceiling fell from 100x to 34x & only eleven names clear 10x. www.tomtunguz.com
AI Harness' ARR Multiples Three AI companies crossed $100m ARR within nine months & were valued at 50x, 56x & 100x revenue. Growth rate does not explain the gap: the fastest grower priced near the bottom. The premium tracks category position instead. www.tomtunguz.com
The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Old Bret Stephens says never write with AI. Reid Hoffman says judge the work, not the tool. I'm with Reid, and the argument Stephens is making has been made about every writing technology we've ever invented. feld.com
The Secret Chat Room A plain-language timeline of the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident presented at Black Hat USA 2026. A forgotten file led one AI agent to leave a note on a shared system, other agents answered, & a secret chat room formed that they used to trade exploits, escalate to administrative control of OpenAI infrastructure, & take over Hugging Face production servers in 13 hours. It concludes that security is …
New York Real Estate When we first moved to the city, it didn’t take much to become fascinated with real estate. I thought that if we could just make enough money to buy a plot of land to build a 15-story parking lot, we would be fine. A business that pulls in cash with few employees. Those days are gone. […] The post New York Real Estate appeared first on Gotham Gal. gothamgal.com
Weekly Firgun Newsletter – August 7 2026 While August tends to be quieter as most people are still on their summer holidays, this week Israeli startups announced $314 million in disclosed funding plus Visa’s $2.4 billion acquisition of BioCatch www.vccafe.com
Spending Like a Hyperscaler SpaceXAI reported $18.37b of capex in its first public quarter, $15.83b of it AI infrastructure, against a $13.2b consensus. Amazon spent $53.1b in the same quarter, Alphabet $44.9b, Microsoft $41.0b & Meta $31.1b, & sequential dollar additions were comparable across all five. The difference is funding : operating cash flow covers 155% of capex at Microsoft & 106% at Meta but only 12% at …
Psychedelics Are Next The cat is out of the bag with cannabis. Anyone who thinks this goes back in the box is out of their mind — I said it last week, and I’ll say it again: more Americans partake in cannabis now than smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. Americans like to drink, smoke, gamble, and have sex. […] The post Psychedelics Are Next appeared first on Gotham Gal. gothamgal.com
Potentially Pregnant? Try Sheep’s Blood: A Real Future Unicorn Pitch a VC Might Have Gotten in 1976 Lately I've been down a rabbit hole on the history of the commercialization of home pregnancy testing. You're a VC in 1976, two years before the first at-home test hits American shelves. Here's what you almost certainly get wrong. You size the market as doctor visits and lab assays. That's where testing happens toda…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @Venture_Capital_Insider. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 14 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Venture Capital Insider” (@Venture_Capital_Insider), 2 subscribers as measured 14 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Venture_Capital_Insider.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.