[yednap868]

That’s a really fair take and honestly, I agree with a lot of what you said.

Warm intros work because they’re human. When someone introduces you, they’re putting their reputation behind it. Vance isn’t trying to replace that, it’s more like helping people make those intros faster and smarter. The AI just understands context and timing, the human still approves the intro.

On privacy, completely get the concern. We don’t scrape or sell data. Everything is opt-in through alumni or founder networks that choose to partner. It’s less about monetizing networks and more about making them actually useful.

And yeah, starting with IIT/IIM-type clusters is just to prove that the model works where trust density is high. The long-term goal is to open this up so access to good intros isn’t a privilege.

Appreciate you sharing this, these are exactly the kind of questions that help us build this right.