Unfiltered: AI & the Future of Venture. Live Podcast taping with Jake Yormak of Story Ventures and Samir Bakhru of Orrick.

AI isn't just another sector - it's rewriting the rules of how early-stage companies get built, funded, and defended. Valuations are being set on traction that didn't exist six months ago. Moats that felt durable are eroding in a single model release. And the gap between hype and a real, fundable business has never been harder to read. So we're putting the people who actually make these calls in a room and letting them talk. On the record. Off the script. Join us for a live taping of Inside Startup Funding , where we sit down with Jake Yormak (Story Ventures) and Samir Bakhru (Orrick) to get past the LinkedIn-friendly soundbites and into the real conversation: how AI deals actually get evaluated, structured, and won. What we'll get into: How VCs are actually underwriting AI companies right now — what earns a term sheet and what gets a polite pass What "defensibility" means when the underlying technology resets every quarter Where the money is really flowing — and which categories are quietly overfunded The legal and structural traps founders fall into early (and how the best ones…