VCs spent two years staffing media teams — a sign attention, not capital, is scarce
damianplayer · x · 2026-10-12
An investor observes that the best-capitalized venture firms have spent the last two years building in-house media teams, spending the most money in the industry on reach and mindshare — evidence that attention, not capital, is the scarce resource in AI.
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