{"slug": "usv-analyst-2-0", "title": "USV Analyst 2.0", "summary": "Union Square Ventures (USV) is hiring two human analysts after a year-long experiment with AI agents proved insufficient for fully replacing human judgment in venture capital. The firm found that while AI agents were effective, they could not replicate human abilities such as network immersion, judgment of people, and organizing communities. USV emphasizes that humans remain superior for these interpersonal and evaluative tasks.", "body_md": "A year ago, USV decided to explore what an AI native VC firm would look like. We hired Spencer who built a platform and a bunch of agents and [wrote this post](https://blog.usv.com/meet-the-agents) about all of that before departing to do a startup. And we paused our longstanding analyst program last year and saw how far we could get with agent analysts instead of humans analysts.\n\nThat experiment was incredibly successful and we got a very long way without human analysts but in the end we concluded we could not get all the way without them. So[ we announced last week that we are recruiting for two new analysts](https://blog.usv.com/usv-analyst-program-2026).\n\nThat led our friend and fellow VC Yoni Rechtman to ask [on Twitter](https://x.com/yrechtman/status/2054212450124169288), *\"What, the agents aren't good enough???\"*\n\nTo which our partner Rebecca answered:\n\nOf course, this was all pretty predictable. Humans are going to be better at being human for the foreseeable future.\n\nSo if you are interested in a career in VC and your superpowers include these things:\n\n-be immersed in networks of early day founders interested in our thesis areas\n\n-be someone those founders want to share ideas with\n\n-have great judgement of people and have interesting and compelling points of view\n\n-be human with other humans and an organizer of great people together\n\nThen you would be a great candidate for our new analyst program that will emphasize these things.\n\nIf you want to apply, [you can do so here](https://blog.usv.com/usv-analyst-program-2026).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/usv-analyst-2-0", "canonical_source": "https://avc.xyz/usv-analyst-20", "published_at": "2026-06-03 15:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 20:48:09.812156+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-startups", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Union Square Ventures", "Spencer", "Yoni Rechtman", "Rebecca"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/usv-analyst-2-0", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/usv-analyst-2-0.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/usv-analyst-2-0.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/usv-analyst-2-0.jsonld"}}