a winning formula for vc's / pe's moving forward.

insider founders with 'secrets' + dev studio + marketing $$ who wants me to build this? (i have the ppl and the playbook). thoughts 👇

it's possible to build a unicorn with 5-10 ppl now. (i'd even argue 3-4 or maybe even 1)

so the next generation of vc won’t look like today's firms.

it’ll look like dev studios with wallets.

here’s the new playbook: → find someone with a secret. not just a founder. someone deep in compliance, logistics, aerospace, pharma, finance, agri, legislation...who knows where the inefficiencies hide. something 'boring' but deep. add 2 ppl.

→ plug them into a tiny studio. 3-6 elite builders. fast iteration, but solid infra. built once, reused forever. ai compounds here.

→ drop money in. not for headcount. not for office space. just to buy attention and scale growth. the rest is automated.

your content agent is testing 100 hooks a day. your outbound agent is writing 10k personalized messages. your ad agent is spending and optimizing 24/7.

what happens next? → time-to-product: 4 weeks → time-to-market: 1 month → time-to-revenue: 3 months → exit or scale: 18-36 months this isn’t a “fund.” it’s an engine.

centralized knowledge. compounding infra.

small teams. fast loops. high velocity. and you don’t need to pick 20 bets hoping 1 works.

you can run 100 micro-tests, double down on the 3 that hit, and build with intent.

there are tools and stacks making this real (not sharing here)

the real arbitrage isn’t capital anymore.

it’s speed, secrets, and system design.

fewer founders. more velocity. faster returns.

vc becomes verticalized, productized, and automated. welcome to the dev studio fund era.

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