Moskovich: Paid industry experts frequently mislead investors on research calls
Jack Moskovich · How AI Agents Are Transforming This $140 Billion Industry · Joe Lonsdale · Jul 2, 2026 · at 13:15
Jack Moskovich, partner at 8VC, describes the difficulty of getting accurate information from paid expert network calls during investment due diligence.
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“You know, we have a weird version of this in investing, where our research is called expert calls, And we run into this all the time, where you're talking to this expert who's actually being paid money to teach you something about a product or an industry, and you have to drill down, like, five different times to actually get to the truth, because frequently they'll be like, oh yeah, and I can pay for this. And then you'll ask them, like, five more times, and you're like, but can you really? And they're like, okay, fine, it's actually my boss's boss who can pay for this.”
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