How do you truly bring business operation into the A.I. automated era?

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The V.C. industry and the landscape of corporate structure - and in turn the associated start up environment - have been undergoing something of an overhaul in the past few years. The necessity for order, balance and efficiency at the threshold of an A.I.-automated economy contrasted starkly with the scurried norms we've exacted upon ourselves over the initial decades of the 21st century when it comes to venture capital building. The damage of easy scalability in a smartphone saturated world apparently turned entrepreneurial enterprise into a fast-track to growth-without-stability. Focus seemed to shift towards scaling desperately for big exit payouts, 10:1 investment success ratio models, and dumping money into resulting problems unashamedly whether user numbers showed promise or not. Short term thinking is structurally disastrous. Such models result in decade-old household name companies that have never turned a profit, a culture of wasteful overlaying of management and personnel, and, as we perhaps have seen from the recent layoffs in tech companies around the world amid the squall of encroachment of the A.I. automation dream, they don't really work.

Meanwhile, new kinds of businesses are forming, new entrepreneurs rising (and new ways of doing things with them) that don't want to be subject to the messy way that V.C. has been operating in the past decade-plus. But few, if any, alternative options exist, and with rapidly accelerating advancements in technologies like A.I., robotics and machine learning, and the resulting adaptations to our economies that are taking root, the next level of building and structuring companies is in-turn going to be not just necessary - it's imperative.

It is through this scope that we are looking ahead ten years. The new era is already upon us; and a remnant has emerged that sees and understands far more imminently than we've known in times past, raised on the transparency of freely created and instantly released online content; unabashed realtime social commentary; a connectivity that is understandable only to those who grew up with it, and a realm of possibilities visible only to those who have seen technology do previously impossible things.

So, the need arises in tandem for a new iteration of, so called, venture capital too. A better way to build; a more stable and reliable model of funding and method of monetisation; and a more efficient system for operating companies and ecosystems. Apropos of that, Overflow is approaching from a different angle. A company, rather than a venture capital firm or fund, if you will, that seeks to return to the heart of what venture capital was all about: being a part of something new, exciting and world-changing. But it goes beyond that. Our focus, operational model and A.I. focused proprietary tech look ahead to a potentially revolutionary kind of enterprise incubation, building and nurturing, as the global economic landscape becomes historically unrecognisable and technology advances us at a far more rapid pace than we may soon be able to handle otherwise.

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The future is already behind us.