Dan Teran sat down with Unite.AI to talk about building companies in the age of AI. He covers why venture has grown consensus-driven, what founders actually need now that AI has cut the cost of getting to a first product, and why operator support beats capital alone at the earliest stage. Dan also shares where he thinks startups go wrong scaling from Seed to Series A, and why founders with a real connection to the problem they're solving are built to outlast the market's swings. Elbow Grease, the firm's NYC-based accelerator program, is his hands-on answer to a market chasing the same deals and the same founders. The program, which is accepting applications for its second cohort, is backed by Gutter Capital's latest $75M Fund III.