Aug 3, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
In this episode of The Capital Raiser Show, Richard C. Wilson shares a live presentation on how artificial intelligence is actively changing how capital raisers find investors, how deals are sourced…
[upbeat music] They've said AI is going to change the world more than electricity, more than the internet did.
Took seven years for a hundred million people to use the internet.
So everything's moving much faster.
Adap- the adaptation of it, much faster.
Um, every time technology comes, those that are agile and adapt typically fare much, much better.
You can survive and still ignore it, but it's like a, uh, a plumbing company that doesn't have a website and doesn't use internet advertising might not be as robust of a business, right? This is what I was talking about while introducing Jim, is that if we could look forward in the future, it's going straight up in front of us, um, in terms of the exponential curve.
Um, he wrote a book called The History of Everything.
And in that book, he says everything goes through three stages.
There's immaturity, adolescence, and maturity in nature, with human beings, processes, companies many times.
And for me, going through, um, AI and figuring out what to use it for, I might be on a similar path to a lot of you here in the room.
So I wanted to share this so you could create your own tools, use our tools, and kinda see how I view those stages, um, of adolescence with AI.
So a lot of people have a CRM, and they do smart things where they say, "Oh, let's send an email to thirty thousand people, and now let's only have our team call the people who clicked on the link," or, "Let's only call the people who open that email." And now you're only calling people who just clicked on an email from you in the last forty-five minutes, so they're more likely to call you back or more likely to reply to your email that you know they already read this morning, right? So that's, uh, that's just using tech.
That's where a lot of companies are or can be very easily these days.
[upbeat music] They've said AI is going to change the world more than electricity, more than the internet did.
Took seven years for a hundred million people to use the internet.
So everything's moving much faster.
Adap- the adaptation of it, much faster.
Um, every time technology comes, those that are agile and adapt typically fare much, much better.
You can survive and still ignore it, but it's like a, uh, a plumbing company that doesn't have a website and doesn't use internet advertising might not be as robust of a business, right? This is what I was talking about while introducing Jim, is that if we could look forward in the future, it's going straight up in front of us, um, in terms of the exponential curve.
Um, he wrote a book called The History of Everything.
And in that book, he says everything goes through three stages.
There's immaturity, adolescence, and maturity in nature, with human beings, processes, companies many times.
And for me, going through, um, AI and figuring out what to use it for, I might be on a similar path to a lot of you here in the room.
So I wanted to share this so you could create your own tools, use our tools, and kinda see how I view those stages, um, of adolescence with AI.
So a lot of people have a CRM, and they do smart things where they say, "Oh, let's send an email to thirty thousand people, and now let's only have our team call the people who clicked on the link," or, "Let's only call the people who open that email." And now you're only calling people who just clicked on an email from you in the last forty-five minutes, so they're more likely to call you back or more likely to reply to your email that you know they already read this morning, right? So that's, uh, that's just using tech.
That's where a lot of companies are or can be very easily these days.
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