America's VC Wall, Singapore’s Job Crunch & How AI Is Rewiring Relationships – E600

"Well, to me, I think the graduate unemployment issue is going to get really bad really quickly. I mean, if you just look at the Graduate Employment Survey, which I think the Ministry of Education releases every year, this year is probably the lowest—it dipped under 80%. Usually, it's somewhere around 85%. You can attribute this to many different things: uncertainty around MNC hiring due to trade wars and Asia-Pacific budget cuts, or AI eradicating a lot of jobs. But I also think there's a cultural disposition among the younger generation toward wanting to work at recognizable brand-name companies." - Adriel Yong, Orvel Venture Partner

Adriel Yong, Orvel Venture Partner, joins Jeremy Au to reflect on five years of career transitions from investing to building startups across Southeast Asia and the US. They unpack how American venture capital has turned inward, the unintended consequences of remote work, and why AI is upending both work and relationships. Through candid stories from fundraising dinners in San Francisco to AI-generated breakup scripts they explore how technology is transforming how we build companies, make decisions, and stay human.