Strategy question

What are the top 3 tech trends you are following? Pick 1. Imagine I'm (interviewer) a VC. What startup idea would you pitch to me leveraging the tech trend you chose? What would be your 3-year strategy?

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What this question tests

Strategic vision and pitching ability: can the candidate reason about a real trend, then build a focused, defensible startup thesis around it.

Name three real current tech trends briefly, then commit to one, for example AI agents that can take autonomous action on a user's behalf.
State the market opportunity: businesses want to automate multi-step workflows currently requiring a human to operate several tools.
Pitch a startup idea: an AI agent platform focused on a specific vertical, such as automating vendor procurement for mid-size businesses, rather than a general purpose agent.
Explain why this vertical: narrow scope means higher reliability and clearer ROI than a broad, all purpose agent, which is harder to trust today.
Lay out a three year strategy: year one, prove reliability in one workflow and one industry, year two, expand to adjacent workflows, year three, become the default automation layer for that vertical.
Address risk: model reliability and liability for autonomous actions, and how you would mitigate that with human approval checkpoints early on.

Commits to one narrow, defensible vertical instead of pitching a broad, generic AI agent platform every VC has already heard.
Sequences the three year plan with a believable trust-building arc, narrow and reliable first, broader later, rather than promising scale immediately.
Names the real risk, liability and reliability of autonomous action, and proposes a concrete mitigation, human approval checkpoints.

Pitching a broad, undifferentiated AI idea that any competitor could equally claim.
Skipping the risk discussion for a product that takes autonomous action on a user's behalf.

Why would this vertical be defensible against a larger, well funded general purpose competitor?
What would your first customer's onboarding actually look like?