Hunter Walk · 24 September 2026 · Additional Read

I used to respond to every cold email but now AI slop is killing my inbox

Hunter Walk

A prominent VC reflects on how the explosion of AI-generated cold emails has made inbox management untenable, threatening to upend his principle of responding to every outreach and highlighting a commons problem where low-effort pitches poison the channel for genuine entrepreneurs.

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