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Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:40 unnamed speaker And I freely admit, I don't, it's the old Einstein quote.

Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings We have amazing guests on the show, but very few, honestly, will be considered in the same realm as Newton, Turing, Einstein.

AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 17, 2025 · 1 mention

a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:07 unnamed speaker Einstein, you know, quote, which is, if something, in economics, if something can't go on forever, it will stop.

Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:15 Antoine Le Nel You just need to slice it at the right level of granularity so that suddenly a big problem just becomes 10 small problems, and then you saw them one by one, and then you get there, you know, and you don't try to find a miracle solution by…

Sean Rad: Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | E1199 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 9, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:06 Sean Rad You know, I would always reiterate the Albert Einstein quote, which is like, I don't know the exact words, but if something isn't simple enough, it's because you don't understand it enough.

David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 5, 2024 · 2 mentions

Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:25 unnamed speaker Would it be like talking to, um, Faraday or Einstein?

Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 16, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:53 Matthew Prince I think it was Einstein, although it might be miscredited, who said that, you know, the most powerful force in the universe is compounding interest.

20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective Feb 7, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:34 David Frankel I loved his book on Einstein and Steve Jobs, and I love the way he uses a protagonist to describe an era.

20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6 Feb 8, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:13 Anjney Midha And so when I was working with Mitch Lasky or Finn Barnes or Mike Volpe, you know, the thing that they bring is this incredible network, not because they're like, you know, Einstein's or, you know, I think sometimes venture capitalists get…

20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI Aug 27, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 6:00 Daniel Gross I firmly believe that for every Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Elon Musk,
  • ▶ 10:40 Daniel Gross You owe us nothing, and we're very happy, and I'd be very happy dying knowing that Pioneer supported the creation of the next Einsteins and Marie Curie's and people that create a tremendous amount of value but don't capture it.
  • ▶ 14:59 Daniel Gross You know, it's funny, I've kind of gone back to my roots and built a search engine, but this time for the lost Einsteins of the world, but more importantly, once you find these people, we're going to continue to use gamification techniques…
  • ▶ 23:38 Daniel Gross I would not be starting something that was like a feeder for Stripe Talent, and I don't think any of these folks would brand it that way, so the goal of this organization is to really find millions of potential lost Einsteins around the…
  • ▶ 30:27 Daniel Gross Look, if pioneer works and it ends up becoming a feeder for the next set of thinkers, innovators, everyone from John Lennon to Albert Einstein, then, you know, I will obviously continue to invest my time on it.

20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX Jul 9, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:10 Pete Flint You know, you may know the author who did Jobs and Einstein, and kind of what is sort of remarkable about Leonardo and the story is really the ability and focus on understanding and learning, and really the curiosity that surrounds…

20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing Aug 12, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:39 Adam Nash On my blog, I wrote a piece about Einstein's razor, like this idea that you want to make things as simple as possible, but not simpler, right?
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