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Alexandr Wang

8 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 6, 2019 by Alex Wang · said 117 times in 40 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (95), Rory O'Driscoll (2), Miles Clements (2), Mike Krieger (2), Jonathan Siddharth (2), Aatish Nayak (2), Miles Grimshaw (1), Jason Lemkin (1)

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Sep 6, 2019
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Wang: Building personal relationships with board members enables direct feedback
“The thing that's gone the furthest for me is just really building close personal relationships with the members of my board. And that's probably been like The number one thing that I think has helped me because I think it means that with this relationship with…”
Alex Wang Sep 6, 2019 ▶ 23:22 20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
Sep 6, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Wang: Google research shows exponential dataset scaling yields continuous model gains
“Google sort of published a bunch of these papers, which showed that each time you can X the size of your data set, you're going to keep getting bang out of your buck in terms of the Performance of your model. So it's not just that it is true that like for each…”
Alex Wang Sep 6, 2019 ▶ 12:19 20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
Sep 6, 2019 neutral
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Wang: Founders should prioritize true believers over brand name when raising
“You want to optimize for the brand and you want to optimize for like the ability for them to help your business, but probably the number one indicator of that is just like, how big a believer are they in you and what you're doing?”
Alex Wang Sep 6, 2019 ▶ 22:15 20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
Sep 6, 2019 positive
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Wang: First-time founders should join a startup before starting their own
“I think the thing that I would do first is join a small startup. And the reason for that is a couple things. I think first, your first couple jobs really imprint you and like imprint how you think about jobs and how you think about business and how you think a…”
Alex Wang Sep 6, 2019 ▶ 5:28 20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
Sep 6, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Scale AI Achieves $1 Billion Valuation After $100M Series C
“With their recently announced a hundred million dollar series C, their valuation surpassed the one billion dollar mark, making their 22 year old founder one of the youngest to do so.”
Harry Stebbings Sep 6, 2019 ▶ 0:10 20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
Sep 6, 2019 positive
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Wang: Real-world machine learning reliability depends primarily on edge case data
“In the real world, the performance of these models, it really all comes down to edge cases, right? If you think about a self-driving car, Right now, everybody in the industry is sort of tuning and sharpening the performance against edge cases, and if you kind …”
Alex Wang Sep 6, 2019 ▶ 12:46 20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
Sep 6, 2019 positive
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Wang: People overweight the downside risk of joining or founding startups
“I adopt a very risk-seeking perspective, because the reality is that there's not actually that much risk. When you start a company, the worst case, obviously, is that it fails, but even in that case, it's not that bad, especially if you're young, because if yo…”
Alex Wang Sep 6, 2019 ▶ 4:30 20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Lemkin: Scale AI returned $15B to its venture capital investors
“At least Alexander from Scale gave his VCs back fifteen billion.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 14:17 Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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