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Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 3:59 Harry Stebbings He's building the model capabilities with Alex and co. 2 times in the scene
OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
- ▶ 50:12 Harry Stebbings We've seen Alex Wang front and center much more.
Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- ▶ 44:13 Anastasios Angelopoulos Go ask Alex Wang.
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:53 Harry Stebbings Alexander Wang called the pricing of it in particular very aggressive versus OpenAI and Anthropic. 2 times in the scene
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:47 unnamed speaker Did he overpay for scale and Alex went, maybe, I mean, probably, right?
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings It's Alex Wang's first model from Meta's superintelligence lab.
- ▶ 41:53 Harry Stebbings Uh, on, on that topic, uh, Alex Wang, uh, founder of scale, obviously now at Facebook following the acquisition of scale.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:59 Harry Stebbings It was, uh, rumored, and this is rumors, so Rory does not like rumors, uh, but that Alex Wang is, that Alex Wang is being sidelined, um, and that his position is no longer as superior as it once was,
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:27 Miles Clements My partner, Dan Levine incubating scale AI, building a relationship with Alex Wang in 2016 and making that investment. 2 times in the scene
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:14 Harry Stebbings Uh, he said Alan Wang was naive and young and, like, inexperienced. 3 times in the scene
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:38 Harry Stebbings If your job as a founder is to build enterprise value and return a shitload of cash to your investors, are we forgetting that Alex Wang delivered phenomenally for his investors and provided a great outcome to shareholders? 3 times in the scene
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:21 Jonathan Siddharth I mean, I have a lot of respect for, uh, Alex Wang, um, from Scale AI. 2 times in the scene
Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings If you don't need to buy the Galacticos, why do you have like an Andrew Tulloch, a Daniel Gross, an Alex Wang, and the Galacticos assembling?
- ▶ 30:21 Harry Stebbings If you don't need to buy the Galacticos, why, why do you have, like, an Andrew Tulloch, a Daniel Gross, an Alex Wang, and the Galacticos assembling?
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:29 Harry Stebbings I think it's another clear example, though, of the Alex Wang, um, changing venture mindsets on entry price acceptance, because we all go, well, if Alex is worth 14.8, Jesus, Ilya's worth 30, and Mira, and it justifies these prices on the… 2 times in the scene
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:08 Harry Stebbings I also think, by the way, that Alex Wang's acquisition created this very dangerous precedent in venture investors' minds where they're like, well, if Alex is worth 14, Brett Taylor's worth 30, and then Iliad's worth 30, and then Mira's… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:09 Harry Stebbings You just, yeah, never bet against Zuck, but I'm looking at it, I'm looking at Alex Wang, I'm looking at the treatment of Jan LeCun, I'm looking at how they structure teams, and I'm going, this is not
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:46 Brendan Foody Um, I, I think Alex was phenomenal at so many things and, um, distribution and sales.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:13 Harry Stebbings Do you think an Alex Wang is wrong then?
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:01 Harry Stebbings Nat Friedman reporting to Alex Wang after not a huge amount of time. 3 times in the scene
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:02 Harry Stebbings You know, Metra and Alex are going to turn Lama fully closed.
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:21 Rory O'Driscoll The new team led by Alex Wang in the, what they call it, the super intelligence group doing a little bit of the, maybe we won't be open source. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:48 Jason Lemkin With Alex Wang and Nat Friedman and team, it is completely blown up, right?
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:17 unnamed speaker At least, um, Alexander from Scale gave his, his VCs back fifteen billion. 2 times in the scene
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:03 unnamed speaker Well, I'll tell you, if I had to simplify it, I think the question is, is, um, Alexander Wang as good or better than Brett Taylor?
- ▶ 19:26 unnamed speaker I don't know how many talented people have left, and Alex is obviously wildly smart, but you still got, you know, hundreds of really talented folks there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:08 unnamed speaker In terms of CEOs moving around, as we have with Alex at scale there, Delian tweeted about Jason at Discord being removed, um, potentially by benchmark due to delayed IPO of Discord.
20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
- ▶ 6:26 Harry Stebbings Well done, Alex.
- ▶ 14:00 Aatish Nayak I think what Alex and we did well was being able to pivot to different sectors at the right time when that sector was blowing up, you know, in terms of needs for, for data. 2 times in the scene
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:30 Harry Stebbings Cause this is one where I have completely disparate opinions from different people, whether it's Alex Wang, or whether it's, you know, Jonathan Ross at Grok. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:51 Harry Stebbings It's not a trap to go down, but I'm, I've spoke to Alex Wang about it on the show and I saw poolside on the show, and they said, we deeply underestimate China's ability in AI.
- ▶ 57:23 Mike Krieger I've had so many conversations with Alex Wang about this because he has this whole thing about how in the future most friends will be AI friends. 2 times in the scene
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:24 Harry Stebbings You know, would I have been hanging out with Alex Wang at scale, who's kind of similar age to me, and investing in him, and.
Zico Kolter: OpenAI's Newest Board Member on The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | E1197 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:46 Harry Stebbings Alex Wang at scale said a brilliant line on the show. 2 times in the scene
Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:30 Harry Stebbings One thing that while we're on kind of utility value of data, when we look at effectiveness of agents, you know, I've had Alex Wang, you know, scale.ai on the show, and he said the hardest thing about like building effective agents is most…
- ▶ 41:49 Harry Stebbings You know, we had Alex Wang from Scale On 2 times in the scene
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:51 Harry Stebbings I had Alex Wang on the show not too long ago from scale, and he said, really, there's like three things. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:18 Harry Stebbings And, you know, Alex Wang on the show said, this is more dangerous than nuclear weapons. 2 times in the scene
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:08 Harry Stebbings You're Alex Wang's at scales who say that data is the core bottleneck.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:04 Delian Asparouhov And especially if in that, you know, sort of thousand and you are fortunate enough to have a data set of founders that look like Parker Conrad, Eric Kleinman, Alex Wang, et cetera.
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:42 Harry Stebbings When I had Alex Wang on the show, a mutual friend of ours, we then had data is the bottleneck.
- ▶ 21:52 Harry Stebbings Well, no, but that's kind of goes to Alex Wang's point, which is like the CCP's industrial policy.
- ▶ 39:55 Harry Stebbings And do you agree with Alex Wang that it is more powerful than nuclear weapons? 2 times in the scene
David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:06 Harry Stebbings I had Alex Wang on the show and he was like, it's not algorithms, it's not compute, it's data that is the bottleneck to AI model performance.
- ▶ 49:42 Harry Stebbings The other concern that I have is actually, you know, we had Alex Wang on the show and he said, I think that 3 times in the scene
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:23 Harry Stebbings So we had Alex from Scale AI on the show the other day, and he said the thing that we're not talking about enough is that, you know, really, AI is the most demonstrable power that any country or nation can hold and leverage in a, in a case… 2 times in the scene
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:46 Harry Stebbings Alex, I am thrilled that we could do this in person.
- ▶ 45:01 Harry Stebbings What did you mean Alex? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:53 Harry Stebbings Listen, Alex, I loved having you on the show. 2 times in the scene
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:36 Harry Stebbings Like, you know, Alex Wang at scale is my age. 2 times in the scene
Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:32 Harry Stebbings You should slam me as an LP if I'm not incredibly honed on, on where I sit, market analysis, where the future venture market is going, just in terms of thoughts, you know, I, by no means comparing myself to any of these names, but the…
Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:55 Harry Stebbings Um, I could compare myself to Alex Wang at scale, and you know, the dude has created a multi-billion dollar company where I've created a fucking podcast and a fund, like, which I love, but like, let's just call the spade a spade.
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:19 Miles Grimshaw Uh, Dylan at Figma, Zach at Plaid, uh, and, um, and Alex at Scale, and I have enormous respect for all three of them, um, got to know all three of them really early, and I just, I struggled with it.
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you, this was a real team effort in terms of the schedule, to Alex at Scale, John at Mux, Andrew Brachia, John Locke, and Vas Natajaran on Excel's side for some amazing questions, suggestions, I really do…
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
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings But to our founder today, and 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. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:17 Harry Stebbings But it's now time to dive into the episode, and I couldn't be more excited to welcome Alex Wang, founder and CEO at Scale. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:10 Harry Stebbings I am, and I'm sorry for getting off schedule so much sooner than I expected, Alex, but say you had a younger brother who was just leaving university now, and he said, hey, Alex, I can join a big incumbent, I can join a small startup, or I… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:27 Harry Stebbings So how was that for you, and do you think it shaped any of your operating mentality, and how you view leadership today, Alex?
- ▶ 19:03 Harry Stebbings But what are your thoughts here, Alex, and how do you think about an approach competition? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:29 Harry Stebbings Transparency, and that being at the core of the trusting relationship, so agreed on that, but I do want to move into my favorite element, Alex, of any episode, being the quick fire round, so I say a short statement, and then you hit me…
- ▶ 25:20 Harry Stebbings That's quite an endorsement, Alex. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:18 Harry Stebbings Alex, listen, it's been such a pleasure to have you on the show today.
20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- ▶ 42:54 Harry Stebbings As always, I cannot thank you enough for your support, and I can't wait to bring you a very special episode on Friday with the newly crowned unicorn, and that's Alex at