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Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:04 Clay Bavor Rate limiter in software development moves around how the, you know, Andy Grove breakfast factory, you know, what is the, what is the constraining factor?

Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 29, 2026 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 5:53 Harry Stebbings I read that there was an Andy Grove moment that really shaped your thinking on leadership. 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:55 K.R. Shridhar What Andy Groh was teaching you was, you have, you need to have the empathy
  • ▶ 31:05 K.R. Shridhar Just like I learned the very first time I had to build a, you know, like product with Antigro.

Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:27:09 unnamed speaker You're going to get into twenties because new people want your product, which is why, you know, which is why you're going right back to Grove and all that.

Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:33 Alex Wang And, you know, there's this fascinating thing, you know, um, if you go back and read a high output management by Andy Grove, there's like, there's these chapters around like,

Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 3, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:38 Keith Rabois So Andy Grove had this concept of task relevant maturity from high output management, which is basically has someone dealt with similar problems, you know, in their life.
  • ▶ 40:58 Keith Rabois So the canonical view from Andy Grove was like five to seven, but obviously Jensen's done extremely well with 60.

Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:24 Keith Rabois Yeah, Harry, if you read high up the management, you know, by Andy Grove written in 1983, it's basically the same philosophy, Mike's translated it to trauma, which is basically everything's about what is a high leverage activity.

Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 12, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:38 Larry Summers And I've always thought that Andy Grove said something very wise when he said that only the paranoid survive.

Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 7, 2022 · 2 mentions

a16z GP Martin Casado: How I Went from Engineer to VC; Lessons from Chris Dixon | 20VC #956 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 6, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 40:27 Martin Casado Did you ever, did you ever, did you ever read, um, only the paranoid survive by Andy Grove? 3 times in the scene

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2022 · 6 mentions

Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 6, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:08 Tony Fadell Now that we set it up, that's when, you know, Andy Grove had a great, you know, phrase, you know, the paranoid survive.

Shopify President, Harley Finkelstein on What is Being a Good Husband | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 11, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:19 Harley Finkelstein Um, I still think high output management by Andy Grove is still the best book that I've ever read on business.

How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:10 John Doerr To work at Intel, to have Andy Grove be a mentor, and he invented this amazing system called OKRs, which I've since taken to every organization I can get to listen to me about it, from the Startup Gates Foundation to the Google guys.

20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage May 27, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:56 Byron Deeter Almost in the Andy Grove sense of only the paranoid survive, but more importantly, he constantly wants to get better, and he doesn't believe what everyone says about him, in the sense that he doesn't let it go to his head, and I'll say that

20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors Aug 10, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi May 18, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:33 Hamilton Helmer So as best as I know, the 10 X came from Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel, and that's what he observed in the semiconductor

20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors Mar 9, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents Feb 24, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:14 Vinod Khosla I'm 65 now, but I was 15 when I first read about Andy Grove, a Hungarian immigrant, moving to the U.S. and starting a company, and I fell in love with that idea.

20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark Jul 5, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 27:39 Alex Rodrigues To pick non-fiction, I'd pick High Output Management by Andy Groh, because he put a bunch of work into putting a ton of good ideas, but in a very, very short form. 3 times in the scene

20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs Jul 17, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:49 Elad Gil On the business side, I really like books by Andy Grove, 2 times in the scene

20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek Jun 1, 2018 · 1 mention

20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech Oct 13, 2017 · 1 mention

20VC: Why Radical Candor Is Crucial in Workplaces, Why 85% of Work Relationship Mistakes Happen and Why You Should Not Try and Be More Likeable with Kim Scott, Co-Founder @ Candor Inc Jul 7, 2017 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 25:00 Kim Scott Another mentor was Andy Grove, and that came about because a professor buying from business school wrote his biography, and Andy and I wound up taking a walk every couple of weeks, and he's a person who thought very deeply about management. 4 times in the scene

20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify May 12, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:18 Harley Finkelstein I find a lot of them are repetitive, but probably the, the book that I found the most beneficial from a business perspective was high output management, which is Andy Grove's book.

20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy Jul 29, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:58 unnamed speaker Oh yeah, I've definitely read Andy Grove's book as well.

20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures Apr 20, 2016 · 1 mention

20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile Mar 11, 2016 · 1 mention

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