Brendan Foody
11 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 15, 2025 by Brendan Foody · said 34 times in 5 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2025 29 mentions in 3 episodes 10 per episode
- Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Sep 15, 2025 negative
Academic AI benchmarks are wholly disconnected from enterprise needs
“One of the largest inefficiencies in all of AI research is that the evals that people have been going on Of humanity's last exam and PhD level reasoning or Olympiad math are wholly disconnected from the outcomes that consumers and enterprises actually care abo…”
Sep 15, 2025 bullish
Sep 15, 2025 negative
Subsidizing AI product margins fails in markets with low switching costs
“But I think the case where I would be hesitant is when there is very competitive markets with low switching costs so that people are pumping hundreds of millions in subsidies maybe billions in subsidies and then all of a sudden they switch over, the customers …”
Sep 15, 2025 bullish
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Sep 15, 2025
The dominant AI foundation model creators have likely already been established
“I think the largest model creators have already been yeah, already exist, but I'm not a hundred percent sure about that. Like, I definitely have, you know, some error bars about it. My expectation for why The largest model builders exist is just obviously the …”
Sep 15, 2025
If an AI model is the product, its eval is the PRD
“And if we think about the model as the product, then the eval is the PRD. And so many people have been sort of just like, you know, vibe spending on AI without actually writing the PRD of what do they want to implement and how do they measure that it's going t…”
Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025
AI startup durability depends on whether better models improve or ruin them
“I really like the thing Sam Altman says of, will models being dramatically better in one to two years improve your business or worsen it? I think that that is, in so many ways, the most important question to see if you're building a business that's durable and…”
Sep 15, 2025
Working hours and employee obsession decouple as startups scale
“I think the truth is that all along it's been much more about hiring people that like give a shit and love what they do and are obsessed with it and the way that we are rather than specific hours. And early on those were highly correlated, but I think that as …”