Christian Lanng
35 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 11 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 24, 2017 by Christian Lanng · across every show →
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Mar 24, 2017 positive
Free renewable energy is crucial to cushion technological job displacement
“The thing you really need to invest in is actually free renewable energy, because if you have free renewable energy, we have less of a social impact as jobs go, because we can actually produce food, we can produce almost anything we want, and it gets a little …”
Mar 24, 2017 negative
Mar 24, 2017
Mar 24, 2017 negative
Ariba acts as a toll gate, extracting 80% of revenue from suppliers
“One of our competitors, you know, Ariba, they've for a long time gone out to these huge companies and said, hey, we will help you Digitize your supply chain, and you just got to buy our platform, and then they go and they invite all of the suppliers in the sup…”
Sep 27, 2023 negative
Lanng: TradeShift Had a Skype Group Celebrating Work at 2 AM
“We used to have a Skype group, and Skype was a thing of a few people in the company that was called, Late night motherfucking XYZ. And that was because at two AM we were all sitting, solving some problem, getting something done, getting somewhere, and we were …”
Sep 27, 2023
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Sep 27, 2023
Lanng: Prioritizing personal happiness would have ruined Tradeshift
“I mean, I made some decisions where I could have gone a different path, I could have gone a very different path, and probably You know, had a very different outcome and been happier, but it would not, I mean, it would have been a disaster for the company and f…”
Sep 27, 2023 neutral
Sep 27, 2023 bearish
Sep 27, 2023 bullish
Lanng: More AI startups will get funded next year as top talent enters
“Yeah, I mean, I think there will still be a lot of money going into the long tail, but you're right that the concentration will happen in the top, but I think ultimately there will still be more companies getting funded just because some of the smartest people…”
Sep 27, 2023 bullish
Lanng: AI-first startups today are as revolutionary as early cloud companies
“That's actually where, I mean, one of the reasons also I got so fascinated was like, to me, building a startup today that is AI first is as pivotal or revolutionary as it were, 14 years ago to build the first cloud companies.”
Sep 27, 2023 negative
Sep 27, 2023 negative
Sep 27, 2023
Lanng: Enterprise software spend grew to $780B while IT headcount doubled
“IT corporate budgets, they went from three hundred billion to seven hundred eighty billion dollars in enterprise software over the last 10 years. At the same time, we doubled the amount of people in shared services, eight to sixteen million, and we doubled the…”
Sep 27, 2023 bullish
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023
Lanng: Marginal Public Data Differences Are Rounding Errors in Large Models
“It doesn't matter if you have 10% different data if you train on one trillion parameters. It doesn't matter because it's such a big data set that that actually is such a small, Rounding error in, in what you get out on the other side.”
Sep 27, 2023 bearish
Sep 27, 2023 bullish
Sep 27, 2023 neutral
Sep 27, 2023 neutral
Christian Lanng: Founder burnout develops gradually like a frog slowly boiling
“It's like a bit like the frog getting boiled slowly, right? You don't see it when you're in it, and it took sort of some pretty big reality checks both on my health and on my work that made me realize, no, you're not in, in a healthy place, right?”
Sep 27, 2023 negative
Sep 27, 2023
Lanng removed team slides from pitch decks to control VC questions
“I used to always take out one or two slides of the deck, like I'll make the perfect pitch deck, and then I'll remove the team slide. All VCs will then ask the question, but what about team? And that's the question I want them to ask instead of asking some stup…”
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023
Lanng refused to sign Tradeshift round without protecting employee stock options
“In the latest financing round for trade shift, I refused to sign the papers until the employee stock option pool got moved from common to prep two, because I did not want All of our employees to be underwater in any potential transaction in the future.”
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023 negative
Founders should never accept a 40% valuation discount for 'smart VCs'
“I kind of always disliked the whole You should pick us as a VC. We know it's a 40% discount to the other guys, but we are smart. Ah, like the smart VC, like, story, because the reality is, like, if I need to give us 40% discount because the VC is so smart that…”
Sep 27, 2023 positive
Lanng: Tech companies should ban internal political discussions to focus on building
“And I like what David Heinemann says, like, he banned politics in, in, in in signals and I think that's absolutely right. I think we shouldn't sit around the table discussing all this stuff. We should just build something and make it work, and if we're allowin…”
Sep 27, 2023 positive
Lanng: AI development shifted from corporate labs to Discord developers
“If you go back five, six years, it was like, AI was made by these, the cathedrals, like Google, and it was like, really serious scientists doing really serious stuff, and now people are hacking and LM models on Discord, and so, so we have this underground that…”
Sep 27, 2023 bearish
Lanng: Pursuing AGI Will Disappoint Due to Asymptotic Limits in AI
“Everybody who's pushing for AGI level AI right now, they're going to be sorely disappointed. I think it's an asymptomatic curve, and I think we're going to end up with Waymo-style cars, meaning you almost have a lawyer, but not quite, and the five percent you …”
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023 bullish
Sep 27, 2023 negative
Christian Lanng: Pandemic burnout made me hate seeing Tradeshift's logo
“Suddenly I was just sitting, you know, for 14:16 hours in front of a screen every day, no breaks. I remember having to sort of, like, schedule bio breaks just to be able to run to the restroom, and the rest was just one continuous stream, and I remember, this …”