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Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek Aug 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:27:52 Julien Bek Um, you know, we just saw Demis' post, um, and it's great to have these big brains focusing on these problems.

Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab Aug 12, 2026 · 5 mentions

Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market Aug 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08:10 Harry Stebbings It's so funny when I interviewed Demis and I spoke about like bio and medicine, it was, it was an area where you just see his eyes light up.

Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:13 Rory O'Driscoll The founders of Anthropik, just like the founder of DeepMind, is very much motivated on the medical side by, you know, the desire to. 2 times in the scene

Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 4, 2026 · 3 mentions

OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:22:37 Harry Stebbings When you look at a Zak or a Damas, they've always had a very different stance to Sam and Dario when it comes to labor displacement and jobs.

Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:46:09 Harry Stebbings Um, that said, I think you can still build unbelievably great AI companies as we have done in London with Demis and DeepMind and with, you know, Matty at 11 Labs.

The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2026 · 2 mentions

The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:25 Harry Stebbings I get you, but do you not think Gemini and Google can still wipe the floor with the distribution advantage that they have, Demis, and the speed that they're moving?

AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:20 Harry Stebbings When you look at a Demis, say, obviously a brilliant leader, or you look at a Sam, even, or a Dario, you know, all of them, I think, have moderated their position significantly with the maturing of their companies.

20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader Sep 5, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 25:34 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is if you look at Demis or Zuck, traditionally, they've been a little bit more nuanced saying, Hey, it'll take longer than we think. 3 times in the scene

Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 1, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:06:10 Harry Stebbings Which is like, damn this and suck for a long time, do not need funding and they are much more balanced, neutral, and then other people who do need funding have to be much more provocative and out there because they need your fucking… 3 times in the scene

Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:41 Tom Hulme If you gave me the choice to have more, uh, Nicholas Zenstrom's or Demis Hassabis's or Stan's, I would absolutely take that.

Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:33 Harry Stebbings And observes the people who don't need to raise money, which is largely Zak and Demis, who say it's much further away.

Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 28, 2024 · 1 mention

Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:47 Harry Stebbings And so what I mean by that is like Demis and Zuck are very, uh, long-term minded in terms of how long it will actually take to achieve AGI.

Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 1, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:56 Matt Clifford You know, like, what, you know, Sam and Demis and Dario are doing, you know, it's like, it's this almost untrammeled, um, uh, very visionary, uh, 2 times in the scene

Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 14:20 unnamed speaker Or if this, if, if say, uh, people at the level of say Demis or service, uh, they wanna look, they're, they're like incredibly smart. 3 times in the scene

Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:12:06 Tom Hulme Then in contrast, you've got Zuckerberg at Meta, you've got Demis Asabis at DeepMind, and they're a lot more cautious.
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