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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World Sep 12, 2026 · 3 mentions

Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town Sep 10, 2026 · 5 mentions

Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble Sep 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It Sep 5, 2026 · 17 mentions

NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation Sep 3, 2026 · 7 mentions

Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated Aug 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:26:05 Jason Lemkin Elon Musk is part of it, but we've never seen the type of creativity from founders like we've seen today.

The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock Aug 22, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 40:03 Jerry Murdock I mean, Elon, Jensen, Zuckerberg, they all qualify for that definition, but you look at, um, you look at these other companies that you say, wow, fireworks looks to be like that. 3 times in the scene

Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue? Aug 20, 2026 · 21 mentions

  • ▶ 1:22 Harry Stebbings Open AI startup fund is a mega winner, uh, who invested six to eight million dollars very early, which Rory, I thought of you when you said before about Elon Musk, uh, giving Sam billions of dollars through gritted teeth. 17 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:06 Jason Lemkin I lost cursor, or I didn't even know I lost cursor cause Elon swooped in.
  • ▶ 17:54 Rory O'Driscoll If you move early and you build a useful part of the infrastructure, right, you will probably find an acquisition at a price that doesn't make any sense on a DCF to you basis, but makes huge sense to the acquirer because open, just like…
  • ▶ 30:07 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, the interesting thing will be as they continue to grow, as they buy that expensive compute from Elon, if you remember, that has a big price increase two quarters, two months in,
  • ▶ 1:11:17 Jason Lemkin I would have thought Elon got his deal done in weeks.

Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash Aug 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:12 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) I mean, you can go back and read various prognostications, um, and not just from Elon, from many people in the industry saying, you know, next year, next year, next year, and it was never next year.

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

  • ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And then Elon Musk, as always, comes out with one of the most ambitious projects with TerraFab, where we unpack the jobs that come from it, the first real installment of 16.8 billion dollars, and just what it would mean for him in terms of…
  • ▶ 51:39 Jason Lemkin Um, and I think Elon pointed out that, that the TerraFab has already created three 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:06 Harry Stebbings While we're on Elon Musk, Elon Musk did have a very unusual incentive package where his obviously expanded with the expansion of company valuation. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:13:27 Jason Lemkin Like, like, the, the, the baby Elons are gonna get these packages, and it don't really matter what I think, or any of us think, because 2 times in the scene

The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel Aug 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:13:32 David Frankel And if you look at the subsidies for energy, if you look at a Tesla today, this is the thing that kind of, I don't really get about Elon is 2 times in the scene

Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks Jul 29, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 21:35 Jason Lemkin Uh, Elon certainly didn't sign.
  • ▶ 36:43 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, Elon is making out like a bandit on his, you know, gas turbines in emphasis or whatever it is that we're closing our regulatory eyes to, right?
  • ▶ 46:21 Jason Lemkin When Travis, when Elon raised their hand and say, listen, I'm going really big guys. 3 times in the scene

Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs Jul 25, 2026 · 1 mention

Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal Jul 23, 2026 · 1 mention

The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:33 Avishai Abrahami Because, you know, I remember that, you know, a year ago we would hear Elon Musk speaking about he's waiting for AGI because AGI can have conversation with it about how to solve big problem in physics and how to do a lot of things and…

Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 6, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 32:00 Harry Stebbings In terms of we got an energy crisis and then you get Rune and Panthalassa and Elon building data centers in space.
  • ▶ 42:08 Harry Stebbings Elon Musk made more money overnight than Warren Buffett has done in his entire career. 3 times in the scene

Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:09 Jason Lemkin Elon Musk, when we started this said those anthropic guys have something special.

Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 22, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 18, 2026 · 29 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Everett Randle Anyone that has been blindly loyal to Elon, they've all got stupidly rich.
  • ▶ 1:29 Harry Stebbings Elon Musk has actually earned in 24 hours what Warren Buffett took a lifetime to earn. 11 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:29 unnamed speaker That this guy has done these things, they're worth, whatever, I was going to say X, but that would be stupid because the thing itself is X, so it would be self-referential, but they're worth four hundred billion dollars today. 17 times in the scene

Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 15, 2026 · 12 mentions

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

  • ▶ 53:48 unnamed speaker You absolutely need to drop out of your PhD and you should either join Twitter right now because Elon just took over and it's hardcore, like for your resume, if you like voluntarily go there or you should start a company.

SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 11, 2026 · 25 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker One thing we know about Elon for the last 30 years is when he hears the word more risks, he says, yes, please, I'll have two.
  • ▶ 2:02 unnamed speaker Elon has decided that instead of doing price discovery where the bankers build the book and then they pick the price and they announce the price, you know, right at the end the night before, the IPO pricing typically 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:49 unnamed speaker Elon will get his liquidity, right?
  • ▶ 50:59 Harry Stebbings Did Elon have the acquisition of the year buying cursor for what will be 10 times end of year revenue? 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:25 Harry Stebbings And the Elon.

Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:55 unnamed speaker Uh, and, uh, even if, even if you don't believe in what Musk says about everything in the future space and so on, just practically, uh, from, from, uh, enterprise adoption.

Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:42 unnamed speaker You know, Elon had, 2 times in the scene

The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:30 Nico Laqua And like, you think Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg are caring what their board thinks or their board, you know, you think that they're like, all right, guys, let's huddle up.

OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 28, 2026 · 37 mentions

  • ▶ 0:47 unnamed speaker We could look back on this, and listen, I'm on Team Elon, ok?
  • ▶ 43:56 unnamed speaker I mean, Elon's putting 30% of the, of the, you know, this massive IPO, the largest in history so far, into retail. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:22 unnamed speaker Well, and Elon founded both. 16 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:11 unnamed speaker So his ROE on that is pretty damn high in a low ROI, ROE business, return on equity business. 18 times in the scene

Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 26, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 6:32 Harry Stebbings Can I, do you get rewarded for that insight if you can just buy it from Elon now on demand? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:56 Andrew Feldman Maybe Elon is where everybody else's brain shuts down, right? 2 times in the scene

Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 23, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 21, 2026 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 55:23 Harry Stebbings It's Elon. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:11:04 Rory O'Driscoll I just want to point out in passing, uh, because you mentioned we did call the open AI, the open AI Musk lawsuit correctly, not just dismissed, but dismissed on the technicality. 13 times in the scene

Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 14, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 6:56 Harry Stebbings We're going to discuss the next big deal of the day, which is Anthropics deal with Elon. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:30 Harry Stebbings Um, boys, uh, should we do some more, actually one final thing before, uh, Musk versus Altman. 3 times in the scene

Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 9, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 53:52 Cliff Weitzman It's extremely important to us, um, and so we've only had one real case of attrition at Speechify of someone who, like, worked with us for a long time, and that person went to work for Elon Musk directly.
  • ▶ 1:08:10 Cliff Weitzman Like, I have a friend who works directly for Elon. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:29:56 Cliff Weitzman The reason why I invested in Tesla way back in the day was because I found Elon Musk from a Wikipedia article from the co-CEOs of SolarCity. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:44:54 Cliff Weitzman Sam and Ilya and Greg and Elon went and got a ton of money from essentially Bill Gates, right, Microsoft. 3 times in the scene

Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 7, 2026 · 11 mentions

Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 4, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 27:26 Tobi Lütke I mean, we should, like, there's just simply no chance that we shouldn't be sort of deeply, deeply, deeply, in fact, daily thankful for what Elon is doing on Planet Earth. 7 times in the scene

Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:28 Jason Lemkin And, uh, Elon was clear about this, that Anthropic had quote, something special in coding, which underestimates how much of the overall growth in the market coding was right.

Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:17 Amjad Masad Think about, you know, Elon Musk, uh, when, when he did self-driving one point ohm, you know, for version 13 or whatever, which end to end, they had to write a lot of software, right?
  • ▶ 44:21 Amjad Masad Such a cliche, but like obviously Elon and, and the reason is like the amount of things that you can do at the same, at the same time, like the number of things.

Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 23, 2026 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 4:19 Rory O'Driscoll And Elon goes, hmm, hold that thought. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:58 Rory O'Driscoll A, you're going to get sixty billion, and you have all the compute you'll ever need from Elon, and B, you're going to get ten billion in cash, in which case you can buy some compute then, so they can probably do some forward contracts. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:46 Rory O'Driscoll Everyone but Elon trades at under 10 times revenues, plus on mine. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:45:27 Jason Lemkin The other thing Elon had retweeted something that went around many times.

SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 16, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 unnamed speaker He may well be the second greatest founder of all time behind Elon, but I am just so burnt out of the boy who cries wolf. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:51 unnamed speaker What I mean is listen, he may well be the, the second greatest founder of all time behind Elon. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:38 unnamed speaker And if it comes up short a year or two, like Elon, I mean, it would suck for the IPO, but it's not the, it's doable.
  • ▶ 1:06:12 unnamed speaker I mean, the Elon believers are saying, these are the future things, and I ascribe a hundred percent probability of success, 4 times in the scene

OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 9, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 34:22 unnamed speaker Look, you do any kind of meaningful analysis of some of the parts, and you come up with a lot lower number, and then, as we, we've discussed this before, and then the gap between what you think the assets are worth on any kind of normal… 6 times in the scene

Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 7, 2026 · 6 mentions

OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 2, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:58 Harry Stebbings Robinhood was down like 10% because Elon didn't potentially give them the tender and was going straight through E-Trades, and that alone was like a massive hit for them.
  • ▶ 1:02:36 Harry Stebbings He's tied his career to Elon very smartly, so that's not in any negative way in terms of the investments that he has.

Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 30, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 47:05 Marc Andreessen I, I, I, I'm sure you, you know, Elon's terafab presentation the other night, right? 6 times in the scene

Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 15:51 unnamed speaker I mean, the big picture context is, context is that Elon made an announcement that they're going to build a fab. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:52 unnamed speaker See Elon for details.

NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 19, 2026 · 1 mention

Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:16:08 Gokul Rajaram How can you not be optimistic when you have, you know, Elon going, I mean, I think we have now these entrepreneurs who are role models are not just, you know, building these, you know, small companies, but they're truly taking on humanity…

Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 5, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 unnamed speaker I think if Elon died tomorrow, they traded two hundred billion.
  • ▶ 4:22 unnamed speaker And, uh, to a lot of folks in AI, it's even Elon said a little while ago, I wish AI hadn't happened, but since it is, I'm all in on XAI, right?
  • ▶ 27:51 Harry Stebbings We've spoken about the Elon premium before. 7 times in the scene

The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 33:19 Jerry Murdock I'm not like Elon or Jensen that are going to do this for the rest of their life.
  • ▶ 57:11 Jerry Murdock I mean, I don't know, as Larry Page has said, if he had extra money, he'd just give it to Elon to let him build things to change the world.

Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 26, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 48:30 Jason Lemkin I said, one of the leaders in the next 12 months is going to do an Elon Musk and just cut half their team in one day. 3 times in the scene

OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 21, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings Elon said that coding is one of the first professions to be largely automated.
  • ▶ 2:15 Harry Stebbings Elon said that coding is one of the first professions to be largely automated.
  • ▶ 31:47 Harry Stebbings But I spoke to Anish Akaya, who's a GP at Andreessen, and he came out the other day, and he's like, no, no, no, this was created by Sam and Elon, and it works for very efficient people, but most of the planet want browser-based discovery,…
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