enterprise AI adoption

10 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jun 30, 2023 by Douwe Kiela · across every show →

Everything said about enterprise AI adoption, oldest first

Jun 30, 2023 bullish
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Douwe Kiela: An enterprise AI adoption tidal wave is coming
“I think the tidal wave is coming. There are just big problems that we have to overcome, and these are the things I just talked about, right? So hallucination, attribution compliance up-to-dateness, data privacy, latency and I think the whole field is, is movin…”
Douwe Kiela Jun 30, 2023 ▶ 40:44 Douwe Kiela: Why Data Size Matters More Than Model Size; Why Open Source Isn't Going to Win | E1032 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 25, 2023 bearish
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Howie Liu: Enterprises Are Nowhere Near Mass AI Deployment Yet
“So we are nowhere near, in my opinion, the tornado of every enterprise just knows they want AI in, in in heaps and is very ready to go and grow their own resources at deploying AI into every quarter of the company, right? Maybe that'll happen. Maybe the train …”
Howie Liu Aug 25, 2023 ▶ 39:24 Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 22, 2023 bullish
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Seibert: Enterprise AI adoption will follow cloud's path as privacy concerns ease
“And so I think this will go in the same direction. And like you'll, you'll have very clear guidelines around how the companies use the data for model training and it's off limits and so on. And sort of that trust will be overcome.”
Jeff Seibert Nov 22, 2023 ▶ 30:56 Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023 bullish
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Söderström: Enterprise AI adoption will outpace the historical shift to cloud
“But I also agree with Scott that I think it's going to go much faster than moving to cloud. It wasn't really possible. I know we actually were on-prem companies that old. It wasn't possible to just also be on the cloud and try a little bit. It was incredibly h…”
Gustav Söderström Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 43:56 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 22, 2024 positive
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Levie: Most enterprises have both active AI experiments and production deployments
“The vast majority of companies have a meaningful number of AI experiments happening with lots of different, you know, kind of areas of their business, lots of different applications. But the vast majority also have, you know areas that are in production alread…”
Aaron Levie May 22, 2024 ▶ 19:22 Aaron Levie: How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever & Startups vs Incumbents:Who Wins?|E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 22, 2024
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Aaron Levie: Human change management, not tech, is AI's bottleneck
“Yeah. So this is the, I mean, probably the long pole of all of AI right now is not going to be the technical breakthroughs. It's going to be the implementation and change management on the human side.”
Aaron Levie May 22, 2024 ▶ 41:04 Aaron Levie: How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever & Startups vs Incumbents:Who Wins?|E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 3, 2025 neutral
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Shah: Enterprise AI discussions in two years will focus on adoption pace
“From the enterprise standpoint, exactly what we're talking about right now, which is, you know, the adoption curve and getting things in and moving things along. Again, we've seen this where customers absolutely are ready to go, but just their own internal pro…”
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Nov 17, 2025 neutral
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Andrew Ng: Enterprise AI adoption and building will take over a decade
“I actually think that a decade from now, we will still be working to identify Valuable applications and enterprises and building them. Having said that, we will make a lot of progress over the next one or two years, but we're not going to be done, you know, ev…”
Andrew Ng Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 46:06 AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 31, 2025 neutral
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Fitzpatrick: Enterprise AI adoption requires 99% precision, not benchmark generalizability
“I think an enterprise uptake depends on trust and precision on specific tasks at 99% accuracy, not generalizability.”
Matt Fitzpatrick Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 45:28 Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2026 neutral
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Siemiatkowski: Enterprise AI adoption is delayed by human habit change
“My problem is that like I overestimate, it takes time for people to change habits and ways of working and stuff like that. So I actually think it's going to take a little bit longer. The adoption, it's not necessarily the capabilities of the technology, but li…”
Sebastian Siemiatkowski Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 1:13:51 Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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