George Sivulka
13 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 22, 2025 by George Sivulka · across every show →
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Jan 22, 2025 bullish
Sivulka: AI compute will create $100T in market value within 60 years
“If there was a hundred trillion dollars of value that was created in the stock market from the introduction of the computer, or the fundamental unit of compute, I actually think a hundred trillion dollars of value will be created in the next 60 years from the …”
Jan 22, 2025
Sivulka: Great founders have messed up childhoods, are gay, or adopted
“You can bucket great founders into three backgrounds. The most common is that you have kind of a messed up childhood. The second most common would be, ah, you're gay, and the third most common would be you were adopted. Look at like a list of all-time greats. …”
Jan 22, 2025
Sivulka: Founders can brute-force any business to $100M ARR
“Like, you can bring a lemonade stand to a hundred million dollars in ARR. Like, there's nothing that's actually stopped. You can brute force your way as a founder. You screw product market. You can literally brute force anything in the world.”
Jan 22, 2025 negative
Jan 22, 2025
Jan 22, 2025
Peter Thiel gave George Sivulka his first offer from a venture investor
“We ended up talking for, I think, like, four or five hours about Not only the company and all of the flaws that I had in my business model, but then also math and deep esoteric philosophy and like just the world. And he said, you know, I'm not investing at the…”
Jan 22, 2025 negative
Jan 22, 2025
Jan 22, 2025
Sivulka: Deep religious faith has been a major driver of founder success
“One thing that I always hid was the fact that I'm deeply religious in an industry that's like very atheistic or agnostic, it was like something that I, that was very personal to me and I think it's been massively contributing to.”
Jan 22, 2025
Sivulka: Loud corporate PR usually signals internal company panic
“When you're saying something and screaming it from the rooftops, that almost always means that inter, and Internally, you're freaking out about something, and so you know, I look at that really loud behavior, and I think that the behavior itself really negates…”
Jan 22, 2025
Sivulka rented a master closet in East Palo Alto starting Hebbia
“I asked my friends who were renting out a house in East Palo Alto to let me rent a room, the cheapest room they could possibly find, and they were all fully booked, and it was like, I think, over a thousand dollars of rent, and they said, I think it was actual…”
Jan 22, 2025 bearish
Sivulka: 90% of enterprise AI is vapor and usage stats are fake
“I think, like, 90% of enterprise AI right now is almost like this vapor where, hey, we swear it works, like, look at this amazing demo where we ask, What does the CEO say about the investment? And the minute that they actually go to, you know, try to use it in…”
Jan 22, 2025 negative
Sivulka: Satya Nadella is wrong about business apps collapsing into agents
“I actually don't agree with that at all. I think he's completely wrong. I think it depends on how you define a business app. But I actually think that if the new business apps are platforms, you'll, you'll actually start to see those platforms really take hold…”