GPT

also referred to as: चैट gpt

includes GPTs

12 statements across 11 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement May 24, 2023 by Guy Podjarny · said 51 times in 37 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (8), Rory O'Driscoll (6), Max Junestrand (3), Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) (3), Aravind Srinivas (3), Alex Schultz (3), Richard Socher (2), Vince Hankes (1)

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May 24, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Podjarny: GPT and LLMs are in a temporary honeymoon period
“There's a certain kind of a honeymoon period happening with GPT and LLMs, which I think will find the right limits to it.”
Guy Podjarny May 24, 2023 ▶ 14:28 Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 neutral
Insight
Cohen: LLM pre-training on public data diminishes historic incumbent data moats
“Technologies like GPT are already trained on all public data. They've read every book, every healthcare book. They've trained on every piece of literature, art, best practices. This, the whole idea of the pre-trained is one of the biggest inflection points of …”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 1:09:24 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 18, 2023 positive
Assertion Open
Socher: OpenAI cited his 2018 multi-task NLP research in early GPT paper
“When in 2018, we invented problems engineering and we got this single model to work for all of these different NLP tasks. You know, it inspired some folks at OpenAI. They cited our paper in their first GPT open papers and cited our research there.”
Richard Socher Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 8:58 Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 22, 2023
Insight
Seibert: Products built in 2-4 weeks scripting GPT are thin wrappers
“If your primary product value is, is scripting GPT, that's a thin wrapper. If you've built it in two to four weeks, that's a thin wrapper.”
Jeff Seibert Nov 22, 2023 ▶ 26:21 Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Gonto: Fine-tuned GPT models can fully automate personalized SDR emails
“You can then use fine tuned models of GPT to fully personalize emails in the name of an SDR without a real SDR.”
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 1:05:41 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2024
Disclosure
Gontovnikas built a custom GPT to query his past failure learnings
“Lately, for example, one thing I've done is all of the learnings, I have them in my Google sheets with What did we learn? Some tags and stuff like that. And I created like a GPT from it.”
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 6:33 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 20, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Users will replace Google search with ChatGPT for software product discovery
“तो यही भविश्य है लोग खोज के लिए Google पर नहीं जा रहे हैं बलकि चैट GPT पर जा रहे हैं इसलिए हमें वह करने की जरूरत है”
Girish Mathrubootham Apr 20, 2024 ▶ 15:19 Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 positive
Insight
Shulman: ChatGPT acts as a median-competent tutor for every student
“The first order effect here is that GPT means that every person in the world has, like, a median competent tutor or sidekick. This is obviously amazing for education, and if you can't recognize that fact, I'm not sure you have such good judgment.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 57:01 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 15, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Junestrand scrapped Legora's early codebase to rebuild entirely on GPT
“When I came in, I sort of said, let's just delete all of it, and let's build on GPT, and let's, like, build a version of it that, at the end of the day, lawyers are benefiting from.”
Max Junestrand Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 7:55 20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
Sep 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Stebbings: 10% of the global population uses ChatGPT weekly
“10% of the world's population is a GPT weekly active user.”
Harry Stebbings Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 45:24 Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Clements: Anthropic's app surpassed OpenAI's ChatGPT in the App Store
“Yeah, I mean, they passed GPT in the app store.”
Miles Clements Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 38:49 "Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 16, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rajaram: Most bolt-on AI products are thin wrappers over OpenAI or Anthropic
“Most bolt on players are not doing it. They're simply using a GPT or anthropic model. And they're basically just adding a thin layer. You have to rebuild the entire experience end to end.”
Gokul Rajaram Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 20:32 Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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