Ilya Sutskever
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 19, 2024 by Aidan Gomez · said 44 times in 23 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (9), Jason Lemkin (8), Aidan Gomez (6), Rory O'Driscoll (5), David Luan (2), David Cahn (2), Cliff Weitzman (2), Richard Socher (1)
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2026 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 17 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 12 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Everything said about Ilya Sutskever, oldest first
Aug 19, 2024
Gomez: Ilya Sutskever envisioned compute scaling years before GPT-1
“They pave the way. Like, just sort of like a irrational conviction to this vision of scaling, and I think that, that was driven by, I remember talking to Ilya about this stuff way before GPT-One, you know, like in the Transformer times, around that time becaus…”