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The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock Aug 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:05 Harry Stebbings Would you have done SSI at thirty billion, Iliad's company, which is supposedly coming out with the first version of that continuous learning model end of August? 2 times in the scene

Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:15 Jason Lemkin I just, um, I, I, uh, most of the founders I've worked with over my career that have done that, that have quit something pretty good to do the shiny penny, uh, they're not all Ilya.

Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 6, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 14, 2026 · 1 mention

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 · 2 mentions

OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:45 unnamed speaker Told Dario he was the boss, then told Ilya and Greg, they could fire him at any time if they wanted to fire Sam, right?

Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 22, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 16:00 Jason Lemkin I think she does, but I don't know how you run a lab if you're not, if you're not Ilya in the early days of OpenAI, or Greg at least.
  • ▶ 30:19 Rory O'Driscoll And then you had Ilya, who had to do a ten-hour depot, and this comes back to the whole mirror thing, right? 5 times in the scene

Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 27, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 33:33 David Cahn And, and then, but you contrast that against, like, the true thought leaders and, and godfathers of AI, the people who've really invented this category, people like Richard Sudden, people like Andre Karpathy, people like Ilya Satzkever,…
  • ▶ 59:52 David Cahn And, you know, Ilya, Andre Karpathy, these people are visionaries.

Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:33 unnamed speaker I guess it's totally cool to leave thinking machines, uh, or did it happen with Ilias co-founder too, right?

OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:29 Harry Stebbings I think it's another clear example, though, of the Alex Wang, um, changing venture mindsets on entry price acceptance, because we all go, well, if Alex is worth 14.8, Jesus, Ilya's worth 30, and Mira, and it justifies these prices on the…

Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:27 Harry Stebbings I'm saying, are we just so fucking peak that we've got twenty five million ARR companies being valued at 5,000,000,010 billion, Ilyaz being valued at thirty billion, Mira is being valued at ten billion with nothing. 2 times in the scene

a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:21 Martin Casado With models with different flavors, and there's going to be a lot of new flavor models that will come out, you know, like, you know, we haven't even, you know, like, you know, Mira and Ilya are out there creating models.

Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 12, 2025 · 1 mention

Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2025 · 1 mention

Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:18 Bucky Moore Now there is a unique play here, which is, you know, SSI, Ilya Sitzkaver and Daniel Gross's company, which said, we're not going to do that.

a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 17, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:11:23 unnamed speaker Using the same logic, you got the guy who invented the secret recipe. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:13:38 Jason Lemkin I don't want, why would I want to go into the VCs and why does Ilya even care about them? 3 times in the scene

Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 25, 2024 · 1 mention

Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:54 Harry Stebbings From some of the biggest people in AI, Iliao recently raised a billion dollar seed round.

Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 19, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 34:21 Aidan Gomez Like, just sort of like a irrational conviction to this vision of scaling, and I think that, that was driven by, I, I remember talking to Ilya, um, about this stuff way before GPT-One, you know, like, 6 times in the scene

David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 24, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:45 David Luan Um, and I remember, um, I was actually, I was running engineering at OpenAI at the time, and, uh, um, I was working really closely with Ilya, um, and Ilya and I were just sitting around, and, and he was just like, look, this Transformer… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:57 Harry Stebbings You mentioned working with Ilya there.

Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:10 Brad Lightcap Um, and I ended up spending more time with Greg and Ilya, um, and, uh, the properties that Sam describes of these systems just getting better with scale at first kind of unpredictably and then more predictably.

Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:20 Richard Socher Just like it's very hard to know when, you know, someone would invent problem engineering, or when someone would have the idea to scale up language models, uh, and transformer networks just massively and not have other cute little models…
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