infrastructure

9 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Sep 2, 2015 by Sean Seton-Rogers · across every show →

Everything said about infrastructure, oldest first

Sep 2, 2015 positive
Insight
Seton-Rogers: Web innovation shifted from infrastructure to design and services
“The web has shifted away from an infrastructure-led, ah, play to what you do on top of the platforms that are already there. It's about the creative, the design-led, the services-led businesses that you can build on top of what is there.”
Sean Seton-Rogers Sep 2, 2015 ▶ 11:13 20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital
Nov 30, 2015
Assertion Partly supported
LivePerson spent $20M of its $30M raised building proprietary infrastructure
“A company like LivePerson, we probably raised, you know, over thirty million dollars in about 12 months. And 20 of that went to build our infrastructure because we wanted to build for success, and you needed to build a platform that could scale.”
Ed Sim Nov 30, 2015 ▶ 6:50 20 VC 092: The Repeatable Playbook of SaaS with Ed Sim, Founding Partner @ BoldStart Ventures
Jan 10, 2018 negative
Disclosure
Every infrastructure startup pitches something Amazon, Microsoft, or Google could build
“Every pitch that I hear about infrastructure is ostensibly something that Amazon could do one day, right? Or Microsoft or Google”
Crystal Huang Jan 10, 2018 ▶ 20:56 20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
Oct 13, 2022 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Söderström: Crypto will succeed as infrastructure rather than consumer products
“I have a feeling that just like AI and other things, it will take quite a long while, but it's going to be, there is a chance that it becomes a fundamental part of the infrastructure just further down that it actually powers a lot of things and is very valuabl…”
Gustav Söderström Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 1:20:37 Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 3, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hankes: Most AI Value Will Accrue to Applications, Not Infrastructure
“I have to believe it's gonna accrue mostly to the application layer. I think if you think about infrastructure companies as platforms, you know, if you think about the software market as the relatives, the value of AWS and Microsoft and Google cloud versus the…”
Vince Hankes May 3, 2023 ▶ 29:48 Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Grimshaw: AI applications will capture massive value and pull through infrastructure
“I think in the arc of time if it is a shift like the internet was in many ways the applications, Which might not look like an applications, right, in the way that we think of them, but might look more like, you know, this control center idea will have profound…”
Miles Grimshaw Sep 18, 2023 ▶ 1:23:54 Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 6, 2023
Insight
Rauch: Individual achievement is bounded by underlying infrastructure
“What you can do in your lifetime will be a function of the underlying infrastructure that you're given. And if you're not given that infrastructure, the best thing that you can do is move to where you can find that.”
Guillermo Rauch Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 14:03 Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 positive
Insight
Scott: AI's economic value will accrue to products, not infrastructure
“But most of the value has to be in the products. Like, you know, we don't build infrastructure just for the sake of infrastructure. Like we build infrastructure so people can make product.”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 5:22 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 4, 2026 negative
Insight
Tobi Lütke: Private businesses are bad at building public infrastructure
“Infrastructure is like one of those things that businesses are really bad at making, and it sucks that we committing businesses to have to build infrastructure of this thing because it just doesn't actually fit into the timescales. Like even the long-term focu…”
Tobi Lütke May 4, 2026 ▶ 49:50 Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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