Kevin Scott

12 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 28, 2023 by Sarah Guo · said 9 times in 8 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (4), Sarah Guo (1), Reid Hoffman (1), Jean-Michel Lemieux (1), Ethan Mollick (1), Eno Reyes (1)

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Apr 28, 2023 positive
Opinion
Guo: Satya Nadella and Kevin Scott led Microsoft's AI transition brilliantly
“I mean, how could you not, right? I think Satya has done an amazing job making a, making Satya and Kevin Scott have done an amazing job championing, like really believing in this set of technologies, taking a bunch of bets, open AI and otherwise, using it as a…”
Sarah Guo Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 24:46 Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 10, 2024 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Microsoft Board Approved $1B for OpenAI Despite Having No Clear Product
“The very first OpenAI Microsoft deal was, you know, Satya and Kevin Scott brought to the Microsoft board. We want to put a billion dollars into the investment in this vehicle. From a five one C three that doesn't really have any particular plans at making its …”
Reid Hoffman Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 29:58 Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scott: AI agent memory will improve significantly over the next year
“I think one of the things is going to happen because I know lots of people are working on it right now is memory is going to get a lot better over the next year or so, which means that as you're using an agent, like, and it remembers more and more about your p…”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 26:08 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scott: Future AI user interfaces will consist of many specialized agents
“The user interface that surfaces, those capabilities will probably be agents. And, you know, product managers, like I don't all don't believe in this, like one agent. For everything sort of theory. I think you'll have a lot of agents.”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 22:32 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Scott: Search economics flow entirely to large integrated infrastructure operators
“All of the economics in search go to like somebody who's stood up a gigantic infrastructure and who's sort of running like a whole. Search business like with its own feedback loop.”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 18:02 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 bullish
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Scott: AI scaling laws have not hit a limit yet
“I can very clearly see what we're doing now and like what we're doing next. And I don't see the limit to the scaling laws. Like if you're just sort of thinking about the raw capability of the models and like how well you can condition them to reason over incre…”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 8:31 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 positive
Opinion
Scott: The tech industry must respect the capabilities of Chinese AI developers
“So we should really, really, really respect the capability of Chinese entrepreneurs, scientists, and engineers. They are very good. Like we shouldn't, you know, if you are underestimating it like you shouldn't”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 42:48 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scott: AI will render traditional product engineering teams obsolete within ten years
“It basically means, and like, I don't think this is next year, but it's probably not going to be 10 years. This whole notion that the, That, that you have teams of people who are, who, whose job is to go anticipate a bunch of very granular user needs in some n…”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 20:35 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scott: Future AI product managers must be deep domain experts
“Your product managers are probably going to have to be domain experts, like people who sort of deeply understand something like medicine or, you know, drug discovery or early round venture investing, or, you know, like, you know, just sort of pick your thing.”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 22:53 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scott: AI agents will become less transactional and session-oriented
“The agents, they will definitely be less transactional, less session-oriented going forward.”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 0:25 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Scott: Frontier AI models diagnose health issues better than average GPs
“It is already the case that I think the frontier models are probably better like health diagnosticians than Your average GP is”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 43:29 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scott: AI agents will execute tasks asynchronously within the next year
“I think there's going to be more over the next year of you sort of dispatching your agent to go do something and it like goes and works while you are not paying attention to it.”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 27:17 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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