Linux, every mention
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every year anyone Jonathan Ross 5Guillermo Rauch 5Chris Dixon 5Yann LeCun 4Paul Buchheit 2Joel Monegro 2Harry Stebbings 2Fabien Pinckaers 2Wasim Daher 1Tomasz Tunguz 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Linux comes up
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:41 unnamed speaker Open source in, in inference and training is not free, unlike Linux.
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:26 Jason Lemkin Like why now Jensen said it's the most GitHub stars per unit time, faster than Linux, faster than anything.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:05 Jerry Murdock People couldn't afford to build websites with, uh, Sun, Sun servers and Oracle databases, which were expensive, but the lamp sack came out, which was Linux, Apache, web server, um, MySQL database and PHP front end development tool.
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 53:57 Harry Stebbings You really, how do you think about the distribution of value between closed source and open source, and do you not think it follows the, like, the, the latest of Linux?
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:01 Fabien Pinckaers Oh, I, I'm passionate about open source, you know, Linux stuff and so on, so I did a e-commerce with a Linux t-shirt and ties and Debian and everything, and I sold, I actually sold a lot, but it was really painful to, to post all these…
- ▶ 1:14:00 Fabien Pinckaers Fast forward today, it's only Windows, iOS, and Linux.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:54 Jonathan Ross Linux won back when people didn't trust open source. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:50 Jonathan Ross You know, LLMs, um, is a little bit like you look at an open source, um, project, software project, like, um, Linux or something. 3 times in the scene
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:12 Dan Fougere They tried it with AppDynamics, and they had a Linux update happen, and
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:44 Bret Taylor Built and financed by some of the hyperscalers, um, in partnership with the research labs, and that we would eventually have a meaningful open source model or two, the equivalent of Postgres and MySQL in the database market that would come…
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:41 Chris Dixon And then the, the, what happened was open source software came along, and particularly like Linux, which is, you know, fast forward today, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:01 Chris Dixon It's like early Linux days or early, like, it's like, you know, thousands of, like,
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:08 Harry Stebbings There are many examples, whether it's, you know, your, your, your kind of Linux to your, you know, Apple and Android.
- ▶ 24:12 Jeff Seibert And so imagine you basically have your sort of default Linux operating system, right?
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:53 Guillermo Rauch You might not know exactly how, like writing a custom module for the Linux kernel works, but you should be able to understand how the parts fit together if you're evaluating a systems engineer that's joining your company.
- ▶ 1:03:21 Guillermo Rauch In a way, even going further back than Kubernetes, it's almost like having Linux brain. 4 times in the scene
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:32 Yann LeCun One was Linux and Apache, which is completely open source, and you might, you might ask why. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:29 Yann LeCun So base LLMs basically would be seen as a basic infrastructure, uh, like, you know, TCP, IP, Linux, Apache, essentially, um, completely open.
Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:37 Tomasz Tunguz I think the analogy of Apple and Linux is really useful here, or Apple and Windows, where you'll have a, one system that is basically fully integrated and closed, and then you'll have another world where people are, are building little, I…
20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot
- ▶ 9:44 Wasim Daher If you'd asked me before any of those companies, how excited are you to spend a bunch of time with Linux system administrators really getting into the weeds on how they install software updates?
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 14:07 Fritz Lanman We had done the early work that got Gates and Bomber focused on Google as a threat to the business, and at the time, back then, they were more focused on the enterprise side and on the threat that Linux kind of represented, and so we had…
20VC: Why Most The Value In Crypto Will Accrue in Governance, When Institutional Capital Will Enter The Space and How To Think About Liquidity In Crypto with Joel Monegro, Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC
- ▶ 8:26 Joel Monegro And then going into the early nineties, we see the same thing happen again with the introduction of Linux and the introduction of 2 times in the scene
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 3:12 Paul Buchheit And it just so happens that I had been reading about a little startup that was using Linux, which I was really into at the time. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 29:19 Aaron VanDevender And it was the central platform around which the Linux and open source community kind of crystallized.
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 5:39 Daniel Gross It was called Greplin, G-R-E-P-L-I-N, which is a play on words for a Linux tool that engineers use a Unix tool called Grep, and the product was a search engine, but instead of searching the internet, like Google, it searched through all of…
20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
- ▶ 27:23 Seth Bannon Uh, it's like not often where you can have one of the initial, like, kernel hackers of Linux commenting on, on some tech thread.
20VC: The Fundamentals To Creating A Successful Venture Partnership & The Optimal Investment Decision Making Process with Ryan McIntyre, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 20:10 Ryan McIntyre You know, written code for money in over 20 years at this point, but that going through the early phases of Excite, where really there was no off-the-shelf internet infrastructure software, Linux was in its infancy, and so we had to build…