Math Olympiad

also referred to as: math olympiads

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2025 by Jesse Zhang · across every show →

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Sep 19, 2025 positive
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Zhang: Combining math Olympiad reasoning with sales skills is underrated
“If you can really unlock that level of, you know, reasoning capability and just like smartness and combine it with folks that can, you know, teach them how to sell or how to build a company, I think that's a pretty good combination. So that's something I think…”
Jesse Zhang Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 4:39 20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Pineau: Enterprise clients don't care if AI models win math Olympiads
“We build AI systems that go into enterprise. None of our clients ask about, like, are you able to win the math Olympiad with this model? That's not what they care about. They care about bringing value to their business.”
Joelle Pineau Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 48:04 Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 13, 2026 negative
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Grinberg: Institutional Math Olympiad track records can be an anti-signal in hiring
“Especially there's some high schools that, like, really focus on, like, you must do the math olympic, like, you must do this, the Amy, to then go to the IMO, and, like, this is the path to success, where actually that's kind of anti-signal, because there it's,…”
Matan Grinberg Jun 13, 2026 ▶ 29:56 OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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