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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 48:52 Cliff Weitzman Yeah, so there's unlimited numbers of companies doing B to B text-to-speech, but, like, we are unique in our market, so because, uh, uh, Whisperflow was so public about it, they now have a lot of competition, and so Peter Thiel, right,
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 31:05 Jerry Murdock And by the way, this has been a lot of advice, uh, Peter Thiel's advice is start with a niche, dominate the niche, and then grow it out. 2 times in the scene
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 32:57 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, Peter Thiel said before that, like, if he had just done every round that anyone else had done at an up round, and it was a good brand, he would have done much better, was kind of the ethos. 2 times in the scene
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 1:03:26 Rory O'Driscoll So for, for, for, for listeners who may not know it, one of the, the very early Stripe rounds, I know Peter Thiel was an investor. 2 times in the scene
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:31 Ryan Petersen Uh, Peter just offered 300 instead of two 75, which wasn't as good as my 500, but he didn't need to do that. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:03 Ryan Petersen Pete, uh, Peter, you know, I met Peter, Sam Altman introduced me to Peter. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:40 Harry Stebbings I watched the social network and I saw Peter Thiel invest in Facebook, and that's how I ever found out about venture capital.
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:03 Matan Grinberg Well, they order on Amazon, Peter Thiel's Zero to One, and they look up on YouTube how to start a company.
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:37 unnamed speaker As Peter Thiel put in a very different fund, very positive fund, but hundreds of millions of dollars, and they're going to sit and make it happen.
- ▶ 1:26:10 Jason Calacanis I mean, what's Peter Thiel's point otherwise, right? 4 times in the scene
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:44 Josh Browder Um, now Peter Thiel is so wealthy. 2 times in the scene
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:05 Harry Stebbings Because I see everyone be like, oh, we do AI video and like, we've seen a load of like, I remember icon, the Peter Thiel funded one, uh, that said like,
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:36 Anjney Midha When I was at Stanford many years ago as a kid, I took this class that Peter taught called, uh, I think it was turned into this book called Zero to One. 3 times in the scene
Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:33 Demis Hassabis Peter Thiel had at Founders Fund, and I think we were both invited.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:28 unnamed speaker The meta question for venture is, you know, the classic Peter Thiel zero to one only competitions for losers is what Dr. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:17 Marc Andreessen By the way, Peter Thiel does that really well. 4 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:20 Gokul Rajaram So the answer to Peter Thiel's question of, we were looking for, 3 times in the scene
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:12 Rory O'Driscoll And, you know, I think give him credit.
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:17 Harry Stebbings There are like, 50 providers with over fifty million in funding, 10 with over a hundred million, and I will, I'm very much of the Peter Thiel school of thought that, you know, competition is for losers, and we want to have monopoly markets.
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 1:19:43 unnamed speaker And you know, there's the famous Peter Thiel story about driving with him to Sandhill road when Elon crashed and Peter's comment is you literally don't have any concept of risk. 2 times in the scene
Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:47 Rory O'Driscoll This is like Peter Thiel's spend on Gawker.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:08 unnamed speaker I mean, it's the Peter Thiel question because I always think if you, if you look at the two biggest entrants in the last 30 years, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:46 unnamed speaker And if it was just one tax, then as bad as it is with Larry and Sergey and Peter Thiel leaving, it was, it would at least be a bounded thing, right?
- ▶ 1:23:50 unnamed speaker Larry Page I get and Peter Thiel is managing money.
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27:13 Rory O'Driscoll When you, Marie Antoinette and Peter Thiel are being dragged out to the guillotine, just remember that optimism, big guy.