Severin Hacker
17 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 19, 2025 by Severin Hacker · said 7 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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May 19, 2025 negative
May 19, 2025 bullish
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May 19, 2025
Severin Hacker: Flat organizations without hierarchy cannot scale
“There was like this belief that you can run a completely flat organization, right? No, no managers. No hierarchies, no levels. And. I think that's not really possible. At a certain scale, you need to have managers or layers, or you need to have some sort of hi…”
May 19, 2025
Severin Hacker: Tech leaders fear AI because they risk losing purpose
“For a lot of people, The job is just, they do it for the income. They don't derive purpose from it. And then I think, you know, we are in, in, in this the people that derive purpose from their job who work the most, et cetera, you know, the tech people and the…”
May 19, 2025 negative
Hacker: The EU AI Act is among the dumbest regulation ever written
“I can work with the EU regulation on AI, which is, I think, some of the dumbest regulation ever written. It's literally like, you know, the Ottoman Empire, they had when, you know, they invented the printing press, it's like, oh, this is not good. It's not goo…”
May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025 positive
May 19, 2025
Hacker: Founders have much faster feedback loops than angel investors
“You know, I think that there's things that are, there's overlapping, there's an overlap between being a good founder and a good investor, but ultimately they're different things. And first of all, the, you know, the investment cycle is 10 years, right? So, so …”
May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025
Hacker: 80% of CTO focus at Duolingo is AI, remainder on M&A
“I'm now a little bit out of the weeds, and I'm thinking more, right now, actually, I'm only focused on two things. One is like, this question is with AI, like, what's gonna happen? Like, what does the future look like in, you know, in our space? What is the im…”
May 19, 2025 positive
May 19, 2025
Severin Hacker: AGI and UBI will replace human jobs in 20 years
“I believe that's gonna happen. Again, the big question is, is when is it gonna be? I don't think it's gonna be next five years. It's not going to be, maybe it's going to be next 10 years if you really see a broad adoption of these technologies, more likely may…”
May 19, 2025
Hacker: Duolingo founders signed a brief written contract outlining roles and decisions
“So, you know, we, I wrote down a little contract between the two of us. I still have a copy at home. Where we outline exactly like, you know, this is how we're going to make decisions. It's like this short. This is how we're going to make decisions. This is, y…”