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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 20:09 Cliff Weitzman Micro One, Surge, all these companies are amazing, and they shorten the cycle, by the way, to getting to revenue.
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 21:15 Harry Stebbings You've got Surge.
Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- ▶ 43:31 Harry Stebbings Serge is over a billion. 2 times in the scene
Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
- ▶ 42:59 Harry Stebbings Like, are they haggling going, oh, well, you know, Edwin at Surge gave me a 10% discount.
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:51 Brendan Foody Edwin from Surge has done a really good job in, um, staying super close to research, and it's something that we've obviously been doing a lot of as well, but I think that's probably, uh, the large, one of the largest things that… 2 times in the scene
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:30 Harry Stebbings And you have your McCaws, your Surges, your Invisibles, and you're all kind of put in this, like, you're all just talent marketplaces.
- ▶ 49:05 Harry Stebbings You see them as a competitor more than, uh, Serge or McCaw or Turing or any of the others.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:44 Harry Stebbings So, when we think about then the breadth that we go after, and us specializing in RL environments, just so I understand, like, the marketplace that we sit in, because there is your macaws, there's your surges, how do you differ for those,…
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:15 Harry Stebbings It's the core risk of McCaw, of Surge, of Turing, of all of these data providers, being that they have all two customers that have more than 50% of their revenue for all of them, and the bet that you're taking or the risk that you're… 2 times in the scene
Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:50 Harry Stebbings Um, but, um, the question that I have is, you know, when you look at McCaw, when you look at Surge, when you look at Turing, how do you evaluate that market, which is providing a lot of that talent?
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:42 Harry Stebbings We see Surge, McCaw, uh, Invisible, Turing, uh, Handshake moving into it more and more.
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:22 unnamed speaker And if you're Merkur, if you're Surge, if you're, if you're anyone in the, in the line of that, you're just picking up your dollars and stuffing them in your bucket as fast as you can.
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:30 Brendan Foody To put that in frame of reference, scale and search generally pay about 30 dollars an hour.
- ▶ 8:17 Brendan Foody There was this enormous transition underway, moving away from this crowdsourcing paradigm that scale and surge pioneered of how do you get low and medium skilled people that write barely grammatically correct sentences for early LLMs and…
- ▶ 12:23 Harry Stebbings There are many providers now, it would seem, including your Turing's, your Handshakes, and Surges, and,
- ▶ 21:36 Brendan Foody Uh, like our average marketplace pay rate is 95 dollars an hour, to put that in frame of reference, whereas scale and search generally pay about 30 dollars an hour.
- ▶ 30:54 Harry Stebbings Like, as you said, Surge, they have big revenue numbers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:58 Brendan Foody So there's different buckets, uh, within their human data span, like there's the RLHF buckets, which we don't do as much of, but then there's, uh, right, like Surge is the largest player in RLHF, but then there's the new data types that…
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:26 Harry Stebbings Everyone wanting to use Surge.
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:11 Harry Stebbings I had Edwin from Surge on the show. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:05 Harry Stebbings Like I said, Surge for me is one, which is like scale AI, but fundamentally a much better business. 2 times in the scene
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06 Harry Stebbings If we start on the story itself, and pre, actually, the founding of Surge, you said to me that 90% of the people while you were working at your Google, your Facebook, your Twitter, 90% of the people there were working on useless problems.
- ▶ 7:33 Harry Stebbings Before we dive into Surge, one of the kind of hot topics of the day is the future, where billion-dollar companies will be built by single people.
- ▶ 14:02 Harry Stebbings Can you take me to the founding moment for you leaving the last company and deciding that you were going to go all in on search? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:44 Edwin Chen In many ways, Surge is embodiment of me and my interests.
- ▶ 25:24 Edwin Chen Like one of our principles, like one of the principles that I've always had, even prior to surge when I was just an ML engineer or data scientist, one of the things that I've always tried to encourage is what we call this visceral…
- ▶ 26:51 Edwin Chen I mean, I would say there was nothing that raising would help us with. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:44 Harry Stebbings Is there a time when you let quality slip in any area of the company? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:36 Edwin Chen Yeah, let's just say we've been, we've been doing really, really well from the start. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:02 Edwin Chen Uh, I mean, I think for some people, like, they have a price, but I think we don't. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:06 Harry Stebbings And what happens to your business when we have synthetic data, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:49 Harry Stebbings How much code from Surge is created with AI?
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:13 Harry Stebbings The one thing I will say is I had Edwin from Surge on the show, and he said just a couple of things about this.
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:05 Harry Stebbings Surge AI, which is a scale competitor, is now raising first time money at a billion dollars at a fifteen billion dollar valuation. 7 times in the scene