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Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29:56 Cliff Weitzman The reason why I invested in Tesla way back in the day was because I found Elon Musk from a Wikipedia article from the co-CEOs of SolarCity. 3 times in the scene
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:52 Anjney Midha And then you develop good habits and protocols and practices and not be dependent on it, but usually I would plan my Wikipedia sessions.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:50 Sebastian Siemiatkowski But if you look at Wikipedia, how many articles is there about Klana? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:59 Sebastian Siemiatkowski And what he's done with Grokipedia, where he's taken inspiration from Wikipedia, what I said, and so forth.
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:05 Victor Riparbelli I think what we've seen with products like Wikipedia, for example, is that the collective power of people working together to arrive at some sort of truth 2 times in the scene
Zico Kolter: OpenAI's Newest Board Member on The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | E1197 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:34 Zico Kolter There is not another Wikipedia and things like this, right?
Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:27 Aidan Gomez We started training language models on Wikipedia, um, and we sampled from those models, and it could write Wikipedia pages as convincing as a human page. 2 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:38 Reid Hoffman So if you say, for example, like what I've heard from some people who've done analysis, Gemini is better at producing fiction, you know, OpenAI is better at the kind of Wikipedia-like reports, like, okay, like, you know, but by the way,…
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:05 Yann LeCun You're not gonna go to Google or Wikipedia. 5 times in the scene
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:26 Christian Lanng Well, I mean, 99% of people use it as Wikipedia, and that's it, right?
Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:39 Richard Socher A question answering model that takes a context and says, who's the president, uh, in this Wikipedia article, uh, that's mentioned, and then you just give that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:46 Richard Socher And the idea of language modeling is you just predict the next word, which is very easy to get a lot of data for, because you can use anything on the internet, um, any text you find on the internet, Wikipedia, and so on.
- ▶ 31:13 Richard Socher But that, that would be my dream is that we actually have a single model and just like Wikipedia, the whole world collaborates and adds to it. 3 times in the scene
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:36 Tomer Cohen And it will explain it, and it will be an okay explanation, you know, very much a Wikipedia kind of like explanation.
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:14 Yann LeCun You know, you're not going to go to Google or Wikipedia. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:15 Yann LeCun So Wikipedia style.
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:35 Tobi Lütke I usually like take notes and then go to Wikipedia and look up and again, build my
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:21 Paul Davison Like an example that I often think about is Wikipedia. 2 times in the scene
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:52 Jim Lanzone I'll give you the, um, the, the quick, uh, Wikipedia, you know, origin story.
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- ▶ 36:43 David Friedberg So call it Wikipedia, YouTube, scientific journals, and the independent objective feedback from many different people.
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 23:43 Jeremy Levine And so I always like to joke that the Wikipedia is the biggest overnight success story that took 15 years to achieve. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 20:36 Shishir Mehrotra We did another version of the Pinterest onion that started with Wikipedia at the center, which was like a really interesting one.
20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- ▶ 15:48 Balaji Srinivasan If you go and read that, um, and this is basically what there was before you had like, you know, Wikipedia and online encyclopedias of chemistry.
20VC: Why The Evolution of Digital Media Presents A Multi $Bn Opportunity with Brit Morin, Founder & CEO @ Brit + Co
- ▶ 17:44 Harry Stebbings And moving into kind of fundraising and funding, before we actually touch on your fundraising path, I'm intrigued Mark Andreessen asserted that print journalism is converging in quality and technique with blogs and Wikipedia. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Information's Jessica Lessin on The Future For Online Journalism & The Benefits Of A Subscription Based Business Model
- ▶ 5:22 Harry Stebbings And talking of the quality of content purely being produced, and I, I have to ask, Marc Andreessen made an assertion that print journalism is converging in quality and technique with blogs and Wikipedia.
20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
- ▶ 15:28 Sam Lessin I'm super disappointed in Wikipedia.
20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures
- ▶ 5:17 Jonathan Libov Um, they should, should really check, check with them, or maybe with Wikipedia, see if that, that is correct.
James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 4:31 James Altucher Well, there are a lot of sites where you can kind of test the waters, and, like, Quora.com is a Q&A site, you know, people ask questions, and anyone can answer, so you have, like, people like, I don't know, Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia, he…