Winston Weinberg
20 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 19, 2026 by Winston Weinberg · said 14 times in 7 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
- a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
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Jan 19, 2026
Weinberg clears his Slack inbox every 15 minutes across all channels
“One of the ones I have that I think was a good habit in the beginning of the company is now, and now it's starting to get bad, is I zero out Slack, like, every, like, 15 minutes, and so I'm in, like, almost every single Slack channel, and I read every single t…”
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Jan 19, 2026
Weinberg: Founders should not negotiate compensation with best-in-class job candidates
“If you want to hire somebody, hire them, whatever they want to be hired, and put them in the position that they want. If they're best in class, if you can't tell if they're best in class, it's a separate problem, but don't go back and forth. It doesn't matter.”
Jan 19, 2026
Weinberg: Harvey targets only one or two investors when fundraising
“What I actually do is there's a couple investors that I've become decently close with, and when it's time to fundraise, Usually we get preempted or I say, Hey, I think it's like time to fundraise. And I reach out to literally like one or two people.”
Jan 19, 2026 positive
Jan 19, 2026 positive
Jan 19, 2026 negative
Weinberg: In chaotic markets like AI, VCs rely on resumes over judgment
“When there are situations of chaos and folks don't know what's going on, the safest thing is to go look at other social signals to make decisions instead of using your own gut. And so I think that that's happening a lot in AI, and hopefully, you know, as the m…”
Jan 19, 2026 negative
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Jan 19, 2026 neutral
Jan 19, 2026
Weinberg: Abandon standard negotiation tactics when you know a deal's core value
“Know when to not negotiate. This, I think, is actually really, really important, and the best deal makers I know are very good at this, which is there are certain deals where you want one thing from the deal and nothing else matters. This only works when you u…”
Jan 19, 2026 neutral
Jan 19, 2026 neutral
Weinberg: Consumer AI is plateauing because reasoning is already sufficient
“So I think that we're seeing a plateau in performance for consumer use cases. And the reason why I think this is like a misnomer or something that people actually shouldn't pay attention to is we don't need them to be better for consumer use cases. Like, I fee…”
Jan 19, 2026 negative
Jan 19, 2026
Weinberg: AI leaders must benchmark against broader market pull, not just competitors
“One of the biggest jobs that you have is to make sure that your team doesn't feel like they've already won, right? Because the reality is the market pull is massive, and so sometimes your success isn't just your execution, it's the market pull, right? And so y…”
Jan 19, 2026
Weinberg: Number two companies gain distribution by attaching to market leaders
“I think that if you are number two in the market, one of the things that's, that can get you a lot of attention is just attaching yourself to number one in any way, shape, or form, right? You kind of get free press from doing that type of thing. It's a good wa…”
Jan 19, 2026
Jan 19, 2026 neutral