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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Varun Mohan: Open-sourcing Windsurf front end would not harm adoption or success
“I don't think it would affect, affect much if we had to make it open source, because most of the work that it's kind of like the thing I said before, right? You know, Google is, yeah, they have a front end, but the front end is just a single box. And if they o…”
Varun Mohan Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 1:02:14 Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Grimshaw: AI copilots are an incumbent strategy, not a startup opportunity
“I think Copilot is an incumbent's strategy. Incumbents own distribution, they own data, they own the UX, and they own a business model that all aligns to a Copilot.”
Miles Grimshaw Nov 24, 2023 ▶ 19:05 The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Grimshaw: AI will yield new software architectures and business models
“And I think if AI is to be the force that it can be, I think you will get a new architecture and new business model emerging from it versus what we only see right now, which is kind of a sustaining architecture, which is just that of a co-pilot.”
Miles Grimshaw Sep 18, 2023 ▶ 1:05:22 Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Grimshaw: Building AI co-pilots is an incumbent strategy
“Most of what we've seen has been co-pilot stuff, and I think co-pilot is an incumbent's strategy. Incumbents own distribution, they own data, they own the UX, and they own a business model that all aligns to a co-pilot.”
Miles Grimshaw Sep 18, 2023 ▶ 1:08:35 Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Zach Lloyd: Microsoft screwed up GitHub Copilot
“I guess, but they, like, I think that they kind of screwed up Copilot.”
Zach Lloyd Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 59:18 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Opinion
Lanng: AI co-pilots are a desperate attempt by incumbent software to stay relevant
“So co-pilots are the last breath from the existing enterprise applications to remain relevant.”
Christian Lanng Sep 27, 2023 ▶ 1:05:23 Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Hulme: 60% to 70% of Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft Copilot
“If you look at the proportion of the, like, Fortune 500 that are using Copilot, I think it's 60 or 70% I heard last week.”
Tom Hulme May 8, 2024 ▶ 54:18 Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Held up
Howie Liu: Microsoft Copilot Will Drive Significant ARPU Growth Across Office
“When you think about like Microsoft's co-pilot offering, it's going to add significant ARPU to every single seat of office, which is a massive install base, right?”
Howie Liu Aug 25, 2023 ▶ 21:58 Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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