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Assertion Supported
Casado: Midjourney Leads AI Image Generation With Zero Institutional VC Funding
“Mid journey was the first that got above the quality bar. It's taken zero investment from institutions. It's still the market leader. And it continues to do great.”
Martin Casado Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 14:59 a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Midjourney reached $200M ARR with virtually zero venture capital
“Mid, mid journey company that's raised next to no money or no money at all. And now does, I think, two hundred million in ARR.”
Harry Stebbings Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 3:13 Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Socher: AI image generation capabilities have effectively maxed out
“And that is an image generation. It's photorealistic now. Look at some of these mid journey images. You can just say, I want this exact thing. And it'll just give you a photorealistic image of the scene you just described. Where do you go from there? You can't…”
Richard Socher Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 46:45 Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Casado: Specialized Diffusion Models Like Midjourney Have Superior Business Economics
“Like, say, like 11 Labs, Midjourney, Black Forest Labs, Ideogram. These are wonderful businesses that have great economics because the models are smaller.”
Martin Casado Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 10:28 a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Will Wu: Match Group designers use Midjourney and DALL-E for concepts
“I have already some product designers on my team who are using tools like mid journey or Dolly to come up with different UI concepts or visual concepts.”
Will Wu Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 44:18 Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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