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Kant: Poolside's $500M round is merely an entry ticket to AGI race
“You do not want to look back on that moment and not have given it everything you've got, because it's a race, and the latest five hundred million dollar round translates to us being able to be an entrant into the race.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 0:12 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Kant: Poolside deliberately excluded Google, Microsoft, and Amazon from $500M round
“If look at our capital raise, our last five hundred million dollar round, you'll see that there's none of the big hyperscalers, Google, Microsoft, you know, Amazon were part of the round.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 43:43 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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NVIDIA participated in Poolside's funding round without taking an outsized stake
“There is one corporate that became part of our round, and that was very deliberate, was NVIDIA. Not in an outsized stake manner at all. And it's because we collaborate really closely with them On, you know, the next generation of their chips, on the software a…”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 44:28 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Kant: Poolside brought 10,000 GPUs online in summer 2024
“The 10,000 GPUs that we've now brought online this summer, you know, that came from this capital, allow us to make incredible advancements in model capabilities”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 28:20 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Kant: Rejecting GitHub's all-stock acquisition offer was my worst financial decision
“It was probably the dumbest financial decision of my life, considering it was an all stock offer and GitHub sold to Microsoft, I think, less than a year later.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 1:07:14 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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