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Randle: OpenAI could raise at a $1T valuation next year
“I think it'll be a trillion dollar company next year. Yes. I think they could probably raise at the end of the year. Ah, you know, end of the year Q two, I think open AI could raise it a trillion dollars. No problem.”
Randle: Frontier AI models can now autonomously execute cyber attacks
“Zooming out, I think the most important thing in all this Is that we step back from Anthropic and realize that the models are to place now, whether they're from Anthropic or elsewhere, where they can autonomously find and chain multiple vulnerabilities togethe…”
Randle: CoreWeave and AI cloud providers will eventually crash 70%
“I think at some point, like they'll probably, you know, Corweave and all these things will probably go down like 70%.”
Randle: US regulating Anthropic's Fable on capabilities is a Rubicon moment
“At the face of it, this is a Rubicon moment in the history of the AI industry. It's the first time that the US has ostensibly regulated an AI model based on capabilities.”
Randle predicts SpaceX stock price will be lower in six months
“I would personally probably take the under in six months, not because I don't think that the company is going to be valued extremely well... But if I had to go over under, I'd go under from six months from now.”
Randle: Open models with test-time compute match Fable's security vulnerability finding
“With the right harness and the right amount of test time compute, you can use open models to find all of the vulnerabilities that Fable can find.”
Randle: OpenAI has the fastest growth trajectory in tech history
“What ended up mattering is that it, you know, it's had the strongest and highest growth trajectory Of any technology company in history.”
Randle: ChatGPT will be the dominant consumer app for 5 years
“Like there's just no way that it's not going to be the most important kind of consumer destination over the next five years and consumer app over the next five years.”
Randle: Code generation market will add $4B to $5B ARR this year
“Instead of adding, you know, a billion dollars of net new this year, I think code generation is going to add, I don't know, four or five billion dollars of net new across every single product and service that's available for people to buy, both on the B to B a…”
Randle: SaaS business models won't be as relevant over next decade
“And it's such a better intellectual exercise than trying to compare it to SAS, which is just a very, very different business. And it has a very different pricing and business model that, that isn't going to be as relevant, I think over the next 10 years.”
Randle: Jasper AI reached $100M quickly then shrank due to low value
“Jasper, you know, I think it went zero to a hundred very, very quickly, but then actually started shrinking. And it was because it was sort of easy come, easy go with the revenue and they hadn't built enough scaffolding and they hadn't built enough like actual…”
Randle: Benchmark's top fund investments outperform all post-ChatGPT OpenAI rounds
“Out of our last fund, our five best investments in that last fund today held at LRP last round price are about a 60 X. We have two 30 X's and we have two 20 X's. Since ChatGPT was released, there isn't an open AI round that touches That return multiple and tha…”
Randle: AI boom will face an inevitable crash before producing massive winners
“Today is very similar in that there's going to be a ton of companies that are pump fakes that do end up going to zero or that go down 90%. But I think it's really important to position yourself so that you can survive the inevitable crash on the other side. An…”
Randle: Everyone blindly loyal to Elon Musk has become stupidly rich
“Anyone that has been blindly loyal to Elon, they've all got stupidly rich.”
Randle: OpenAI and Google will match Mythos Fable quality within 3-6 months
“When OpenAI or when Google, like, they're going to get to Mythos Fable quality models very soon, within the next three to six months, and then we're going to see.”
Randle: Top public SaaS platforms trade above 15x NTM revenue
“You have, I mean, Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Datadog, Palantir, all these companies trade above 15 times NTM revenue again.”
Randle: Adobe trades at eight times LTM free cash flow
“I looked at Adobe and I was like, this thing trades for eight times LTM free cash flow.”
Randle: Tiger Global will perform much better than consensus expects
“I think Tiger's gonna end up much better than anyone thought they were going to end up.”
Randle: Code generation market reached $6B to $7B ARR in 30 months
“The market of code generation has gone something like, I don't know, over the last two and a half years, it's gone from essentially zero To probably like six or seven billion dollars of ARR”
Randle: Figma investment at 100x ARR generated a 30-40x return
“One of the first hundred X deals, I think, in SaaS, and people were like, a hundred X ARR, what the hell? And obviously it ended up being, you know, I don't know, 30, 40 X, unbelievable investment.”
Randle: Benchmark constrains fund sizes to survive downturns and retain LPs
“We're like, let's constrain our fund sizes. Let's be careful about what we do. So we don't get too over our skis, where we can easily weather a crash, and LPs aren't going to go fleeing once there's a crash, because we've been very careful with our capital, an…”
Randle: Prediction markets show 70% odds of Tesla-SpaceX merger in two years
“If you look at the poly market Calci odds on a Tesla SpaceX merger, again, you know, not, not that those markets are so big that they're that indicative, but I think the probability that they have on there is something like 70% in the next two years or somethi…”
Randle: Cloud index down 44% over five years while semis rose 325%
“The Bessemer Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index over the last five years is down 44%, and the SOX, the iShare Semiconductor ETF is up 325%.”
Founders Fund allows deal team members to personally co-invest
“So there's a program, for example, at Founders Fund where anyone that works on an investment or if you're leading an investment, you can personally invest alongside the firm.”
Thiel paid bonuses to PayPal employees living near the office
“He had, like, a bonus system for PayPal employees. If they lived within, like, a couple miles of the office, you'd give them more money.”
Randle: Tech offers far more $100B opportunities today than 15 years ago
“The outcomes are much, much, much larger in today's in today's technology landscape than they were 10 years ago, 15 years ago, there's more bites at, you know, potential hundred billion dollar, trillion dollar companies.”