Steve

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2026 by Tony James · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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May 5, 2026
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James: Prepared Blackstone IPO in secret for nine months
“Steve delegated to me, and I did really with no one else in the firm actually helping for nine months. I did it at night, and worked out all this with bankers, outside bankers and lawyers, but not internal people.”
Tony James May 5, 2026 ▶ 58:54 Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show
Sep 9, 2026 positive
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Chi: Vals automates human evaluation work with internal system Steve
“We also have this internal system called Steve. Steve the Economic Vals employee. And so that, that's been a mechanism by which we're able to actually take more of the human work over time and put it into Steve.”
Ryan Chi Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 5:11 Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
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