Limitless

company on 10 shows · 18 statements across 5 episodes · said 39 times in 20 episodes since 2015

20VC 14 Latent Space 6 Lenny's Podcast 4 the a16z Podcast 4 WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 2 the Knowledge Project 1 BigDeal 1 the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 Big Technology TBPN

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20VC Disclosure
Diao: TikTok ads underperformed compared to Instagram for hardware startup Limitless
“In some of the early experiments that we did, we just found that TikTok actually wasn't as performant as channels like Instagram.”
Sandy Diao Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 47:07 20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
LENNY'S PODCAST Prediction Held up
Wilkinson: Wearable AI Will Automatically Populate To-Do Lists and Emails
“And so eventually I haven't gotten there yet, but eventually you'll be able to just have it record your entire day and then automatically go into your to-do list or whatever it is and add to-dos or send emails or whatever you need it to do.”
Andrew Wilkinson Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 50:35 I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Shah: Investor in OpenAI, Perplexity, LangGraph, CrewAI, and Limitless
“Investor in OpenAI, perplexity, lane graph, crew AI, limitless, a bunch of them.”
Dharmesh Shah Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 1:19:35 The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
LATENT SPACE Assertion Partly supported
Wang: Wearable competitors Friend AI and Limitless AI lack developer APIs
“Real friend doesn't have an API and then limitless also doesn't have an API.”
Shawn Wang Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 22:24 Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siroker: Second-time founders can recruit far higher-caliber talent
“The caliber of person that I can hire today is far, far better than the person I could have hired, you know, when I started optimizing. So I do think that's a huge factor as well. You can hire much better if you, and certainly if your first company did okay, d…”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 13:19 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Siroker: Startups should compensate employees at the 75th percentile in cash
“You can still pay, you know, 75th percentile in, in terms of cash, and it shouldn't be a huge lifestyle change just because they're joining a startup. I think that's a, you know, 10 years ago, that was this idea that you're exchanging, you know, risk for rewar…”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 23:19 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Siroker: Limitless raised existing salaries after hiring an engineer $30k higher
“We hired somebody, a great software engineer. We thought, wow, actually the market is showing that this person should be 30 K more than the other folks on the team. And so not only did we hire her at that price, but we also raised everyone else's salaries to m…”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 24:01 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Siroker: Limitless let employees sell 25% of vested equity in Series A
“In our series A, we're way oversubscribed. We actually have, we raised our series A over a year ago and we haven't even started spending it. So we had far more investors who wanted to invest than we had you know, capital to sell them. And so I gave our employe…”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 25:16 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Siroker: Limitless has not spent any of its Series A capital
“We actually have, we raised our series A over a year ago and we haven't even started spending it.”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 25:19 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Siroker: Why Limitless refuses to hire candidates straight out of college
“Like we don't hire people straight out of college. We hire people with experience.”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 26:39 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siroker: Limitless ships faster with 20 people than Optimizely did with 120
“With 20 people today, I feel like we're having a greater impact and ship faster than we ever could with a 120 people and software engineers at Optimizely.”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 28:11 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Siroker: Why Limitless operates without a board of directors
“I've been lucky not to have a board for Limitless.”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 33:55 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Siroker: Limitless rejected 22 $1B offers to accept a $350M Series A
“We had offers, actually, we had 22 offers at a billion dollars. We turned them down and took 350.”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 37:51 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Siroker: Limitless ran all first investor meetings within one week
“Last year, when we did this fundraise, I we did this kind of in public. We put the deck out, and then for any of the people we felt were good finalists, we gave them a calendar link for the first meetings, and those meetings are all one week, so no more than o…”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 42:21 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Siroker: Limitless raised from hundreds of investors, hindering competitors
“One of the benefits side, unintended side benefits of the round we raised I do think kind of made everyone else's job. Who's a founder trying to compete with us much, much harder because first of all, we had hundreds of investors.”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 52:17 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siroker: He would abandon Limitless hardware if software alone solved the problem
“We're building a hardware, we're building a wearable, If I can solve the same problems I want to solve without them, all for it. I'd be happy to do that. Hardware is hard. It's expensive. It's painful. I would happily give up hardware if I could solve the prob…”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 1:01:24 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Siroker: Why he regrets not doing Y Combinator for his second startup
“I probably should have. I kind of regret not doing it. I think I was maybe too much pride and ego that I didn't need it. But YC has a lot of gifts to keep on giving, even if you're a second time founder, like work at a startup like office hours. So I am very i…”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 1:07:55 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Siroker: Why cutting hobbies and social life yields peak personal happiness
“I've cut out basically most of my, I don't spend much time with friends. I have basically no hobbies. You know, I, I'm reminded of this Rick Rubin quote. He's like, I have no technical skills. It's like that, but for my life, like all I do is spend time with m…”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 1:09:55 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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