Andrew Ng
Managing General Partner, AI Fund. On 4 shows, 3 appearances, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Andrew Ng is a computer scientist who co-founded Google Brain, served as Chief Scientist at Baidu, and co-founded Coursera. He currently leads AI Fund, an early-stage venture studio, and directs DeepLearning.AI to provide online machine learning education.
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12said about them ↓ Everything Andrew Ng said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Andrew Ng: Artificial general intelligence is decades or longer away
“So this phantom AGI, someday with AI, they can do everything a human can do. I think we're very far away from that. I would say, you know, like decades away, maybe even longer.”
Andrew Ng: Claims that AI could cause human extinction are ridiculous
“There are a lot of hyped up AI safety narratives saying AI could lead to human extinction, which is kind of ridiculous statement.”
Andrew Ng refuses to hire experienced engineers who ignore AI tools
“Those people, I just don't hire people like that anymore, but there are people that, you know, did a comfortable job, they kept coding the old way, and they just did not learn AI.”
Andrew Ng: AGI is hyped PR, AI will improve continuously for decades
“I feel like because of PR goals, AGI has been hyped up as a finish line, but I don't think it's a finish line. It's just, we'll have continually improving capabilities for, you know, decades to come.”
Andrew Ng: US chip export controls have backfired and accelerated Chinese innovation
“I think the export control on chips has largely backfired. The way that the US and I think that the way the US first put restrictions on Huawei and then later on, you know, exported NVIDIA and AMD and other semiconductors that really incentivized China. So bef…”
Andrew Ng: Being a leader in AI regulation is not a competitive advantage
“If I had one wish for the European regulators, I spoke with quite a few European regulators, I was hearing things like, we want to be leaders in regulating AI, and that's a competitive advantage. And with all due respect, that's not a competitive advantage. So…”
Andrew Ng: Useful AI agentic workflows exist today, disagreeing with Andrej Karpathy
“I disagree with that. I think we're seeing useful agentic workflows right now.”
Andrew Ng: Advising people not to learn coding is terrible career advice
“Even earlier this year, we saw some senior business leaders advise people to not learn to code on the grounds that AI will automate it. We'll look back on that as some of the worst career advice ever given.”
Andrew Ng: AI companies facing existential risk drive the worst industry hype
“The companies with something to lose whose statements over time have become more moderated. So, you know, I find that as your established company, you just say more sensible things, but there are some companies that I think are at greater existential risk. And…”
Ng: Advising people not to learn to code is terrible career advice
“Over the last year, a bunch of people have advised others not to learn to code on the ground so AI will automate it. I think we'll look back on this as some of the worst career advice ever given, because as better tools make software engineering easier, more p…”
Ng: Employees across every job role should learn how to code
“I have a controversial opinion, which is, ah, I think it's time for everyone of every job role to learn to code, and in fact, on my team, you know, my CFO, my head of talent, my recruiters, my front desk person, all of them know how to code, and I actually see…”
Ng: AI existential risk claims are ridiculous hype used to aid fundraising
“This idea that AI is so powerful, we might accidentally lead to human extinction. That's just ridiculous, but it is a hype narrative that made certain businesses look more powerful, and it got Yeah, ramped up and actually help certain businesses fundraising go…”
Ng: Sensationalized AI danger hype is being weaponized against open-source software
“And I feel like this has been used as a weapon against open source software as well, right? Which is really unfortunate.”
Ng: California's SB 1047 would have harmed open-source AI without improving safety
“So I think typing up dangers, supposed false dangers of AI, in order to get regulators to pass laws, like the proposed SB-SB-Ten-Forty-Seven in California, which, thank goodness, we shut down, Would have put in place really burdensome regulatory requirements t…”
Ng: AI companies have made untrue statements to regulators behind closed doors
“I've been in the room where some of these businesses said stuff to regulators that was just not true.”
Andrew Ng: Open-weight AI models are a tremendous source of geopolitical influence
“I think that open-weight models is a tremendous source of geopolitical influence.”
Andrew Ng: China's all-nation industrial commitment is a powerful force
“When China's government makes an all-nation commitment, it's all industrial. Commitment. That's actually a very powerful force that I wouldn't underestimate.”
Andrew Ng: Trump and David Sacks did a good job clearing AI regulations
“I think Trump did a good job and then his whole team, David Sachs and Christian and so on, did a good job clearing out unnecessary regulations.”
Andrew Ng: One engineer can now build six-month projects in a weekend
“There are so many projects that used to take, you know, six engineers, half a year to build, that today I or one of my engineers can build in the weekend.”
Andrew Ng: Businesses face a massive shortage of AI-fluent college graduates
“The fresh college grads know AI. We can't find enough of them. So many businesses would love to hire those fresh college grads.”
Andrew Ng: AI will make intelligence cheap and boost GDP growth
“I hope we can get much closer to five, six or more percent GDP growth. When looking at the future, it turns out one of the most expensive things in today's world is intelligence. This is why it's so expensive, at least in the US, to hire a highly skilled docto…”
Andrew Ng: China is leading the US in releasing open-weight AI models
“China especially has been really taking the lead or, well, Taking a lead or getting up there in terms of releasing tons of really good open way models. So I would say if not, it is kind of not whatever predicted, you know, a decade ago that China AI would end …”
Andrew Ng: Closed AI models and high salaries slow Western AI innovation
“When the US has more closed models, and when, you know, teams are trying to pay these hundred million dollar salaries to extract talent, then that circulation of knowledge becomes very slow, and it slows down the rate of American and European innovation.”
Andrew Ng: China builds a global AI user base via free models
“Open-weight models are a key part of the AI supply chain, and China releasing, you know, free low-cost or free models into that key part of supply chain means it's, Really starting to build up a lead, right, in, in build up a commanding user base”
The other half of the tape: Andrew Ng's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 11 times in 7 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jensen Huang 3Arthur Mensch 2Andrej Karpathy 2Sarah Guo 1Jake Heller 1Elad Gil 1
Statements about Andrew Ng, by other people (1)
Huang: Andrew Ng contacted NVIDIA around 2012 to train neural nets on GPUs
“Around 20 12, I guess, and it was because simultaneously Andrew Eng reached out to Bill Daly, our chief scientist to work on a way to get the neural network model that they were working on onto GPU so that they could, instead of using thousands of CPU servers,…”
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No Priors 5
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 4
20VC 2
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Andrew's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| 20VCLEDGER | Managing General Partner, AI Fund | 1 | 41 | 100% 4/4 | full record on 20VC → |
| Y COMBINATORLEDGER | Managing General Partner, AI Fund | 1 | 33 | — | full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast → |
| NO PRIORSLEDGER | Managing General Partner, AI Fund | 1 | 25 | — | full record on No Priors → |
 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Managing General Partner, AI Fund | 0 +1 | 1 | — | full record on Masters of Scale → |