Hemant Taneja is CEO and Managing Director at General Catalyst. He is discussing the financial performance of AI model company Anthropic at the time of their investment.
“So that business, when we invested, was doing about eight hundred and eighty million dollars, which was a 10 X growth from the year before.”
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“You look at Anthropic, Which we're also investors in. That goes from sixty billion dollars last year to, you know, a couple hundred billion dollars. So like, and by the way, with good economic progress, these are not pine to sky valuation. They're based on act…”
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Taneja: Anthropic and OpenAI could realistically become trillion-dollar companies
“Now we're talking about, can we create trillion dollar companies, right? I mean, that's not a pie in the sky idea with Anthropic and OpenAI and a couple others.”
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“So if you're a call center in an emerging country today, There's a declining asset value because you know it's going to be displaced with AI.”
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