AI companies

5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 13, 2025 by Pierre Poilievre · across every show →

Everything said about AI companies, oldest first

Apr 13, 2025 positive
Opinion
Poilievre: Government regulations and instructions on AI companies must be public
“People need to know what rules are government imposing on the AI companies and what instructions are they giving the companies? All of that should be publicly known. We don't want sort of backroom manipulations to be allowed.”
Pierre Poilievre Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 1:13:44 Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Aug 5, 2025 negative
Insight
Founders should apply AI to traditional domains rather than building core AI
“I always say that to people who are like building AI companies. It's just like, what a nightmare. Your competitors are literally AI geniuses. Like you should find a way to apply AI in some other domain. So you're not competing with the smartest people on plane…”
Ryan Petersen Aug 5, 2025 ▶ 1:31:11 Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
Sep 16, 2025
Insight
Users rely on a tech founder's personal character to proxy product trust
“If you're building a A technology that is so mind-blowing and advanced and esoteric and confidential. You can't tell people, well, just go verify that it works. They can't verify that it works. It's not like you're selling a shoe and they try it on and, yes, i…”
Lulu Cheng Meservey Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 1:24:04 How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
Feb 3, 2026 negative
Opinion
Ovitz: AI outputs reflect the biases of the engineers programming them
“I think when you go to the AI websites, I think the different AI companies have the personalities of the engineers that are Programming them. And I think you see that bias in the information you're given.”
Michael Ovitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 1:02:01 Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
Jun 9, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Gurley: AI startups burn an order of magnitude more cash than Uber
“Why Amazon was, you know, they had a big burn rate, but then Uber took it to a new level but now it's had an, they've added a zero.”
Bill Gurley Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 52:30 Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
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