Simon Eskildsen
6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 12, 2026 by Simon Eskildsen · across every show →
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Mar 12, 2026
Eskildsen: Offered to return capital if Turbopuffer lacked PMF by year-end
“I don't think I've said this publicly before, but I just called Locky and was like, well, Locky, like, if this doesn't have PMF by the end of the year, like, we'll just like return all the money to you. But it's just like, I don't really, Justine and I don't w…”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Eskildsen: Turbopuffer benefited from having an investor without database expertise
“The other people were talking at the time where database experts, like they, you know, knew a lot about databases and Lockheed didn't. This turned out to be a phenomenal asset, right? I like Justine and I know a lot about databases. The people that we hired kn…”
Mar 12, 2026 negative
Eskildsen: Macro AI predictions are a waste of time because nobody can forecast AI
“I don't like just doing like thought pieces on this is where it's going and like trying to be all macroeconomic about AI. That's as turned out to be a giant waste of time because no one can really predict any of this. So I just, Collect case studies.”
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Mar 12, 2026
Eskildsen: Turbopuffer interview debriefs default to rejecting candidates unless championed
“And so I have a document called Traits of the P-Nine engineer, and it's a bullet point list, and I look at that list after every single interview that I do, and in every single recap that we do, and every recap we end with, I end with some version of, I'm gonn…”