big companies

6 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2015 by Anand Sanwal · across every show →

Everything said about big companies, oldest first

Sep 14, 2015 negative
Insight
Unfunded corporate partnerships with startups are always a waste of time
“Oh god, yeah so big companies will come to you. If you're a startup here, they'll come to you and say, hey, we don't have any money, but we want to do a partnership, and like, they'll use terms like joint value creation. Like, you should just run fast from the…”
Anand Sanwal Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 15:00 Anand Sanwal, CB Insights // What's Next? (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Nov 23, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Achin: Large companies still employ armies of people manually building regression models
“But there's still armies of people mostly in big companies you know, building regression models manually, taking months to do that.”
Jeremy Achin Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 3:56 Black Boxes and Unicorns - DataRobot CEO Jeremy Achin
Jul 19, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Riparbelli: Clean training data will be required by enterprise AI buyers
“And I think we're going to see that a lot in the next couple of years that this is going to be a requirement for big companies to work with Genesive AI.”
Victor Riparbelli Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 33:58 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
May 22, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Evans: 20% to 30% of large companies have deployed AI projects
“Every big company is now, like, 20 to 30% of big companies have got stuff in deployment, but every big company's got pilots.”
Benedict Evans May 22, 2025 ▶ 57:30 AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
Jan 29, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Large enterprises are secretly hiring teams to train ChatGPT-scale LLMs in-house
“I know for a fact that big companies are training now LLMs in-house. Really, like, big companies who have the financial means to train chat to be like model are hiring people who train LLMs.”
Sebastian Raschka Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 51:54 State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka
Feb 19, 2026 negative
Opinion
Zeghidour: Big Tech lacks the DNA to build targeted developer-focused models
“And this again is, it's not really, I think, in the DNA of big companies to do this kind of very specific models that are targeted towards developers, rather than trying to solve a lot of things at the same time.”
Neil Zeghidour Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 33:49 Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
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