Mike Knoop

Co-Founder & CEO, Ndea · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mike Knoop is a technology entrepreneur best known for co-founding Zapier, the workflow automation platform launched via Y Combinator in 2012. Alongside AI researcher François Chollet, he co-founded the ARC Prize Foundation to benchmark artificial general intelligence and serves as CEO of their research lab, Ndea.

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308 words/min while actually speaking · 39.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Mike Knoop: only 2 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,809 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said3 Episodes1

Everything Mike Knoop said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Knoop: LLM failure rates break unsupervised server-based automation workflows

“You know, it fails randomly two out of 10 times, which might be fine in a supervised setting like ChatGPT. You know, where you're talking with these sort of assistants but it doesn't really work in an automation case where it's hands-off keyboard running on a …”

Mike Knoop Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 33:01 Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop

Insight

Knoop: AI progress remains constrained by fundamental ideas, not compute

“We don't have AGI yet. We don't have the ideas for it yet. We're still our idea constrained even literally today.”

Mike Knoop Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 38:25 Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Knoop: Deep learning has millions of engineers, program synthesis has mere hundreds

“There's maybe a couple of million deep learning engineers now in the world. In contrast, there's probably maybe only a few hundred like really great program synthesis folks across, across the world.”

Mike Knoop Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 59:19 Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop	Apr 3, 2025	15m

Mike Knoop

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