The Wisdom Wall

5 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.

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“And my advice to all our startups is ignore the cost of compute. Because any assumption you make, any dollar you spend on optimizing your software will be worthless within the year.”

Vinod Khosla, Jun 14, 2024

“So I'm pretty convinced The next few years, the revenue isn't the important metric. You don't want to, of course, lose so much money you can't afford it, but you're not trying to make tons of money. You're trying to get tons of usage and you're trying to get tons of data from the usage and learn to be a better model.”

Vinod Khosla, Jun 14, 2024

“Anytime somebody leaves deep, deep mind, give them two million dollars, that's a bad strategy.”

Vinod Khosla, Jun 14, 2024

“Anytime somebody leaves deep, deep mind, give them two million dollars, that's a bad strategy.”

Vinod Khosla, Dec 27, 2024

“this idea that computers will learn humans instead of humans needing to learn computers. And I think we were seeing the beginnings of that.”

Vinod Khosla, Dec 27, 2024
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