Silicon Valley

7 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Jensen Huang · said 128 times in 57 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Elad Gil (23), Sarah Guo (18), Sal Khan (9), Brian Schimpf (6), Edwin Chen (5), Jensen Huang (4), Jacob Helberg (4), Brian Halligan (4)

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2026 26 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
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2024 14 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
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Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Huang: For 25 years, the consensus favoring general-purpose computing was right
“At the time, the Valley was the way of designing computers was rather, rather split between general purpose computing versus using accelerators. And about 99% of the Valley was believed in general purpose computing. And about one percent believed in accelerati…”
Jensen Huang Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 3:36 No Priors Ep. 13 | With Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA
May 19, 2023 bullish
Insight
Open-source AI prevents bias better than closed labs, argues Delangue
“Building in the open with open source is actually more part of the solution than part of the problem, because obviously control of power as you democratize it much more and biases you actually include in the process. People who are impacted by these biases,…”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 26:07 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
Jun 29, 2023 negative
Opinion
Slootman: Customer success departments are the 'biggest bullshit' in Silicon Valley
“Yeah, we, I did kill customer success at every company I've been in. I think it's the biggest bullshit thing that goes on in Silicon Valley.”
Frank Slootman Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 11:38 No Priors Ep. 23 | With Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman
May 23, 2024 positive
Insight
Elad Gil: Non-zero-sum behavior early in Silicon Valley compounds over decades
“People forget how much longevity there is sometimes in Silicon Valley, and they forget how you act early really impacts almost how people perceive you 10 years later, 15 years later, et cetera, and so it's, if you're very non-zero-sum early, it really matters …”
Elad Gil May 23, 2024 ▶ 4:45 No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan
Jul 10, 2025
Insight
Parker Conrad: Founders learn far more from success than failure
“There's this sort of like idea in Silicon Valley that you should learn a lot from failures. And I, I'm not sure that I agree a lot with, I think that actually people probably learn a lot more from their successes and, you know, companies fail for like, Many du…”
Parker Conrad Jul 10, 2025 ▶ 2:35 No Priors Ep. 122 | With Rippling Co-Founder & CEO Parker Conrad
Jul 31, 2025 bullish
Insight
Krishnan: AI Leadership Will Create an Accelerating Economic Flywheel Effect
“AI might be the most transformational economic cultural force of our lifetime. And I believe that if the country or the ecosystem Which winds up getting ahead is going to have these cyclic effects, right? Like you're going to, you know, you're going to power p…”
Sriram Krishnan Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 6:24 No Priors Ep. 125 | With Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan
Sep 11, 2025 neutral
Insight
Kushner: Silicon Valley solves problems well but struggles to pick them
“What we saw in Silicon Valley is that they're amazing at solving problems. They're not always the best at identifying which problems to solve.”
Jared Kushner Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 15:49 No Priors Ep. 131 | With Jared Kushner
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