Alex Blania
7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2026 by Alex Blania · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Feb 16, 2026
Blania: A user privacy leak is the only thing that could kill World
“One of the operating principles is fail-safe privacy, because in some, like, that, that's the only way you could kill this company in, in a second. Like, if, like, one engineer is doing something stupid, and we would leak user privacy, basically in any form or…”
Feb 16, 2026 bearish
Blania: X will become unusable within two years without new technical solutions
“So I think my personal prediction, I might be wrong with this, but I think Platforms like X will not be usable. And like a matter of months, maximum two years if they don't come up with completely new technical solutions”
Feb 16, 2026 positive
Blania: OpenAI wrote the biggest check in Merge Labs' seed round
“A large group of people, but the biggest check was OpenAI and then many of our friends, you know, some of the funds that have been involved here, many, many individuals, it's like a broad, like it's a class, like it's a large scale seed, but it is, from that p…”
Feb 16, 2026
Feb 16, 2026
Feb 16, 2026 positive
Feb 16, 2026
Blania: Merge Labs co-founded by Sam Altman, Mikhail Shapiro, and others
“So it's kind of three camps coming together. So that's kind of how it happened. It was Sam, Sandra, and me three of us are not working together since many years on Tulsa for Humanity and on other things. Then it's Mikael Shapiro who's a professor at Caltech an…”