Big Tech

6 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2024 by Alex Kolicich · across every show →

Everything said about Big Tech, oldest first

Mar 3, 2024 bearish
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Kolicich: Big Tech's Low AI Pricing Will Hurt Competing Startups
“Big tech is doing a good job of anchoring the price of all these features pretty low, like co-pilots, 20 dollars a month per developer. It's incredibly cheap relative to the value that it does add. And that really anchors, you know, value in that market pretty…”
Alex Kolicich Mar 3, 2024 ▶ 22:58 Alex Kolicich, 8VC: Exodus of Venture Capital, AI Predictions · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 3, 2024 bearish
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Kolicich: Big Tech Subsidizing Open Source AI Is Hard for Startups
“They're really subsidizing the space, a lot of big tech, which I think is positive for open source and positive for users, hard for startups.”
Alex Kolicich Mar 3, 2024 ▶ 23:38 Alex Kolicich, 8VC: Exodus of Venture Capital, AI Predictions · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 28, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Asparouhov: Trump administration may pursue punitive antitrust actions against big tech
“I think you may see Antitrust actions that were, you know, sort of just as punitive in the Biden regime towards tech happening in the Trump regime towards big tech.”
Delian Asparouhov Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 38:24 Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 10, 2025 neutral
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Multi-billion dollar tech acquisitions are mere call options for tech giants
“And so in all those cases, these companies are spending one to three percent of their market cap on the MNAs, which is not like, that's not transformative MNA. It's really like, again, these big consolidators are just taking call options bets on these fast gro…”
Art Levy Jul 10, 2025 ▶ 17:27 Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Feb 5, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Das: Big Tech employers repeatedly threatened to fire him over public tweets
“I couldn't do it when I was in big tech because I got a lot of pushback. They threatened to fire me a couple of times for Brand reasons.”
Didi Das Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 14:38 How Anthropic’s $100M Anthology Fund Works | Menlo Ventures · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 15, 2026 neutral
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Zhao: Mainstream AI perception centers on skepticism and job loss fears
“When I talk about AI or when I conceive information about AI on tech Twitter, it's obviously very techno-optimist. We're excited about it. With anything being blasted to mainstream, there's Always a lot of skepticism around big tech, a lot of skepticism around…”
Claire Zhao Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 11:09 $40B Fund, 1 Creator: Why Lightspeed Hired Zauey Talks · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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