Sahil Lavingia
21 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2023 by Sahil Lavingia · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Jan 13, 2023 neutral
Jan 13, 2023 positive
Lavingia: Over 90% of startup value comes from engineer-founded giants
“If you look at startups and you say, okay, 99% of the public value is basically, or 90 plus percent is basically in four or five companies. Right? If you get rid of, like, Google, Amazon, Meta, like, we haven't done shit as an industry, right? In terms of actu…”
Jan 13, 2023
Jan 13, 2023 negative
Lavingia: Building a startup paying $250k for engineers is almost impossible
“Engineers, by the way, are very expensive. So if you can't learn a code, let's just say you're going to spend 250 grand a year on one person, right? So good luck building a successful company with that. That's just almost impossible.”
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Lavingia: Founders cannot understand a technical concept until they write the code
“And the truth is, if you can't write it, you don't actually understand it. So you can pretend that you get it. But the truth is if you read the Bitcoin white paper and you haven't actually implemented it, you don't actually understand it. You don't actually un…”
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Jan 13, 2023 neutral
Lavingia: AI is a gradual automation continuum, not a step function
“I don't think it's as notable as people it's, I don't think it's a step function increase. For example, I think we've been basically seeing this gradual thing happening, which is we take work that is valuable, but wrote and automate it.”
Jan 13, 2023 neutral
Lavingia: AI's primary missing capability is evaluating truth in training data
“And I think the number one thing that's missing is basically discrimination, where right now you basically get all this data and you just, You know, you use that data to, but you, like, currently the AI doesn't get a choice of, like, did I learn the, is this a…”
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Jan 13, 2023 positive
Lavingia: Relocating is the best way to break entrepreneurial inertia
“The number one most important thing by far anyone could do who's listening to this is literally physically change your location. By far, because that will sever all of these things in your life that are preventing you from moving forward.”
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Jan 13, 2023
Lavingia: Building a Gumroad requires coding on weekends and Friday nights
“If you like hanging out with people, if you like hanging out with your friends, like every day at night, you will never have my lifestyle ever because the way that I have my lifestyle is I spend my Friday nights building software. That's when I built Gumroad. …”
Jan 13, 2023 positive