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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:58 unnamed speaker I, I was reflecting on the instinct round, and, and my immediate thought was, well, back in my day, when a hot consumer tech company, like, caught a little bit of attention, they would get, like, a 25 on one 50 from benchmark, and that was…
U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:22 John Coogan Uh, Chetan over at Benchmark says, Anthropic very publicly claiming there needs to be a crackdown on distillation is puzzling.
Palantir's AIPCon 10, Ramp Hits $44B, 60 Minutes Eyes Rogan | Diet TBPN
Cerebras IPO, Warsh Confirmed Fed Chair, Musk-OpenAI Trial Nears End | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:21 unnamed speaker Foundation, Benchmark, and Eclipse.
Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:31 John Coogan Uh, Benchmark is gonna be absolutely cleaning up. 3 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 10:12 Thomas Laffont All of your competition, like imagine if I was pitching an entrepreneur and I'm like, oh, there's Sequoia and Andreessen and Benchmark, and we're all kind of sitting lined up next to each other waiting.
Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:05 John Coogan He says, forgiving benchmark and others would be like letting the Wuhan Institute of Virology slide back into a good reputation because the new senior manager of pandemic causation has made more friends than his predecessor. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:24 John Coogan It's a philosophical question, but it applies, I think to benchmark because back when 10 times in the scene
Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:43 unnamed speaker Erica over on X posted that Eileen Gu to join, uh, Benchmark as a senior associate when she returns from the Olympics.