Mike Knoop
4 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 6, 2025 by Mike Knoop · said 8 times in 5 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Apr 6, 2025
Knoop: Zapier never spent its $1M seed round from 2012
“It was about a million bucks back in 2012. We never spent the money. By the time we actually got the round closed, figured out who we wanted to hire, got the payroll started, like revenue had caught up. And so literally I think you could trace every dollar we …”
Apr 6, 2025 positive
Knoop: Gary Marcus has been more right than wrong on deep learning
“I generally think he's been more right than wrong. I think if you like just take a limited five year view on this from 20, 20 up until 20, 20, end of 20, 24, you know, I think it was a generally right. Like he was making the right ideas.”
Apr 6, 2025 negative
Knoop: Startups just doing model training are lighting money on fire
“I think anyone who's like Just doing model training at this point is like lighting money on fire. If you really want to make a unique difference, especially if you're a small startup, like a founder, like you gotta go take an orthogonal approach. You gotta try…”
Apr 6, 2025 positive
Knoop: AI intelligence benchmarks must measure compute efficiency, not brute force
“We do think that efficiency is actually a really, really important aspect of intelligence. You know, you can brute force your way up to intelligence, but we really do want to be shooting for like human targets and efficiency for this stuff.”