Jared Friedman
22 statements across 13 episodes · 15 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 20, 2019 by Jared Friedman · said 15 times in 6 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2017 5 mentions in 1 episode
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Sep 20, 2019 positive
Friedman: Top hard-tech founders minimize step sizes between funding rounds
“Really good hard tech founders are maniacal about, like, pushing down the size of each of those steps so that each step is as small as possible, which makes it as easy as possible for them to achieve the milestones that they need to raise the next round of fun…”
Nov 17, 2022 negative
Feb 8, 2024 positive
Friedman: No one has four years of LLM experience, empowering young founders
“This is an opportunity where college students are particularly well, like young founders are particularly well positioned to work in it because nobody has like there's no one walking around with like four years of LLM experience. So like everyone is starting f…”
Feb 8, 2024 positive
Nov 1, 2024 bullish
Nov 1, 2024 positive
Friedman: Software adopted by YC startups predicts future global tech winners
“One thing that we know from running YC for a long time is that whatever the companies in the batch use is a very good predictor of what Like the best companies in the world are using, and therefore what products will be most successful. A lot of YC's most succ…”
Nov 1, 2024 neutral
Nov 14, 2024 bullish
Friedman: AI phone calling startups are booming after failing a year ago
“Like a year ago doing startup ideas where like the AI agent would talk on the phone just like didn't work. We had a bunch of companies that tried and all the companies didn't work. And over the summer it really started working under the trends from the past tw…”
Mar 5, 2025 bullish
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Friedman: Cheap AI makes developers rewrite code rather than debug it
“Like it's wild how your coding style changes when actually writing the code becomes a thousand X cheaper. Like as a human, you would never just like blow away something that you'd worked on for a long time and rewrite it from scratch because you had a bug. You…”
Mar 5, 2025 bullish
May 30, 2025 positive
Jared Friedman: Evals, not prompts, are the core data asset for AI startups
“Even though we've been saying this for a year or more now, Gary, I think it's still the case that like evals are the true crown jewel Like data asset for all of these companies. Like one reason that power help was willing to open source the prompt is they told…”
Jul 8, 2025 negative
Friedman: Teaching entrepreneurship as a college course creates a cheap facsimile
“Anytime you try to bottle up entrepreneurship and like teach it as a college course, that's kind of what you end up with is like, basically like a sort of like cheap facsimile of entrepreneurship where like they teach you to like, you know, Follow a particular…”
Jul 8, 2025 positive
Friedman: AI has inverted SaaS growth, making B2B the hyper-growth sector
“It didn't used to be the case that B to B SaaS companies were the ones that had hyper growth. Like, there were some, like, consumer social companies that got hyper growth, but, like, B to B SaaS used to be this, like, you know, flotting, slow growing, like, ki…”
Jul 8, 2025
Friedman: Dropping out of college due to startup FOMO leads to regret
“When college students are thinking about dropping out, and they're making it in a fear, they're making a fear-based decision, they have FOMO about startups happening in San Francisco, maybe their friend dropped out, and they're, like, worried that they're gonn…”
Jul 8, 2025 positive
Jared Friedman: The biggest bottleneck for corporate employees is co-founder timing
“And in my experience for people who are your age, who have like already graduated college or working at some company, that's the biggest limiting factor in practice for them actually doing a company is like they and their co-founder both need to be willing to …”
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Feb 21, 2026 bearish
May 27, 2026 bullish
Friedman: Worrying about security and privacy limits AI agent power
“It turns out that, like, the thing that was hampering the world was being worried about security and privacy and all the things that could go wrong, and when you, like, worry a bit less, you're like, oh my god, these things are unbelievably powerful.”
May 27, 2026 positive
Jun 19, 2026 neutral
Jul 29, 2026 neutral
Wang: Scale AI originally started as a medical care AI agent
“We wanted to build like, an AI agent, funnily enough, for doc, for, to help people, like, get medical care. And it was, like, the writing, it was a great example of an idea that I think will ultimately exist. Like, I think we're even seeing it now. Like, AI ag…”