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“In venture deals, if you're in the right thing, it almost doesn't matter what you paid.” — Rory O'Driscoll, The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch “…the LLMs and these AI companies are cannibalizing the data that they rely on for training. Like you see, think about how many bloggers, wirecutters, these types of posts that used to exist in the world are disappearing because there's no incentive to write them anymore. They're just going to get sucked up immediately.” — Zach Hudson, This Week in Startups “Model providers have great reason to establish guardrails, safeguards, because these are super capable systems. The unfortunate side effect of that is, as a defender, I may not be able to respond effectively.” — Max Pollard, a16z Podcast “The end justifies the means in the mind of the model.” — Nick Warner, a16z Podcast “If one is not reducing bureaucracy, there's no neutral ground. If one is not trying to improve things, it is going backwards.” — David Baszucki, The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish) “it shouldn't be about who has the best agent or who sounds the most shiny on paper, but really who has the data and the experience to demonstrate that they can do the work that's required.” — Hayden Brown, Masters of Scale “There are actually quite a few people in this world who are quite good at having some taste and some vision and an eye for where things should go, but did not have the talent or competence to do implementation, did not have the funds to do implementation.” — David Heinemeier Hansson, REWORK “The failure rate of agents is incredibly high. They almost never succeed in delivering even fairly simple tasks from clients end to end.” — Hayden Brown, Masters of Scale “if they are in charge of coming up with solutions to their own problems, they're going to develop a better horse or a faster horse, not the Model T.” — David Heinemeier Hansson, REWORK “OpenAI is kind of like mainline. They go to church every Sunday. They're sort of like evangelicals. That's Anthropic.” — Ben Thompson, Invest Like the Best (Patrick O'Shaughnessy) “There's two things to understand about consumers that Silicon Valley has to relearn about every 10 years. Number one, consumers do not want to pay for software. And number two, consumers do not care about being productive.” — Ben Thompson, Invest Like the Best (Patrick O'Shaughnessy)

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Hayden Brown 2 David Heinemeier Hansson 2 Ben Thompson 2 Max Pollard 1 David Baszucki 1 Zach Hudson 1 Rory O'Driscoll 1 Nick Warner 1

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Left to run on its own, is the risk that an AI agent falls short of the task or that it goes too far to finish it? — Hayden Brown: “…the failure rate of agents is incredibly high. They almost never succeed in delivering even fairly simple tasks from clients end to end.” — Nick Warner: “…the end justifies the means in the mind of the model.”