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Three Competitive Advantages Of AI 🤖
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-06-12 05:00
Competitive Advantage - Data is the primary pillar for a durable competitive advantage among model providers [1] - Algorithms are IP that the industry will eventually learn [2] - Compute can be acquired by spending more money [2] - Data is an area where a long-term sustainable competitive advantage can be produced [2]
“AI Won’t Stay Privatized”
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-06-11 14:00
what AI companies is doing right now like the foundational companies it's like privatizing the Manhattan project. So imagine that they do build the atomic bomb and now they're sitting in saying h maybe we'll do it nonprofit or maybe they say oh we'll license the atomic bomb. Do you see a government allowing this.Think about that for a second. If you get to AI that cures the worst disease in the world, which actually is worth a lot of money, do you see government leaving this in private hands. No way. ...
“Building Fast Isn’t Enough Anymore”
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-06-11 05:00
Competitive Landscape - The time to clone a company has drastically reduced from approximately 1 year 25 years ago to 6-9 months 15 years ago [1] - Currently, the time to clone a company can be as short as 10 days [2] - Many new products lack significant differentiation or added value compared to existing solutions [2]
When To Quit Your Job 🤔
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-06-10 14:01
I have a rule. If I wake up 5 days in a row saying, "Ah, no." Then I'm done. And it never happened.You can have a day. Maybe you can have two. Like if you have them in a row, that's a bad. ...
“You Have To Upgrade Yourself”
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-06-09 17:02
Skill Development & Adaptation - Individuals must proactively enhance their skills to remain valuable in the evolving professional landscape [1] - Those who fail to adapt to reality and upgrade their capabilities risk becoming a burden [1] - The company emphasizes the importance of self-improvement and embracing change [1] Support & Commitment - The company will support individuals who are committed to self-improvement and professional development [2] - The company vows to assist those who actively seek to enhance their skills and understanding of the current environment [2] Future Demand - There will be a decline in demand for individuals who cannot adapt and upgrade their skills [2] - Coping with reality and understanding its implications are crucial for future success [1][2]
“We All Work For AI”
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-06-09 14:01
Right now, what we're seeing is on steroids. You are working for AI and so do I because we're producing content and that content is going to be eaten by a machine and used to produce new stuff. You know that copyright is dead.It's a notion from 1710 and it's dead overnight. There is no copyright. It's done.My expectation of you is that each and every one of you and it doesn't matter what you do is going to replace 100% of what you do with automation. ...
“Startups Must Ship Fast”
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-06-08 14:00
Competitive Landscape - Startups face existential threats and must ship products quickly to survive [1] - Larger companies like Amazon may not face the same immediate pressure to deliver high-quality products, as employees' jobs may be more secure [1] - The company believes that if it had shipped a product of similar quality to some hyperscalers, it would have been out of the market a year ago [1] Product Development - Startups need to ship products fast to survive [1] - The quality of the product is critical for the company's survival in the market [1]
“AI Has Turned Cash-Cows Into Cash-Pits"
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-06-07 14:00
The hyperscalers have taken very good cashefficient businesses and they would break Mr.. Buffett's heart because they've turned them into capex hogs. Right? Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook all have had capex as a percentage of free cash flow go up significantly. Now, as she pointed out, the good news is in the last four or five years, free cash flow themselves have grown. So, your cash flow hit hasn't been enormous. It's only been about a 10% decline in free cash flow, right? It hasn't been horrific. In ...
What Has Windsurf Learned From Cursor?
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-06-07 05:00
If you look at cursor, what have they done well that you've learned from. I think they took a really good approach on building highquality UIUX and that actually proved to be what people really loved. And I think that's very impressive that they were able to do this right off the bat.That's not actually what our initial intuition was for us to go out and build Windsor. We actually felt that we needed a massive technical breakthrough of actually a new product experience. That was the only reason why we decid ...
“I Flatlined For Four Minutes”
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-06-06 14:00
I hear you were like almost dead for like 4 minutes. I did flatline for 4 and 1/2 minutes. You know, I had a whole experience of being on the other side.My blood pressure had plummeted and the machines had not alerted the nurse. My mom goes downstairs to get my dad and my brother and she's coming back up the elevator and she hears over the loudspeaker code blue in room 437. And my mom works in a hospital so she knows that means flatline and she knows that's my room.So, she gets out of the elevator. She runs ...