Alexandr Wang

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

Does it have longevity?

Is this durable?

And it was really weird to me, but none of the investors had ever trained a model, so I guess they didn't really get it.

And fast forward to today, we managed to raise money, we managed to keep going, managed to keep growing the business, but the very same investors who passed on us and were very dour on the potential of AI are writing think pieces today about how data is so critical and is one of the biggest business opportunities in AI.

So it's very funny to see that whole thing come full circle.

Yeah, I think the key thing is you need to develop conviction in a set of beliefs that nobody else agrees with.

If you look at all the most successful companies in the world, they were started at a time long before

the core idea was popular.

And they work on that.

They toil in obscurity for years and years before the idea or the space or the concept of the business becomes consensus.

And the only way you're going to be successful is if you're able to identify these truths about the world early, long before everyone else.

And I think that one of the most surprising things, like scale, we've been working on AI for a decade.

You know, you just you can't base your business decisions based on what everyone else is saying around you.

Like if you go too much with the herd, you will get immensely confused and you will end up nowhere.

And so you have to develop your own compass of what you think the future is going to look like because everyone else will just confuse you.

Yeah, I think that these early mechanics of building a company, these are things that I think you might have some predisposition to be good at, but nobody is good at starting a company when they start a company.

And I remember talking to a lot of the investors who I met very early on, and a lot of them would say,

you just grew so quickly and you changed so quickly.

And I didn't see it at the time.

And I think that's probably true for literally everyone who starts a company.

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