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Eiso Kant

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

And frankly, I'm very grateful that we did.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

London for us is about 15 people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

London for us is about 15 people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

London for us is about 15 people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The way to think about it is where has talent historically been, even pre-ChatGP team moment, and talent in AI, and who helped build that talent in the space? The number one company we have to give credit to is DeepMind. DeepMind built an incredible talent base. They built it out of London. Meta did some work in building a very incredible talent base, and it did it between London and Paris.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The way to think about it is where has talent historically been, even pre-ChatGP team moment, and talent in AI, and who helped build that talent in the space? The number one company we have to give credit to is DeepMind. DeepMind built an incredible talent base. They built it out of London. Meta did some work in building a very incredible talent base, and it did it between London and Paris.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The way to think about it is where has talent historically been, even pre-ChatGP team moment, and talent in AI, and who helped build that talent in the space? The number one company we have to give credit to is DeepMind. DeepMind built an incredible talent base. They built it out of London. Meta did some work in building a very incredible talent base, and it did it between London and Paris.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

But in terms of when you look at it from a numbers perspective and sheer size of people, Google separately and DeepMind as part of Google had made much larger investments. And then there's another talent pool that we do often talk about publicly that is just absolutely extraordinary, which is Yandex.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

But in terms of when you look at it from a numbers perspective and sheer size of people, Google separately and DeepMind as part of Google had made much larger investments. And then there's another talent pool that we do often talk about publicly that is just absolutely extraordinary, which is Yandex.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

But in terms of when you look at it from a numbers perspective and sheer size of people, Google separately and DeepMind as part of Google had made much larger investments. And then there's another talent pool that we do often talk about publicly that is just absolutely extraordinary, which is Yandex.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Yandex built an incredible company in Russia with some of the world's most capable researchers and engineers, many of which have since left Russia and have kind of become a diaspora all over Europe.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Yandex built an incredible company in Russia with some of the world's most capable researchers and engineers, many of which have since left Russia and have kind of become a diaspora all over Europe.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Yandex built an incredible company in Russia with some of the world's most capable researchers and engineers, many of which have since left Russia and have kind of become a diaspora all over Europe.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

There was a tweet, and if I recall correctly, it's from Aaron Levi from Box, early on in post-ChatGPT moment. And he wrote something along the lines of, if you feel like you're working extremely hard on reasonable hours as AI is now booming, you're probably right to do so.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

There was a tweet, and if I recall correctly, it's from Aaron Levi from Box, early on in post-ChatGPT moment. And he wrote something along the lines of, if you feel like you're working extremely hard on reasonable hours as AI is now booming, you're probably right to do so.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

There was a tweet, and if I recall correctly, it's from Aaron Levi from Box, early on in post-ChatGPT moment. And he wrote something along the lines of, if you feel like you're working extremely hard on reasonable hours as AI is now booming, you're probably right to do so.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Because it's in these first years, and I'm probably going beyond what the tweet said, but I think it's in these first years, it's where the table gets set. Who has earned the right to be in the race to AGI?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Because it's in these first years, and I'm probably going beyond what the tweet said, but I think it's in these first years, it's where the table gets set. Who has earned the right to be in the race to AGI?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Because it's in these first years, and I'm probably going beyond what the tweet said, but I think it's in these first years, it's where the table gets set. Who has earned the right to be in the race to AGI?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The way that I've always looked at this is my personal perspective, and so is my co-founder, and so is Margarita, has put us in a place where we're going to look back on this moment 10 years from now, just like we would look back to the moment of mobile, internet, and realize that that was the moment where the table got set.