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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

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.

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.

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 you do not want to look back on that moment and not have given it everything you've got. Because it's a race. And look, most startups are not racist. Most startups are against yourself. But AGI is a race. And so our view always has been the team that we build is a team that is deeply passionate to be in that race.

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 you do not want to look back on that moment and not have given it everything you've got. Because it's a race. And look, most startups are not racist. Most startups are against yourself. But AGI is a race. And so our view always has been the team that we build is a team that is deeply passionate to be in that race.

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 you do not want to look back on that moment and not have given it everything you've got. Because it's a race. And look, most startups are not racist. Most startups are against yourself. But AGI is a race. And so our view always has been the team that we build is a team that is deeply passionate to be in that race.

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, when you decide to join a race and you're upfront about it, you decide to try to become the gold medalist in swimming, that means that there are sacrifices that come with that. You don't get to have it all.

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, when you decide to join a race and you're upfront about it, you decide to try to become the gold medalist in swimming, that means that there are sacrifices that come with that. You don't get to have it all.

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, when you decide to join a race and you're upfront about it, you decide to try to become the gold medalist in swimming, that means that there are sacrifices that come with that. You don't get to have it all.

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 so that's something that we've been super open about with people from day zero it's on our first intro call we talk about like do you want to join a race and frankly i have found no shortage of people in europe that want to do that i think there's a there's a stereotype about europe but the fact of the matter is that people who want to join races and do truly their life's work they're built differently and you can find them all over the world in every single country you just got to do the work to find them

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 so that's something that we've been super open about with people from day zero it's on our first intro call we talk about like do you want to join a race and frankly i have found no shortage of people in europe that want to do that i think there's a there's a stereotype about europe but the fact of the matter is that people who want to join races and do truly their life's work they're built differently and you can find them all over the world in every single country you just got to do the work to find them

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 so that's something that we've been super open about with people from day zero it's on our first intro call we talk about like do you want to join a race and frankly i have found no shortage of people in europe that want to do that i think there's a there's a stereotype about europe but the fact of the matter is that people who want to join races and do truly their life's work they're built differently and you can find them all over the world in every single country you just got to do the work to find them

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

You know, history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes. I think it was Mark Twain. I think that might be the mistake that we're possibly making looking at the past. And the reason that is, is because we're on an exponential in terms of technological progress.

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

You know, history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes. I think it was Mark Twain. I think that might be the mistake that we're possibly making looking at the past. And the reason that is, is because we're on an exponential in terms of technological progress.

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

You know, history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes. I think it was Mark Twain. I think that might be the mistake that we're possibly making looking at the past. And the reason that is, is because we're on an exponential in terms of technological progress.

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

I think in 1996, with Netscape, if I'm getting the year right, there wasn't this amount of people and capital that understood what the future might look like in the next 10 years. And it took some time to get there. Now, I could be wrong about this.

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

I think in 1996, with Netscape, if I'm getting the year right, there wasn't this amount of people and capital that understood what the future might look like in the next 10 years. And it took some time to get there. Now, I could be wrong about this.

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

I think in 1996, with Netscape, if I'm getting the year right, there wasn't this amount of people and capital that understood what the future might look like in the next 10 years. And it took some time to get there. Now, I could be wrong about this.

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

Another thing that I could see as a possible avenue of why I tend to disagree is there's a big difference between what was required to be built in 1996 versus what's required to be built today. bring it all the way back and try to steel man the opposite side of the argument is maybe it's exactly that.

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

Another thing that I could see as a possible avenue of why I tend to disagree is there's a big difference between what was required to be built in 1996 versus what's required to be built today. bring it all the way back and try to steel man the opposite side of the argument is maybe it's exactly that.

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

Another thing that I could see as a possible avenue of why I tend to disagree is there's a big difference between what was required to be built in 1996 versus what's required to be built today. bring it all the way back and try to steel man the opposite side of the argument is maybe it's exactly that.