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George Sivulka

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546 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

It's hard, but the hardest part of AI change management, no matter what company you are, are people and actually getting people to use the software. When you charge for consumption or API pricing, you're disincentivizing the change. You're saying, okay, well, I'm going to penalize you in a monetary way for every time you use an AI application. What the heck? Versus here's a per seat fee.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

It's hard, but the hardest part of AI change management, no matter what company you are, are people and actually getting people to use the software. When you charge for consumption or API pricing, you're disincentivizing the change. You're saying, okay, well, I'm going to penalize you in a monetary way for every time you use an AI application. What the heck? Versus here's a per seat fee.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

It might be expensive, but use it more. You could run more LLM calls on Hebbia effectively for free than any other platform if you actually are driving real change. And that's what I love to see.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

It might be expensive, but use it more. You could run more LLM calls on Hebbia effectively for free than any other platform if you actually are driving real change. And that's what I love to see.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

It might be expensive, but use it more. You could run more LLM calls on Hebbia effectively for free than any other platform if you actually are driving real change. And that's what I love to see.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

It's somewhere between, you know, Peter talking to me about anything but the business and deeply academic things and Mike taking me on a walk around the Woodside Horse Park.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

It's somewhere between, you know, Peter talking to me about anything but the business and deeply academic things and Mike taking me on a walk around the Woodside Horse Park.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

It's somewhere between, you know, Peter talking to me about anything but the business and deeply academic things and Mike taking me on a walk around the Woodside Horse Park.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

Oh, crazy one. I believe that UFOs are real. I think a little bit more on the nose right now, but I actually believe there's fundamentally different propulsion technology and that I think the US government has access to it. Wow. Conspiracy theory. I have a lot of spicy takes as a specialist. Bring that out.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

Oh, crazy one. I believe that UFOs are real. I think a little bit more on the nose right now, but I actually believe there's fundamentally different propulsion technology and that I think the US government has access to it. Wow. Conspiracy theory. I have a lot of spicy takes as a specialist. Bring that out.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

Oh, crazy one. I believe that UFOs are real. I think a little bit more on the nose right now, but I actually believe there's fundamentally different propulsion technology and that I think the US government has access to it. Wow. Conspiracy theory. I have a lot of spicy takes as a specialist. Bring that out.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I don't think I'm ashamed of it per se. But one thing that I always hid was the fact that I'm deeply religious in an industry that's very atheistic or agnostic. It was like something that was very personal to me. And I think it's been massively contributing to. How has it contributed?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I don't think I'm ashamed of it per se. But one thing that I always hid was the fact that I'm deeply religious in an industry that's very atheistic or agnostic. It was like something that was very personal to me. And I think it's been massively contributing to. How has it contributed?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I don't think I'm ashamed of it per se. But one thing that I always hid was the fact that I'm deeply religious in an industry that's very atheistic or agnostic. It was like something that was very personal to me. And I think it's been massively contributing to. How has it contributed?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I think that ultimately when you're doing hard things or when you're chewing the glass or working all those really late hours, believing in something larger than yourself or believing in what you do as a vocation or something that's deeply purposeful and deeply meaningful is actually, it's additional fuel. It helps you in a way that is, I think, good for the soul. It really charges you up.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I think that ultimately when you're doing hard things or when you're chewing the glass or working all those really late hours, believing in something larger than yourself or believing in what you do as a vocation or something that's deeply purposeful and deeply meaningful is actually, it's additional fuel. It helps you in a way that is, I think, good for the soul. It really charges you up.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I think that ultimately when you're doing hard things or when you're chewing the glass or working all those really late hours, believing in something larger than yourself or believing in what you do as a vocation or something that's deeply purposeful and deeply meaningful is actually, it's additional fuel. It helps you in a way that is, I think, good for the soul. It really charges you up.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

Do you pray? I do. I pray for an hour every morning. What? Yeah. I wake up, I sit on a meditation cushion and I used to meditate. I think meditation is also great. Praying and then putting something out into the universe or actually having a dialogue with whatever you believe, I actually think is even more powerful. It's almost- Can you talk out loud?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

Do you pray? I do. I pray for an hour every morning. What? Yeah. I wake up, I sit on a meditation cushion and I used to meditate. I think meditation is also great. Praying and then putting something out into the universe or actually having a dialogue with whatever you believe, I actually think is even more powerful. It's almost- Can you talk out loud?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

Do you pray? I do. I pray for an hour every morning. What? Yeah. I wake up, I sit on a meditation cushion and I used to meditate. I think meditation is also great. Praying and then putting something out into the universe or actually having a dialogue with whatever you believe, I actually think is even more powerful. It's almost- Can you talk out loud?