Jason Lemkin

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26,324 appearances 50 recordings 3 series first heard Aug 2022 last heard 6d ago

Jason Lemkin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 49 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 10.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Why "Pacing the Frontier" is BS | Instinct Raising $1BN at $10BN & Meta Launches Muse | Miro Sells for $1.35BN After a $17.5BN Valuation | Mistral Raises €3BN & Could Sam Bankman-Fried Win His Freedom? · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

Only since 93 or 94. matched

So I did live to the dot-com investing thing. matched

And it was pretty crazy because you also had the whole millennial thing about, you know, Y2K and the world was going to end just like now. matched

We all have to have a world-ending thing. matched

And you know, let's be honest. matched

New Year's Eve, December 99 was a pretty wild freaking party in San Francisco, right? matched

Half the people were getting toasted drunk because they were rich, and the other half matched

Of the people were staying up, making sure that the Y2K thing didn't bring down the world, which was the actual worry at the time, bizarrely enough. matched

But it's nothing compared to this. matched

I think the ability of AI to just excite the imagination is just way higher. matched

And the internet was awesome, but AI, you know, you can start talking about the AI, the software is human, you can get carried away. matched

And then the second thing is, you know, instead of existentially worrying about the computers won't work because of Y2K. matched

We now get to worry about the whole world ending. matched

It's the same thing on a way more magnified scale. matched

You actually sit in England which deliberately chose not to be part of Europe, but I know what you mean. matched

It's okay. matched

I think it's less about being a competitive frontier lab and more about AI sovereignty. matched

I don't think you should take the fact you have a horse into it. matched

If you're saying Mistral is now competing with OpenAI and Anthropic in the frontier model race, you and I know that would be bullshit. matched

I think what you're really saying is Europe has decided, based on the antics they see from the companies at the frontier in the US, coupled with the dynamics of the political interaction. matched

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