Joon Sung Park

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: The Best AI Companies Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies | Will Simile Kill Kalshi, Polymarkets and NASDAQ | How to Sign Fortune 500 Companies As Customers in Weeks with Joon Sung Park, Simile · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

My fundamental thesis here is for AI companies of this generation, you need to have an interesting data strategy that's going to be defensible.

I think there is a world in which, in about two, three years, we're running a single simulation session that people will pay $100 million for it.

People live through different stages in their life.

And they have different careers, different jobs.

At each stage of their life, were they the reason why that thing was successful?

If you squint, were they the common denominator?

So this was 2023.

We had this idea that large language models are often used for simple tasks like classification, simple generation.

But we thought that these models actually had a lot more potential.

One of the early observations that we made was that these models are trained on so much of human behavioral data, sentiment data that were expressed on the web.

So if you poke at them sort of at the right angle, you could actually extract a lot of realistic human behaviors out of them.

I thought that was really interesting.

And it was also particularly interesting in that it was domain agnostic.

So if you look at the literature in computer science for many decades, we've always had the vision of creating agents that are meant to be generalizable, that are meant to really be able to act like human in any environment.

And my mind went to, well, maybe we have that opportunity here.

So what we ended up doing was, well, if we were to fast forward many years into doing this, what would be the most ambitious vision that we might have?

And that was creating entire lived experience of a town.

So the idea here was we would make a game town, and we would populate it with 25 NPCs, so non-playable characters, except these characters would actually wake up in the morning, do their routines, go to work, have relationships, and do all that.

They would actually remember their interactions.

They would actually plan their days.

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