Matan Grinberg

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1,930 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 13 Jun

Matan Grinberg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Who Wins the Model War: OpenAI, Anthropic or Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning | Labour Displacement Fears are BS & Overblown | From Physicist to Sequoia Founder with Matan Grinberg, Founder @ Factory · 13 Jun 2026 podcast

And so it's like, okay, if this planning thing is the very key thing, we'll spend on it.

But it doesn't necessarily mean that most of your tokens are going there.

It's just for certain key steps, maybe you want to spend a lot and it's worth that allocating the budget there.

But then once it comes to, okay, we have the plan, now let's implement, the open models are typically really good.

We are a very opinionated organization.

And so the people who like the opinionated stances that we take are willing to not necessarily go and try to maximize the dollars that they can get out of in the market.

That said, it is still pretty competitive.

What do you think is the strongest opinion that you have that most people disagree with?

I would say the opinion that we have that I think in the space that we are in is the most controversial.

The way that we treat what product is at factory.

I think there's some very commonly held beliefs at the labs or at some of our competitors who are also doing kind of software development.

And this is honestly growing up in the Bay Area.

There's a very common Silicon Valley fallacy, which is there's like

Research is like the pinnacle.

And then there's engineers who implement the research.

You know, they're not quite there, but, you know, they're still great.

And then there's sales and marketing and all that dirty stuff.

Oh, if only we could build a better product and it would sell itself and we won't need to deal with, you know, sales and marketing.

And it's just completely delusional.

The product at factory is the entire journey from the very first time they hear our name till their 10th renewal after a decade of being a happy customer.

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