Nikesh Arora

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2,918 appearances 12 recordings 8 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 6 Aug

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs | Memory Becoming the Moat | Where Value Accrues: Infra, Models, or Apps? | Why Enterprise AI is Not Ready & Systems of Record vs Systems of Intelligence · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And the problem is not enough time in a day because I'm too busy dealing with some arcane piece of software at work, which I have to go feed.

Well, if I had that software to be really intelligent, it'd tell me what to do.

I know this whole world of token maxing has kind of gone topsy-turvy with the whole conversation around how many tokens people are using.

The challenge right now is 90% of the enterprise employees are not AI savvy.

They're not.

They have to learn.

I can't send them to university.

There's no course you can take at any school anywhere.

They have to be able to learn of their own.

I think we're back to a Darwinian moment where everybody has to figure out who's really good.

Now, you've seen people like Brian Armstrong and Jack Dorsey go out and say, I'm going to decimate my organization.

I'm going to start building from scratch.

And they've gone to some version of 30%, 40% less people because they figured out there is no redemption.

I can't train these people.

I'm going to just find the people who are going to come in and help me do this stuff.

That's one model.

The other model is sort of gradual.

We've been hiring people only through hackathons now, right?

And we see natural attrition of 2%, give or take a month, and we just replace them with people who actually are AI savvy people who hire from hackathons.

Give me 12 months, I'll have sort of transformed 20, 25% of my team.

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