Rory O'Driscoll

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28,979 appearances 54 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 17 Sep

Rory O'Driscoll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 54 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 10.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: NVIDIA Crushes Quarter and Buys Hugging Face | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5BN Valuation and The Race for AI Assistants | Cognition Raises at $46BN, Linear $2.5BN and Clay $7BN · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

But JFC, the rate of convergence of competitors for B2B applications, we've never seen this. voice-verified

Well, you you listen, I mean it's if you're not shipping this and this was the cognition. voice-verified

Remember when that went, what's his name, the CEO? voice-verified

Scott Way. voice-verified

Yeah, when he when he hired Windsurf and fired fired after people, it's like these guys, we have to work seven days a week at our company. voice-verified

I'm sorry, right? voice-verified

It's just and the folks that can't do it, you it's not all the amount of hours you're but you have to be out accelerating your competition in terms of the rate at which you ship software because they're all gonna be compound. voice-verified

startups, all the little islands on your two by two or on your heat map. voice-verified

There is no heat map anymore. voice-verified

It's all hot got hot. voice-verified

It's all lava. voice-verified

And so if they if they're slow, sell or quit or send your junior board partner to the meeting, because they'll never catch up in today's world. voice-verified

Last week I was at a board meeting for owner which just raised it two point three billion, right? voice-verified

It's it's sort of a next gen next-ish generation AI infused restaurant platform. voice-verified

And I love the CPO, he's one of the best I've ever worked with, Q Quentin. voice-verified

And um he was going over what's what he's shipping and and even with all these investors with their hundreds of millions, they're like, This is too much. voice-verified

Like all a bunch of B and B guys who who who we all know and like this is just you can't ship this much software. voice-verified

And he said, and he's very good, he's like, We all have to be compound startups. voice-verified

We have no choice. voice-verified

Like this is just the bar. voice-verified

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