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 Bonanza: Buys Poolside & Invests in Mercor and Perplexity | Anthropic's $30TRN Revenue Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service, Defence and Robotics are Overinflated · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

You can't compete on price and you can compete on brand and security, but man, uh you want to just you want to at least be the d be plugged into to every workflow, right? voice-verified

You want to at least have that would be the nice thing if you had Claude and Open AI and then and then you just get a nice oligarch. voice-verified

Bake-off sales team. voice-verified

Then you hire a bunch of folks from Salesforce that walk in for the oligopical thing and they put up a PowerPoint slide and it's just us versus them. voice-verified

They know how to sell that. voice-verified

It's anthropic versus us. voice-verified

You don't want the crazy guy who uh you want the guy the government trusts. voice-verified

That's us. voice-verified

But with 11 competitors or 12 competitors running on open source, running, running inference on on new platforms, man, it's just it's a hyper competitive world for number two. voice-verified

I think listen, we can move on to the next topic. voice-verified

I the other thing, when I when I'm listening to Rory and the IPL, the other thing, maybe it's minor and we can move on, but I I'm getting confused today what open AI's differentiated mission is. voice-verified

Why open AI? voice-verified

I mean, we can all look at evals and we can read what Ramp says and what Rippling's report says, and we can view this as a just an LLM paying top of market, right? voice-verified

Paying eight figures per engineer. voice-verified

But these were companies on voice-verified

on on very specific missions, right? voice-verified

When we started this pod, I don't know what OpenAI's mission is. voice-verified

I think Dario is is nutso a lot of the time, right? voice-verified

Yeah, apparently interviewing folks today asking them if they'd be happy joining Anthropic if it all went to zero. voice-verified

Cool question, actually, but but nut so I think Sam is a much more approachable CEO now. voice-verified

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