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 · last 12 months

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

We're addicted. voice-verified

And so we went, we started this year on token maxing. voice-verified

Prove yourself that we started this year with performative AI. voice-verified

Guys, the more tokens you spend, the better an employee you are, right? voice-verified

Then they did it and we all got whiplash because we started to get these $20,000 uh bills per employee, right? voice-verified

So then we said, Oh, we've voice-verified

Got to manage our budgets. voice-verified

Let's look at open weights. voice-verified

Let's cap it. voice-verified

Let's cap it at $200 for $500 for non-engineers and $10,000. voice-verified

We're going through this token balancing thing. voice-verified

Next year, there's gonna be backlash. voice-verified

I can see it in my best portfolio companies where we we can't go back anymore. voice-verified

We can't go back in time. voice-verified

I need my 10 subagents running 24 hours a day to do my job, or I quit. voice-verified

I would quit. voice-verified

Take away my agents, I quit. voice-verified

So voice-verified

So I do believe as businesses and in society we are token addicted, we will have to find a way to feed that addiction over the next five years. voice-verified

We don't even realize how addicted we are to tokens. voice-verified

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