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Victor Riparbelli

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
801 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I think most of the rate limiting and how quickly AI becomes a part of our daily life is actually not the technology. As I said earlier, I think we have very, very powerful LLMs that they can do a lot of great things. But the rate limiter is people, right? Because people have to use these things, have to trust these things, have to pay them, buy them, integrate them.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I think most of the rate limiting and how quickly AI becomes a part of our daily life is actually not the technology. As I said earlier, I think we have very, very powerful LLMs that they can do a lot of great things. But the rate limiter is people, right? Because people have to use these things, have to trust these things, have to pay them, buy them, integrate them.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I mean, with technology, it's always the case, right? It takes a long time.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I mean, with technology, it's always the case, right? It takes a long time.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I mean, with technology, it's always the case, right? It takes a long time.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

The honest question is because I couldn't get to the US. I mean, I didn't have an amazing CV before I started Synthesia. The US, basically, you need to get a sponsorship if you want to go to the US, right? I couldn't really get that. I wanted to start a company. I knew a few people there, so I just kind of moved on a whim, actually, and spent a year.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

The honest question is because I couldn't get to the US. I mean, I didn't have an amazing CV before I started Synthesia. The US, basically, you need to get a sponsorship if you want to go to the US, right? I couldn't really get that. I wanted to start a company. I knew a few people there, so I just kind of moved on a whim, actually, and spent a year.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

The honest question is because I couldn't get to the US. I mean, I didn't have an amazing CV before I started Synthesia. The US, basically, you need to get a sponsorship if you want to go to the US, right? I couldn't really get that. I wanted to start a company. I knew a few people there, so I just kind of moved on a whim, actually, and spent a year.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I still do think that the chance of success is higher if you're in the US on the West Coast. I think there's a lot of pros, especially like the last six, seven years, got a lot better to build here. But I do still think that there is a lot of advantages to being in the US. But I think Europe is catching up pretty quickly. What are the pros of being here?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I still do think that the chance of success is higher if you're in the US on the West Coast. I think there's a lot of pros, especially like the last six, seven years, got a lot better to build here. But I do still think that there is a lot of advantages to being in the US. But I think Europe is catching up pretty quickly. What are the pros of being here?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I still do think that the chance of success is higher if you're in the US on the West Coast. I think there's a lot of pros, especially like the last six, seven years, got a lot better to build here. But I do still think that there is a lot of advantages to being in the US. But I think Europe is catching up pretty quickly. What are the pros of being here?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

One big one, which is talent, kind of goes both ways in some sense. But if you look at the ecosystem in the Valley, one thing is kind of like the price of talent, which is just abnormally high, right? But there's also things like loyalty, for example, that I think are less spoken about.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

One big one, which is talent, kind of goes both ways in some sense. But if you look at the ecosystem in the Valley, one thing is kind of like the price of talent, which is just abnormally high, right? But there's also things like loyalty, for example, that I think are less spoken about.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

One big one, which is talent, kind of goes both ways in some sense. But if you look at the ecosystem in the Valley, one thing is kind of like the price of talent, which is just abnormally high, right? But there's also things like loyalty, for example, that I think are less spoken about.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I think in the US, you have a lot of people who are very driven and they basically view their careers like building a portfolio of like stock options in different companies. And hopefully one of them will kind of explode and they'll be very rich, which is a rational way of thinking about it. And it makes a lot of sense, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I think in the US, you have a lot of people who are very driven and they basically view their careers like building a portfolio of like stock options in different companies. And hopefully one of them will kind of explode and they'll be very rich, which is a rational way of thinking about it. And it makes a lot of sense, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I think in the US, you have a lot of people who are very driven and they basically view their careers like building a portfolio of like stock options in different companies. And hopefully one of them will kind of explode and they'll be very rich, which is a rational way of thinking about it. And it makes a lot of sense, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

But it also means that it's a more transactional relationship I think people have with their employer. People are much easier to jump ship, right? You have one or two bad quarters. You may lose a lot of good people because, hey, there's this other cool thing on the block over here that I'll go to and work at instead. In Europe, I think people, for better and for worse, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

But it also means that it's a more transactional relationship I think people have with their employer. People are much easier to jump ship, right? You have one or two bad quarters. You may lose a lot of good people because, hey, there's this other cool thing on the block over here that I'll go to and work at instead. In Europe, I think people, for better and for worse, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

But it also means that it's a more transactional relationship I think people have with their employer. People are much easier to jump ship, right? You have one or two bad quarters. You may lose a lot of good people because, hey, there's this other cool thing on the block over here that I'll go to and work at instead. In Europe, I think people, for better and for worse, right?