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Victor Riparbelli

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
801 total appearances

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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 can't answer that.

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 can't answer that.

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 can't answer that.

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

That's a hard one. I would take Mark Cuban again because he truly believed when absolutely no one else believed in us. I'll be forever grateful to him for doing that.

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

That's a hard one. I would take Mark Cuban again because he truly believed when absolutely no one else believed in us. I'll be forever grateful to him for doing that.

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

That's a hard one. I would take Mark Cuban again because he truly believed when absolutely no one else believed in us. I'll be forever grateful to him for doing that.

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

My parents' generation, they saw computers as this like inherently socially isolated thing of like you're just sitting and like dopamine addicted to like clicking buttons. Exactly what people say about TikTok today, right? The reality is usually much more nuanced than I think.

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

My parents' generation, they saw computers as this like inherently socially isolated thing of like you're just sitting and like dopamine addicted to like clicking buttons. Exactly what people say about TikTok today, right? The reality is usually much more nuanced than I think.

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

My parents' generation, they saw computers as this like inherently socially isolated thing of like you're just sitting and like dopamine addicted to like clicking buttons. Exactly what people say about TikTok today, right? The reality is usually much more nuanced than I think.

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

For me, when I played computer games as a kid, first of all, it was a very social thing, both because you play with other people online. And I think our parents have a hard time believing you can be friends with people you haven't met in real life. Mm-hmm. And second of all, that is like a waste of time, right? As I said, why do you think you're playing strategy games?

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

For me, when I played computer games as a kid, first of all, it was a very social thing, both because you play with other people online. And I think our parents have a hard time believing you can be friends with people you haven't met in real life. Mm-hmm. And second of all, that is like a waste of time, right? As I said, why do you think you're playing strategy games?

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

For me, when I played computer games as a kid, first of all, it was a very social thing, both because you play with other people online. And I think our parents have a hard time believing you can be friends with people you haven't met in real life. Mm-hmm. And second of all, that is like a waste of time, right? As I said, why do you think you're playing strategy games?

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 would sideline that with like solving math problems or like reading STEM books. Of course, everything in moderation. That's one thing I'll definitely encourage my kids to play great computer games.

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 would sideline that with like solving math problems or like reading STEM books. Of course, everything in moderation. That's one thing I'll definitely encourage my kids to play great computer games.

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 would sideline that with like solving math problems or like reading STEM books. Of course, everything in moderation. That's one thing I'll definitely encourage my kids to play great computer games.

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

Not having to worry about like financial stress and having everything you own in one stock, I definitely think frees you up to make better decisions. So I definitely, I mean, everyone in Angel Investing, I definitely encourage like take secondaires off the table when you can.

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

Not having to worry about like financial stress and having everything you own in one stock, I definitely think frees you up to make better decisions. So I definitely, I mean, everyone in Angel Investing, I definitely encourage like take secondaires off the table when you can.

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

Not having to worry about like financial stress and having everything you own in one stock, I definitely think frees you up to make better decisions. So I definitely, I mean, everyone in Angel Investing, I definitely encourage like take secondaires off the table when you can.

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'm 100% certain that if we had taken no secondaires at all, we would definitely have thought about selling much earlier and you might have made more rational decisions, 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'm 100% certain that if we had taken no secondaires at all, we would definitely have thought about selling much earlier and you might have made more rational decisions, right?