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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
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To some extent, it may have been a distraction for OpenAI that they were so successful in consumer. If this was a mercy killing, Apple may have done them a favor. If there was action on threads, Harry, you'd be there. Action on Mars, Harry, you'd be there. Every company with a CIO who's half awake is going to have a cheap token model to hand to stop this madness. Shit, I'm putting everyone out of a job. The least I can do is keep them alive. Treason does not succeed, but what's the reason? If it does succeed, no one calls it treason. In the early stage, when you're on the board, you can't invest in two competitors. In the late stage, structurally, you have to. If you don't want to be worth 1x, like, do something before it's too late, man.
This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings. It is your weekly listen. everything you need to know that's gone down in tech this week. Rory O'Driscoll, Jason Lemkin, and me are pining on the agenda for today. So number one, Apple sues OpenAI for trade secret theft. Number two, Meta fights back on the coding model front, and Zuck is back on X. And then number three, SK Hynix prices a $26.5 billion NASDAQ listing, bringing the compute and infrastructure layer to the public domain. But before we dive into the show today, what's one thing in business that's spreading as fast as AI? AI risk. Every new tool your team signs up for, every vendor that turns on AI features, every new integration, each one, I'm sorry to say, is an opportunity for something to go wrong.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–17:00
2
What happened in the Apple vs OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit and who is implicated?
17:00–35:59
3
Could Apple’s lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware ambitions and delay product plans?
35:59–45:04
4
How is Meta’s Spark 1.1 and Zuckerberg’s return to X changing the AI model competitive landscape?
45:04–1:03:15
5
What does the Databricks analysis reveal about model pricing, cost per completed task, and token economics?
1:03:15–1:22:50
Speakers
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