George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

January 22, 2025

Duration

1h 8m

Channel

The Twenty Minute VC

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

George Sivulka is the founder and CEO of Hebbia, is one of the fastest-growing gen AI companies and they recently raised a $130M series B. Investors include the company include hailed names such as a16z, Peter Thiel, Index, GV and others. ---------------------------------------------- In Today’s Episode with George Sivulka We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 03:28 Three Traits The Best Founders All Share? 05:41 How Cold Calling NASA Changed My Life 09:24 From Stealing Food From Stanford to Pitching Peter Thiel 15:59 Lessons working with Peter Thiel 24:02 The Future of AI and Business Applications 33:29 Debunking the Myths of AI Job Displacement 38:32 The Future of Models: Many specialised or few generalised? 39:50 The Impact of Scaling Laws on Foundation Models 46:13 The Geopolitical Influence on AI 48:06 The Commoditization of AI Models 48:05 Why Foundation Models Will Not Follow the Same Path of Cloud 57:54 Quick-Fire Round ----------------------------------------------- Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3j2KMcZ... Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Follow Harry Stebbings on Twitter: / harrystebbings Follow George Sivulka on Twitter: / gsivulka Follow 20VC on Instagram: / 20vchq Follow 20VC on TikTok: / 20vc_tok Visit our Website: https://www.20vc.com Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/con... ----------------------------------------------- #20vc #harrystebbings #GeorgeSivulka #Hebbia #founder #CEO #venturecapital #startups #fundraising #SamAltman #openai #businesstips

🎤 SPEAKERS

• George Sivulka

  guest

• Harry Stebbings

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, featuring George Sivulka and Harry Stebbings, George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 explores hebbia’s George Sivulka: Beyond RAG Toward Agentic, Enterprise-Grade AI George Sivulka, founder and CEO of Hebbia, traces his path from misfit math kid with immigrant-athlete parents to Stanford PhD dropout and AI founder living in a literal closet while building the company.

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