The Twenty Minute VCTuring CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear
Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- December 1, 2025
- Duration
- 1h 17m
- Channel
- The Twenty Minute VC
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Jonathan Siddharth is Founder and CEO of Turing, one of the fastest-growing AI companies advancing frontier models. Jonathan has led the company to an astonishing $300M ARR with just $225M raised and a profitable company. A Stanford-trained AI scientist, Jonathan previously helped pioneer natural language search at Powerset, which was acquired by Microsoft. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Redefining “Talent Marketplaces” Today 03:46 Data, Compute, Algorithms: What is Most Abundant? 16:59 The Biggest Challenges Enterprises Have with AI Adoption 20:57 Why Will 99% of Knowledge Work Will be Gone in 10 Years 28:53 How Will Data-Driven Feedback Loops Replace Technology as the Moat 34:20 Is Revenue BS in Data Labelling? Are Players Calling GMV Revenue? 43:43 Are We in an AI Bubble? 52:22 Why is SaaS Dead in a World of AI? 01:00:32 Will the Phone be the Primary User Interface to an AI World? 01:07:46 Quick-Fire Round ----------------------------------------------- Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3j2KMcZTtgTNBKwtZBMHvl?si=85bc9196860e4466 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-twenty-minute-vc-20vc-venture-capital-startup/id958230465 Follow Harry Stebbings on X: https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings Follow Jonathan Siddharth on X: https://twitter.com/jonsidd Follow 20VC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/20vchq Follow 20VC on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@20vc_tok Visit our Website: https://www.20vc.com Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/contact ----------------------------------------------- #20vc #harrystebbings #jonathansiddharth #turing #datalebelling #ai #data #saas
SPEAKERS
Jonathan Siddharth
guestFounder and CEO of Turing, focused on data/RL environments and AI model training support for frontier labs and enterprises.
Harry Stebbings
hostHost of 20VC (The Twenty Minute VC) and venture capitalist who interviews founders and tech leaders.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, featuring Jonathan Siddharth and Harry Stebbings, Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear explores turing’s CEO on research accelerators, agents, and SaaS’s decline Siddharth argues the “data labeling” era is ending as frontier labs now need complex, expert-generated data and reinforcement-learning environments to train agentic systems that perform real workflows.
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