Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
Every lane here carries 5 quotes or more. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 5 Dec 2023 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
- Dylan Patel 5 5 Dec 2023 – 16 Apr 2026 +0 d
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Bill Gurley
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25 Feb 2026 – 13 Jul 2026
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Dylan Patel
Patel identifies distributed training across data centers with lower bandwidth as a key unsolved problem that would unlock massive scaling.
“Everything that we've seen so far is that large scale training has to happen in an individual data center with very high speed networking.”
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Dylan Patel
Patel says most people will respond to outreach but almost nobody tries.
“One of things I learned early on is you can talk to anyone on the Internet. You can just reach out to anyone, and most people just say yes, but no one does it.”
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Dylan Patel
Patel advises becoming a foremost expert in what you enjoy and reaching out to anyone online.
“Or try and talk to those people because one of the things I learned early on is you can talk to anyone on the Internet,”
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Dylan Patel
Nadella describes connecting multiple Fairwater facilities on a petabit network spanning to Milwaukee for distributed AI training.
“Fairwater 4, which you're going to see under construction nearby, will also be on that one petabits network so that we can actually link the two at a very high rate.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley argues Silicon Valley offers daily networking events that accelerate learning and connections by 10X or more.
“if you're in Silicon Valley and you have time, you can find an event every night. And at that event, you might meet a peer.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley says Silicon Valley has nightly networking events that massively increase probability of lucky career breaks.
“And on top of all that, what I just said, a lot of people talk about luck in their career path.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley says Silicon Valley's willingness to grant fifteen-minute meetings is shockingly higher than Wall Street.
“In Silicon Valley, the frequency with which you can ask someone for fifteen minutes of their time and get a yes is shockingly high.”
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Dylan Patel
Patel identifies disaggregated PD and wide EP as networking techniques where performance matters significantly.
“When someone has really good networking with these leading edge techniques to run a model such as KIMI or DeepSeq called disaggregated PD or wide EP, these are two different techniques, network performance is a humongous factor.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley says human relationships and strong peer and mentor networks will matter way more in AI era.
“A lot of people have a theory that I think is reasonable that human relationships will matter way more. So, do you have a strong peer network? Do you have a strong mentor network?”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley advises seeking mentors two steps above you rather than shooting too high like CEOs.
“the person that's two steps above you on the ladder has never been asked to be a mentor, and that's probably your best place to start, and they'll be flattered that you ask.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley says when people are fascinated by something, others naturally connect them with opportunities.
“So if you knew someone who was just wouldn't stop chatting about modern architecture or whatever, and then you run into someone else and you go, oh, you should talk to Sally like this.”
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