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8 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2025
Lawrence Whittle says Anthropic crossed $1 billion in revenue in the middle of 2025 after starting that year at $100 million.
“if you look at their growth from the middle of last year, where they middle of 2025, where they crossed $1 billion, which is huge, they started the year at 100 million.”
2025
Whittle says the term agentic began to be widely heard around the first quarter of 2025.
“sometime around Q one of 2025, we started to hear this term agentic.”
Undated
Lawrence Whittle says he has been around Silicon Valley for twenty-five years.
“I've been around Silicon Valley for twenty five years.”
Undated
Whittle says he was working on AI about twenty years ago, before the term was commonly used.
“I was doing A I before it was called A I twenty years ago.”
Undated
Whittle gives a next-generation chatbot that handles incoming support requests as an example of a business use case.
“For example, it could be a next generation, uh, chatbot that is going to support incoming support requests.”
Undated
Whittle says financial services firms are well placed for AI because they hold large amounts of data, despite the regulatory framework.
“they have a lot of data. So they have a good advantage.”
Undated
Whittle says typical enterprises spend about six months deciding what to build and then one to three years deploying it.
“most enterprises have this M, sort of momentum where you spend, you know, six months deciding what to build. And then one to two to three years to deploy”
Undated
Whittle recommends targeting AI projects that deliver results in ninety days, rather than multi-year programs with results after two to three years.
“you've got to figure out where can I work on something where the results could be in ninety days and then another result in ninety days.”
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