20VC: The Best AI Companies Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies | Will Simile Kill Kalshi, Polymarkets and NASDAQ | How to Sign Fortune 500 Companies As Customers in Weeks with Joon Sung Park, Simile

Joon Sung Park is the Founder and CEO of Simile, the AI simulation company building foundation models of human behaviour; allowing companies to test how real people may think, decide and act before making a decision in the real world. Simile has now raised $300 million in total, including a $200 million Series B announced last week at a $2 billion valuation, led by Greenoaks and Index Ventures.
AGENDA:
00:00 We Will Pay $100M for a Single Query on Some Models
10:00 Why Stock Markets May Not Exist in 5 Years Time
15:00 The Best Companies All Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies
19:00 The Best AI Companies Have Clear and Fast Reward Functions
24:00 How We Sign Fortune 500 Companies for $10M Contracts in Weeks
32:00 Does Similie Kill Kalshi and Polymarket? Prediction vs Changing the Future
42:00 Inside Similie's $300M Raise; What Every Founder Needs to Know