What Alexandr Wang thinks about startups
Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Alexandr Wang has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI think the the key thing is you need to develop conviction in a set of beliefs that nobody else um agrees with. Like, I think if you look at all the most successful companies in the world, um they were started at a time long before the sort of like core idea was popular.
↗Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”youtube.com 1st of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsyou just you can't base your business decisions based on what everyone else is saying around you. Like, if you go too much with the herd, you will get immensely confused and you will end up nowhere. And so you have to develop your own compass of what you think the future is going to look like because everyone else will just confuse you.
↗Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”youtube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsAnd now I actually think with the power of agents um and AI broadly speaking, it's much closer to Goliath versus Goliath. Like I think but maybe the startup is like a Mecca Goliath that is like vastly enhanced by the power of agents and AI and you know, the the large companies are the sort of like more traditional Goliath, so to speak. But I think that startups now like if you properly embrace AI agents and um figure out the way to leverage their strengths in the most like ambitious ways, you can easily outcompete incumbents.
↗Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”youtube.com 5th of 20 in this recording