clay bavor

T3 · host / generalist

Co-founder of Sierra, an AI company building customer-service agents. He previously spent 18 years at Google, including leadership roles in virtual and augmented reality.

4 calls·4 names·100% bull·last heard last month·20VC
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1sthigh conviction
$GOOGLAlphabet

Bavor: Google's mission-aligned culture can solve anything when smart people pursue truth

Clay Bavor, after 18 years at Google, argues the company's combination of an ambitious enduring mission, incredibly smart people, and a culture valuing truth-seeking in service of that mission makes it capable of solving virtually any problem when aligned.

20VC2026-07
2ndmedium conviction
$NBISNebius

Bavor believes Nebius claim: 10x GPU supply would still sell out in a day

Bavor validates Nebius founder's claim about insatiable GPU demand, using it to support his thesis that GPU capacity and power remain the fundamental constrained inputs creating a floor on token economics for both frontier and open models.

20VC2026-07
3rdmedium conviction
$PLTRPalantir Technologies

Bavor: Sierra borrowed Palantir's forward-deployed model, aims for larger scale

Bavor explicitly credits Palantir's forward-deployed engineering model as the inspiration for Sierra's approach, noting Palantir has 'low hundreds of customers' while Sierra intends to operate at much larger scale across industry verticals.

20VC2026-07

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Nebius
MEDclay bavor·20VC·last month
Bavor believes Nebius claim: 10x GPU supply would still sell out in a day
Bavor validates Nebius founder's claim about insatiable GPU demand, using it to support his thesis that GPU capacity and power remain the fundamental constrained inputs creating a floor on token economics for both frontier and open models.
"We had the founder of Nebius on the show the other day and he said that if they 10x supply, they could still sell out in a day... I believe that. I believe that and I think that t…"
12:42
$PLTR
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Palantir Technologies
MEDclay bavor·20VC·last month
Bavor: Sierra borrowed Palantir's forward-deployed model, aims for larger scale
Bavor explicitly credits Palantir's forward-deployed engineering model as the inspiration for Sierra's approach, noting Palantir has 'low hundreds of customers' while Sierra intends to operate at much larger scale across industry verticals.
"I would say rediscovered and borrowed this model from Palantir and we came to it almost accidentally... my understanding is Palantir has kind of low hundreds of customers. We are…"
30:07
$GOOGL
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Alphabet
HIGHclay bavor·20VC·last month
Bavor: Google's mission-aligned culture can solve anything when smart people pursue truth
Clay Bavor, after 18 years at Google, argues the company's combination of an ambitious enduring mission, incredibly smart people, and a culture valuing truth-seeking in service of that mission makes it capable of solving virtually any problem when aligned.
"What people underestimate about Google is when you have the alignment of an ambitious, enduring mission, incredibly smart people and a culture that values truth and building in se…"
63:43
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Salesforce
MEDclay bavor·20VC·last month
Bavor: Marc Benioff is extraordinary, Brett Taylor learned selling from the best
Bavor praises Marc Benioff as 'extraordinary' and the best seller he's ever met, noting co-founder Brett Taylor's time at Salesforce was formative for Sierra's sales motion and enterprise approach.
"Brett having spent time at Salesforce really learned from the best. Like Mark is extraordinary and so he's the best seller I've ever met."
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