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Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:40 Harry Stebbings Crandom have, uh, created a phenomenal premier dominant brand that is rivaling index and Excel in a way that very few people have done in the last few years.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 11:56 Harry Stebbings And I don't mean that badly, but it's a little bit like a GP at Excel or Sequoia or you name it, spinning and doing their own.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:51 Harry Stebbings Andreessen, Thrive, Koto, DST, Excel, all the big players all involved.
- ▶ 54:52 unnamed speaker Well, but here's the thing, if I'm, it depends what you mean, I'm, I'm just looking at Excel's, uh, global scape they published this week.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:02 Jason Lemkin Excel gets another play, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:03 Harry Stebbings When we sit and look at Series A, we don't sit and be frightened by Index or Excel or the big European players.
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:33 Jason Calacanis At three million AR because everyone else wants to do it, Harry, and you beat the, and you're, you're patting yourself on the back for beating out Sequoia and Excel and, and, and Stride and all those guys.
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 1:06:01 Harry Stebbings Well, I mean, Excel are in lovable too, so you got, you just got a transition of, you know.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:24 unnamed speaker I didn't realize he'd left his unicorn and just raised twenty million from Excel to do his next company.
- ▶ 46:49 Harry Stebbings CalSheep, the direct comp, raises from Andreessen and Excel at five billion dollars.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:19 Rory O'Driscoll Someone, smart dudes at Excel, looked at the two billion and said, you need, whatever, three hundred million dollars, and then six months later, they pick up another hundred.
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 15:48 Jesse Zhang So we, we want to excel for the A and yeah,
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:05 Harry Stebbings Sorry, Jeff, I didn't mean to interrupt you there, but if you look at the people who did really well from that, say your Excel's in scale, they have the University of your Wisconsin or Michigan or the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the…
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:39 Harry Stebbings That was quite a shock, because it wasn't a London fund, it wasn't Index, it wasn't Excel.
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:03 unnamed speaker One's two billion because Excel wants the deal.
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:23 unnamed speaker Great company around since 2012 can all congrats to Lightspeed who own a big chunk of this along with Excel.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:51 Harry Stebbings Um, Excel led the round, um, massive. 5 times in the scene
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:10 Miles Dieffenbach Um, usually the, the, the multi-stage firms think your perennial, like Excels,
- ▶ 21:41 Harry Stebbings Whereas like before I sign the term sheet, I'm gonna go to Index, Excel, Sequoia,
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:33 Rory O'Driscoll Excel just had scale and, um, the, the, the, the, the stable coin deal.
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:33 Philipp Freise You look with great admiration at the Excel's benchmarks and indexes and Kleiner Perkins of the world, um, but that's not our business.
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:57 unnamed speaker But if Alexander Wang's highest and best use is as a senior employee at Meta, then isn't it wonderful that the free market system was able to pay everyone else, fifteen billion dollars, all power to excel who probably booked a two billion…
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:45 Harry Stebbings Excel made 2.5 billion dollars.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:13 Harry Stebbings You spin out of Excel, or you name your big firm, and we fund you.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:40 Jason Lemkin Rich Wong from Excel said this last week, 20% will fail. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:06 Harry Stebbings Five hundred million dollar rumored round at a fourteen billion dollar price rumored to be led by Excel. 2 times in the scene
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:41 Harry Stebbings I, I do see it impacting companies when you have your excels and your indices. 2 times in the scene
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:45 Jason Lemkin They all, it's, you know, at last, you know, Excel figuring out how to buy 30% of Atlassian back in the day was the genius move.
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 1:46 Harry Stebbings I discovered this on Harmonic, the complete startup database used by Excel, Insight, Menlo, and hundreds of other leading VCs, as well as go-to-market teams, from the likes of Notion, Brex, and Google, to find the best startups and…
- ▶ 1:01:40 Harry Stebbings I discovered this on Harmonic, the complete startup database used by Excel, Insight, Menlo, and hundreds of other leading VCs, as well as go-to-market teams, from the likes of Notion, Brex, and Google, to find the best startups and…
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:26 Harry Stebbings I've got a hundred million going into Index, Excel, Founders Funds, Sequoia, 25 each.
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:24 Harry Stebbings There's no way they could get into Excel index or any of the brand names.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 1:27 Harry Stebbings I discovered this on Harmonic, the complete startup database used by Excel, Insight, Menlo, and hundreds of other leading VCs, as well as go-to-market teams from the likes of Notion, Brex, and Google, to find the best startups and…
- ▶ 1:25:11 Harry Stebbings I discovered this on Harmonic, the complete startup database used by Excel, Insight, Menlo, and hundreds of other leading VCs, as well as go-to-market teams, from the likes of Notion, Brex, and Google, to find the best startups and…
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:19 Harry Stebbings You want to do Excel?
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:35 Harry Stebbings And it gets known that, oh, they were turned down by Excel or Index or whoever it was.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:10 Hussein Kanji Index, Accel, Sequoia, et cetera, like all very active in Europe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:14 Hussein Kanji Produced really interesting gaming companies when I was at Accel.