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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 1:15:20 Harry Stebbings Um, Excel leading with Nvidia doing half.
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 1:24 Harry Stebbings Yeah, you were in Excel, and you were there, very nice officers, and I was, just joined Atomaco, I think, and we were both, like, very young, and we were like, wow, it worked.
- ▶ 4:22 Harry Stebbings You joined from Excel.
- ▶ 16:44 Julien Bek Uh, we worked together at Excel before, so I've worked with Luciana for most of my career now.
How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Matt Swalinski, he's worked at Superhuman, he's worked at Whisperflow, and now he's just joined ExcelBankedVictor.com, and he's looking to make it third time, I wouldn't say lucky, because he is a master of growth.
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 38:06 Harry Stebbings And I think this will be the worst performing category of venture in this vintage because firms like you and Founders Fund and Benchmark and Sequoia and Excel, and the list goes on and on, are so effective with a very good seed product…
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:27 Harry Stebbings The amount, the amount of Excel, the amount of Excel GPs I've met that did the Facebook deal.
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:10 Harry Stebbings I watched your commencement speech on the back of speaking to Samir at Excel, and he said I had to watch it, so obviously it watched it, um, and one of the points you made was the defining skill of the AI era is asking better questions.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:59 Harry Stebbings Excel adds four billion leaders fund to follow into hot AI growth rounds. 2 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:38 Harry Stebbings We'll get to selling because I used it as an example in a show we did with Miles Clements from Excel.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:54 Harry Stebbings Excel lead that round.
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings Myles helps lead Excel's growth investing practice, where he's buying some of the best in the business, including Atlassian, Linear, Cursor, and many more.
- ▶ 22:58 Miles Clements I've been very lucky at Excel to learn from a lot of really great people.
- ▶ 27:20 Harry Stebbings Why are we not in Anthropic and OpenAI as an XLLP? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Miles Clements You know, I go back to Arthur Patterson, co-founder of Excel, always says this thing, focus on hitting singles and doubles and let the home runs take care of themselves.
- ▶ 51:10 Harry Stebbings Who's the best sourcer inside Excel?
- ▶ 54:50 Harry Stebbings And it can't, obviously, obviously you put all your money in Excel.
- ▶ 58:33 Miles Clements Um, Arthur says this thing that anybody, any firm can be professional over short periods of time, but his aspiration in starting Excel with Jim was to maintain a standard of professionalism over long extended periods of time.
- ▶ 1:03:07 Miles Clements Honestly, the thing that I'm the most excited about is watching the younger team at Excel flourish. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:13 Mike Cannon-Brookes I'll give you an example from history, which I'm sure the Excel guys wouldn't mind. 4 times in the scene
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 37:52 Harry Stebbings I actually interviewed the founder of Podium, Eric Rea, which is an Excel backed company.
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:04 Harry Stebbings Um, Ethos, the institute provider, um, funded by your Sequoias, your Excels, provider of life insurance, um, going public today when this show airs on the 29th, um, valued at 1.3 billion, high end of the range.
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:37 Jason Lemkin Oh yeah, add Excel too.