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The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:52 Jerry Murdock So, 1977, I get on a plane, go to Europe, hitchhike around for a couple of months, and then I go spend, you know, six months in Africa.
20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
- ▶ 17:14 Harry Stebbings And all that matters is you have distribution from Chattanooga to Chad in Africa.
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:10 Alex Bouaziz Not only understood payroll really well, but were forced to build global payroll because South Africa was such a tiny market that they had to expand to all countries in Africa in order to be able to create a real business that can really…
Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:19 Mike Cannon-Brookes And so he landed in a bush plane somewhere in Africa and got a radio message, I believe, saying, when you can, call Mike.
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:08 Byron Deeter Um, the, the, the ultimate giving pledge that they did giving away 30% of their, their economics, um, for, uh, for, you know, not for public good, including, um, you know, a lot of initiatives in, in Africa, um, I think.
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:19 Philipp Freise We tried also Africa, Ethiopia, where we were the largest, uh, growers of, of, uh, of, of tulips and roses that didn't work out for similar reasons.
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
- ▶ 34:51 Richard Socher Now, of course, just like the past day Luddites, we all appreciate having a t-shirt and everyone, even in Africa can have as many t-shirts as they want, and it's very cheap.
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:34 Harry Stebbings I, I, that infrastructure investments in Africa, I think people don't spend enough time on.
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:54 Jonathan Ross There's 1.4000000000 people in Africa who know how to, who know how to speak, and if you were to give them access to a tool that
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:41 Shervin Pishevar Um, and so you have a strong backup, so negotiate with strength, and I'm really glad I said that because, ah, a few weeks later I was in, um, in Africa giving a keynote for Obama's, ah, Entrepreneurship Summit.
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:58 unnamed speaker I think the biggest surprise I've had to this day was how successful we were in Africa. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:57 Harry Stebbings So we have this like massive market expansion and we are now in Africa.
- ▶ 55:09 Markus Villig So, so we suddenly signed up hundreds of thousands of drivers all across Europe, all across Africa.
- ▶ 1:09:36 Harry Stebbings But you say this so casually, you know, I presume you hadn't been to China before, given you hadn't been to Africa, and so like,
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29:55 Matt Grimm Uh, and then you put that together with what I view has been a, uh, pretty well demonstrated, um, at least ambition for kind of, uh, empire building, whether that's through Belt and Road in Africa, whether that's through invading Taiwan. 2 times in the scene
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:40 Harry Stebbings it's super tough, and it actually just makes me think of why Mormons tend to actually be such good sellers, because they actually have to go and, you know, sell the Book of Mormon to, like, African
Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:24 Antoine Le Nel While if you look at the penetration of fintech in India, or in Pakistan, or in, in some places in Africa, in Indonesia, and in all those places, it's like way more mature.
Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:43 Dax Dasilva Actually, he was a welder, and, and, ah, they discovered that back in Africa, he was a journalist, and that he was a communications guy, and so they gave him this opportunity, and I went, I nerded out.
Luca Ferrari: Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation |E1127 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:16 Luca Ferrari Are more ambitious with themselves, and or more willing to put in the hard work that's needed to then fulfill that ambition than, say, Americans, or Asians, or Africans, or people from Oceania.
Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:55 Joe Lonsdale And it's kind of fun because every time you make more money, Harry, you can use it to do things like you can use it to send it to the Philippines or Africa
Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:00 Harry Stebbings Like, you know, actually M-Pesa has been an incredible innovation in, in large parts of Africa for payment flows for many years.
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17 Shyam Sankar And I'd say in Africa, sorry.
Dave Powers: The Meteoric Rise of Hoka Running | E1098 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:03 Dave Powers Character that is, you know, beyond the music, what he's been able to do on the global stage for AIDS in Africa and et cetera, uh, and the amount of people that he's met with and worked with is fascinating to me.
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:59 Scott Farquhar And from there we flew to Africa, to Botswana to do, um,
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:34 Vinod Khosla You know, the Mideast and Africa have good demographics.
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:41 Marcelo Claure Latin America had the lowest percentage of venture investing as the percentage of GDP of whatever than any other region in the world, I think as close to Africa.
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:02 Sheel Mohnot So I think, like, I think people have invested a lot in, like, Pakistan, Bangladesh, um, parts of Africa. 3 times in the scene
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:54 Akin Babayigit That's why I'm not living in, you know, somewhere in Africa or Asia or whatever.
Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:06 Emad Mostaque In Africa, one-to-one tuition.
- ▶ 40:58 Emad Mostaque What if you have massive information about every child in Africa, and every business in India, and they embrace this technology properly?
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:35 Harry Stebbings Chris, I'm not planning on supplying casters to Lesotho in Africa.
Hunter Somerville: Biggest Mistake LPs Make; Deep Dive into Secondary Markets | 20VC #985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:14 Harry Stebbings In boom times we saw LATAM, Africa, uh, India, Pakistan, booming, like, bigger than ever.
Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:34 Cliff Obrecht Um, a lot of the students there were refugees from Africa, um, the Middle East, um, and parts of Asia, and these people, uh, ex-child soldiers, um, they'd been through the most horrific things.
- ▶ 40:45 Cliff Obrecht Um, and, and, and we used to work our ass off and make enough money to go to India or Thailand for three months at a time or Africa.
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:58 Albert Wenger If you look in big parts of Africa, they don't have a grit. 4 times in the scene
Maggie Hott: 3 Questions You Must Ask When Interviewing Sales Reps | 20VC #960 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:48 Maggie Hott So I spent a lot of time traveling and living in different places all over the world, from Africa, Scotland, Spain,
dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich: The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | 20VC #926 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:02 Sebastian Kanovich One day we say, we're going to go to Africa.
- ▶ 10:28 Sebastian Kanovich They all want you to go to Africa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:57 Sebastian Kanovich Then we launched in Africa.
Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:36 Sheel Mohnot I think the markets that are in the most trouble are Africa and Pakistan. 2 times in the scene
Nick Jones: How I Founded Soho House; Brand Marketing Tips; Hiring Advice | 20VC #898 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:48 Nick Jones This is fantastic because, you know, when we eventually get into Africa, when we properly get into Asia, when we open in Mexico City, when we open in, in San Paolo, you as a member, we keep adding value to your membership because you're…
- ▶ 12:09 Harry Stebbings You said about Asia, you said about Africa, you said about
Q-Commerce in Emerging Markets with the CEOs of Airlift, JOKR, & Zepto | 20VC #892 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:58 Usman Gul We've seen these come out of, you know, some parts of Africa.
- ▶ 55:52 Aadit Palicha So this is like, you know, when Africa went from cash to online payments and skipped credit cards in between, you know, the CPG brands that you have no outlet today, they're not, they're not just jumping from no outlet to a targeted…
20VC: How Today's Market Changes How Companies Should Approach Burn and Runway, Are Financing Markets Closing? How To Know When To Pay Up vs Stay Price Disciplined & Why The Most Important Thing in Venture is Generating Positive Selection with Bill Cilluf
- ▶ 28:08 Bill Cillufo Thinking about different time zones, whether it's in Asia or Africa or whatever, is really kind of intimidating and challenging, and I think the advent of Zoom helps that, and I think that's enabled us to be more aggressive.
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Previously, David was co-founder and CEO of Internet Solutions, the largest ISP in Africa, ultimately acquired by NTT.
20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
- ▶ 25:53 Angela Strange Like, now there's lots of companies starting up in Africa.
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 22:24 Mike Lazerow Security, peace of mind, health insurance for us, you know, as I said, had the heart issues and the ability to have experiences that have really changed our life, whether it's through philanthropy or taking the kids to Africa or, you know,…
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
- ▶ 16:51 unnamed speaker So we're in the U S Europe, Africa, and we're starting in Asia as well.
20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note
- ▶ 25:04 Tony Schneider Quarter or so in the rest of the world, primarily Europe and Africa, and I think we're going to continue to see that just more great companies popping up anywhere, not just in Silicon Valley.
20VC: Why Speed Is The Biggest Differentiator a Founder Can Have, How To Hire Seasoned Tier 1 Talent To An Early Stage Startup & How To Start, Scale and Manage Remote Teams with Domm Holland, Founder & CEO @ Fast
- ▶ 22:04 Dom Holland It's opened my eyes to Africa.
20VC: True Ventures' Puneet Agarwal on Why EQ Is Going To Separate The Best Firms In Venture Over The Next Decade, The Negatives of Attribution in Venture & What Makes A Truly Efficient Venture Partnership
- ▶ 30:46 Puneet Agarwal So we've invested in Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Oregon, Africa, Europe.
20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings ...providers in Africa, and this led to his entrance into angel investing, where he enjoyed immense success, investing in the likes of Chris Dixon's Hunch, and Alex Rampell's TrialPay, just to name a few.
20VC: Flexport's Ryan Petersen on Why Investor Relations Are Overrated, Why Boards Have To Be Rethought & Why MBAs Do Not Make Bad Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 5:59 Ryan Petersen I went to Africa for Columbia, got a job, but it was part-time and flexible to write business school cases about African companies.
20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
- ▶ 11:09 Harry Stebbings Is it a technical thing of kind of bandwidth to Africa, or is it a...
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 22:01 Dave McClure And Africa, those three places also, you know, have huge potential, but not enough capital right now.
20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming
- ▶ 26:46 Niccolo De Masi Africa will get phones.
20 VC 088: David Frankel @ Founder Collective: The Most Founder Friendly VC in Existence
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings David was the founder and CEO of Internet Solutions, one of the largest ISP providers in Africa, and following his acquisition, David made his move into the investing game, becoming one of the very first super angels.
- ▶ 2:10 David Frankel Uh, Harry, I was, um, you know, classicals story of being in the right place at the right time, but I graduated electrical engineering, um, in 1992, and I had internet access at my university, and together with a great friend, uh, was…
20 VC 083: 500 Startups Week: New Funds, Startup Mentoring and Dave's Masterplan with Marvin Liao, Partner @ 500 Startups
- ▶ 17:50 Marvin Liao I think that education piece on the investor side and trying to sort of inject, um, you know, more expertise and more money locally for sort of VC investing, whether it's in Europe or Southeast Asia or even Africa or Middle East or Latin…
20 VC 062: Shaking Up London's VC Scene with Fede Pirzio-Biroli, Founder @ Playfair Capital
- ▶ 23:05 Harry Stebbings And then investing in Africa. 2 times in the scene