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Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:41 Matt Fitzpatrick I actually think the dynamic, again, why I would use Uber and Lyft, you could use, um, you could use Airbnb and VRBO as the same context is, I don't think people, I don't think experts go on five platforms, right?
- ▶ 50:45 Harry Stebbings How is that different than booking on Airbnb, where I get my take from 2 times in the scene
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:02 Tarek Mansour Like when you see this shift in consumer behavior, I mean, you've seen it in Airbnb with the host and Uber with riders.
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
- ▶ 18:17 Max Altman If we can even get two or three percent of the next DoorDash or Airbnb, we're in great shape.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:59 Rory O'Driscoll The Airbnb round that Sequoia did was compellingly cheap.
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:47 Rory O'Driscoll Um, so yeah, biggest deal ever, but you know, I got to say Silver Lake are part of this and they've been astonishingly smart at the decisions they've made, you know, from Airbnb to I think the real killer is the Dell EMC acquisition where…
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:40 Harry Stebbings I always remember Brian Seaman teaching me that, um, capital concentration limits are the enemy of great venture returns, and that's why they have 33% of their fund in Airbnb.
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 8:49 Alex Schultz The general company, in my experience, every company, whether you talk Amazon, whether you talk Google, whether you talk Meta, whether you talk Airbnb, they, as employees, tend to be power users of the product, and they, by nature,…
20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- ▶ 25:52 Max Junestrand And we get so excited, we book this like really nice Airbnb,
- ▶ 29:13 unnamed speaker I go to SF, I lock myself in this nice Airbnb that we've had, and I think it went something like, I arrive on a Tuesday, on the Wednesday I sit down with Gustav, and he tells me, Max, I think you guys should go and raise like a bigger…
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:59 unnamed speaker Are stranded, because all those price targets, like the Airbnb price targets, ain't ever going to happen now.
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:50 Miles Dieffenbach And you look at some of the, the most incredible companies that have ever come out of the venture asset class, Airbnb, Uber, SpaceX, Amazon, all struggled mightily to raise their seed round.
- ▶ 24:26 Miles Dieffenbach And they're going to drive me some same with Airbnb.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:45 unnamed speaker Oh my God, this guy was a seed investor, Airbnb and Stripe.
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:52 Harry Stebbings And that's why we did 33% into Airbnb.
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:22 Johannes Reck At the time, there was a small team there with Jeff Hausenboldt, Ted Feig, Andrew Sloto, um, some of which have worked at Airbnb. 3 times in the scene
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:55 Harry Stebbings The dude is well known for passing on Airbnb, which he very humbly always talks about.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:55 Larry Aschebrook Um, we had a new baby and we were staying in an Airbnb that we rented, um, which became a great investment for us later on.
- ▶ 41:03 unnamed speaker Oh yeah, Airbnb goes public, make a three X. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:15 Larry Aschebrook You know, the, the, the high flyers, you have, um, companies like Fanatics, Wiz, um, Databricks, um, uh, Turo, the Airbnb of cars, um, like Monzo, companies like that, where there's, you've already decided those are your core positions,…
20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 1:19:21 Matthew Pohlson Even Airbnb and Groupon at the time tried to do, but that machine is why we were able to beat them, um, and so we learned watching that from him.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:40 Severin Hacker You know, like it could be Airbnb or Uber at the time.
- ▶ 1:16:10 Severin Hacker Um, by the way, in, you know, for example, in, in, in Uber's case and, and Airbnb, there's a lot of local regulations.
- ▶ 1:27:44 Severin Hacker You know, Facebook got that one, or Uber, Airbnb, they probably got some of those.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:25 unnamed speaker You can get, you can get food delivery in 15 minutes, groceries, you can get anything on Amazon, you can get Uber, Airbnb, your life is amazing.
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:39 Peter Singlehurst You know, businesses like Airbnb and Spotify and, uh, and Tom and Mark and James, like they kind of had their hands full looking after these tens of billions of dollars of our clients capital.
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:05 Adarsh Hiremath Uh, the marketplaces and companies like Meta, you know, and Airbnb,
- ▶ 32:00 Adarsh Hiremath So one is the network effect of a marketplace that you might see in a labor marketplace like Uber, uh, or a marketplace like Airbnb, where
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:12 Max Levchin I love Airbnb. 3 times in the scene
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:45 Shervin Pishevar Airbnb was on the list.
- ▶ 18:28 Shervin Pishevar And investing in the future Travis's, or the future Elon's, or, you know, invested in Airbnb and got to see Brian early on.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:45 Mike Maples You know, it's like when I passed on Airbnb, or, um, you know, what, what's another one we passed on, we, we would have done really well. 3 times in the scene