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Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:25 Gili Raanan Bigger product vision, market vision, and it was super hard, and eventually we, we sold the business, uh, to Akamai for half a billion dollars or so, and you know, that was the end of story.
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:54 Alex Rampell So, you know, you go back, like the infrastructure layer for PCs was, I don't know, like Microsoft and Apple, like the operating system players, the infrastructure player for the internet was like Cisco and Akamai.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:55 Guy Podjarny You know, shy of a decade of sort of application security experience, trying to get people to appreciate that it matters, trying to shift left, you know, get developers to embrace it, leaving them, got my entrepreneurial of founding… 2 times in the scene
20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 4:20 Aparna Chennapragada But I got my first break, I'd say, in what the kids would call WebOne, MIT company, a spinoff called Akamai.
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 26:27 Glenn Solomon And rise of things like continuous delivery of software and containerization, but it's really exciting to me because I think the world is, is about to see who becomes the next VMware, who becomes the next Akamai, the next Palo Alto…
20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings Prior to Expensify, though, David built a peer-to-peer file transfer technology called Red Swoosh with Uber's Travis Kalanick, which was acquired by Akamai in 2007.