Alex Rampell
18 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 13, 2017 by Alex Rampell · said 34 times in 21 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (27), Jason Lemkin (2), Immad Akhund (1), David George (1), Anish Acharya (1)
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2026 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
- Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli: The Funding Market Today; Last-Mile Delivery; Competing w/ Carta | E1005 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 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?
- 20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
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2020 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: 3 Addictions Of Early-Stage Startup Founders, How Founders Should Strategically Think Through Unit Economics From Day 1 & Why Micromanagement Can Be Beneficial In The Early Days with Adena Hefets, Co-Founder @ Divvy Homes
- 20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
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2019 2 mentions in 1 episode
2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 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 @
- 20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Alex Rampell, oldest first
Nov 13, 2017 positive
Proprietary Data Gives Big Tech an Unbeatable AI Recruiting Advantage
“It's also an HR advantage, because if you are the smartest person from your PhD program at Stanford, and you like machine learning and AI, where do you want to work? Well, you could go work for some startup, where they also downloaded TensorFlow, but they have…”
Nov 13, 2017 bearish
Alex Rampell Passes on Great Founders Solely Due to Overvaluation
“I've turned down a number of companies on valuation, not because I didn't believe in the team, not because I didn't believe in the founder, but I just didn't think that there was going to be a sucker that would pay an even higher price next time”
Nov 13, 2017
Data Network Effects Function Like Database Writes and Reads
“Think of it as a database with writes and reads. Those are the two actions that you typically perform in a database. As the number of writes goes up, the value of each read goes up as well, because the value of a read initially is close to nil, but as the numb…”
Jan 12, 2026
Rampell: Haggled over $5M on Plaid's Series B, later invested at $2.4B
“It probably was one of the first rounds of Plaid, which I subsequently corrected myself for by doing the Series C of Plaid. So I think we invested at 2.4 billion for the Series C, and I was debating a five million dollar difference with Zach for the Series B. …”
Jan 12, 2026 negative
Rampell: Two AI geniuses running the IRS would beat 80,000 staff
“I would rather have two people at the IRS than 80,000 people, but have those two people be like, you know, Noam Shazir and some other like super genius. Because if Jeff Dean and Noam Shazir are running the IRS, like, oh my God, like that would be so much more …”
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Jan 12, 2026 bullish
Jan 12, 2026
a16z Passed on Company That Later Reached $1B Valuation
“There was a deal that I guess we should have done, candidly, because, like, this company just raised it, like, a billion dollar plus valuation, but we turned it down. The company had, like, less than a million dollars in revenue, and they wanted, like, a two h…”
Jan 12, 2026 bullish
Jan 12, 2026 negative
Rampell: Massive founder secondaries disconnect founders from employees and investors
“I will say on the record, I hate massive secondaries, because it kind of turns you from the count of Monte Cristo to, like, the, you know, whatever the opposite of that would be, like, the I, I'm now gonna go vacation in you know, Cote d'Azur or something. Lik…”
Jan 12, 2026 bullish
Jan 12, 2026 positive
Jan 12, 2026 bullish
Rampell: Permanent systems of record outperform hyper-growth AI wrappers long term
“I would much rather have a slower growing, permanent system of record that will never get ripped out than the fastest growing thing on the planet that has 9000 competitors that are all built and lovable by 17 year olds.”
Jan 12, 2026
Jan 12, 2026