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DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:39 Harry Stebbings I saw this brilliant tweet that I did actually want to discuss with you guys, and it was from Nicholas Desain at Y Combinator, formerly, well, founder of Algo. 2 times in the scene
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:29 Ryan Petersen Algolia, I was an investor in that, but I missed Cruise. 2 times in the scene
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:23 Jason Lemkin Because I bought more, I bought more in RevenueCat, I bought a lot more in RevenueCat, I bought more in Algolia, I bought more in others that have done reasonably well.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:13 unnamed speaker Pipedrive and Algolia and TalkDesk. 2 times in the scene
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:09 Harry Stebbings When you do Algolia, when you do talk desk, when you do new name, owner, owner grew grows growing at its rocket ship today. 3 times in the scene
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:58 Jason Lemkin I, I'd done Pipedrive and Algolia, but I didn't know.
- ▶ 17:01 Harry Stebbings And when you look at a generation of your data IQs, your Calibras, your Algolias, like the growth rates aren't quite what they used to be.
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:24 Jason Lemkin I could see where search for talk desk and search for alcoholia and even things that seem simple, like CRM for pipe drive or with greenhouse that the Jack knows where I was pre revenue and then sales loft, which I remember everyone laughed…
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:05 Jason Lemkin It doesn't have good deals, but are you truly con forget about what, whether sales offs can be worth two and a half billion in cash, which didn't know, or pipe drive a billion and a half or a goalie, whatever didn't, didn't know to the, to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:25 Jason Lemkin Well, you know, I wouldn't have done Algol or Front or Pipe Drive or Gorgeous or others if I was prejudiced against Europeans.
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:27 Jason Lemkin I would invest in a funky outsider company like Pipedrive from Estonia or Algolia from France or Toctus from Portugal.
- ▶ 41:03 Jason Lemkin One, I led the seed Algolia. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20 Jason Lemkin And then I'll go, it was my second.
- ▶ 7:57 Jason Lemkin So I did, you know, talk desk at a million, but Algolia at a 100,000, right?
- ▶ 25:46 Jason Lemkin But the next second investment I did was Algolia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:25 Harry Stebbings Who were a PM at New Relic at Algolia. 2 times in the scene
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:19 Nico Wittenborn So, Algolia, Typeform, Christoph, Zendesk.
Joost de Valk: How I Founded Yoast; The Ultimate Guide to SEO; The Threat of AI | E1000 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:39 Joost de Valk So companies like Algolia and, um,
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04 Jason Lemkin I did pipe drive, talk desk, Algolia, greenhouse, and sales loft all within 12 months.
- ▶ 8:52 Jason Lemkin I have two leaders I've invested in a gorgeous, which is number one contact center in Shopify and then Algolia, which we talked about before, or about half of Algolia's businesses in e-commerce. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:42 Jason Lemkin If, if there's any chance, if there's any chance I can find another talk desk or Algolia or pipe drive or sales off, or if I can find a GitLab or Figma, like you should drop everything.
- ▶ 43:19 Harry Stebbings For those that are the figmas and the HashiCorp or the sales lofts or the Algolias.
- ▶ 43:50 Jason Lemkin It's just so hard to build these companies that I would not have predicted that pipe drive Algolia sales loft would get that big.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Now listen, we're, we're gonna do the Algolia story here, so I wanna do a little bit of context setting. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21 Jason Lemkin And some of what, some of those emails, there's Sony baloney, but the really good ones breakthrough and every single investment I've done has been a high velocity inbound, including if we, if we're going to talk about Algolia today, we'll… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:29 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, when you apply that to Algolia, how did, how did that come together then, and how did that first meeting take place from the cold email? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:01 Jason Lemkin Like the Algolia one, listen, Algolia was not the hottest company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Jason Lemkin So for, you know, we're jumping around a lot, but if we go back to Algolia, and again, this was the first venture investment I did when, when it was unanimously no, and I still did it, but the founders were clearly better than me.
- ▶ 21:15 unnamed speaker How did you answer the question of how Algolia would beat free alternatives and get comfortable with that? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:33 Harry Stebbings Um, I do want to go back to Algolia though, because like market size is another one where there's a lot of BC isms. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:06 Jason Lemkin Algolia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:52 Jason Lemkin It's always sticking with the one point O management team too long or Algolia for talking about a goalie and Nicholas was very clear on this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:11 Jason Lemkin Yeah, all but Algolia that we're talking about. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:18 Harry Stebbings You said, you said about speaking up there, you spoke up in your partnership when no one else wanted to do Algolia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:37 Harry Stebbings I want to ask one final question before we do a quick fire back on Algolia.
- ▶ 1:12:31 Harry Stebbings What was your premortem for Algolia? 9 times in the scene
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:12 Harry Stebbings Algolia as well, I know a lot of people did the same.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings In the past, Jason has made investments in the likes of Algolia, TalkDesk, PipeDrive, and RevenueCat, to name a few.
- ▶ 8:19 Jason Lemkin And I invested in a lot of French startups, Algolias and France and Gorgias and Plato.
- ▶ 11:02 Jason Lemkin And when I look at my second investment back in the day, another unicorn, Algolia, Nicholas, who you've interviewed, was okay at this, but he brought in Gaten, like his chief business officer, really as almost a late co-founder.
20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a
- ▶ 13:24 Harry Stebbings I thought Algolia, people would just build their own.
20VC: The Contentful Memo: Point Nine's Christoph Janz on The Cold Email That Led to a Unicorn Investment, How To Approach Market Sizing and Timing & The Pros and Cons of Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Do Them vs When Not To?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Algolia, Revolut, Loom, Nex Health, and of course, Contentful.
- ▶ 10:44 Christoph Janz Yeah, I guess we were probably quite naive in that and got lucky that we invest in the company and in some other companies of that generation, like Algolia, for example, and that these companies have then been able to benefit
20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- ▶ 11:10 Harry Stebbings I remember in Algolia's early days, this was the concern with Algolia.
20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings He has one of the best tracks I think I've seen in the business, including the likes of former guests last week in the form of Scale, Checker, Algolia, Airtable, GitLab, the list goes on, and, ah, incredible portfolio there.
- ▶ 7:42 Harry Stebbings I do want to stay on you, but maybe move more to your investing mindset, and as we said before the show, I've seen your name on the cap tables of the best companies that I've had on the show, from Algolia to Front to Triplebyte, Checker,…
20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding InVision, Clark spent eight years as the co-founder of Epicenter Consulting, a leading web application design business, and if that wasn't enough, Clark's also a leading angel with a portfolio including the likes of…
20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- ▶ 25:26 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I cannot wait to bring you Friday's episode with Nicolas Desaigne, CEO and founder at Algolia.
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings But back to Jason, and he's led or sourced the first VC investment in some of the fastest growing SaaS companies of today, with the likes of Algolia, TalkDesk, Rainforest QA, and PipeDrive, just to name a few.
- ▶ 21:40 Jason Lemkin When I invested in a YC company called Algolia, Search as a Service Company, I was the first U.S. investor. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:35 Jason Lemkin So, like a lot of my best investments, like TalkDesk and Algoli and others, at the time, to announce it
20VC: AngelList's Parker Thompson on How He Evaluates Startup Founders & Why The Move To Series A Is Harder Than Ever?
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings At AngelList, Parker's made investments in the likes of former guests Algolia, RealtyShares, and Keen.io.
20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital
- ▶ 2:17 Harry Stebbings A huge thank you to Nicolas Desaigne at Algolia for making the introduction, but thank you so much for joining me today.
20VC: Fundraising Is Also Business Development with Nicolas Dessaigne, Co-Founder & CEO @ Algolia
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Founder and CEO at Algolia. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00 Harry Stebbings However, it's now time to jump into the show today, so without further ado, I'm delighted to welcome Nicolas Desaigne, founder and CEO at Algolia.
- ▶ 5:13 Harry Stebbings And then speaking of kind of Julian and the early, early days of Algolia, I've read that you actually sat down with Julian, your co-founder again, and at the time of founding and discussed the culture and the culture that you wanted to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:57 Harry Stebbings So I'd love to then ask you if you had the chance again, say, you know, Algolia exits in five years time and everyone's well and happy and you start a new startup. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:58 Harry Stebbings And then one product other than Algolia, of course, that you couldn't live without. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:36 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic part one that was with Nicholas, and as you heard, the fun does not stop there with Algolia and Nicholas, and head over to Sasta on iTunes.
20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 26:57 Harry Stebbings From Algolia on the show on Friday for Founders Friday, so stay tuned for that, and we look very forward to bringing you our Founders Friday.
Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings Martin handles many of Index's investments, including the likes of Deliveroo, Algolia,
- ▶ 15:05 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned earlier, blah, blah, blah, and, and you've also got the likes of Algolia and Deliveroo.
- ▶ 20:01 Martin Mignot So, you know, I think it's interesting if you compare, you know, Caliguria versus Exalid, you know, Exalid was a really strong tech 2 times in the scene
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 6:09 James Cameron So, there's Algolia, a French company that's doing...