Amazon Kindle, every mention
15 scenes · ← back to Amazon Kindle
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Harry Stebbings 4Tim Urban 2Ben Einstein 2Peter Reinhardt 1James Altucher 1David George 1Dave Vasen 1Crystal Huang 1Brian Halligan 1Bing Gordon 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon Kindle comes up
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:01 Brian Halligan And that was another high flyer that you wouldn't have heard of, but they made the screens for the Kindles when the Kindle was first out.
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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
- ▶ 28:44 David George I have not, but it is downloaded on my Kindle.
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 24:08 Peter Reinhardt Most recently, a book that I read by accident because it happened to be in the shared Kindle library with my mom, which is The Chalice and the Blade.
20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- ▶ 22:05 unnamed speaker Like, they'll use their Kindle highlights, and then maybe they've got some dedicated software for reading PDFs and for building mind maps of the papers that they're reading, and then using something like Figma for laying out a bunch of…
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings As for Dave, though, prior to Brightwheel, he was a VP of product at Alt School, and before that, spent three years at Amazon in numerous different roles, including head of K-II education on Kindle, and developed 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:57 Dave Vasen I built the K-II education team for Kindle within Amazon.
20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
- ▶ 23:20 Harry Stebbings And if you're a super nerd, buy the Kindle edition, because then you can also do Command F and find the keywords.
20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 22:29 Crystal Huang So number one is obviously my Kindle app.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 12:05 Bing Gordon I remember the first time, I remember a series of meetings that led to the presentation of Kindle.
20VC: Why Hardware Is Actually Software Wrapped In Plastic & "Of Course Hardware Is Hard, Everything Is Hard" with Ben Einstein, Founder & General Partner @ Bolt VC
- ▶ 16:00 Ben Einstein Um, or the reason you buy a Kindle is not for the Kindle itself. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 24:16 Aydin Senkut Um, so I, if you look at my Kindle, half of the books are all about Navy SEALs and all kinds of military stuff.
20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise
- ▶ 24:22 Harry Stebbings Are you Kindle?
James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 5:54 James Altucher Um, I read them on my Kindle, so I'm, I don't have a thing about paper books, but, uh, uh, I, I like to read, uh, very high quality fiction for the writing, and I like to read very high quality nonfiction for the ideas.