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20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 1:33 Harry Stebbings Pearl Revision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and costs 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, or on amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
- ▶ 28:28 Harry Stebbings 499 dollars, and is available in three ways, through pearlauto.com, through amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud
- ▶ 2:19 Harry Stebbings Pearl Revision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and it's available for only 499 dollars, and at pearlauto.com, or on amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
- ▶ 29:20 Harry Stebbings And is available at pearlauto.com, or you can check it out on amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
20VC: AngelList's Parker Thompson on How He Evaluates Startup Founders & Why The Move To Series A Is Harder Than Ever?
- ▶ 2:27 Harry Stebbings Pearl ReoVision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes and costs 499 dollars and is available at pearlauto.com or amazon.com or through Crutchfield.
- ▶ 32:44 Harry Stebbings And it only costs 499 dollars and is available at pearlauto.com or on amazon.com or through Crutchfield.
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 2:30 Harry Stebbings Pearl Real Vision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and costs 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, or amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
- ▶ 34:24 Harry Stebbings And it only costs 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, or on amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 2:45 Harry Stebbings Pearl Rear Vision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and costs 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, or through amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
- ▶ 29:23 Harry Stebbings In minutes, and Pearl Revision is 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, and also online at amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- ▶ 2:30 Harry Stebbings Pearl ReoVision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and costs 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, or amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
- ▶ 29:35 Harry Stebbings And it only costs 499 dollars and is available at pearlauto.com or on amazon.com or through Crutchfield.
20VC: Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on How It All Started With Paul Graham @ YC, The Biggest Surprises About Making The Move Into VC & Why Alexis Believes All The Best Investors Have Operating Experience
- ▶ 2:46 Harry Stebbings And it costs 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
- ▶ 27:25 Harry Stebbings And Pearl RearVision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and it costs 499 dollars and is available at PearlAuto.com and also through Amazon.com or Crutchfield.
20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways
- ▶ 2:21 Harry Stebbings Pearl Rear Vision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and it costs 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, or you can also find it on amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
- ▶ 26:28 Harry Stebbings Pearl Revision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and Pearl Revision is 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, and also online at amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
20VC: How To Assess Founder Psychology, Why Talking About Financial Returns In The First Meeting Is Always Wrong & How To Allocate Time Amongst A VC Portfolio with Kara Nortman, Partner @ Upfront Ventures
- ▶ 2:36 Harry Stebbings It's also available on amazon.com, and through Crutchfield.
- ▶ 33:24 Harry Stebbings Pearl Revision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and Pearl Revision is 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, it's also available on amazon.com, and through Crutchfield.
20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha
- ▶ 2:43 Harry Stebbings Pearl Rear Vision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and Pearl Rear Vision is 499 dollars, and available at pearlauto.com, or you can find it on amazon.com, or through Crutchfield.
- ▶ 5:52 Scott Dorsey Helped me build a broader set of business skills, expand my network in a really meaningful way, and it was a transition for me from one industry into a new industry, and I, I really used graduate school as a springboard to move into tech…
- ▶ 18:45 Scott Dorsey And actually with AWS and all the cloud platforms today, you have an opportunity to drive gross margins, you know, to, to really new levels.
- ▶ 32:15 Harry Stebbings Perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes, and it only costs 499 dollars, and is available at pearlauto.com, and also on amazon.com, and through Crutchfield.
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 10:10 Chris Farmer And then around oh eight seed investing started to institutionalize driven by capital efficiencies from open source and cloud computing platforms like AWS and the distribution channels like the app stores and social networks.
20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- ▶ 11:28 Rory O'Driscoll Same thing with Amazon. 2 times in the scene
20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings So if you want to join me in the joy of having incredible home Wi-Fi, simply head over to getluma.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, or you can even head into Best Buy stores and buy them in person.
- ▶ 32:32 Harry Stebbings So if you want to join me in the joy of experiencing incredible home Wi-Fi, then simply head over to getluma.com, amazon.com, bestbuy.com, or you can even head into Best Buy stores in the US and buy them in person.
20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings So if you want to join me in this Wi-Fi heaven, simply head over to amazon.com where you can find it there, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, or straight to the Luma site at getluma.com.
- ▶ 28:34 Harry Stebbings So if you want to join me in the joy of experiencing incredible home Wi-Fi, simply head over to getluma.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, or you can go to Best Buy stores in the US and buy it in person.
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 2:37 Harry Stebbings So if you want to join me in experiencing incredible home Wi-Fi, simply head to getluma.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, or head into Best Buy stores in the US.
- ▶ 36:44 Harry Stebbings Bestbuy.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, or you can even head into a Best Buy store and buy it in person.
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings So if you want to join me in the joy of experiencing amazing home Wi-Fi, simply head over to getluma.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, or head into a Best Buy store, where you can buy it in person, they really are incredible.
- ▶ 33:48 Harry Stebbings So if you want to join me in the joy of experiencing incredible home wifi-Fi,, simply head over to getluma.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, or you can go to Best Buy stores in the US and buy it in person.
20VC: Who Will Own The Data? Is There An Incumbency Advantage in AI? When Will Artificial Super Intelligence Come To The Forefront with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures
- ▶ 2:28 Harry Stebbings So if you want to join me in the joy of experiencing amazing home Wi-Fi, simply head over to getlooma.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, or you can buy it in Best Buy stores in the US.
- ▶ 28:51 Harry Stebbings And if you want to join me in this Wi-Fi heaven, simply head to getluma.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, or you can even head into Best Buy stores in the US.
20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- ▶ 2:37 Harry Stebbings So join me in experiencing the joy of great home Wi-Fi, and simply head over to getluma.com, or buy it on amazon.com, homedepot.com, or head into a Best Buy, and you can buy it in store.
- ▶ 29:31 Harry Stebbings Simply head over to getluma.com, bestbuy.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, or even head into a Best Buy store and buy it in person.
20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC
- ▶ 1:36 Harry Stebbings So, to join me in this Wi-Fi heaven, simply head over to getluma.com, bestbuy.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, even head into a Best Buy store and buy it in person.
- ▶ 24:45 Harry Stebbings Then all you have to do is head to getluma.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, or you can even buy them in Best Buy stores in the US.
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 1:53 Harry Stebbings So if you want to join me in the joy of experiencing great home Wi-Fi finally, simply head over to getluma.com, buy it on amazon.com, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, or even head into Best Buy stores in the US.
- ▶ 27:56 Harry Stebbings So if you want to join me in the joy of experiencing Wi-Fi heaven, then simply head to getlooma.com, amazon.com, homedepot.com, bestbuy.com, you can even get them in Best Buy stores in the US.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 2:11 Harry Stebbings You can buy them on Amazon.
- ▶ 8:14 Mamoon Hamid And in many cases, you don't even want to distribute in those eight years because think about how much you would have made if you would have stayed in, in, in Amazon or Facebook or Google over the course of time, uh, it probably would have…
- ▶ 18:04 Mamoon Hamid Apple and Amazon, they're actually kind of economies of scale businesses and harder to build and more traditional businesses, but definitely, like, if you think about more traditional software businesses that we want to invest, they… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:01 Harry Stebbings Amazon.com, HomeDepot.com, BestBuy.com, you can even get them in Best Buy stores in the US.
20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- ▶ 17:46 Moisey Uretsky I mean, our, you know, we did, we did get, uh, certainly a lot of those, uh, quizzical kind of looks of how are you different love and your product and you're in a crowded space and your largest competitor is Amazon that likes to crush…
- ▶ 27:55 Moisey Uretsky You know, I look at the companies that took 20 years to get to that billions in revenue, or even AWS itself took, you know, close to a decade to get to ten billion in revenue.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 3:40 Mike Maples Search engine marketing, and, you know, universal broadband connectivity, and ultimately later, things like Amazon Web Services, the cost of starting a company went way down.
20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- ▶ 4:36 Karthik Sridharan And we kind of found that small businesses are kind of stuck in this awkward no man's land where they can't really go to Amazon or eBay or use consumer sites like that.
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 19:08 Ryan Sarver You know, Amazon, I think, has shown that, has kind of jumped in line with things like Alexa.
- ▶ 19:08 Ryan Sarver You know, Amazon, I think, has shown that, has kind of jumped in line with things like Alexa.
20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A
20VC: How To Win The Strategic Process Of Fundraising and Optimising Co-Founder Relationships and Break Ups with Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO @ The Muse
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings For over 1600 companies, including the likes of Amazon and Skyscanner.
- ▶ 29:18 Harry Stebbings Visible.vc is the leader in stakeholder communication and engagement, powering updates and reports for over 1600 companies, including customers like Amazon and Skyscanner.
20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today
- ▶ 10:04 Greg Bettinelli All those retailers are no longer in business, and had absolutely nothing to do with Amazon, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero
- ▶ 10:40 Paul Berberian We started off maybe having 10%, you know, direct to consumer and that's, I'd consider sites like Amazon, 2 times in the scene
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: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 20:27 Dave McClure If you look at a few others, maybe like Amazon or Facebook and PayPal, they had really strong growth, but they had some challenges in really getting the business model worked out or a lot of, you know, tougher situations.
20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer
- ▶ 5:54 David Pakman Amazon is ever present and can compete with you in many, many categories on price and convenience, so it's pretty hard to find a path to giant exits in e-commerce, and I think I was the beneficiary of this sort of lukewarm interest in the…
- ▶ 11:42 David Pakman Um, and also Amazon had not 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:25 David Pakman One of the areas of that investment thesis is will Amazon Amazon you by effectively commoditizing the category by, by, by launching an Amazon basics or, you know, an Amazon branded commodity version.
- ▶ 13:02 Harry Stebbings I think also another massive differentiator between your Amazons and your dollar shaves is
- ▶ 17:05 David Pakman And due to the declining foot traffic to physical stores and the massive increase in, in Amazon and online buying, you can't be a consumer products company and not be direct to consumer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:45 Harry Stebbings We said about some sectors being, uh, killed by Amazon potentially, uh, in their early phases.
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings And prior to YC, Justin was the founder of Twitch.tv, the world's leading video platform and community for gamers, which was ultimately acquired by Amazon for nine hundred and seventy million dollars.
- ▶ 6:55 Justin Kan To Amazon for nine or seventy million dollars.
- ▶ 9:53 Justin Kan Because of the various things like AWS, I'd say greater dissemination of programming knowledge and lighter weight, uh, you know, programming interfaces and frameworks, as well as cheaper distribution through things like the app store, um,…
20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- ▶ 5:28 unnamed speaker So this is marketplaces like Amazon, um, and just increased competition on the internet in general are, are driving margins lower for e-commerce merchants. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 20:44 Harry Stebbings What do you make of Amazon Alexa? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:46 Sean Flynn I'm a huge fan of Amazon Echo and Alexa. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings And on top of this, Sam is also the founder and co-CEO at Finn, which is basically like Siri, or Echo, or Google Now, except it actually works.
- ▶ 21:48 Harry Stebbings And then, okay, let's talk about Amazon Alexa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:54 Sam Lessin I cannot tell you how excited I am about, um, Echo.
20VC: How Startups Should React To Today's Funding Environment & Why Big Markets Are More Forgiving with Jenny Lefcourt, Partner @ Freestyle.vc
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Which were both acquired, and she's raised funds from the likes of Kleiner Perkins, Trinity Ventures, Amazon, and more.
20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 12:26 Chris Morton So I'd, I'd view what we do and what Amazon do incredibly differently. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 29:19 Brian O'Malley And so what excited me about that opportunity was, ah, A, I think it's a very real market problem, and I think it's an important market to a lot of players, whether you're, ah, an Amazon who invested in the round, or whether you're, ah,…
20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 15:05 Logan Bartlett Um, so I go back and read the, you know, the story of eBay, uh, the story of, there's a book about the PayPal wars is the name of the book, and understanding how PayPal got to where they were, um, understanding the story of Amazon,…
20VC: Why Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World Of Software with Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta
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.
- ▶ 28:01 Aydin Senkut They have customers like Yandex, Amazon, CIA.
20VC: Sprig's Gagan Biyani on The 3 Principles Of Fundraising and Building The World's Largest Restaurant
- ▶ 7:31 Gagan Biyani Yeah, I mean, so I think that ultimately, if you look at the story of Amazon, um, or Uber, Sprig has a lot in common with that in terms of what market we're facing, which is a market where you would not necessarily expect that the, uh,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:34 Gagan Biyani But I think as we grow and scale, people will start to have the same kind of commentary about us that they've had about Amazon, um, which is a very retrospective commentary, right?
20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- ▶ 9:00 Rebecca Kaden And that's hard, and it takes a long time, but we believe that some of the greatest opportunity lies where consumers can use technology, and particularly their mobile device, or maybe their voice, when you think about Echo, um, and maybe… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:15 Rebecca Kaden So you have Amazon testing that as well, but I think all of those kind of interaction interfaces are going to be driven by how does technology support the most convenient option. 2 times in the scene
20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise
- ▶ 8:34 Hiten Shah And now, because of Amazon Web Services, and the seed funding craze, I guess, you know, if you want to call it that, and all these other things, it's like, you can get really far before you even raise a lot of money, or any money at all,…
- ▶ 24:22 Harry Stebbings Are you Kindle?