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20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 5:48 James Currier I mean, if you look at the great successes of the last 20 years, there were a couple of companies who were first to market, which were eBay and Amazon, but that was 2020 plus years ago.
20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- ▶ 13:51 Olaf Carlson Wee So for example, with Filecoin, you could look at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Dropbox, say, and add that all up and see what's kind of the current addressable market for Filecoin. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
- ▶ 3:13 Jake Flomenberg There was this thing called Amazon Web Services that was taking off, but on the other hand, data, the more I read about it, the more I just felt like, hey, I actually know a little bit about this.
- ▶ 15:14 Harry Stebbings I'm intrigued with the environment today with GAFA, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple.
20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings Their portfolio companies have enjoyed exits from the likes of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Cisco, Airbnb, and include companies like e-commerce, Pioneer, and Unicorn, Wish, and the world's leading airspace services platform, AirMap.
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
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings Google, Amazon, Twitter, Square, Airbnb, just to name a few. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:17 Bing Gordon Jeff Bezos says there's a leadership principle in Amazon which is to be right a lot, and he says people who write a lot, who write a lot are good listeners and they're skeptical optimists.
- ▶ 11:58 Bing Gordon I remember the board meeting on Amazon where we first talked
- ▶ 12:01 Bing Gordon About what become Amazon Web Services, AWS.
- ▶ 12:05 Bing Gordon I remember the first time, I remember a series of meetings that led to the presentation of Kindle.
- ▶ 12:11 Bing Gordon I remember a series of meetings that led to the presentation of Prime.
- ▶ 20:20 Harry Stebbings Adding that to the Amazon list now.
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 9:35 Alex Rampell If it's anything touching logistics and e-commerce, it's Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:42 Alex Rampell It's very, very hard to displace them, because you can build something on their platform, so you can say, all right, I'm going to build a great little battery pack for the iPhone, and then Amazon rolls that out as Amazon Basics, or I'm…
- ▶ 26:04 Alex Rampell And I sign up for them as a customer, and they're using AWS to store things.
- ▶ 26:09 Alex Rampell Do I go to Amazon and I get my data back directly?
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend
- ▶ 11:40 Nicole Quinn And, you know, we're definitely seeing a strength from a current incumbent in the form of Amazon here, who's definitely done an excellent job of getting Alexa, Echo, Dot, and our show into our homes, you know, over twenty million at the…
- ▶ 11:40 Nicole Quinn And, you know, we're definitely seeing a strength from a current incumbent in the form of Amazon here, who's definitely done an excellent job of getting Alexa, Echo, Dot, and our show into our homes, you know, over twenty million at the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:40 Nicole Quinn And, you know, we're definitely seeing a strength from a current incumbent in the form of Amazon here, who's definitely done an excellent job of getting Alexa, Echo, Dot, and our show into our homes, you know, over twenty million at the…
- ▶ 13:09 Harry Stebbings But you mentioned Amazon there. 10 times in the scene
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 7:48 Aaron VanDevender Edges on sports, and sports is cool, so you get a little bit of cachet by association because you're hanging out with baseball players, but, you know, that sort of petered out, and so then they got rebranded as data science, and then as…
- ▶ 24:04 Aaron VanDevender If you think about like where, where a lot of that value to people has come from, it's from companies like Lyft, like Postmates, a Craigslist, Amazon Prime, you know, Tinder, you
20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- ▶ 25:30 John Callaghan Is there anyone at, you know, big company ABC that you want to talk to about AWS or, you know, Google cloud, you know, that kind of thing, right?
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 4:13 Daniel Gross And then I went through the cycle a few times, and then right towards the end of the program, I was working on something that was generating quite a bit of revenue using Amazon affiliate marketing, and literally, 48 hours before demo day,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:54 Daniel Gross Another one is obviously Amazon go being able to go to a store and effectively be a legal shoplifter, take what you want and leave.
- ▶ 11:43 Daniel Gross You're seeing this as well with far field experiences, be it with the Apple HomePod or Google's Home or the, or the Echo.
- ▶ 13:46 Daniel Gross The second take is a slightly more dystopian one that I really hope doesn't come to bear, which is that, yeah, it's actually going to be a sustaining innovation for a lot of these large companies, and even if there are new products,…
- ▶ 14:33 Daniel Gross That is to say, to train these models requires a lot of upfront money, much like hosting a website used to before the advent of AWS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:39 Daniel Gross Partners like myself, but with true AI experts from folks at OpenAI and Amazon and other companies as well.
- ▶ 22:04 Daniel Gross An Oracle or a MySQL, that is to say, a company that empowers all the verticals, because I think the incumbents today, Google and Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, to some extent, are far less naive than the incumbents in Oracle's time, and so…
20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- ▶ 7:18 Joey Zwillinger You have an environment where the democratization of retail, particularly then dominated by Amazon via the internet has created a very unique buy sell relationship for any consumer. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:36 Harry Stebbings But you mentioned obviously that Nike, uh, and Amazon's partnership and, uh, maybe not being so fortunate about multi-product retailers. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:13 Joey Zwillinger People in Amazon marketplace or any other departments are now.
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 10:09 Jason Calacanis That's okay, because they'll overpay some cases, and they'll underpay for Google, or Amazon, or Facebook, or Netflix, or Uber, or Airbnb.
- ▶ 12:45 Harry Stebbings Do you think this incumbent is the strongest set of incumbents we've ever had because of their awareness of potential disruption, and how do you view them with the, the likes of Amazon?
20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common
- ▶ 10:50 Brad Hargreaves It's so easy for me to get something on Amazon, on Jet, on any number of platforms that just going down to, you know, three blocks down the street to a store to pick something up is a bigger hurdle than it's ever been. 4 times in the scene
20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 23:21 Renata Quintini Like if you look at, uh, what Amazon is doing with Alexa, they have not only for females working on it, but they have also a psychologist, uh,
- ▶ 23:21 Renata Quintini Like if you look at, uh, what Amazon is doing with Alexa, they have not only for females working on it, but they have also a psychologist, uh,
20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
- ▶ 15:35 Seth Bannon It seems to be increasingly difficult to compete with the Googles and the Facebooks and the Amazon on sort of pure SaaS place, right? 4 times in the scene
20VC: When Should CEOs Ask Their VC For Help, When Do Companies Really Need A Board & What The Series A Expansion Means For Startups with Max Gazor, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 20:49 Harry Stebbings Is AWS hurting enterprise venture opportunities?
- ▶ 22:00 Max Gazor And we're kind of at this point now where the substrate, the infrastructure substrate, is getting well developed by Amazons and Googles and companies like that.
20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 17:22 Jason Pressman The product feature set that's become much more popular in the last few years, largely because I think the cost of building software has become so much lower cost because of AWS and open source.
20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade
- ▶ 19:27 Kirsten Green I mean, I think what's happening right now is we are still in some early innings of a sector completely reorganizing itself, and a lot of that is being fueled by Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:16 Kirsten Green Amazon does more to make the market opportunity that we're investing in than it does to crush it.
20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
- ▶ 17:41 Roseanne Wincek You put your data into Redshift, you put Looker on top of it, you're off to the races.
- ▶ 18:11 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, I had Jeremy Levine at Bessemer on the show, and he said with regards to kind of consumer go to market, he was an increasingly concerned and kind of viewed consumer less attractively from a VC perspective due to the…
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings But to the show today, and we're heading to one of the world's leading VC funds with their portfolio, including the likes of Google, Amazon, Uber, Snapchat, Twitter.
- ▶ 10:24 Eric Feng And you had Amazon and other sites going off of SEO in the early days.
- ▶ 24:15 Eric Feng With an intent to buy one item like you see on Amazon, but opening up the service just to discover what is going on there, going on a treasure hunt.
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 12:31 Peter Fenton Amazon was competitive in a way that I think it was clear to some of us that the business was no longer viable. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 8:58 Kevin Rose So I use the, the kind of, uh, more public markets as a, as a way to get into some bigger, larger market cap companies, you know, ones that are completely dominating the space and will continue to do so for years to come, you know, such as…
20VC: How Both Founders & GPs Should Construct Their Pitch, Why VCs Are Eternal Optimists & What Makes The Best Post-Investment VC/Founder Relationship with Brian Ascher, Partner @ Venrock
- ▶ 22:20 Brian Ascher It's a company called Socrates, and what we're trying to do is be like Alexa for the enterprise.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Now, MZ is a partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of the world's most prestigious venture funds, with prior investments in the likes of Google, Amazon, Twitter, Square, and Airbnb, just to name a few.
20VC: Why It Is Good Company Funding Has Been Down 6 Quarters In A Row, Why Unanimity Does Not Work In VC Decision-Making & Why It Is Dangerous To Be A Spreadsheet Investor with Scott Raney, Partner @ Redpoint Ventures
- ▶ 4:54 Scott Raney And 2006, 2007, we saw the launch of AWS and cloud computing, which has had an enormous transformative effect on the cost of starting companies and getting companies off the ground, and also has opened up an incredible set of opportunities…
20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify
- ▶ 6:27 Harley Finkelstein Was to use a marketplace like eBay or Etsy or Amazon.
20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software
- ▶ 13:01 Pat Grady Then it follows that it is the big companies, the Googles and Apples and Amazons and Facebooks who have the vast reserves of data and the talent and resources to refine it into intelligence that are best positioned to build the next… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Pat Grady Can go on to Code Academy or Khan Academy or Corsair and teach themselves how to code, and then spin up an AWS cluster, produce something that they can distribute via Facebook or an app store, and have a business up and running.
20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- ▶ 11:44 John Borthwick A consequence of the amount of infrastructure that we have today in place, and talk about everything from technical infrastructure, AWS, et cetera, et cetera, to capital infrastructure, to startup infrastructure, to startup hubs like in…
- ▶ 20:31 John Borthwick And that components of that relate to NLP, NLU, AI, you know, chatbots, verbal computing, you know, Alexa, and things like that.
- ▶ 28:41 John Borthwick You know, for many years, primarily as a merchant, as a, um, you know, shopping site, and then I've developed a lot of respect for what he built at AWS, and now, you know, looking forward to, you know, what he's doing with Alexa, and, you…
- ▶ 28:41 John Borthwick You know, for many years, primarily as a merchant, as a, um, you know, shopping site, and then I've developed a lot of respect for what he built at AWS, and now, you know, looking forward to, you know, what he's doing with Alexa, and, you…
20VC: Benchmark's Scott Belsky on What Makes Truly The Best VCs? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on 'The First Mile' & The Key Ingredients To The Perfect Onboarding Process
- ▶ 23:50 Scott Belsky Alexa is always listening.
20VC: How Startups & VCs Can Build Relationships with Potential Corporate Acquirers? The Challenge Of Operating Both A B2B & B2C Business Model & Why Fundraising Is The One Element Founders Cannot Control with Gautam Gupta, Founder & CEO @ NatureBox
- ▶ 24:13 Gautam Gupta Their e-commerce strategy is, yeah, we'll sell some stuff on Amazon.
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 13:54 Ted Blosser If you look at like an Amazon, for example, they're never happy with where they're at.
- ▶ 13:58 Ted Blosser That's why they put huge investments in Alexa over these holidays.
- ▶ 22:06 Ted Blosser So I don't think it's just because I got a two echoes, uh, for Christmas, but I would say I would love to be Jeff Bezos and run Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:06 Ted Blosser So I don't think it's just because I got a two echoes, uh, for Christmas, but I would say I would love to be Jeff Bezos and run Amazon.
20VC: Preparing For The Next Big Trend, Why Conversational Will Be The Next Big Thing & How Entrepreneurs Should View Market Size with Sarah Guo @ Greylock Partners
20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 16:15 Josh Stein So Twilio is very similar to Amazon web services. 3 times in the scene