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Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:32 Barry McCarthy Um, yeah, you know, I think that Jeff Bezos at Amazon provided us both a really helpful framework for how to think about the answer to that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:05 Barry McCarthy There was a point in time very early in before the world had discovered AWS and its progeny.
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:13 Hadi Partovi Uh, and there's many efforts being done by the largest tech companies, by Microsoft, by Google, by Amazon, 3 times in the scene
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:30 Marty Cagan I knew early Amazon.
- ▶ 53:08 Marty Cagan And if you look, you know, if you look at companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Google, Amazon, Stripe, Apple, that's the foundation of every one of those companies, empowered engineers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:12 Marty Cagan Like Stripe, Amazon, they believe think deeply to really.
- ▶ 1:06:44 Marty Cagan What Amazon has done with AWS has been brilliant.
- ▶ 1:06:44 Marty Cagan What Amazon has done with AWS has been brilliant.
a16z GP Martin Casado: How I Went from Engineer to VC; Lessons from Chris Dixon | 20VC #956 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:10 Martin Casado I mean, he, I mean, he's on the board of Google and Amazon and let me just tell you, let me tell you, say why I say ROM.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:23 Jason Lemkin And then you had weird niche offerings from Amazon that weren't directly competitive, but the best I could tell was doing two million dollars in revenue.
Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:46 Miki Kuusi Similarly to how we a little bit smile if we think about Amazon starting as a, like a book reseller on online.
Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:31 Cathie Wood Uh, and, uh, but he brought in someone from Amazon.
- ▶ 19:18 Cathie Wood Social commerce when it came to Amazon, uh, and, and also this cyclical concern about inventory building because of all the supply chain issues.
Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:32 Hugo Barra You know, you tell a story on your website, in a keynote launch event, you know, in an ad, and even in an Amazon product page, you need to be able to tell a story.
Michael Mauboussin: The Single Biggest Mistake Investors Make In Decision-Making | 20VC #945 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:34 Michael Mauboussin So that's, that's finding the whatever, you know, apples when they're turning or Amazons or Microsoft when they're, when they're starting to emerge.
- ▶ 42:00 Michael Mauboussin They stumbled through, you know, Amazon.
GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:27 Rafael Ilishayev You know, I think for us, since day one, when we, when we launched GoPub, we have a look, you know, almost in awe at Amazon, obviously. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:29 Rafael Ilishayev Whether it's, uh, FBA or AWS, uh, is something that we take a lot of inspiration from as we launch our new businesses, right?
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:33 Emil Michael They did Amazon,
- ▶ 45:44 Emil Michael Amazon up and Wix.com and Overstock are down.
Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:33 Kyle Harrison And if that is true, I feel like Blackstone has done a really good job of figuring out what the 80% is, is they've just built this, like, infrastructure that kind of AWS of, of raising capital and deploying capital towards XYZ strategy.
Fivetran's Lauren Schwartz: Must-Ask Questions to Identify Potential Sales Talent | 20VC #939 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:24 Lauren Schwartz And so we work really closely with a number of our partners, Snowflake, Databricks, GCP, AWS, and go to market with their sales teams.
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:50 Gustav Söderström I have a great deal of respect for, for all of these sort of big tech companies, the usual suspects, the, the Google and YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and so forth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:37 Gustav Söderström They try to label Amazon as a book company and then as a book and diapers company and as an everything store, but then they started doing AWS and like people can't like pin these companies down.
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:25 Paul Davison And it's, it's a lot of work and, and it felt like it was going to grow quickly as a space because of AirPods and Alexa and text to speech and all sorts of other stuff.
- ▶ 12:03 Paul Davison With, with Amazon.
- ▶ 13:16 Paul Davison Uh, I think it was Alexa.
- ▶ 15:19 Paul Davison And I think, you know, like I was saying shopping, it was Amazon and dating was Tinder and meetings with zoom.
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:02 unnamed speaker You know, kind of reminded me a lot of, I think that early Amazon story of the bell ringing every time you, you, you made a sale, uh, they ultimately, they had to turn off the bell.
David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:08 Harry Stebbings Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:27 Mike Mignano They start as like one single Amazon started as books, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:32 Mike Mignano Then they take a step over into, uh, AWS, right?
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:40 Logan Bartlett Amazon and Redshift seemed like such a formidable competitor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:40 Logan Bartlett Amazon and Redshift seemed like such a formidable competitor. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:44 Logan Bartlett Who app ever wanted to compete with Amazon on their home turf, which was AWS and, and what we thought was Redshift and EC two at the time.
- ▶ 35:44 Logan Bartlett Who app ever wanted to compete with Amazon on their home turf, which was AWS and, and what we thought was Redshift and EC two at the time.
- ▶ 56:33 Logan Bartlett The thesis that was wrong at the point of the original investment was, ah, was ultimately, it was a little too beholden to, ah, trends associated with Google, Facebook, Amazon, some of these big players, and you dance with elephants, and…
20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity
- ▶ 3:18 Marcelo Claure For some companies with an immense opportunity, think of Alibaba, think of Facebook, think of Google, think of Amazon, whatever.
Shreyas Doshi: The 6 Product Metrics You Need To Know; The 3 Types of Product Leader | E913 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:02 Shreyas Doshi This is actually why I love Amazon's one of Amazon's leadership principles is, uh, leaders are right a lot. 2 times in the scene
Kyle Samani: Why Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Inflation | 20VC #909 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:50 Kyle Samani The obvious of which is like Walmart and Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Peter Singlehurst: The Most Powerful Investor You've Never Heard of | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:52 Peter Singlehurst And if you look at a business over the years, like Amazon, I think one of the things that has given them license to continue to invest and grow is the fact that they've 2 times in the scene
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:49 Sonali De Rycker Because of the trillions raised, there was that all that infrastructure laid down, which means that the Amazons and the Ebays could do well, and then, then at one point it was started, and then, you know, the rest, you know.
Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Q-Commerce in Emerging Markets with the CEOs of Airlift, JOKR, & Zepto | 20VC #892 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:23 Aadit Palicha But I think right now, most of the lever for us will be just in terms of like, you know, I think on an absolute basis, our picking cost is close to half of regular e-commerce and Amazon and Flipkart on their picking costs, at least in sort…
- ▶ 58:40 Aadit Palicha On, Red Bull can't advertise on Amazon because their most, their fastest selling product in offline stores is like a two, three can of Red Bull or one can of Red Bull. 4 times in the scene
Oliver Jay: How To Create and Execute a World-Class Sales Playbook | 20VC #889 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:10 Oliver Jay Twilio and Amazon, they are on these crazy sales commission plans.
Oren Zeev: How I Raised $1 BILLION in 12 Months | 20VC #888 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:51 Fabrice Grinda Obviously, our portfolio is like, 600 marketplaces, so all of them are a customer of us, but basically, if you look at Amazon's, um, P&L, when they start, started selling advertising, it's 95% gross margin product, and so for many…
20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 46:47 Harry Stebbings Cause I obviously see it on Amazon in the UK and it's like front page of Amazon.
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 53:51 Fabrice Grinda But, basically, if you look at Amazon P&L, when they start
20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed, Why Venture Has Never Been Less Collaborative, How Becoming a Parent Made Me a Better Investor and Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future of Diversity in Venture with Deena Sh
- ▶ 14:14 Deena Shakir 17 dollar thing from Amazon, but she was dying laughing and thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever received from a VC, and she has gotten all sorts of fancy things being sent to her, so it's really more about the thought than the…
20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 33:26 unnamed speaker I think Amazon calls it that.
20VC: Brex's Henrique Dubugras on Advice from Evan Spiegel and Eric Schmidt on CEOship, The Biggest Hiring Mistakes When Scaling, What Everyone Gets Wrong with Product Messaging and When is the Right Time to Launch Secondary Products
- ▶ 3:58 Henrique Dubugras And that was the first problem that we saw was like, how come you have raised five million dollars and you can't get a card to pay for your SAS and AWS bills?
- ▶ 23:41 Henrique Dubugras So the two-pizza team thing that Amazon has, I think it works to the extent that it doesn't, it can work in a siloed way.
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 14:30 Avichal Garg And I liken it to the difference between Amazon and Walmart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:49 Harry Stebbings I could extrapolate out to be the nice Amazon.
20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 4:46 Eric Liaw And I remember very vividly, the first exposure I had to venture capital was a packed auditorium on the engineering side of campus, and John Doerr came on campus to talk about Amazon, and it had gone public a few years earlier. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:11 Eric Liaw But I honestly think that if you're Facebook or Google, Amazon, probably Apple to a degree as well, the bar is really high to try and even get something done because you know that the FTC and the DOJ and your European counterparts are just…
20 Growth: Why Retention Defines Product Market Fit, What is Good Retention Levels Today, The Most Counterintuitive Elements of Product and Growth & Why So Many Startups Mess Up Hiring For Growth Teams with Brian Hale, Head of Consumer Product & Growth @
- ▶ 35:48 Brian Hale Like look at Amazon.
20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Testing is Inefficient and Slows You Down, Why It is Impossible To Hire Good PMs so Stop Trying & 3 Key Signals The Best Engineers Present with Grant LaFontaine, Founder & CEO @ Whatnot
- ▶ 5:03 Grant LaFontaine When we defined our cultural principles, I actually kind of think of them as a mishmash between Google, Facebook, and, like, I haven't worked at Amazon, but I admire a lot of Amazon's principles. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:21 Grant LaFontaine You know, the framework that I think is the best is Amazon's framework, which is like one-way doors and two-way doors.
- ▶ 15:41 Grant LaFontaine If you look at, like, the really, really big and great technology companies, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, it
- ▶ 17:08 Grant LaFontaine It's just a constant team meetings, and as a function of me talking about it all the time, and the team talks about it all the time, so it's kind of like the culture is how you hire, how you reward people, and then in the unfortunate…
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- ▶ 29:44 David Friedberg Someone told me, I don't know if it's true or not, that John Doerr maybe hasn't sold a single share of Google or Amazon yet. 2 times in the scene
20 Sales: The Stripe Sales Playbook; Who Should Create It, When Should it Be Done, Where Do Many Go Wrong | How To Identify 10x Sales Hires and How To Structure the Hiring Process in Sales with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Head of Americas Revenue & Growth @ St
- ▶ 35:58 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser You know, our CRO comes from AWS, and I do think that they've been very thoughtful in having a data-driven, you know, well-architected sales process in a consumption-based world, and so I appreciate that.
20VC: 3 Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Scaling, Management 101 on Trust Building, Morale Maintenance and Hiring & What We Can Learn About Parenting From Nature Programs with Scott Dietzen
- ▶ 33:43 Scott Dietzen You know, I had the chance to be early on at Microsoft, early on at Amazon, earlier on at Google.
How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings You backed Google, you backed Amazon, some of the most legendary bets in venture, and then you made the move to invest in energy, climate,
- ▶ 26:33 Harry Stebbings Speaking of that impact, we mentioned earlier the Google and the Amazon, um, they're the chosen children that everyone likes to mention.
20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
- ▶ 13:46 Max Rhodes I think Working Backwards, the Amazon book, is also really excellent on this. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup
- ▶ 17:45 Aaron Levie You know, I'll take by analogy, you know, maybe a company that is one of the best at this, which is Amazon, where they think about as many things as possible in their business as independent services that any developer can build on top of. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 12:04 David Frankel In 2021, Apple's number two, Amazon number three.
- ▶ 24:59 David Frankel Reminiscent to me of the fact that many people have said, post the pill pack sale to Amazon, have said, don't you feel silly in retrospect? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
- ▶ 27:02 Harry Stebbings But then I also look at, you know, bluntly, the concentration of powers that people like Netflix have, that Warner Brothers have, that Amazon have.