America

part of Americas

31 statements across 28 episodes · 14 bullish · 9 bearish · 28 people on the record · first statement Feb 9, 2015 by Thomas Jones · across every show →

Everything said about America, oldest first

Feb 9, 2015 neutral
Opinion
Product culture is stronger in the US, services culture in Europe
“The product culture is stronger in America, and the services culture is stronger in Europe, and in particular in London and the UK.”
Thomas Jones Feb 9, 2015 ▶ 11:57 20 VC 011: London's Early Stage Funding Scene with Thomas Jones
Nov 6, 2015 positive
Assertion Supported
Biggart: US corporate catering market is eight times larger than UK
“America is a huge market and it's eight times the size of the UK.”
Willie Biggart Nov 6, 2015 ▶ 8:11 20 VC FF 20: Shaking Up The Food Industry With Willie Biggart @ Spoonfed
Nov 6, 2015 bullish
Disclosure
Biggart: Spoonfed in advanced diligence with major US and UK food retailers
“We're in advanced diligence stage with two major retailers, one in the U.K. Part of a big food services group, and another in America, which they're testing it in New York, but they have a number of branches throughout the world.”
Willie Biggart Nov 6, 2015 ▶ 8:28 20 VC FF 20: Shaking Up The Food Industry With Willie Biggart @ Spoonfed
Nov 13, 2015
Insight
O'Hear: US Single Market and VC Reach Accelerate Consumer Startups
“I think because America is a single market with one language, and you've got a lot more high-profile VCs on Twitter, you know, other, like other entrepreneurs, that they can, like, amplify your message a lot quicker in the consumer space.”
Steve O'Hear Nov 13, 2015 ▶ 6:34 20 VC FF 021: From TechCrunch to Founder to TechCrunch with the legend, Steve O'Hear
Dec 16, 2015 neutral
Assertion Supported
Bradley: UK And Europe Offer More Government Grants Than The US
“There'd be a huge much more venture money available in America, but conversely here in the UK, we have there's more government money and tax breaks here as well as in Europe.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 17:29 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Jan 23, 2017 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Lilly: Median US mobile user installs zero new apps per month
“The median number of installs by a user in America on mobile per month of a new app is zero.”
John Lilly Jan 23, 2017 ▶ 7:50 20VC: Greylock's John Lilly on How Greylock Continues To Invest In The Next Big Markets, The Importance Of Building Tribes & Why There will Be Another Boom In Mobile
Apr 26, 2019 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
MasterClass will be in every American home within five years
“It will be in every home in America. And then after that, we will go more internationally and broad.”
David Rogier Apr 26, 2019 ▶ 27:29 20VC: Why Startup Founders Have One Core Job, How To Reduce Risk & Increase Probability In Your Startup & Why You Should Not Send A Pitch Deck Pre-Investor Meeting with David Rogier, Founder & CEO @ Masterclass
May 4, 2020 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Cuban claims the United States is not a top-three leader in robotics
“America is not the leader in robotics. We're not top three”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 12:31 20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
Nov 30, 2020
Assertion Supported
Tenev: 10% of US households hold nearly 90% of invested capital
“Right now, very few people, very few households in America invest, and 10% of households have nearly 90% of the total invested capital.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 30, 2020 ▶ 24:36 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
Mar 18, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Borrero: Rappi achieves unit break-even at two deliveries per hour
“So for us in America, it's two. If you're doing two orders per hour, you're good.”
Simon Borrero Mar 18, 2021 ▶ 6:11 20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
Mar 20, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ackman: Biden wealth tax will bankrupt every startup in America
“You know, the Biden wealth tax, which is like, 25% of the appreciation of things that you own privately, it's going to bankrupt every startup. No one will ever start a business in America anymore, right?”
Bill Ackman Mar 20, 2023 ▶ 1:02:23 Bill Ackman: SVB Collapse; Biden vs Trump; How I Lost $400M on Netflix; Bill's 10-Year Long | E991 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 21, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huber: Poorest Americans today live better than wealthiest Americans 50 years ago
“Today the poorest people in America have a better life than the wealthiest people in America 50 years ago. They have better access to healthcare. They have better living situations. They have more amenities. They have better food. It trickles down massively, a…”
Nick Huber Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 33:52 Nick Huber: Biggest Lies of Silicon Valley; Lost Art of Delegation; How to Grow Your Network | E1051 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 13, 2023 negative
Opinion
Petersen: Chinese believe in China, while half of Americans hate America
“Chinese people believe in China. Half of Americans hate America.”
Ryan Petersen Nov 13, 2023 ▶ 44:17 Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2024 positive
Opinion
America has the best defense procurement process when political will aligns
“America actually does have the best process when we're serious. When there's the political will and alignment and the problem is clear and we're ready to go, that's when we throw all the rules and the doctrine out the window and we go and we get it done.”
Shyam Sankar Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 28:52 Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Hecker: European tech ecosystem has fallen behind the US and China
“I mean, we pride ourselves that Europe has grown a lot, but still relatively speaking has lost a track with America and China.”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 53:05 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 11, 2024 positive
Opinion
Lonsdale: The United States Functions Best as a Frontier Nation
“So America is best as a frontier nation.”
Joe Lonsdale Mar 11, 2024 ▶ 5:59 Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 13, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Severe Winter Weather Directly Increases US Facebook Time Spent
“We found that there's certain parts of America which had an increase in time spent, and we didn't know what happened. And we kept looking and said, what is all this? And we kept digging deep, and it ended up being winter. Very cold winters. People stay in at h…”
Chandra Narayanan Mar 13, 2024 ▶ 31:55 Chandra Narayanan: Top 5 Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook | E1126 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 3, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Glyman: Ramp currently handles about 1% of US corporate card spend
“We're call it one percent of how you know businesses spend money on cards in America, but there's 99% to go.”
Eric Glyman May 3, 2024 ▶ 16:58 Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 12, 2024 negative
Opinion
Maguire: US completely botched its initial response to Ukraine war
“It's a war in Ukraine where America could not have botched the initial response more.”
Shaun Maguire Aug 12, 2024 ▶ 0:27 Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 11, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Matt Grimm: China will not invade Taiwan if Western deterrence holds
“I, Think that if America does its job and the West and our allies do their jobs, I think no.”
Matt Grimm Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 4:46 Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Opinion
Kanji: America is the best path for scaling a startup financially
“Your best path to scale from a financing perspective is America. The rounds are bigger.”
Hussein Kanji Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 54:59 Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 20, 2025
Disclosure
Kanji: Darktrace generated more early revenue and staff in US than UK
“Darktrace made more money in America than it did in the U.K. From the very early days. It had more staff in America than it did in the U.K.”
Hussein Kanji Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 55:15 Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 30, 2025
Disclosure
Freise: Vast majority of KKR Europe LP capital comes from US
“The large majority is, is America. You have some pockets in Europe, like Holland and Norway that are very strong. The Middle East is incredibly innovative and takes a large chunk.”
Philipp Freise Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 34:17 KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2025 positive
Opinion
Frosst: US and Chinese AI models cannot replace sovereign, culturally native models
“And I think just using a model that is built, you know, by China or built within America might not set your country and your economy up as well as having a model that understands the context built in that language, in that dialect, in like, you know, has the c…”
Nick Frosst Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 57:58 Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Andrew Ng: China is leading the US in releasing open-weight AI models
“China especially has been really taking the lead or, well, Taking a lead or getting up there in terms of releasing tons of really good open way models. So I would say if not, it is kind of not whatever predicted, you know, a decade ago that China AI would end …”
Andrew Ng Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 21:38 AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 8, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mansour: Kalshi is the fastest-growing non-AI US company at scale
“Kalshi this year is at this scale, at least, you know, the, I think the fastest growing company in America outside of AI. I think Anthropik is growing faster, and I'm not sure about Merkur and Cursor, but we're, you know, growing at that sort of, at that pace,…”
Tarek Mansour Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 1:20 Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 2, 2026 negative
Opinion
Zeev: Progressive movement is undermining American meritocracy
“Let's say that I'm not a fan of the movement or the work movement that is You know, dragging or trying to drag America in the other direction.”
Oren Zeev Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 1:04:34 Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Feb 2, 2026 negative
Opinion
Zeev: Anti-rich sentiment is rising in America, following Europe
“I find that there is an increasing level of hating the successful, hating the rich. I see it on Twitter. I think in Europe it's even worse, but it's come to America, unfortunately.”
Oren Zeev Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 1:03:01 Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Apr 14, 2026 positive
Opinion
Midha: Trump Is Providing Necessary Regulatory Freedom for US AI Innovation
“Now, president Trump is actually, I think trying to do his best from what I can tell in at least giving America enough freedom to innovate that these standards can even be discovered in our labs here. Because first you need somebody to actually pioneer and fig…”
Anjney Midha Apr 14, 2026 ▶ 41:58 The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Shridhar: Natural Gas Is the Cleanest Available Fuel Molecule for Immediate Needs
“America is endowed with unbelievable amounts of natural gas, which is the best available option molecule, even though it has a carbon footprint. It is the cleanest, the smallest carbon footprint molecule available.”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 42:02 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 9, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Atallah: The US Remains Very Far Behind in Open-Weight AI Models
“We should. We're behind. America is very, very behind still.”
Alex Atallah Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 31:07 OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
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