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Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:42 unnamed speaker They trade, you know, just like Amex, but adjusted for growth.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:21 unnamed speaker Is AI going to replace Amex, right? 3 times in the scene
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:10 Sebastian Siemiatkowski I would think of us more like a lifestyle brand, like a digital version of American Express.
- ▶ 27:35 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Just like Amex, we have our own Rails.
- ▶ 28:57 Sebastian Siemiatkowski If you take your Amex app in the US and compare it to one here, it is significantly better there, right?
20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
- ▶ 9:08 Ariel Cohen Like everybody think about it, maybe we are kind of disrupting Conquer and Amex. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:09 Harry Stebbings And I'm totally with you on the Amex or the Concur. 2 times in the scene
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 1:26:21 Jason Lemkin I have his platinum Amex on file for his expenses because that's what you can do with 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:40 Harry Stebbings Likewise, I remember with Brex, I had Henrique and Pedro on the show back in 20, 20, 20, 21, and they were talking about Amex and the fragility and how they could build a hundred billion dollar business, and twelve billion did not seem…
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:26 unnamed speaker Recreating Amex.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:31 Rory O'Driscoll I think, yeah, they're cleaning Amex's clock. 2 times in the scene
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:49 unnamed speaker In other words, to do seven hundred million in revenue, you might have a three to four billion dollar capital requirement because you're floating all these, I mean, you're replacing Amex, so you're floating all these guys on their credit…
Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:39 Vlad Tenev They basically obsoleted American Express travelers checks, which, you know, foreigners and countries with depreciating currencies would like stockpile these things to, to keep their money.
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:31 Philipp Freise Whatever companies he buys American Express.
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:09 unnamed speaker The quote unquote competitor here is a combination of the card business from Annex and the accounts payable business from the accounts payable suite of SAP or Oracle. 2 times in the scene
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:21 Pedro Franceschi Number three is American Express.
- ▶ 48:30 Pedro Franceschi American Express. 6 times in the scene
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:02 Tom Blomfield Chime is good, but it's targeting kind of gig economy workers, and then for the, the more affluent customers, Chase Sapphire and American Express just have the market sewn up.
Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:34 Eric Glyman Um, you needed an Amex, you needed a concur expensive, you needed bill.com.
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Geoff Charles: How To Hire Product Teams & Increase Product Velocity | E1091 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:27 Geoff Charles And like Amex is like, it does not know how to build software. 3 times in the scene
Nick Huber: Biggest Lies of Silicon Valley; Lost Art of Delegation; How to Grow Your Network | E1051 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:25 Nick Huber One of the person runs a company, and they've dealt with a lot of problems, and they've dealt with a lot of stress in their life, and one of the person, one of the people that lives in their parents' basement has had everything taken care…
Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:46 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, uh, so, uh, again, I, I've, uh, got more opinionated over time, uh, apologies, uh, when you think about Concur and Amex, do you think they're just gonna sit back and go, ah, fine, let Navan go do this, they're eating our… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:58 Harry Stebbings Where is Amex in 10 years? 2 times in the scene
Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:18 Bob Pittman Probably the best journey or the best memory was when we did a meeting with Steve Ross, who is the CEO of Warner Communications, and Jim Robinson, who is the CEO of American Express, and we had to ask him if we could do the idea, and they…
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:37 Emil Michael Hi, uh, speak your name at American Express. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 17:04 Henrique Dubugras Someone who was coming and growing that wasn't like the, the big guy, JPMorgan and American Express.
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 22:22 Keith Rabois 93% of people could instantly be gratified and accept credit cards, Visa, MasterCard, Amex instantly.
20VC: Ramp's Eric Glyman on Why You Should Never Take The Highest Price, Working With Venture Funds vs Crossover Funds and How To Determine What To Buy vs Build as a Founder Today?
- ▶ 17:01 Eric Glyman So first, there's this question of, like, why isn't Amex doing this? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:30 Eric Glyman I know Amex
20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
- ▶ 40:01 Nigel Morris And then Philip Reese, who used to be a senior at Amex, and I'm on a number of boards with him.
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Prior to Etsy, though, Josh served as president of consumer products and services at American Express, who is also the CEO of Skype and CEO of shopping.com, and he also held various executive roles at eBay.
- ▶ 21:15 Josh Silverman So I worked for Ken Chenault at American Express, and he taught me leadership is about defining success and defining constraints.
20VC: Why Pre-Product Market Fit Is About Systems Design Not Engineering, The Right Way For Leaders To Approach Wartime Leadership Today & A Guide To Recruitment Forward Planning with Ryan Denehy, Founder & CEO @ Electric
- ▶ 9:35 Ryan Denehy And if you owe Amex a 150,000 dollars, that's probably not good either.
20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
- ▶ 1:04 Harry Stebbings Victoria's deep operating experience also includes leadership roles at Amazon, American Express, Travelocity, and RingCentral, and I do want to say a huge thank you to Aydin and Sundeep at Felicis and Asaf at Hippo for some fantastic…
20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
- ▶ 0:52 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding CB, Anand held numerous roles at American Express, including running a fifty million dollar innovation fund, and managing the company's discretionary investment spend, about four to five billion dollars per annum. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 15:11 Darian Shirazi You know, we've got customers like Allstate and MetLife and Amex and First Data and Comcast.
20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24
- ▶ 7:22 Brian Wong And then, and then of course we have the, the folks that have just been very involved, uh, including Chris and then Harshal, uh, Sangy over at, uh, at, uh, American Express Ventures.
- ▶ 16:35 Brian Wong But where we found a lot of success is actually finding our customers to invest in us, a la the Verizon's and the Amex's of the world.