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20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
20VC: Unity Founder David Helgason on The Hypergrowth Early Days of Unity, Why Running A Company Is Like A Liberal Art, The Secret To A Successful CEO Transition and What Makes Roelof Botha Such A Special Board Member
- ▶ 12:29 David Helgason Mobile was really going from like the clever phone era before smartphone era, and then onto kind of the big iPhone and Android platforms and all this stuff.
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 19:35 Andrew Wilkinson Well, it turns out with Google, having Android and Google Maps, they can just ask every single person on earth how the restaurant was that they went to last night, because they know that they'd visited it via Google Maps, and suddenly…
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 2:47 Chris Best I started out building some of the original BlackBerry and Android apps, and I sort of grew the engineering team.
20VC: TravelPerk's Avi Meir on Why 2021 Will Be A Record Year For Business Travel, The 3 Priorities For All Founders During COVID, What VCs Can Do To Really Support Their Founders In A Recession
20VC: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings And before founding Mixer, a lad spent three years at Google, where he was involved with three acquisitions, including the acquisition of Android.
- ▶ 3:04 Elad Gil I then ended up joining Google, started the mobile efforts there, was involved with buying Android, left in 2007 to start my first company, which was called Mixer Labs, which is one of the first API and developer centric tool companies…
Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
- ▶ 5:17 Todd Jackson So that's when I first got to work with first round and cover was a custom lock screen for Android phones. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:44 Todd Jackson But a lot of those projects, Search, Maps, Gmail, Chrome, Android, ended up being super successful.
- ▶ 15:25 Todd Jackson On the market, Cover was an Android-focused company, and Android was just a terrific market for us to focus on. 7 times in the scene
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 4:33 Gaurav Jain So we went to companies like Time Magazine, CNN Money, Sports Illustrated, and we built their first iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android apps. 4 times in the scene