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Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 16, 2026 · 1 mention

Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 12, 2026 · 1 mention

20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi Aug 29, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 21:23 Jason James I've learned a lot about interviewing from Apoorva, founder CEO of Instacart.
  • ▶ 42:09 Jason James So what I saw from, like, Apoorva, like, with Instacart,
  • ▶ 43:30 Jason James And Apurva's participation in, you know, finding and recruiting her led her to be someone of a similar pace. 3 times in the scene

Sri Batchu: Biggest Growth Lesson from Instacart & Opendoor; 70% of Experiments Should Fail | E1040 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 26, 2023 · 4 mentions

The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 24, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 28:07 Jeff Jordan Uh, Perva was a, a fulfillment engineer at Amazon and is just wired to continuous improvement. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:03 Jeff Jordan And, uh, approval at Instacart read it and came and talked to me during his fundraise. 3 times in the scene

a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 16, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 33:52 Jeff Jordan So, I went right back to the entrepreneur, Perva, and said, okay, you know, you're, you're losing a lot of money per order. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:59 Jeff Jordan The ones we're looking for, I have both and, uh, approval at Instacart Reddit and came and talked to me during his fundraise. 3 times in the scene

20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven Feb 4, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:24 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Aperva at Summit Peak, and then also from David Sachs.

20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts Sep 14, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:35 Ravi Gupta And, you know, in 2015, I met at Porva, and he shared the vision for what he wanted Instacart to be with me.
  • ▶ 5:27 Ravi Gupta And I think that the part of the vision, for instance, that Apoorva gave that resonated with me was, doesn't it seem crazy to you that we shop for groceries the same way we shopped for them 80 years ago?
  • ▶ 32:52 Ravi Gupta And then after he left, he texted Apoorva and me his address.

20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club Mar 22, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:19 Alex Mittal And, you know, when we backed Apoorva and his team at Instacart, um, this was back in 2012, 2013, like, the prevailing thought then was this is, like, insane or scary or impossible. 2 times in the scene
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