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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Apple comes up
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 20:00 Ash Fontana Apple vertically integrates from hardware to software.
20VC: Why Speed Is The Biggest Differentiator a Founder Can Have, How To Hire Seasoned Tier 1 Talent To An Early Stage Startup & How To Start, Scale and Manage Remote Teams with Domm Holland, Founder & CEO @ Fast
- ▶ 12:45 Harry Stebbings And then related to this, does it need to be an independent platform or can the monopolistic regimes of Facebook and Amazon and Apple not do it themselves? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 3:54 Vlad Magdalin Sure, so the very moment that the original spark for the idea came to be is, like you mentioned, back in 2004, I was an intern at a web design agency, a very prestigious web design agency that was doing work for Apple and HP and Tennis…
20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early
- ▶ 7:41 Julia Enthoven First of all, Apple or Google takes a significant piece of any transaction that goes through a native app.
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings Samuel's also, alongside his role at Haystack, a venture partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and prior to founding Haystack, Samuel was on the operating side as an early advisor and employee at Concept.io, or Swell, acquired by Apple…
- ▶ 4:39 Semil Shah And then at the last company I worked for, the company was acquired by Apple. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- ▶ 4:53 Jana Messerschmidt And in high school, I finally was able to upgrade like my decade plus old Apple IIe to this beautiful HP desktop computer with a 166 megahertz processor and a way to connect to the internet.
20VC: Sequoia's Mike Vernal on His Biggest Lessons From 8 Years of Hyper-Growth at Facebook, Why The Strength of Data Moats Is Over-Rated Today and The Challenge of "Overthinking Investments" In Venture
- ▶ 3:56 Mike Vernal So my freshman year roommate in college, who's one of my closest friends, started a company in 2009 after leaving Apple.
20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing
- ▶ 8:28 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, I had a guest on the show the other day that said, really, with the strength of Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, anyone who feels they have any form of defensibility, be it casual resources themselves,
- ▶ 11:48 Jesse Beyroutey A lot of money or that have a lot of engineers as companies like Facebook and Apple and Google and so on do.
20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
- ▶ 22:59 Harry Stebbings In the world of Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, really, defensibility has died in the resources, talent, and energy that they can provide to any single problem they choose.
20VC: a16z's Scott Kupor on The Biggest Learnings From Scaling a16z from $300m to $7Bn AUM, The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching VCs & Why VC Is Simply A Customer Service Business
- ▶ 15:51 Scott Kupor So why would I quit my job at a Google or a Facebook or an Apple where I've got a great opportunity, I'm probably very comfortable financially,
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 13:49 Kulveer Taggar And, you know, Paul accepted us, gave us a check, and then in 20 11, we started the Y Combinator without a solid idea, and I did it first in 2007, and in between 2007 and 2011, I felt like YC had got to a different level of scale, and when…
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings After Yahoo, he was CEO of LaLa, which was acquired in 2009 by Apple.
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 8:42 Frederic Kerrest I was reading the other day, someone had looked back on their career, one of the investors from, I think it was Sequoia, who'd invested in Cisco and Apple and all these other well-known brands, and they'd said, look,
20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- ▶ 21:07 Henry Ward You got to be Apple to do that.
20VC: One Question Founders Must Ask Themselves When Approaching Investor Selection, Why Series B Is One Of The Most Challenging Phases & What Makes For A Successful CEO Transition with Jeff Russakow, CEO @ Boosted
- ▶ 22:34 Jeff Russakow But if you're Apple or someone and you're making a product that's highly differentiated and it takes hundreds of millions of dollars to play,
- ▶ 34:24 Jeff Russakow And then for Boosted, we really see ourselves as, you know, like the Apple or the Peloton of that space, and we would really love to be the Hallmark brand and benchmark for that range of class of vehicles, the way we are in skateboard…
20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk
20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals
- ▶ 35:06 Scott Belsky And just earlier today, actually before this podcast, I was at the launch of Apple's new iPads. 2 times in the scene