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Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:57 Jean-Denis Greze And I'll give a lot of credit to the culture that Drew and Arash, the founders created.
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:40 Harry Stebbings I heard also from Arash and from Drew that you were instrumental in their engineering hiring process.
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:04 Sujay Jaswa So, you know, the, the person who I actually thought was the most insightful interviewer of, um, you know, normal team members was Arash. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- ▶ 20:27 Sujay Jaswa The person who I actually thought was the most insightful interviewer of normal team members was Arash, who was the co-founder and CTO. 3 times in the scene
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:13 Drew Houston He was floor mates with Arash, and then my co-founder Arash, they're in the same dorm, introduced Arash to me. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 Drew Houston Arash and I both love technology, but I was very interested by the business side too. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:31 Drew Houston How do you build all stages of how do you sell the, how do you get candidates excited, source them, really caring about the craft of all of that is something that Arash and I became pretty obsessed with, um, in pretty direct response to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:07 Drew Houston But one of the, the first person who came, we did our demo at Demo Day, uh, one of the people who came running up to us was a guy named Pejman, who's like, actually came up running, came running up to her, I was giving the presentation,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:08 Drew Houston But, you know, I think we were, Arash and I were very focused on building for the longterm.
Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:56 Zhenya Loginov Arash has been the co-founder. 3 times in the scene
Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
- ▶ 6:01 Todd Jackson So I got to know the founders, Drew and Arash, really closely during that acquisition process, and I got the opportunity in 2015 to become Dropbox's first ever VP of product and design.
- ▶ 12:09 Todd Jackson And then Dropbox was completely defined by Drew and Arash, very obsessed with quality and what we call sweating the details and very collaborative, very kind to one another internally.
20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
- ▶ 8:23 Ilya Fushman Kudos to, uh, Drew and Arash, uh, for really focusing on company culture, uh, as one of the top priorities.