Arm

17 statements across 5 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Sep 2, 2022 by Harry Stebbings · said 61 times in 19 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Everything said about Arm, oldest first

Sep 2, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Arm technologies are used in over 230 billion devices
“Arm technologies are used in over Two hundred and thirty billion devices, with everything from sensors, to smartphones, to servers”
Harry Stebbings Sep 2, 2022 ▶ 0:22 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Sep 2, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arm dedicated an entire executive meeting to five-year horizon projects
“So when we get together and our team was together last week in Austin, we spent one full day talking about nothing about other than a bunch of projects that we're trying to kick off that really aren't going to materialize in the marketplace until five years fr…”
René Haas Sep 2, 2022 ▶ 17:34 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Sep 2, 2022 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Haas: Masayoshi Son lost 90% of his net worth and recovered it
“Arm is owned by SoftBank. So, Masayoshi-san, who's, I think, in the top 50 most wealthy people in the world, in the year 2000, he was the wealthiest man in the world, I think, for, he likes the joke, for about 20 nanoseconds when the SoftBank stock was higher …”
René Haas Sep 2, 2022 ▶ 26:02 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Sep 2, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
René Haas: Windows on ARM has a huge long-term future
“At the time, I thought Windows on ARM and Windows RT when I was working on it back in the video was just a complete train wreck. But looking back 10 years later, I think there's going to be a huge promise, and we're seeing it already in terms of the value prop…”
René Haas Sep 2, 2022 ▶ 10:48 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Sep 2, 2022
Insight
René Haas: Leaders must tolerate strategic failure, not ambiguous ownership
“I'm okay. With teams trying something and failing. What I'm less okay with is the project failed. Well, why did it fail? Well, no one kind of really knew whose job it was to take something over the line. That's a problem. So you have to be really, really clear…”
René Haas Sep 2, 2022 ▶ 21:52 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Sep 2, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Haas: Arm is entering a golden era driven by rapid digitization
“I think we are entering a golden era for ARM, and I think the pandemic accelerated this a little bit, but the digitization of everything has really fostered immense opportunity, whether it's around phones, PCs, the cloud, Autonomous vehicles.”
René Haas Sep 2, 2022 ▶ 35:28 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Sep 2, 2022
Insight
René Haas: Strategy is defined by corporate actions, not written documents
“Strategy is not what you write down. Strategy is what you do, your behaviors.”
René Haas Sep 2, 2022 ▶ 17:14 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Sep 2, 2022
Assertion Supported
SoftBank acquired Arm for $32 billion in 2016
“In 2016, SoftBank made Arm its largest ever acquisition, with a reported price of thirty two billion dollars.”
Harry Stebbings Sep 2, 2022 ▶ 0:27 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Sep 2, 2022
Insight
Haas: A lack of failure means you are not pushing boundaries
“In fact, the only way you genuinely learn is by failing. You learn far more from your failures than you do from your successes. If you don't have a lot of failures, it means you probably not push the envelope enough.”
René Haas Sep 2, 2022 ▶ 8:12 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Sep 2, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Haas: Arm evaluates employee performance by output, not mandatory office days
“Just to back away from hybrid working versus working at home versus everyone in the office. Our policy is it's all about outputs. It's really not about I need you in the office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, or we're going to be hybrid. It's really all about …”
René Haas Sep 2, 2022 ▶ 19:58 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
Nov 3, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
Lemkin wagers $2,000 that recent tech IPOs stay above IPO price
“I'll say all three are up. I'll go two grand on this one.”
Jason Lemkin Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 56:28 Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 3, 2023 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Hoffman: Recent tech IPOs will not hold IPO prices by Halloween 2024
“If you're saying, are they all up? I would say, I will say no. I say the chance that they're all up would be very, very would be very low.”
Auren Hoffman Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 56:15 Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 20, 2024
Disclosure
Arora: Masayoshi Son wanted to acquire Arm for 18 years before buying it
“He was insisting, he said, said to me, I've been wanting to buy that, that business for 18 years. This time I'm gonna buy it.”
Nikesh Arora May 20, 2024 ▶ 15:52 Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 28, 2025 bullish
What-if
Hoggett: London market would have valued Arm's AI growth equally
“AI trade, which I'm utterly convinced would have happened in London as much as it happened anywhere else. I don't think, I think it's a, you can't prove a negative, but I think it's a falsity to say a London market wouldn't have valued that the same way.”
Julia Hoggett Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 20:42 Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Hoggett: Only 1% of Arm's post-IPO investors were UK-based
“In the first period of time after they listed only one percent of the investor base in Arm, which is a great British company based in Cambridge, coming out of our ecosystem, was owned by UK investors. Not one of our major pension funds had them as one of their…”
Julia Hoggett Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 20:54 Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 16, 2025 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Oct 2025
O'Driscoll: SoftBank Holds $80B in Equity Through 90% Arm Stake
“He owns 90% of Arm still in SoftBank, and Arm is trading ninety-odd billion, so he's got eighty billion of equitable equity there.”
Rory O'Driscoll Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 31:14 Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 16, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ehrenberg: SoftBank Could Easily Borrow $25B Against Arm Shares
“So, but it very easily could see him back in the news with an incremental twenty billion. He could lever this. He could take twenty-five billion against the arm position easily.”
Roger Ehrenberg Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 32:43 Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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