AT&T
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 4, 2017 by Rich Wong · said 38 times in 27 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Bastian Lehmann (5), Harry Stebbings (4), Yann LeCun (3), Kyle Samani (3), Rory O'Driscoll (2), Jerry Murdock (2), Dev Ittycheria (2), David Marcus (2)
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2026 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- 20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- 20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density
- 20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about AT&T, oldest first
Dec 4, 2017
Openwave could have built Skype or Twitter by diversifying beyond telecom carriers
“If we had taken the time to think carefully about who our customer base should be, you know, we could have built technologies like Skype, like Twitter as opposed to just continuing to build technology, selling to Orange or Singular or Nextel or AT&T, the custo…”
Aug 10, 2020
Ittycheria: Superior products could not easily overcome 1990s enterprise account control
“In the early nineties, the large companies had an enormous amount of account control. With customers. And so even though if you have the best mousetrap, it was still not easy to win business because these companies have such good account control. They take the…”
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Kanji: European Investment Fund is too dominant and should be split into five
“I think if you have someone like the EIF where there's 30% of the aggregate capital of the LP commits, it's too big. What you should really have is what happened with AT&T in the US where they broke it down into the bells. You had five different bells kind of …”