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The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 1:04:03 Jerry Murdock It'll just be this malaise, like, like owning an AT&T or something, you know, that's what, that's what you kind of think about it.
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:55 unnamed speaker One, you had the telecom deregulation act that said, AT&T, you got to be broken up and
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:20 Harry Stebbings That is AI driven and can replace an average social media manager for AT&T.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:43 Jerry Murdock I mean, if you did a, if you did a fund in 2005, 2006, you know, you are in great shape to take advantage of the mobile thing that started happening in 2008 when Steve Jobs got ten million subscribers from AT&T.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:17 Rory O'Driscoll It's, you know, it was founded, it was incubated in Time, then it was Time Warner, then Time Warner AOL, and then, dear God, AT&T, and then they finally get out to be Warner Brothers Discovery, and they're kind of on their own, doing their… 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:07 Jeff Lawson I am not allowed to go strike a business development deal with AT&T on behalf of my company.
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:20 Harry Stebbings I thought he was doing a product partnership with AT&T and he was basically just sticking a Trump sticker on, on top of a different phone.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:16 Hussein Kanji What you should really have is what happened with, with, with, uh, with AT&T in the US where they broke it down into the bells.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:00 Mike Maples Everybody thought AT&T is going to build a digital highway, or that, you know, Time Warner, or Microsoft Network, or AOL, or maybe the government should build the digital superhighway.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:01 Danny Rimer Then he became the CEO of AT&T, which was Macaw Cellular.
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:57 Harry Stebbings It's like, you know, AT&T, it is what it is. 2 times in the scene
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:28 Bastian Lehmann You need to get a calling card from the US, because how it works, he said, in the US, they have like AT&T or they have MCI WorldCom for long distance calls and collect calls or calls abroad. 5 times in the scene
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:24 Frank Quattrone And the, uh, the even more interesting part is that Morgan Stanley, the blue chip firm that I had worked on on work that at wall street, um, who was the banker to AT&T and general motors and general electric.
Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:59 Kyle Samani Launched their token and did all the crypto stuff, and today now, Helium is trying to build out, you know, a nationwide five G network to compete with AT&T and Verizon.
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:31 Yann LeCun Um, so Yoshua and I were actually working together at, uh, AT&T Bell Labs in the early nineties. 3 times in the scene
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01 Vince Hankes And so, uh, most of what I worked on were that was that it was things like AT&T and Verizon were actually
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:54 David Marcus And, uh, and that was a bold move, uh, but it backfired at the time and we almost lost the company, uh, if it wasn't for a very fortunate, uh, breakfast, uh, with, uh, with at the time, the, the head of that platform at AT&T, because we… 2 times in the scene
Kyle Samani: Why Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Inflation | 20VC #909 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:56 Kyle Samani So if you think today about how to Verizon or AT&T or, uh, or Indra Vodafone or whatever, um, how do they build a network? 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 7:25 Marcelo Claure So then that took us to merge the company with T-Mobile to create a really, really strong competitors and go beat up on AT&T and Verizon, really, because before it was hard to compete with them.
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
- ▶ 8:10 Byron Deeter You could throw in there certainly the Cisco's of the world as well, and nonetheless the AT&T's and Verizon's and British Telecom's and all these folks.
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
- ▶ 9:44 Patrick Spence Verizon offered us the opportunity to build a product and waived a big check to say they needed a response, right, because it was running on AT&T, the iPhone was running on AT&T exclusively, and so they asked us to build a product which…
20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
- ▶ 4:08 Dev Ittycheria And so I took a job with AT&T where I got a rotational assignment. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 13:05 Bill Gurley AT&T hired McKinsey to predict the number of cell phones by the year, 2000 in 1980, and they missed by a hundred X.
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
- ▶ 22:38 Andrew Farah It's about Bell Labs and about Ma Bell or, um, AT&T and sort of like the transistor and the structure of like offices today and sort of the origin of a lot of the things that we do.
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
- ▶ 14:23 Peter Parker And so I basically would go into these meetings with, you know, the AT&T pension fund or the, I mean, just huge players in the LP world.