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The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:34 Harry Stebbings Between Axon and Flock Safety is a good example of that, where, like, Axon is, like, eating away at part of Flock Safety's business, where, like, they replace them in Atlanta, a core part of, you know, Flock's business, and both are…
20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
- ▶ 27:31 Chris Degnan Oh, ok, one's in Atlanta, one's in Denver, and one's in California.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:42 Rory O'Driscoll That someone like the, um, it was, it was the NYSE, which is really Intercontinental Futures, that, um, Atlanta company back in, you know, is the core owner of that.
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27 Oscar Pierre Um, I got some inspiration cause I finished my studies in Atlanta. 2 times in the scene
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Scott Gorlick When I got back to Atlanta to launch Uber, it was really about building the operation from scratch.
- ▶ 2:46 Scott Gorlick I was 23 and didn't know anything, but they sent me back to Atlanta to launch Uber's, uh, roughly 10th city as employee number 99. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:17 Scott Gorlick Uh, I was living in Atlanta at the same time, so I didn't really have to move. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:12 Scott Gorlick So, you know, for the first year in Atlanta, I was the only person handling the driver side.
- ▶ 12:26 Scott Gorlick Like we were paying 25 or 50 dollars for referrals in Atlanta.
- ▶ 14:51 Harry Stebbings How did the product offering look when you were doing Atlanta and the subsequent city rollout in terms of the different tiers of Ubers in terms of luxury? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:37 Scott Gorlick I mean, I think what was interesting about like the Uber Lyft dynamic is when, when we went into a market like Atlanta, we had been operating for 18 months before we launched UberX or 12 or 18 months. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:02 Scott Gorlick Started out in L.A., then did Philadelphia, then did Atlanta, and sort of the profile of the launcher was, ah, MBA type, private equity, banking, and, you know, the launcher would be responsible for hiring a team.
Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:05 Justin Ishbia When we bought our first ophthalmology business, which is Atlanta, we bought it when it was roughly 10 of revenue, roughly, you know, a million and a half, two million dollars in EBITDA. 2 times in the scene
Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:39 Suchit Dash It was the smallest starting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:00 Scooter Braun And I had a number, I met a guy who owned a Cadillac dealership in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:53 Ben Chestnut So it was slim pickings in Atlanta, Georgia, getting website business.
- ▶ 22:26 Ben Chestnut In Atlanta, there wasn't much of a startup ecosystem.
- ▶ 56:03 Ben Chestnut I would love it to just be able to, like with Mailchimp, it happened in Atlanta.
Shopify President, Harley Finkelstein on What is Being a Good Husband | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:02 Harley Finkelstein I actually joined his board recently and he's in Atlanta.
20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
- ▶ 21:19 Ravi Viswanathan You know, we've done deals in Toronto and Atlanta and Chicago where they're used to actually operating with a very lean mindset because there just wasn't so much venture out there.
20VC: Alexa Von Tobel on Raising NYC's Largest Ever Female Led Fund , Portfolio Construction, Compression of Fundraising Timelines, Reserves Management & Personal Branding in Venture
- ▶ 34:48 Alexa von Tobel You know, my business partner, Penny, is a huge leader in Chicago, and you're seeing pockets of innovation happening everywhere from Atlanta to Austin to Boulder, and just making sure that over time, like, we all pay it forward to all of…
20VC: How To Optimise Decision-Making Frameworks, How To Really Get The Most Out Of Your Board and When Your Brother Is Also Your Co-Founder; The Secret To Working with Family with Rob Sadow, Founder & CEO @ Scoop
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 22:59 Glenn Solomon You know, this is a value prop that resonates terrifically in markets like Phoenix and Dallas and Atlanta, where the company has had quite a bit of traction.
20VC: Why I Do Not Regret Taking 'Peter Thiel Money', What Is The Difference Between Leadership & Management & What Conversations Are For The Founding Team Only with Tim Junio, Founder & CEO @ Qadium
- ▶ 13:10 unnamed speaker One of the best pieces of non-intuitive advice I got during fundraising, which I think I used to our advantage, was from a friend of mine, Adam Getty, who's the co-founder CEO of Ionic Security based in Atlanta.
20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud
- ▶ 3:21 David Politis And when I, when I graduated school, I went to Emory down in Atlanta, Georgia. 2 times in the scene
20VC: What Is Wrong With The VC Industry, Why VC Is A Customer Service Game and Why Car Ownership Will Be A Thing Of The Past with Brett DeMarrais, Partner @ Ludlow Ventures
- ▶ 25:11 Brett DeMarrais They're based in Atlanta, which is one of these things I love because I, I'm fond of companies that aren't necessarily in San Francisco or New York and kind of these tertiary markets.
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 15:56 Dennis Mortensen He or she would be a little bit bitter working at 11 p.m. on Saturdays, on Christmas Eve, on rescheduling those 10 meetings that you set up in Atlanta, but now you need to postpone the trip, or her inability to speak in multiple languages,…
20 VC 095: How VCs Find Startups and How To Add Value Once Invested with David Teten @ ff Venture Capital
- ▶ 19:02 David Teten Uh, Ionic Security out of Atlanta, which has raised over seventy-five million since we initially invested in them, uh, which allows for secure use of cloud-based services.