Austin
4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 29, 2019 by Sarah Smith · said 20 times in 12 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Kurt Rathmann (4), Max Altman (3), Harry Stebbings (3), Mike Maples (2), Sarah Smith (1), Rich Wong (1), Matthew Prince (1), Matt Fitzpatrick (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
2020 4 mentions in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- 20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Austin, oldest first
Apr 29, 2019
Smith: Send HQ veterans for 12 months to align new remote offices
“In opening remote offices, so at Facebook, I really helped open the Dublin, Austin, and Hyderabad offices, and sending a group of people from headquarters to For at least 12 months, to also include a office leader where people report remotely, I found really t…”
Sep 2, 2022 positive
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…”
Aug 30, 2024 negative
Austin regulations enforced a $55 minimum fare and 30-minute wait time
“If you ordered a black car in Austin, The minimum fare, whether you're going a block or a mile, was 55 dollars, and if you ordered a car and it showed up in one minute, you had to legally stare at it for another 29 minutes before being allowed to get in.”
Jan 15, 2026 positive
Lemkin: Miami and Austin will win tech exodus if tax passes
“The answer is the ones that almost won in 2020 and 20 21. It's that simple because there wasn't enough gravity to get people to go to Miami outside of, you know, some hedge funds and others, and there wasn't enough gravity to go to Austin because it's really n…”