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Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:20 Ryan Petersen Well, I remember when Obama went there, they didn't even open the, uh,
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30:04 Cliff Weitzman And I was like, who is this guy walking with Obama with rockets in the background on his Wikipedia?
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:37 Jeffrey Wu And I think President Obama also, I think, had that similar quality on, on the other side of just showing, like, a humanity to his decision making.
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 1:08:17 Harry Stebbings But, like, I don't know if you're allowed to, like, use, like, Trump's voice and Obama's voice and, like, just rip.
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:45 Martin Casado Obama, Obama tried to get rid of indirect costs. 3 times in the scene
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 1:09:19 Harry Stebbings But, like, I don't know if you're allowed to, like, use, like, Trump's voice and Obama's voice and, like, just rip.
20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
- ▶ 32:56 Ishan Mukherjee Again, the mindset was, let's call it Obama or like a president.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:41 Shervin Pishevar Um, and so you have a strong backup, so negotiate with strength, and I'm really glad I said that because, ah, a few weeks later I was in, um, in Africa giving a keynote for Obama's, ah, Entrepreneurship Summit.
- ▶ 37:47 Shervin Pishevar Uh, which was Obama's Attorney General who had, uh, recently stepped down.
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:33 Shaun Maguire For the US specifically, I think that the Obama administration, and then now, like, carry, reinvigorated by the Biden-Harris administration, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:51 Shaun Maguire Uh, I think that the Obama foreign policy carried on by Biden-Harris, like they don't even know what to be done.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:26 Kevin Ryan But, you know, frankly, the, uh, uh, from a corruption point of view with the benefit of hindsight, I, you know, the Obama administration was extremely clean and the Biden administration has been extremely clean.
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:31 Frank Quattrone We had the Obama administration.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:48:43 Matteo Franceschetti Barack Obama.
TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Bill Ackman: SVB Collapse; Biden vs Trump; How I Lost $400M on Netflix; Bill's 10-Year Long | E991 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:47 Bill Ackman Sheila Bair is like, was an FDIC share in Bush administration or actually a while ago, maybe even, even Obama, um, Republican.
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried: We Banned Talking Politics and 1/3 of our Team Quit | 20VC #963 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:33 Harry Stebbings It could be Barack Obama.
20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed, Why Venture Has Never Been Less Collaborative, How Becoming a Parent Made Me a Better Investor and Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future of Diversity in Venture with Deena Sh
- ▶ 6:08 Deena Shakir Lowly intern with the BBC's Washington Bureau, and it was covering President Obama's speech in Cairo in 2009 that ultimately led me to abandon my nascent aspirations for journalism, and even my, well, I think there was a lot more to it,… 2 times in the scene
20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- ▶ 6:44 Jeremy Liew And at the time, I had as my profile a picture of me at Obama from a fundraiser that I had attended. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Implications of a Biden vs a Trump Administration on Venture and Startups, How The Rise of Rolling Funds, SPACs and Solo Capitalists Will Impact Venture & What We Can Do To Swing the Race Pendulum in VC with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Ligh
- ▶ 6:48 Barry Eggers And I think that should just be automatic, but it's something that was started with the Obama administration and it sort of got off track with the Trump administration.
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
- ▶ 8:23 unnamed speaker Barack Obama's caravan is coming through in, like, an hour and a half, and if you're not out of here, the Secret Service will impound your vehicle.
20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 3:59 Sarah Cannon I spent some time living in West Africa, worked on Obama's economic team during the last recession, was
20VC: 3 Addictions Of Early-Stage Startup Founders, How Founders Should Strategically Think Through Unit Economics From Day 1 & Why Micromanagement Can Be Beneficial In The Early Days with Adena Hefets, Co-Founder @ Divvy Homes
- ▶ 28:45 unnamed speaker I think, like, the Obamas, Barack and Michelle Obama, I think that they've managed to stand for so much more than just being presidents, but symbols of kind of where we want America to go towards.
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
- ▶ 27:39 Alexa von Tobel Her and President Obama tapped 10 entrepreneurs to be ambassadors for the country on entrepreneurship. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Guild Education's Rachel Carlson on The Benefits of Scaling Startups Outside of Silicon Valley, Why Mission and Margin Are So Tightly Integrated & Why Mums Are The Most Under-Utilised Asset In The Economy
- ▶ 4:09 Rachel Carlson And I think it was the luckiest chance of my life to work on the Obama, 2008 campaign. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
- ▶ 3:19 Seth Bannon Worked for President Obama in 2008 on his first campaign. 2 times in the scene
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 21:33 Josh Stein Thinking really broadly, I would say President Obama. 2 times in the scene
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 23:52 Jonathan Abrams Somebody gets angry about us for some really ridiculous reason and sends us a bunch of mean emails, and the next day we see that, uh, Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer, two former Obama advisors, are talking about Nuzzle on Twitter and in a…
20 VC 094: Kanyi Maqubela @ Collaborative Fund on Rocketships, Feedback Loops and Turning Lemons Into Lemonade!
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings He also attended Stanford University, and as Kanye states, his most meaningful and difficult work done so far is his work on the Obama campaign in 2008.