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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 9:30 Harry Stebbings And actually the cadence of shipping combined with index benchmark and having one of the best brands in the space.
- ▶ 47:50 Harry Stebbings We've spoken about instinct being the AI assistant that's raised from index and benchmark.
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 35:03 Harry Stebbings And I think it was benchmark who co led that round.
- ▶ 51:42 Harry Stebbings And when you have Benchmark and Sequoia, great talent wants to join you. 2 times in the scene
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 1:07:36 Jerry Murdock I think, um, Benchmark, while they missed Anthropic and OpenAI, they've done amazing with, you know, Factory and a bunch of other great ones that we've talked about. 2 times in the scene
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 23:57 Harry Stebbings Like, every single constrained fund, including Benchmark, historically the, uh, central figure and discipline in venture has raised a, what, a billion dollar, a billion and a half growth fund?
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 49:56 Rory O'Driscoll But going back to the thing, just a comment, the other fun fact, I mean, you just got to note the fun fact, which is Benchmark's best fund, one of the, I shouldn't say the best fund because actually the eBay fund was the best fund in the… 5 times in the scene
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 38:06 Harry Stebbings And I think this will be the worst performing category of venture in this vintage because firms like you and Founders Fund and Benchmark and Sequoia and Excel, and the list goes on and on, are so effective with a very good seed product… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:05 Matt Murphy Uh, you know, I mean, series a, um, you know, benchmark I've worked with, uh,
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:32 Jason Lemkin Benchmark has a flat partnership.
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:41 unnamed speaker It's like in, in a way it kind of reminded me of Jack Altman, um, raising a massive amount for a solo GP fund and joining Benchmark. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:55 Jason Lemkin I do this thing where I built an AI pitch deck generator that uses all the benchmarks from Iconic and Benchmark.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:14 Harry Stebbings How does benchmark come into the fray?
- ▶ 16:38 Paul Erlang And then when benchmark kind of came around, we were more open to the idea to take money to protect the downside. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:23 Harry Stebbings Did benchmark offer the highest price? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:18 Harry Stebbings So we raised this round from benchmark, right?
- ▶ 40:34 Paul Erlang I think Benchmark doesn't really have as many resources.
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27:48 unnamed speaker Well, I thought the guy from benchmark was pretty good.
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:47 Everett Randle There's a partner here at Benchmark that says any liquidity for pre-AI SaaS companies is top decile performance.
- ▶ 2:03 unnamed speaker You know, Ev's old, um, benchmark partner, Bill Gurley, like, you know, is there a number above which Elon gets into trouble with Bill for leaving money on the table? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:12 Everett Randle And so the really, really good thing for, I think, all the frontier labs and just the inference market in general, companies like ours, like Fireworks that run inference platforms for, for their enterprise customers on open models, all of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:28 Harry Stebbings I have a direct question, and the latest benchmark fund is going to be the, I think, one of the best benchmark funds in history. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:12 Everett Randle There's a partner here at Benchmark that says any liquidity for pre-AI SaaS companies
- ▶ 1:05:58 unnamed speaker We got a value investor at Benchrite.
- ▶ 1:18:34 Harry Stebbings Av, do Benchmark have a robotics investment?
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:25 unnamed speaker That one, that one, I think, I think the folks that hate benchmark from Uber, I think they deserve to hate benchmark. 2 times in the scene
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:44 Brendan Foody And so Peter took us on the helicopter flight, and then Benchmark really wanted to work with us.
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:55 unnamed speaker We, someone, someone bit higher and they won the deal, and great name too, Benchmark, 3 times in the scene
Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:25 Harry Stebbings The nuts achievement, sorry, Jason, is the 20, ah, what is it, sorry, they have 20% ownership, sorry, benchmark. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:16 Jason Lemkin Well, Benchmark has their money, all right? 2 times in the scene
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:33:15 Rory O'Driscoll Credit to Benchmark, Eric.
- ▶ 1:46:50 Harry Stebbings Then they're fighting against benchmark and founders fund and Andreessen and everyone in between.
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:07 Jeffrey Wu Like, benchmark acquired Jack Altman's podcast, um, you know, A-Six-Z, great media platform.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:44 unnamed speaker Benchmark invested. 3 times in the scene
Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:47 Gili Raanan You know, let's take our, you know, favorite friends from, uh, Sequoia Capital, or, uh, Andreessen Benchmark,
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:41 Rory O'Driscoll What it's like in those board meetings and knowing if you're a founder friendly firm, like I would say Benchrock would like themselves to be, you don't do that lightly. 2 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:37 Gokul Rajaram Benchmark plays a different game than, than, say, Andreessen Horowitz, but both of them play different games, and both of them do well at their game.
- ▶ 49:24 Gokul Rajaram Even in V work benchmark made money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:04 Gokul Rajaram First on Capital and Benchmark, where I've been, I've been on LP in both, and then Green Oaks. 2 times in the scene
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:53 Harry Stebbings Like, when you look at, say, a WeWork, Benchmark were fantastically smart to get out of it.
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:56 Mitchell Green I truly think that's why Sequoia and Benchmark are great and Index are great because they help founders and entrepreneurs recruit amazing talent and, and, and people want to work for those funds portfolio companies.
- ▶ 56:52 Mitchell Green You know, I respect people like Benchmark or Index. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:51 Mitchell Green A Series A fund would probably be a benchmark.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:24 Harry Stebbings Um, maybe in my favorite saying that Rory often said about benchmark, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:57 Harry Stebbings He made the move to Benchmark. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:52 Jason Lemkin And most venture is kind of going to Harry's point of benchmark should be five flat partners.
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:57 Lucas Swisher I would say Sequoia and Benchmark. 4 times in the scene
Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:38 Rory O'Driscoll It's harder to be someone like Benchmark, small and brilliant, and manage generational transition, which is why it's awesome that they do it, because the asset is the brains of four or five individual people.
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:27 Max Junestrand So our first board meeting after we, so to give you some context, um, we were YC, we raised ten million dollars from Benchmark, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:23 Harry Stebbings You got benchmark early, which then led to a red point. 6 times in the scene
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:41 Harry Stebbings I think Benchmark have proven that to be wildly wrong.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:12 Harry Stebbings So for a benchmark, it was, say, a five X in eight months, um, which is pretty amazing in ARR. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:47 Jason Lemkin I don't think benchmark was pushing for them. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:40 Rory O'Driscoll There are some, one, I mean, first of all, there was this old bullshit chatter 12 months ago, oh, poor benchmark, like all those issues. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:44 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, it's, it's kind of a wonderful situation for both sides is that, you know, benchmark aren't sitting there clutching the nails going, they've got to make it on this deal.