Bending Spoons, every mention
46 scenes · ← back to Bending Spoons
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Harry Stebbings 60Rory O'Driscoll 29Luca Ferrari 18Peter Singlehurst 12Federico Simionato 5Nikesh Arora 1Jerry Murdock 1Jason Lemkin 1Eno Reyes 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bending Spoons comes up
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 44:33 Jerry Murdock Um, first of all, there's not that many buyers like, uh, bending spoons, right?
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 53:33 Rory O'Driscoll If, you know, if Airtable, if the Airtable Bending Spoons give you an idea of what it is, if you just, you know, if you don't have that kind of system of record, you get 2.7. 5 times in the scene
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:22:20 Rory O'Driscoll But if you don't, and some of the others that you mentioned didn't, then, you know, you're stuck in two and three X land forevermore until you get, as Jason said last week, until you get bent spooned.
- ▶ 1:24:56 Harry Stebbings How long will it be until HubSpot is bought by Bending Spoons? 4 times in the scene
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Palo Alto Network CEO, two hundred and eighty billion dollar company for this incredible session today, and we discuss Leo Ashenbrenner's situational awareness imploding, sad face, Airtable being acquired by Bending Spoon's
- ▶ 1:45 Harry Stebbings But we're gonna start on the news of the day, and the news of the day is Airtable, one of the big names from the last decade, has been bought by, Rory, European-based Bending Spoons. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:01 Nikesh Arora Bending spoons.
- ▶ 1:03:50 Rory O'Driscoll At some point you will be, you will be bending spoon to use your point. 3 times in the scene
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 57:29 Jason Lemkin Maybe bending spoons.
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:48 Harry Stebbings Which is kind of, could be in the same realm in some respects, but I mean, I actually really wanted to do this, which we mentioned last week, Bending Spoons, their IPO, very successful, uh, and needing the B to B version of that, um,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:35 Rory O'Driscoll And I, by the way, one thought I had since then is one of the biggest advantage Bending Spoons might have is there's only one buyer of consumer assets, and there's a ton of buyers of B to B assets, so they probably get the pick of the… 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
- ▶ 43:15 Rory O'Driscoll Bending Spoons is going to go public tomorrow, July first, and this will come out on July second. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:58 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, you could do the bending spoons thing, 4 times in the scene
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:34 Harry Stebbings One that's amazing, which we may not have comment on, but it is amazing, is Bending Spoons. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:54 Harry Stebbings They're that fantastic scale. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:18 unnamed speaker Um, I don't know what bending spoons blended, uh, I just don't know.
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Bending Spoons is on an absolute tear. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:09 Harry Stebbings How did that lead to Bending Spoons and, you know, a core role in one of the most coveted companies in Europe? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:49 Harry Stebbings We're going to dig into the processes with which Bending Spoons build different products across different lines. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:43 Harry Stebbings How do you determine which ideas to take and run with versus which to discard within Bending Spoons?
- ▶ 19:24 Federico Simionato It's about bending spoons, all of our products.
- ▶ 30:49 Federico Simionato You know, like sometimes I talk to Phil Libin, who was leading Evernote a few years ago, and I don't feel like shipping bad stuff on Evernote just because it's always been such a, an important product and built in such a caring way that…
- ▶ 35:04 Federico Simionato It's not like bending spoons as a vague entity that is working on Evernote.
- ▶ 38:16 Federico Simionato It's a product that we launched at Benning Spoons that we were really hopeful for. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:09 Harry Stebbings Does Bending Spoons do clones today?
- ▶ 45:18 Harry Stebbings That basically Bending Spoons acquires companies, fires the team, and centralizes engineering and product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:40 Harry Stebbings Do you have horizontal paid marketing machines at Banding Spoons, and what I mean by that is, does the marketing sit as a function on top of the product teams
- ▶ 57:26 Harry Stebbings Which company has Bending Spoons not acquired that you would most like to acquire because it would be great to work on? 4 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:00 Harry Stebbings For one though, which was, uh, Bending Spoons buying Vimeo.
- ▶ 1:21:20 unnamed speaker I mean, first of all, stepping back, Bending Spoons is a quirky name, but a wildly successful buyout shop 6 times in the scene
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:46 Harry Stebbings I'm surprised we haven't seen more bending spoons like models in SAS. 2 times in the scene
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:31 Peter Singlehurst And I know that you had, um, you had Luca Ferrari, the founder of Bending Spoons, uh, on, on the show a little while back. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:21 Peter Singlehurst Um, and again, like at the risk of sort of overusing the example, what is the competitive advantage of bending spoons?
- ▶ 22:37 Harry Stebbings You know, when we look at like a bending spoons,
- ▶ 1:01:14 Peter Singlehurst Bending spoons. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:13 Peter Singlehurst I think this is the opportunity for bending spoons, right? 2 times in the scene
Luca Ferrari: Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation |E1127 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings I think bending spoons is one of the coolest stories that we've seen in recent times in startup land.
- ▶ 3:02 Harry Stebbings I heard that you, you were at McKinsey and you were essentially sharing your salary with your co-founders to fund the early days of Bending Spoons. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:07 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, what was the insight with Bending Spoons? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:18 Luca Ferrari The, the company, we funded it with around 40,000 dollars, which was the leftover, uh, capital from Evertail. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:14 Luca Ferrari Uh, but again, it depends on the level of depth and sophistication one is looking to categorize us with. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:20 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you in terms of capital allocation, how does capital allocation in Bending Spoons work?
- ▶ 40:23 Luca Ferrari We, we built a framework internally to describe exactly these sort of things. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:04 Luca Ferrari We never, all our share owners, myself, our institutional investors, our colleagues who got equity through their working at the company, nobody has any liquidation preferences, so we're all on equal terms economically. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:28 Harry Stebbings And you gave them 10% of Bending Spoons to thank them in gratitude. 3 times in the scene