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ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 11:41 Aaron Katz Our most recent one earlier this year was Langfuse out of Berlin, um, which is three incredible founders entering agent observability.
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:00 Matt Fitzpatrick I've, you know, if you look at my last, if you look at my last four, five weeks, um, Riyadh, Geneva, Paris, Berlin, London, um, uh, San Francisco, Boston, Singapore, now London again.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:01 unnamed speaker In other words, when you, when you want to take Berlin, at some point, what you do is you just get two million people willing to die and you march them forward, right?
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:48 Johannes Reck So I remember I was talking to Oliver Sumber at the time, you know, we had started to relocate some of the staff from Switzerland to Berlin because Switzerland was just too expensive for us to survive in our bootstrap mode. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:10 Harry Stebbings It's, it's, it's interesting for me, obviously not being in Berlin, not seeing that kind of firsthand impact that they've had.
- ▶ 22:05 Johannes Reck I'm going to be in Berlin tomorrow morning, nine AM at your office.
- ▶ 1:12:12 Johannes Reck They want to live in London, Berlin, Munich, like you name it. 2 times in the scene
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:58 Larry Aschebrook Um, say, hey, you got to meet this company in Berlin. 2 times in the scene
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:53 Nabeel Hyatt Can somebody succeed in Berlin?
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:52 Hussein Kanji And so we went around, and I remember, it was Super Returns, February, Cold, Berlin, I'm like going around to all these family offices, and like, and we couldn't obviously say KKR is leading this, right, because the term she was there,…
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:27 Klaus Hommels Sitting in Soho House in Berlin with an avocado toast and a cappuccino and thinking we rule the world.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:13 Daniel Khachab And last, no, so maybe two weeks ago it was an, um, a conference in Berlin and same, same UAE and Saudi Arabia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:22 Harry Stebbings Is it the best in Berlin? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:29 Daniel Khachab Like, Elon Musk built in, in Germany, the home of car manufacturing, next to Berlin, next to, right next to the capital, right next to Berlin airport, a factory to produce cars.
- ▶ 39:15 Daniel Khachab I'm gonna go back to Berlin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:01 Daniel Khachab Like, and most of our team was in Berlin, so I said I'd go back to Berlin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:04 Daniel Khachab It's like why Berlin? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:08 Daniel Khachab And then we went out to the market, and it was growing, and then, you know, we launched, like, Berlin, and then Germany, and then France, and the US, and so on and so forth, and city by city. 2 times in the scene
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:36 Harry Stebbings No, like, you know, I look at my biggest and best property management in Berlin, commodities pricing providers, like, unsexy businesses where no one is going after it.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:51 Danny Rimer So, we have to spend more time in Berlin and Paris and Amsterdam, Stockholm, all these other places where entrepreneurs are more likely to kick off companies.
Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:39 Christian Hecker One Sunday we would lay off eight people, unfortunately, and we moved to Berlin and we bootstrap from that onwards. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:36 Christian Hecker And then, um, Doug says, well, casually I'm in Berlin.
- ▶ 52:48 Christian Hecker Um, and I mean, to be very honest, if we really want to hire an engineer here in Berlin, who has seen large distributed IT systems for millions of customers, we don't find them here in Berlin.
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:22 Alex Taussig Uh, we, you know, uh, we have a, a lot of folks in London, but we also have a partner in, in, in Paris and another partner in Berlin, and we've made investments in probably half a dozen European countries in the last few years, uh, maybe…
Dominik Richter: You Only Have Two Options With VC Funding | E1089 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:24 Dominik Richter So what I did is actually moved to Berlin, which was back then, um, I think up and coming very different from what it is right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:28 Harry Stebbings We're sitting HelloFresh and obviously we have co-headquartered Berlin and New York, but you know, we're in Berlin and we, how did you come across it? 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:50 Keith Rabois Almost like an acceptable view to have, but we have a great company, Trade Republic in Berlin, run by a very, actually a founder who's very similar to Mike in terms of DNA, Christian, and it's doing very, very well.
Roundtable #6 with Rebecca Kaden, Nicole Quinn, Eurie Kim, Harry Stebbings | E1083 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:39 Nicole Quinn So now we have a London, Berlin, and Paris office, and that's how it scales.
Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:09 Harry Stebbings Moving to Berlin with your wife and starting the DubSmash journey, how did that go? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:04 Suchit Dash But over time, the motivation got to a place where it was really tough and we realized we didn't have the culture to go at it again and build it with the team out in Berlin.
David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:17 David Vélez It is in Berlin.
Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:49 Richard Socher And the complexity here is that indeed, imagine you're a chat bot and you have someone and they want to, in their head, they want to write a short story and they want to write their short story about some alien invasion of Berlin in 2027. 2 times in the scene
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:09 Nico Wittenborn And when I started studying, I read about a group in Berlin called team Europe.
- ▶ 6:51 Nico Wittenborn Yeah, I think, and, and, and I, I will draw that parallel again when we talk about my current focus, but I think that what .9 was really good about was, um, very early from Berlin, investing in European founders, agnostically to geography,…
20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia
- ▶ 29:53 Luciana Lixandru Companies starting in Eastern Europe, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm.
20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
- ▶ 3:13 Christian Reber Yeah, so I accidentally started a company when I moved to Berlin at the age of 18. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:06 Christian Reber I think four in Berlin right now.
- ▶ 31:49 Christian Reber He's the founder of Blue Yard Capital in Berlin, and he was previously at Early Bird, who was invested in Wunderlist.
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
- ▶ 21:55 Sarah Cannon I joke with pitch a company I work with in Berlin that like Greta
20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
- ▶ 23:51 David Cohen But also in the UK and in Berlin and now in Singapore and Bangalore,
20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 6:08 Howard Lerman When you're building a company, we've now got more than a thousand people around the world in offices from Shanghai to Berlin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:05 Howard Lerman And the office leaders from Berlin to London to Paris to Tokyo are in that.
20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
- ▶ 25:07 Avichal Garg And so if engineers in the Bay Area cost literally five to 10 X more than they do in Berlin, let's say, I think you'll continue to see that happen.
20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
- ▶ 23:10 Mario Schlosser It's about a guy who lives in Berlin in the eighties before the wall comes down.
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 24:34 Albert Wenger Invested in a company called Clue, based in Berlin, an app that lets women track their health and their fertility, and said yes because there are more women in the world who will have smartphones than have access to traditional birth…
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 10:32 David Cohen For our seed investments, our managing directors are on the ground in New York and London and Berlin and Los Angeles and so on and can actually be helpful.
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 12:58 James Wise Berlin, arguably, is becoming the play. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 5:34 Christian Hernandez Now back then, oh nine, Berlin was in its infancy. 2 times in the scene
Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage
- ▶ 18:46 Martin Mignot You know, we see a lot of stuff coming out of the main hubs, which are kind of London, Paris, Berlin, and Scandinavia, but also, you know, more and more so from, you know, the likes of Barcelona, Lisbon,
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 17:49 James Cameron You know, your Stockholms, your Londons, your Berlins, and then, ah, but what's been, what's been fantastic and really exciting is seeing these, what we used to, you know, think of as the secondary clusters, ah, really coming into their…
20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
- ▶ 10:08 Philipp Moehring This has been going on for, for years, and you've seen, uh, folks like Union Square funding, um, funding SoundCloud here in Berlin.
- ▶ 14:39 Harry Stebbings We often hear Berlin or London. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 20:56 Hussein Kanji Berlin is much smaller, for instance, than London is when it comes to kind of fundraising.
20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
- ▶ 16:15 Matt Lerner Uh, it's a British guy named Tom Beverly, though they're based in Berlin.
FF 016: Chad Fowler, CTO @ Wunderlist, App Of The Year 2013
- ▶ 4:24 Chad Fowler And it was after that point, uh, after some time that I was approached by my friends in Berlin and, uh, convinced to move to Berlin and work on Wunderlist.
- ▶ 5:22 Chad Fowler So, for me, the advantage of Europe, and specifically Berlin, is just that it's a fabulous, very international place to be. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:18 Chad Fowler We're, we're operating in Berlin.
20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital
- ▶ 13:19 Sean Seton-Rogers London is the central hub, but watch out, because Berlin is doing a fantastic job as well. 8 times in the scene
20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado
- ▶ 14:47 Harry Stebbings And then delving a little deeper into Europe specifically now, we've seen, as we mentioned, hubs like, you know, Helsinki, Berlin, London, Stockholm, just name me a few.
20 VC 057: The Investor Checklist with Nicolas Wittenborn, VC @ Point Nine Capital
- ▶ 5:18 Nico Wittenborn Becoming a consultant, you know, and going into investment banking and auditing and so on, and I actually didn't really know that this entrepreneurial thing was, was an option to really make a living in, and, um, one day I just happened…
- ▶ 20:56 Harry Stebbings Berlin tech scene? 2 times in the scene