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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 1:09:20 Harry Stebbings Do you think Bill Gates' suggestion was right that we should tax agent usage and token usage?
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 15:30 Harry Stebbings That was actually, that was something that Bill Gates said actually, is that we have to have clearly defined human roles moving forward.
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 1:03:52 David Frankel I remember the Microsoft Google case going on forever and Gates going, you know, we are disruptable.
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 52:06 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, you know, it turns out Bill Gates is richer than, you know, the most famous actor in the world, right?
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:33 Harry Stebbings Phoebe Gates, Bill Gates' daughter, and her co-founder were in the news.
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:36 unnamed speaker Bill and Paul Allen own, you know, good sluggies and even bomber owned enough to buy a basketball team at the end of it.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:44:54 Cliff Weitzman Sam and Ilya and Greg and Elon went and got a ton of money from essentially Bill Gates, right, Microsoft.
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:21 Marc Andreessen Um, and then, you know, Bill Gates, you know, his father was a lion of the, you know, Seattle establishment, and he went to all the best, you know, prep schools in Harvard, and, you know, as, as, again, as far as I know, had a perfectly…
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 47:54 Harry Stebbings I mean, it's pretty shitty for Bill too, but let's stay on Satya because we're not going into politics. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- ▶ 32:11 Simon Squibb Back in the holidays, um, behind the scenes, folks, before we sat down here together, Harry was sitting with Phoebe Gates, Bill Gates, his daughter, and doing a podcast, and I, I went to New York on holiday, and ended up meeting her and…
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:19 unnamed speaker One caveat, I understand your comment, which is why the old Bill Gates rule and, you know, uh, was always have two years of cash on the balance sheet, like OPEX cash, right?
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:35 Harry Stebbings I always go back to the Bill Gates.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:47:49 Severin Hacker Bill Gates or, or Mark Zuckerberg, you know, Bill Gates wanted to put a computer on every desk, I think. 2 times in the scene
Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:06 Niklas Östberg Uh, Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:49 Hussein Kanji And there was weird tension between Bill and Paul, uh,
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:30 Shervin Pishevar Um, and, uh, he's now richer than Bill Gates, right?
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:36 Dan Fougere I always admired Steve jobs and Bill Gates and those guys were kind of heroes from my childhood.
Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:04 Mike Hudack Like I remember hearing stories about Bill Gates doing product reviews. 4 times in the scene
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:53 Kevin Hartz You know, the teens, it's the Bill Gates in his teens, or Mark Zuckerberg in his teens, or, you know, all those, it's the first time around that it's, um, so spiky, or they're really swinging hard.
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:15 Pedro Franceschi I remember there was this article that came out probably in, like, I don't know, 2007, 2008 or something, uh, saying that, like, Bill Gates' daughter could only spend 45 minutes a day on the computer.
Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:08 Andrew Bialecki I always thought about, you know, Windows and their applications, you know, so Bill Gates, uh, or there's a lot of great folks at Microsoft.
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:49 Michael Eisenberg And, uh, a little bit, it's like what Bill Gates' father said to him that everyone's forgotten.
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:15 Dan Siroker Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, you know,
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:21 Chris Dixon The, the contrarian innovative idea of Bill Gates was that software would be the next layer of value, right?
Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:28 Nicolai Tangen Or Bill Gates, you have to learn about a lot of things because he knows so much about so many things.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:31 Matthew Prince You know, Gates seems like he's made a, a bunch of, you know, strange decisions.
- ▶ 10:32 Matthew Prince To be as successful as, as Gates, to be as successful as Bezos, to be as successful as Benioff, not only do you have to love it, but it becomes you.
- ▶ 12:59 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is, you know, you're bending off your gates, your Bezos.
Kevin Niparko: Big Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Product Teams | E1066 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:26 Kevin Niparko Uh, do you remember this example of, of Bill Gates going on Letterman and explaining why Letterman needed the internet?
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:51 Miles Grimshaw You, you think back to the story of Microsoft and, and, um, 95 Bill Gates wrote sort of the Paul Harbour memo of like, we need an internet native
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:34 Vinod Khosla Bill Gates has talked about a robot tax.
Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:12 Larry Summers I am somebody who believes in creating opportunity rather than going to war with inequality, because I think if we had more entrepreneurs, more multi-billionaires like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates,
Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:53 Tomer Cohen So they're still there for, you know, Bill Gates at Microsoft, Scott Cook at Intuit.
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried: We Banned Talking Politics and 1/3 of our Team Quit | 20VC #963 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:32 Harry Stebbings Could be, could be Bill Gates.
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:46 Harry Stebbings You know, you sat in, in more product reviews with, with, with Steve Ballmer, with, with Bill Gates, then, you know, so many other people, pretty much anyone. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:50 Hadi Partovi If you think of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, uh, Elon Musk, none of these folks are just trust that the team will get it done. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 Harry Stebbings Um, and Ali told me, actually, you called him after the meeting, and you said, this guy, this guy is the next Bill Gates. 3 times in the scene
Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:33 Martin Escobari You hear Bill Gates talk about it.
HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah: The Ultimate Guide to Company Culture | E896 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:03 Dharmesh Shah It's like, okay, well, you know, if, um, and I'll single out, you know, Zuckerberg and Gates and these folks, whatever, that are kind of, um, some of the icons of tech, it's like,
How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:09 John Doerr We have a second obligation, and that's to drive down the costs for others, because you've probably heard of Bill Gates's references to the green premium.
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 23:29 Ali Partovi Rather than trying to poke holes in their business idea, I'm trying to figure out, is this person the next Bill Gates, or the next Mark Zuckerberg, and if they are, let me just step out of the way and not mess it up, just try to support…
20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
- ▶ 26:21 Nick Mehta My dad shows me a Time magazine and it has Bill Gates on the cover, founder of Microsoft.
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- ▶ 21:26 Wade Foster I think you're going to be the next Jeff Bezos or the next Bill Gates or whatever, and just like talks you into how awesome you are.
20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
- ▶ 29:24 Guillaume Pousaz Probably a cliche answer, but I would say Bill Gates, and the reason I'd say Bill Gates is, you know, he built one company only, and it pretty much of a meteoric rise, and I was mentioning, you know, how Pentium changed my life when I was… 3 times in the scene
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- ▶ 31:02 Harry Stebbings Like, honestly, the amount of times I'm, I'm in awe of, you see, like, Bill Gates is like, I read, like, five books a week.
20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 30:36 Andrew Dudum You know, I look up to Biddle Gates and Melinda quite a bit.
20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 5:07 Quentin Clark Probably the stories that people find the most entertaining are the ones that involve Bill. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:31 Quentin Clark And ultimately, so the very best people that I've worked with over the years, that includes Gates, it includes McDermott, it includes Satya, it includes so many people, are both great leaders and great managers.
- ▶ 28:28 Harry Stebbings You've worked with some of the very best founders, as you said, like Bill, Satya, Drew.
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 40:46 Sahil Lavingia I mean, like Bill Gates has been a hero of mine for a long time, but I think his rise into the sea of Microsoft and sort of, I feel like he almost had a rebirth. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 51:45 Steve Jurvetson An interesting bet, as Bill Gates would put it, the best bet we got against coronavirus, given how it's mutating and given how long it takes to develop a vaccine.
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 7:01 Sarah Kunst And pandemics are something everybody thinks that Bill Gates is a psychic. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
20VC: Clearbanc's Michele Romanow on Why 40% of VC $ Raised Today Goes To Google and Facebook, How To Create A Financing Mechanism For The Repeatable Parts Of Your Business & Why We Need To Stop Celebrating Fundraises
- ▶ 16:10 Michele Romanow Bill Gates owned half of that company, and you can see the extraordinary impact that that wealth had on the non-for-profit world and all sorts of things going forward, but I want to live in a world where founders can own more of their…
20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- ▶ 31:10 Dylan Field I think Bill Gates, um, not just because of, like, the riches, but also just the way that he took over the computing industry, and just the amount of strength that Microsoft was able to gather in their early years, and how fast they moved,…
20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
- ▶ 10:02 Sam Lessin I mean, I think there's a famous Bill Gates line that's something to be effective.
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
- ▶ 5:25 Howard Lerman I'm not sure how often Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page or Steve Jobs or Bill Gates were
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 14:07 Fritz Lanman We had done the early work that got Gates and Bomber focused on Google as a threat to the business, and at the time, back then, they were more focused on the enterprise side and on the threat that Linux kind of represented, and so we had…
- ▶ 32:04 unnamed speaker That's probably why I'll never be Jeff Bezos or someone, someone like that, you know, Bill Gates, who's literally cured a few diseases, you know, with his wife on their own.
20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
- ▶ 22:59 Marco Zappacosta Someone relayed to me at some point the Bill Gates quote that people overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in a decade.
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
- ▶ 23:34 Mario Schlosser He's seen everything on the political sides, in, in the business sides, um, started companies by himself before, uh, sued Bill Gates at Microsoft back in the days, you know, he was the one who let the, the government's lawsuit under…
20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Well, Josh is a founding investor and board member with Bill Gates and Kaimita, making cutting-edge antennas for high-speed global satellite and space communications.
- ▶ 11:40 Josh Wolfe So we look for all the scientists, and we get excited about this area, and lo and behold, it leads us to start a company with Bill Gates and Nathan Mervold, and in a surreal stroke, the board of that company called Chimeta became Bill… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:58 Harry Stebbings What was the big takeaway from being and working alongside Bill Gates with the experience? 7 times in the scene
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 20:04 Mamoon Hamid Well, I think if you look at all those companies, all five of those companies driven by founder CEOs, I mean, Bill Gates is no longer founder CEO at Microsoft, but still he's, he's very involved as a chairman of that company.
20VC: Why You Don't Have To Have Operational Experience To Be A Good VC, Why There Is No Optimal Stage To Invest & Why VCs Should Focus on Reputation Ahead of Cash On Cash Returns with Lyon Wong, General Partner @ Spectrum 28
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 26:38 Dennis Mortensen Even though I disagree, and it's still one of my favorite blogs, I think he is Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and a pool of other people, to add to pessimistic.
20 VC 090: Balderton Capital's General Partner, Suranga Chandratillake on What It Takes To Be A Great CEO
- ▶ 8:51 Suranga Chandratilake If you look at someone like Bill Gates, that's what he understood.
- ▶ 10:58 Suranga Chandratilake I think, um, I'm a huge Bill Gates fan, and I'll say that because a lot of people aren't, uh, for whatever reason, and I think that's really, people misunderstand him. 8 times in the scene
20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing
- ▶ 27:01 Fabrice Grinda Now, if you mean successful in business as a general, I'd probably say, uh, Bill Gates, both as a philanthropist and as a businessman.
20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
- ▶ 3:40 Jon Staenberg Energetic forces around Bill's statement then was, uh, PC on every desk, and that was our mission, and he's such an unbelievable leader, truly one of the smartest people I've ever been around.