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a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:32 unnamed speaker But, but be a bit of a bummer to discover you'd invested in BlackBerry, and it was still private, and they just launched the iPhone, and you decide, screw it, we can take these guys, I'll put in another billion.
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22 George Arison I remember when I first saw Grindr on a friend's iPhone in 2009, I was building a company on Blackberry, so I didn't have an iPhone.
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:12 Bret Taylor What's interesting, though, is in the corporate world, the dominant smartphone at the time was the BlackBerry. 4 times in the scene
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:30 Bastian Lehmann Blackberry at some point owned the entire smartphone market. 2 times in the scene
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:41 Harry Stebbings Well, we had Apple, BlackBerry, which was an accidental pager that worked, and Nokia, which was a failed division of a Swedish, you know, Scandinavian company
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:54 Emil Michael I rolled into a meeting with a Blackberry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Emil Michael Yeah, I always talk about this one, and it was such, it was the hardest one I've ever done, and it was with, you know, the, the, the most fun one I ever did was with Steve Ballmer doing a deal over the weekend when he broke my Blackberry,…
- ▶ 1:17:42 Harry Stebbings Do you remember he used to sleep with his BlackBerry on his chest?
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:28 Harry Stebbings Before in 2008, where you maybe have BBM groups with black
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 20:13 Harry Stebbings Before in 2008, well, you maybe have BBM groups with BlackBreeze, but Twitter was not taking off.
20VC: Scaling to $2BN AUM in 3 years, Fundraising Lessons and Tactics from 2,500 LP Meetings & What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time with Harley Miller, Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Left Lane Capital
- ▶ 42:58 Harley Miller I had a native Blackberry app.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 9:32 Eugene Wei If you think about prototypes and Apple, so famously when they were trying to build the first iPhone, one of the huge questions was whether you could have an all electronic touch keyboard rather than the physical keys of the BlackBerrys,…
20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings As for Patrick, prior to Sonos, he spent an incredible 14 years with RIM, makers of BlackBerry, across multiple different roles, and I do also want to say a huge thank you to Mike Volpe at Index, Sonos founder John McFarlane, and Robbie…
- ▶ 4:30 Patrick Spence Instead, this opportunity came up with this company nobody had heard of in Canada called RIM, Research in Motion, doing some random engineering projects at that time, but with grand ambitions.
- ▶ 4:48 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, what course has switched from RIM to Sonos, and how did that come about? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:16 Patrick Spence I get one Canadian book of the year that really goes into depth on this, but I believed at that particular point in time, we needed to pivot as an organization, and so we needed to really double down on opening BlackBerry Messenger to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:00 Patrick Spence If we just get to BlackBerry X or new OS, everything will be fine.
- ▶ 7:56 Harry Stebbings I mean, speaking of the comparables there, and those learnings, it was Mike Volpe actually at Index, he said, I asked this one, and he said, when you think about the comparables, how did building and growing RIM influence everything you do… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:01 Patrick Spence Storm. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:12 Harry Stebbings In terms of, like, leadership aspects that taken from the 14 years at RIM to today with Sonos, are there some that really stand out to you? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:12 Patrick Spence You know, the way I mentioned we got at RIM with the iPhone and really responded in that way. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 2:47 Chris Best I started out building some of the original BlackBerry and Android apps, and I sort of grew the engineering team.
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 4:07 Gaurav Jain So I had a chance to work at BlackBerry, Amazon, Morgan Stanley. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- ▶ 8:31 Avidan Ross All the technology existed before, but because of the smartphone wars, the war between Apple and Samsung and Google and Nokia and Blackberry, a lot of the components that you find in a
20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings And before Kleiner, Trey co-founded Kleiner portfolio company, Good Technology, which was ultimately acquired by BlackBerry in 2015 for 420
20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- ▶ 9:52 Kevin Thau Whereas a peer at the time was research in motion, you know, Blackberry, and they basically had a similar vision.
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
- ▶ 6:35 Sam Lessin It's not much better than my Blackberry was 10 years ago.
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 3:52 Christian Hernandez So spent the number of years having these very heated arguments with Nokia and Blackberry and why the open web was better than their version of the mobile web.