Block

0 statements across 0 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 7, 2025 by Brian Halligan · said 36 times in 20 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (12), Keith Rabois (5), Sam Blond (3), Vinod Khosla (2), Josh Browder (2), Cathie Wood (2), Reid Hoffman (1), Maor Shlomo (1)

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2026 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode

Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 16, 2026 · 6 mentions · from 3:50
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 5, 2026 · 3 mentions · from 0:25
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 18, 2026 · 2 mentions · from 1:07:51
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 16, 2026 · 1 mention · from 1:07:53
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 12, 2026 · 1 mention · from 15:15
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 24, 2025 · 1 mention · from 1:12:42
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 7, 2025 · 1 mention · from 48:50
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2024 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode

Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 12, 2024 · 3 mentions · from 31:09
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 16, 2024 · 1 mention · from 1:00:28
Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 9, 2024 · 1 mention · from 9:45
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 5, 2024 · 1 mention · from 48:00
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2022 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode

Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 14, 2022 · 2 mentions · from 41:08
20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Two Biggest Learnings on Price, How to Manage and Train Young People in Venture, Why Business Classrooms Do Not Work and How to Assess the Two Commodities in Life; Money and Time with Jeff Mar 28, 2022 · 1 mention · from 2:23
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie Mar 14, 2022 · 1 mention · from 43:59
20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup Feb 11, 2022 · 1 mention · from 2:20
20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs Jan 10, 2022 · 1 mention · from 37:48
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2021 5 mentions in 1 episode

2020 2 mentions in 1 episode

20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents Feb 24, 2020 · 2 mentions · from 24:24
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2019 1 mention in 1 episode

20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital Mar 4, 2019 · 1 mention · from 33:55
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2016 1 mention in 1 episode

20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures Jul 27, 2016 · 1 mention · from 0:26
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Aug 7, 2025 positive

Insight

Halligan: Silicon Valley has a wrongheaded bias against building for SMBs

“There's a big echo chamber in Silicon Valley and big negative bias towards SMB, but you can make it work in SMB. HubSpot and Shopify have shown it. Block has shown it.”

Brian Halligan Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 48:41 Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 5, 2026 neutral

Assertion Contradicted

O'Driscoll: Block's 40% cut is largest public tech layoff in 20 years

“This is the biggest percentage change for a publicly-held tech company in the last 20 years, which is just an astonishing certificate. The statistics.”

Rory O'Driscoll Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 57:15 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

May 18, 2026 neutral

Opinion

Browder: Block's layoffs are due to COVID overhiring, not AI

“But maybe with a company like Block maybe it's controversial, but I think it's more about the COVID overhiring.”

Josh Browder May 18, 2026 ▶ 1:14:36 Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

May 18, 2026 negative

Opinion

Browder: Tech wealth gap between AI and laid-off workers is unsustainable

“For every anthropic employee who's making 20 to a hundred million, there's 7000 block employees being laid off. It's not sustainable. You can't have 50,000 people with all the money.”

Josh Browder May 18, 2026 ▶ 0:49 Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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