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Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:51 Josh Browder I, I, I was saying to a friend for every anthropic employee who's making 20 to a hundred million, there's 7000 of like block employees being laid off.
- ▶ 1:14:36 Josh Browder But maybe with a company like Block, um, maybe it's controversial, but I think it's more about the COVID overhiring.
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:53 unnamed speaker You have, you know, the block memo and what Jack Dorsey wants to do.
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:50 Harry Stebbings What about Square? 6 times in the scene
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:15 Jason Lemkin Are we going to say a 40%, a 50% layoff is no big deal at Block, because it's a part, and I think we're all going, as we chase these
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Block lays off 40% of the workforce.
- ▶ 38:45 unnamed speaker And it gets to your block comment. 2 times in the scene
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:42 Maor Shlomo And I think this is a person that consistently like building Twitter, building Square, building other projects.
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:50 Brian Halligan Block has shown it.
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:28 Reid Hoffman So that's clearly one, um, I got pitched early in stripe and square, and I,
Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:45 Dax Dasilva Uh, you know, Square, uh, some other, some other folks like Shopkeep had, uh, which we acquired later, uh, maybe had a couple years on us because of that, but maybe that might've, uh, maybe that might've sped things up in our, in our…
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:00 David Cahn When I called the customers on Marketa, you call DoorDash, Instacart, Square, those were kind of the big customers.
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:08 Cathie Wood With Square, now called Block, um, when the brouhaha erupted over, uh, Elon putting Bitcoin on Tesla's balance sheet and the environmentalists saying, what are you doing? 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 2:23 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product micro-surveys and concept tests to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development, so they can make every product decision a…
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
- ▶ 43:59 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product micro-surveys and concept tests to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development, so they can make every product decision a…
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
- ▶ 2:20 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product microsurveys and concept tests to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development so they can make every product decision a…
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
- ▶ 37:48 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product micro-surveys and concept tests to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development, so they can make every product decision a…
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 21:45 Keith Rabois Really borrows some ideas from Square and from Opendoor. 5 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 24:24 Vinod Khosla It's the kind of founder we like, like Pat Brown at Impossible Foods, or Jack Dorsey at Square, or Patrick Collison and John Collison at Stripe. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 33:55 Jeff Richards An amazing company that is using AI and modern tools like chat and bots to provide IT support for small businesses, and small business technology is a category that we've been very focused on as a firm, going all the way back to Zendesk…
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings And Sean has led Shasta's investments in the likes of Dollar Shave Club and Whisper, just to name a few, and he also serves on the board of directors for the likes of TimeHop, Zephyr, Swipely, Block, and Tigertext.