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Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:21 Harry Stebbings Another is like, actually, when you look at these businesses, and a lot of people are criticizing this with your replets, your bolts, your lovables, they're not actually very good businesses in terms of union economics, and so much has…
- ▶ 1:13:08 Harry Stebbings But you must look across your, your figmas, your bolts, your replets, your,
20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
- ▶ 29:58 Fernando Fanton So let's say you're doing, I don't know, like Bolt or any of these guys, you're doing mainly taxi, and then you're adding food.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:28 Larry Aschebrook They introduced us to a gentleman named Johan Berkust, who's, who was at the end, I think the treasurer, and then went on to Bolt, where we also became an investor in the EU ride-hailing business.
- ▶ 1:31:57 Larry Aschebrook And Bolt, the early ride hailing, it's yet to be determined, Marcus Filig business. 5 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:59 Harry Stebbings We have your macaws, and we have your lovables, and your bolts, and your, ooh, in the race to a hundred million euro, and it's this AI wave that is so focused on it.
20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita
- ▶ 15:40 Harry Stebbings When you think about the entry point for building in the future, you mentioned that turning design into live code, and then you've got another element which is just kind of build in real time, which is your bolts, it's your lovables, where… 2 times in the scene
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:00 Taavet Hinrikus I worked on investing in Bolt's seed round. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Harry Stebbings You see companies like Lovable, Bolt, McCaw, Midjourney, you name it, where revenue trajectories are unparalleled, and that SaaS predictability era is over.
- ▶ 1:01:43 Harry Stebbings When you look at your best investment, we mentioned Bolt earlier.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:41 Jason Lemkin Emergence just did like fifty billion or sixty million into like Bolt or something like that, right?
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:34 Harry Stebbings The scalability of these companies in terms of revenue is unlike anything we've seen before, from your McCaws to your Mid Journeys to your Lovables to your Bolts, and they're scaling at three, four, five million a week.
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 13:10 Matt Biilmann And then I started seeing like just how fast tools like bold and lovable and so on are starting to change things at, at sort of the other end of like indie startups, everything like that.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:37 Jake Saper But we're also doing pretty well with some of these early stage, you know, smart young people as well, be it, you know, Erica Bolt or, you know, Austin Unified.
- ▶ 28:10 Jake Saper We did together and, you know, Bolt and Bland and unified much of others.
- ▶ 39:24 Harry Stebbings Have we misled a generation of founders with triple, triple, double, double being great, and now that is not enough with Bolts, and Lovables, and McCaw's, and. 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
- ▶ 1:05:02 Harry Stebbings X's bolts at X so fast.
Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:02 Harry Stebbings Because Marcus at Bolt very clearly said they were the only ones. 2 times in the scene
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:31 unnamed speaker I mean, one example that's probably our biggest loss is, uh, we met Bolt, the car, uh, ailing company, and, uh, they were called Taxify at the time, a small Baltics ride-hailing company, and, uh, even though, you know, Marcus, the founder,… 4 times in the scene
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08 Harry Stebbings But can you take me to the specific moment that you had the, shit, I need to found Bolt. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:14 Markus Villig So what we realized eventually was that, yes, we can keep on bootstrapping this company forever. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:50 unnamed speaker And then a trick I still don't understand why more companies don't do is that we just then set up online ads to customers and to drivers saying that Bolt is now live in Johannesburg. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:46 Markus Villig Um, today we operate in about 50 countries around the world and Bolt is the number one most popular platform in more than 20 of them.
- ▶ 40:29 Harry Stebbings So we've now got this like exploded market map of bolt adoption and very successful markets. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:51 Markus Villig I was the company's going bust and we need the money to continue this fantastic expansion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:13 Markus Villig We had no other choice because nobody else wanted to back the company back then. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:58 Markus Villig There was a couple of changes that happened with the company at the same time. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:32 Markus Villig Meet, um, the company was doing extremely well, and we really had this explosive growth during COVID. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:39 Markus Villig They said, Hey, we've done all the homework on the company. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:34 Markus Villig So it almost killed the company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:44 Markus Villig I think that actually I at first just didn't even think that they would be willing to invest in private companies such as ours, but actually the moment we got to first meetings with them and they saw the numbers, they were really excited,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:30 Harry Stebbings It was insane when there was, I mean, there was Dot, there was Uber, there was you, I was like, oh my God.
- ▶ 1:15:33 Harry Stebbings Um, what is Uber better than you at today, and what are they worse than you at today? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:58 Markus Villig So we already operate five, which is a lot for 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:49 Markus Villig And you can integrate it with everything else we already do in the bold food ecosystem.
- ▶ 1:21:04 Markus Villig From what I've heard from most people, they think that these companies are gonna build their own operations and companies like us are gonna get somehow squeezed out of the market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:02 Markus Villig But after a certain point, what I get most of my excitement from is actually seeing the company do well, and actually see the people around me do well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:55 Harry Stebbings When have you been most out of kilter in the Bolt journey?
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Exclusive: Fast's Domm Holland on What Really Happened at Fast? Were they really Burning $10M per Month? Where did Bolt Succeed Where Fast Did Not? What is It Really Like To Have Stripe Invest in your Company?
- ▶ 16:11 Harry Stebbings Question, like, on Bolt, have they done something right? 18 times in the scene
20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Hello and welcome back to the 20 Minute VC with your host Harry Stebbings at hstebbings on Snapchat, and today I'm very excited to bring you our second parter to this double on hardware, with the first being on Wednesday with Ben Einstein…
20VC: Why Hardware Is Actually Software Wrapped In Plastic & "Of Course Hardware Is Hard, Everything Is Hard" with Ben Einstein, Founder & General Partner @ Bolt VC
- ▶ 23:56 Harry Stebbings The biggest challenge for you in your role at Bolt?