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Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:24 unnamed speaker Sometimes I, everyone's, to use Rory's term, everyone's talking their game a little bit, right, and so when I, sometimes I see him say that, I agree with him as a founder, right, I love it, but sometimes I, you know, it, it, it, it, I hear…
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24 Harry Stebbings More macro topic or meta topic, but it was brought to light by Brian Armstrong and Coinbase, which is Coinbase spend down 50% this quarter, but usage up with regards to how they're utilizing open source, and that's taking away from their… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:42 Jason Lemkin I, I give if, but I, I give Aaron about a huge thumbs up on it, but the Brian one, I just, anyhow, it's all good.
- ▶ 33:09 Rory O'Driscoll Counterfactual is if those, if those open source product didn't exist, the Brian Armstrong quote would tweet would have been,
- ▶ 1:15:31 Rory O'Driscoll Unless Brian Armstrong has his way and cuts it in half.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:19 Harry Stebbings Brian at Coinbase has said before the chat, I think he said on the show with me, which is like the challenge of his business is just like volatility and how it impacts culture and morale in some cases where it's like, it's just hard when…
Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:43 Nikesh Arora Now you've seen people like Brian Armstrong and Jack Dorsey go out and say, I'm going to decimate my organization.
- ▶ 38:00 Harry Stebbings Would you like to do the Brian Armstrong Jack Dorsey?
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:04 Jason Lemkin If Brian doesn't have the people, what hope is there for the rest of the world?
- ▶ 1:24:45 Jason Lemkin At least as we record this, to me, the Coinbase thing, if people really think about it is, is, is, is pretty important and transformational, which is Brian saying that I just don't need anybody at Coinbase that isn't also an individual… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:26 Jason Lemkin And Brian will, and at Coinbase, you've got an email to your personal email this morning.
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:52 Gokul Rajaram All four of them, Larry, Mark, Jack, and Tony, and now Brian Armstrong, um, Bill and Ben at Pinterest.
Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:59 Rory O'Driscoll I do think the fascinating thing about calcium party is the whole Brian Armstrong training, but you have these prediction markets and then the person can tilt, put their finger on the scales of who wins in this case, Brian Armstrong, by… 2 times in the scene
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:46 Jason Lemkin I would do it with Brian. 3 times in the scene
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:15 Harry Stebbings Did you meet with Brian? 3 times in the scene
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:16 Matt Grimm We kind of subscribe to the Brian Armstrong Coinbase kind of philosophy of like, we're here for a mission.
Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:41 Harry Stebbings Chesky or Armstrong? 2 times in the scene
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:11 Harry Stebbings So how do you feel about Brian Armstrong's, you know, famous piece about politics not having a place in the workspace?
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:55 Dan Siroker You know, I think Coinbase might've been similar because, you know, Brian had seen things at Airbnb or, you know, and so you want somebody who both firsthand saw that problem and maybe felt it themselves.
Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:45 Harry Stebbings I always feel for you and for Brian when it's like, it's in the doldrums.
Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:47 Harry Stebbings And what would you do if you were Brian at Coinbase or, or, you know, CEO of, you know, Kraken? 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:53 Harry Stebbings I'm going to throw one hat in the ring also for Brian Armstrong at Coinbase.
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:17 David Marcus And I think, you know, Brian Armstrong has done a really, really good job at balancing this, uh, and from the get-go decided that he wanted to play by the rules and has been desperately
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: The $1BN Amazon Acquisition; How Richard Branson Invested | 20VC #984 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:04 Harry Stebbings I have Brian Armstrong on the show from Coinbase, and he said that the best CEOs insert risk into the business, which I thought was a really interesting perspective.
Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:22 Tom Loverro It's finding folks like Brian Armstrong from Coinbase or Mitchell Armand and Dave from Hashicorp.
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried: We Banned Talking Politics and 1/3 of our Team Quit | 20VC #963 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:13 Harry Stebbings Can I, ah, speaking of these hard conversations, I, I asked this of Brian at Coinbase.
- ▶ 48:25 Jason Fried And in fact, you know, I was actually talking to Brian over at Coinbase about this.
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:54 Harry Stebbings oh, my heart bleeds for Brian, but then I'm like, oh, FTX, my, 2 times in the scene
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:37 Harry Stebbings Politicalization of leadership, I actually spoke to Bron Armstrong about it the other day on the show.
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:02 Harry Stebbings Uh, can I ask, and it's a bit of a strange one, but like, when we look at, kind of, companies today, the power is shifting, I think, back from employees to companies, and we see the potential for leaders to be more Brian Armstrong-like.
20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- ▶ 14:07 Harry Stebbings Like, Brian at Coinbase said on the show that it's challenging, bluntly, when you have crypto winters to keep everyone in Coinbase as motivated as they are when it's, you know, fucking bull market.
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 5:07 Emilie Choi I wasn't really into crypto at the time, and I met with Brian Armstrong. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:45 Emilie Choi First of all, I think Brian Armstrong, our founder, is the key to this because he is very kind of calm and even keeled and balanced regardless of how the market is. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:12 Emilie Choi And I think in some ways, Brian and I mimic that in terms of he sees the future and I try to help him implement that future in an operational way.
- ▶ 11:14 Emilie Choi And I was very wary of this when I got reach outs from LinkedIn after, you know, when I was leaving, I pressure tested this with Brian. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:04 Emilie Choi Brian Armstrong, there's no political culture here, and I don't just mean that about his apolitical post. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:39 Emilie Choi So Brian and our chief product officer and our head of engineering work together to create the product roadmap of our dreams.
- ▶ 30:29 Emilie Choi When I joined three and a half years ago, I talked to Brian. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:04 Emilie Choi Brian started the company with Fred Orson, and their big thing was, I want to see you ship code in the first week, okay, to an engineer.
20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- ▶ 9:40 Nick Shalek But even with the right people, we just benefited enormously from climbing, like the wind being at our back in tech and fintech, and even more from getting to back entrepreneurs like Fred and Brian at Coinbase or Ken at Credit Karma or…
20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
- ▶ 18:53 Harry Stebbings You know, Brian Armstrong obviously wrote the Coinbase piece, and, um, Owen said on the show itself, you know, a company's not a democracy.
20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
- ▶ 8:39 Harry Stebbings I do want to kind of move to your new project now because we've seen some very controversial opinions around firms and the values instilled at firms and whether one should have the freedom to speak about certain topics and shouldn't have…
- ▶ 11:47 Zach Weinberg Is at the end of the day, this is Brian Armstrong's company and it's his decision. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors
- ▶ 29:32 Matt Mochary I know Brian Armstrong at Coinbase. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins
- ▶ 5:37 Harry Stebbings Brian, I've had Charlie Lee, I've had Olaf on the show before. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to Brian Armstrong, founder at Coinbase,
- ▶ 2:13 Harry Stebbings Olaf, it's such a pleasure to have you on the show today, having heard so many great things from the team at USV and Brian at Coinbase, but thank you so much for joining me today, Olaf.
- ▶ 25:58 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you again to Brian Armstrong, founder at Coinbase, for the intro today to Olaf, without which this episode would not have been possible.
20VC: Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on How It All Started With Paul Graham @ YC, The Biggest Surprises About Making The Move Into VC & Why Alexis Believes All The Best Investors Have Operating Experience
- ▶ 18:14 Alexis Ohanian So they're a big point exchange and they would have these regular sessions, Brian, the CEO and Gary as an investor slash like executive coach at that point.