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Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 15:31 Matt Murphy So, you know, even to get, you know, the whole syndicate that we pulled together and, uh, I had to give my friend Ravi and Byron a call to bring them into the round as well, which all worked out.
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:57 Jason Lemkin I mean, Byron Dieter was on CNBC or whatever this week saying by far, this is the best round to invest in, right? 2 times in the scene
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:17 unnamed speaker You know, when I go back, I was thinking the earlier days when I started investing, I remember Byron Dieter came up to the old Saster office by, you know, ran the cloud practice at Bessemer. 4 times in the scene
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:33 Harry Stebbings Canva, so late, Byron. 2 times in the scene
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:53 unnamed speaker Like I'll give you a learning I had for what it's worth from Byron Dieter, right? 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:00 Jason Lemkin You weren't Byron Dieter in the trenches with Jeff.
Ara Mahdessian: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier | E1175 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:44 Ara Mahdessian Byron Dieter at Bessemer. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:11 Ara Mahdessian I was talking to Byron's team because they were at, at the conference and my friend happened to walk by and he said hi to me, of course. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:12 Harry Stebbings Like, so Byron and Jason Lampkin were like two of my heroes growing up. 2 times in the scene
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Byron, Amit, Daniel, the list goes on, but thank you so much for joining me.
- ▶ 27:20 Harry Stebbings I heard that Wix was a very controversial one from Byron, um, but when you say that, and you say, you know, the small investment that turned into hundreds, and you're quite nervous about writing, what's the one that's most poignant to you…
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:18 Jason Lemkin Byron Dieter did it with me back in the day at Bessemer of just sitting on your steps with the term sheet.
Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:55 Tooey Courtemanche and, you know, meeting the likes of Brian Feinstein and Byron Dieter and, you know, um, and Will Griffith and, you know.
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:10 Scott Farquhar We had Byron Dieter over, like, at, um, Bessemer.
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:33 Jason Lemkin I had a discussion with Byron Dieter on it recently.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:51 Harry Stebbings I remember reading in the research for this, and then I thought instantly to, we, you know, do a show called The Memo, where we review the investment decision of multi-billion dollar companies, and we've had, you know, Jeremy from Snap,…
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:19 Jason Lemkin And I remember right when COVID hit in, in 2020, Byron Dieter, we did this thing 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:07 Harry Stebbings Like, I mean, Byron was like, ah, we kind of had no idea. 2 times in the scene
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:18 Jason Lemkin But I knew these VCs that had offered me term sheets, the Byron Dieters from Bessemer and Josh Stein from Threshold and the Excel team. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:47 Jason Lemkin And I remember I bumped into Byron Dieter at the airport when I just started investing. 3 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:03 Jason Lemkin And, and a lot of the, the, the great GPs that were investors in me, then the Byron Dieters and others were like, you gotta take a little more risk, Jason.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 33:28 Jason Lemkin I bet Byron, Beater is my favorite, I bet he's on 20 boards.
20VC: Twilio's Jeff Lawson on What It Takes To Create a Tribe, How To Create Anti-Fragile Organisations Through Decentralised Decision-Making and Why Values Are Nice But Principles Are Better
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings Scott Rainey, Byron Dieter, David Cohen, Matt Garrett,
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings Now, I've heard so many great things, obviously, from Byron, Scott Rainey at Redpoint, and many others, but I want to start with some context.
- ▶ 22:52 Harry Stebbings If you think about doing your best work together and having a streamlined and efficient decision-making process, it was so interesting when I had Byron on the show talking about
20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
- ▶ 45:46 Harry Stebbings I cannot wait to bring you our very special The Memo episode for this month with Byron Dieter on Twilio.
20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 3:00 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Byron at Bessemer, from Murat, from George, from Izzel, I mean, so many people, and from your husband, Ansaf.
- ▶ 35:50 Anna Khan For me, it has to be Byron, Byron Dieter at Bessemer. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Byron at Bessemer, Michael Gilroy, Thomas Lafont, and John Fine for providing some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 3:15 Harry Stebbings As I said, I spoke to many of your investors, most notably the wonderful Byron Dieter and John Fine, but thank you so much for joining me today, Kurt.
- ▶ 28:28 Kurt Rathmann You know, Byron would tell you, and I think Thomas from KOTU as well as, you know, as we were going through the partner meeting process, it was, you know, they're sending a zoom link over and saying, Hey, you know, just zoom in at this…
20VC: Guild Education's Rachel Carlson on The Benefits of Scaling Startups Outside of Silicon Valley, Why Mission and Margin Are So Tightly Integrated & Why Mums Are The Most Under-Utilised Asset In The Economy
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings And to date, Rachel's raised over seventy-one million dollars in funding with Guild from some of the very best in venture, with the likes of Michael Deering at Harrison Metal, Wes Chan at Felicis, Byron Dieter at Bessemer, Eileen Lee at…
- ▶ 3:34 Harry Stebbings As I was just saying to you, I heard so many great things from Byron Dieter, Michael Deering, Eileen Lee, Scott Rainey, and there was actually more, but I just have to say those to summarize.
- ▶ 14:24 Harry Stebbings I do want to talk about the wider team though, because when I chatted to Byron, another of your investors, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:34 Harry Stebbings Byron, I love it.
- ▶ 27:33 Rachel Carlson And, you know, Annie and, and Michael and Byron and Scott and Wes have all been, and Aileen, uh, have all been fantastic about really working with me to understand that our long game requires that we think about the mission and the margin… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- ▶ 10:23 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, in terms of the investor that you are, when I spoke to many of your founders, they all mentioned your operations background and maybe your engineering mindset as well, and I had Byron Dieter on the show from Bessemer…
20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
- ▶ 11:08 David Cohen We also had a good offline set of relationships, so it was easy to call up Byron from Bessemer or Orion, you know, a founder group, and have offline conversations about what was going on and how we were going to work together to help make… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a big thank you to both Byron Dieter and Jeremy Levine for the intro today to Ethan, without which this episode would not have been possible.
- ▶ 26:15 Harry Stebbings Very special to have Ethan on the show there, and again, a big hand to him for giving up the time today to come on the show, and again, a big thank you to Jeremy Levine and to Byron Dieter at Bessemer for the introduction to Ethan today,…
20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a big thank you to Byron Dieter for the intro today to Jeremy, without which this episode
- ▶ 2:11 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Byron for the intro, but thank you so much for taking the time out to join me today, Jeremy.
- ▶ 26:54 Harry Stebbings Well, Jeremy, Byron told me it'd be a fantastic episode.
- ▶ 27:10 Harry Stebbings I so enjoyed that episode, and again, a big hand to Byron Dieter at Bessemer for the intro today to Jeremy, without which this episode would not have been possible.
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Now, I always say we interview the best VCs in the world across all spectrums and spheres here at the 20 Minute VC, and we're now moving from the king of cloud with Byron Dieter's show on Monday to the king of consumer with today's episode.