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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World Sep 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town Sep 10, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated Aug 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 52:50 Jason Lemkin You need two 40 K in California pre-tax just to pay, to pay the rent. 2 times in the scene

Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek Aug 24, 2026 · 1 mention

Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab Aug 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:17 Rory O'Driscoll That's not the norm, but yes, that is the, that is the California Gold Rush part of the story, and you're going to see it even more written when the pricing happens.

Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal Jul 23, 2026 · 1 mention

Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 16, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:13 Rory O'Driscoll Because stepping back, California is one of the most liberal places in the country in terms of employment, right? 4 times in the scene

Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:47 Nikesh Arora If you take people from California, it's perfectly nice time for them at 10 p.m. or nine p.m., maybe you need to.

Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:27:36 unnamed speaker But again, someone else might decide, no, they really want to save the whales, or save the planet, or run for governor of California. 2 times in the scene

Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 21, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Rory O'Driscoll As it's becoming painfully clear now, no one in America other than us here in California likes the AI trend.
  • ▶ 41:55 Jason Lemkin Micron's had more booms and busts than a California prospector from the 19th century, but how, you can't shoot short three years into the future effectively.
  • ▶ 1:12:29 Rory O'Driscoll It was a no, I mean, Elon knew that they were talking, I mean, so stepping back for people, the question came, because the, the, the, the, the, the conversion had already been blessed by Delaware and California, you can't say, it was, it,… 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 10:45 Josh Browder Four beds in one room, so I'll rent beds for 50 dollars a night, and then they all, um, one company, they live in one room, and I say to them, it's like, it's in California, so it's like Hotel California, where you can't check out until…
  • ▶ 43:39 Josh Browder So as a California LLC, Uninvestable, it has to be Delaware C Corp.

Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:27 Jason Lemkin I think the California will pass its billionaire tax and the Exodus will continue. 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 13:51 unnamed speaker Even in California, it's okay.

OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 2, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 58:54 unnamed speaker Like, you know, California makes it hard to leave too, but if you pay them 13%, they'll let you go to Nevada, right?
  • ▶ 1:02:45 Harry Stebbings Um, leaves California, buys most expensive home in Incline Village. 7 times in the scene

Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 30, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 42:20 Marc Andreessen You know, I'm an immigrant, you know, internal in the US immigrant to, uh, to California. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:12 Harry Stebbings You, you mentioned the multitude of problems that are in the Valley and kind of California more generally.

Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:17 unnamed speaker We are, you're, why would you feel comfortable in California or Washington in New York? 2 times in the scene

Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:39 Rory O'Driscoll In my view, correctly sued the federal government in both California and subsequently in D.C. just for procedural reasons, basically saying that the government's designation of them as a supply chain risk was incorrect, badly done, and,…

Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:51 unnamed speaker For some bunch of guys in California to tell us what to do.

Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 19, 2026 · 1 mention

Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:37 Rory O'Driscoll In late 25, the conversion to a for-profit took place, finally, and it was approved by California and Delaware.

Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 15, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12:32 Harry Stebbings Bryn joins Page and leaving California. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:16:40 unnamed speaker And you can say, well, Gavin Newsom says it won't happen or, but, but no, like the voters in California are going to vote all this stuff in.
  • ▶ 1:17:55 unnamed speaker Cause we've lost people who've left California in advance of this. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:20:23 unnamed speaker California, it's, it's, it's wonderful and terrible and crazy.
  • ▶ 1:24:03 unnamed speaker The cost, I'm not a billionaire, but the cost, the financial cost to me to remain in California is super high. 2 times in the scene

20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets Jan 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:31 Chad Peets I don't want a field sales organization based in New York, for example, and you say, well, how are you covering accounts in California?

Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:23 Harry Stebbings And when we compare that to the US, do they not have the same regulatory compliance issues that say California does, which is why they failed so woefully on that expansion of the railway systems that they wanted to build out?

20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato Dec 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:43 Federico Simionato I was leaving to California to meet the Evernote team, and I was like, what am I going to tell these people?

20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster Nov 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:14:52 Max Altman One of the companies we're really excited about, we invested in is Stand, which is redoing the insurance market in California as all of the big insurance companies are pulling out there, and they're basically saying we can now use fly… 2 times in the scene

OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:34 unnamed speaker They cut their deal with Microsoft, and they cut their deal with the attorneys general, the plural of attorney general, um, of Delaware and California, which means they have been able to implement their restructuring, which means they can…

20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan Oct 10, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:29:11 Rory O'Driscoll No, I'm not going to move out of California, but I just can't bear to give it up, but maybe I'm just stupid.

Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:17 Nick Frosst I'm very defined by California and America, and I think a lot of people are not very happy about that, and I think a lot of people are rightfully upset with some of the developments.

Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:25:34 unnamed speaker If AI adoption keeps happening, this whole wagon train keeps on rolling, and we're all going to be fine, and we're going to get through to California.

Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 10, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 51:32 unnamed speaker I mean, my taxes in California are 50%. 3 times in the scene

Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 26, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:35 unnamed speaker In other words, why are people able to extract this kind of value for their labor and how the, for example, California and us being a non no
  • ▶ 8:13 unnamed speaker The great thing about California is we're in a non-compete state. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:07 unnamed speaker If you ask it to research the current status of California, you know, uh, whatever it is, uh, you know, no auto renewal, whatever that law is, like, it's great.

OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 29, 2025 · 7 mentions

Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 41:52 Jason Lemkin Well, if it's short-term capital gains, right, it's still going to be, even with long-term, you're going to pay 15% in California, 22, you're going to still pay 40% in California, long-term capital gain. 3 times in the scene

Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:34 Severin Hacker Yeah, so Duolingo does not have an office in Silicon Valley or anywhere in California, and the reason is, when we thought about opening one, and of course all of our investors, they said, you gotta open an SF office, and we in fact did go…

OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:59 Rory O'Driscoll Delaware lawyers and California lawyers and New York lawyers who are going to put their kids through college on, you know, the litigation.

Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03:42 Andrew Feldman You know, why are they committed to trains as a mode of transportation, and we can't build a decent train system in the U.S., or in California, or why we have three different standards for train rails, and the rest of the world can, can…

Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:06 Hussein Kanji So like there's a, there's an oral history that the Computer History Museum does in California, and they've gone back and interviewed all of the good and the great in our industry, like top 35, like the founders of our industry, like the…

Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 13, 2024 · 1 mention

Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 11, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:21 Matt Grimm I donated to Hillary Clinton, donated to a number of, uh, House Democratic races, Senate Democratic races, recently hosted a fundraiser for now Congressman, uh, sorry, now, uh, Senator Elect Adam Schiff of California.
  • ▶ 37:47 Matt Grimm Like, the, the British government, like the US government, or like the Australian government, wouldn't be comfortable taking British taxpayer dollars and funneling them straight to annual US in California to buy new kit, or new technology,…
  • ▶ 1:17:07 Matt Grimm A lot of them are in California, man.

Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 1, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:38 Vlad Tenev To me, as, as I've kind of gotten older and, you know, I, I moved to Stanford, California, really because when I was a kid and my family took our first road trip, uh, once we got in a little bit of money and my, my parents felt comfortable… 2 times in the scene

Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:58 Karri Saarinen So, so I think like my frustration living in a U S or in California last decade is that the potatoes here are not very good, or there isn't that much of a variety of things.

Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:25 Daniel Khachab And our France team, they moved first to California and then to Texas, and the German team, I think, went also to Texas, and then

David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:13 David Frankel And now, it's like Waymo, if you get into a Waymo in California, like, your mind is blown, right?

Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:24 Maria Angelidou Um, and then on my way back, you know, my house is, uh, in Menlo Park, California, and so it's 15 minutes away from the headquarters,

Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 12, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:02 Shaun Maguire And then I kind of hacked my way out by doing this thing called the California high school proficiency exam. 2 times in the scene

Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 15, 2024 · 2 mentions

Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:33 Nikesh Arora The difference is, I, I, you know, it's very funny, there was a CEO of a company who, uh, you know, ran for public office in California, and

Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:23 Tom Blomfield You need that, like, boundless energy and optimism, and it's not a natural British state, but it is Californian.

Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 8, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 14:41 Tom Hulme I invested in really brilliant team in California called Massive Health that were acquired by Jawbone.
  • ▶ 1:12:28 Tom Hulme Oh my gosh, I've had a few, but, um, I would say I had one for GV in California where the founder brought his life coach who sat at the room 2 times in the scene

Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:53 Bastian Lehmann And with DoorDash being the, clearly the market leader, um, in most of the U.S., but not in, uh, California and certain regions that

Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 11, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:43 Joe Lonsdale And, you know, you have the best paid prison guards in the world in California, and you have 37 prisons there, and whether or not the people come out and have jobs and succeed, or whether or not they come out and commit more crimes, these…
  • ▶ 18:38 Joe Lonsdale You know, the counties in California were responsible for probation and the state's responsible for state prison.
  • ▶ 48:30 Joe Lonsdale Cause basically we showed that California was actually really efficient in some areas and actually really wasteful, like two X to spending and a lot of other areas.

Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 28, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:01 Sami Inkinen and, you know, the race triathlons and cycling and rode a boat from California to Hawaii with my wife, uh, robot.
  • ▶ 38:03 Sami Inkinen So, so yeah, in, in summer, 2014 from Monterey, California, we hopped into a rowboat, 20 foot, roughly rowboat, unsupported, um, rode across the Pacific Ocean, 2700 nautical miles to, to Hawaii.

Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 31, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 55:29 Dave Kellogg And I said, you know, tell me if I'm wrong here, but it sounds to me that it's a lot like what we do with Nebraska Hill because they sell educational textbooks, and evolution in California is a theory, whereas in Kansas, it's actually just… 2 times in the scene

Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 4, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:03:56 Jason Lemkin All I know is Trump is not a friend of California because he can't get our votes, 3 times in the scene

Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 8, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:20 Sanjit Biswas and I just thought it'd be really cool to, I went to a public school here in California.

Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 10, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:32 Chris Degnan Yeah, I moved out to California in, in the late nineties, and there's a mutual fund company called

Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 23, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:31 Matthieu Rouif We make people come back from California, like, move to, to France or Europe to, like, scale.

Matt Rosenberg: Why You Should Not Hire Sales Leaders From Big Companies | E1068 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 4, 2023 · 4 mentions

Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 27, 2023 · 1 mention

Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:00 Miles Grimshaw The only person I really asked, um, was, uh, was my wife, which were, and I was like, are you really up for moving to California?

David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 11, 2023 · 4 mentions

Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 4, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 44:42 Mudassir Sheikha You know, the region operates in a way that if you, let's say we're, take this to the US, you start a business in California, 2 times in the scene

Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 53:59 Adam Mosseri It was a Wednesday morning in California, um, and so we, that's why we had to pull it up again, so we ended up being like, okay, what's the next
  • ▶ 54:59 Adam Mosseri Yeah, the tough thing about living in the UK and working for a California-based company is the hours, and I have littles.

Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 12, 2023 · 1 mention

20Sales: How to Scale a Career While Scaling a Family; Work-Life Balance; Parental Leave | E1012 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 10, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:05 Lauren Schwartz And actually California doesn't guarantee job protection until you've been in C for two months.

Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:19 Tomasz Tunguz You look at real estate prices in California as there's three to four times what they are in the rest of the country because of the law that was passed in the 19 seventies called prop 13.

Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 5, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 27:24 Mike Salguero We started with a Kickstarter campaign where we raised 215,000 dollars in pre-orders, and there was a, we, we reached out to all these, like, anyone who had ever mentioned grass-fed beef on Twitter, and we were like, hey, we're launching…
  • ▶ 1:20:45 Mike Salguero Yeah, we, um, well, we went out to Greylock to, um, convince them to invest in custom made, which they said they would if we moved out to California and worked for the CEO that they were going to place into the business. 2 times in the scene

Jackie Reses & Kris Dickson: What Happened with SVB? Are VCs to Blame? | E988 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 13, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:56 Jackie Reses You know, there are a lot of, there's a lot of planning around California, where data centers sit, how people manage things in places where

Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 7, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:09 Alex Schultz So I came out and then, then I went to work and eBay, I mean, look, Meg Whitman went and campaigned on banning gay marriage in California.

Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 22, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:09 Mike Krieger But sure, like, uh, you know, I'm really interested in housing policy in California.

Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 20, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:11 Harry Stebbings Why did you move from sunny California to the cold, dark Stockholm? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 49:29 Barry McCarthy and then I'll go off and do back to California and, and discover the rest of my life again.

William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 3, 2022 · 2 mentions

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