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Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 16:26 Harry Stebbings So it's five X that, or capital 2 times in the scene
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:11 Harry Stebbings Today, Open Router announced their round, which was, I think, one hundred and fifty million at a 1.3 billion led by Capital G.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:18 Fabien Pinckaers Capital G.
- ▶ 55:37 Fabien Pinckaers I mean, we are working with Sequoia, uh, Capital G, BlackRock, Mubada, it's just the best, the best you can get.
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:47 Laela Sturdy Um, gosh, we don't, I, like, who knows that, um, but I think they will open back up, and, um, when they open back up, I think you're gonna see a ton of great companies go public, and I think, you know, you asked the question about M&A, I…
- ▶ 43:25 Laela Sturdy We're not going to go into specifics on any positions, so, but we're managing seven billion, um, uh, is how AUM, um, capital G right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:28 Harry Stebbings Which venture investor do you most respect and learn from outside Capital G? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 Harry Stebbings Google Ventures does Series B and so does Capital G. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:53 Harry Stebbings What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you joined Capital G?
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:22 Daniel Dines So I said basically no to Sequoia to our Series B, and we, Series B was led by Excel US, and Capital G, Kleiner Perkins, and some other people participated in, but I said no to Sequoia.
20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings To date, Eddie's raised over a hundred and forty one million dollars for Curated, from some of the best, including Capital G, Greylock, and Forerunner, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Testing is Inefficient and Slows You Down, Why It is Impossible To Hire Good PMs so Stop Trying & 3 Key Signals The Best Engineers Present with Grant LaFontaine, Founder & CEO @ Whatnot
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings To date, Grant has raised over two hundred and twenty-five million dollars for WhatNot from the likes of Capital G, A-sixteen Z, YC, Scribble Ventures, and Wonder Ventures, to name a 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:29 Harry Stebbings As I said to you beforehand, I heard, like, the most lovely things from Anu, from Alex and Layla at Capital G, from Dustin at Wonder, from Elizabeth at Scribble.
20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Including Excel, General Atlantic, Capital G, IVP, and Warburg Pincus, to name a few.
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- ▶ 14:22 Harry Stebbings From Capital G on the show.
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm excited to welcome back Layla Sturdy, General Partner at Capital G, Alphabet's independent growth fund with investments in the likes of Stripe, UiPath, Looker, Robinhood, and Lyft, to name a few. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:15 Harry Stebbings Capital G.
- ▶ 2:38 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you make your way into what I always call a wonderful world of venture and come to be one of the GPs at Capital G today? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:14 Laela Sturdy So I think, you know, a capital G we've invested a significant amount in our resources to help companies scale.
- ▶ 16:21 Harry Stebbings It's like, you know, Capital G is a very interesting structure as an entity in itself, because obviously, OneLP, Evergreen, what does that mean in terms of how you think about portfolio construction? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:18 Laela Sturdy So, you know, a capital G, the way that we've structured our team is that the general partners have a lot of autonomy to focus on areas and companies that interest them most. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:13 Harry Stebbings Okay, what do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started at Capital G eight years ago?
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
- ▶ 45:53 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode with Leila Layla Sturdy at Capital G on Thursday.
20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
- ▶ 0:02 Harry Stebbings We have a new president, and we have a new podcast, and diving straight into today, but a few weeks ago, we had David Lowey, founder at Capital G, on the show, and this week, I'm thrilled to welcome one of his rockstar SaaS and data… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:49 Harry Stebbings However, it's now time for the show, and I cannot wait to introduce Derek Zenuto, General Partner at Capital G.
- ▶ 3:21 Harry Stebbings So how did you make your way into the world of investing, and how did you come to be a partner today at Capital G's? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 Derek Zanutto Yeah, I think it's one of the best things about working at Capital G is the fact that we have one LP, and that LP happens to be Alphabet. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:09 Harry Stebbings What's the hardest element of your role with Capital G today? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:20 Harry Stebbings So good to have Derek on the show there, and absolutely love seeing the internal machinations of Capital G, and
20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 4:06 Sarah Cannon Training to be an economist, and then actually decided to join Google's Growth Equity Fund, and picked a fight with my now partner Jan Hammer, and that's how I ended up at Nindex.
20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To date, Toma and the team have raised over five hundred and twenty million dollars with Gusto from some of the industry's leading investors, including General Catalyst, Capital G, Clyde and Perkins, T-Row, Fidelity, and more, and then… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:53 Harry Stebbings You do have an amazing culture, and I spoke to Leila at Capital G, who's obviously invested in the company and a mutual friend, and she asked specifically, and I saw it specifically, what do you do deliberately to create the culture that…
20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings To date, UiPath has raised over nine hundred and seventy seven million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the world, including Sequoia, Excel, Meritech, IVP, Capital G, Kleiner, CoTo, and more. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings Now, not many former guests on the show can claim to have that on their resume, and if all of that was not enough, Heather's also a board member of at the global behemoth Atlassian, and I do also want to say a huge thank you to both Pete…
20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Thumbtack has raised over two hundred and seventy million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the industry, including Sequoia Capital, Capital G, Google's Growth Arm, Ali and Hattie Partovi, Scott and Siam Bannister,…
20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings So joining us today, we have Louis von Ahn, founder and CEO at Duolingo, the leading language learning platform with over a hundred million users, and they have backing from some of the best in the investing world, including the likes of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:24 Harry Stebbings Huge thanks to Leila at Google Capital or Capital G for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Lewis.
- ▶ 24:06 Harry Stebbings It'd be fantastic to see those, and again, a huge thanks to Gene and Layla at Capital G for the intro to Lewis today, without which today's episode would not have been possible, but before we leave you today,
20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings They've raised over seven hundred million dollars in venture funding from some of the world's best investors, including the likes of Founders Fund, Google Capital,
20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade
- ▶ 1:01 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a massive thank you to Michael Kim at Sendana, Cara Nortman at Upfront Ventures, and Layla at Capital G, and many more incredible individuals for suggesting to have Kirsten on the show.
20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a big thank you to two prior guests on the show, Leila Sturdy at Capital G and Jenny Lefcourt at Freestyle, for the intro to Roseanne today, without which this episode would not have been possible.
- ▶ 28:14 Harry Stebbings And again, I'd love to say a big thank you to Roseanne for giving up the time today to come on the show, and an even bigger hand to Jenny Lefcourt at Freestyle and to Layla Sturdy at Capital G for the introduction today, without which this…
20VC: Inside Google's Growth Fund & The 3 Criteria They Look For With Potential Investments with Laela Sturdy, General Partner @ CapitalG
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings And there really is no cooler, different type of fund to do this week on than Capital G, previously known as Google Capital. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:42 Harry Stebbings However, enough from me, so I'm now delighted to hand over to Leila Sturdy, partner at Capital G.
- ▶ 3:05 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to get started today by discussing a bit about you and how you made the transition from operations at Google to VC with Google Capital. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:32 Harry Stebbings And I think it'd be great to start then with a slight definition of Google capital. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:31 Harry Stebbings You mentioned, obviously, the growth nature there of Google Capital, and it's a very nice change for us on the show in terms of we often spend a lot of time in the early stages of company building and investing, where it's all about the…
- ▶ 11:11 Harry Stebbings Or does it need to be more given the growth nature of Google Capital? 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:14 Harry Stebbings And then the final unpicking, I promise, and that's unit economics, and I'm intrigued because obviously Google Capital investing kind of growth stage, is it not a paradox growth and a focus on unit economics to an extent?
- ▶ 20:13 Harry Stebbings And we mentioned earlier the kind of incredible services that you provide alongside just the Google Capital Capital.
- ▶ 23:34 Harry Stebbings And then let's do pros and cons of working with Google capsule.
- ▶ 25:11 Harry Stebbings It's been amazing to hear about Google Capital internally and the internal machinations, so thank you so much for sharing that with us.
- ▶ 27:23 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's episode with Capital G partner, Gene France.