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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 59:53 Cliff Weitzman Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett, actually no, it's Benjamin Graham, has this concept of the cigar bot, right?
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:57 Harry Stebbings I've been fortunate enough to have like, you know, a sit down with Charlie Munger. 2 times in the scene
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:26:41 Cliff Weitzman Uh, and so I think at the end of the day, uh, Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett had this philosophy of the 20 punch card investment idea.
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:15 Harry Stebbings It makes me think of, uh, fuck, this is where I wish we could edit video more efficiently, but it's either a Buffett or a manga quote that it's better to buy a great business at a good price than a good business at a great price.
20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
- ▶ 21:01 Ishan Mukherjee If you have really good leadership, where you can kind of manage the incentives well, but in most companies, like in my case, is really high, as Charlie Munger says, it's all about the incentives.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:20 Jonathan Ross The, the only thing I say is, um, you know, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger in the short term, the market is a popularity contest in the long term.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:13 Mike Maples And I actually learned this from Buffett and Munger, is if you know what your circle of competence is, if everything's systematically overpriced, you do fewer deals, because fewer deals meet your conditions.
- ▶ 58:34 Mike Maples I would say different from Fund of the Year, uh, just as a, as an homage, I'd say it to Charlie Munger, uh, because I, I think the world's really gonna miss him, and, uh, I mean, probably of all the investors, you know, I'd say that, that,… 2 times in the scene
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:44 Harry Stebbings Even Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger always say, you know, Mr.
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:16 Eric Vishria Um, but I, I think there's this amazing Munger quote, and he said, you know what?
Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:32 Akshay Kothari I personally would, would have loved, um, Charlie Munger. 2 times in the scene
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:34 Shardul Shah I probably am more in the Charlie Munger school of like the skill.
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:55 Harry Stebbings Incentives though drive outcomes, as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have said before,
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:17 Mario Schlosser And this is some, I forgot who said this to me as well, probably, I don't know, Charlie Munger or whatever, but there's always a, there's always a room you're not in.
Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:38 Harry Stebbings You spoke about your kind of centrality around industry that I can't remember if it's Buffett or Charlie Munger, but one of them said the secret to success in business is weak competition.
Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:35 Harry Stebbings I think it's Charlie Munger or Warren Buffett.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:48 Harry Stebbings What is the old Charlie Munger?
Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:19 Harry Stebbings Um, listen, I'm a big believer in Charlie Munger's statement, which is obviously show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.
Alex Rodriguez: From MVP to CEO; Business Lessons from Warren Buffett & Magic Johnson | E1010 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:37 Harry Stebbings I grew up on Warren and Charlie's lessons.
Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:14 Barry McCarthy I did find myself in Thanksgiving flipping through a Peter Kaufman book about Charlie Munger.
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:47 Brad Gerstner Um, I come across Buffett Munger.
Will Quist: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really “Venture Capital” | 20VC #924 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:39 Will Quist so I've got, like, Charlie Munger is one of my religious figures, um, on my, on my Mount Rushmore, um, and I don't remember, it was some point during COVID, I think, I kind of, in a moment of reflection, I think, I think universal…
- ▶ 21:21 Will Quist And so those are, those are the questions that I, I think, I mean, I think those are at the root of what Charlie Munger asked himself and what Blackstone asked themselves and
- ▶ 22:54 Will Quist Well, immediately, again, using Charlie Munger or a big long only equity manager in the public markets, like they only bet when there's a ton of first and third party data, right?
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:54 Wesley Chan The ability to spot what excellent product people, or work with what excellent product people, you know, it's kind of what, you know, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger said, you know, the standards, the best gift you can give people is…
20VC: Founding Legendary Entertainment and Creating Batman, The Hangover and 300, The Importance of Luck vs Skill in Success, How Relationships to Money Change & Why Velocity is the Most Important Factor in Company Building Success with Thomas Tull
- ▶ 27:30 Thomas Tull His outlook on life, he and Charlie Munger, is always worth
20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret
- ▶ 38:22 Jason Fried That said, like, I like leaders who are very straightforward, so when I think about that, I think about people like Charlie Munger.
20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
- ▶ 6:23 Vlad Tenev There's a people like Charlie Munger who are looking at what's going on,
20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
- ▶ 16:26 Stewart Butterfield I think that's just my natural disposition, and I felt kind of vindicated to a certain extent when I finally read that, uh, Charlie Munger essay. 2 times in the scene
20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
- ▶ 29:15 Angela Strange So that's either their world-class sales, the best at building brands, or they prescribe to the Charlie Munger worldly wisdom and just look at the world in a very different way and bring up like very important things that you're not…
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 9:41 Andrew Wilkinson There's this great Charlie Munger quote, fish where the fish are, and most investors are fishing in these very big fishing holes with thousands of other fishermen.
- ▶ 33:01 Andrew Wilkinson So lately it's been the Dow of Charlie Munger, which is just a collection of quotes of Charlie Munger, who's Warren Buffett's business partner. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit
- ▶ 5:50 Harry Stebbings I'm constantly reading the words of Howard Marks, Charlie Munger in terms of kind of value investing and the principles.
20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games
- ▶ 28:24 Josh Buckley My favorite book is Poor Charlie's Almanac from Charlie Munger.
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 24:57 Bill Gurley It's equally mystifying to Howard, Marx, and just from reading the commentary, Munger and Buffett.
20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital
- ▶ 23:52 Steve Vassallo So this is a book really about Charlie Munger, and it's edited by Peter Kaufman, but it is just filled with these vignettes on 2 times in the scene
20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
- ▶ 21:49 Naval Ravikant Poor Charlie's Almanac by Charlie Munger is another one that I would throw in there.
20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures
- ▶ 4:33 Josh Breinlinger First of all, one of my favorite quotes is from Charlie Munger. 2 times in the scene