China, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where China comes up
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 5:21 Ryan Smith He was running China.
20VC: Flexport's Ryan Petersen on Why Investor Relations Are Overrated, Why Boards Have To Be Rethought & Why MBAs Do Not Make Bad Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 3:07 Ryan Petersen All the way to the source in China and just bought stuff from Chinese factories and then sold it through the internet in the United States.
20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- ▶ 10:30 Balaji Srinivasan And that's not a theoretical example, by the way, if you Google, uh, you can see in China, there's, uh, skyscrapers that they're literally building in, like, you know, two weeks flat, and I mean literally two weeks from, you know, they put…
20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- ▶ 12:56 Karthik Sridharan I think the way that we view them is they have a lot of structural impediments that prevent them from really getting into the deep levels of interactions that we are handling, and we hope to handle more in the future, because they're…
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 20:00 Ryan Sarver I mean, it's just, you're talking about physical devices, and if you don't have the right hood over your, um, over your manufacturing line, you have too much dust that settles into the devices, and all of a sudden you manufacture a…
20VC: Why Hardware Is Actually Software Wrapped In Plastic & "Of Course Hardware Is Hard, Everything Is Hard" with Ben Einstein, Founder & General Partner @ Bolt VC
- ▶ 4:02 Ben Einstein Um, uh, people, uh, really struggle with manufacturing, and they, uh, you know, build a crappy prototype and then send it to China and expect, you know, thousands of units to come back perfect.
- ▶ 22:02 Ben Einstein We take investors to China and show them manufacturing, uh, and really what goes into it.
20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on Why "All Fund Size Models Are Wrong" and The Lifecycle of Current Venture Funds Is Inefficient?
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 25:49 Michael Kim Certainly, you know, non-US areas like China, perhaps Europe,
20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 15:25 Nikhil Basu Trivedi Someone told me the other day that they think the reason for Apple to do this, and I haven't validated this, is that Apple does have a business in China. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Information's Jessica Lessin on The Future For Online Journalism & The Benefits Of A Subscription Based Business Model
- ▶ 22:30 Jessica Lessin My new, um, what I've been following a lot is actually, uh, someone based in Beijing called Doug Young, who writes about, uh, China and business.
20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
- ▶ 20:51 Sam Lessin Um, I think it's a really interesting, slightly different view of the future coming from a Chinese perspective, which I appreciate.
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 24:36 Chris Morton You know, I think at some point we'll have to go into China with sort of a Chinese language site. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 9:43 James Wise I, I want us to, uh, I want us to be in this fight, and, you know, I don't want, I think, um, the CEO of Alibaba, um, recently said that, basically, it's China and America, uh, in the, in the tech game, and I think, uh, you know, I want to… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 18:05 Niccolo De Masi It's something which already favors companies in places like China and Korea and a number of emerging markets that can access global markets if they can do it well with the local talent pool. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:57 Niccolo De Masi Uh, we're bringing their Wii Fire game from, from China, where it's the, where it was the number one grossing game, and it's made vast amounts of money in just China alone. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 3:29 Christian Hernandez One of the first platforms for truly, you know, app ecosystems being built on top of them, um, and seeing how phones were marketed in China versus Brazil versus Europe.
- ▶ 13:49 Christian Hernandez And you saw that in China actually a fairly long time ago where, you know, QQ, um, the original Tencent app before WeChat was actually literally this all-encompassing consumer portal inside of a mobile device because that was the primary…
20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming
- ▶ 26:47 Niccolo De Masi There'll be a vibrant mobile entertainment market there, just like there is in China today.
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 13:25 James Cameron You've got this country that's got, what, like, eight million people, and it's got more NASDAQ-listed companies than all of Europe, plus China, plus Japan combined.