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The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel Aug 7, 2026 · 1 mention

Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market Aug 2, 2026 · 1 mention

⁠Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:50 unnamed speaker Well, I mean, I, I think, like, first thing, logically, the, uh, take two companies, take Coca-Cola and Pepsi, or like, you know, two, two companies that compete with each other.

OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:49 unnamed speaker If you're selling Coca-Cola, every day I can switch to Pepsi, right?

20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition) Jan 24, 2026 · 1 mention

20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader Sep 5, 2025 · 12 mentions

20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand Aug 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:07 Max Junestrand It was really close to the Coca-Cola fridge though, so we had all the good benefits of being in a big law firm.
  • ▶ 21:02 Harry Stebbings You're drinking too much Coke, but staying up until midnight with sugar.

What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:30 unnamed speaker I mean, anything before Microsoft and Apple at this stage isn't here and Coca-Cola has been cranking for a hundred years, right?

Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 20, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:47 Nikesh Arora Or, you know, we drank coke, uh, when somebody had a party at our house, and my parents would let me have it because there was excess coke around in the house, coca and coca-cola.
  • ▶ 41:34 Harry Stebbings Yeah, no, just to clarify that, and there was no excess Coca-Cola, and there was no, no romantic relationships.

Larry Shurtz: How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Vertical Teams | E1151 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 10, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:46 Larry Shurtz You know, Coca-Cola is not going to go on record and say, we just closed an amazing deal with Harry.

Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 4, 2024 · 3 mentions

Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 26, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:24 Justin Ishbia I can't tell you I know them from afar, but I think over a period of time with process, we can zero in on a town of knowing who is the, you know, the kind of Coke or Pepsi and partner with the right ones.
  • ▶ 50:32 Justin Ishbia I think Coke hates Pepsi.

Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 14, 2024 · 6 mentions

Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 25, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:55 Harry Stebbings As an investor, and they have these massive logos, your Walmarts, your Nestle's, your Coca-Colas, and you're like, wow, fuck.

Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 4, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:24 Ilir Sela And you order this slice, and you get a can of Coca-Cola or Pepsi, and you sit outside on these metal benches in Brooklyn, sun is setting, and you're just biting into this slice, and you've got this cold can of soda of pop.

Rich Liu: Sales in 2023; How to Onboard, Manage and Scale Reps; PLG vs Enterprise Growth | E1023 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 7, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:29 Rich Liu You know, Coke or Pepsi or, or, uh, sorry, Coke or Walmart or Nike. 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 38:09 Tomasz Tunguz One, Pepsi's website is probably not that much, not that different to Coca-Cola, except for the underlying assets in the text.

Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario: How I Turned Canned Water to a $700M Company | E968 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 20, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:17 Mike Cessario Like Liquid Death would have never made it through a focus group at Coca-Cola.
  • ▶ 39:10 Mike Cessario Four or five big players literally own 98% of the market between Coke, Pepsi, Anheuser-Busch, Molson Coors.

Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 9, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:50 Bob Pittman And part of the problem was, and I sort of thought about the cola stuff, you know, when Pepsi did the Pepsi challenge against Coke, they weren't trying to compete with Coke. 2 times in the scene

Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:16 Kyle Harrison So it's like progressively less about Coca-Cola and more about like LeBron James or whatever.

Will Quist: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really “Venture Capital” | 20VC #924 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:03 Will Quist Listen, I think the classical definition, I, I think there's like New Coke and Coke Classic.

Q-Commerce in Emerging Markets with the CEOs of Airlift, JOKR, & Zepto | 20VC #892 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 4, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:14 Aadit Palicha Red Bull, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, all your other sort of, uh, uh, uh, Frito Lay, like all the other snackables,

20VC: The Memo: Never Before Revealed Metrics; A Full Breakdown of Unit Economics Behind JOKR, How Does Emerging Markets Compare to Developed Economies & The Biggest Misnomers on Quick Commerce with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR Jan 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:50 Ralf Wenzel However, in the U.S. with a large amount of local brands that are not the Unilever's, the Nestle's, the Coca-Cola's anymore, and with those local brands, we can build a more direct way of procurement in the U.S.,

20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition Aug 12, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:59 Ann Miura-Ko So if you see Coca-Cola on the battlefield, you become like the five-hour energy drink, and you take up different shelf space, and you change the size of the bottle.

20VC: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet, What Can Be Done To Drive Further Investment in UK Venture & A Breakdown of Morning Routines, Peloton Favourites and Managing Nerves Jun 21, 2021 · 1 mention

20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz Mar 1, 2021 · 1 mention

20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda Sep 25, 2020 · 4 mentions

20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale Sep 18, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:19 unnamed speaker Well, I've actually never drank alcohol in my life, so I'd probably be a Coke Zero with lime.

20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands Sep 11, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:05 Alex Tew Apple's consistency, or Coca-Cola's consistency, or Nike's consistency is rooted in the values that they have, and the kind of brand principles that they follow, even though that the details may change in sort of years and decades in…

20VC: It's Time To Talk About Drinking; How To Stop, The Impact It Has, How Life Changes Post-Alcohol and The Biggest Misconceptions on Drinking with Ryan Petersen, Founder @ Flexport, Justin Kan, Founder @ Twitch, Matteo Franceschetti, Founder @ Eight Jun 1, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: Clearbanc's Michele Romanow on Why 40% of VC $ Raised Today Goes To Google and Facebook, How To Create A Financing Mechanism For The Repeatable Parts Of Your Business & Why We Need To Stop Celebrating Fundraises May 10, 2019 · 1 mention

20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund Oct 29, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:01 Ron Bouganim If Coca-Cola had some innovation, would they call Pepsi and say, come on over, you know, let's talk about what we've just innovated.

20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained Oct 23, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:57 Semil Shah If you're going to write to the CMO of Coke, Coca-Cola, what are you going to send them in an email?

20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners Nov 28, 2016 · 1 mention

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 Aug 17, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:48 Ben Einstein GoPro, as you identified, is probably one of the most famous examples, probably behind Red Bull, um, which has taken, you know, the most commodity it gets, sugar and water, and turned it into, uh, you know, one of the power, you know, sort…

20VC: Sprig's Gagan Biyani on The 3 Principles Of Fundraising and Building The World's Largest Restaurant Apr 8, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:17 Gagan Biyani So the same way that, you know, a company like Coca-Cola or Procter & Gamble uses branding as a competitive advantage, and you never think of that as a 2 times in the scene

20 VC FF 20: Shaking Up The Food Industry With Willie Biggart @ Spoonfed Nov 6, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:27 Willie Biggart Uh, doing the marketing for Coca-Cola and brands like Orange and, uh, uh, and Lurpak Butter, but it, it was fun.
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