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

  • ▶ 20:41 Harry Stebbings I find actually, when you look at, like, the Collisons as well, they're real historians and truly great

Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue? Aug 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B Aug 5, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 20:36 Rory O'Driscoll But if you're the Collinsons on the other hand, you came in on day one, you still made out great. 4 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 1:12:10 Rory O'Driscoll But about four or five years ago when the team, the Collison Brothers in particular, focused on efficiency,

Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy Jul 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:29 Matt Murphy There are, there are several, um, the one company that I've really admired and, you know, uh, as the kind of like outlier entrepreneurs, we, in my history going back, like you look at the companies that became great, you know, when I was…

Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:58 Harry Stebbings We both know the Collison's, I'm sure, like that chasm for them seemingly will be much larger given their hundred and fifty billion dollar price now. 2 times in the scene

How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 4, 2026 · 1 mention

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 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:09 Max Altman And, by the way, feel free to talk to any of these people about their experience working with Sequoia, and it was like the Collisons, it was like, you know, Dylan at Field, it was the guys at DoorDash, and I'm like, dude, I'm not gonna win…

20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify Nov 14, 2025 · 1 mention

Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:59 Harry Stebbings Again, I would never ask on timing or anything quite that ludicrous, but you go like, yeah, that's, that's an arena I want to be in, or do you sit and watch cheeky pint with the Collison's and go, that's the fucking arena I want to be in,…

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

  • ▶ 1:12:24 Harry Stebbings Like, in SF, I'm competing against Peter Fenton, Marc Andreessen, Vinor Kostler, Eli Gill, the Collisons, Daniel and Nat Friedman.

Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 30, 2024 · 1 mention

Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:37 Harry Stebbings We have incredible founders like the Collisons, like Dylan Field, like Daniel Gross, who are investing and creating a new class of competition.

Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 28, 2024 · 1 mention

Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:44 Harry Stebbings I think it was the Collison's actually who said that like the single best founders, 99% of the time, tend to almost be obsessed about often quite esoteric things, be it like medieval castles in Scotland, you know, weird styles of chess…

Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:50 Harry Stebbings Daniel Eckert, Spotify, you name these great founders that we have, the Collisons at Stripe,

Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 17, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 43:40 unnamed speaker So many founders that we see are going after, like, Shopify, or like, I mean, or Stripe in some way, and I'm like, unbundling Stripe and going up against the Collison's 2 times in the scene

Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 3, 2024 · 1 mention

Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:32 Harry Stebbings You should slam me as an LP if I'm not incredibly honed on, on where I sit, market analysis, where the future venture market is going, just in terms of thoughts, you know, I, by no means comparing myself to any of these names, but the…

20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels Oct 18, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:46 Harry Stebbings So I, I agree with you maybe in the existing role models in tech not being ideally suited, but then I do think of the next generation of role models, the Collisons, Justin Kahn, Alex McCaw at Clearbit.

20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not? Nov 2, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:25 Harry Stebbings If one looks at the likes of the Collison brothers coming out of a small town in Ireland with no Stanford degrees behind them, no Google experience behind them, the pattern recognition from the data wouldn't suggest that they would create… 2 times in the scene

20VC: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on Why We Are In A Golden Age For VC, Why Pro-Rata Is A Lazy Posture and Why He Does Not Focus On Price Jun 18, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:49 Hemant Taneja Luckily, my first investment ended up being Stripe because I had met the Colisons while I was teaching at MIT.
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