competitors

also referred to as: competitor

9 statements across 9 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Oct 18, 2019 by Roy Bahat · across every show →

Everything said about competitors, oldest first

Oct 18, 2019
Prediction Held up
Bahat: Bloomberg Beta Will Never Back a Portfolio Company's Competitor
“The competitive lanes issue, which is if I back you, I'm not going to back your competitors. And so that means that every time we write a check, we're giving up the opportunity cost of serving another customer and of backing other companies in that space.”
Roy Bahat Oct 18, 2019 ▶ 6:49 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
May 1, 2020 negative
Assertion Supported
Corporate Finance Software Competitors Require 16 Weeks to 14 Months Onboarding
“Our competitors, other people that are in the space, they're out there and they're touting that it's so quick to set up. They can get set up in as little as 16 weeks. And that's weeks. That's one of the fastest we found. Others take months or like as little as…”
Wayne Chang May 1, 2020 ▶ 7:11 20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
Sep 11, 2020
Insight
Alex Tew: Copying competitors fails because you cannot replicate their internal DNA
“The problem with competing one-on-one and only looking at what the competitors are doing is that you're sort of obsessing about the output that they're creating, and you can't really replicate what's going on internally. You have an idea of what they might be …”
Alex Tew Sep 11, 2020 ▶ 21:43 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
Nov 11, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Escobari: Competitors deployed funds in 12–18 months, 3x faster than General Atlantic
“Every one of our competitors was running their funds in 12 to 18 months. Deploying capital three times the rate we were”
Martin Escobari Nov 11, 2022 ▶ 18:58 Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 8, 2023 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Cohen: Public travel competitors operate at 50-55% margins versus Navan's 75%
“You're talking about 50, 55% gross margins compared to 75 today.”
Ariel Cohen Feb 8, 2023 ▶ 42:42 Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shlomo: Competitors copy Base44 features within weeks or months
“Every Feature that we put out. We know that's going to take either a few weeks or a few months for competitor to copy, and we see that a lot.”
Maor Shlomo Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 34:01 Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 21, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Emberikos: OpenAI serves its trained models to direct competitors
“Actually, our job is the distribution of intelligence, and this is really unintuitive, but like, we put all this effort into training these models, and then we serve these models to our competitors.”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 0:28 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steckman: Legacy defense primes get paid to fix mistakes, unlike Anduril
“A lot of our competitors, the really big ones, if they make a mistake, They get paid to fix it. I think if we make a mistake, we lose money, and we lose contracts, so.”
Matthew Steckman Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 46:02 99% of Drone Companies Will Die & Why Anduril’s Products Aren’t an Ethics Debate | Matthew Steckman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 28, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Lemkin: Anthropic Doubled Enterprise Pricing and Costs Twice as Much as OpenAI
“It has become a premium product since the end of last year. It is twice the cost of its competitor, right? Especially at the, after four, six, it started to charge enterprises clearly per token per use case. They charge them directly. Prices doubled. It is a p…”
Jason Lemkin May 28, 2026 ▶ 19:06 OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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