CrowdStrike, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where CrowdStrike comes up
20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
- ▶ 0:07 Harry Stebbings The Memo episode with Samir at Excel last month, discussing his investment thesis and rationale for leading multiple rounds into CrowdStrike, and I'm so thrilled today to be joined by George Kurtz, founder and CEO at CrowdStrike, a leading… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:21 Harry Stebbings But that's enough of me, so now I'm so, so excited to hand over to George Kurtz, co-founder and CEO at CrowdStrike.
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings I mean, they are pretty awesome, but I do want to start today with some context, because, you know, we see CrowdStrike today in this incredible growth story, incredible company, but take me back to the start.
- ▶ 5:33 Harry Stebbings How do you think about the benefits and the downsides of serial entrepreneurship, and what did you do differently with CrowdStrike as a result of your prior learnings with Foundstone? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:24 George Kurtz So I became an entrepreneur in residence at Warburg Pincus, got basically crown track off the ground, and wrote 25 slides, got twenty-five million bucks. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 George Kurtz And that allows me some freedoms, you know, I didn't have before I started CrowdStrike.
- ▶ 11:03 George Kurtz And when you think about CrowdStrike and when we IPO'd, we were the largest security company at the time when we IPO'd. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:50 Harry Stebbings He said, in particular, did you ever have a moment of doubt, especially when competitors, Carbon Black, Silence of the World, seemed to be thriving and ahead of you, and the financials weren't as attractive, maybe, with CrowdStrike at the… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:10 George Kurtz Well, you're going to meet new people, and they're going to say, hey, I, you know, I'm with CrowdStrike, and you're going to go, okay, that's 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:11 George Kurtz I really never had any doubts that CrowdStrike was going to be successful.
- ▶ 27:37 Harry Stebbings What do you know now that you wish you'd known at the beginning of your time with CrowdStrike? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:52 Harry Stebbings I just loved doing that episode with George and my word, what an incredible company CrowdStrike is.
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 1:15:51 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode with George Kurtz, founder at CrowdStrike, on Thursday.
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings Anton has led General Atlantic's investments in the likes of Alibaba, CrowdStrike, Facebook, Slack, and Snapchat, and co-led investments in Adyen and ByteDance.
20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Just last week, they were added to the Nasdaq a hundred index, a very special moment for any company, and since their IPO, they've soared from a listing price of 6.8 billion dollars to stay currently valued at 63.75 billion dollars. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:37 Sameer Gandhi You know, this was one of those companies that was very stealthy. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:55 Sameer Gandhi And then, you know, with CrowdStrike, it was a sense of not if, but when. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 Sameer Gandhi I think we had a scale that was, that was longer than it was, you know, I don't think it was not five years, but we felt like, Hey, we could be pushing cloud and having a slower adoption cycle around the Falcon platform, which is really… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:08 unnamed speaker And part of that in the case of CrowdStrike was back to the idea that threat intelligence as a content subscription and incident response are already big enough categories where you can create a company that can have a nice outcome. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:55 unnamed speaker So you look at the incident response services at CrowdStrike, which are, it's a self-contained business. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:56 Sameer Gandhi Part of it is also, when we look at this, and I'll tell you, this is one of the things that came out of this whole CrowdStrike experience, is you get all these coming from the outside, but the reality is that we also have a great inside… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:07 Harry Stebbings Who's the unsung hero from the CrowdStrike team, and what did they do that was so needle-moving behind the scenes, if you were to choose one? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:43 Harry Stebbings I mean, such a joy to have Sam here on the show, and what an incredible journey to that market price today for CrowdStrike. 2 times in the scene
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings David also sits on the board of Current, Greenlight, and WorkRise, and prior to Andreessen, David spent seven years growth investing at General Atlantic, where he invested in the likes of Airbnb, CrowdStrike, Opendoor, Slack, and Uber.
- ▶ 3:43 David George Companies like CrowdStrike, Uber,
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- ▶ 6:01 Laela Sturdy And then at the, you know, later stage, it's truly incredible when you look at companies like, you know, Snowflake, UiPath, CrowdStrike, these companies that are north of five hundred million in revenue growing still at incredibly hyper…
- ▶ 20:22 Laela Sturdy So that's what you see in our portfolio, like some of the best investments, the UI paths and crowd strikes are going to be in strike in the 10 X range, but you'll see many that, that are in five X and north of that as well.
- ▶ 29:31 Laela Sturdy So like my partner, Gene, you know, he has focused a lot on cybersecurity as an example and made amazing investments in CrowdStrike and Zscaler and a number of others, Orca more recently.