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Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs Jul 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:00 unnamed speaker You would see crews driving around San Francisco and there was like a person in it for years, for years, right? 2 times in the scene

Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 20, 2026 · 3 mentions

Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:35 Rory O'Driscoll Cruise was entirely right that someone's going to build a hundred to two hundred billion dollar company doing autonomy. 2 times in the scene

Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:57 Nabeel Hyatt It's the questions that you ask somebody like Kyle, who, who started Cruises, now doing BotCo, and you ask him why he made the decisions he made in this
  • ▶ 37:57 Nabeel Hyatt Cruz, back in the day with Kyle, I passed.

Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:13:27 Markus Villig And then you have the other tech tree, which is what Waymo and Cruise have been doing, which is very different.

David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:47 David Frankel It wasn't even our biggest hitters, but we were giving through companies like Cruise or Desktop Automation in, in like, that you've never, Desktop Metal in Fund Two, right?

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

  • ▶ 36:57 Scott Gorlick You know, the leading AV players in the space, doing things with, like, the Waymos and the Cruises of the world, and trying to bring their fleets onto Uber is the right long-term strategy.

Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 7, 2023 · 1 mention

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:57 Drew Houston And eventually, I talked to enough of my friends, or my, or my friend Kyle Vogt, who started, who ended up starting the company Twitch, and then started Cruise, the self-driving car company.

20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital Apr 11, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings He was an investor in crypto projects such as Anchorage, Bitwise, Lightning Labs, and OpenSea, and unicorns such as Airtable, Cruise, Deal, Figma, Notion, and many more incredible companies.

20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital Jan 6, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Focus purely on pre-seed, and prior to co-founding Afford, Gurav was a principal at Founder Collective, where he was directly involved with some incredible companies, including Cruise, acquired by General Motors for a billion dollars,…

20VC: True Ventures' Puneet Agarwal on Why EQ Is Going To Separate The Best Firms In Venture Over The Next Decade, The Negatives of Attribution in Venture & What Makes A Truly Efficient Venture Partnership Aug 12, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:53 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your continued support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode this coming Friday with Daniel Kahn at Cruise.

20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark Jul 5, 2019 · 1 mention

20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup Jun 21, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, Justin's also a prolific angel investor, with investments in the likes of Cruise Automation, Rippling, Triplebyte, Zenefits, and more.

20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Zach's made investments in the likes of MParticle, Cruise Automation, Branch Metrics, SkySafe, ProsperWorks, and more.
  • ▶ 4:45 Zach Coelius Cruise Automation was my third, and then a couple other companies in the remainder of that year, and took a big vacation, you know, went trekking in the Himalayas, just sort of tried to find my center again, and then about a year after the… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:30 Zach Coelius You think about Kyle over at cruise.

20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity May 17, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Star City, John did over three million square feet of commercial real estate transactions for clients including the likes of Optimizely, Cruise Automation, Weebly, Zenefits, and many more.

20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals Apr 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Now, Gary is the co-founder and managing partner at Initialize Capital, one of the leading West Coast early stage funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Coinbase, Instacart, Cruise, Flexport, and Opendoor, just to name a few.

20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage Mar 25, 2019 · 1 mention

20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R Nov 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:54 Avidan Ross So now if we take the peace dividends of the smartphone wars and now say we have autonomous vehicle wars going on between Apple and Zoox and Cruise and obviously Waymo being the first into this industry, what we found is that there's a…

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

  • ▶ 2:26 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch three-sixty reviews, share ongoing…
  • ▶ 33:58 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong

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 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:15 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong
  • ▶ 44:51 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong

20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product Oct 26, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:26 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch three 60 reviews, share ongoing…
  • ▶ 30:36 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong

20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins Oct 22, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:23 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch three-sixty reviews, share ongoing…
  • ▶ 44:26 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong

20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai Oct 19, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:26 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch three-sixty reviews, share ongoing…
  • ▶ 34:33 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong

20VC: First Round's Phin Barnes on How The Best Founders Optimize for Learning Per Dollar Spent, What Makes A Truly Special Founder/VC Relationship and Why Pattern Recognition is Another Term For Intellectual Laziness Oct 15, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:33 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch
  • ▶ 40:18 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch three-sixty reviews, share ongoing…

20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black Oct 12, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:35 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch
  • ▶ 25:17 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch

20VC: Learnings From Backing The Likes of Spotify and Airbnb, The World of Growth Investing Today and The Right Way For Investors To Think About Liquidity with Woody Marshall, General Partner @ TCV Oct 8, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:33 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch three 60 reviews, share ongoing
  • ▶ 30:18 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really

20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Should Let Everyone Rip Apart Their Business Idea, How To Construct Frameworks for Success & Why You Should Not Always Test Your MVP with Afton Vechery, Founder & CEO @ Modern Fertility Oct 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:07 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch three 60 reviews, share ongoing feedback,…

20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon Oct 1, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:30 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch
  • ▶ 30:48 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, helping the likes of Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch

20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise Sep 28, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:45 Harry Stebbings It helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch three 60 reviews, share ongoing feedback, facilitate one-on-ones, set up goal tracking, and even run employee…
  • ▶ 32:36 Harry Stebbings It helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch three 60 reviews, share ongoing feedback, facilitate one-on-ones, set up goal tracking, and even run employee…

20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing Sep 24, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:44 unnamed speaker Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and it helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch,
  • ▶ 35:42 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and it helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture, and with Lattice, it's easy to launch.

20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network Sep 21, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:40 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and it helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture.
  • ▶ 30:57 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and it helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture.

20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @ Sep 17, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:52 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and it helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture.
  • ▶ 32:22 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and it helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture.

20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext Sep 14, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:50 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture.
  • ▶ 34:36 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture.

20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures Sep 10, 2018 · 2 mentions

20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density Sep 7, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:45 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture.
  • ▶ 28:49 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture.

20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn Sep 4, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:06 Harry Stebbings And Lattice helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture.
  • ▶ 29:23 unnamed speaker The important job is people operations, whether it be hiring execs, developing managers, retaining that top talent, and building a high-performing culture, and that's why you need Lattice, the number one people management solution for…

20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team Aug 31, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:56 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture.
  • ▶ 28:19 Harry Stebbings Lattice is the number one people management solution for growing companies, and helps companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a really strong company culture

20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI Aug 27, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01 Harry Stebbings Finally, Daniel also has one of the Valley's most impressive angel portfolios, with investments in the likes of Opendoor, Cruise, which was acquired by GM, Gusto, and GitHub, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:06 Harry Stebbings Companies like Asana, Reddit, and Cruise build a strong company culture.

20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita Aug 20, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings Before Facebook, Avichow worked on search and ads at Google, started and sold a few companies, and invested in startups including Optimizely, Boom, Color, Cruise, InstaWork, Case Text, and many more incredible businesses.

20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs Jul 17, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:48 Elad Gil So, you know, it's GM buying cruise, or it's a Dollar Shave Club getting acquired, or things like that in terms of large exits.

20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital Jan 3, 2018 · 1 mention

20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents Aug 21, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, Daniel's also got one of the most impressive angel portfolios in the valley, with investments in the likes of Opendoor, Cruise, acquired by GM, Gusto, and GitHub, just to name a few.

20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital Aug 9, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Before Lux, Renata was a partner at Felicis Ventures, where she worked with some incredible companies, including the likes of Cruise Automation, Dollar Shave Club, Rigetti Computing, and Bonobos, just to name a few.
  • ▶ 27:09 Renata Quintini Invest an Oculus or Cruz.

20VC: Why YC Is The Exact Opposite of Proprietary Deal Flow, Why Having No Follow On Dramatically Aligns Incentives & Why Founders Do Not Have To Be Passionate About Their Idea From The Start with Michael Ma, Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures Jul 26, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:12 Michael Ma People have said YC, you know, has been a client for a while now, and then they keep producing wins, and people are saying this right around that time cruise exit, you're like, well, 2 times in the scene

20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round Mar 20, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:57 Jason Lemkin Everyone loved the fact that they owned one percent of crews in which they owned two percent or four percent or whatever the math is.

20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures Mar 8, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:12 Lee Hower In transportation and mobility, which by the way, last year was, you know, the, the cruise acquisition was sort of a Sputnik moment and, and set up a bunch of things, but I, you know, this is still going to play out over the next 10 plus…

20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective Feb 15, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Therefore, though, today I'm thrilled to welcome Micah Rosenblum, managing partner and founder collective, one of the leading seed funds in the world, with, check this out, investments in Uber, BuzzFeed, MakerBot, PillPack, Coupang, and…
  • ▶ 19:32 Micah Rosenbloom And then we're still are every bit as likely or every bit as it's, it's every bit as possible to have the big ones that, you know, we were in cruise, we're in Uber, Buzzfeed.

20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit' Oct 10, 2016 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 9:09 Mike Maples So here's a recent example, cruise automation, the self-driving car company that just got bought by GM. 5 times in the scene

20VC: What Is Wrong With The VC Industry, Why VC Is A Customer Service Game and Why Car Ownership Will Be A Thing Of The Past with Brett DeMarrais, Partner @ Ludlow Ventures Sep 7, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:53 Harry Stebbings GM purchasing elements of Lyft, like, what's their names who bought Cruise? 2 times in the scene

20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'? Aug 1, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:19 Justin Kan The good ones are like Zenefits, Cruise, which was started by one of my co-founders from Justin TV, Kyle, and my brother, Daniel, and, uh, was just acquired by GM for over a billion dollars.

20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase Jul 11, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:41 Albert Wenger Seeing a similar pattern right now in self-driving cars, if you were an investor in Cruise, you did phenomenally well, and there are these sort of very frothy times, but I think we, as a firm, tend to be more focused on what are all the…

20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve Jun 8, 2016 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings He's currently on the board of Spark's Investments in Cruise, which was recently acquired by General Motors, Fig, Harmonix,
  • ▶ 8:42 Harry Stebbings So I'm intrigued with, with the likes of Oculus and Cruise, which we'll get onto in a minute.
  • ▶ 13:21 Nabeel Hyatt If you look at all of our big wins from Oculus to Twitter to Tumblr to Cruise, like all of these companies were, at the day that we invested, were very hard to actually model the exact market size of that company,
  • ▶ 16:37 Harry Stebbings And, and then moving from Oculus to another killer investment of yours, which is more recent than Oculus, and that's Cruise.
  • ▶ 19:02 Nabeel Hyatt It, I think was the absolute right thing to do for the company. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:20 Nabeel Hyatt And what I mean by that is, look, when we invested in Cruise, there were very few people investing in self-driving. 2 times in the scene

20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures Jun 1, 2016 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 8:26 unnamed speaker The GM acquisition of Cruise is an example of a legacy auto company realizing that it needs novel thinking and software capabilities in-house to be adapting to the changes and how transportation is going to be automated. 4 times in the scene

20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market May 4, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:04 Brian O'Malley This company cruise just got bought by, um, GM and that was, you know, that was a really great investment that the, that spark guys led.
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