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Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 1:01:11 Harry Stebbings Dear friend, Shaquille Khan, who is, um, Daniel X, right hand man.
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 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…
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:03 Jason Lemkin I know the Spotify guy that Harry's close with, uh, runs the scanning company to that.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:34:16 Cliff Weitzman So hey, uh, the CEO is not Daniel Ek anymore.
Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:46 Harry Stebbings I ping Daniel Ek and be like, come on, dude. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:07 Harry Stebbings I'm so used to really fine tune Daniel Ek.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:52 Sebastian Siemiatkowski And, and, and Adyen had just signed with Daniel X, Spotify, my neighbor.
- ▶ 43:37 Sebastian Siemiatkowski At this point of time, you know, Daniel Ekker, Spotify is getting all the tech credibility.
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:03 Max Junestrand Um, I was super nervous the first time I met Daniel Ek. 4 times in the scene
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:14 Harry Stebbings I'm super close to Alex at Deal. 2 times in the scene
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:26 Alex Bouaziz Like, if you look at the successful Swedish founders as well, right, like the Klarna's of the world, or the Spotify's of the world, like Daniel, Sebastian, they kind of paved the way for those founders to be able to build great companies,…
Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:22 Harry Stebbings Two of my dear friends, Alex Nordstrom and Gustav Soderstrom, who've just become the two co-CEOs of Spotify, um, in a really interesting new structure, obviously, um, replacing Daniel.
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:17 Martin Mignot You know, we had just invested in Last.fm, which was a, you know, a totally reasonable outcome, but it was, we saw how the sausage gets made in that industry, and the power of the labels, and we're like, gosh, this is impossible to make… 3 times in the scene
Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17 Harry Stebbings Like, you know, I'm friends with Daniel at Spotify, and it's a hundred and forty eight billion now, and I think he feels a lot better now it's a 148. 3 times in the scene
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:07 Philipp Freise You know, if you're the founder of Helsing and you choose Daniel Eck, because Daniel Eck understands what long-term business building means, you know, and you don't want those kind of fast buck financial orientated early stage VCs that,…
- ▶ 21:49 Philipp Freise No, I have incredible respect for the benchmarks and the Harry's and the Daniel X who found those types of opportunities, but you know, you asked me my lessons learned from VenturePark.
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:33 Johannes Reck The other people, you know, I'd say Daniel Ek, for instance, um, you know, is probably, you know, one of the world's best people at like product, right?
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:27 Harry Stebbings I, I love Daniel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:58 Larry Aschebrook And, and Daniel Ek came out, and I think one of the smartest things he's ever done, and he agreed with the artists. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:18 Larry Aschebrook And when they turn that faucet on a shares, when they, when they buy into your strategy, when Daniel Lux says, Hey, you guys are interesting to us.
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:13 Harry Stebbings We should, we should instead look at a Swede who creates Spotify and changes the music industry and creates a hundred billion dollar company.
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:28 Taavet Hinrikus And we can talk about Danny Alecke as the first company was e-commerce.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:06 Shervin Pishevar And that's how I actually met Daniel and Shaq through Yuri.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:46 Torsten Reil So the seed was eight and a half million euros, but then we were lucky to, um, have Daniel Ek and Prima Materia invest a hundred million euros, um, about four months later or so. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:57 Torsten Reil Then Daniel and Prima Matera came in, um, again, European.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:01 Harry Stebbings Defense is one huge area of expenditure for, for governments and for people, um, but another is health, and you actually led the investment in NECO, which is, I've spoke to Shaq, obviously, before and Daniel before. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:11 Harry Stebbings We, we mentioned Daniel calling you and you flying to Stockholm. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:22 Harry Stebbings Um, biggest lesson from working with Daniel Eck for many years. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:18 Klaus Hommels Uh, and as Daniel said last, 2 times in the scene
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:26 Kevin Hartz Daniel. 2 times in the scene
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:30 Harry Stebbings I find the greatest entrepreneurs always make money early, whether it's Daniel Ek making websites or Toby with Shopify, the best start early.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:20 Harry Stebbings When you look at Daniel Eck at Spotify, I mean, I'm sure he'll say this, he said it publicly. 3 times in the scene
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:10 Harry Stebbings I mean, I think Daniel has been quite open before about saying, you know, he went to Series A investors and almost said, you have a CEO replacement because I'm not too keen on this job. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:47 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Daniel being obviously incredible, but have turned into obviously incredible founders.
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:50 Harry Stebbings Daniel Eckert, Spotify, you name these great founders that we have, the Collisons at Stripe,
Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:11 Nicolai Tangen So before we had, uh, Daniel Ek or Spotify on, you know, I have to learn about the music industry.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:38 Harry Stebbings Has a net negative impact on 99.9% of companies unless you are an exceptional allocator of capital like he is, like Daniel Ek is, like very, very few generational founders are. 3 times in the scene
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:17 Harry Stebbings You know, Daniel Eckert, Spotify, an incredible founder of our generation, would have been told on all social platforms, on all discussion levels, this doesn't work.
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:58 Scooter Braun We're both friends with Daniel Ek, who you're seeing lately. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:20 Scooter Braun And then Daniel Ek came along and transformed everything. 6 times in the scene
Rob Lacher: How I Scaled to $600M AUM; Hiring Tips for VCs; Venture Capital in Europe vs USA | E999 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:03 Rob Lacher Take, take Daniel, who let the hundred million seat round in Helsing, or Zero's A round.
Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings As I said, Ali, Hadi, there was Daniel Ek, Avid, I know your whole family history now, but thank you so much for joining me, Dara.
- ▶ 3:29 Harry Stebbings I mean, speaking of putting in the work, Dara, you had an incredible run at Expedia, and I chatted to our mutual friend Daniel Ek before the show, 6 times in the scene
Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:02 Harry Stebbings As we just said, I've stalked you for, for many, many weeks now with, with references from Gustav, from Daniel, from so many others.
- ▶ 5:02 Harry Stebbings Um, but I do have to ask you, um, I, I spoke to, you mentioned team, I spoke to Daniel before, I spoke to Shaq before, and they said, you've got to ask, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:32 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Daniel and how he was so central to your decision to move to Spotify. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:38 Barry McCarthy I will say very much to Daniel's credit. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 Barry McCarthy You know, what has made, um, among the things that it makes Reed Hastings such a great executive, and I would say Daniel, great executive.
- ▶ 18:59 Barry McCarthy Whereas Reed, um, at least at, at Netflix, for the most part, not entirely, but for the most part, and Dan, and Daniel, when he pivoted into, into, um, podcasting, have been able to anticipate reading streaming, let's say, by way of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:34 Barry McCarthy And then I think it's important if you disagree, Danny was particularly good at this at articulating the reasons why you are deciding to do whatever it is you decided the business should be doing at that particular point in time.
- ▶ 28:45 Barry McCarthy I mean, the amount of time that Daniel invests in allowing the organization to work its way through the decision-making process, when in fact, he's already made the decision. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:51 Harry Stebbings You've seen Daniel manage a board.
- ▶ 37:23 Harry Stebbings And it's, I spoke to Daniel before the show, as I mentioned, he said the one thing I just had to ask you most of all was your, he said, ask him about demand creation theory and your ideas about whether the market is efficient. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:18 Barry McCarthy It's the thing that propelled Daniel to success.
Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:17 Harry Stebbings I do want to talk about different management styles, and, you know, I spoke to Daniel actually about this, and he said, you know, you really have to dig in on, you know, Hugo's time both in Asia and then obviously US, because it's very…
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:44 Emil Michael Anyone who's as loyal as that guy was to Daniel and as sort of humble and, and works harder than him. 2 times in the scene
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:22 Gustav Söderström Trying to figure out what to do, and through a mutual friend, I met Daniel Ek, the founder and CEO, the co-founder and CEO of Spotify, and he showed me this amazing application, because Spotify already existed as an application on desktop,…
- ▶ 4:10 Harry Stebbings The other question I have is, you know, I, I've known Daniel for the last few years, but Daniel, 2008, can you just take me back? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:37 Harry Stebbings Um, final, final thing on your shows I want to touch on before we dive into basically a free-for-all from Daniel Schack, Alex Nordstrom, who finally actually responds, takes days for this man. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:45 Gustav Söderström I think back to, you know, what I liked about Daniel is he models that behavior.
- ▶ 51:09 Harry Stebbings You and Alex, I believe, you know, were the only ones who survived multiple layers of leadership transitions, um, obviously with Daniel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:29 Harry Stebbings This one was actually from Daniel, which is, what is the future of podcast and audio? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:42 Gustav Söderström As you can imagine, Shaq is not a big friend of, of like product processes and reviews and stuff, but Daniel has managed to, to, to,
Matt Mullenweg: How I Founded WordPress; Storytelling Tips; How to Give Feedback | 20VC #905 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:49 Harry Stebbings I, I listened to you on Tim Ferriss, and you said, you know, you would, um, if you could change one thing, if you knew you were gonna die in a year, it would be like, spend more time with friends, um, and correlating that to happiness, and…
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:57 Sonali De Rycker Yes, we dreamed, et cetera, but it was never at the same kind of range of what it eventually of what Daniel like was able to achieve with that business.
- ▶ 51:04 Harry Stebbings It's just a case of how many can you be in, and anything that takes you away from being in the next Drew Houston, or next Daniel Ek, or you name it, you want to remove, but you don't have to be in every one.
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:18 Chris Sacca Oh man, last time I saw you, we were in Stockholm, sharing some Heinekens on stage at Daniel X event, which is an all-time event, uh, and so it's really fun to keep, to, uh, to catch up with you again, man.
- ▶ 1:24:12 Chris Sacca Let's, uh, let's have Daniel invite us back to Stockholm so we can rage again.
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
- ▶ 3:29 Chris Sacca Last time I saw you, we were in Stockholm sharing some Heinekens on stage at Daniel X event, which is an all time event.
- ▶ 1:13:44 Chris Sacca Let's have Daniel invite us back to Stockholm so we can rage again.
20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
- ▶ 0:01 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and following our incredible episode with Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek on Monday, we return to the wonderful world of venture with a legend of the industry.
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
- ▶ 34:26 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode with Daniel Eck, founder and CEO of Spotify, on Monday.
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
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings With that, I do want to say a huge thank you to Daniel at Spotify, Quentin Clark at GC, Sridhar at Neva, and Dez Trainer at Intercom for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 2:37 Harry Stebbings I've become the biggest fan of your writing over the last few weeks, I have to admit, but I've also heard many, many good things from Daniel at Spotify, and from Quentin at General Catalyst, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 26:05 Harry Stebbings I totally understand that that's important, but it also seems to kind of go in the face of, like, fast decision making and, like, speed and iteration, and I spoke to Daniel Eck at Spotify before the show, and he mentioned his or your… 2 times in the scene
20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings It's also one of the favorites of Daniel Eck at Spotify, Peter Thiel, and Reed Hastings at Netflix. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:45 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, because we chatted before about Daniel, obviously at Spotify, who made the introduction. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings For really helping me think through some fantastic questions today, as well as Daniel Ek, Sid at GitLab, Austin at Lambda, Roger at Untitled, and then Shahid at Loom.
- ▶ 3:37 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many good things from Shahid, from Shaq, from Daniel, from Sid, from Austin.
- ▶ 12:51 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, I spoke to Daniel Eck from Spotify, one of the founders that you've met before, and he asked a kind of very specific question, but taking that strategy kind of one step forward, what were the ways that you did learn about…
- ▶ 21:46 Harry Stebbings And we mentioned Shaq and Daniel before the call. 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 16:25 Woody Marshall But, you know, by the way, it's a story that plays out over and over and over again every day, you know, whether it's talking about Daniel at Spotify hiring his full management team, including Barry McCarthy as CFO, and Barry's the former…
- ▶ 25:08 Woody Marshall You know, I'll mention Daniel Ek just because it's one that's top of mind for me, but, you know, his clarity of vision, the long game focus, I think is impressive, and we don't spend time talking about, you know, just the here and now. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Explosion of First Time Funds, Only 1 Mega Fund Raised: What The Heck Happened in Q1 Venture Markets with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 24:05 Harry Stebbings Create that inspiration and determination within European entrepreneurs that they can be the next Daniel Ek, and that Europe is coming as the force that we believe it to be.
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 8:47 James Wise Now the CEO is a visionary.