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Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Oct 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Aug 11, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 14, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jun 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jun 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jun 16, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Apr 28, 2025 · 1 mention

Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 13, 2025 · 1 mention

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