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Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 9:42 Rory O'Driscoll The first was David Sachs, the former AI czar, who basically said, this is rubbish, stop.
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:15 unnamed speaker And I look at, I read the Dario statement, I read David Sachs' statement, I read all the other stuff, and you can literally see everyone according to their rights is correct. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:00 Jason Lemkin It's one thing that, you know, David Sachs and Marc Andreessen and others were pointing out that the number of, uh, recs out there, job specs for developers and engineers is up, right? 2 times in the scene
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:32 Jason Lemkin I was with David Sachs and I did a Q and A 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:10 Jason Lemkin Like I ain't that visionary, but, but, but I think if you ask Paul Graham or, or David Sachs, they would say, Harry, listen, I mean,
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:59 Jason Lemkin Why do you think David Sachs moved?
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:26 unnamed speaker It's like you have Thiel, you have Saks, you know, et cetera.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 9:30 Harry Stebbings In terms of losing the way, and this is unfair of me, but I am intrigued, I take it you're on the Parker side, on the Parker versus Sachs?
- ▶ 17:42 Max Altman I cannot lose to Andreessen, I can't lose to David, and I'm like, yo, this guy, like,
AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:40 Jason Lemkin But the first act could be to undo everything, everything that, that Saks and buddies have done.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:30 unnamed speaker If we could have just, if we could have just waited for our buddy David Sachs to get in, then I think we would have really had a fun returner on that one.
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:48 Jason Lemkin but I, you know, I know, I know David and Jason a little bit.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:04 Jason Lemkin You know, uh, you know, Trump has already lassoed into Stargate with David Sack.
- ▶ 1:24:28 Jason Lemkin And David Sachs is making it happen.
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:20 unnamed speaker Like they're not going to last like the Elons and the Davids and all the techies aren't going to be there for four years.
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:11 unnamed speaker I think all the very active tech people from David Sachs to Andreessen Horwitz, their approach has not been AI is dangerous. 6 times in the scene
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:27 Jason Lemkin Listen, I don't, I remember I might have this a little bit wrong, but I remember I was around when David raised craft ventures one. 3 times in the scene
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:23 unnamed speaker Maybe David Sachs can help us with the ratio, like a burn ratio.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:53 Shervin Pishevar I think, I think during the, you know, I, I was an early, um, person to come out and support Trump, and I co-hosted David Sachs' fundraiser with Chamath back in, uh, June six, um, and publicly endorsed Trump, and, you know, and most of my,… 2 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:58 Delian Asparouhov Obviously we're seeing this kind of play out in the drama sphere of Twitter over the past 24, 48 hours with Parker Conrad, Vinod, Mike Solana, David Sachs, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:34 Harry Stebbings What are your views on some of David Sachs' views? 4 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:10 Harry Stebbings Do you think David Sachs and Keith Raboi are underselling their potential by being full-time venture investors? 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:25 Jason Lemkin The David Sachs popularized and, um, I've watched different companies. 2 times in the scene
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:14 Harry Stebbings It's because they listen to an all-in podcast and David Sacks says something, and they're like, ah, there we go.
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:59 Jason Lemkin It's like, and I do, I, David Sachs, who I, I, I have a ton of respect for, you know, I, I, you know, he's raised almost four billion for Kraft since I started investing, right?
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:35 Jason Lemkin David Sachs did an opener with me. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:44 Jason Lemkin And David Sachs' response was, shh, don't tell anybody, right?
20VC: What are the World's Tech Leaders Running From? Fear? Insecurity? Poverty? What Drives the Best with Orlando Bravo, Bill Ackman, Dara Khosrowshahi, Parker Conrad, Tobi Luttke, Brian Armstrong and more..
- ▶ 12:07 Parker Conrad David was not really interested in making Zenefits successful. 2 times in the scene
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:09 Hunter Walk I thought, you know, David Sacks wrote a very smart blog post, um, last summer or last spring at a point at which some of the common wisdom was like, for every company, make sure you have three years of cash and so forth.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:11 Jason Lemkin And I actually flipped it around and I asked David Sachs, Keith Ravoy, Aileen Lean, and Sacha Patel, all, all the best, how they handle it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:36 Jason Lemkin Which is what I suspect David Sachs has done. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:46 Jason Lemkin There was a famous tweet that David Sacks had, um, before he started investing in craft that all the good ideas in SAS were done after he sold Yammer because yeah, this was, I
- ▶ 1:05:41 Jason Lemkin Gary Tan and Keith, Roboy and David Sacks and Stuart. 2 times in the scene
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:35 Emil Michael David Sachs tweets about this a little bit, and it's sort of my derivation of it, but it's make sure that you know what you're burning, and if your revenue has to, if your growth has to come down from 80% to 30%,
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:43 Harry Stebbings I think it was Chamath on the panel that you and Gurley and Jake Allen and Sachs did together who said, you would never be investing in this period of uncertainty with valuations being so transient and fluid because it's almost…
Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:40 Harry Stebbings Um, but I want to ask, and just kind of speaking of that, I did speak to Gary Tan before the show, and he mentioned, obviously, um, that tough time and, you know, sex hiring a PR firm, and my question to you was just like, in that moment,… 4 times in the scene
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:22 Harry Stebbings Now, Peter Boyer, David Sachs, you name it.
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 20:06 Harry Stebbings Now, Keita Boyer, David Sachs, you name it, can tweet anything and thousands of millions and millions see it.
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- ▶ 13:36 David Friedberg David Sachs does a good job kind of framing this, which is like, look, we're not price makers, we're price takers, like, you know, let the market set the price, and we'll determine if the business is a good business or not, and if we want…
20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
- ▶ 2:24 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Aperva at Summit Peak, and then also from David Sachs.
- ▶ 7:12 Justin Fishner-Wolfson You must have gotten the poker from David Sachs, I suspect. 2 times in the scene
20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Before joining CRV, George was a general partner at Moor Davidao Ventures for over six years, and I'd also want to say a huge thank you to David Sachs, Ev Williams, Sargeur, Max Cazor, Anna Khan, for some amazing questions and suggestions…
- ▶ 15:36 Harry Stebbings I do want to touch on some of the businesses you've backed, though, because I spoke to some of the founders before the show, and specifically two, and one that was a very special one was when I chatted to David Sachs at Yammer. 14 times in the scene
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 31:51 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you a fantastic episode with David Sachs at Craft Ventures on Monday.
20VC: How To Scientifically Measure Product-Market Fit, How To Efficiently and Accurately Segment Users Into Cohorts, Why Investors Analysing CAC's at Pre-Seed Is Not Useful & How To Determine Between Customer Feedback to Accept vs Reject with Daniel Eric
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings ...on an ongoing basis, and Daniel's raised funding from the likes of David Sachs at Craft Ventures, Jeff Morris Jr., Todd and Rahul from Superhumans Fund, and then also Brianne Kimmel at Work Life Ventures, and prior to founding Viable…
- ▶ 2:26 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things, well, from a range of people, from David Sass to Jeff Morris Jr. to Todd Goldberg and Rahul, so thank you so much for joining me today, Dan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:52 Harry Stebbings But listen, Dan, as I said, I had so many great things from Todd, from Jeff, from David.
20VC: TravelPerk's Avi Meir on Why 2021 Will Be A Record Year For Business Travel, The 3 Priorities For All Founders During COVID, What VCs Can Do To Really Support Their Founders In A Recession
- ▶ 29:31 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an amazing episode with David Sachs, founder of Craft Ventures, on Monday.
20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal
- ▶ 23:02 Harry Stebbings In terms of this kind of heavy focus on product perfect and really getting that right time, you just raised a phenomenal round from many friends and guests of the show, including our wonderful advert for this show, Lightspeed Kleiner,…
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings And I do also want to say a huge thank you to David Sachs for the intro to Auron today, without which this episode
- ▶ 2:42 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to David Sachs for the intro, but thank you so much for taking the time out to join me today.
- ▶ 17:50 Harry Stebbings So I've got a question from the man who introduced us, David Sachs, and he asked first, how did the Houzz deal come about, and what was the story there?
- ▶ 23:50 Oren Zeev I've only been introduced to your blog when you, uh, when you reached out, and, uh, or actually when David reached out, David Sachs, and, uh, I, I guess.
- ▶ 30:12 Harry Stebbings And as I said, since this episode was recorded, Oran's been so kind and supportive to me and the show, so I'd like to say a huge thank you to him, and again, a big hand to David Sacks for the introduction, without which this show would not…
20VC: Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz on The Lessons Learned Scaling Eventbrite to Unicorn Valuation & $3Bn in Gross Ticket Sales
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings The largest event technology platform, powering over two million events around the world each year, and they've raised over three hundred and thirty million in funding from some of the greats of the industry, including Roloff at Sequoia…
20VC: Khosla's Keith Rabois on How To Create Sustainability Behind Growth, How To Assess The Potential Of Individuals & Teams & The Biggest Takeaways from LinkedIn, Paypal & Square
- ▶ 24:40 Keith Rabois You know, the management philosophy I was taught originally from David Sachs, actually, back at PayPal, was what you want to do with every employee is push consistently and constantly push, uh, the parameters of their ability, and until… 2 times in the scene
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 19:00 Dave McClure Um, initially when I started at PayPal, Dave Sachs was my boss who went on to run Yammer, which got acquired by Microsoft for about a billion bucks.
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 21:27 Justin Kan Well, I mean, I hear very positive things from people who are there, um, about David Sachs.
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 27:53 Jason Calacanis You know, for me, um, I, when I can get lost in the moment in a conversation, and it's like that magical kind of thing, whether it was, you know, Mark Cuban or Travis a couple times, uh, David Sachs has been great, Evan Williams has been…
- ▶ 37:14 Jason Calacanis Yeah, I mean, I've, I have, yeah, obviously Travis, or Evan Williams, or, um, you know, um, Josh Williams, um, you know, there's a pretty long list of them, um, who, Mark Pincus, David Sachs, um, a lot of them don't need my money anymore,…