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Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Nov 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Nov 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:28 Andrew Ng Um, I think Trump, uh, did a good job, um, uh, and then his whole team, David Sachs and Christian and so on, did a good job clearing out unnecessary regulations.

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 Nov 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Oct 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Aug 21, 2025 · 1 mention

Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2025 · 2 mentions

Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jun 26, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 15, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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
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