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Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 16, 2026 · 13 mentions

Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 43:00 Jason Wilk If you were to talk to David, the new bank CEO is going to tell you that his customer base in Brazil and Mexico is actually a middle to higher income consumer. 2 times in the scene

Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2024 · 1 mention

Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:09:56 Harry Stebbings I've spent a lot of time talking to your Doug Leonis, talking to David Velez at Newbank about bringing children up in very affluent families, which brings challenges.

Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:07:03 Harry Stebbings To many immensely successful people about, um, I suppose to David Velez at Newbank about it, Justin Shore at Shore Capital, and it's that it's so challenging to bring children up in a world of financial abundance and make them feel…

Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 12, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:52 Harry Stebbings I chatted to David at Newbank, and he was like, it's the hardest thing I think I have to do. 2 times in the scene

Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 4, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:34 Harry Stebbings David Velez very recently said it actually, but how do you imbue values, hunger, ambition in children

Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:18 Harry Stebbings I have David Velez on the show from New Bank, and he said his number one concern right now is bringing children up in a world of

Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 25, 2023 · 1 mention

Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:20 Harry Stebbings Um, I suppose David at Nubank before the show also, uh, clearly I have far too much free time to be doing all these references.

Jackie Reses: The Most Powerful Woman in Finance; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | E996 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 31, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings When I asked you for people that we had in mutual friendships with, you know, you mentioned Mickey, you mentioned Guillaume, you mentioned David Velez.
  • ▶ 58:28 Harry Stebbings Is it purely David and Jack, and you name the great, great people, or is it the market themselves, the intricacies of them?

Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 29, 2023 · 26 mentions

  • ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from many different people with different stories, but especially the main man, David Velez. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:32 Jag Duggal Um, but that empathy and that intuition for where the real unmet need is, is something that is very hard to make scientific and is something that, you know, you can be called with the official title of product manager, or you can be a guy… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:38 Jag Duggal David, David, you know, just to take that new bank example was in love with the potential of unleashing the Latin American consumer who was being really badly served. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:14 Jag Duggal Um, we have a CEO who still, who's a founder and he fights the, the, the, the, the natural, uh, creep of corporate process, even including ones that I try to introduce at times.
  • ▶ 42:42 Jag Duggal You know, the first value of Newbank when David, Chris and Ed founded the company, it's one of the reasons, frankly, I joined back to your earlier question, was I, I visited Sao Paulo and in the lobby was this very odd statement.
  • ▶ 44:51 Jag Duggal We knew, and David was very clear, that we were on a journey from a Brazilian credit card company to being a full solution Latin American financial services company.
  • ▶ 51:35 Harry Stebbings Before we move into a quick fight, David asked me to ask this one. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:37 Jag Duggal And, and one of the things I'm, I'm proudest of, I'm sure to beat even more so is we have forced the bar to be raised for customers across the board.
  • ▶ 59:48 Harry Stebbings What makes David so special? 8 times in the scene

Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 11, 2022 · 4 mentions

20VC: How Today's Market Changes How Companies Should Approach Burn and Runway, Are Financing Markets Closing? How To Know When To Pay Up vs Stay Price Disciplined & Why The Most Important Thing in Venture is Generating Positive Selection with Bill Cilluf Apr 22, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Portman at WageStream, and to Nigel at QED, and David at Newbank for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
  • ▶ 3:35 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from David Velas, I heard so many great things from Nigel, from Frank Rotman on your team, from Mate at Loft, so thank you so much for joining me today, my friend.
  • ▶ 6:32 Bill Cillufo I mean, you, uh, talked earlier about David Velez.
  • ▶ 24:23 Bill Cillufo I mean, Nigel had been advising Daveed for years.

20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity Sep 14, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:17 Harry Stebbings Now, I also love that question because I just got off a call with David at Newbank, and I said to him, hey, I've got Doug coming on the show.
  • ▶ 20:28 Doug Leone We'd like to be the first investor when there's one employee, such as Nubank, since you said that you talked to David, and help set the DNA, and then stay with these companies for the next 15 years, maybe 20 years.
  • ▶ 46:18 Doug Leone When I immediately help somebody win a competitive deal, it's the old sales dug from the old days, and when I've gone for a long-term ride at David Velez, not now, maybe three years from now, when we come through the other side, and I was… 2 times in the scene

20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation? Aug 19, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:53 Harry Stebbings I mean, you know, when you look at Newbank today, I know David, you know, you know Newbank incredibly well from your brother.

20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures Aug 16, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Marcos at MercadoLibre, David at Newbank, Fred at Future Positive, and then obviously Hernan and Nico on your team.
  • ▶ 13:19 Nicolas Szekasy Sequoia, so it was a PowerPoint really early on, David Velez by himself, and that's when, when we joined, and then we participated out of the fund one in several rounds in the series A and the B and the C and the D, but we ran out of…
  • ▶ 21:19 Harry Stebbings I heard from, you know, in particular, David and Markovs, that you were incredible in terms of the relationship building aspects that you have with founders.

20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors May 24, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings David Velez at New Bank.
  • ▶ 3:12 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Frank on your team, to David at Newbank, to Matt at Bain even, so thank you so much for joining me today.
  • ▶ 36:05 Nigel Morris So what David has done at New Bank is offer the right cross-sell product at the right time in a frictionless way, click and get.

20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners Mar 24, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:26 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode with David Velez, founder and CEO at NewBank on Friday.

20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret Mar 22, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:33 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode this coming Thursday with David
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