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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Delaware comes up
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 59:23 Rory O'Driscoll When you're a public company, you know, what the bankers are telling them right now is, you're right, first thing you do is instantly reject, because you've got to look strong, and then you've just hired the bankers, and they're going to…
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:29 Rory O'Driscoll It was a no, I mean, Elon knew that they were talking, I mean, so stepping back for people, the question came, because the, the, the, the, the, the conversion had already been blessed by Delaware and California, you can't say, it was, it,…
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:39 Josh Browder So as a California LLC, Uninvestable, it has to be Delaware C Corp. 2 times in the scene
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 4:44 unnamed speaker If you were in Delaware, it's not just you can sell, but you have an opportunity.
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:37 Rory O'Driscoll In late 25, the conversion to a for-profit took place, finally, and it was approved by California and Delaware.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:34 unnamed speaker They cut their deal with Microsoft, and they cut their deal with the attorneys general, the plural of attorney general, um, of Delaware and California, which means they have been able to implement their restructuring, which means they can…
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:05 Alex Bouaziz Well, I think you should read our lawsuit in Delaware.
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:57 Kaz Nejatian Like, um, there's a, this is, this is complicated because it's very odd, like Delaware and SEC rules, but I would have gladly taken just options.
20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- ▶ 22:31 Max Junestrand And we get in, we realize, okay, we need to flip our Swedish company into a Delaware. 2 times in the scene
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:01 unnamed speaker Versus in a normal M&A where, you know, you know where you stand, it's a Delaware Corp or a Nevada Corp, and you, you get what you get.
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:52 Rory O'Driscoll That the starting point is we have these, all these wonderful documents that, you know, that have been established at a Delaware precedent or a 150 years of precedent and that, and we're now just going to ignore that and start making shit…
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:19 Rory O'Driscoll I just want to throw it out that there is the complexity of the great comp package that has been held up by the Delaware judge who clearly just has a thing about stopping him, and that's got to be
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:57 Rory O'Driscoll So when you're public, you won't get pounded by the Delaware lawyers and told you can't do this. 2 times in the scene
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:39 unnamed speaker Um, it's always stunning when you get down into the arcania of Delaware law and what can actually happen the day of a transaction.
Anton Osika, Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable: Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention - Better than ChatGPT · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:45 Anton Osika And even saying like, oh, here's your incorporated, the Delaware C company, your Stripe set up.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:46 Hussein Kanji Incorporate in Delaware or the UK?
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:16 Shervin Pishevar They then sued in Delaware courts after they had already gotten rid of Travis.
- ▶ 42:44 Shervin Pishevar And I, and I countersued Benchmark, and, um, you know, flew to Delaware, uh, and landed, went to this little courthouse, and it made me fall in love with the American justice system, because this, the entire corporate legal system is held…
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:30 Jason Lemkin I mean, literally when I sold my first startup, the acquire went, got our certificate of incorporation in Delaware and offered us three X last round before we even met.
Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:46 Dave Clark It's probably, uh, where I went to school, because I didn't know where Auburn was when I went there, uh, moving to Delaware with my later-to-be wife, uh, from Campbellsville, uh, and then, you know, maybe leaning Amazon, you know, a year…
Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario: How I Turned Canned Water to a $700M Company | E968 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:53 Mike Cessario So Delaware, tiny little state. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 18:32 Avichal Garg It's not a Delaware C corp. 2 times in the scene