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20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Sandy scaled products to over two hundred million users, and led growth teams at Descript, Meta, and Pinterest.
- ▶ 4:02 Harry Stebbings You've worked at Pinterest, you've worked at Meta slash Instagram, you've worked at Descript, what we use to edit and love.
- ▶ 8:39 Sandy Diao Actually, I'll give you a great example here of something that I learned in my time at Descript. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:42 unnamed speaker So, like, let's go back to the Descript example. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:30 Harry Stebbings I obviously know the Descript products. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:17 Sandy Diao You know, informational intent, like for example, Descript, we would create guides on how to become a content creator, or how best to create a story for your podcast, things of that sort, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:13 unnamed speaker So whitelisting actually has great effects for essentially paid social ads where now instead of let's say that you're Descript and you have to promote all of your content through the Descript account, now the 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:59 Sandy Diao And for Descript in the early days, the brand was essentially an extension of the product experience itself. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:06 Sandy Diao With Descript and how we figured out this broader, very horizontal messaging of all-in-one audio and video editor, which in theory should sell no one because it doesn't sound like it's powerful enough for anything, that worked well for us… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:51 Sandy Diao I know this to be true because in the early days of Descript, not to say that there wasn't any growth before coming in, but it was very sporadic growth.
- ▶ 1:09:31 Sandy Diao The Descript desktop example is a great example.
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 1:04:30 unnamed speaker So like, for me, it'd be Descript. 2 times in the scene
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:23 Mike Krieger Descript, I think Descript is some of the best product design in AI, and, like, they've clearly put so much time into the workflow.
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:51 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Andrew at Descript.
- ▶ 38:50 Harry Stebbings Wordware, granola, descript.
- ▶ 46:22 Nabeel Hyatt Um, Descript is another example. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:38 Nabeel Hyatt If you're Descript today, you don't just sit on this amazing and wonderful interface which kind of changed the market and reinvented what this was.
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:05 Jason Lemkin They created a secondary round when it was harder back then, and everyone that wanted out got out, except, you know, poor, probably poor Andrew Mason, you know, founder of Descript, but everyone got out that wanted out, and I think…
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:58 Harry Stebbings I don't know why you're not seeing like Descript do this, you know, which is an editing platform ready. 4 times in the scene
Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:41 Harry Stebbings and it's Descript.
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:42 Harry Stebbings I missed Descript because I was like, I knew this better than anyone.
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:46 Harry Stebbings But I'm down to script. 2 times in the scene
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:21 Harry Stebbings I also turned down Descript, the editing tool, which Andreessen did. 5 times in the scene
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:45 Harry Stebbings My biggest misses were, well, some of them were Riverside, which we're on now, uh, every round, Descript, which we use as well, every round.
20VC: Alexa Von Tobel on Raising NYC's Largest Ever Female Led Fund , Portfolio Construction, Compression of Fundraising Timelines, Reserves Management & Personal Branding in Venture
- ▶ 1:32 Harry Stebbings And that's why I love Descript so much. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 Harry Stebbings Let's face it though, also, everyone not only needs banking, but everyone today wants to start a podcast, but man, the incumbent tool set sucks for creating podcasts, take my word for it, and that's why I love Descript so much. 7 times in the scene
20VC: The Most Successful Companies Are Not Where Employees Work The Most, How To Know When To Promote From Below Or Bring in External Candidates & Why It Is A Unique Advantage To Be Building A Company Outside A Tech Hub with Rick Nucci, Founder & CEO @ G
- ▶ 1:30 Harry Stebbings And that's why I love Descript so much. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:19 Harry Stebbings Let's face it though, also, everyone not only needs banking, but everyone today wants to start a podcast, but man, the incumbent toolset sucks for creating podcasts, take my word for it, and that's why I love Descript so much. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 1:35 Harry Stebbings Let's face it though, also, everyone not only needs banking, but everyone today wants to start a podcast, but man, the incumbent toolset sucks for creating podcasts, take my word for it, and that's why I love Descript so much. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:39 Harry Stebbings Let's face it though, also, everyone not only needs banking, but everyone today wants to start a podcast, but man, the incumbent tool set sucks for creating podcasts, take my word for it, and that's why I love Descript so much. 7 times in the scene
20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor
- ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings And that's why I love Descript so much. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:09 Harry Stebbings And that's why I love Descript so much. 9 times in the scene