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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Detroit comes up
Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:13 Becca Lindquist I also think when there's some sort of like expertise that you need to like, you know, everybody has a finance vertical or they hire someone in Detroit to, to sell to the big auto companies, right?
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41 Dan Fougere And I got a, uh, a design job in Detroit using CAD cam software.
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:13 Harry Stebbings On the flip side, how much agency do you give a human who's been trained for a week and sits in your Detroit customer service department and could get high and then abuse a customer?
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:38 Samir Vasavada He's from Detroit.
Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25 Justin Ishbia My grandfather came over on the boat from, um, Turkey, and when he was eight, and my grandfather settled in New York, and then when he was in his, you know, early twenties, moved to Detroit. 3 times in the scene
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:15 Roger Ehrenberg It could be some of my, um, economic development work that I'm doing in Detroit.
- ▶ 1:20:16 Roger Ehrenberg Like I've got this pretty significant real estate business and I have this deep interest in affordable workforce housing and investing in Detroit. 3 times in the scene
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:16 Kevin Systrom Detroit being one of them.
Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:59 Mike Duboe Most folks at that time out of engineering school were either going to work in the auto industry in Detroit or moved to Chicago or New York to work in business.
20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
- ▶ 27:20 Tony Fadell And when I grew up in Detroit, in the seventies, they put a 10 cent fee on every bottle and can that was sold with, you know, soda or, you know, various other drinks in it. 2 times in the scene
20VC: AOL Founder, Steve Case on Why The Best Venture Investments of The Next 10 Years Will Likely Not Be In The Valley, Why The CEO Must Be The Shock Absorber For Company Morale and Why Vision Without Execution is Hallucination
- ▶ 13:11 Steve Case You don't hear about excess capital or companies overvalued in places like Detroit or Pittsburgh or Phoenix or Albuquerque or Madison or Minneapolis or Des Moines or New Orleans, some of the cities that we've visited.
- ▶ 25:39 Steve Case And I realize there are interesting companies that are breaking out in other parts of the country and the other parts of the world, but still there are many who have the belief that all the smart people here, all the innovative…
20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- ▶ 3:23 Jason Stoffer So I grew up in a suburb of Detroit.
20VC: How 50% Of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, How To Build A Relationship Of Trust With Your VC and How Entrepreneurs Can Detect VC BS with Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 15:43 Jason Mendelson I'm from Detroit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Harry Stebbings Is it very noticeable when you're investing in a company in SF compared to Detroit?
20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 6:54 Harry Stebbings And why is it now in the last probably 18 months, you probably agree with me in saying, why is it that everyone from kind of CEOs in Detroit to head of Salesforce is interested in machine learning?
20VC: What Is Wrong With The VC Industry, Why VC Is A Customer Service Game and Why Car Ownership Will Be A Thing Of The Past with Brett DeMarrais, Partner @ Ludlow Ventures
- ▶ 3:15 Brett DeMarrais It was based in Detroit, and what happened was I basically got burnt out.
- ▶ 24:25 Brett DeMarrais Just getting myself out there and making initial touch points and then figuring out how to get deep with somebody, especially based in Detroit has been a really big challenge.