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The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:53 Anjney Midha I invested a bunch of my money, uh, that was just life savings, which was not much given I was a poor founder at the time, which where most of my network was tied up in discord stock.
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
- ▶ 40:04 unnamed speaker Discord or emails in our newsletters, but also these broader channels, like what are people saying about us on Quora, on Reddit, on LinkedIn, on, on X, and all of these other different places sprawled across the internet.
20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky
- ▶ 30:41 Ketty Slonimski Discord, Reddit, YouTube following.
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:36 Mati Staniszewski Our friends from YouTube community that then posted on Discord that we are opening this up. 2 times in the scene
Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:19 Nick Frosst Um, is not, uh, like discord, not the hype, not the discourse.
Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:35 Scott Galloway Through Reddit or Discord, jobs, or trying to make money through crypto or stock trading, and, and instead of going through the pain of trying to, like, you're a good-looking guy.
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:08 Harry Stebbings In terms of CEOs moving around, as we have with Alex at scale there, Delian tweeted about Jason at Discord being removed, um, potentially by benchmark due to delayed IPO of Discord. 2 times in the scene
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:54 Harry Stebbings We saw the CEO of Discord. 3 times in the scene
20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
- ▶ 27:54 Mayur Gupta So the people that I will find on Discord or Reddit and Twitter are very different from the people I will find on Meta and Instagram and or Search.
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:30 Harry Stebbings No, no, but Jason at Discord was like, we went from 200 to a thousand in the pandemic.
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:39 Nabeel Hyatt Um, and, and I, I said, you know, Discord, Jason, I knew for seven years. 3 times in the scene
TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:04 Harry Stebbings I just did a show with Jason Citron from Discord, and he said that empowerment and alignment are two of the biggest BS words of management.
Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:48 Mikey Shulman And so I remembered like we, we, when we launched this thing, it was a discord bot.
- ▶ 36:30 Mikey Shulman A very, a very obvious one for me is actually getting off of Discord. 9 times in the scene
Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Jason Citron That period for us when we went from 200 to a thousand in basically two and a half years was the moment in time when I think I made the most management mistakes at Discord.
- ▶ 4:44 Jason Citron Company, but I think the real, the real impact from being a second time founder actually has to do with the levels and how there are a lot of levels I had already played once in my previous company, so there were things about building my…
- ▶ 5:36 Harry Stebbings What was the first unique insight that you have with Discord? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:14 Jason Citron And then, so we built discord actually in 2015.
- ▶ 8:08 Jason Citron I think the Discord story was actually a perfect example of how build-in they will come may not always work. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:21 Jason Citron It introduced discord to a lot of people. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:13 Harry Stebbings How do you reflect and think about founder mode when you reflect on the journey with discord and the 200 to a thousand? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:14 Jason Citron At Discord, we, in 2000, late 2018, we built a
- ▶ 29:05 Jason Citron You know, a lot of things at the company went sideways. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:30 Jason Citron Um, our series a was actually pretty hard because a lot of investor, this was before we had discord. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:04 Harry Stebbings You can change anything about the internal workings of Discord today.
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:45 Saam Motamedi And so we have many, and if you look kind of over our more recent funds, whether it's a Figma, a rubric, an abnormal security, a Discord, many of these companies, we've put real capital to work over time, and we've earned the right to do…
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:05 Danny Rimer Probably the most memorable was meeting Jason from Discord, because none of the investors wanted me to meet him. 6 times in the scene
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:31 Christian Lanng Like, I mean, one of the things I was talking to, um, Steve Krasn, who's, um, Krasn, he's, uh, a former head of product at DeepMind, and we were both talking about the same thing, which was, he's like, if you go back five, six years, it… 2 times in the scene
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:35 Chris Paik Like, I can, I can assign any amount of, you know, any dollar value to time or making memories or, um, and so I would see DoorDash is really, DoorDash and Discord are really good at price discriminating, uh, people's leisure hours and how…
David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:07 David Tisch The fun has moved to content, and content is TikTok, content is YouTube, and content is, if you're, you know, into certain things, Discord or Reddit or Twitter or whatever those niches of the world, and you can call them communities, and…
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:55 Harry Stebbings Should Artifact integrate a Discord at the verticalization of communities, of community building, management, maintenance?
a16z GP Martin Casado: How I Went from Engineer to VC; Lessons from Chris Dixon | 20VC #956 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:56 Martin Casado And so, I mean, for those of you listening, I mean, I even started to discord with Tim Chen, you know, and it's a, like, there's 1200 people on there.
- ▶ 23:23 Martin Casado Like I like to sit at home and chat on discord about like databases.
20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more
- ▶ 24:51 unnamed speaker You know, example of this is like, you know, I happened to have the fortune of working with the discord founders last summer. 2 times in the scene
Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:58 Vaibhav Sahgal That's where discord is.
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:03 Brad Gerstner So we, we really have a culture and we spend our days challenging each other, thinking, inviting people in to opine on the subject that we might have, um, you know, around, for example, the modern data stack, you know, that we've obviously…
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:42 Paul Davison There are a number of great products for big admin led community management, you know, discord and slack and like legacy Facebook groups.
Kieran Flanagan: Hiring Tips for Growth; North Star Metrics; Hubspot's Mistake | 20VC #916 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:36 Kieran Flanagan If I just include my Slack channel, can I grow my Slack channel to like a million users, and that could be a meaningful way how I grow my business, then that's probably hard to do, but if it includes like your events, and your media, and…
HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah: The Ultimate Guide to Company Culture | E896 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:06 Dharmesh Shah So, yes, we do get it wrong, and if you think about it correctly, it says, okay, who are the, who are the people I'm trying to reach and trying to sell to, to whom this kind of story resonates, um, and then how can I best, and maybe it's…
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
- ▶ 24:34 Avichal Garg You need people sitting in your discord helping you do distributed governance.
20Growth: The Biggest Growth Lessons from Leading Teams at Instagram & Instacart, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth Teams, How To Onboard Growth Reps Efficiently and The Relationship Between Growth and The Rest of the Org with Bangaly Kaba, H
- ▶ 8:32 unnamed speaker So, like, reducing the barriers of adoption for Notion, we're going to fundamentally look different than reducing the barriers of adoption to Discord, because it's like a B to B to C type company that's productivity versus, like, a B to C…
- ▶ 10:38 unnamed speaker You know, example of this is like, you know, I happened to have the fortune of working with the Discord founders last summer, and it was incredible how well they knew their own kind of like network and flywheel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:28 unnamed speaker And so the things that I learned at Instagram are very relevant still for, like, the work that I did for Stan and Jason and Discord, right?
20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Leading to his investments in Discord, Roblox, Medium, and more.
- ▶ 20:18 Harry Stebbings I think it's an important point to touch on, especially when we kind of translate it to board environments where, bluntly, you did David Zim, you did Facebook, you did LinkedIn, you did Roblox, you did Discord, you did Next.
- ▶ 25:27 David Sze Discord looked obvious.
- ▶ 31:25 David Sze Take Discord. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Capital, one of the leading East Coast venture funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Airbnb, Pinterest, InVision, Shopify, and Discord, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 8:24 Danny Rimer I mean, if you talk to the folks at discord, they'll probably tell you that console games are alive and well.
20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings Operator, Discord, and Jelly.
- ▶ 13:52 Josh Elman I made an investment recently in a company that's trying to build a social network around gaming and voice gaming, and people, when you're playing, it's called Discord, and when you're playing League of Legends or Dota or Counter-Strike,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:02 Josh Elman Discord, which I invested in might be one of those stories. 3 times in the scene