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every year anyone Harry Stebbings 32Elias Torres 14Jason Lemkin 8Hiten Shah 5Hubert Palan 2Guillaume Cabane 1Brian Balfour 1

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OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:20:20 unnamed speaker Remember when Gainsight was offline for a month drift?

Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 4, 2025 · 4 mentions

Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08:37 Jason Lemkin If that's the case here, I mean, drift is probably shrinking based on just looking at how the deal happened, right?

20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech Apr 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:24 Jason Lemkin And they merged it with drift and gain site just merged with skill jar yesterday.

Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 21, 2025 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Elias Torres Drift is the biggest failure in my life.
  • ▶ 17:48 Elias Torres It's, um, you know, my last company, Drift, before we sold to, uh, to, to Vista, private equity, right, it was 800 people.
  • ▶ 28:13 Elias Torres You know, we gotta build drift from scratch. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:41 Elias Torres It's like, look at Drift we hired 800 people, I, I, it was like I hired coaches, watch me, give me feedback, you know, Elias you should be more carrots here, more this. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:45 unnamed speaker He was early founding engineer at Drift.
  • ▶ 39:13 Elias Torres They showed me their code, and I go back to the team, and I'm like, by the way, the way that I ran interview at HubSpot and Adrift, everybody, I would help, I have a panel of people interviewing, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:42 Harry Stebbings So, so one of the things I hate when I look at CV's slash LinkedIn's is bounce, as I call them, which is like two years drift, two years HubSpot, two years, two years, two years.
  • ▶ 46:16 Elias Torres Just build me another CRM or build me another marketing automation platform at Drift.
  • ▶ 51:42 Elias Torres The post-drift days, I spent like, seven, 10 months, you know, traveling and trying to find myself.
  • ▶ 1:01:53 Elias Torres I mean, I think Drift was, was a great failure, right? 3 times in the scene

20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify Mar 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:55 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate your support, and stay tuned for an incredible episode coming on Monday with Elias Torres, former founder of Drift and now founder of Agency.

Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 27, 2024 · 2 mentions

Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 29, 2023 · 3 mentions

Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 16, 2023 · 1 mention

20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard Jan 29, 2021 · 2 mentions

20VC: How To Solve The Chicken and Egg Problem in Marketplaces? How Important Is Differentiated Supply? How To Prevent Leakage? How to Create Marketplace Defensibility and more with Alyssa Ravasio, Founder & CEO @ Hipcamp Mar 27, 2020 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 2:12 Harry Stebbings And finally, you have to check out Drift, a conversational marketing platform changing the way businesses buy from businesses. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:07 Harry Stebbings And finally, you have to check out Drift, a conversational marketing platform changing the way businesses buy from businesses. 4 times in the scene

20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit Mar 20, 2020 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:26 Harry Stebbings And finally, you have to check out Drift, a conversational marketing platform changing the way businesses buy from businesses. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:29 Harry Stebbings And finally, you have to check out Drift, a conversational marketing platform changing the way businesses buy from businesses. 2 times in the scene

20VC: 3 Addictions Of Early-Stage Startup Founders, How Founders Should Strategically Think Through Unit Economics From Day 1 & Why Micromanagement Can Be Beneficial In The Early Days with Adena Hefets, Co-Founder @ Divvy Homes Mar 13, 2020 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 2:17 Harry Stebbings And finally, you have to check out Drift, a conversational marketing platform changing the way businesses buy from businesses. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:37 Harry Stebbings And finally, you have to check out Drift, a conversational marketing platform changing the way businesses buy from businesses. 4 times in the scene

20VC: Why Most Founders Do Not Structure Their Fundraise Correctly, The Pros Of Having An MBA As A Startup Founder & How To Manage The Psychology Of Being CEO and Overcome Self Doubt with Iman Abuzeid, Founder & CEO @ Incredible Health Mar 6, 2020 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:07 Harry Stebbings And finally, you have to check out Drift, a conversational marketing platform changing the way businesses buy from businesses. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:30 Harry Stebbings And finally, you have to check out Drift, a conversational marketing platform changing the way businesses buy from businesses. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader Aug 9, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 27:39 Hiten Shah It's from the folks at Drift, which provide a live chat tool for sales and marketing. 5 times in the scene
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