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Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 1:02:31 Harry Stebbings On the consumer application side, two big fundraisers from Higgsfield, who raised, uh, at a 5.5 billion dollar price from DST, and they hit seven hundred million in ARR.
Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:34 Harry Stebbings A lot of founders are like, you know what, the best people don't care, they're there for the mission, they're there for, and I'm always like, I promise you, if you have Kleiner, or you have DST, or you have Sequoia, ah, great candidates…
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:44 Harry Stebbings It reminded me of Yuri Milner and DST doing the exact same with the very early YC batches.
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 1:08:06 Harry Stebbings Waymo raises a monster sixteen billion round at a hundred and ten billion valuation, thirteen billion coming from Google, with three coming from Sequoia, DST, Dragoneer. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:08 Harry Stebbings Um, Open Evidence raises at twelve billion dollars, labbed by Thriving DST.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:58 unnamed speaker Now, interestingly, that work that we talked about way back last year that the partner from DST did showed by over the last decade, Andreessen did roughly 10% of all series A's that became five billion dollar outcomes.
- ▶ 40:20 unnamed speaker And I wish Rotman, the guy from DST did.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:51 Harry Stebbings Andreessen, Thrive, Koto, DST, Excel, all the big players all involved.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:47 Harry Stebbings But what struck me, though, was, you know, I've interviewed, ah, Hermont at DST, I've interviewed, sorry, Hermont at GC, I've interviewed the team at Lightspeed, I know the team at DST, and they've taken the completely opposite approach… 2 times in the scene
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25:18 unnamed speaker And there's no doubt that if you're full-stack, you have more coverage, you have more news, you have more news flow, and there's also no doubt that, I mean, you know, I cited the data, like, from the Rotman guy at DST a while back.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:02 unnamed speaker We're partnering with the super savvy investors and the Lightspeeds and the Dragoneers and the DSTs of the world.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:57 Jason Lemkin When I look at principal stockholders, there's dilution, but I don't see any of the seed guys on table, so that says to me they probably sold the 20, some amount of twenty five billion when I literally only see DST, Crosslink, and Menlo.
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:01 unnamed speaker At Series C, uh, Yuri Miller from DST asked me.
- ▶ 36:30 unnamed speaker Uh, he introduced me to John Linford from DST, uh, and he introduced me to, uh, Scott, uh, from Tiger. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:53 unnamed speaker Yeah, and we got the money from DST, so got another hundred million dollars, and a bunch of other investors.
- ▶ 1:11:26 unnamed speaker And at this point, our last round was the 1.1 with DST. 2 times in the scene
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:13 Rory O'Driscoll I don't know the guy, Kurt Rotman at DST did an excellent piece on series A's, right?
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:08 Harry Stebbings Um, DST are prolific seed investors. 2 times in the scene
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:10 Hussein Kanji And then we didn't do the D, which is when DSD came in.
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:36 Harry Stebbings What do you think of DST's Yuri Milner?
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:55 Harry Stebbings So I was talking to my, my partner the other day who comes out of DST.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:32 Harry Stebbings I remember when Yuri did the DST round, I'm really going back here, but I mean, everyone was like, nine billion, this guy doesn't get it, and what an investment. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:57 Harry Stebbings I look at Thrives and Sequoias and DSTs.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:59 Harry Stebbings Uh, DST walls of cash, which are relatively infinite and can carry you life cycle.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:56 Emil Michael That's what DST can do. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Brex's Henrique Dubugras on Advice from Evan Spiegel and Eric Schmidt on CEOship, The Biggest Hiring Mistakes When Scaling, What Everyone Gets Wrong with Product Messaging and When is the Right Time to Launch Secondary Products
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To date, Henrique has raised over 1.1 billion dollars for Brex, from some of the very best, including Ribbit, Green Oaks, DST, IVP, Caffeinated Capital, and Elad Guild, to name a few.
20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Founders Fund, DST, Forerunner, Lightspeed, and many more.
20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Prior to their IPO in 2015, Aaron raised from some of the best in the business, including the main man Mark Cuban, Andreessen, Emergence, DST, Koto,
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- ▶ 26:01 Marcelo Claure Now there's not a single deal that we don't go where my friends from DST, now Sequoia,
20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings And DST, to name a few.
20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Guillaume founded Checkout.com in 2012, and bootstrapped the business into its record-breaking two hundred and thirty million dollar series A, led by Insight and DST in 2019.
- ▶ 6:28 Guillaume Pousaz And then in the round came DST, and DST was basically
20VC: Nubank CEO David Velez on Scaling Nubank to a $25BN Company, Why What Makes a Great Founder Does Not Make a Great CEO & The Responsibility Framework and How Leaders Can Use It To Drive Efficiency
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Thrive, Founders Fund, DST, Tiger, and more.
20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings From the likes of Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SoftBank, DST, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, and more.
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings To date, Sebastian's raised over 2.1 billion dollars for the company, from the likes of Sequoia, Silver Lake, BlackRock, DST, North Zone, Creandum, and even the one and only Snoop Dogg, to name a few.
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Green Oaks, Index, DST, Ribbit, IVP, Thrive, NEA, GV, and more incredible names.
- ▶ 31:46 Vlad Tenev And by the way, we have, I would say this is a trait that I appreciate in our board members, Jan and Scott and our observers, Rahul from DST and Andrew as well.
20VC: TravelPerk's Avi Meir on Why 2021 Will Be A Record Year For Business Travel, The 3 Priorities For All Founders During COVID, What VCs Can Do To Really Support Their Founders In A Recession
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings From the likes of DST, Spark Capital, Felix Capital, and Hardcore, to name a few.
20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Five million dollars in funding with Elan from some of the best in the business, including Jan Hammer at Index, Shaquille Kahn, Tom Stafford at DST, Xavier Niel, and Brent Hoberman, to name a few.
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 14:12 Harry Stebbings To leverage and actually gain that seat at the table again versus having much bigger players, your Tigers, your DSTs come in as the new investor who's willing to bid it up further.
20VC: Brex Founder Henrique Dubugras on Why Being Mission Driven Is Not The Only Way To Build A Massive Business, Why You Should Not Associate Fundraising with The Cash Needs of Your Business & Why You Don't Have To Follow Startup Theory When It Comes To
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings ...to a 1.1 billion dollar valuation, having raised over a hundred and eighty million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the business, including Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Elad Gill, DST, Y Combinator, and IVP, just to name a…
20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- ▶ 16:38 Assaf Wand So what I mean is that, you know, we did a C round, and it's good to have discussion with the DE players, which, you know, the Fidelities of the world, the Wellingtons of the world, the DST, these kind of people that are usually the…
20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to Antoine at Felix, Alex at Spark, and Tom at DST for the fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 20:09 Avi Meir And also partnering with Eurie Milner and Tom Stafford from DST, so just the investors that we were able to attract in this year round, this by itself almost justified raising the money, because partnering with these people is a really… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
- ▶ 13:46 unnamed speaker And then when DST did the round, they're like, 2 times in the scene
20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- ▶ 13:43 Harry Stebbings We've also, and again, in another interview of yours, you spoke about the explosion of capital, and this interview was in 2011, and it was around the context of DST plowing a load of money into the ecosystem. 2 times in the scene