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20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
- ▶ 11:48 Harry Stebbings So I hire, bluntly, Asians or Eastern Europeans, and very young, sub-twenty-three, 24.
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:46 Harry Stebbings Why do you like hiring Eastern European engineers? 2 times in the scene
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:19 Cem Sertoglu So I thought if I raise a fund to focus on opportunities in, in Eastern Europe and Turkey, then, uh, I can follow on and maybe support these companies for the couple of rounds after my initial entry.
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:25 Markus Villig So for example, some of these Eastern European countries
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:29 Matt Grimm I think you could see, uh, Russian expansionism vis-a-vis Ukraine kind of keep pushing into Eastern Europe.
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07 Vlad Tenev Being an immigrant, moving from Eastern Europe to the US, that was probably, like, one of my earliest memories, right?
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:01 Dmitry Gurski We invested to product, just to product, up to this moment, one hundred fifty million, and, uh, we mostly had engineers in Eastern Europe, like, to understand that in standards of UK or United States, you should multiply that on two, and…
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:27 Delian Asparouhov And so if you look at the GDP growth of Eastern Europe relative to Western, Eastern is completely rocking, has way more interesting startups, um, is on a much more interesting trajectory. 3 times in the scene
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:15 Kevin Hartz You know, escaped from Eastern Europe and, you know, Chernobyl.
Stephane Kurgan: Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400; How to Find Great Talent | E1041 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:00 Stephane Kurgan I went to Russia and Eastern Europe in 91.
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:02 Akin Babayigit I don't, so what I can tell you that, you know, we have, um, operations in Eastern Europe, and I have had a lot of conversations when, you know, we may want to give someone equity, and they're like, you know, no.
20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia
- ▶ 16:57 Luciana Lixandru I'm Eastern European, so I'm very direct, and I had to learn how to be direct and do it with empathy, because people are giving it their all, blood, sweat, and tears, trying to build what they're building, so asking the tough questions,…
- ▶ 29:53 Luciana Lixandru Companies starting in Eastern Europe, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm.
- ▶ 37:22 Luciana Lixandru Eastern Europe, Southern Europe.
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
- ▶ 4:52 Harry Stebbings I had recently Vlad Tenev from Robinhood on the show, and he spoke about kind of his growing up in Eastern Europe and how it impacted his mindset.
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
- ▶ 7:26 Vlad Tenev Communism was collapsing all the way across Eastern Europe.
20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 6:11 Christian Hernandez Eastern Europe having some great success.
20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
- ▶ 16:17 Philipp Moehring Coming really strong, um, Eastern Europe, you know, a little bit more distributed, but
20 VC 083: 500 Startups Week: New Funds, Startup Mentoring and Dave's Masterplan with Marvin Liao, Partner @ 500 Startups
- ▶ 16:10 Marvin Liao Um, even when I, you know, I remember having this conversation with him, we were doing geeks on the plane in Eastern Europe back in 2012.