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Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:40 Rory O'Driscoll It's the, it's the best business ever because you can, you know, drive around England, going to bookshops in small country towns, sending fun tweets while at the same time, as you say, setting yourself up to pick a hundred million dollar…
Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:35 Avishai Abrahami It's not England. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:44 Rory O'Driscoll By the time this comes out, we'll know how the US and England have done.
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:24 unnamed speaker One key difference though, in England in particular, you have the concept of relegation, which our American friends might not understand, which means in the NFL, you're always in the NFL, and no matter what happens, you're in the NFL.
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:44 Jeffrey Wu I feel like Europe could have some of the foundational, civilizational, like of Western culture that came out of here, London, England, right?
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:45 Anjney Midha So do the hard work, come up with your point of view on if we're an industrial revolution, England, what happened next?
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:35 Rory O'Driscoll It does feel, I mean, I'm, I'm glad to see that it's not doing your head in, as we'd say in England, um, but because it does feel like it's, it's too, it's almost like both teams are playing the same game, 2 times in the scene
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:14 unnamed speaker Which is just one, I mean, I pay taxes in Ireland, England, and the States, so I know the different systems.
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:49 unnamed speaker The biggest bank in England, there's one at a 110, and then I think Barclays is at sixty billion.
Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:25 Mike Cannon-Brookes Um, anyone who knows about technology companies knows it's a little bit like, ah, when a new prime minister comes in in England or Australia, right?
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:47 Rory O'Driscoll It would say, well, what a probably president got right, but it wouldn't know the prime minister of England, for example, cause you were changing every half an hour.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:05 unnamed speaker Unless you have structural legal reasons like Chinese companies where you can't be here, unless you're purely a domestic, maybe if you're just purely a domestic company, like I don't think the NatWest or whichever bank survived the great…
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:30 Rory O'Driscoll Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of England, a very, in the 1900, a very languid, relaxed man, used to say, nothing matters a lot and very little matters at all, right?
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:20 unnamed speaker If the owner of that business, Paul Graham can be sitting back in England, walking around the cute little bookstores and the machine keeps humming.
- ▶ 53:15 unnamed speaker You're sitting back there in England and you must look at Johnny Ive and go,
- ▶ 1:18:55 unnamed speaker You mean leave England?
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:32 Mitchell Green Um, you know, in the States, I assure you that's not happening or in England.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:13 Jonathan Ross What's really happening here was in the 18 sixties, this guy Jevin, he actually wrote a trees on steam engines, which I guess is what you did for fun back then in, in England.
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:45 Victor Riparbelli In England, and you showed someone this magical thing you've built, you'd be burned at the stake.
Alain De Botton: Why Status is Making You Miserable & Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:29 Alain de Botton So in the medieval period in England, in English, in old-fashioned English, what is a poor person?
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:45 Matt Grimm So we adapt it into the UK standard, and then manufacture it here, deploy it here, support it here, field it here with British citizens based here in England.
Donald Tang: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast - The Fastest Growing Company in History | E1208 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:35 Donald Tang So, in England, or in Great Britain, you want to be a, a UK company.
Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:50 Arvind Narayanan And this was first in the context of, uh, uh, coal in England in the 18th century.
Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:44 Aidan Gomez England stands out from the rest of Europe.
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:00 Shaun Maguire And if I were to try to put it in simple words, like there's, or in simple terms, the way that Western diplomacy works, like when England and America are doing diplomacy in the 19 sixties, if Harry and
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:15 Alexis Ohanian There's some great teams here, obviously, in England, um, but that league's catching up, but it's still not, not at the level of the NWSL.
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:40 Samir Vasavada But that's all parent, like, at least in the US, I don't know what it's like in London, but in England, but.
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:29 Sami Inkinen This was late 19 eighties, so computer wasn't, wasn't the thing that people were talking about, um, you know, in the, in the farmlands of England.
Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:50 Harry Stebbings And he will get so deep in it, and understanding every possible optionality tree of moves, and, and then I'll have one who is fascinated by lodging for families in the 17th century in England, and how some did multi-family lodgings to save…
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:20 Harry Stebbings But, okay, if you're, if you're Taylor Swift, not bad in existing businesses, I don't think, maybe tell me if I'm wrong, and if you're a specific writer on, I don't know, um, knitting in England in the 18th century, I don't think it sells…
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:09 Miles Grimshaw And like no company in England had done that many crowdfunding rounds and had that many individual shareholders this early.
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:15 Vinod Khosla In the 1818 thirties, there was a bubble in England when you got the right to build a railroad between two towns, you could issue scripts almost immediately, but, and it did, the bubble did burst, but more railroad was built after the…
Frank Fillmann: How I Boosted Revenue by $500M at Salesforce; Tips for Hiring Salespeople | E992 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:33 Harry Stebbings As a sales leader today, and I know it's very different for different segments, different go-to-market motions, but just for you, how do you think about forecasting where it's like, I don't know, there might be war, there might be…
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:48 Steve Pagliuca And at the time, the company was mainly selling to a few companies in, in, in the New York or, you know, England area.
20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
- ▶ 9:08 Jim Swartz But in the process, we engaged with and built a substantial institutional presence in England and on the continent in that period.
- ▶ 29:22 Arthur Patterson Jim should take this because he was more entrepreneurial of the two of us, and he was the guy that really led the international expansion, but by way of history, I might add that when Jim was at Citicorp Venture Capital, one of his first…
20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
- ▶ 5:02 Alexis Ohanian As an important point of order, though, is it just television that's convinced me that lawyers in England, you all have, is it required to wear the wigs and the outfits?
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 35:38 Cyan Banister I understand that you're in England and you have your own political stuff going on over there, but I do think that conservatives and Democrats, I hate to say liberals because a lot of conservatives are actually more liberal now, which is…
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 24:03 Kulveer Taggar And, you know, I grew up in England and I remember having the mindset of work is where you have your professional self and, you know, your personal self is very distinct.
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 3:45 Dennis Mortensen The very short story in my very short life, given I'm only 46, is one for where I did a few ventures back home in Denmark, then moved to England for a while, then moved to Budapest for a while, where we spent four years doing a analytics…
20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- ▶ 20:00 David Waxman He had just an amazing lifespan, and this book, Churchill grew up in very Victorian England and died, I think, I believe Kennedy was president when he died, so he just spanned this incredible period of human history and was part of much of…
20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
- ▶ 8:50 Kathleen Utecht People are really struggling, and a lot of times, given where we sit in society, we don't see it, but if you go into middle parts of the country, and I'm sure when you're in England, you go throughout the UK, you can really see people…
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 2:40 unnamed speaker Um, so I'm originally from England, as you can probably tell, and during college, I had started working on what was
20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- ▶ 2:57 Rory O'Driscoll Um, I actually, I'm Irish, as I'm sure you can tell as a Brit, though sometimes over here people get confused, but I lived in England for eight years, including having my own business in the UK.
20VC: Why The Best CEO's Are The Best Capital Allocators, How You Can Build A Business In A Space You Are Not Passionate About & When Is The Right Time To Put The Pedal To The Metal with Josh Hannah, General Partner @ Matrix Ventures
- ▶ 8:26 Josh Hannah You know, on the FTSE, 100, it's one of the biggest companies in England, and I owned a little tiny piece by the time that was all done, but that was great, and that was worth a lot, and then on the other end of the extreme with eHow, Jack… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 2:06 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to get things started today by hearing a little about you and how you made your way from, from Reading in England to the son of San Francisco as a VC. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 085: Mark Suster @ Upfront Ventures on Being A Super Entrepreneur Driven VC
- ▶ 5:11 Mark Suster The first was based out of England.
20 VC 075: Y COMBINATOR WEEK: Kirsty Nathoo, CFO @ Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:13 Harry Stebbings Now, can you kick us off today by telling us how you made your move from PwC in Cambridge, England, to being CFO at the world's most successful accelerator? 2 times in the scene
20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
- ▶ 6:33 Keith Teare At that time in England, there was an ISP called Demon, which was really an ISP for universities.
- ▶ 18:10 Keith Teare Yeah, I mean, I felt like an outsider in England, due to my, you know, North Yorkshire working class origins, going to Canterbury, not Cambridge.