Eoghan McCabe
27 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 23, 2016 by Eoghan McCabe · said 45 times in 22 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (18), Jason Lemkin (8), Anna Khan (4), Matt Grimm (3), Rory O'Driscoll (2), Ilya Fushman (2), Des Traynor (1), Byron Deeter (1)
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2026 16 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 3 mentions in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
- 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
- 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
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2016 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
- 20VC: Why Valuation Is A Stupid Concept, VC Is Ripe For Disruption & Not All LPs Are Made Equal with Michael Skok, Founding Partner @ Underscore VC
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Everything said about Eoghan McCabe, oldest first
Sep 23, 2016 positive
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Oct 22, 2020 negative
Oct 22, 2020
McCabe: Intercom would be 10x larger if started with bigger ambition
“I'm pretty sure that all other things being equal, if I was able to go back in time and start Intercom again, by this stage, it probably would be 10 exercise only because I now know that I can think bigger, and that simply doing so gives you just so many more …”
Oct 22, 2020 negative
McCabe: Performatively supporting social causes destroys leader credibility
“There's standing up for causes that everyone knows they care nothing about. They've never spoken on the topic about before. They've never acted in any way that might demonstrate that they have even thought about these issues. It's so toxic to their position as…”
Oct 22, 2020
McCabe: Building a billion-dollar company does not heal internal insecurities
“Having built a super successful business, build a dollar company, hundreds of dollars in revenue, helped me feel good. But whatever little lacking thing is there on the inside is still present. And really what it's taken for me to chip away at that, as it were…”
Oct 22, 2020 positive
McCabe: Building a $50B company is not substantially harder than $1B
“Building a fifty billion dollar company, I don't think is substantially harder than building a one billion dollar company, quite frankly, within say some sort of similar timelines. I really think that for talented, smart people, ambition and the size of your v…”
Oct 22, 2020
McCabe: A 'chip on your shoulder' stems from a lack of self-love
“What do we mean by chip on your shoulder? It means you think there's something lacking in you. It's a lack of self-love. It's a sense that you're not good enough. And that you need to possess or achieve something to be lovable or popular or safe or whatever it…”
Oct 11, 2024
McCabe: Global nuclear holocaust is super possible due to proxy wars
“That nuclear holocaust is super possible. Yeah, I mean, the United States and Russia have many thousands of nukes pointed at each other, ready to go, and the United States is fighting a proxy war with Russia. It's super easy for these things to tumble into nuc…”
Oct 11, 2024
McCabe says he originally left Intercom due to illness, slowing revenue, and press attacks
“When I left chiefly because I was sick, also because revenue started to slow, always, also because I was attacked in the press, and I was, like, spiritually crushed, physically crushed psychologically crushed.”
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McCabe: Intercom wrote an S-1 and almost went public in June 2022
“We nearly went public in 2022 and I'm so grateful that we did not... Yeah, twenty-twenty-two. I think it was June, 15. We had a stock ticker that I hated, but nothing cool was available. We had written our S-one, and the markets collapsed.”
Oct 11, 2024 positive
McCabe promises to defend employees attacked online for political views
“And if any employees ever attacked for their political positions online, Especially and particularly if there are positions that I disagree with, it's important that I demonstrate that these principles in those moments I will defend them.”
Oct 11, 2024 positive
McCabe: Leaders who don't flinch against vocal minorities win public support
“If you stay close to the moral high ground and you communicate the reasons you do what you do and you stay strong, don't apologize or flinch When the tiny minority of people come after you also, you'll find that the masses will be very supportive, and really I…”
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
McCabe: Early-Stage Venture Capital Has Become an Unprofitable Commodity
“One thing I will say is the amount of capital at an early stage available today suggests to me that that's gotta be a crappy end of the market for VCs. I mean, it's just a raw commodity now, early stage VC. I don't know how you make a return there.”