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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World Sep 12, 2026 · 8 mentions

Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble Sep 7, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 29:56 Harry Stebbings Since we've had town and again, sorry, but instinct in the last two to three weeks break out, seemingly so, I've been pitched four to five European 4 times in the scene

NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation Sep 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:47 Harry Stebbings I'm just saying here, I'm the one sitting in Europe, if you want to do a compound startup in the way that you both are talking about it, you will need to raise more money, because to move at that pace and to spend what you'll need to on…

ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern Aug 31, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 33:44 Aaron Katz We had, you know, the C-level executive come from Paris, one of the largest banks in Europe, just to experience that.
  • ▶ 41:31 Aaron Katz When I started this company, it was during COVID, and so we kind of had to be distributed by design, and I started it with some Europeans, and so people were in Europe, I was in the Bay Area, my co-founder was in Utah, and so, you know, we…

Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive Aug 29, 2026 · 1 mention

Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek Aug 24, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 6:07 Julien Bek Uh, he's, he's European.
  • ▶ 57:53 unnamed speaker Um, is the AE, so we have a business too, Peak AI, um, in Europe, um, and my question to you is, is the AEO, Answer Engine Optimization business,
  • ▶ 1:15:22 Harry Stebbings You sit in Europe, but you work with the US partnership in a lot of ways. 3 times in the scene

The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock Aug 22, 2026 · 1 mention

Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue? Aug 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash Aug 17, 2026 · 1 mention

Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab Aug 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 55:31 Rory O'Driscoll Yeah, I said the UK, which is one of the most centralized states in Europe in terms of central authority, and Andy Burnham's trying to change that.
  • ▶ 1:14:33 Rory O'Driscoll If you build the biggest bank in Europe operationally, not just on stock price value, then I would totally say you're worth the fifty billion dollars.

The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel Aug 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:08:51 David Frankel I think you're seeing this as a opportunity in low-cost environments, in places that are not Europe, not the US, not the north, where you can skill people up, and you can provide these skills to the rest of the world at tremendous cost…
  • ▶ 1:18:10 Harry Stebbings I mean, Europe's the worst, US is tough too.

Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B Aug 5, 2026 · 4 mentions

Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks Jul 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:04 Rory O'Driscoll Then, on the other hand, if they exist, if they exist in the world, taking away advanced capabilities from U.S. and European corporations such that their only recourse is to use a Chinese open weights model seems a little like, you know,…
  • ▶ 1:18:16 Rory O'Driscoll I think the beauty of Revolut is you have a whole continent full of overpriced, crappily run banks, right, that you can just roll over, right, and you've got five hundred million Europeans who are just getting shafted on financial fees, so… 2 times in the scene

Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy Jul 27, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 46:30 Matt Murphy If you're just some really great company somewhere else now, you know, uh, kudos to you and not, you know, just you personally, but like, you know, what's going on in Europe right now, like that whole, um, deep mind diaspora, you know, you… 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:10 Matt Murphy So anyway, I think, um, an example of that in Europe, just because it's close to home for you, would be someone like Matty at 11 Labs.

Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs Jul 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:29 Harry Stebbings One company wants to focus on growth, one company wants to focus on margin, another wants to focus on, I don't know, if we're in Europe, work-life balance.
  • ▶ 22:08 Harry Stebbings No wonder you left Europe.

Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal Jul 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:13 Rory O'Driscoll You have seen things like Huawei has effectively been prevented from selling to U.S. to any cellular networks in Europe and the U.S. because of this as yet on, yeah, unprovable fear.

The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO Jul 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:24:09 Harry Stebbings What one change would you make to Europe if I made you president of Europe in this very strange title to stay in the race for competitiveness? 2 times in the scene

⁠Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 11, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 48:11 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask one final one, which is we're sitting here in Europe, and it brings about a question of sovereignty. 3 times in the scene

Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:55 unnamed speaker Europe does, and now we do.

Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 6, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 10:16 Mike Mignano I think you've been doing a good job recently at empowering a new class of entrepreneurs here in Europe and in London, uh, with very, very, very early stage seed checks.
  • ▶ 32:11 Harry Stebbings It is, and this is why I get really pissed off with a lot of European entrepreneurs who are still building SMB accounting solutions.
  • ▶ 1:01:48 Harry Stebbings When TechCrunch Europe shut down, and now Wired Europe shut down, I coalesced the best writers in Europe 3 times in the scene

Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 4, 2026 · 1 mention

Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:08 K.R. Shridhar Huge amount of regulation that intentionally creates friction in the process, which was beneficial in the past, becomes an impediment to our growth, and I'm particularly sensitive that I'm here in the European continent.
  • ▶ 1:01:34 Harry Stebbings Is Europe slightly screwed? 2 times in the scene

How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 27, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 43:51 Harry Stebbings America likes to shit on Europe, but when we look at the numbers, right now Europe is kind of shitting on America when it comes to fintech. 5 times in the scene

DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 25, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 18:43 unnamed speaker On sovereignty, look, Europe is effectively saying, if someone says, we need a sovereign model, rephrasing that, what you're saying is, we no longer are part of the market over there in America, where our product is third. 4 times in the scene

Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 22, 2026 · 3 mentions

Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 18, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 39:45 Harry Stebbings I'm, I'm sorry, Ev, while you were explaining how America has changed, you know, model capabilities, um, Rory was struggling with European inventions of bottle caps on water bottles. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:04 Harry Stebbings Well, speaking of Europe, and to, to the point that you said there, sovereignty, and Mistral investors rubbing their hands with glee at the potential, um, Mistralin talks to racist 8 times in the scene

OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 13, 2026 · 4 mentions

SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 11, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 27:50 unnamed speaker No, that's the one you, you'd mentioned, I'm sorry, you, you, you've met, you've made a point there that they're, they're actually rolling out some more autonomous driving experience in Europe, in Madrid, I think, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:56 unnamed speaker You felt I was dissing on you in Europe and you're, you're basically implicitly saying, oh, look at Revolut. 3 times in the scene

Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 8, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 50:45 Harry Stebbings Sadly, the one thing that is quite clear is that Europe 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:02:55 unnamed speaker Uh, I think that we, we got quite a progress, uh, in the, in the places where we, when we started building, um, historically, uh, we had more experience in Europe.

Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 6, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 28:28 unnamed speaker I really hope to see European and American open source models. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:59 Harry Stebbings How does hiring engineers in Europe differ to hiring in the US? 4 times in the scene

Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 1, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:12 Harry Stebbings It's so interesting you said that, that kind of, um, dispersion effect from seeing your friends achieve, and I think it's one thing that's held Europe back in many ways. 4 times in the scene

OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:19 unnamed speaker There's, there's no one in the US or Europe that can produce EVs remotely as efficiently as Elon.

Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 26, 2026 · 9 mentions

Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 23, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 21:46 Harry Stebbings Welcome to Europe.
  • ▶ 24:11 Chris Degnan Like again, like, you know, someone said like, I won't name names, but I'm here in Europe. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:57 Chris Degnan And so I had time, like I was talking to one of the founders about this is I had time to like ramp North America, higher North American lead, ramp Europe, then ramp APJ.
  • ▶ 55:34 Chad Peets I won't speak to Europe because you know how I feel about Europe. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:14 Chris Degnan So that's my biggest kind of, I have to kind of shut up when I, when my instincts are saying, don't do this, don't go to Europe, don't go to APJ right away.

Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:28:46 Harry Stebbings Um, final one, if you were to make a change to, like, Europe, to make Europe more competitive on a global scale, what would it be? 2 times in the scene

Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 11, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 13:14 Patrick Forquer In Europe, we have pods looking after every major market, and for example, in Germany, we're doing so well that we just opened an office in Munich, so we- 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:27 Patrick Forquer So we were using the full force of our global team in the US, Europe, and the UK and Australia.
  • ▶ 55:10 Patrick Forquer In Europe or the US, you have to process certain things in region. 3 times in the scene

Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 53:27 Cliff Weitzman The other thing is, this is true in general of hiring in the Bay Area, the loyalty is, the loyalty is a lot less high than you would get from hiring in Europe. 2 times in the scene

Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 7, 2026 · 1 mention

Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 4, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 37:05 Harry Stebbings I'm in Europe where we have a lot of government intervention.
  • ▶ 40:01 Harry Stebbings One thing that worries me is, bluntly, Europe falling into this kind of chasm of irrelevance. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:00 Harry Stebbings Going back to our question, I'm making you the new president of Europe, which is a brilliantly American title, um, which doesn't exist, obviously, as I'm aware for anyone who's about to chastise me in the comments.

Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 2, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 30, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:13:42 Harry Stebbings This business of sport is dictated largely in Europe, at least. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:16:15 unnamed speaker Actually, sports teams in Europe do go up in a sense of, one key difference is, 4 times in the scene

Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 23, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 42:38 Harry Stebbings They managed the money for some of the largest families in Europe, and they said, all of our families just want one thing, Anthropic, and the challenge we have is they don't want anything else, but they all want Anthropic, and that's the…
  • ▶ 1:45:41 Jason Lemkin How many, and how, I want to know in particular how many are in Marleybone, but, but 91% of the Bay Area, uh, Project Europe, um, what, how are you thinking about that from, 5 times in the scene

Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 18, 2026 · 5 mentions

The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2026 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 11:08 Anjney Midha Now, if you happen to be running military defense mission critical workloads in Europe on AI infrastructure that is managed by an American company, 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:40 Harry Stebbings And like, both of them, when I speak to them, are like, oh, we're absolutely coming for Europe.
  • ▶ 32:01 Anjney Midha I think if you're, since you're so talented at media, and you're so talented at storytelling, um, I think I would, and your mission is to push the European continent, I think one of the things, if I was you, is I would be talking, trying… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:41 Harry Stebbings How much more cash do we need in Europe for Frontier AI to be what we think it can be? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:30 Anjney Midha We should know that there's distillation happening across the US and Europe that is taking advantage of our, of, of us all not being united.
  • ▶ 1:11:13 Harry Stebbings My mission, yeah, my mission is really to enrich the already very rich family offices of Europe.

Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 7, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 25:47 Demis Hassabis Well, um, I should ask you that question too, but I think, uh, I think I saw in London when we started DeepMind as a place that, and the UK in general, and Europe in such, to some degree, there's incredible talent here. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:40 Harry Stebbings Will Europe have a trillion dollar company? 3 times in the scene

Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 30, 2026 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 24:38 Marc Andreessen Um, maybe a little bit less so in Europe,
  • ▶ 41:54 Harry Stebbings Asking you about diamonds in the rough, one of which you mentioned earlier, I would say that, well, I'm in Europe, and so location can help you find diamonds in the rough.
  • ▶ 45:39 Marc Andreessen There's some, there's something in, and look, a lot, quite honestly, a lot of it is the inflow of people from all over the world, and a lot of that is the great Europeans who have moved here, you know, over, over the last, you know, 400…
  • ▶ 49:32 Marc Andreessen Um, and like I said, like, I, look, I, I have a lot of European friends who say, like, look, Mark, you don't understand, like, for a normal person, living in Spain is, like, much better than living in the US, because, like, the baseline is… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:07 Harry Stebbings Um, and you worry, do you worry about the future of Europe when you look at that flat or sinking growth rate for many European countries? 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:30 Marc Andreessen I find there's a lot of very talented people, politicians, European politicians, heads of state, former heads of state, where when you get them in private, they know everything. 4 times in the scene

Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:22 Gili Raanan You know, across US, uh, Israel, and, and, and a little bit in Europe, unfortunately, you know, it should be more, I guess, and hope it would get a bigger number over the time, over time.

99% of Drone Companies Will Die & Why Anduril’s Products Aren’t an Ethics Debate | Matthew Steckman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 23, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 6:35 Harry Stebbings When you meet all of the defense companies that you meet today, again, I'm a, you know, I'm an investor, I do, we have so many different European drone companies, every fucking UAV, I do, I don't, I honestly don't get it at all. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:58 Harry Stebbings And so my point is like, can you be a European only next gen prime? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:56 Harry Stebbings I've seen, I've seen so many, like, 30, 40 in Europe, just European ones.

Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 7, 2026 · 1 mention

The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 28, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 39:25 Harry Stebbings I love being in Europe. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:52 Jerry Murdock So, 1977, I get on a plane, go to Europe, hitchhike around for a couple of months, and then I go spend, you know, six months in Africa. 4 times in the scene

OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:09 Harry Stebbings From the UK, we look at SF, and I say to companies it's better to build in Europe because it's impossible to acquire talent and it's impossible to retain it.
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