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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

  • ▶ 6:16 Cliff Weitzman I did Ev Williams from Twitter.
  • ▶ 1:15:05 Cliff Weitzman So Dylan Field from Figma, uh, Mike Krieger from Instagram, Ev from Twitter, uh, Zillow founders, Audible founders, Grammarly founders, Robinhood founders, Honey founders, 23 me founders, Plaid founders,

Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 20, 2023 · 1 mention

20VC: Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya, Gary Vee, Brad Gerstner and more on Their Relationship To Money, How It Has Changed with Time and Wealth, How They Bring Up Their Children To Engender the Same Values of Ambition and Hard Work? Oct 28, 2022 · 4 mentions

Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 20, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:57 Chris Sacca My second investment was Twitter, and that one was funny because Evan Williams was, I'd already been working with the company and helping him out, but Evan went and circled up investors for the round, and he's like, hey, I've got you down… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:53 unnamed speaker I saw Evan Williams do it. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb Oct 11, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:51 Chris Sacca My second investment was Twitter, and that one was funny because Evan Williams, I'd already been working with a company and helping him out, but Evan went and circled up investors for the round, and he's like, hey, I've got you down for 25… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:49 Chris Sacca I saw Evan Williams do it. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function Apr 19, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:27 David Sze Twitter, like, Evan, Biz, and those guys, and Jack, everyone's got their list.

20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe? Jan 8, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings As I said to you before, I've spoken to so many of our mutual friends before the show, everyone from Fred to Bijan to Evan to Owen at Intercom.
  • ▶ 4:45 Biz Stone That's its own long story, but I ended up then moving to the Bay Area to work at Google, and after only a couple of years of that, Evan and I had an idea on the, in the car on the way home from Google, because it was before the free buses,… 2 times in the scene

20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity Oct 12, 2020 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Before joining CRV, George was a general partner at Moor Davidao Ventures for over six years, and I'd also want to say a huge thank you to David Sachs, Ev Williams, Sargeur, Max Cazor, Anna Khan, for some amazing questions and suggestions…
  • ▶ 33:21 George Zachary When we were rolling it out of audio, I had to agree with Evan to let him spin it out of audio. 8 times in the scene

20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor Mar 8, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:53 unnamed speaker So I've been heavily influenced by Ev Williams, obviously founder of blogger, Twitter medium. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia Oct 6, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings However, to our founder today, and I'm thrilled to welcome Sammy Inkonen, founder and CEO at Verta Health, the startup on a mission to reverse type two diabetes for a hundred million people by 2025, and they've raised over thirty five…

20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights? Jun 12, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:28 Kevin Rose You know, around foundation, it was really to hopefully inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs to let them know that when they hear someone like an Evan Williams or a Systrom or Elon Musk on the show say,

20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate Jul 4, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:13 Ann Miura-Ko But going apart from that technology, you can also say people like Ev Williams, who was an expert in blogging, then went on to found Twitter, which was microblogging.

Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor Jun 1, 2015 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:13 Jason Calacanis Um, so I think, you know, people on their third, fourth swing at bat can do really well, whether it's Evan Williams with Twitter. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:53 Jason Calacanis You know, for me, um, I, when I can get lost in the moment in a conversation, and it's like that magical kind of thing, whether it was, you know, Mark Cuban or Travis a couple times, uh, David Sachs has been great, Evan Williams has been…
  • ▶ 37:14 Jason Calacanis Yeah, I mean, I've, I have, yeah, obviously Travis, or Evan Williams, or, um, you know, um, Josh Williams, um, you know, there's a pretty long list of them, um, who, Mark Pincus, David Sachs, um, a lot of them don't need my money anymore,…
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