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Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 1:18:24 Rory O'Driscoll So, it's an interesting market, but you've seen in Evernote, you've seen in a bunch of other things that it's
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 7:57 Rory O'Driscoll Ironically, given the Evernote purchase, this is right in the bending spoon sweet spot. 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
- ▶ 43:30 Rory O'Driscoll They own Evernote. 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:43 Harry Stebbings Um, you know, some of their properties are very well known, but, you know, Evernote, Vimeo, WeTransfer, AOL, Eventbrite, a very massively executed roll-up strategy, a 1,000,000,003 in revenue, and they're filing to go public at twenty… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:31 unnamed speaker I mean, uh, as long as it works, if they can keep finding these targets for the right price, if they can do what they, if they can do what they did with Evernote, which is raise the pricing from 75 to 250 dollars a year on average, right?
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings They are famed for buying the beloved Evernote previously, and today we're joined by one of their product leads, Federico Simeonato.
- ▶ 8:18 Federico Simionato So for instance, on Evernote, I think building things that are useful is the most important thing, but you can never quantify useful. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:35 Federico Simionato I think Evernote is the best example of this. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:16 Federico Simionato The thing we did on Evernote that produced the biggest churn was when we raised prices in 23, which is something that we thoroughly analyzed, and we ultimately made the decision to do it nonetheless. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:11 Federico Simionato So on Evernote, it's more about 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:17 Federico Simionato You should think about your product very specifically, like Evernote. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:32 Federico Simionato When I was working on Evernote, I still am a lot, but, but when I was focusing only on Evernote, we didn't have lovable cursor and these tools. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:30 Harry Stebbings Do you feel that product difference in terms of behavior very much when you are working on a product like Evernote, millions every day versus a much smaller user base with maybe a less frequent usage? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:51 Federico Simionato That even if this week nothing gets built that's specifically useful to me, since I've been here for a while, I know that Evernote updates every week, and so I know that at some point something will be built that is for me, that I, that I… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:47 Federico Simionato Next week, we are announcing Evernote V-Eleven, and it's going to be a significant change compared to what Evernote is today.
- ▶ 38:15 Federico Simionato It wasn't on Evernote.
- ▶ 43:55 Federico Simionato So for instance, I think audio transcription on Evernote is one such example. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:04 Harry Stebbings We've covered quite a few different products from, you know, your WeTransfers to Evernotes to HQ Trivia Clones to your Play Ons. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:35 Federico Simionato Let's take Evernote as an example. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:17 Federico Simionato So on Evernote, I think we don't use them at all. 10 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:35 unnamed speaker The most obvious one being Evernote, which they bought and have, you know, streamlined, raised prices on, and I believe gotten it to, you know, a more profitable business model. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:40 Rory O'Driscoll And you know, it's going to be like, you know, remember what once way back when you thought Evernote would know everything about you, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Luca Ferrari: Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation |E1127 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:59 Luca Ferrari I know that people, some people have characterized it that way after Evernote, because Evernote, some people thought would qualify as such, but we have acquired a lot of products that were on the way up, some that were flat, some that were… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:24 Harry Stebbings Because you have, you know, several different products, um, you know, meetup, you have Evernote, you have Remini, you have a lot.
- ▶ 20:52 Harry Stebbings If we then switch, I'm sorry, you must be really fucking bored of hearing it, but then you switch to Evernote, which is a very well-known brand. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:32 Luca Ferrari But really, up until Evernote included, which is a year ago, I can, on first approximation, I can say that 2 times in the scene
Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:13 Scott Belsky You know, a lot of us used Evernote or Notion or other things, and then we said, wait, I want to use this with my team.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:06 Phin Barnes If you, if you, if you convince yourself as a note taking tool, then you're not interested in that because Evernote wasn't great.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:02 Jason Lemkin And you know, Evernote, you know, Evernote just got acquired, right? 4 times in the scene
20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
- ▶ 9:58 Christian Reber I think Evernote hasn't worked out. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Prior to, mm, Phil was a Managing Director at General Catalyst, and prior to his time in Venture, Phil most famously founded Evernote, where he led the business with phenomenal success as CEO for over eight years.
- ▶ 4:26 Harry Stebbings Add Evernote, obviously, which is kind of the most famous, but also what worked with the prior companies that you've taken with you to mm-hmm and you've really run with today? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:03 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Chris O'Neill, who obviously was at Evernote also, and he said Phil sees the world differently to 99% of us.
- ▶ 29:07 Phil Libin Same thing happened, you know, when we were starting at Evernote, uh, Evernote, 2007, 2008, it was smartphones were like the new, the giant transformation. thousand 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lightspeed Partner, Merci Victoria Grace on The Future of Collaboration Tools, Bundling vs Unbundling, Synchronous vs Asynchronous & What It Means To Productise The S*** Out of Venture
- ▶ 9:45 Harry Stebbings Do you take notes on Evernote?
20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- ▶ 11:16 unnamed speaker And the way I started was just being pretty angry about the state of existing tools and, like, why Evernote is a terrible second brain and just not a good place for organizing your ideas or building up a repository of research. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:33 unnamed speaker I had some great friends who were investors or who knew a ton of investors, but everyone was like, well, isn't this just competing with Evernote? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:12 Harry Stebbings I guess people kind of compare it to Evernote. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Most Founders Do Not Structure Their Fundraise Correctly, The Pros Of Having An MBA As A Startup Founder & How To Manage The Psychology Of Being CEO and Overcome Self Doubt with Iman Abuzeid, Founder & CEO @ Incredible Health
- ▶ 22:53 Iman Abuzeid Everything else is just not going to get done, and that's kind of how I keep myself organized, and then my notes, I keep a lot of it in Evernote, so it's always searchable and easy to find.
20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Before that, he spent 23 years founding different companies, including Evernote, taking it from Idea Generation to Productivity Powerhouse, now having raised over one hundred and sixty million in VC funding in the process from some of the…
- ▶ 3:50 Phil Libin Made the first serious startup in kind of 97, and sold it 20 minutes before the first dot-com crash, and then, uh, pulled the same team together for a second one, and then, uh, we all moved over to Evernote, uh, I was the co-founder and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:45 Phil Libin And I think the kind of towards the end of my stay at Evernote, you know, I basically decided that I needed to replace myself once we gotten, you know, it's about 400 people that just felt like I just wasn't the problems that needed to be… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding The League, Amanda spent time at Evernote as a product manager, as an investor with Sequoia Capital, and started her career in the strategic partnerships team at Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:51 Harry Stebbings Just click a link in your browser and you're in the meeting, and with customers in over a hundred countries, High Five is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, etc.,
20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital
- ▶ 1:43 Harry Stebbings Just click a link in your browser and you're in the meeting, and with customers in over a hundred countries, High Five is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, etc.,
- ▶ 33:17 Harry Stebbings High Five is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, Expensify, and Betterment, and you can learn more by simply heading over to highfive.com.
20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings Just click a link in your browser and you're in the meeting, and with customers in over a hundred countries, Hi-Five is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, Expensify, and Betterment, and you can learn more by simply…
- ▶ 36:32 Harry Stebbings Just click a link in your browser and you're in the meeting, and with customers in over a hundred countries, High Five is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, Expensify, and Betterment, and you can learn more by simply…
20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- ▶ 1:36 Harry Stebbings Just click a link in your browser and you're in the meeting, and with customers in over a hundred countries, Hi-Fi is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, etc.,
- ▶ 31:01 Harry Stebbings High Five is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, Expensify, and Betterment, and you can learn more by simply heading over to highfive.com.
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 2:17 Harry Stebbings High Five is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, Expensify, and Betterment, and you can learn more by simply heading over to highfive.com.
- ▶ 31:07 Harry Stebbings High Five is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, Expensify, and Betterment, and you can learn more by simply heading over to highfive.com.
20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 14:48 Crystal Huang I would say moderate successes, not resoundingly successful, but for a long time now, people have pointed to Evernote and LinkedIn as being decent deployment that happened in China.
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings As he says, he's got lucky seven times and counting, with a portfolio that includes the likes of Uber, Thumbtack, Evernote, and Tumblr, just to name a few of the incredible companies in his portfolio.
20VC: Why Radical Candor Is Crucial in Workplaces, Why 85% of Work Relationship Mistakes Happen and Why You Should Not Try and Be More Likeable with Kim Scott, Co-Founder @ Candor Inc
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings I do also have to say a huge thank you to Chris O'Neill at Evernote, Kevin at Ship, and Jason at Tally, all of whom kindly helped to make this interview happen, so a big thank you to them.
- ▶ 2:12 Harry Stebbings Kim, it's such a pleasure to have you on the show today, having heard so many great things from the teams at Tally, Evernote, and Ship, just to name a few.
20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings Now, Chris is the CEO at Evernote, the productivity powerhouse, allowing millions of users around the world to remember everything, and they've raised over a hundred and sixty million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:19 Harry Stebbings And then secondly, how have you applied them to your role today with Evernote? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:51 Chris O'Neill Concept I like is the job that we're hired to do, so Clay Christensen's, of course, done a whole bunch of work around this, is asking a deceptively simple question, like, what job is Evernote hired to do in the world?
- ▶ 13:33 Harry Stebbings I'm really intrigued in, in, in particular, you said about kind of Evernote's place in the world. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:17 Harry Stebbings How do you instill radical candor at Evernote? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:30 Chris O'Neill You know, we, we have so much work to do to unlock the full potential over note, and we've made some amazing progress, and I'm really, really proud of the team, but it really is about that, and in a nutshell, we've done great things… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:12 Harry Stebbings Well, I will continue to take all my notes and references on Evernote in the future. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital
- ▶ 26:34 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I cannot wait to bring you Friday's episode with Chris O'Neill, CEO at Evernote.
20VC: How Both Founders & GPs Should Construct Their Pitch, Why VCs Are Eternal Optimists & What Makes The Best Post-Investment VC/Founder Relationship with Brian Ascher, Partner @ Venrock
- ▶ 20:32 Brian Ascher So I use Evernote and the, uh, Evernote ScanSnap scanner for everything. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
- ▶ 28:19 Harry Stebbings I always love to hear your feedback, and I cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's episode with Phil Libin, partner at General Catalyst and founder at Evernote.
20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 28:34 Harry Stebbings And as always, we so appreciate your support and cannot wait to bring you Monday's episode with Phil Libin, partner at General Catalyst and founder at Evernote.
20VC: Dave Morin on Why Building A Fund Is Like A Company, Why Venture Is A Craft & The Journey To Establish Slow Ventures
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings The leading valley fund with investments in the likes of Slack, Pinterest, Evernote, and many more incredible companies.
20 VC 083: 500 Startups Week: New Funds, Startup Mentoring and Dave's Masterplan with Marvin Liao, Partner @ 500 Startups
- ▶ 20:19 Marvin Liao Um, I think, like, Evernote is amazing. 2 times in the scene
20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24
- ▶ 27:49 Brian Wong And then, uh, and then of course, um, uh, Evernote.
20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
- ▶ 24:33 unnamed speaker One tap, add that to my to-do list on Evernote, because I'd create a macro to send something to my to-do list. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital
- ▶ 25:38 unnamed speaker Uh, one is Evernote.
20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado
- ▶ 24:37 Mattias Ljungman I do use it daily, um, and I think Evernote is fantastic. 2 times in the scene