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Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings Uh, we're also thrilled to be joined by Garrett from Handshake, so I wanted to start with the news of scale and the acquisition there, and so I'm gonna start with obviously scale, 14.83 billion to meta. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:38 unnamed speaker Because one could argue that scale, the asset that Meta may think it's bored is that scale AI has a lot of knowledge just by virtue of the questions that are being asked and the kind of expertise that people are seeking from them has a lot… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:14 unnamed speaker You know, if the real asset is some combination of the people you hired at face at Meta, I'll call them Meta, and or as Harry said, some kind of market perception, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:51 unnamed speaker It's pretty clear that early on, part of the reason that Sequoia aren't in Facebook is residual frustration with Mike Moritz for prior, you know, prior situations where they had in fact made a CEO change, which is why I think the pendulum,…
Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:51 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is it feels like today's environment is more and more about the 0.0001%, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, TSMC, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, the multi-ten trillion dollar companies.
20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 9:06 Matthew Pohlson Um, back then, like there wasn't even paid advertising on like Facebook and Twitter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:54 Matthew Pohlson Facebook itself still hits. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:48 Matthew Pohlson Oh man, we had, we had these guys who basically like were, they were recruiting plaintiffs on Facebook to sue Omaze.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:50 Rory O'Driscoll I like what you said about Facebook.
- ▶ 32:56 Sam Lessin Microsoft, Facebook, Google, these are companies that mattered.
- ▶ 40:41 Rory O'Driscoll Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook all have had capex as a percentage of free cash flow go up significantly.
- ▶ 44:08 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, an interesting example would be in a different market, you know, Meta changed its name and wanted to go all in on VR.
- ▶ 53:02 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, the quintessential example is Facebook just after the IPO this year, deciding mobile is it.
- ▶ 1:20:35 Harry Stebbings Will Meta release an AI model that isn't open source this year? 6 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:19 unnamed speaker If you look at Facebook, it's like,
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:56 unnamed speaker You know, I went to college when I see, like, Facebook took off, right? 3 times in the scene
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 22:09 Luke Harries And if you were to have to spend that on Facebook ads or any other medium, it's the CPMs, the CACs are going to be way higher.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:26 Severin Hacker So they spend it on, you know, Facebook ads, Google ads, and, and they grow really fast.
- ▶ 1:27:44 Severin Hacker You know, Facebook got that one, or Uber, Airbnb, they probably got some of those.
20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings and Meta enhance their LLMs with advanced reasoning, coding, multilinguality, multimodality, and more.
- ▶ 58:58 Harry Stebbings Number one, they help leading companies in AI labs like Salesforce, Anthropic, and Meta enhance their LLMs with advanced reasoning, coding, multilinguality, multimodality, and more.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:51 Harry Stebbings Fiji built an apps ecosystem at Facebook unlike any other.
- ▶ 52:22 Rory O'Driscoll You know, it's by, by OpenAI staying called private for longer, it might get to, you know, Facebook type valuation before it ever goes public. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
- ▶ 14:41 Mayur Gupta Of course, it was planted back in the days of Facebook with Chamath and that team.
- ▶ 26:06 Harry Stebbings That's Facebook, Google, Insta? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:53 Mayur Gupta But see what's happening though now, Harry, in the 1415 years of the category, this is very much like the Metas and the Amazons and the Googles.
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:08 Jason Lemkin Instagram, 10% of Facebook WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 31:47 Richard Socher I think, like, Facebook meta had open sourced, like, some new finger tips also that had some pressure sensors and stuff, and you'd have to incorporate that.
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:44 Victor Lazarte You know, like, Facebook was not the first social network, like, when Zuck built Facebook, there was, ah, MySpace and Friendster before it, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:22 Victor Lazarte So when, when Zuck did, uh, Facebook, like he hired a bunch of people from Google and like had board members that had been at other places.
20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
- ▶ 1:28 Harry Stebbings Number one, they help leading companies in AI labs like Salesforce, Anthropic, and Meta enhance their LLMs with advanced reasoning, coding, multilinguality, multimodality, and more.
- ▶ 1:02:55 Harry Stebbings Number one, they help leading companies in AI labs like Salesforce, Anthropic, and Meta enhance their LLMs with advanced reasoning, coding, multilinguality, multimodality, and more.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 33:40 unnamed speaker I mean, you all know my last company, Refresh, was acquired by LinkedIn because we were using a lot of data from LinkedIn and Facebook and these sorts of deep web databases, right?
Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:13 Harry Stebbings Google, Anthropic, or Matter, and why?
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:02 Mitchell Green Facebook, Google, Microsoft.
- ▶ 17:18 Mitchell Green Ok, forget the Ubers and Facebooks and stuff like that, but most companies would raise a hundred to three million bucks.
- ▶ 56:39 Mitchell Green These companies are not all snowflake in Facebooks. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:43 Andrew Feldman I think there is, there was a fundamental effort to disintermediate CUDA first by Google with TensorFlow and first by some grad students with CAFE and some of these early efforts, but later by Google with TensorFlow and then Facebook or…
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 18:36 Matt Biilmann Like we all use Slack and Messenger and WhatsApp and all of these chat tools for good reasons.
- ▶ 30:33 Harry Stebbings So I would say that Facebook is the same like Lama and the productization around Lama has been bluntly very, very poor at the moment.
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:57 Mike Krieger But the vibes of Instagram, even when we had more, uh, product similarities to a Snapchat, even to a Facebook, the vibes were very different.
- ▶ 30:03 Harry Stebbings If Facebook are willing to give it away for free, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:29 Mike Krieger When, if you take up Facebook and Instagram, what happens and what emerges and those products were often like very high quality. 2 times in the scene
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:19 Harry Stebbings My question, you said that AMD basically sold everything to Microsoft and meta and had a GTM problem.
- ▶ 49:40 Harry Stebbings You know, when you look at Facebook doing 60 to 65, Microsoft doing 80, and some of the intense capex expenditure that you're seeing, how do you think about that on the data center side?
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:24 Adarsh Hiremath And actually like one of the things that got us really, really excited about, you know, labor markets in general and the inefficiencies associated with it was just because like one of the best engineers I've ever worked with on our team,…
- ▶ 31:05 Adarsh Hiremath Uh, the marketplaces and companies like Meta, you know, and Airbnb,
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:23 Harry Stebbings That means he's internalizing all of the margins that he would have had to spend on data centers with the providers that we mentioned earlier, and Facebook is doing full stack. 2 times in the scene
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:12 Solly Solomou And around the time, everyone our age was on Facebook. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:08 Solly Solomou But our Facebook page went down. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:07 Solly Solomou So we had all sorts of people getting in touch with us saying, um, can you help us grow our Facebook account? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:13 Solly Solomou We had the best, best people who understood how to create the best Twitter accounts, Facebook accounts, in the country I'd say. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:34 Solly Solomou Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, and the emergence of these platforms over time.
- ▶ 42:43 Solly Solomou And whether that's for the audience who are our customers or a client who are our customers, we have over five hundred million followers now across Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube.
- ▶ 47:26 Solly Solomou Facebook continuing to adapt and grow into new audiences around Gen Z and new technology.
- ▶ 49:11 Solly Solomou Anyone who has lent in to change, I think Meta have put something like thirty billion dollars into AI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:46 Solly Solomou The governments, it's going to come down to the open AIs, it's going to come down to the metas, and these players that are holding the keys, and ensuring that they're thinking about those things, which.
- ▶ 1:10:14 Solly Solomou Whether it can compete with the TikToks, and the Metas, and at this scale, I mean, these players are
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:57 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, you mentioned that you're around Google, you're around, you know, Facebook and all the big players in San Francisco.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:15 Sridhar Ramaswamy Well, I mean, Sam is, Sam is succeeding, um, as I, as I said, in terms of having a consumer product that is approaching, like, let's face it, like meta and Google scale.
- ▶ 38:07 Sridhar Ramaswamy Um, you know, remember Mark went after mobile web for Facebook and then said, forget it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:01 Sridhar Ramaswamy Fiber for the whole world that Google and Facebook and you and I took advantage of?
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:35 Jonathan Ross I think the way that it's been put is less than the salary of many of the executives at Meta, and that's not true.
- ▶ 4:13 Jonathan Ross Now, more recently, Meta has been training on more GPUs, but Meta hasn't been using as much good data as DeepSeq, because DeepSeq was doing reinforcement learning using OpenAI.
- ▶ 13:52 Jonathan Ross And what it was, was we kept seeing companies like Google, Meta, just, you know, fail over and over again trying to win in China.
- ▶ 26:37 Harry Stebbings How do we think about Matter? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:29 Jonathan Ross So, Meta recently released their, um, uh, LLAMA, and it outperformed their .
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:57 Harry Stebbings You've seen Google, you've seen Matter, you've seen, uh, Amazon will want to move into the chip player. 2 times in the scene
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:18 Hussein Kanji so I, I think the whole industry is like, is massively grown, so there's a lot of money to be made, but if you think about the big, iconic, you know, the household name companies, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Ubers, the Netflixes, they… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:20 Hussein Kanji Facebook had hiccups. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:14 Hussein Kanji But if you look at what everyone is doing today, you look at what Apple is doing, you look at what Amazon is now doing, and Matt has been working on this, they're all building chipsets to remove their dependence on NVIDIA.
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:15 Eran Zinman Uh, but, uh, we're starting to do marketing on, actually Facebook was the first platform that we started to do performance marketing on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:18 Eran Zinman We, we, we ask Facebook, we ask Google to, can we pay you?
- ▶ 33:44 Eran Zinman Look, Facebook was amazing for us because I think it just changed the trajectory of the company. 3 times in the scene
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:03 Shervin Pishevar Yeah, so, um, I met him because, uh, Sheryl Sandberg actually was a mentor of mine, and, um, I was building, you know, Facebook apps and iPhone games for my, uh, one of my first companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:25 Shervin Pishevar You know, and he was making me a strategic advisor after I left Menlo to start Sherpa, um, Capital, and, um, and so, before I started Sherpa, I, uh, he allowed me to buy secondary shares from another early person, so I, I sold all my…
- ▶ 16:02 Shervin Pishevar Uh, I met him when he first did the, the Facebook deal.
- ▶ 26:29 Shervin Pishevar It was, it was remarkable that we got permission to launch, first of all, as a U.S. company, because, like, Google, Facebook, they never were able to launch in China, and so we were really one of the first to be able to launch a consumer…
- ▶ 58:07 Shervin Pishevar And they also, the political operatives who came into Silicon Valley post, you know, uh, Uber and Facebook, uh, it attracted them like flies.
- ▶ 58:35 Shervin Pishevar That's when most of these great companies, whether it was SpaceX or Tesla or Facebook or Uber, 2 times in the scene
Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:57 Mikey Shulman Like, music by itself is social, and is it social, like, Facebook social?
Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:25 Matt Plank You can go put money in the LinkedIn machine or the Facebook machine or the review sites or whatever, and you can get demos, but like you don't have all of the like easier, more free stuff to like blend the portfolio into something that…
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:14 Harry Stebbings You've seen Amazon, Meta, Google, all trying to build out their own chip capabilities?
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:37 George Arison And you know, the reality is that Facebook's EBITDA multiple is much higher than, um, you know, uh, dating products, even EBITDA multiple.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:55 Harry Stebbings You got into Meta, or Facebook at the time.
Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:17 Harry Stebbings The reason you sell is because you believe there's more strategic benefit to be had from the acquirer and what it does to your position as a company, say Instagram with Facebook, say YouTube with Google.
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:16 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is we have Dropbox and Uber and Facebook and Pinterest.
Alain De Botton: Why Status is Making You Miserable & Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:01 Harry Stebbings Missions, you know, it could be Facebook, you know, I think it was to connect the world.
Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:59 Harry Stebbings I always think to Facebook in this case where they really wanted you to get to like, I think it was five friends 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:59 Harry Stebbings I had Alex Schultz, one of the OGs of growth on the show from Meta, and he said that the biggest problem of growth is that every goal or metric goal can be gamed, and if you want that one, we can put in a load of recommended searches that…
- ▶ 41:48 Raman Malik Facebook and Instagram are really expensive.
- ▶ 54:25 Raman Malik I mean, I think especially with all the latest Apple changes, I don't know how anyone is going to make Instagram or Facebook ads efficiently work at scale as like a core growth channel.
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:06 Markus Villig And for us, generally, the most effective turned out to be Instagram and Facebook ads.
- ▶ 1:20:10 Markus Villig You can't keep on launching markets like this, running Facebook ads and hiring people over Skype calls.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:25 Harry Stebbings Why does Facebook open source Lama? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:57 Harry Stebbings We have Facebook.
- ▶ 29:01 Harry Stebbings Like, he's like, Facebook, they just won't entertain putting any of their AI products in Europe because of the regulatory, uh, lack of clarity, and so it's like, boop, you don't get AI, sorry.
- ▶ 35:19 Daniel Khachab Oh no, sorry, I can't build Facebook here because my lawyer has to do 20 to 30 hours of extra work to go to the notary.
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01 AJ Tennant Uh, you know, I, I think a lot of people would say it's innate, you know, you, you're born with it, it's that your personality, someone that's outgoing, but my, my philosophy is that pretty much humans can learn anything if they're taught…
- ▶ 43:11 AJ Tennant Why I love sales and why I love enterprise SaaS sales, like I, I went from ad sales at Facebook to, uh, B to B at Slack and I'm never going, never going back is like the level of learning and depth you get to do, like figuring out how to…