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Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 55:52 Harry Stebbings Dude, Finland, Finland is actually the happiest country in the world, which is astonishing to me when you look at the hours of light in Finland, but there you go. 2 times in the scene

Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 16, 2026 · 1 mention

Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:41 Andrew Feldman Um, there is cheap power in lots of places, uh, but in order for, uh, countries that, that, that wish to and don't have the natural resources of Finland that has geothermal or Iceland has geothermal, Canada that has falling water, um,

20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand Aug 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:22 Max Junestrand We have operations in the States, in London, in Stockholm, but we also have sort of hubs in Finland, Germany, Spain, France, with people who are working on the ground with our clients.

Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 28, 2025 · 1 mention

Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 11, 2024 · 1 mention

Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2024 · 1 mention

Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 30, 2024 · 5 mentions

Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 28, 2024 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:02 Sami Inkinen Yeah, well, I grew up in Finland, uh, about 200 miles northeast of Helsinki, very close to the wonderful border with, uh, Russia.
  • ▶ 2:35 Harry Stebbings Where did you get this sense of ambition and this desire to, to conquer more of the world than the, the, the farm in Finland? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:56 Sami Inkinen The reason is in, in Finland, more or less everyone's middle class.
  • ▶ 8:09 Sami Inkinen So when I was 15 or 16, I, uh, opened up and kind of hacked together the, one of the first, not the first, the one of the first BBS is a bulletin board systems in Finland.
  • ▶ 16:12 Sami Inkinen There are many moments when, you know, I'm just, despite being, if, you know, grown in Finland and kind of an Iceman and calm cool collected, there are moments where you are just about to lose it.
  • ▶ 28:12 Sami Inkinen I think even coming to America, you know, in my, in my twenties and being very insecure, you know, I went to Stanford for my second grad school and starting from there, you come from the potato fields of Finland and you just like…
  • ▶ 32:42 Sami Inkinen Then I'll give credit to my wife because I suddenly, you know, grew up in Finland and I'm kind of an Iceman.
  • ▶ 36:23 Sami Inkinen Um, I just did a one-on-one trip with the ADO to my native Finland over the, the holiday weekend, and I, I try to do my best, but, um, yeah,

Maggie Hott: 3 Questions You Must Ask When Interviewing Sales Reps | 20VC #960 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 15, 2022 · 1 mention

Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 27, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:14 Aydin Senkut I don't know if you know, but the very first fund we had was only forty one million, and we invested in Rovio in Finland from that.

20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP Apr 8, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:42 Eric Liaw We were looking at Supercell, Helsinki, Finland. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:10 Eric Liaw I mean, we made it our first investment in a company in also in Helsinki, Finland called Ivan.

20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years Dec 4, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:00 Rich Wong By not only focusing just in the Bay Area, as we talked about earlier, the fact that one can take advantage of the global nature of what's happening in entrepreneurship means that if you actually spend your time in Salt Lake, in Austin, in…

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 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:55 Sami Inkinen I grew up on a farm in Finland, so very far from any kind of startups. 5 times in the scene

20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team! Apr 11, 2016 · 1 mention

20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC Jan 6, 2016 · 1 mention

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