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SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 2, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 53:50 unnamed speaker They basically said, you know, active daily active use of their Fortnite game and their games is down. 5 times in the scene

Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:12:23 unnamed speaker It's the Fortnite effect.

Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 26, 2026 · 3 mentions

Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:05 Mikey Shulman And to me, it seems like just crazy that music should not be as engaging as Fortnite.

Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 25, 2024 · 1 mention

Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 28, 2022 · 2 mentions

20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?! Jan 14, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:13 Devin Finzer For quite some time now and spent, for example, billions of dollars buying virtual clothing and some, a game like Fortnite. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse Nov 22, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:31 Eugene Wei Well, video games like Fortnite are social, they're interactive, and you don't have that going for you if you're making movies, but tough luck. 2 times in the scene

20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania Apr 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:59 unnamed speaker We were thinking about things like Club Penguin back in the day, but generally I think the biggest fear was they would be always under the radar, always second player to later Minecraft or maybe later Fortnite and not be able to break out…

20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners Sep 2, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 20:58 Jana Messerschmidt If you're doing a gaming app and believe your revenue is going to be driven by like in-app purchases, like another one of our portfolio companies, Fortnite or Epic Games, is there a social component to why people are buying, for example,… 5 times in the scene

20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6 Feb 8, 2019 · 1 mention

20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI Aug 27, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:28 Daniel Gross So on the first front, in terms of understanding life, I just find it a wonderful tool to really dig into, you know, certain things like, for example, why are people so interested in playing Fortnite or Age of Empires, and yet it's so hard…

20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess Jul 30, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:25 Adam Goldberg You could build a game like Fortnite in a centralized manner while having its cosmetic assets live on the blockchain.
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