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NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 20:55 Rory O'Driscoll So if you're every CISO in every Fortune 500, you have to basically, you know, you were being attacked by people with bows and arrows.
The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park
- ▶ 22:37 Joon Sung Park Many of the Fortune 500 board members and their C-suites reached out.
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 15:17 Jason Lemkin This story I just told, guys, happened at 10 Fortune 500 companies that haven't disclosed it.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:40 Rory O'Driscoll Rather than arguing with you, Jason, which is usually not productive for either of us, I'm willing to bet that every single CFO in the Fortune 500 sent some version of that article to the CIO and said, dude, look what this smart guy in the…
- ▶ 24:44 Jason Lemkin There's also a middle ground too, or, or a, or a partial win for, for, for Anthropic and OpenAI is just, listen, we can't stop cursor, which they could, we can't stop cursor and Harvey, but you know what we can do?
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:48 Rory O'Driscoll Corporate America, Fortune 500, you want to move your needle with an AI initiative that has measurable, demonstrable results, 2 times in the scene
Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:07 Aaron Levie You know, if you wanted an agent right now in a Fortune 500 company to go in and give you an answer to where is the most risk you have in your upcoming renewals for your contracts.
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:16 Anjney Midha It turns out the world's largest enterprise customers are governments and fortune, 500 companies.
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:03 Jason Lemkin And I think by the end of this year, that, that train is going to be so far out of the station that, that these, these growth numbers will be jaw dropping because we will decide enterprises will the fortune 500 or global 2000 will decide…
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:20 Jason Lemkin They said, they said even at Workday, we're seeing headwinds on seats because people just aren't hiring across the, you know, the Fortune 500 like they used to.
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
- ▶ 19:56 Raz Herzberg Let's take the Fortune, 500 companies.
- ▶ 20:44 Harry Stebbings But then when you talk about the Fortune 500 and the CISOs and the very serious enterprise customers, I picture a lot of founders listening to this going, I worry that by being different, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:24 Harry Stebbings On enterprise selling, selling to those fortune 500 that you're like, oh no, don't do that.
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
- ▶ 1:52 Harry Stebbings Warp tops the benchmarks, literally number one on terminal bench, top five on software engineering bench verified, and is trusted by over 600,000 developers, and used by 56% of the Fortune 500 engineering teams, making it one of the…
- ▶ 1:04:50 Harry Stebbings Top five on software engineering bench verified, and is trusted by over 600,000 developers, and used by 56% of the Fortune 500 engineering teams, making it one of the fastest growing AI companies, with revenue growing 30 x this year.
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:30 Jason Lemkin Data in Snowflake or Databricks in a Fortune 500 company?
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:31 Jason Lemkin Well, I will say across every professional experience I've had from startup to scale up to VP at a fortune, 500 tech company, nothing happens when you're not in hyper aggressive mode.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:18 Tomasz Tunguz And so if you look at the distribution, initial distribution of cursor, what fraction of people really going to switch, especially once the enterprise business starts to come in, because, uh, fortune, 500 will pick one standardized by…
20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify
- ▶ 1:48 Harry Stebbings It tops the benchmarks, literally number one on terminal bench, top five on software engineering bench verified, and is trusted by over 600,000 developers, and used by 56% of the Fortune 500 engineering teams, making it one of the fastest…
- ▶ 1:10:40 Harry Stebbings It tops the benchmarks, literally number one on terminal bench, top five on software engineering bench verified, and is trusted by over 600,000 developers, and used by 56% of the Fortune 500 engineering teams, making it one of the fastest…
20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
- ▶ 3:19 Harry Stebbings Top five on software engineering bench verified, and it's trusted by over 600,000 developers, and used by 56% of the Fortune 500 engineering teams, making it one of the fastest growing AI companies, with revenue growing 30 x this year.
- ▶ 53:25 Harry Stebbings Warp tops the benchmarks, literally number one on terminal bench, top five on software engineering bench verified, and is trusted by over 600,000 developers, and used by 56% of the Fortune 500 engineering teams, making it one of the
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 54:00 Harry Stebbings You have one of the Fortune, 500 which stores crypto,
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
- ▶ 1:22:00 Matthew Pohlson It's not our 10 year vision, but it's our 15 year vision, is Fortune 500 impact number one. 2 times in the scene
Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:06 Varun Mohan So I think there are still qualities of our company that we haven't really talked about of like having a large enterprise business, being wall to wallet, very large fortune, 500 companies.
20Sales: From $2M ARR to $40M ARR: The Playbook | How to Use AI To Supercharge Your Sales Team | Why Pipeline Reviews are BS | The Sales Call Script that Closes 99% of Prospects and How to Hire the Best Sales Reps with Kyle Norton, CRO @ Owner
- ▶ 2:54 Harry Stebbings Otter's trusted by over twenty-five million users, including Fortune 500 companies, to boost productivity and collaboration.
- ▶ 1:17:59 Harry Stebbings Otter is trusted by over twenty five million users, including Fortune 500 companies, to boost productivity and collaboration.
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
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings Otter's trusted by over twenty-five million users, including Fortune 500 companies, to boost productivity and collaboration.
- ▶ 1:04:15 Harry Stebbings Including fortune 500 companies to boost productivity and collaboration.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:44 Jake Saper I think the thing that people don't realize is that 75% of the fortune 500 still run their core applications on refrigerators in their closet.
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:34 AJ Tennant If I all of a sudden moved all my sellers to just focus on the Fortune 50 or Fortune 100, that would have been a nightmare because we would never get revenue for nine, 12 months, right?
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:27 Tom Blomfield With really, really big companies, like Fortune, 500 companies, and turn them into recurring contracts.
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:36 Chris Dixon They, it's just impossible that they know the right customer prospect at all fortune, 500 companies.
Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:23 Gili Raanan You know, representative customers, you know, large fortune, 500 companies, chief information security officers.
20VC: Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley and Orlando Bravo on "Does Price Matter"; When to Pay Up vs When to Stay Disciplined, The Biggest Lessons on Price Discipline from 8 of the World's Best Investors
- ▶ 1:19 Harry Stebbings 50% of Fortune 500 companies and teams that use Notion send less emails, cancel more meetings, and reduce spending on tools.
- ▶ 26:13 Harry Stebbings In Notion, you can automate the tedious tasks, like summarizing meeting notes, or finding next steps, really freeing you up to do the deep work that we all want to do, and that's why Notion is used by over 50%, 50%, of fortune 500…
Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:41 Dave Kellogg Because if I think a rep of a certain profile with a certain background, right, so you worked at Salesforce for five years, you've sold CRM, you've done deals in 50 to 100 K, and you've sold to Fortune 500 companies.
Matt Rosenberg: Why You Should Not Hire Sales Leaders From Big Companies | E1068 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:28 Matt Rosenberg Specifically at Grammarly, you know, we, a third of the fortune 500 use and deploy Grammarly today.
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:02 Howie Liu I mean, I've, I've spent a lot of time talking to the, the C-suite, uh, fortune by hundreds about AI and, and, uh, you know, air people has some AI capabilities that we're excited to, um,
- ▶ 42:27 Howie Liu And by then, you know, there were many fortune 500 that already were using air cable to the tune of thousands of active users who were easy to monetize.
Nick Huber: Biggest Lies of Silicon Valley; Lost Art of Delegation; How to Grow Your Network | E1051 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:52 Nick Huber In companies, in entrepreneurship, in management hierarchies at Fortune 500 companies, in government, in organizations, they're all master delegators.
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:24 Noah Weiss And I think we did prioritize for a while kind of scalability and solving those really complex, you know, fortune, 500 use cases and compliance and security needs.
Jackie Reses & Kris Dickson: What Happened with SVB? Are VCs to Blame? | E988 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:29 Jackie Reses And because they had such a heavy concentration of small companies, they don't have the multiple banking relationships that big fortune 500 companies would have to be able to as agilely move money.
Stevie Case: World's First Female Pro Gamer; Hiring Tips for Sales; PLG vs Enterprise | 20VC #970 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:12 Stevie Case And it was with a major US airline, and it was one of our first kind of Fortune 500 deals, and we got close to the end of this deal, and we had pitched to them a product that was really like a bundle of features that hadn't existed before…
Maggie Hott: 3 Questions You Must Ask When Interviewing Sales Reps | 20VC #960 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:32 Maggie Hott So if I, you know, someday want to be selling into the Fortune, 500, Fortune thousand, what is a different product that my sales team will be able to sell them? 2 times in the scene
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:55 Brian Armstrong Um, you can makes it easier to get deals done with other fortune, 500 companies. 3 times in the scene
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:46 Tristan Handy And so what happened in 2019 is that we went from a kind of the dbt community went from a place where kind of the cool kid early adopters hung out to a place where the fortune 500 data people showed up.
- ▶ 17:14 Harry Stebbings I think a lot of people think SSO, but what is required to make the transition from community grassroots to enterprise heavy full rollout across Fortune 500?
- ▶ 35:39 Tristan Handy The companies that we sell to, but there was just no path to get from there to, you know, fortune 50 company adopting this across a thousand employees.
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 11:56 David Frankel So in 2004, Microsoft was number 46 on the Fortune 500.
20Growth: The Biggest Growth Lessons from Leading Teams at Instagram & Instacart, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth Teams, How To Onboard Growth Reps Efficiently and The Relationship Between Growth and The Rest of the Org with Bangaly Kaba, H
- ▶ 23:48 unnamed speaker So I realized that like, you know, every job, no matter what it was, like big fortune, 500 company, or like, you know, late stage private company required just like a lot of you to really help get the business going.
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
- ▶ 31:23 Jay Simons We talked a lot about the fortune 500,000, not the fortune 500.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 41:24 Shishir Mehrotra And he said, well, I just look back at all the people I've mentored, coached, worked for me, so on, and I just count how many of them are Fortune, 500 CEOs, or prominent executives.
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 13:31 David Sacks Which may find that the difficulty level of trying to sell to a fortune 500 company is just too high.
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 39:12 unnamed speaker More Fortune, 500 companies are based here.
20VC: Softbank Managing Partner, Jeff Housenbold on How Softbank Approach Portfolio Construction, Their Optimal Investment Decision-Making Process and What Excites Softbank Most In Opportunities Today
- ▶ 4:44 Jeff Housenbold I ran business development and corporate venture at a number of Fortune 500 companies.
20VC: One Question Founders Must Ask Themselves When Approaching Investor Selection, Why Series B Is One Of The Most Challenging Phases & What Makes For A Successful CEO Transition with Jeff Russakow, CEO @ Boosted
- ▶ 3:33 Jeff Russakow I spent the first 15 to 20 years of my career in Fortune 500,
20VC: AOL Founder, Steve Case on Why The Best Venture Investments of The Next 10 Years Will Likely Not Be In The Valley, Why The CEO Must Be The Shock Absorber For Company Morale and Why Vision Without Execution is Hallucination
- ▶ 11:41 Steve Case Spend time with the people, the entrepreneurs that you really believe in and do whatever you can to be helpful to them as they take these startups and try to turn them into speed ups and then turn them into what hopefully are kind of the…
20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn
- ▶ 18:22 Barry Eggers It's almost like the Fortune 500, and so why is that?
20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team
- ▶ 21:00 Philip Krim Greg has had an amazing career at really Fortune, 500 companies.
20VC: Why Founding Your First Company Is Like Learning Through A Thousand Paper Cuts, The 3 Core Phases to Product Adoption and Why Valuation Obsession Must Change In The Valley with Armon Dadgar, Founder & CTO @ Hashicorp
- ▶ 27:04 Armon Dadgar 500 of the fortune 500, uh, partnering with us. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- ▶ 22:04 Jason Stoffer So I think you need to really look through, are you building something that's of deep need to the fortune 500 brands who are pounded on every analyst call asked about what's your digital strategy, or are you building something that can… 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings Further with Affinity's alliances to connect with trusted people outside of your organization, so you can leverage their relationships to score coveted introductions or referrals, and that's why Fortune, 500 companies and hundreds of…
20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
- ▶ 1:20 Harry Stebbings Through patent-pending technology, Affinity is the only platform that analyzes your team's communication data and automatically creates the relationship graph you need to achieve your business priorities, and you can take it one step…
- ▶ 31:08 Harry Stebbings That's why Fortune, 500 companies and hundreds of top-tier VC firms already leverage Affinity to cultivate their most valuable relationships
20VC: The Biggest Trend Of Our Lifetime Is The Decentralisation of Entrepreneurship Away From The Valley, The Biggest Lessons From Learnings The Craft of VC at Sequoia & The Benchmarks Required to Attract Growth Investors with Chris Olsen, Founding Partne
- ▶ 12:31 Chris Olsen And it's on top of that has a 150 of the fortune, 500 companies here.
20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 12:42 Leo Polovets But sometimes you might have, you know, sales cycles that are a year or two years because you're selling to banks or fortune 500 companies.
20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club
- ▶ 17:28 Alex Mittal Almost because we're in an AI summer, like, I absolutely think that every fortune 500 company has, like, consultants now figuring out how AI is going to potentially change their business.
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 15:14 Josh Stein And so, Box today has about 66% of the Fortune 500 as our customers, uh, which would say, hey, we're, we're reasonably penetrated into those biggest enterprises.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 3:50 Howard Lindzon 17 great years doing it i think four or five years ago when i started writing about how you know money is just being i would call it vanillized vanguard s&p makes sense the system's working money's flowing in to these vanguard simple…
20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- ▶ 3:15 Karthik Sridharan One of the most interesting things he used to work on at Oliver Wyman was helping fortune 500 companies with their purchasing, helping them to improve how they found vendors, uh, managed purchasing, got quotes on big projects. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 24:33 David Cohen If you looked at their client list, it looks like the fortune 500.
20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
- ▶ 7:29 Ezra Galston And while it may be slightly counterintuitive, what a lot of people don't realize is that a third of the entire Fortune 500 is right here in the Midwest. 2 times in the scene