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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.
Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- ▶ 23:21 Anastasios Angelopoulos I mean, you know, I was just talking with a big, you know, Fortune 50, uh, enterprise, uh, yesterday, and they were, and I was telling them about, you know, products that we have for them and so on and so forth, and they said, okay, wait,…
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.
Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:24 Clay Bavor I think within a company like Sierra, where we serve in particular, the large enterprise, we work with 40% of the fortune 50.
- ▶ 25:51 Harry Stebbings You mentioned the 40 of the fortune 50 being customers, and you use that quite a lot in a lot of your marketing materials, and it strikes me as like a very enterprise company, candidly.
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.
Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:48 Gili Raanan I can't talk about the specific customers they have, but they have tons of, um, financial services and fortune, 100 day customers.
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.
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:43 Matt Fitzpatrick I was working with all the Fortune 1000 on every different AI topic daily, and particularly in the early machine learning days, kind of 10 years ago, I think we built some really interesting stuff, but, um, but
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
- ▶ 30:46 Raz Herzberg But if one day you meet a fortune 10 customer and they're going to have 50,000 machines, then now your graph looks idiotic.
- ▶ 37:24 Harry Stebbings On enterprise selling, selling to those fortune 500 that you're like, oh no, don't do that.
- ▶ 37:44 Raz Herzberg Also, when you think of all of the CIOs of Fortune, 100 companies, all of the CTOs, all of the CISOs, they all know each other, they all switch companies, they work in that company, tomorrow they work in, it's a small knit group.
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.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 1:57 Harry Stebbings With features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios, you have to check them out.
- ▶ 1:17:55 unnamed speaker With features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios, you have to check them out.
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…
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 2:34 Harry Stebbings And that's why companies like Mutiny, Pocus, and Aurum, and even public companies like Real, already trust TESI, with features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:19 Harry Stebbings With features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios, you have to check them out. 2 times in the scene
20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
- ▶ 42:01 Chris Degnan If you fail in the, in the, you know, Fortune 100,
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
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 2:08 Harry Stebbings And that's why companies like Mutiny, Pocus, and Aurum, and even public companies like Real, already trust TESI, with features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios,
- ▶ 57:59 Harry Stebbings With features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios, you have to check them out.
20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong
- ▶ 52:27 Amit Bendov Half of the fortune 10 companies use Gong today.
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,
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:51 Rory O'Driscoll And the reason they can get it is they can look, you know, the CEO or the CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the eye and say, we've done 10 of these.
20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
- ▶ 44:38 Kim Graves And you need to figure out without a product led growth motion, because executives of fortune, 100 companies aren't typically tinkering with the latest technology.
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?
- ▶ 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?
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:14 Dan Siroker They're not just, you know, cold calling into the fortune 100 trying to get somebody to pay attention to your rinky dinky startup that, you know, more likely than not, even if they got a meeting, they're going to dismiss because they have…
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.
Sean Murray: Why Discovery Today is F***** & How to Scale Into Enterprise Effectively | E1107 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:50 Sean Murray Well, it turns out that I was making 300 cold calls a day to C-suite executives in the Fortune 1000.
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.
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:14 Vinod Khosla I wrote, uh, a blog in 2016, um, in Fortune magazine that said, AI will cause, and this was
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.
- ▶ 34:26 Noah Weiss You don't want a bunch of folks who worked at an early stage startup, had never worked in enterprise before to be like, let me try and figure out from, from first principles, what like electronic key management is and why the chief…
Rich Liu: Sales in 2023; How to Onboard, Manage and Scale Reps; PLG vs Enterprise Growth | E1023 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:10 Scooter Braun You know, we, we see Fortune 100 CEOs jump off of buildings all the time.
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?
- ▶ 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
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:44 William Hockey They aren't necessarily the ones that are going to be on the front cover of Fortune or the front cover of Forbes or the ones that are, you know, getting invited to the coolest parties.
- ▶ 28:08 William Hockey You know, prior to calling, let's make a little history here, any business that wanted to offer financial services, whether it's a startup that's rethinking credit cards or a, I don't know, Fortune 50 company that's, I don't know,…
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.
Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:53 Daniel Yanisse And we went directly for like the fortune 100.
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:28 Aydin Senkut Um, you know, I would read Fortune Time and Business Week, and I would read these articles with CEOs.
How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:21 John Doerr When Walmart, the Fortune one company, stands up and says to all their suppliers, we want you to drive for, for net zero in our supply chains by 2040, and you see the concerted action of Walmart against this problem, it gives you hope.
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: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 2:59 Harry Stebbings Trust 50% of the Fortune of Thousand.
- ▶ 36:41 Harry Stebbings Trust 50% of the fortune a thousand.
20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To
- ▶ 2:37 Harry Stebbings Trust 50% of the fortune a thousand.
- ▶ 36:40 Harry Stebbings Trust 50% of the Fortune of Thousand.
20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
- ▶ 2:34 Harry Stebbings Trust 50% of the fortune a thousand.
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: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
- ▶ 8:47 Alexis Ohanian I've got a friend of mine who, who left her job at fortune, you know, a great publication to start a newsletter and she's already making more money.
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: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Mike's also been on the Forbes Midas list since 2010, and was also named one of eight rising stars by Fortune magazine.
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: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 14:53 Jason Boehmig One of the things we have always been excited about with Iron Cloud is that every company in the world is a contracts company, and we did see some very early adoption in the Fortune
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 4:42 Bill Gurley The team at Goldman at the time was quoted in every tech article I could read in the journal or Forbes or Fortune, and they were pontificating about valuation and investing around technology evolution.
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.
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