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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where FTX comes up
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings And what did you learn from observing FTX's implosion?
- ▶ 33:25 Harry Stebbings And what did you learn from observing FTX's implosion? 4 times in the scene
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:22 unnamed speaker That was, that was in my FDX investment memo was to just get to that scale where we could push through some of these issues.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:26:39 Larry Aschebrook You know, we were fortunate enough during, you mentioned FTX earlier, to, to be awarded during the bankruptcy a bunch of stock.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:26 Harry Stebbings yeah, when you look at FTX, their positions in Anthropic and Cursor actually would have saved them if they had the time to prove that out 2 times in the scene
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:49 Jason Wilk I mean, we had this big partnership with FTX. 4 times in the scene
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:58 Jake Saper The other thing that could happen is there could be sort of an FTX moment in B to B AI as these agents come out.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:56 Delian Asparouhov Generally superior returns and also less gaffes in various ways, whether it's the, you know, sort of FTX type, you know, sort of fraud debacles, whether it's the holding Publix beyond when you should on behalf of your LPs.
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:08 Chris Dixon Uh, the stuff that happened two years ago with FTX and a bunch of scandals, I think, set back the space a couple, you know, maybe a couple of years.
- ▶ 36:44 Chris Dixon You know, to me, this is where FTX and Luna and a bunch of these catastrophes kind of came out of that community. 2 times in the scene
Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:32 Dave Ripley Probably the, you know, the, the other dynamic that, you know, has existed, um, frankly throughout this year is, um, and that I kind of like stepped into is, you know, we had SPF and FTX and, and all the other failures of, you know, in the… 2 times in the scene
Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:08 Nick Tomaino Um, one was obviously FTX.
- ▶ 31:20 Harry Stebbings The other element that just came up in the DMs a lot was, um, SBF and FTX, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Kyle Samani I mean, the original reason we passed on the FTT seed round in March, April, 2019 was because we were like, Hey man, no separation of church and state. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:35 Kyle Samani You can't run Alameda and FTX. 3 times in the scene
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Nick Tomaino The people that got sucked into this perception game that FTX was playing that, you know, the politicians, the regulators, the investors, they all now are trying to just sweep it under the rug and say, oh, I didn't know about this…
- ▶ 23:25 Nick Tomaino This is, by the way, this is what FTX, a lot of people weren't paying attention, and Silicon Valley invested hundreds of millions of dollars into FTX. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:46 Harry Stebbings Things like FTX don't help. 5 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:03 Jason Lemkin The real point is, how did we get into all this FDX trouble?
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:18 Marcelo Claure I'll tell you one that we did, that was a terrible miss, and that was FTX. 2 times in the scene
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:56 Harry Stebbings Why not go to the outskirts, do an FTX, bluntly?
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:07 Harry Stebbings Look at FTX. 3 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:11 Harry Stebbings I mean, uh, QuickBooks and FTX is a wonderful example.
ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:46 Harry Stebbings If there's anything we've learned from FTX, it's that being on a magazine cover does not always lead to success, Henry.
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:32 William Hockey I think the FTX blowing up will probably hopefully push us in the right direction there.
- ▶ 44:54 Harry Stebbings oh, my heart bleeds for Brian, but then I'm like, oh, FTX, my, 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:38 Harry Stebbings I analyzed the market to the end of the world, the opposite of FTX.
Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:40 Miki Kuusi Like, of course, there's going to be the cases like the FTX and so forth that where things go horribly wrong, but those are the edge cases.
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:10 Harry Stebbings Brian, what do you make of FTX?
Ruchi Sanghvi: My Job Interview with Mark Zuckerberg; Deep Dive on DAOs | 20VC #895 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:45 Ruchi Sanghvi So some of them even lead rounds like FDX.