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Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:43 Jason Lemkin We see general catalysts and others doing this.
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
- ▶ 1:02:03 Max Altman Now I think you're either a really massive, powerful platform like an Andreessen or a GC
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:35 Harry Stebbings I was with Hemant from GC. 2 times in the scene
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:59 Harry Stebbings To me, I think it's like a specialization in leadership that's kind of correlated to actually the winners and losers in venture in the next 10 years, and I think the winners are Walmart, which is your mega platforms, it's your Thrive, it's…
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:14 Everett Randle Uh, you have the mega funds like Lightspeed and GC doing their thing. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:32 Harry Stebbings Um, I would love to understand, is this just a new normal of general catalyst,
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:04 Harry Stebbings We, I had him on, on the show from GC.
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:23 Harry Stebbings If you're at a Thrive or you're at a GC or you're at a Lightspeed. 2 times in the scene
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:49 unnamed speaker General Catalyst, same thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:47 Harry Stebbings But what struck me, though, was, you know, I've interviewed, ah, Hermont at DST, I've interviewed, sorry, Hermont at GC, I've interviewed the team at Lightspeed, I know the team at DST, and they've taken the completely opposite approach…
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18 Jason Lemkin Along with the trip, the triple, triple, double, double discussions we've had here that you had from Hemant or from general catalyst, right?
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:33 Hemant Taneja I, um, I carry the title of CEO and managing director for a very intentional reason, which is General Catalyst is a business, uh, but it wouldn't be a business if it wasn't venture capital at its core.
- ▶ 1:58 Harry Stebbings Do you think GC is still a VC firm? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:32 Harry Stebbings How much did GC make from Livongo? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:03 Hemant Taneja Yeah, um, it's a great, uh, question, and, uh, and I'll give you the same advice that we follow here at, uh, in GC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:43 Hemant Taneja We have a company that's, you know, a Decacorn now and actually, um, called the investor who led it at GC saying congratulations.
- ▶ 1:12:14 Hemant Taneja We invest everything back in the business, and, and that's a deep belief that we don't want to be in the game where the partners of the funds at General Catalyst
- ▶ 1:13:30 Hemant Taneja Look, um, Andy Golden, who ran the Princeton Endowment, and he's, uh, doing some stuff with us now, uh, he had a huge impact on me as I was helping build, uh, GC.
- ▶ 1:16:10 Hemant Taneja It's a great, it's a great, um, uh, uh, question because I think as we went through the succession at GC from David Joel and me running 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:57 Hemant Taneja The key is, how do you, how does your work fit in the context of their strategy, and, and GCs are a flexible platform where people can engage in that context. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:55 Hemant Taneja You know, the good thing about our culture, and I give, uh, you know, the founders of GC a lot of credit is, anytime I had a crazy idea, they supported it.
- ▶ 1:24:12 Harry Stebbings What is GC in 10 years? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:21 Hemant Taneja GC should be running with the same rigor these companies run.
- ▶ 1:30:38 Hemant Taneja The things I lost, I mean, I have, I have so many of these moments, like Drew Houston, when I, when he was starting Dropbox, like, I asked him to come work at GC with me, because I had him intern for Chris Dixon at back Chris's company,…
- ▶ 1:36:56 Hemant Taneja Look, technology is neutral, and, uh, uh, what I'm most excited about is that, you know, over the next 20 years, if I look at GC, we'll probably invest, what, 300,000,000,500 billion dollars into the world, uh, sort of helping shape what…
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
- ▶ 59:17 Harry Stebbings At General Catalyst.
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:25 Harry Stebbings We're seeing general catalysts. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 23:32 Harry Stebbings So Jeanette told me about this from GC and she said, she said that you raised this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:47 unnamed speaker I think both Iconic and GC have some very core strengths. 4 times in the scene
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:51 Harry Stebbings When you're GC, Lightspeed, um, SoftBank, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:06 Miles Dieffenbach You know, if you're a GC, their last fundraiser, seven billion, say you own 10% of a Figma, which is a generational company, two billion, you know, they're going to take 20% of that.
- ▶ 1:03:01 Miles Dieffenbach And, and so the article with Yale and, and, and CalPERS was CalPERS bought a very large piece of their portfolio of which part of it was general catalyst and circle was the largest position in that fund.
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:21 Harry Stebbings So it was six 50 total pref stack, and then the last round was four billion by GC, and so add to your point on, like, pref stack to outcome size being the risk that you're taking, like, a hundred percent here, like, you have pretty minimal…
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:24 Harry Stebbings Now you have Andreessen's, your Lightspeed's, your General Catalyst, just eating the financial stack.
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:48 Harry Stebbings But if the top end of the power law is so much larger than it was previously, which I think we'll all agree will be that way in 10 years' time, 20, 35, are we wrongly negative on the size of Lightspeed, General Catalyst, you name your mega…
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:22 Harry Stebbings Because when we don't, Lightspeed, GC, Sequoia do.
- ▶ 25:20 Harry Stebbings Is it a workaround that Lightspeed, GC, others go, hey, this is something that we should be doing as well, or is it unique to go to, do you think? 2 times in the scene
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:04 Immad Akhund Like we had some, some stuff about GC doing it.
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:57 Harry Stebbings But fundamentally, we see the shift from public markets and IPOs to private markets with mega funds like Lightspeed, GC, Thrive, you name it.
- ▶ 18:57 Harry Stebbings Neil Mater doing the, the seed and the pre-seed for WindSurf, Sequoia, Lightspeed, General Catalyst, do more pre-seeds than anything.
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:51 Harry Stebbings Um, you, there's GC, there's a couple of other big names who just have pretty much more money than anyone else.
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:39 Harry Stebbings Do you, do you think you suffer from the barbell respectfully route, which is exactly that you want to put money in the sub a hundred young new firm or the platform play with multiple billions and GC Lightspeed Andreessen's?
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:43 Harry Stebbings General Catalyst have eight billion dollars.
- ▶ 54:48 Harry Stebbings Let's go to GC.
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:17 Harry Stebbings I'm seeing every day the most inflated prices, and it's just because you see this concentration of capital to obviously good people like your word, Wes, where you can get a five on 35, and then light speed and general catalyst come in, and…
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:58 Elias Torres I care more about the relationship I have with the VC after, like, I love Pat, I love, you know, Izar from CRV, Fialco, Larry Bond from, from General Callas, those are my Jewish uncles, and like, you know what I mean?
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:33 Adarsh Hiremath So, uh, we general catalyst, uh, led the round and really, really enjoy working with, uh, Max and Nico.
- ▶ 35:43 Harry Stebbings You mentioned GC at the start.
- ▶ 39:25 Adarsh Hiremath So the new fundraiser was led by Felices with some, you know, other amazing investors, including GC, Benchmark, and others participating as well.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:39 Hussein Kanji You do a deal, and then General Catalyst, or Index, or Kleiner, or Sequoia, or Andreessen, I mean, there are so many of these great firms, mark it up at a significant premium, and then someone else, Tiger, et cetera, marks it up after…
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:55 Mike Maples You're talking about firms like Benchmark and Sequoia and General Catalyst and A-sixteen Z.