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Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:20 Harry Stebbings And so you'll go through approvals processes, sign off processes internally for the largest enterprises in the world, your VWs or your Fords or your GEs or Tyson chickens.
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:18 unnamed speaker Selling a company to GE. 2 times in the scene
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:19 Alex Rampell They're not going to go be able to sell GE and say, oh, wow, I love you two YC kids.
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:40 unnamed speaker This is a hard, hard, hard task, even for existing plane manufacturers, typically Boeing builds planes, GE or Rolls Royce builds engines. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:26 Rory O'Driscoll Um, GE did it with that whole weird thing that totally blew up.
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:42 Eoghan McCabe Um, you know, General Electric or Ford.
Ben Fiechtner: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | E1185 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:26 Ben Fiechtner What's funny is I started my career in General Electric, and I remember we had a round table, and it was the same thing back to the interview questions of, like, people asking questions like, what's the biggest growth level for GE Capital?
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:03 Jason Lemkin So we would see back in the day, we would see waves of issues because we had so many customers in the UK because of BT and G Europe, but they would be our, our canary in the coal mine.
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:24 Frank Quattrone And the, uh, the even more interesting part is that Morgan Stanley, the blue chip firm that I had worked on on work that at wall street, um, who was the banker to AT&T and general motors and general electric.
Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:53 Chris Degnan And so what I did was I would go out and I talked to like GE 2 times in the scene
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:45 Steve Pagliuca You know, I remember, I remember, uh, vividly my first day at, uh, at Harvard Business School, they had Jack Welsh come in, who was the famous CEO at that time, GE.
Orlando Bravo: Raising Kids as a Billionaire; VC vs PE; Is Warren Buffet Wrong? | 20VC #974 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:27 Orlando Bravo But they, they may not have been through the old GE School of Management or these principles or this mentorship.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:34 Jason Lemkin Our top customers are GE, Facebook, Twitter, whatever.
20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats
20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings And prior to entering the world of venture, Jeff served as chairman and CEO of GE for 16 years, where he revamped the company's strategy, re-established market leadership, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:30 Harry Stebbings I mean, the pleasure is all mine, Jeff, but I do want to start here with a bit of an unconventional question for the show, but it's take me back to the moment that you were named CEO at GE. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:11 Harry Stebbings You know, you spent a lot of time and resources really investing in innovation at GE and committed to it very strongly. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:14 Harry Stebbings You know, you've gone from CEO, GE, managing GE's board, which is a very different style of board to a startup board.
- ▶ 28:47 Harry Stebbings I hear you have a GE tattoo.
20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- ▶ 9:26 Byron Deeter A beautiful example with this is Jeff Lawson, the founder and CEO of Twilio, recently wrote a book, and then Jeff Immelt, the former CEO of General Electric, recently wrote a book, and he's on the Twilio board, so we've had these… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 7:50 Andrew Wilkinson Anyone that's done this for tech had built kind of a synergized conglomerate like GE, where everything's interdependent, but nobody had truly copied the Berkshire model of running all these distributed businesses and leaving them to do…
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 14:32 Vinod Khosla And so, relying on experts leads to conservatism and incrementalism, and that's a perfectly good thing for a General Motors or a General Electric to do.
20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- ▶ 4:07 Henry Ward But through that process, I had met Manu, who introduced this problem set to me of, hey, why can I buy General Electric stock online for seven bucks?
20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 1:06 Harry Stebbings And GIF, which raised sixty eight million from Venrock and GE before merging with Castlight in 2017.
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 20:18 Alex Rampell GE is a big sponsor, but there's only room for so many sponsors and it's planned years and years in advance.
20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 6:40 Ethan Kurzweil Offline, non-technical businesses, like a, like a GE or something like that, they're still turning to their technology teams or software teams to make those kinds of decisions and decide what technology to buy, and so that's where it was…
20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on Why "All Fund Size Models Are Wrong" and The Lifecycle of Current Venture Funds Is Inefficient?
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 21:39 Niccolo De Masi I mean, you know, GE is apparently using it for, you know, allowing engineers and, you know, one plant to diagnose problems 6000 miles away.
20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming
- ▶ 6:41 Niccolo De Masi I mean, GE is a masterful platform transition or technical or a company I worked for. 2 times in the scene
FF 016: Chad Fowler, CTO @ Wunderlist, App Of The Year 2013
- ▶ 23:16 Chad Fowler But before that, uh, very honestly, when I was at GE, I had the opportunity to start a development center in Bangalore, which, uh, was the most educational experience of my career and my life, and if anyone has a chance to