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Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29:01 Rory O'Driscoll And then to your signature, you know, you want to believe that managers should manage, and at some point, you know, Alfred Sloan managing, you know, the guy who built GN, you know, managing the modern corporation, but there's a part of it…
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:14 unnamed speaker Going back to capital versus labor, you know, in the 19 fifties, 19 sixties, the biggest companies were, you know, three, 400,000 employees, like General Motors, like Walmart, had a billion at one point in time.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:37 unnamed speaker I think if any, it's Tesla only because the truth is electronic vehicle, electric vehicles have a whole bunch of specific subsidies, both around purchase and around, you know, the ability to resell emissions credits to people like GM,…
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:34 Harry Stebbings And it basically showed countries, ah, different kind of creation of EV providers, and it showed like the US, and it was like the US, I mean, without Tesla, it would have been in the dumps, because it would have only had me in General…
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.
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:39 Shyam Sankar We brought Bill Knudsen, a Danish immigrant who was a very senior executive at Ford and General Motors into government.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:43 Emil Michael With President Trump, along with Elon Musk and Mary Barra from GM and whatever, somehow we got the, you know, tainted with that, and that sort of led to a cascade of events.
20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
- ▶ 10:14 Scott Sandell The world is digitizing itself rapidly, and actually, that transformation has accelerated with COVID-IX, as we can all plainly see, and so, if you think about it as the balance of power shifting from the incumbents to the upstarts, that's…
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
- ▶ 13:56 Vinod Khosla In the case of automotive, you'd think VW or GM would do interesting things. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Focus purely on pre-seed, and prior to co-founding Afford, Gurav was a principal at Founder Collective, where he was directly involved with some incredible companies, including Cruise, acquired by General Motors for a billion dollars,…
20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
- ▶ 5:08 Zach Coelius Cruise exited for a billion dollars to GM, and suddenly people thought I knew what I was doing.
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 1:01 Harry Stebbings Finally, Daniel also has one of the Valley's most impressive angel portfolios, with investments in the likes of Opendoor, Cruise, which was acquired by GM, Gusto, and GitHub, just to name a few.
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 3:58 Jeff Fagnan I was also part of something that was trying to set up in order to deliver e-commerce thing for General Motors, and all these experiences
20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
- ▶ 10:27 Mario Schlosser You know, you can make those trade-offs or in deciding to buy a Tesla versus a BMW or something like that, or even a GM.
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, Daniel's also got one of the most impressive angel portfolios in the valley, with investments in the likes of Opendoor, Cruise, acquired by GM, Gusto, and GitHub, just to name a few.
20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings And prior to Mayfield, he spent time at notable institutions, including General Motors and Norwest
- ▶ 3:31 Tim Chang Gateway and General Motors and the technology side and product marketing side, so that was helpful.
20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
- ▶ 2:59 Charlie O'Donnell I started out, uh, as an analyst at, um, an institutional limited partner at the General Motors Pension Fund.
- ▶ 3:07 Charlie O'Donnell So GM had been investing in venture capital since, since the seventies, since before I was born. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 14:09 Chris Farmer And so, you know, much like the specialization that sort of GM pioneered in the
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 9:09 Mike Maples So here's a recent example, cruise automation, the self-driving car company that just got bought by GM.
20VC: What Is Wrong With The VC Industry, Why VC Is A Customer Service Game and Why Car Ownership Will Be A Thing Of The Past with Brett DeMarrais, Partner @ Ludlow Ventures
- ▶ 16:53 Harry Stebbings GM purchasing elements of Lyft, like, what's their names who bought Cruise? 5 times in the scene
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 13:19 Justin Kan The good ones are like Zenefits, Cruise, which was started by one of my co-founders from Justin TV, Kyle, and my brother, Daniel, and, uh, was just acquired by GM for over a billion dollars.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings He's currently on the board of Spark's Investments in Cruise, which was recently acquired by General Motors, Fig, Harmonix,
- ▶ 19:31 Nabeel Hyatt And so, in many ways, Kyle viewed this as GM could have been investing a certain amount of money, or they could have been acquiring the company, but we knew that we wanted them as a partner, and they were the right partner for the company,…
20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 8:26 unnamed speaker The GM acquisition of Cruise is an example of a legacy auto company realizing that it needs novel thinking and software capabilities in-house to be adapting to the changes and how transportation is going to be automated. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 22:04 Brian O'Malley This company cruise just got bought by, um, GM and that was, you know, that was a really great investment that the, that spark guys led.
20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
- ▶ 3:01 Charlie O'Donnell Until June of my senior year of high school, I was working at the General Motors Pension Fund. 2 times in the scene