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Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:16 Matt Fitzpatrick That's two to three, two and a half to three, like Germany and Canada spent as an example.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:47 Harry Stebbings Like, I do not think there's any way you'll have the German healthcare system working with American model providers. 2 times in the scene
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:57 unnamed speaker And, you know, you see, and you also see it in Europe, instead of being the, you know, there was a bank for the UK, there was a bank for Germany, they catered to Harry, they catered to his mother, they catered to his grandmother, they…
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
- ▶ 51:22 Max Junestrand We have operations in the States, in London, in Stockholm, but we also have sort of hubs in Finland, Germany, Spain, France, with people who are working on the ground with our clients.
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:20 Harry Stebbings Um, we just did one in Germany peak when we did it.
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:13 Philipp Freise I learned very quickly a few months later when the.com, uh, bubble crashed and the new, new market in Germany crashed that the most important thing really was the investors I had, uh, in, on my board, because there were two camps.
- ▶ 16:11 Philipp Freise So I didn't just buy something outright, but I went into, for instance, in Bremer, which we were, we are a 30% shareholder, or, you know, um, uh, Wild in Germany, which was the synthetic flavor business, 35%.
- ▶ 35:08 Philipp Freise We got to wake up in Europe as for instance, Germany has now decided to invest 25% of its GDP and make sure when we make these investments, we build equity value.
- ▶ 46:19 Harry Stebbings Germany has a challenge in the auto industry.
- ▶ 49:11 Philipp Freise But, you know, imagine if we had the, you know, the, the German, the, the British, the French Norges Bank, right?
- ▶ 59:38 Philipp Freise Crazy about trying to innovate the Bayride Festival, which is the Richard Wagner Festival in Germany.
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:45 Johannes Reck And then for a lot of the other operational staff, there was, um, uh, these short time labor, you know, things in Germany and elsewhere where, you know, the government would actually cover some of the cost. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:00 Johannes Reck I mean, just to give you another number, like Germany subsidizes its retirement system every year with a hundred billion, right?
- ▶ 1:12:24 Johannes Reck By the way, I recommended that in Germany and got shut down immediately because, you know, people said, you know, this is not egalitarian. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:09 Johannes Reck And people like, I understand why like Germans or like, you know, Brits are very upset, uh, because we have all of that red tape, you know, we have these stories that I just told. 5 times in the scene
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:12 Larry Aschebrook Um, and, and they're doing a really good job of managing through the, the, the, the stress they had in the business, and now more of a, um, focused in, um, Germany versus kind of a continental play.
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:35 Harry Stebbings I think I'm hopeful that, you know, Germany are buying a billion dollars of energy a day in some circumstances from other countries because they are so woefully
- ▶ 48:20 Taavet Hinrikus Do you remember how much capital Germany allocated to this the last couple of weeks of February? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:02 Taavet Hinrikus Has said they want the first, not one, but two fusion power plants to be built in Germany.
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:25 Harry Stebbings On the underwriting side, I actually met an underwriting AI company the other day, and they were selling to one of the biggest providers in Germany, and they were like, hey, you've got a 180,000 underwriters, they're one of the biggest. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 39:31 Richard Socher For the same reason why we're speaking English, and, like, I could have stayed in Germany and never learned English, and then every time you say something, I, you know, for a while, I would type it in and then hear it, and then, like,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:15 Richard Socher Then there's the misconception to still like, and I see this in Germany still, there's still people like, ah, you know, two years ago was crypto, this year's AI, like maybe it'll just go away.
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:26 Tom Hulme We look at Germany's trillion dollars.
- ▶ 1:09:53 Harry Stebbings I mean, the German car market is being destroyed by BYD and Chinese cars, and it's 3 times in the scene
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:37 unnamed speaker I mean, in Germany, it's almost structurally impossible to find someone as well.
Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:40 Niklas Östberg We shut down Germany and Japan.
- ▶ 10:27 Harry Stebbings Why did you sell your home market? 6 times in the scene
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:50 Mike Krieger And so even as we think about doing our product design and data privacy and, you know, selling to German users or German companies, there's a different set of questions that get asked that are often very helpful questions.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:09 Fabien Pinckaers Um, so, as a Belgian company, there is not a lot of big VCs in Belgium, so you basically go to Paris, London, and Germany, and you meet all of them.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:07 Hussein Kanji Yes, I'm really terrified that the German car industry is going to get wiped out by China.
- ▶ 54:16 Hussein Kanji I don't know, and I don't know what's going to happen to energy prices in Germany.