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NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 25:03 Rory O'Driscoll They're willing to give it access to their Gmail. 2 times in the scene
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 11:06 Harry Stebbings Like, go on, try some, try Gmail, Paul Buchite.
How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 29:23 Matt Swulinski This is, this is someone that, like, wants a simple tool that adds labels to their Gmail.
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 12:42 Jason Lemkin Turn on, connect to Google Drive, Gmail, whatever.
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:18 Mike Mignano You gotta give up your Gmail, and your Google Docs, and your Google Sheets, and your calendar, right?
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:46 Patrick Forquer So we use Gmail, Calendar, and Google Drive.
Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:13 Amjad Masad Your Gmail, if someone pushes a bug to Gmail, not going to die. 2 times in the scene
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:49 unnamed speaker Would I build an entire Google Drive or a Gmail?
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:06 Gokul Rajaram When I joined in 2003, there was a project going on called, uh, Caribou internally.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:40 Jerry Murdock They've got, if I have an autonomous agent business and I've got Gmail, you're going to have a phenomenal asset that open AI doesn't have.
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 25:36 Luke Harries Um, I ran this through with someone recently, and we were like, let's take your Gmail, let's literally get every single person you have sent an email to in the last five years.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:06 Jason Lemkin We survived and moved to Gmail. 2 times in the scene
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:24 Maor Shlomo So Gemini is now everywhere in my Gmail and like a lot of like workflows and like, uh, building automation.
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:08 Jonathan Ross It's like, it's in Gmail, but it's practically unusable.
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:26 Brendan Foody But then, we started adding other degrees of complexity, of how do we get the model to use other tools, like accessing your Google Drive, like accessing your calendar, your Gmail, your Slack, all these different things.
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
- ▶ 20:43 Max Junestrand I think there's this quote from the guy who built Gmail that's like, your, your product can have three features that should be good.
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 26:38 Luke Harries Um, I ran this through with someone recently, and we were like, let's take your Gmail, let's literally get every single person you have sent an email to in the last five years.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:18 Jake Saper If you're building an auto complete tool in Gmail, if it's a horizontal tool, yeah, you're probably gonna have your lunch eaten.
Anton Osika, Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable: Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention - Better than ChatGPT · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:04 Harry Stebbings I was just reading an article actually with Paul Buchheit, the founder of Gmail, and he said, you need three great features in a product, and it's really that simple and make them really, really great.
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:53 Dmitry Gurski It's something similar on Gmail ecosystem. 2 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:05 Aravind Srinivas And then there's another AI that's sort of like, it's like Gmail sort of a thing where, you know, it starts off with like a sufficiently large storage that like, like is practical enough and it keeps it, it keeps expanding over time.
- ▶ 56:10 Aravind Srinivas Then, on the other hand, Word, Docs, Gmail, Google search.
Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:53 Guillaume Cabane And it's corporate-looking, or this is a text-based email that somebody sent through Gmail.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:14 Harry Stebbings Can I push back and just say that do you think not, you know, if you think about like an Asana or a Monday.com or whatever, they could actually connect to your Google mail accounts, your calendars, and actually create a huge amount of…
- ▶ 31:53 Des Traynor So you've got five years of roadmap to get to like Gmail quality or even superhuman quality, like email, and then you can add your little feature on top.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:13 Matthew Prince This was before Gmail and those things.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:10 Guillermo Rauch Gmail smart compost suggested what to reply to the email.
Lauryn Isford: Product Growth Secrets from Facebook, Airtable, BlueBottle, Dropbox & Notion | E1037 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:07 Lauryn Isford Maybe they sign up with a Gmail account, and one might assume that they're there for a personal use case, but it's possible that 2 times in the scene
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16 Noah Weiss So, you know, apps and Gmail took off.
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:07 Wesley Chan I still remember, I, I, I was, um, I was helping out my friend, Brian Rakowski, who was the product manager at Gmail before it launched. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:43 Wesley Chan So, I mean, the wedge on Gmail was that they, they limited the invites.
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:01 Jim Lanzone And those users are coming, you know, in email, we're number two to Gmail.
Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:15 Des Traynor Don't tell me after two years time, we finally caught up with Gmail.
20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
- ▶ 26:46 Guillaume Pousaz But I have three labels only in Gmail. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- ▶ 3:31 Todd McKinnon You had collaboration apps like Gmail and Google apps for domains.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 5:16 Shishir Mehrotra Gmail was all about, you shouldn't have to delete your email and.
- ▶ 36:23 Shishir Mehrotra Gmail, Google Maps, when we're all about a fifth of YouTube, we were already much bigger than the others.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- ▶ 3:33 Rahul Vohra So 10 years ago, in 2010, I started a previous company called Reportive, and we built the first Gmail plugin to scale to millions of users. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:48 Rahul Vohra In Gmail, the shortcut to compose an email is C. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:14 Rahul Vohra In Gmail, when I archive an email, what do I see? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 3:06 Emmett Shear And we found that compelling and started working on a calendar because we were all users of Gmail at the time, which had just come out. 2 times in the scene
Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Before first round, he worked on some of the most transformational consumer products of the last decade, including as a PM at Gmail, taking it from zero to two hundred million users, to leading a major redesign of Facebook's newsfeed, to…
- ▶ 4:43 Todd Jackson And I worked on Gmail for five years and it had just launched in beta when I joined. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:11 Harry Stebbings I'm so pleased you said that about the learning because, Todd, this was something that I was thinking when you were mentioning the incredible consumer products that you've worked on from, as you said, Google Mail there to
- ▶ 9:16 Todd Jackson And Gmail was the same way. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:41 Phin Barnes As the PM of Gmail and Facebook's newsfeed.
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 3:42 Justin Kan Kind of like the Gmail equivalent.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings And previously, Rahul founded Reportive, the first Gmail plugin to scale to millions of users.
- ▶ 3:50 Rahul Vohra Gmail plugin to scale to millions of users. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:33 Rahul Vohra But I did that off the basis of one slide that had one word on it, and it was just a screenshot of Gmail with the parts that I didn't like inked out in red.
- ▶ 33:20 Rahul Vohra And most of our users actually end up getting through their email about twice as fast as in comparison to Gmail.
20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
- ▶ 25:53 David Cohen A huge user of labels and rules inside Gmail.
20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
- ▶ 28:58 Paul English And then I have my personal email, which is a Gmail account that, like, friends and family have, 3 times in the scene
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Google Mail.
- ▶ 4:44 Paul Buchheit And so we met up, and then Jessica Livingston, who's the other YC founder, was working on a book called Founders at Work, so she ended up interviewing me for that about, you know, my work on Gmail, and I just started investing in some of…
- ▶ 8:01 Paul Buchheit And a lot of this actually goes back to my experience with Gmail, because, you know, that started off, you know, Hotmail and Yahoo were just like huge. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:42 Paul Buchheit Again, with like Gmail early on, one of the most internally controversial decisions that we had made was to build the whole thing in JavaScript.
- ▶ 19:28 Paul Buchheit So the most extreme case of this might be that the very first version of Gmail, arguably, I wrote in a single day.
- ▶ 22:55 Paul Buchheit Obviously, it's kind of hard to compete with launching Gmail.
20VC: YC's Ali Rowghani on Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull and Jack Dorsey & The 3 Traits All Truly Successful Leaders Share
- ▶ 25:51 Harry Stebbings As always, we so appreciate all your support, and we cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's episode with Paul Bookite, partner at Y Combinator and creator of Gmail.
20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club
- ▶ 27:56 Harry Stebbings Plugin to Gmail called Gorgeous, and it's where you send, if you send, like, template emails often, so very similar emails often, be it kind of frameworks for saying no to founders, etc., you can bring up kind of shortened versions just…
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 1:30 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:19 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Preparing For The Next Big Trend, Why Conversational Will Be The Next Big Thing & How Entrepreneurs Should View Market Size with Sarah Guo @ Greylock Partners
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:35 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 1:21 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Sirius Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook, which automatically updates activities in Salesforce so you don't have to,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 Harry Stebbings The plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Test The Strength Of Co-Founder Relations, The Dangers Of Raising A Large Series A & Why The Biggest Challenge For Consumer Companies Is Finding The Second Big Hit with Rishi Garg, Partner @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 1:33 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros to use Gmail and Outlook, which automatically updates activities in Salesforce so you don't have to. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:08 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 1:39 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Sirius Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:18 Harry Stebbings The plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Building An AI Company For The Long Term? How Humans & Machine Learning Can Work Together? What Applications Are The Conversational Interface Best Suited To with Maran Nelson, Founder & CEO @ Clara Labs
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine, though, for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:27 Harry Stebbings The plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Should Not Invest From Patterns, Why No Good Business Was Built As An Analogy Of Another & Why The Rise Of The 'Celebrity Investor' Is Concerning with Emily Melton, Partner @ DFJ
- ▶ 1:34 Harry Stebbings It's the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:03 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Sirius Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:13 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings It's the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:21 Harry Stebbings It's a plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook, which automatically updates activities in Salesforce, so you don't have to. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 1:32 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:34 Harry Stebbings The plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 24:12 Ryan Smith And if you look at Gmail, when Gmail came out, it was horrible, but it's, it's, it's been a bunch of little iterations.
20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways
- ▶ 12:52 Peter Weimershausen If that was that easy, then today we would have email accounts that would be ending on USPS instead of Gmail.
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 2:57 Justin Kan We thought of making a calendar like Gmail that was all Ajaxified and like, you know, kind of a modern interface on the internet. 3 times in the scene
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 9:16 Dennis Mortensen If you take something as simple as Amy, the vertical that we're trying to attack here, where we just want to set up meetings, a very quick statement would be that, ah, Google have Gmail, it's nine hundred million users, they have Google…
20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content
20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital
- ▶ 25:47 unnamed speaker Most startup companies will have done this years ago, but I switched over from, from Exchange and Outlook to, to Google Apps, Google Mail, and it has been absolutely fantastic.
20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
- ▶ 23:20 Ezra Galston G, uh, the Google plugin, um, the Gmail plugin, and then, you know, honestly, I use a lot of, um, emoji through Bitmoji, and then Giphy's through Riffsy, um, to communicate with people, um, and I would say that my founders appreciate the…
20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
- ▶ 14:20 Arteen Arabshahi Uh, I think Reportive, the Gmail plugin is awesome.