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Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 26:28 Jason Lemkin And, um, and I'm, I, among other things, I've got a Google Doc
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 11:39 Jason Lemkin That's a draft file in a Google Doc.
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?
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:50 Ryan Petersen They, they choose, um, I think they're still more, they're still more habit formed on Claude, but, um, they use Codex, we, we're cursor users, we use everything, um, as an enterprise, we've been more Gemini, uh, because we're Google Docs…
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:35 Alexander Emberikos Or it's talking to your Google Docs or something.
- ▶ 1:01:12 Alexander Emberikos We think about that a lot, um, we, Chachaptiste supports connectors, so, you know, you can talk to your, like, Google Docs or something, and we put a lot of effort into guardrails around what the agent can do with your Google Docs. 2 times in the scene
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:57 Sebastian Siemiatkowski How can it be that Klanak historically had a customer relationship with Sephora, and we had information about that customer relationship in Slack, in Salesforce, in Google Docs, in Google Slack, kind of the same information over and over… 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:09 Mike Cannon-Brookes But obviously you could argue, I don't know, Google Docs and Confluence are somewhat competitive.
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:07 Anish Acharya Word and Docs and Spreadsheet and all of these other products around that core primitive, does OpenAI have the sort of prioritization, the resources, and the ambition in that direction to build all the feature surface around the primitive?
20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency
- ▶ 32:09 Harry Stebbings The prerequisites are a G doc of links, are an onboarding PDF.
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:05 Jason Lemkin What you do is go into a Google doc, write 10 points about this show, and then just give it to Gamma and say, make me an amazing deck, and your jaw will drop what it does when it's coding this deck in real time.
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:30 Alex Bouaziz I was talking to my board member, we were keeping this in, like, Google Doc and Notion.
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings Now, before founding Warp, Zach was a principal engineer at Google, where he led development of Google Docs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:25 Zach Lloyd My background on Google Docs and Figma.
20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 1:08:56 Matthew Pohlson So we have them all write it out on Google Docs.
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:37 unnamed speaker What do you think makes him so smart from ideating with him, from working with him on a Google Doc? 2 times in the scene
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 30:52 Matt Biilmann Like, and we're starting to see things like a, you'll see that there's, for example, a Chrome extension to use ChatTBT within Google Docs instead of Gemini, just because people want it, right?
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:54 Harry Stebbings Is it a Google doc? 2 times in the scene
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:24 Steeve Morin Google has, like, you know, Android, Google Docs,
- ▶ 51:07 Steeve Morin Google has like, you know, Android, Google Docs, whatever, they have everything.
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:32 Max Levchin A separate conversation is documented in a Google doc or a notion or in whatever tool we're using for this topic, but it's segregated.
Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:43 Karri Saarinen Separate Google doc for each investor and say like, Hey, here's a memo.
Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:53 Harry Stebbings And so it's sent over as a Google Doc 24 hours beforehand? 2 times in the scene
David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:29 David Luan You've got Notion or Google Docs for, for your, for your docs, and then you've got Salesforce for sales, and then you've got, like, um, you've got, like, Workday for HR and all of this stuff, right?
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:07 Harry Stebbings Is it a Google Doc with three core questions that people think about ahead of time?
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:10 Aravind Srinivas Then, on the other hand, Word, Docs, Gmail, Google search.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:47 Jason Lemkin I got the Google doc shared an hour properly.
Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:57 Jiaona Zhang And what I mean by that is in some markets, quality is literally just how beautiful the thing is, you know, in a world where you have a notion versus a Google docs, right?
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:06 Tom Blomfield What way too many founders try to do is they're competing with Google Docs, say, or something, and they try to, they try to replicate every single feature of Google Docs, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:48 Tom Blomfield Microsoft Office is, it will benefit for sure Google Docs and Microsoft Office as a general document writing thing, but, um, one of our companies was called, uh, Solve Intelligence, which is a tool for patent writing.
Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:40 Rujul Zaparde Uh, and we would cheap at one point where we're looking at both of those in one Google doc every single day.
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:14 Girish Mathrubootham Google doc.
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:26 unnamed speaker When I could just have all in one here, same thing with like Google sheets and Google docs versus office, you know, originally it was like, it is definitely not Google spreadsheets are not better than Microsoft Excel, like period from a…
Scott Williamson: Hiring the Best Product People in Five Steps, Why the Best PMs are Writers | E1118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:28 Scott Williamson It's essentially like doing it in Google Docs.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:58 Matteo Franceschetti We do Google docs.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:09 Des Traynor It's really, really important that people like, whatever, like, you know, summarize the Google doc in real time on the right hand side as they're writing.
- ▶ 1:22:58 Des Traynor That also sits in the sidebar of all these things, and it has to work also at Google Docs. 2 times in the scene
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:24 Guillermo Rauch Very much like what Google Docs or Figma gave you, which is like, now I can collaborate really fast with hyperlinks, and I can share around my entire organization what everybody's working on.
20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
- ▶ 24:14 Alex Lebrun Come and destroy Notion and Google Docs and all of them with a totally new paradigm that is made possible by AI.
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:36 Harry Stebbings Do you just do Word docs, Google docs?
- ▶ 51:21 Tim Urban So, um, like, if I have to do a certain amount per day, or else I have to pay my friends a whole lot of money, um, and they can see the Google Docs, so, like, it's no way, no way to hide.
Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:18 Harry Stebbings Do we write that story down on a Google Doc? 3 times in the scene
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:53 Alex Lebrun It probably something will come and destroy Notion and Google Docs and all of them with a totally new paradigm that is made possible by AI, and certainly these incumbents won't do it.
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:31 Noah Weiss Yeah Uh,, I mean I,, I'll hate to confess, but obviously, you know, we use Slack for a lot of these things, but what I would say is the most typical flow would be someone will write a doc that kind of frames what the discussion is, the key…
Rich Liu: Sales in 2023; How to Onboard, Manage and Scale Reps; PLG vs Enterprise Growth | E1023 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:17 Harry Stebbings The other thing I would say is actually, I really like it when they send, not slide decks, because they can just be used as like crutches, but like a doc, and then I say send it in a Word doc, not a Google doc, because if you send it in a… 2 times in the scene
Michael Mauboussin: The Single Biggest Mistake Investors Make In Decision-Making | 20VC #945 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:41 Harry Stebbings So the way I do it is I send out actually a Word doc, not a Google doc, because that's obviously collaborative.
Kyle Samani: Why Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Inflation | 20VC #909 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:55 Kyle Samani Um, it's everyone having a bunch of Google doc comment conversations concurrently.
Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:52 Des Traynor I think another one where I just really get bored is like products that are actually just Google docs. 2 times in the scene
Mike Chalfen: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | 20VC #904 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:21 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is if you're on a board with Alfred Lin or Doug Leone or Bill Gurley, or you name these guys, and then you comment in real time on a Google doc, when they comment, it takes a very bold person to comment back,…
Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:05 Harry Stebbings You have three strategic questions on a Google Doc.
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:04 Harry Stebbings I think one thing that I've also done is, like, being aware of the weight of words, I make people comment on Word docs, not on Google docs, because then they send them back to me the night before, and then I can pick on them in the meeting… 2 times in the scene
Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:25 Adam Fishman Um, whether or not it's note, whether or not it's notion or a post-it note or a Google doc or a presentation, like it really depends on the culture of the company and how they communicate.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 39:31 Jason Lemkin We just put our stuff in our Google docs.
Sid Sijbrandij: How I Founded GitLab; Remote Work vs In-Person; CEO Coaches | 20VC · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:09 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, how many of your calls on reflection do you think are necessary, and what I mean by that is how many of them could be done through async, note sharing, comment sharing on Google Docs, Notion, you name the tool that you want, but…
How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:47 Harry Stebbings So you'll, so you'll write like a Google doc before structuring it into like numbered tweets.
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 15:42 Emilie Choi And like another example of this, we do everything in Google Docs. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- ▶ 8:47 Wade Foster We're in a Google Doc, so everyone's, like, commenting out to the right, and a lot of small stuff sort of just gets cleaned up in that 1:10 minutes, where it's like, you know, someone from engineering had this thing with someone in…
20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
- ▶ 16:40 Dylan Field So, Google Docs, for example, that launched 15 years ago as rightly.
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
- ▶ 44:36 Shishir Mehrotra You need to open up Coda instead of your notepad, instead of Word, instead of your Google Doc, and take your meeting notes in it and have it be a delightful, thrilling experience.
20VC: Lightspeed Partner, Merci Victoria Grace on The Future of Collaboration Tools, Bundling vs Unbundling, Synchronous vs Asynchronous & What It Means To Productise The S*** Out of Venture
- ▶ 10:15 Merci Victoria Grace Those notes become the basis for the deal doc in Google Docs.
20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 12:34 Sarah Cannon Notion taking on Docs, Zoom obviously providing video conferencing, and I think the key elements of those next-gen players are that they're design-first, collaborative, and integrated with others, so I think there's only
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 38:43 Sumit Gajri We'll do the details of a meeting into a Google Doc ourselves, and we'll look at what seemed to resonate with the fund, what questions they had.
20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- ▶ 31:40 Jana Messerschmidt She shared this list with her investors and asked each of us to mark in the Google doc where we knew senior folks.
20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing
- ▶ 26:29 Jesse Beyroutey We made our board decks into a Google document and that's something that people throw around as an idea very often.
20VC: Gitlab Founder, Sid Sijbrandji on Lessons From Scaling from 400 to 1,000 People in 1 Year, Why You Have To Have A Low Level Of Shame On The Product You Release & The Secret To Making Remote Work So Effectively At Scale
- ▶ 6:52 Sid Sijbrandij So we work to using Zoom and Slack and Google Docs and a whole lot of GitLab to collaborate across more than 50 countries.
20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- ▶ 22:26 Joe Fernandez They're all archived on a Google doc that is like almost 200 pages long.
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
- ▶ 19:20 Paul English So in my minutes back to the board that I write out by hand, sort of pen on paper during the board meeting, then I transcribe them into a Google document and email them out usually the same day.
20VC: Michael Dearing on 5 Key Principles He Uses To Assess Startup Founders, Why Benevolent Dictatorship Is A Beautiful Thing & Why Markets Are Better Capital Allocators Than CEOs
- ▶ 24:50 Michael Dearing Somebody that's a service that can live on top of Slack and email and chat and eventually things like Google Docs and Salesforce.
20VC: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun
- ▶ 20:38 Roger Dickey Phone, or I actually love Google Docs. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 28:04 Daniel Gross I, I went through this process that I think everyone running a small company has, which is you develop this kind of Google doc of things to do when you hire the person, things to do 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Create FOMO For Investors, How To Manage VC Conversations & A Repeatable Process For Learning New Things with Anna Shedletsky, Founder & CEO @ Instrumental.ai
- ▶ 13:13 Anna Shedletsky So we keep a running stack rank in a Google doc of all of the potential initiatives that the engineering team could be working on.
20VC: How 50% Of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, How To Build A Relationship Of Trust With Your VC and How Entrepreneurs Can Detect VC BS with Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 13:15 Jason Mendelson There's discussion, whether it's over a Google doc or over email beforehand, and you come in and you hit the important stuff.
20 VC 090: Balderton Capital's General Partner, Suranga Chandratillake on What It Takes To Be A Great CEO
- ▶ 24:21 Suranga Chandratilake The same way that Google Docs is, you know, changing and replacing
20 VC 022: Letting go of the life we planned and the Power of the Female Narrative with Matthew McCall
- ▶ 14:58 Matthew McCall Um, but I will tell you that we've been thinking of creating a, uh, a Google Doc of yet another sign that we've got excess here.