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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It Sep 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:36 Cliff Weitzman I think he started Google Maps, then he was CTO of Meta, then he was co-CEO of Salesforce, he's on the board of OpenAI, and now he founded Sierra.

Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 9, 2026 · 1 mention

Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 16, 2026 · 1 mention

20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato Dec 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 57:55 Federico Simionato One of my favorite products is Google Maps, just because of how useful it is every day, you know. 2 times in the scene

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 Nov 28, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:46 John McMahon So they think about like Google Maps is your sales process. 2 times in the scene

ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

Brian Tolkin, Head of Product @Opendoor: How to Hire the Best Product Teams | E1257 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:25 Brian Tolkin The thing that drivers care about is also somewhat, uh, the quality of the match, um, and those things depend on having really good mapping and routing data, and the reality is, in China, there's no Google Maps.

Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:16 Dan Gill One isn't crazy recent, but it's fun, was the first time that my wife tried Google Maps inside of virtual reality.

Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:12 Cameron Adams So he was one of the founders of Google Maps, and I worked with him on a project called Google Wave, and we did that for like four and a half years.

Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 8, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:22 Kyle Samani Hive Mapper has built a mapping network that has grown 10 times faster than Google Maps has, and it is roughly 30 x cheaper than Google Maps for people who want to buy the data, and like, that's going to change mapping in a big way. 2 times in the scene

Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 13, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 34:33 Suchit Dash I think someone who's doing location actually really well is actually Google Maps. 3 times in the scene

Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 17, 2023 · 1 mention

20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada Apr 20, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: The Rise of Quick Commerce and Why CPGs ARe Misaligned Being Powered By Ad Spend, The 5 Core Components Consumers Care About When Ordering Today & Why Amazon and Alibaba Will Not Be The Big Players in 10 Years with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR Sep 27, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:29 Ralf Wenzel And we have developed our own iteration of a Google Maps type of tool, and like, I'm happy to show that at a different occasion.

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 Sep 25, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint Sep 8, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:42 Harry Stebbings Fintech before to Google Maps.
  • ▶ 12:58 Angela Strange Yeah, I like the Google Maps analogy because again, we put no thought into how we're going to get somewhere and what is the best route, right? 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 Jun 22, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:35 Andrew Wilkinson Well, it turns out with Google, having Android and Google Maps, they can just ask every single person on earth how the restaurant was that they went to last night, because they know that they'd visited it via Google Maps, and suddenly… 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 Feb 4, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:44 Todd Jackson But a lot of those projects, Search, Maps, Gmail, Chrome, Android, ended up being super successful.

20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android Apr 15, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:34 Dave Sobota And then internally at Google, there were some folks who had legitimate questions about how Waze was going to fit in with Google Maps, which of course are overlapping properties.

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 Jul 17, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:45 Elad Gil After getting acquired for Keyhole, and then he eventually ran, I think, all of Google Maps and local and other areas, and he had an enormous impact through doing that at Google.

20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad Aug 14, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:27 Jason Calacanis I mean, the idea that you could use and you could build off of the iPhone, off of Google Maps, off of payment systems, if those things weren't in place, there's no Uber.

20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva Jun 10, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:54 Melanie Perkins We took a really long time trying to find the right technical and to find the right engineer, and so, um, one of the first people that I met was Lars Rasmussen, who co-founded Google Maps, and he, um, was extremely helpful because he would…

20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper Apr 6, 2016 · 2 mentions

20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue Mar 9, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:41 Christian Hernandez The product engineering team for Google were initially based out of London, um, and trying to convince Motorola and Samsung to preload Google maps and Google search things that we live with daily now, right?
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