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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
- ▶ 59:40 Ryan Petersen I have a Google sheet.
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:51 unnamed speaker Here's a Google sheet.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:53 Cliff Weitzman Give me by the end of the day, a Google sheet with 50 people in the Bay Area that you want to be friends with.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:05 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Historically, I would have brought in an animator, a designer, an accountant, a finance Google sheet guy, et cetera.
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:27 Matt Fitzpatrick I don't think anyone, and I think there was a lot of Google Sheets in that era, and you've seen some comments on it. 2 times in the scene
20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify
- ▶ 4:55 Harry Stebbings Last night, I saw your comment on the G sheet last night, and it was like, I don't know who this is, and I'm like, Kai, have you done me a fucking bad one?
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
- ▶ 4:21 Harry Stebbings Google Sheets, you led engineering there, rewrote it from the ground up, is what I was told in my extensive referencing, which as a venture investor is almost fuck all, because we don't do diligence these days. 5 times in the scene
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:51 unnamed speaker So he started this whole documentation on Google sheet and just like 10, 20 pages long and asked me to make comments.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 9:42 Jason Lemkin You're predicting, you're taking, you're just taking a Google sheet and dragging out 99% monthly growth over the next couple of years.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:11 Daniel Khachab Not Google sheets, but Excel sheets.
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:46 Kaz Nejatian The fact that Google Sheets is built the way it is changes how you write, how you think, how you, like, imagine the world.
Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:01 Rujul Zaparde Then as we started to talk to more people, we sort of morphed this and literally built an Excel, like a Google sheet and morphed it into ICP.
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:52 Vickie Peng So we ran our entire performance marketing engine off of a Google spreadsheet for not, this is not like two weeks just to get it live.
- ▶ 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… 2 times in the scene
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:25 Harry Stebbings We get a G sheet out, and what does that look like?
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:33 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Lately, for example, one thing I've done is all of the learnings, I have them in my Google sheets with
Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:25 Dave Kellogg Every, every Sunday night, I want you to put into a Google sheet or in the CRM system, your forecast for the quarter.
Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:01 Harry Stebbings And so you have a Google sheet that you share at the bottom of an update saying, this is what we need.
- ▶ 37:24 Harry Stebbings I find that when it comes to like sales pipeline in particular, share a Google sheet with the companies that you want to speak to, the specific person within the company, hyperlink, hyperlink their LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:27 Guillaume Cabane To speak in simple terms, you can't take this Google Sheets cell and like drag it to the right.
- ▶ 19:36 Harry Stebbings You said about kind of just take the Google sheets and drag it to the right.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28:11 Des Traynor He talked through some aspects of marketing, um, you know, branding, positioning, like, Google Sheets is over here, Microsoft Excel is over there, blah, blah.
Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25 Harry Stebbings You're likely using Google Sheets or Excel for your financing modeling, right?
- ▶ 54:45 Harry Stebbings You're likely using Google Sheets or Excel for your financing modeling, right?
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:55 Phin Barnes Here's a Google sheet with a bunch of LinkedIn links.
Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:20 Mike Duboe So in one spreadsheet, anyone in the company could go and look at a prioritized list of experiments and see what's running at any given time.
20VC Special: How To Fundraise Like a Pro: How to Size and Price a Round, How to Create FOMO and Urgency in a Fundraise, How to Structure Angel Allocations, The 7 Deadly Sins of Fundraising Decks, The 3 Signs a Potential Investor is Bad News
- ▶ 4:11 Harry Stebbings Put these investors in three buckets in a Google Sheet or other database repository, and then do three tiers.
20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more
- ▶ 4:48 Casey Winters You want to carve out a decent amount of time where, you know, this person can understand the data model, like what data you're capturing, how you're capturing it, and that they can just go nuts in trying to build, you know, usually their…
Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:38 Adam Fishman So like when I joined, um, imperfect foods as their chief product officer, chief product and growth officer, I built this out in an Excel file or a Google sheets file, I should say.
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
- ▶ 27:07 Jason Lemkin They're probably gonna need 15% to be decacorns, but if you plug that into a Google sheet, you're gonna see that they can write off three or four at the bottom.
Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- ▶ 22:47 Casey Winters Go nuts in trying to build, you know, usually their own process of understanding the business through, you know, certain dashboards or, you know, Google sheets or whatever.
20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- ▶ 32:43 Byron Deeter Literally they keep Google sheets of all the firms that have pinged them and the unsolicited term sheets that come in.
20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
- ▶ 17:59 Ravi Gupta Because nothing gets done when you have seven priorities and 10 sub priorities and it's on a Google sheet because nobody knows what's actually important.
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
- ▶ 10:34 Merci Victoria Grace Less likely to use something like Google Sheets just because Excel is so powerful.
20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
- ▶ 8:12 Jean-Charles Samoulian In our case, I spent a couple of months at the beginning of Alan reading the full insurance code, and it's a lot of pages, you can trust me, and I did like a summary of it, which was like this big Google Sheet document where you could fill…
- ▶ 32:08 Jean-Charles Samoulian And so we built this Google sheet document where we put a lot of criteria on how people would fit with each other, and so we did the first mapping like that.
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 12:08 Jason Lemkin Winter mead, and Shai from SVB keeps his Google sheet that has hundreds as well.
20VC: How To Win The Strategic Process Of Fundraising and Optimising Co-Founder Relationships and Break Ups with Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO @ The Muse
- ▶ 1:04 Harry Stebbings They also integrate with apps you already use to run your business, like Google Sheets, Xero, Salesforce, Stripe, and more.
- ▶ 29:29 Harry Stebbings They also integrate with apps you already use to run your business, like Google Sheets, QuickBooks, Salesforce, Stripe, and more.