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Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06 Harry Stebbings I, I said to you downstairs, we do a lot of shows, and I often speak to people before a show, and when I speak to Neil Mater, Ravi Gupta, Sangin at GV, and I hear what I hear, honestly, they were some of the most astounding references I've…
The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:32 Nico Laqua Way back in the day, the very first VC I ever talked to was at Google ventures.
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:25 Harry Stebbings Are we really running out of ideas that much, GV and Tiger? 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings They've raised over seventy million dollars from the likes of Sequoia, GV, Dylan Field, Elad Gill, and even the legend that is Mark Benioff.
- ▶ 56:57 Zach Lloyd The other VCs I have are like, I have Greg from Box Group and Eric from GV, and I trust them all to be like, 3 times in the scene
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:45 Harry Stebbings I know, one of my, my dear friends, um, who runs Google Ventures, he's like, the thing I love about you, Harry, is, like, you're the only person who thinks in, like, massive sun time horizons, which is, like, absolutely, this is, like, a…
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:09 Harry Stebbings Google Ventures does Series B and so does Capital G. 4 times in the scene
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:57 Tom Blomfield We've had Sequoia and Andres and Accel and Founders Fund and Google Ventures and all of these funds leading rounds in companies in the last batch.
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:47 Tom Hulme Like, I've seen people use platforms like AngelList, a sort of GV investment, to enable them to sell their ability, their follow-on rights in secondary in SPVs.
- ▶ 33:45 Tom Hulme Okay, so if you're surrounded by optimists, and you create that culture, and I think we do a good job of creating that at GV, where anyone can bring forward an idea, we explore it.
- ▶ 41:34 Tom Hulme So our approach at GV is primarily be founder first, and we can take a very long time.
- ▶ 55:08 Tom Hulme I think the flip side from Google Ventures.
- ▶ 57:27 Tom Hulme So I hope that we can sort of, I hope in our process at GB, we sort of step back from that.
- ▶ 1:12:28 Tom Hulme Oh my gosh, I've had a few, but, um, I would say I had one for GV in California where the founder brought his life coach who sat at the room 2 times in the scene
Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:25 Harry Stebbings Was there ever a time when it went flat or like, I remember when you raised that, you know, your, I think it was your A from Excel and from GV and from great people and everything just always looks up.
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: The $1BN Amazon Acquisition; How Richard Branson Invested | 20VC #984 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:41 Jamie Siminoff So I'll give you the, like the longer and feel free to make it as short as you want, but, um, so Richard invested, uh, a, a, a venture capitalist named Wes Chan, who was at Google ventures.
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:23 Wesley Chan Uh, you might want to try your hand at investing and we're starting Google ventures. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:04 Wesley Chan Like, you know, and I started, you know, I helped to start the seed fund at GV.
- ▶ 34:34 Wesley Chan Like when I was at GV
20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed, Why Venture Has Never Been Less Collaborative, How Becoming a Parent Made Me a Better Investor and Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future of Diversity in Venture with Deena Sh
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings And before joining Lux, Dina was a partner at GV and previously led product partnerships at Google for early stage products in health
Sid Sijbrandij: How I Founded GitLab; Remote Work vs In-Person; CEO Coaches | 20VC · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:55 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Dave at Google Ventures or GV beforehand, and he said, really dig in on this one because, you know, a lot of startups are thinking about the next 10 years.
- ▶ 11:17 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Dave at Google Ventures just there.
20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Sequoia, GV, NEA, and many more, and prior to founding 23 and me, Anne spent a decade on Wall Street investing in healthcare, and if that wasn't enough, Anne's also on the board of Kazoo and the Anne Wojcicki Foundation, and is an active…
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Prior to their 3.2 billion dollar acquisition by Twilio in 2020, Peter raised over two hundred and eighty three million dollars for Segment from Excel, Thrive, Meritech, GV, General Catalyst, and Kleiner Perkins, to name a few.
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To date, Vlad has raised over 5.6 billion dollars with Robin Hood, including a 2.4 billion dollar raise just this month, and some of their investors include the likes of Ribbit, Sequoia, Green Oaks, Index, IVP, Thrive, GV, and more…
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Green Oaks, Index, DST, Ribbit, IVP, Thrive, NEA, GV, and more incredible names.
20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Stewart raised over 1.3 billion dollars from the likes of Excel, Thrive, SoftBank, Kleiner, IVP, T-Road, GV, and Andreessen, to name a few incredible investors.
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
- ▶ 45:53 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
- ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
- ▶ 27:27 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Austin has raised over a hundred and twenty nine million dollars from some of the best in the business, including Stripe, Bedrock, GV, Giga Fund, and GGV, to name a few.
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
- ▶ 1:43 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
- ▶ 40:14 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
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
- ▶ 1:43 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
- ▶ 33:51 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings And prior to Plexo, Lowe was a partner at GV, or Google Ventures, and before that was a partner with Comcast Ventures, where he led the Catalyst Fund.
- ▶ 23:20 Lo Toney It's something that we started at GV when I was there as a way to get access to additional deal flow.
- ▶ 35:44 Lo Toney The person that I think about, and did not sit on a board with him, but got an opportunity to observe him in action, I would say Tyson Clark at GV, and I'm going to say why, and this is really interesting.
20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Wayne and Jeff have raised over thirty-two million dollars for Digits, from some of the best in the business, including Peter Fenton at Benchmark, and Jess Verrilli at GV, and then also the most incredible base of angels, with the…
20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con
- ▶ 17:08 Tomer London So we did this design sprint, and I'm actually a really big proponent of the Google Ventures design team's design sprint.
20VC: Why You Never Want To Fight A Fair Fit For Distribution, Why No Great Company Is Built with 1 Product and When To Release Your Second & What Founders Can Do To Extract The Most From Their Cap Table with Shoaib Makani, Founder & CEO @ KeepTruckin
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings ...investors, including Index, GV, Green Oaks, IVP, and Scale Venture Partners.
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
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Sid has raised over a hundred and forty-five million dollars in funding for GitLab, from the likes of GV, August Capital, YC, Kostler, and Goldman Sachs, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lime CEO Brad Bao on How Lime Assess The Micro-Mobility Landscape and Competition Today, What It Takes To Launch and Win A New City & Why Lime Have Spent $0 on Marketing To Date
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over seven hundred and seventy-five million dollars in funding from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, GV, IVP, Uber, our friends at Fifth Wall, GGV, Atomico, and Bain Capital Ventures, just to name a few.
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Cool has raised over fourteen million dollars in VC funding from some very dear friends of the show in the form of Gary and Alexis had initialized, James and Peter at NFX, Mike at Floodgate, Y Combinator, GV, and Naval Ravikant, just to…
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Austin has raised over forty-eight million dollars with Lambda, from a personal favourite of mine, Bedrock and Jeff Lewis, GGV with Jeff from Monday's episode, GV, Stripe, and Ashton Kutcher, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings Huge thanks to Jeff at Bedrock and Sean at GV for the fantastic questions, but thank you so much for joining me today, Austin.
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 34:41 Jeff Richards Flipping that on its ear and saying, hey, if you think you want to go into computer science, if you want to go to nursing, or you want to become a doctor, we can help you accomplish that goal, and we'll be on the hook for your success, and…
20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings ty-three million dollars in funding from the likes of Kleiner Perkins, T. Rowe, G. V., Temasek, and more.
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over a hundred and fifty four million dollars in VC funding from the likes of Thrive, GV, CRV, Fifth Wall, and Temasek, just to name a few.
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
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings To date, Paul has raised over forty four million dollars in funding with Lola from the likes of CRV, Excel, General Catalyst, and GV, just to name a few.
- ▶ 15:14 Harry Stebbings You've raised from some of the true greats of the world of venture, from Mike at Sequoia, to Joel at GC, to GV, IVP.
20VC: The Fundamentals Of Optimising The Fundraising Process, SAFE's vs Priced Equity Rounds & Why Hiring Is Really A Big Data Problem with Chris Hutchins, Founder @ Grove & Former Partner @ Google Ventures
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Prior to Grove, Chris was a partner and EIR at Google Ventures, and before that, co-founded Milk alongside Kevin Rose, which was ultimately acquired by Google.
- ▶ 2:15 Harry Stebbings Not at all, but I want to kick off with a little on you, and your past's been an interesting one, from GV to startup founder, so talk to me. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:10 Harry Stebbings Does when you're at GV, me saying, hey, I was just chatting to X at Sequoia the other day, and he suggested this. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings They've raised over seventeen million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the business, including prior guests Mike Maples at Floodgate, Bing Gordon at Kleiner Perkins, and the team at Google Ventures, just to name a few.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Package recently raised a six million dollar Series A, led by the fantastic Kirsten Green at Forerunner and Google Ventures, or GV.
- ▶ 19:44 Eric Feng There's a lot of other great firms that are doing similar things, whether it's SignalFire or Goodwater, in terms of some of the newer firms that are relying a lot on great technology, or Google Ventures, that I'm pretty envious in terms of…
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Following such success in the field of operations, Kevin made the move into VC, becoming a general partner and advisor at Google Ventures.
- ▶ 3:58 Kevin Rose Where I met Bill Maris over there that ran Google ventures that he kind of got me excited about the opportunity of becoming a full-time VC because I was already doing angel investing anyway.
- ▶ 5:12 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, how's your thought process transitioned from making those early stage, 10, 20, to then obviously, as you said, scaling up 50 K angel checks to now, and when you're at GV, when you were investing from an instant 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:53 Kevin Rose Certainly, Bill Maris over Google Ventures and Tony Conrad has been another one and helped me think through some of the issues around how to deal with certain issues around management of employees.
20VC: The Future Business Model For Drones & Why Enterprise Drones Need To Be As Boring As Possible with Jonathan Downey, Founder & CEO @ Airware
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Captured by Drones, and they've raised over sixty-five million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the industry, including Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Google Ventures, just to name a few.
20VC: Why Move Fast and Break Things Is Not Right, How To Instil Radical Candor In Your Organisation & What Founders Must Ask For From Their Investors with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings They've raised nearly twenty million dollars in funding from some of the leading names in early stage finance, including Shasta Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, and Blake Byers at GV, just to name a few.
20VC: Inside Google's Growth Fund & The 3 Criteria They Look For With Potential Investments with Laela Sturdy, General Partner @ CapitalG
- ▶ 5:36 Harry Stebbings We, you know, often in the early stage ecosystem, we hear about Google ventures. 3 times in the scene
20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Google Ventures and Index, just to name a few.
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 16:45 Chris Farmer When I look at data, though, I would probably look more to what, you know, AngelList or Social Capital or Google Ventures has done. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And prior to Felicis, Wesley was a general partner at Google Ventures, and before Google Ventures, he was an early employee at Google, where he founded and launched Google Analytics and Google Voice, resulting in his being awarded Google's…
- ▶ 3:43 Wesley Chan So I was sort of one of the very early partners at Google ventures and sort of helped build up Google ventures and sort of spent five years, uh, investing on behalf of Google. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:08 Harry Stebbings And with that incredible, and having had such a successful time at Google Ventures and Google, building out Google Voice and Google Analytics, I'm really intrigued 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:49 Harry Stebbings And you spoke about your time at Google ventures and at Google ventures, uh, you, you backed Nest, um, obviously the incredible connected homes, um, devices. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 22:52 Aydin Senkut He was also one of the founding partners of Google Ventures, so it was a perfect, perfect match.
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 21:30 Christian Hernandez And you look at Greg Marsh at One Fine Stay, um, you look at, um, Avid, who was at Excel, and then did Boutique, now at Google Ventures.
20 VC 095: How VCs Find Startups and How To Add Value Once Invested with David Teten @ ff Venture Capital
- ▶ 6:59 David Teten Google Ventures also is doing work in this space.
- ▶ 10:58 David Teten That the numbers are in order, and it makes it easier for Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures and other, ah, later stage VCs to invest in our companies because they know that the numbers are in order.
- ▶ 13:01 David Teten So I would highlight besides us and Google ventures, uh, and Andreessen Horowitz, first round capital, uh, OpenView does some work on this area.