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20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 2:24 Nitesh Banta I heard that Google was this amazing place to work, and I was lucky to be part of one of the first intern classes at Google under Sheryl Sandberg's group, and I just got exposed to startups and tech and the Valley culture, and I just fell… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:04 Nitesh Banta Yes, I think it's certainly true that the big companies have aggregated massive amounts of machine learning and machine learning research capabilities, and one of the really nice things is that a lot of these companies are open sourcing… 2 times in the scene
20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings And before founding BetterCloud, David was an early employee of Cloud Sherpas, which was acquired by Accenture, where David led Cloud Sherpas to become the leading Google app service provider and reseller to SMBs worldwide.
- ▶ 8:00 David Politis And moving those people to Google Apps. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:04 David Politis We were setting up their Google Drive.
- ▶ 8:55 David Politis They were taking all sorts of risks, but they wanted the benefit of, of this, this browser-based collaborative platform, and so what I saw at CloudSherpas was these organizations moving, and when they got over to Google, they were asking… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 4:54 Ryan Smith I recruited my brother out of Google, who was running product and a third of the world's internet traffic and search, and I was, I convinced him to come work with us, and
- ▶ 11:09 Ryan Smith And, and Jared, my brother had worked with Brian Schreier at Google.
- ▶ 14:02 Ryan Smith And then we, and I went around the table and to be honest, you know, my father and my brother, Jared didn't leave Google to come work for someone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:21 Ryan Smith We have an all hands meeting every Thursday and there's Kim Malone Scott, Kim Scott, who's my CEO coach and along an old Googler and Apple university, she created this thing called whoops where we've, we've incorporated where we stand up…
20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha
- ▶ 6:21 Scott Dorsey And then these trips out to Silicon Valley, we met with Eric Schmidt when he was running Novell prior to moving over to Google.
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
- ▶ 4:03 Chris Farmer And so we pulled together a small angel fund where I made a few investments in companies like Applied Semantics, which you know today as Google AdSense and a company called SkyBits that would be in this sort of industrial IoT SaaS category.
- ▶ 7:48 Chris Farmer So we invested heavily to build out a world-class engineering team that you would typically only expect to find at a company like Google.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 17:06 Chris Farmer In the case of Google Ventures, they're using a lot of data and the sort of network of people with inside the Google organization to try to bring in-house expertise to their portfolio, and we're doing this much more along those lines, or…
20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- ▶ 8:45 Rory O'Driscoll That's Google.
- ▶ 15:26 Rory O'Driscoll And, you know, fast forward 10 years, Google, who went public much later on, ultimately won. 2 times in the scene
20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- ▶ 10:07 Balaji Srinivasan So, um, so Frederick Bastiat has this, uh, parable, and you can Google it. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Who Will Own The Data? Is There An Incumbency Advantage in AI? When Will Artificial Super Intelligence Come To The Forefront with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures
- ▶ 7:45 unnamed speaker You know, you have entire ecosystems around Google and Uber and Facebook where they're effectively AI companies leveraging the large data sets, but you'll also see this push from consumers to have more control.
- ▶ 10:00 Harry Stebbings Do you think, then, for startups, there is a really significant data incumbency advantage to the likes of, say, your previous employer, Microsoft, or Google, or Facebook?
- ▶ 19:09 Harry Stebbings Do you think it will be a very fragmented market, or do you think it will be very much a winner-takes-all in the form of Tesla, Google, Uber?
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 8:14 Mamoon Hamid And in many cases, you don't even want to distribute in those eight years because think about how much you would have made if you would have stayed in, in, in Amazon or Facebook or Google over the course of time, uh, it probably would have…
- ▶ 18:16 Mamoon Hamid These network effects, and every once in a while, these businesses come along, and once you find them, you're bound to do really well as an investor, and that's why you look at the top five companies of Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon,… 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Don't Have To Have Operational Experience To Be A Good VC, Why There Is No Optimal Stage To Invest & Why VCs Should Focus on Reputation Ahead of Cash On Cash Returns with Lyon Wong, General Partner @ Spectrum 28
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings And prior to Spectrum, 28, Leon was partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, the three billion VC fund with investments in the likes of Snapchat, Nest, and Giphy, previous guest on the show, just to name a few.
20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 7:44 James Cham Those two things, one slow and one sort of kind of dramatic because the results were so impressive, meant that people started paying attention again, and suddenly you would look and you'd say, wow, the work that Google has been doing for,…
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 23:13 Howard Lindzon I searched term sheet in Google. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- ▶ 14:52 Moisey Uretsky We really didn't have a tech scene 10 years ago, so when it came time to have a career, there wasn't a company like Google or Facebook to join in New York for the most part, so, you know, our understanding of culture in New York City was a…
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 11:19 Mike Maples Now, if let's say that it's a couple of years in and, you know, we're in the next Facebook or the next Google or the next
20VC: Why The Best CEO's Are The Best Capital Allocators, How You Can Build A Business In A Space You Are Not Passionate About & When Is The Right Time To Put The Pedal To The Metal with Josh Hannah, General Partner @ Matrix Ventures
- ▶ 7:47 Josh Hannah We would study the data very early in Google analytics, but being able to see what worked and didn't were very lean as an organization.
20VC: Why The Evolution of Digital Media Presents A Multi $Bn Opportunity with Brit Morin, Founder & CEO @ Brit + Co
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings As for Brit, prior to Brit & Co, Brit worked at Google in product management, and before that with Apple on iTunes.
- ▶ 2:50 unnamed speaker You know, taking art classes all the time, and then I got swept up by technology as a teenager, started taking computer science classes, started at Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:58 unnamed speaker So I was charged with launching Google TV at Google, which was actually a part of YouTube.
- ▶ 10:21 unnamed speaker Um, the, the, like, ex-Googler in me is secretly, like, really excited.
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 12:21 Ryan Sarver Famously, we had Andy Rubin as a IR here, and he actually founded Android out of our Menlo Park offices, and eventually helped them sell that into Google.
- ▶ 17:01 Ryan Sarver You know, Google, Facebook, Microsoft have kind of, like, collectively spent
20VC: Redpoint's Tom Tunguz on Winning with Data: How To Gain A Competitive Advantage & Dominate Markets with Data and 5 Steps To Create A Data Driven Company
- ▶ 3:39 Tomasz Tunguz And then I remember at Google, uh, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Tomasz Tunguz And I was working in the AdSense team, and we were kind of neck and neck.
- ▶ 4:09 Tomasz Tunguz He and I built a tool using the Google search index to figure out exactly where Yahoo ads were running, where Google ads were running, and basically every day we could tell you exactly what the competitive market share would be.
- ▶ 8:08 Tomasz Tunguz And a funny story, I was talking to, um, I was telling this to my wife when we were writing the book, it was over the Christmas holiday, and I was asking her, because she's, we met at Google, and she works at Google still, and I was asking… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:28 Tomasz Tunguz And I remember at Google, when we were interviewing product managers, we would take these packets and we would have all these different, we were doing structured interviews at the time.
- ▶ 19:24 Tomasz Tunguz Yeah, I think that what you do is, uh, you do what Google does or did when I was there, which is you create a hypothesis and you say, let's run a small scale experiment just to make sure that it's true.
20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
- ▶ 6:49 Adam Leibsohn Uh, I started taking out search ads against, uh, prominent VCs and reporters in tech so that when they Googled themselves, they'd get an ad from me and it worked astonishingly well.
- ▶ 11:46 Adam Leibsohn Processor speed was also slow, and so again, imagery was hard to move, and that's why the initial web was very textual, and that's why Google was so good at indexing stuff, because it was all filled with words and not with images.
- ▶ 20:32 Adam Leibsohn You know, there's an opportunity for us to take that search behavior and that intent and monetize it much like Google does for their own search, more from an information standpoint, same idea.
- ▶ 23:06 Adam Leibsohn But I think if you Google my name and favorite gif, it comes up somewhere.
20VC: What Is Wrong With The VC Industry, Why VC Is A Customer Service Game and Why Car Ownership Will Be A Thing Of The Past with Brett DeMarrais, Partner @ Ludlow Ventures
- ▶ 10:29 Brett DeMarrais Missouri who has a business idea and has not been exposed working at Google or Facebook or the tech community at large sends you an email asking for advice or 30 minutes of your time for coffee.
20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A
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.
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 2:57 Peter Pham And one day, uh, when YouTube sold to Google, I remember the moment I had tech crunch up on my laptop.
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 20:16 Dave McClure If you compare maybe a couple of companies like, you know, Microsoft or Yahoo or Google, those three probably all discovered their business models relatively early and then really had dominating performances.
20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer
- ▶ 12:16 David Pakman So did Nest.
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 4:18 Justin Kan We were funded to the tune of 12,000 dollars, moved up to Cambridge for the summer, and started working on our product, and we continued working for about a year until we realized we had not really gotten very much traction, and Google…
20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- ▶ 15:16 unnamed speaker Like, cause the number one guy at a CMU is being competed for by Facebook and Google and,
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 13:53 Albert Wenger In that regard, it's, uh, very positive that in the, um, Oracle versus Google lawsuit, uh, about the, um, definition of Java, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:45 Albert Wenger Obviously large companies, whether it's Google, Facebook, uh, Twitter, Snapchat, they control
20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- ▶ 22:32 Josh Udashkin It gets easier, you know, after you've launched because then you're Googleable takes away some of the referencing problems, but no, I do both.
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…
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings Now, I want to get the ball rolling today by, by finding out how you made your move from the world of Google to Felicis. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:08 Wesley Chan I stumbled upon this example of sort of people not really understanding how to measure their ads and wound up starting and founding Google Analytics.
- ▶ 3:32 Wesley Chan Uh, build Google voice and started that.
- ▶ 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 10 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 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
- ▶ 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 2 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
- ▶ 12:36 Harry Stebbings And I'm really pleased you said about delightful there, because you've said before that you look for patterns similar to Google Analytics in the way of building something great and delightful that's easy to use and the market will embrace. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 Wesley Chan It's so easy to install, so easy to use, that any marketing person, any person that wants the information, that wants to use it, any advertiser of Google could really figure out how to use that easily and learn it within an hour or less.
- ▶ 17:24 Wesley Chan And I think that that was something that was a core insight that I had on, on Google Analytics. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 Wesley Chan What's, you know, one of the finance guys at Google and sort of said, well, okay, this is the number of people using analytics today. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:38 Wesley Chan And, you know, the thing I remember most about Larry, even when I was building Google Analytics or building Google Voice, he would look at me and say, why are you spending your time on this?
- ▶ 26:38 Wesley Chan And, you know, the thing I remember most about Larry, even when I was building Google Analytics or building Google Voice, he would look at me and say, why are you spending your time on this?
- ▶ 29:52 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic episode with Wesley, and brilliant to hear some of those inner stories from Google.
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 6:15 Dennis Mortensen And if you're Google, you do that exercise for six years, and then you haven't even solved it yet.
- ▶ 8:18 Harry Stebbings And I'm really pleased you touched on datasets there, because whenever I speak to VCs on the, on the AI space in general, they all cite the same concern, and it's the strong incumbency issue that comes from titans like Facebook and Google… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 11:31 Harry Stebbings David asks, what is your take on how AI startups will interact with the giant corporates, also investing heavily into AI research, meaning your Googles, Facebooks, Microsofts.
- ▶ 17:54 Dennis Mortensen This is before the Microsoft and Facebook and Google announcements.
20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 23:46 Harry Stebbings Kind of incumbency advantage where Facebook and Google have the biggest data sets and so will win the accuracy of the bot challenge. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
- ▶ 12:11 Andy Rachleff My mother could have been on the board of Google, and it would have been successful.
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 10:37 Melanie Perkins Um, and so a year later, he actually introduced me to two people that he worked with very closely at Google.
- ▶ 12:54 Melanie Perkins He worked at Google from very early on, which has been very helpful to draw upon his experience.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 20:25 Nabeel Hyatt Everyone believed that Uber and Google, probably, you know, the big companies were going to run away with this, and it wasn't really a startup scheme.
20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 9:46 unnamed speaker And a new type of approach, something like Uber or Lyft, for example, or Google or Tesla, will actually lead to, you know, the approach that catalyzes this autonomous transportation revolution. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:51 Nikhil Basu Trivedi But I think more broadly, the big tech incumbents, the people that Apple compares itself with, like Google, are working on autonomous transportation.
20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital
- ▶ 12:00 Matt Turck And, uh, when, when you look at the history of big data, a lot of the tools were created by, uh, you know, the, the Googles and the Yahoo's and LinkedIn and Facebook.
- ▶ 19:15 Harry Stebbings You're an investor, obviously, in, uh, Amy, the brilliant assistant, um, absolutely love that, but is there not an incumbency advantage, then, in this early AI startup space for startups without the available data sets that your Facebooks,… 4 times in the scene
20VC: The Information's Jessica Lessin on The Future For Online Journalism & The Benefits Of A Subscription Based Business Model
- ▶ 11:14 Jessica Lessin And, you know, our team has been covering companies like Google, Facebook, and others for, for pretty much longer than most other tech reporters out there, period.
20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings And on top of this, Sam is also the founder and co-CEO at Finn, which is basically like Siri, or Echo, or Google Now, except it actually works.
20VC: Why More People Should Be Entrepreneurs & How Do You Know When You Are Ready with Matt Clifford @ Entrepreneur First
- ▶ 4:48 Matt Clifford That bias towards teams that met in their dorm at Stanford or, you know, on their first day at Google comes from the fact that the data set through which we can view the world as venture capitalists is just too small.
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings And prior to SoftTech, Hudson spent time at Google, Ironport Systems, which was acquired by Cisco for eight hundred and thirty million, and In-Q-Tel.
- ▶ 1:15 Harry Stebbings So did you know, according to the trusty Google, it is illegal to buy a mattress in Washington on Sunday.
- ▶ 3:18 Charles Hudson In the operating side, worked at Google and a handful of games companies, learned a lot about business development, was a founder myself, raised some money for a venture backed startup myself, and really felt like I wanted to have the full… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:31 Harry Stebbings And I have to ask that, going back to the operational days that you had at Google and at the gaming companies, what were the biggest takeaways for you from those days?
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