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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Hacker News comes up
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 2:31 Jason Lemkin That fun little thing from hacker news.
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 24:26 Luke Harries So we post on X, we post on LinkedIn, we post on Blue Sky, we post on threads, every single channel, Product Hunt, Reddit, Hacker News.
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:46 Mati Staniszewski Hacker News, posting there, like all of those were immensely more valuable, and, um, and we, since then, always spend a lot more time on any of the actual forums where our users are, rather than where, where, where they are not.
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 25:28 Luke Harries So we post on X, we post on LinkedIn, we post on Blue Sky, we post on threads, every single channel, product hunt, Reddit, Hacker News.
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:10 Mike Krieger Somebody showed me a, um, list of hacker news, front page submissions from the cursor founders over time.
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:47 David Cahn Paul was, it was the second biggest launch on Hacker News ever.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:01 Jason Lemkin People kind of light me up or, or, and I actually kind of got hazed on hacker news the other day for this on, on the business side, but when I see these signs that the software isn't good at a million, it rarely gets better at 10.
Adam Gross: Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | E1145 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:42 Adam Gross Most of, like, your hacker news crowd didn't even know that stuff existed, maybe to a fault, uh, on our side.
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:26 Girish Mathrubootham और मैंने Hacker News पर एक अच्छी पोस्ट लिखी थी कि कैसे एक साधारन कमेंट ने मुझे मेरी नौकरी छोड़कर एक स्टार्ट अप शुरू करने के लिए प्रेरित किया और मैं आपको वे कहानी भी बताऊंगा जो Zendesk के बारे में Hacker News पोस्ट थी वो यह थी कि Zendesk ने… 3 times in the scene
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:16 Girish Mathrubootham And, uh, I actually wrote a nice post on, uh, Hacker News, uh, on how a simple comment on Hacker News made me quit my, uh, comfortable job and start a startup. 4 times in the scene
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:19 Drew Houston Um, and I'm like, you know, I think Paul probably does what most of the rest of us do, which is keep refreshing hacker news. 4 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:47 Des Traynor Uh, it's just different when someone says, we're selling to startups, you know, because their plan is go number one on Hacker News and repost on Product Hunt every two days.
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
- ▶ 4:42 Peter Reinhardt We're going to put it up on hacker news that pitches the value of analytics JS and we'll see what happens. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 4:03 Sahil Lavingia He saw some of my work on Hacker News sent me an email saying, hey, I work on this thing called Pinterest. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Sahil Lavingia I think it should be way more widespread, and I think the tech industry is so amazing because you can see all these founders and employees talk and share stuff on Twitter and Dribbble and Hacker News all the time, and I think every…
20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early
- ▶ 13:48 Julia Enthoven Those articles have done well on Hacker News, which has driven a lot of backlinks to the site.
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 30:01 Daniel Gross They just launched on Hacker News.
20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify
- ▶ 18:44 David Barrett They're probably not reading Hacker News.
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 29:14 Aaron VanDevender It was, it was sort of the Hacker News long, a decade before Hacker News existed. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 3:01 Roger Dickey We built prototypes, shipped them on Product Hunt or Hacker News.
- ▶ 21:48 Roger Dickey I would say I check Hacker News every day, and there's a couple great people whose blogs show up on there.
20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
- ▶ 27:45 Wayne Chang I like reading hacker news.
20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
- ▶ 27:09 Seth Bannon I read way too much Hacker News. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- ▶ 3:00 Brian Armstrong So it was 2010, and I was a software engineer at Airbnb, and I saw on Hacker News one day the Bitcoin research paper had come out.
20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome
- ▶ 21:38 Henry Ward I keep an eye on, um, hacker news, uh, for sure.
20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
- ▶ 22:32 Ilya Fushman Uh, hacker news.
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 22:06 Justin Kan And I think that's like now my primary source outside of Hacker News. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 23:03 unnamed speaker Um, so honestly, Harry, I get most of my news from aggregators, Twitter, hacker news, that sort of thing.
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 28:20 Ann Miura-Ko I also look at Hacker News quite a bit.