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The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:10 Harry Stebbings When you say counter position in that way, I know cause I love Hamilton Helm has seven powers.

Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:56 Gokul Rajaram It's basically a play on Hamilton Helmer's seven parts, but it's slightly different.
  • ▶ 15:48 Gokul Rajaram I think I actually disagree a little bit because switching costs are so much lower at one of Hamilton Helmer seven powers is switching costs.

Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 31, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 32:43 Harry Stebbings When I think about, like, pricing power, I'm a massive fan of Hamilton Helm's Seven Powers. 3 times in the scene

Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 13, 2025 · 1 mention

Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 29, 2025 · 1 mention

Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:40 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, when you think about, like, defensibility, when you think about trying to understand revenue quality, I looked at Seven Powers by Hamilton Helmer.

Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 29, 2025 · 1 mention

Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 24, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 43:13 Harry Stebbings We're both big fans of, uh, Seven Powers, Hamilton, Helmer.
  • ▶ 48:02 Guy Podjarny And so I think, you know, per Helmer's book, you know, the two powers that you build at inception are cornered resource and counter positioning.
  • ▶ 51:27 Guy Podjarny I mean, I, I think, uh, actually I've had a couple of conversations with Hamilton, and so we discussed this, you know, he kind of ends up dissing his own brand and process power, so it says like both of those are just so easy to claim that… 2 times in the scene

20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th Jul 19, 2021 · 1 mention

20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact Sep 6, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:46 Alex Wang I really love this book, Seven Powers, by Hamilton Helmer, but it's probably one of the best business books ever, and the reason is that he sort of, it goes through
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