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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 1:02:36 Cliff Weitzman And so, my experience is I'm a kid who, when I was eight years old, I couldn't learn how to read, and my dad had to open a book and read Harry Potter to me, and that's how I learned how to read. 2 times in the scene
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 50:58 Harry Stebbings Matt, when you did our last show, I was very amenable and sweet and nice little kind of Harry Potter adventure.
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:27 Harry Stebbings It's like Harry Potter, you know, Voldemort.
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:26 Johannes Reck I mean, just walk out as outside of the studio here in London and you see, you know, anything from the London eye to the famous river cruise, to all of the hop on up off buses, uh, you know, you see Madame Tussauds, you know, the Harry…
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:04 Severin Hacker It's not, it's not at the, the, the level of, you know, Harry Potter.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24 Torsten Reil Um, so it was, it's hard to do computationally, but it worked quite well, and we ended up, um, using it in, and licensing it for visual effects in big Hollywood movies, like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Spider-Man, then for big video…
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:05 Harry Stebbings We expected you to be like Harry Potter.
Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario: How I Turned Canned Water to a $700M Company | E968 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:12 Mike Cessario He's the British guy who plays Voldemort in Harry Potter.
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:14 Mike Mignano Oh, I have lots, but maybe I'll just say that, um, right now I'm reading the first Harry Potter to my six-year-old daughter, and we are loving it. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- ▶ 27:45 Wade Foster I'll just have to go, like, growing up, like, that Harry Potter series stuck with me.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 27:38 Harry Stebbings Oh, you know, it's, uh, looking like Harry Potter has its advantages, I guess.
20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- ▶ 23:22 Harry Stebbings Honestly, people either think I'm Harry Potter or Benedict Evans, so I'm totally winning either way.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- ▶ 22:46 Harry Stebbings Uh, I either get compared to Harry Potter or Benedict Evans, so, uh, I'm clearly winning at life.
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 12:02 Vlad Magdalin So we read Harry Potter together and watch those movies and sort of like bash how bad the movies are compared to the books.
20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot
- ▶ 25:35 Wasim Daher I'm going to say Harry Potter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:05 Harry Stebbings And you will have finished the Harry Potter series, I'm sure. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings So, although I look positively young enough to be Harry Potter in disguise, doing three episodes a week is stressful, and did you know, 66% of men lose their hair by age 35?
20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- ▶ 1:14 Harry Stebbings So, although I look positively young enough to be Harry Potter in disguise, doing three episodes a week is stressful.
20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- ▶ 25:39 Harry Stebbings Yeah, it's a combination of Harry Potter and Benedict Evans, so I, I think it's a pro and a con there.
20VC: Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz on The Lessons Learned Scaling Eventbrite to Unicorn Valuation & $3Bn in Gross Ticket Sales
- ▶ 21:01 Harry Stebbings Sorry, I sound like Harry Potter and Benedict Evans combined, so sometimes my voice is a little bit confusing.
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
- ▶ 24:30 Wayne Chang The book is, think of it as a, it's a Disney book or a Harry Potter book.
20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- ▶ 2:10 Harry Stebbings But enough of my dulcet Harry Potter-like tones, and so I'm delighted to hand over to Joey's Willinger, founder at Allbirds.
20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common
- ▶ 2:17 Harry Stebbings But enough of these Harry Potter-like British tones, I'm delighted to hand over the
20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 11:09 Josh Wolfe And metamaterials, actually, the British media got really excited about the possibility of creating these invisibility cloaks, sort of Harry Potter style.
20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- ▶ 24:08 Harry Stebbings And I want to say a huge thanks to Melody for giving up her time today to appear on the show, and what can I say, a nerdy Harry Potter accent talking about venture capital always goes damn well.
20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC
- ▶ 24:01 Adam Draper So, I mean, just going on the Harry Potter thing, I've read all the Harry Potters many, many times and gone to all the releases. 2 times in the scene