Hawaii, every mention

25 scenes · ← back to Hawaii

tap a year for its mentions
004284201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodesmentions
024201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodes it came up in
001.322.54201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodesmentions per episode

every year anyone Harry Stebbings 9Sami Inkinen 3David Fialkow 3Zachary Bookman 2Ryan Hoover 2Tom Loverro 1Peter Parker 1John Doerr 1Joe Thomas 1Jason Lemkin 1

Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Hawaii comes up

loading…

Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek Aug 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:06 unnamed speaker At some point, uh, your customer support agent does not need a 200 IQ agent to change your plane tickets to, uh, Hawaii, right?

Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab Aug 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:12 Jason Lemkin And maybe just two small things, we can move on, but one, I think Vinod's leading the round, right, or co-leading the round or something, so he's just redoing, he already, he already, granted OpenAI hasn't gone public, but he's, he's…

Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:51 unnamed speaker I went to Hawaii for Christmas, and Owen did the deal with Bessemer.

Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 2, 2026 · 1 mention

Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 31, 2025 · 1 mention

Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 26, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 53:20 unnamed speaker Plus, once you buy, like, a couple Hawaiian islands, I mean, honestly, there's really ran out of things to buy, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:01:41 Harry Stebbings We, we mentioned, I'll tell you afterwards, we mentioned like buying islands and, uh, being in Hawaii.

Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 6, 2024 · 2 mentions

Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 28, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:01 Sami Inkinen and, you know, the race triathlons and cycling and rode a boat from California to Hawaii with my wife, uh, robot.
  • ▶ 38:03 Sami Inkinen So, so yeah, in, in summer, 2014 from Monterey, California, we hopped into a rowboat, 20 foot, roughly rowboat, unsupported, um, rode across the Pacific Ocean, 2700 nautical miles to, to Hawaii. 2 times in the scene

Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 25, 2023 · 3 mentions

Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 8, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:50 Harry Stebbings I want to see your business owners in Hawaii surfing, and their fucking life Hawaii having coconut cocktails is paid for by their store, which is powered by Shopify, combined with the ski guide, who's like taking, you know, teenagers… 2 times in the scene

Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 13, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:30 Tom Loverro That's fantastic, and I can just, you know, fly to Hawaii and sit on the beach for a while, but the data we're seeing coming across our desks, the data we're seeing at IVP suggests otherwise.

Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 7, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:57 Brian Armstrong Um, that was actually a moment where I happened to be in Hawaii trying to have a vacation.

Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 10, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst May 16, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:31 David Fialkow And when Joel and I got to Hawaii, Joel and I was sitting on the beach. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:33 Harry Stebbings When we have that decision to found GC on that beach in Hawaii, we have a blank canvas, and we can

How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:30 John Doerr So the winning bidder for a keyword like Hawaii would pay the second highest price.

20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th Dec 17, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:39 David Hsu There's kind of always a sort of nagging thought in the back of your mind that if everything goes to shit, I can always move to Hawaii, and, you know, we have a business that's profitable, and life can't be that bad, right?

20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully Aug 7, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:10 Joe Thomas And the cherry on top of all these looms was Doug Leon was in Hawaii at that time on vacation, and he has this incredible loom of him in the pool coming out of the water and talking authentically about the excitement for loom, and his sign…

20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom Jun 22, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:36 Andrew Wilkinson Money was always this thing that my parents fought about and were stressed about, and at the same time, growing up in Vancouver, it's quite a wealthy city, and I happened to be in the catchment area for a wealthy public school, and so I…

20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital Jun 11, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:01 Peter Parker You know, he was kicking around Hawaii in the seventies and took up surfing as a kid, and it just captured his imagination in such a way as that he did it for his whole life.

20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia Oct 6, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings And I don't think any founder could exemplify the mission of their company better than Sammy with Verta, as Sammy's also a triathlon world champion in his age group, and recently rode across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii,…

20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt Dec 11, 2015 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:01 Ryan Hoover So eventually, um, I just hire myself at a job and then go to Hawaii is the goal. 2 times in the scene
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,200 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.