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The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 20:34 David Frankel But, wow, like, it's Hollywood, man.
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:26 Ryan Petersen And then he would go around West Hollywood, walk around Hollywood and nobody would recognize him.
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:24 Harry Stebbings Are you happy to be powering the decline of Hollywood?
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:40 unnamed speaker Well, one thing on the epic thing, if you, um, and the Wall Street Journal did a good article on this one, too, this week, on the permanent decline of Hollywood. 2 times in the scene
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:27 Harry Stebbings I, I make a lot of money in Europe, which is great, but I never tried to go to Hollywood as the actor, and I'm just wondering if I'll regret that. 5 times in the scene
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:12 Jason Lemkin And maybe it isn't in Hollywood, although I doubt it.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:48 Rory O'Driscoll And then the really fun one is because it's Hollywood hates the Netflix deal. 5 times in the scene
AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:21 Joelle Pineau I think you have to identify very concretely the types of work that you are delivering, but I think we're starting to see, like, you know, Hollywood quality productions being made in a matter of hours.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:19 Rory O'Driscoll I quoted Gloria Swanson before I didn't leave Hollywood. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:22 Rory O'Driscoll I didn't get, I, you know, I didn't leave Hollywood. 2 times in the scene
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:07 Martin Casado As soon as, like, I, you know, the money hits the bank, I'm gonna drive down to Hollywood, and I'm gonna help him make movies, and be an actor, and just kind of be one of those people. 2 times in the scene
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:21 unnamed speaker So therefore one mitigation comment to the bankers, I think this is the old Hollywood quote, no one knows nothing.
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:03 Harry Stebbings And so, yes, it has the allure of Hollywood for our industry, but I think when you dig beneath the surface, the smart ones are going, actually, I can get better people,
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:27 Harry Stebbings I want to kind of throw out one final one before, before we wrap, but one that is, is like, we said there about like, hey, play the long game, you know, maybe being nice, something that is just getting kind of more and more Hollywood movie…
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:45 Victor Riparbelli I don't care that much if when you go to see a Hollywood film, right?
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:38 Shervin Pishevar And so I, you know, in my round, I, you know, brought most of Hollywood into Uber.
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…
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:29 Harry Stebbings Um, one thing that's challenging for me is so many young founders are so magnetized to the big brands, and really just see stars and kind of Hollywood, so to speak.
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:27 David Frankel The difficulty is it's always Hollywood.
Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:54 Nicholas Chirls Okay, A-A-Twenty-Four could not exist without the rise of the massive Hollywood movie studios. 2 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:58 Delian Asparouhov A ton of lessons there, but when I think about the one that has been sort of the most strategic, you know, sort of impact, let's say on my life in particular, in terms of how basically, you know, sort of Varda came together was sort of…
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:03 Daniel Dines She works, actually, with, uh, Hollywood actors,
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:28 Trae Stephens Like, I don't want to live in, you know, all these Hollywood pictures.
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:08 Sami Inkinen Uh, so you're not exposed to the extremes and what you see on TV and movies that the Hollywood, it's not the real world at, at least at the time.
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:43 Shyam Sankar You know, you're almost like a talent agent in the Hollywood sense. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:21 Jason Lemkin If you're a, if you're, I mean, I got to find a better word, but if you're a douchey CEO, people don't want to work for you outside of pockets of Hollywood.
20Sales: How to Scale a Career While Scaling a Family; Work-Life Balance; Parental Leave | E1012 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:57 Harry Stebbings Hollywood is fake, right?
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:54 Jeffrey Katzenberg Interestingly, from a content standpoint, I believe it hit a very high mark in that the quality of work that was done out of Hollywood and out of the best storytellers, they delivered to me.
20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- ▶ 9:51 Jeffrey Katzenberg Interestingly, from a content standpoint, I believe it hit a very high mark in that the quality of work that was done out of Hollywood and out of the best storytellers,
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:26:20 Gustav Söderström And I think, um, he is the embodiment for me of marrying the technology world with, you know, Hollywood and, and the music world.
20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
- ▶ 4:08 Ian Siegel I grew up in Hollywood, so I came back to Hollywood wanting to write movies. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
- ▶ 13:29 Phil Libin No, like you used to hear this a lot in Hollywood, right?
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 13:52 Steve Jurvetson Like I could never do Hollywood or even pretend to be a film producer or label for that reason.
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 19:02 David Sacks Well, yeah, so the analogy I've made is that over the last decade or so, a little bit of that Hollywood auteur mentality, you know, among directors has sort of creeped into the tech world, where founders like Hollywood directors want total… 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 15:49 Mike Maples But it turned out to be a mundane idea because it was like a Hollywood script, right?
20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
- ▶ 16:07 Mark Cuban I think they're like old Hollywood. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- ▶ 18:08 Brianne Kimmel Platforms that do get implemented and adopted in Hollywood.
20VC: HitRecord's Joseph Gordon-Levitt on How Show Business Prepared Him For Life As An Entrepreneur, What Founders Should Look For Most In Their Investor Base & Why The Current Ad Model of Social Is Harming The World's Creative Spirit
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Alongside his role with HitRecord, Joe's also an A-list Hollywood actor and filmmaker, starring in some of my personal favorites of all time, including The Dark Knight Rises,
- ▶ 13:00 Joseph Gordon-Levitt If I wanted to raise money, we probably would have had an easier time in Hollywood, raising from media of
20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product
- ▶ 16:10 Phil Libin Hollywood's figured out how to do this a long time ago, right?
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
- ▶ 18:00 Daniel Gross It's a little bit like being an actor and going to Hollywood for the first time, I'd imagine.
20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- ▶ 21:03 David Waxman There's so much going on here right now, and of course people think about LA for the Hollywood and the fashion and the media businesses that have always been here, and there's a great reason that companies like Snapchat and Tinder and the…
20VC: YC's Ali Rowghani on Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull and Jack Dorsey & The 3 Traits All Truly Successful Leaders Share
- ▶ 21:23 Ali Rowghani I'll have to, in a way, this is sort of Pixar thinking, and I haven't tested this as much in the venture world, but in Hollywood, in the filmmaking business, I think one of the things that's very differentiated about Pixar, and what I also… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz on The Lessons Learned Scaling Eventbrite to Unicorn Valuation & $3Bn in Gross Ticket Sales
- ▶ 6:51 Julia Hartz And, you know, I was able to see through his lens what was going on in Silicon Valley, and he came down and was quite entertained with Hollywood.
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
- ▶ 4:04 Sami Inkinen I had this dream the way actors and perhaps actresses want to go to Hollywood as an entrepreneur. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings As for Micah, prior to being a VC with founder collective, his career was varied, starting as a Hollywood agent before becoming a serial entrepreneur,
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings Well, that is immensely kind of you, but I do want to start today with a little about you and how you made your way from Hollywood agent to one of the leading VCs now with, with Founder Collective. 3 times in the scene
20VC: How 50% Of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, How To Build A Relationship Of Trust With Your VC and How Entrepreneurs Can Detect VC BS with Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 18:42 Jason Mendelson I mean, the, the living the, the fake lives on social media and television and hanging out with Hollywood stars and the big, you know, people, how many people have proclaimed themselves the next to Mark Zuckerberg in the past three years.
20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today
- ▶ 18:06 Greg Bettinelli 20 years ago, we thought about that from a Hollywood perspective, but now I think we think about it from 2 times in the scene
20 VC 057: The Investor Checklist with Nicolas Wittenborn, VC @ Point Nine Capital
- ▶ 20:07 Nico Wittenborn Uh, okay, one, one that I really liked, and, and have read actually twice is, um, called What Makes Sammy Run, and I'm actually blanking on the, on the author, but, but if you Google that, you should find it, and it's, um, it's a very…
20 VC 022: Letting go of the life we planned and the Power of the Female Narrative with Matthew McCall
- ▶ 25:26 Matthew McCall Um, these are the kind of well-known narrative books that people in Hollywood will use, uh, Klinkenborg, uh, it's called Several Short Sentences About Writing, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:55 Matthew McCall Based on a narrative, and again, I go back to narrative and story, of Zooey Deschanel as she came into Hollywood and