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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town Sep 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:08:03 Jason Lemkin It, you know, it, it feels like the hop in of AI, although I don't think it is because of what Rory is saying, but it is breathtaking. 2 times in the scene

Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:10:45 unnamed speaker Sell while the, that's the hopping lesson. 2 times in the scene

Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 58:07 Harry Stebbings My fun one could have been, which you're an Alpean, and I'm very grateful to you for supporting me when I was 1819, um, but it could have been at one point the Hopin Fund, it could have been the Clubhouse Fund, um, and it turns out that it…

Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:39 Jason Calacanis It's like 20 20 all over again when everyone was in market for a contact center or e-signature or a digital events tool like a Hopin. 2 times in the scene

Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:06:22 Harry Stebbings Clubhouse, hop in, be real.
  • ▶ 1:12:15 unnamed speaker So it's a stupid model because you have to turn away clubhouse and hop in and maybe even data dog, but you got to just find the wises and go all in, but there's a, it's a big trade-off, but I do believe that you could, you could just cut…

Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 37:20 Harry Stebbings I mean, I've kept dancing with Hoppin Be Real and Clubhouse, and you know what?
  • ▶ 1:01:17 unnamed speaker I think some of these things will be flashes in the pan, you know, to you, I'm not trying to be mean, but to use the hop, yeah, like hop in and covert, right?

How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 24, 2025 · 1 mention

Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 3, 2025 · 4 mentions

Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:11 Harry Stebbings With my first fund, after 18 months, I predicted my top five fund returners, and you had your hop-ins, you had your B-reels, you had your clubhouse, and none of the five outperformers ended up being the outperformers, and the five…

OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07:47 Jason Lemkin They're hiring clay consultants, clay engineers, deploying, writing checks like Hopin in 2020. 4 times in the scene

20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:03 unnamed speaker I was in clubhouse, be real, hop in,

Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:29 Mitchell Green But then it turns out it stayed COVID enabled, unlike a virtual events company, like a Hopin, where, like,

Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:25 Elias Torres And so there's a lot of peers of mine that were like, four billion valuation, or stuff like that, and so we started a little bit earlier from some of those waves, so they were getting crazy valuations like Hopping, you know, or other…

Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:01 Harry Stebbings I've found that, you know, the winners very clearly from the offset actually are in the messy middle because the ones that really break out, clubhouse, hop in, be real, it's unsustainable.

Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2024 · 1 mention

David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:30 Harry Stebbings I haven't heard that, but you're right absolutely in terms of consumer you see a little bit more, enterprise you see less, which is why, David, I do not do reserves, and I don't because I was in Hopin, I was in Clubhouse, I was in Be Real,…

Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 6, 2024 · 1 mention

Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:08 Harry Stebbings Like, my biggest mistakes in the last few years, honestly, Kevin, were be real, hop in, a clubhouse.

Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 8, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 42:36 Tom Hulme and I walking at the time, and the conversation I remember us having is, is Hopin, does Hopin have product market fit or product COVID fit? 3 times in the scene

Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 12, 2024 · 1 mention

Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 10, 2024 · 6 mentions

Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 4, 2024 · 5 mentions

Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 22, 2023 · 1 mention

Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 15, 2023 · 5 mentions

Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:31 Harry Stebbings If I were to invest according to the signals, I would have put the most money into clubhouse hop in.

Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 28, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:33 Harry Stebbings Miki, as an investor in Clubhouse and Hopin, I have felt momentum go the other way, my friend.

Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 21, 2022 · 1 mention

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2022 · 1 mention

Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 26, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:23 Harry Stebbings As bluntly, many media people have liked to do with Clubhouse, they've liked to do with Hopin, many other companies.

Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 15, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity Aug 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:17 Luciana Lixandru With Hoppin at the seed, I think it was one of the most, quote unquote, expensive seeds in Europe at the time.

Sam Taylor: How I Became VP of Sales at Loom; Lessons from Dropbox | 20VC #908 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:08 Sam Taylor And, you know, he sat us down early days at the, the lunch table, literally, because we're all in the office.

Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 18, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:10 Des Traynor So like when I was talking to the folks at Hoppins, they're like, they're like, well,

20VC: Scaling to $2BN AUM in 3 years, Fundraising Lessons and Tactics from 2,500 LP Meetings & What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time with Harley Miller, Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Left Lane Capital May 2, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: How Today's Market Changes How Companies Should Approach Burn and Runway, Are Financing Markets Closing? How To Know When To Pay Up vs Stay Price Disciplined & Why The Most Important Thing in Venture is Generating Positive Selection with Bill Cilluf Apr 22, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia Mar 21, 2022 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Welcome back to TwentyVC with me, Harry Stebbings, and I'm so, so excited for the episode today, as we have some special news from our guest, which is incredibly exciting, but I'm not going to spoil it, and so I'm going to leave it to…
  • ▶ 10:00 Luciana Lixandru At the end of 2019, when I met Johnny from Hopin, it was a two people company at the time, and it was such an authentic founding story, because he had an autoimmune disease, and he didn't leave his home for a while. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:44 Luciana Lixandru I mean, I remember with hopping at the seat, I think it was one of the most, quote, unquote, expensive seats in Europe at the time.

20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital Feb 2, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To Sep 2, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:20 unnamed speaker We see companies like Hopin achieved 3 times in the scene

20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces Dec 14, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:03 Harry Stebbings Now, following on from our episode last week with Hopin, I wanted to stay on the theme of interviewing the founders of the fastest growing companies in the world, and one growing faster than ever before is Figma, and I'm so thrilled to…

20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more Dec 10, 2020 · 37 mentions

  • ▶ 0:05 Harry Stebbings I first met this guest in October last year, and transparently, I thought he was one of the most special founders I'd ever met, period, since we've become great friends, and this show was one that I wanted to do all year, and so with that,… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:17 Harry Stebbings I'm now so excited to hand over, though, to Johnny Bufferhat, founder and CEO at Hopin.
  • ▶ 2:37 Harry Stebbings Well, I do want to kick off today, and for those that may be living under a rock for the last year and haven't seen the breakout that is Hopin, let's start with a little bit on you and the founding story. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:38 Johnny Boufarhat Hopin operates in a way for recruitment. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:34 Johnny Boufarhat I don't see, I mean, I'm super focused on Hoppin, so I'm not looking at other companies at the moment.
  • ▶ 14:25 Johnny Boufarhat I mean, I talk about it all the time at Hopin.
  • ▶ 15:08 Johnny Boufarhat Hopin was purely intuition. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:13 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Jules and Alex at IVP before, and they said, we've invested a lot of money into Hopin, never met Johnny.
  • ▶ 21:08 Johnny Boufarhat I mean, Hopin doesn't have a clear, direct competitor today in terms of one that I'm much more closely monitoring, which is always bad because it's always good to have a rival. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:47 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask kind of with a forward-looking eye, there's kind of two elements where if people maybe not question Hopin, but just have thoughts that may not be like totally killer. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:33 Harry Stebbings I've spoken to growth investors before about Hopin, they're like, hey, I see the ten billion dollar events play, I totally get that. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:04 Harry Stebbings Tell me, final one, what are the next five years hold for you and for Hopin? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:48 Harry Stebbings I have to say, I really couldn't be more excited for Johnny and for Hoppin.

20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset Dec 7, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:04 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode with Johnny, founder and CEO at Hopin on Thursday.
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