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20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 26:36 Howard Marks IBM and Xerox got killed by competitors.
20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
- ▶ 18:02 Derek Zanutto In terms of, you'd have a platform like an IBM, an SAP, an Oracle, Microsoft, holding, storing data.
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Is Overrated, The Downside of Thematic Investing, Making Quality Decisions In Uncertain Conditions & Why He Has No Reserves Allocation
20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi
- ▶ 26:55 unnamed speaker So when IT manager in an enterprise is buying a computer service from somebody, it's the old thing about you buy IBM and you can't go wrong.
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
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Before becoming a full-time investor, Mike was involved as a founder and operating exec at back-to-back startup IPOs, including Tivoli Systems, acquired by IBM, and Motive, acquired by Alcatel.
20VC: How Founders Should Think Through Distribution and Customer Acquisition Today, The Challenges of the Digital Advertising Duopoly Currently & How To Structure Company Post Mortems Effectively with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder & CEO @ DuckDuckGo
- ▶ 11:19 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, we've always had incumbents in prior generations of history, be it IBM, be it Nokia, does the data monopolies here mean these incumbents are so much stronger than before?
20VC: The Most Successful Companies Are Not Where Employees Work The Most, How To Know When To Promote From Below Or Bring in External Candidates & Why It Is A Unique Advantage To Be Building A Company Outside A Tech Hub with Rick Nucci, Founder & CEO @ G
- ▶ 5:53 Rick Nucci Understand our market, how to position, how to differentiate, and ended up in a very unfortunate position of having to compete with big incumbents like IBM and Microsoft and Oracle and, you know, TIBCO and all these vendors.
20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
- ▶ 13:49 Brandon Deer I don't know if you recall, but in 97, this guy lost to IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue.
20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building
- ▶ 4:16 Ben Horowitz Our experience being entrepreneurs and, and the big aha that we had or kind of belief that there was a hole in the market was if you were a founder, you know, kind of an inventor who was building a company, we always kind of felt you were…
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 7:35 Byron Deeter This record acquisition by IBM of Red Hat is really all about Amazon Web Services crushing them in public cloud, them trying to make a play for hybrid cloud more aggressively and essentially draw a buffer line where they can be relevant… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- ▶ 25:50 Dylan Field We had, for IBM, for example, we saw a shift from 72 engineers to every one designer in 2012.
20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- ▶ 7:09 Ryan Caldbeck Also, an old expression in investing from many decades ago that said, I don't get fired for investing into IBM.
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 5:03 Howard Lerman I will say that I think if you historically look back at the greatest companies in history, they typically have come from more of a grassroots organic type of feel like Microsoft or Apple or even IBM or going back to the Ford Motor…
20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density
- ▶ 17:04 Andrew Farah Sometimes that's a big deal with IBM and in Microsoft's very early days.
20VC: Why Most The Value In Crypto Will Accrue in Governance, When Institutional Capital Will Enter The Space and How To Think About Liquidity In Crypto with Joel Monegro, Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC
- ▶ 7:16 Joel Monegro So the commoditization of electronics, the open sourcing of electronics as a platform led to the creation of computers and allowed for companies like IBM and so many others to emerge. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- ▶ 3:08 Leah Busque I was a software engineer at IBM for eight years before I had the idea for TaskRabbit.
- ▶ 27:30 Leah Busque And I was working at IBM as an engineer living in Boston. 3 times in the scene
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 22:53 Alex Rampell So I'll take a very, not controversial approach, but one that I think is somewhat direct, which is, I was watching the US Open tennis tournament, and there were all these advertisements from IBM, and IBM says, we have developed something…
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Before VC, Auron was a founding team member of IBM's chip design group in Haifa.
- ▶ 3:01 Oren Zeev So I started as a double E major, and I joined IBM Research and
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 18:10 Daniel Gross And you want to build Dr.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
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
- ▶ 17:24 Josh Wolfe And so, if you can do the kinds of things that you used to see in the Bell Labs and the Intels and the IBMs and even Microsoft researchers,
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 15:40 Ted Blosser And I remember even when we went public, he put posters around the office, uh, talking about companies that were built for the longterm, like Apple and IBM and Microsoft.
20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 13:40 Harry Stebbings Talking of kind of the people behind the machine there, are you bullish on individual teams creating kind of proprietary and, and their own different algorithms, or whether we'll see your IBMs creating machine learning as a service, and…
20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha
- ▶ 3:32 Scott Dorsey My dad worked for IBM, and we moved all over the country.
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 24:15 Paul Martino But man, when you do something different, especially for the limited partner community, it is very difficult to get that funded because they're just used to buying IBM.
20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 9:50 Harry Stebbings I so agree with you with regards to that challenge, and the question then that's posited to me from that is, will we have machine learning in a box that could be integrated into the majority of most corporate systems provided by the likes…
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings But before becoming a full-time investor, Mike was involved as a founder and operating executive at back-to-back startup IPOs, including Tivoli Systems, acquired by IBM, and Motive, acquired by Alcatel-Lucent.
20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- ▶ 3:29 Karthik Sridharan You know, we saw this thing about, okay, well, obviously Fortune, 500 companies like IBM or Bank of America.
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 2:20 Peter Pham AS 400, RS 6000, Lotus Domino implementations, like hardcore, CA Unicenter, Tipco type stuff.
- ▶ 2:20 Peter Pham AS 400, RS 6000, Lotus Domino implementations, like hardcore, CA Unicenter, Tipco type stuff.
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 22:46 Michael Kim I think that there's a substantial dynamic of you don't get fired for buying IBM.
20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital
- ▶ 15:15 Harry Stebbings Is the solution a one-stop shop solution by IBM?
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings And prior to battery, Brian led sales efforts and built some of the first web service-based API integrations for Bow Street, which was acquired by IBM.
- ▶ 3:10 Brian O'Malley My dad worked for IBM, so grew up with a PC.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
- ▶ 3:10 Byron Deeter And when we sold the company to IBM in 2004, uh, and I was thinking about optionality coming out of that, uh, we had the benefit of a multi-year two-way job interview, uh, with the Bessemer team and jumped over here to, uh, dive in…
20VC: Why Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World Of Software with Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 8:42 Harry Stebbings Are we talking DeepMind and Watson with their heavy IP side?
20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming
- ▶ 6:04 Niccolo De Masi So whether or not you're IBM and Lou Gerstner, who did this at a grand scale, uh, or you're Glue, who, you know, we ran off our feature film business between 2010 and 2013, about three years. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 022: Letting go of the life we planned and the Power of the Female Narrative with Matthew McCall
- ▶ 2:23 Matthew McCall Um, yeah, and we would play with the Apple IIs, uh, the IBM when it first came out, so it was, um, it was wonderful.
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