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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 9:30 Harry Stebbings And actually the cadence of shipping combined with index benchmark and having one of the best brands in the space.
- ▶ 47:50 Harry Stebbings We've spoken about instinct being the AI assistant that's raised from index and benchmark. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:35 Rory O'Driscoll If you just raise money from Index and your instinct, there's a signaling comment about them investing in something else. 3 times in the scene
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 34:49 Harry Stebbings Consensus status as well in the B to B world, because town, which is kind of the B to B enterprise alternative, um, has also been funded to the tune of a billion dollar price, um, by index.
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 1:21:34 Julien Bek I think Index and Bolderton did that round, if I remember correctly.
The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park
- ▶ 43:44 Joon Sung Park So Schrodo, led index, led our previous round, and including Schrodo and some of the other insiders were looking at the market. 2 times in the scene
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 31:44 Harry Stebbings Fireworks, uh, a leading inference provider, uh, announced their latest round, which was a one and a half billion dollar round done by, um, uh, index, uh, Gavin Baker.
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:24 Harry Stebbings Four hundred million at a 3.8 billion dollar valuation led by Index, Kleiner, Sequoia, Dimension.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:10 Harry Stebbings Which has got their new round on my index and USV, and their new product is PURPS, which obviously allows you to do much simpler, you know, up or down on stock prices for consumers.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:47 Harry Stebbings As we move forward, uh, very exciting announcement on index and USV doing the series B two of the best investors in the game. 4 times in the scene
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:56 Mitchell Green I truly think that's why Sequoia and Benchmark are great and Index are great because they help founders and entrepreneurs recruit amazing talent and, and, and people want to work for those funds portfolio companies.
- ▶ 56:52 Mitchell Green You know, I respect people like Benchmark or Index. 7 times in the scene
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:24 Harry Stebbings If you want index and Sequoia, index, index reduced the fund size that they went out and raised. 3 times in the scene
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:55 unnamed speaker I think it's index. 6 times in the scene
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
- ▶ 38:06 Raz Herzberg Like, we work with Sequoia with Index.
- ▶ 59:44 Harry Stebbings Final, final one, I promise, but when we actually were prepping for this show, you said Shardul Shah at Index, and I think Doug Leone as two references, and I know them both very, very well for years.
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:15 Harry Stebbings 17 years index and every good investor in there.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 26:36 Max Altman It's a knife fight, and Founders Fund, and Sequoia, and Index, and Khosla, like, they're amazing firms that have sort of locked it up.
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:51 Harry Stebbings Them and index.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:42 Harry Stebbings I would say with an excellent index, you're absolutely right.
- ▶ 1:24:03 Harry Stebbings When we sit and look at Series A, we don't sit and be frightened by Index or Excel or the big European players.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:24 unnamed speaker A fund returner, but we had 2.2% at IPO because we were in there at pre-seed and then RTP led the seed and then index led the A.
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:18 Harry Stebbings So, uh, I have to ask, you know, you always get these newspaper articles that are like, oh, index make five billion dollars and big numbers thrown out, but you've got a lockup period. 3 times in the scene
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:39 Harry Stebbings That was quite a shock, because it wasn't a London fund, it wasn't Index, it wasn't Excel.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:59 Harry Stebbings The thing that's really stuck out to me is index. 2 times in the scene
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:02 Martin Mignot That's a mistake we made a couple of times. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:18 Martin Mignot And I think, you know, me personally, I think Asset Index see this job as a calling.
- ▶ 2:54 Martin Mignot and, you know, index is in that third way where you need enough scale to help support the founders. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:19 Martin Mignot It's a, you know, you need enough again to support them, but you also need to be small enough to kind of keep that interpersonal relationship and that close support where they know they can call 10 people at index,
- ▶ 8:01 Harry Stebbings Like, we, you don't have much consistency in the index team, do you? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:06 Martin Mignot I mean, you know, I'll, I'll, I'll, the, the example we always use at Index is, is Spotify.
- ▶ 27:45 Martin Mignot So we know, you know, we'll, you know, if there's one team that is aware of those differences, it, I would say it's, it's index. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:15 Martin Mignot You know, if, if I look at index, you know, I was, I was looking at the, at the numbers, you know, I think we've, we've invested, so we've been around for 30 years.
- ▶ 1:07:19 Harry Stebbings Okay, you can choose one partner who is the best picking partner in Index.
- ▶ 1:18:00 Harry Stebbings Like, do you want to run index 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:05 Martin Mignot I mean, and again, you know, Index is all about the people, and people is both the founders I work with. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
- ▶ 1:06:06 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and stay tuned for an incredible episode coming on Monday with Martin Minio from the best fund of the time, Index Ventures.
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:41 Harry Stebbings Whereas like before I sign the term sheet, I'm gonna go to Index, Excel, Sequoia,
- ▶ 42:26 Miles Dieffenbach Index. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:04 Harry Stebbings I just want to be in Andreessen, in Sequoia, in Index.
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:02 Harry Stebbings The other thing that's just insane with this guys is it's going to be three and a half billion back to index between this and scale. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:55 Jason Lemkin You want to sit out index and, uh, and Kleiner and Sequoia after, uh, after Figma, probably you probably, you don't, you're not allowed to sit it out.
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:33 Philipp Freise You look with great admiration at the Excel's benchmarks and indexes and Kleiner Perkins of the world, um, but that's not our business.
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:12 Johannes Reck If you have a Sequoia Capital or an Index or a Spark Capital on your cap table, the reality is that your next round will be so much easier.
- ▶ 48:57 Johannes Reck Also with my personal investments, if you have a Sequoia Capital or an Index or a Spark Capital on your cap table, the reality is that your next round will be so much easier.
20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
- ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings Prior to Pigment, Eleanor was on the other side of the table as an investor with Index Ventures.
- ▶ 4:48 Eleonore Crespo So I was at Index Venture at the time, and that happened to me, and I had to settle and think. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:49 Harry Stebbings I do just want to go back to the index days in a way and just say, you saw so many founders that were great when you were working at index. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:34 Eleonore Crespo Because I have done that mistake myself, and I have seen at index too many founders doing that mistake, that's the biggest mistake you can make, because the power of the board is bigger than you think.
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:41 Harry Stebbings I, I do see it impacting companies when you have your excels and your indices. 2 times in the scene
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:05 Harry Stebbings You might vote piece from index all day every day can raise 10 times whatever he wants to raise a hundred percent, but the withdrawal from endowment funds is very real.
- ▶ 37:46 Harry Stebbings They will all be screaming, okay, but if I don't do these venture funds, I'm going to lose that trusted relationship with Mamoun at KP, with Danny at index, with Brian at founders, you name it.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:26 Harry Stebbings I've got a hundred million going into Index, Excel, Founders Funds, Sequoia, 25 each.
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:24 Harry Stebbings There's no way they could get into Excel index or any of the brand names.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:34 Harry Stebbings I would say founders are like, yeah, that's great, but by the way, Index have that too, and definitely Sequoia do, and all the great firms have this kind of armory or kind of weaponry of great, great entrepreneurs who are invested with… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:06 Mitchell Green Like I think the guys at index are amazing investors too.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28:40 Jake Saper I think Index, um, SMR.
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:35 Harry Stebbings And it gets known that, oh, they were turned down by Excel or Index or whoever it was.
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:01 George Sivulka And that was, there's so many low points like that, and I think, you know, just kept on, on chewing through it, and, and yeah, raising money in the closet, I, I actually got on with, for, we raised a pre-seed from, from Peter Thiel, and,…
- ▶ 23:07 George Sivulka Uh, we, we ended up going from zero to a million dollars of revenue sometime in 2021 or 2022, and raise our series A also from, from Index, from Micon Index, which is thirty million bucks.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:39 Hussein Kanji You do a deal, and then General Catalyst, or Index, or Kleiner, or Sequoia, or Andreessen, I mean, there are so many of these great firms, mark it up at a significant premium, and then someone else, Tiger, et cetera, marks it up after…
- ▶ 12:45 Hussein Kanji And then Index came in and gazumped us, which... 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:10 Hussein Kanji Index, Accel, Sequoia, et cetera, like all very active in Europe. 2 times in the scene
Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:27 Harry Stebbings I saw your talk with Antoine, not Antoine, Larson, sorry, at Index, and you said about the U.S. banking license.
- ▶ 35:13 Harry Stebbings How do you think about winning when there's five others, and you've got Sequoia, and you've got Index, and you have all the pretty...
- ▶ 38:35 Nik Storonsky I mean, I've got, you know, fantastic investors, to be honest, like Matan from Index, you know, very smart.
Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:52 Guy Podjarny Uh, we really have the ability to build for the long run, uh, and to invest when we get the thing that is working, alongside just having really, really good partners, like I love Carlos, who now joined the round, and Index is a great…
Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many good things from Danny Reimer at INDEX for many years, so thank you so much for joining me today.
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:01 Cem Sertoglu I think if you look at those firms as kind of a one strategy, one investment portfolio, uh, I think you could come to that conclusion, but what I see it is at the core of their portfolios, if they are early stage investors, so I don't mean… 2 times in the scene
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:22 Mark Goldberg I mean, you know, when I joined, uh, index ventures almost a decade ago, um, you know, the pitch that I would give to founders when I didn't have a brand or a portfolio was I'm going to out hustle anybody else.
- ▶ 16:58 Mark Goldberg Yeah, so I think one of the lessons I learned from Index Ventures, and certainly two of my mentors, Mike Volpe, Ilya Fushman, was you want to be in the category winner, and when you need to pay up to be in a category winner, that's…
- ▶ 44:57 Mark Goldberg I mean, if you look at, you know, I was very fortunate to see some amazing companies from index from the early days, whether it was a Figma, whether it was a whiz, whether it was a data dog companies that, you know, have been able to build…
- ▶ 51:07 Mark Goldberg The person I learned the most from has been Mike Volpe, um, just a tremendous mentor to me at, at Index Ventures and, uh, somebody I continue to call regularly for advice as, as I'm kind of navigating kind of our, our new fund and next…
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:20 Harry Stebbings Cash had been in before, you know, Greylock were in already, Index were in already.
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:46 Harry Stebbings But I know a lot of people, I get, I love Index, they're great, but Index's seed fund is like five hundred million? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:26 Harry Stebbings Listen, I had Shardul on from Index the other day, and I asked him, uh, what's your biggest loss and what did you learn?
Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:50 Akshay Kothari Again, we didn't have the cash needs, but we needed an index and co-to stamp that, hey, I'm putting fifty million dollars in this company that is growing and that actually really helped us recruit and like break that.
- ▶ 36:06 Harry Stebbings We mentioned index.
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:44 Shardul Shah Like I've been with index for like 20 years, so I don't have actually a lot of experience with other 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:33 Shardul Shah Uh, but in my home at, at index, uh, it, it's about finding fund returners.
- ▶ 7:10 Shardul Shah Um, one of the areas I actually started in at index was biotech. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:16 Shardul Shah At Index, we, um, I was once asked to run like a tech offsite, and so I kind of threw the,
- ▶ 14:13 Shardul Shah So I think at Index, we've been really good at overthinking TAM and systematically underestimating the magnitude of our best companies.
- ▶ 23:18 Shardul Shah Um, I think when you have a culture like a, an index, uh, we invite agreeable disagreements, right?
- ▶ 31:52 Shardul Shah One sleeve is for index, one sleeve is for, sleeve is for a seed fund, and the third sleeve is for angels operators.
- ▶ 32:36 Harry Stebbings If you think about index, like, what do you need? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:01 Shardul Shah If I were, I would construct index in a completely different way, right?
- ▶ 39:14 Harry Stebbings Who is the best from your perspective outside of index? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:15 Shardul Shah And so we create some guardrails within index.
- ▶ 44:48 Harry Stebbings It's Insight, it's Sequoia, it's Index, like big, big pools of cash. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:53 Shardul Shah I see at index? 2 times in the scene
Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:32 Harry Stebbings You know, index have a separate seed fund in particular just for this asset class or for this sector.
- ▶ 20:03 Harry Stebbings Most of the seed funds that we actually have in market today are trying to compete with index and with founders fund and with Sequoia on the.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:03 Harry Stebbings When I spoke to Danny Reimer a couple of weeks ago, he said, the reason that index has been successful, I'm kind of bastardizing it, but you know, it's kind of my job, uh, uh, is that they've been very, very good at keeping the main thing,…
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:58 Harry Stebbings You know, I didn't, she just had Danny Ramon from, uh, index and he was saying about Ron the other day.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:44 Danny Rimer Um, two of the most pertinent ones, clearly one is what we've really adopted at Index from the beginning, which is, Danny, the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
- ▶ 7:18 Harry Stebbings Different investing partnerships have different approaches to decision making, and I'm just intrigued, given now the scope of the team, and many different personalities, how do you think about the most effective decision making that you've…
- ▶ 10:43 Danny Rimer Those are the, those are the four that we had real opportunity in some fashion or another to manufacture the opportunity for Index to be in the round, and, and we, we failed for different reasons. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:54 Danny Rimer I think it's, in, in the case of Index, it is, it is a story of discipline, and it's a story about manufacturing discipline in as many different ways as possible, and so for us, creating investment theses are a way of making sure that we…
- ▶ 16:46 Danny Rimer You know, that's probably been a big learning over the years, and I would like to think that index has learned from its mistakes.
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