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Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:42 Harry Stebbings If I was sitting with you and we have pubs in the UK, I'm not sure if you have pubs in Israel, you probably have bars.
- ▶ 38:11 Harry Stebbings And the trouble with Israeli entrepreneurs I find is you're all like, show me the money.
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:55 Harry Stebbings That's why you normally leave it, obviously, as close as you can, because you don't want an Iran-Israel, a Broadcom moving markets, and then putting you in a precarious position.
Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:46 unnamed speaker Just this morning, I spoke with a team here in Israel that develops, uh, uh, cyber defense
Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:22 Gili Raanan You know, across US, uh, Israel, and, and, and a little bit in Europe, unfortunately, you know, it should be more, I guess, and hope it would get a bigger number over the time, over time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:42 Harry Stebbings Do you have a monopoly on the Israeli cyber market? 2 times in the scene
20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix
- ▶ 16:17 Harry Stebbings You know what I love about Israelis?
- ▶ 43:56 Omer Shai And part of that, that we don't have the talent in Israel.
20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
- ▶ 14:48 Harry Stebbings Because the wonderful thing about writing specs for a human is that human brings in the experience they had from growing up in a kibbutz in Israel, where they think about whatever in a really different and cool way that influences how they…
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
- ▶ 9:14 Raz Herzberg I mean, I studied computer science in, like, one of Israel's best, like, tech universities, but then in parallel, I also studied arts, and, like, the best art school, they're both in the same city in Israel, so I've always liked… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:03 Harry Stebbings I'm asking more for the European and the Israeli founders who are listening, because obviously we have Project Europe, which invests in amazing, and founders are always like, do I have to have an HQ in New York?
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:15 unnamed speaker I had, you know, the founder of Fiverr, Misha on the show, uh, from Israel too, and he said the time to copy is the single biggest difference in the last two years of software.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:46 David Cahn It's based in Israel. 4 times in the scene
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:18 Alex Bouaziz They're in an ecosystem where, like, it reminds me in many ways of the Israeli ecosystem, where it's a very tight-knit community.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:09 Jason Lemkin I mean, if Replit and Lovable are, are losing some money, where, where, where would, where would this poor guy in Israel with eight developers get fifty million of tokens?
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:29 Andrew Feldman And the UAE in return for making peace with Israel, in return for a more moderate, uh, position.
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:49 Harry Stebbings You know, people often say to me, Harry, you sure you're not Israeli? 2 times in the scene
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:48 Peter Singlehurst Invest in a Brazilian company, an Indian company, um, an Israeli company.
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:30 Harry Stebbings God, I love Israeli founders.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:32 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is like, you know, when, when Israel, you know, terrible, you know, um, the seventh happened. 2 times in the scene
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:11 Harry Stebbings We, we have Israel, Gaza.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:38 Harry Stebbings Israel Gaza, again, another incredibly prescient one. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:13 Matt Grimm I think we're seeing it play out in Ukraine right now, uh, and I think we're seeing it play out with, uh, Iranian missiles that they're lobbing at Israel, uh, uh, from, you know, western, western Iran. 2 times in the scene
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:52 Harry Stebbings Well, I mean, like, one on the seed, I'd do Gili Ronan at Cyberstarts in Israel.
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:54 Shaun Maguire They're happy to oppress the, you know, the people of Israel.
- ▶ 14:38 Shaun Maguire He got Abraham Accords for Israel, which weakened, which weakened Iran's hand in the region meaningfully, on and on and on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:15 Shaun Maguire Like, this is going to sound crazy, but basically you force a ceasefire, uh, between Israel and Hamas in exchange for a peace agreement with Saudi, between Saudi and Israel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:46 Harry Stebbings Israel. 4 times in the scene
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:22 Ethan Mollick Companies that, you know, there's been a study of Israeli companies in the Valley, New York companies.
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Avi Eyal So I didn't have a, uh, extremely challenging childhood, um, but, uh, I was born in Israel at a tough time, and, um, I grew up in a lower middle class family with a father who was mostly away in the military.
- ▶ 16:34 Avi Eyal Having said that, in Israel, you know, there's, there's a big challenge where the, the top deals are typically six to twelve million dollars on, uh, anything from 15 to 30 or 40 pre's, and, and, and I suppose that Entree has done
- ▶ 23:21 Avi Eyal They started selling tickets, and then they found a wedge of getting in, they bought a company out of Israel called TopTex, which, uh, which provided software for, uh, event spaces and, and clubs to, to manage their ticketing.
- ▶ 26:38 Avi Eyal So there was a potential, um, of, um, Sequoia and Israel doing the A, um, but, uh, no, I don't want to say what the reasons were.
- ▶ 53:38 Harry Stebbings But you decided to be more public, um, in terms of fighting for Israel's right to protect itself and against, you know, global antisemitism. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:12 Harry Stebbings It appears it gave me to ask, like, the tide seemed to turn against Israel, where it's like, incredible empathy and sadness for the terrible attacks, to a belief that actually the response is not aligned. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:15 Avi Eyal The folks hate Jews for having a country as small as it is. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:41 Harry Stebbings Do you not just breed a generation of Palestinians that continue to hate Israel and Jews? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:08 Harry Stebbings What's the biggest misconception of the Israeli startup ecosystem?
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:51 Harry Stebbings Yeah, we released a show today with Eisenberg, Michael Eisenberg of the left, and he said US number one, he said China number two, Israel number three, and then basically Europe number four, you guys will regulate yourselves to shit, as…
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:20 Michael Eisenberg So look, we invest only in Israel and we've had a theory 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:03 Michael Eisenberg And I think Israel won't do it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:11 Michael Eisenberg Look, we're living through a war in Israel right now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:21 Michael Eisenberg In Israel, war is a real thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:33 Michael Eisenberg Uh, he's an Israeli guy with a PhD from the Weizmann Institute, who had built a synthetic biology lab at Harvard Medical School, and then went to Amazon to their moonshot factory, and I convinced him to come back to Israel.
- ▶ 55:14 Michael Eisenberg And when there was shut down, I had a pass to get around Israel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:38 Michael Eisenberg I was concerned about younger people being too absorbed in TikTok and Instagram, and watching what happened in Israel over the last 12 months, and how the younger people went out to fight for what mattered, fight for their brothers and… 4 times in the scene
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:27 Danny Rimer That's why we, you know, we really invest in, in Europe, in the US and Israel.
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:10 Reid Hoffman He was explaining stuff that was going on in nuanced detail in Israel.
- ▶ 47:55 Reid Hoffman In a two-hour conversation, he was asking questions about AI, he was explaining stuff that was going on in nuanced detail in Israel, you know, he was kind of saying, look, this is what I care about,
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:45 Mark Suster Many people don't know all Jews know was actually Israel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:03 Mark Suster For you to be willing to deny that more than 1200 people were killed on October seventh, for you to say that people weren't really raped, that babies weren't really killed, for you to believe that Jewish people who, I mean, something like,… 3 times in the scene
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:09 Harry Stebbings This is a really interesting thing that, you know, obviously I speak to a lot of LPs and, you know, there's been dramatic shifts in allocation towards obviously China and Israel over the last, you know, few years, uh, towards the US and…
Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00 Gili Raanan You know, I grew up in a, in a, in a small town in, in Israel, uh, which, uh, you know, is probably
- ▶ 6:35 Gili Raanan I went to start another company and then, um, relocated back to Israel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:28 Gili Raanan For me, you know, I, I told you about my early days at that small town in Israel where, you know, playing football, soccer, ah, was the, the one thing that kept us alive.
- ▶ 49:43 Harry Stebbings I think for me as an outsider to Israel in particular, I see large seeds like six to ten million dollars and they'll dilute 30%, which is quite different to a European company, which will raise less and dilute less.
- ▶ 1:05:04 Harry Stebbings Um, what's the biggest misconception of the Israeli tech ecosystem? 2 times in the scene
Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:53 Harry Stebbings You mentioned obviously some of the horrific events we saw in Israel, but I'm sorry for the naive question. 6 times in the scene
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:38 Alex Taussig Um, we've had an Israel office now for, for more than 15 years, and some of those investments have been in, in Europe
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:23 Harry Stebbings That's the hard thing of, like, Israel-Gaza. 2 times in the scene
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings He is one of the most prolific early stage investors in Israel, with some of the most successful company exits, including Wix, Fiverr, and Habana.
- ▶ 1:41 Adam Fisher Now, it's serendipitous because literally a month before, I had read an article about venture capital in Israel in a now defunct Israel-American business magazine called Link at the time, and I just leapt at that opportunity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:47 Adam Fisher Um, it's, it's common to Israel because Israelis typically are coming from outside.
- ▶ 1:06:43 Harry Stebbings He said you've taken a very proactive stance, really fighting against Israeli judicial reform, and now fighting for Israel's right to protect itself against global anti-Semitism, and I've seen some of these, especially on Twitter. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:06 Adam Fisher Uh, in the context of, of, of Israel and business, I think business, uh, has bottomed out and things are getting better, uh, for now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:40 Harry Stebbings What's the biggest misconception of the Israeli startup ecosystem?
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:08 Harry Stebbings Since, uh, sadly Israel, but Russia.
- ▶ 1:04:13 Shyam Sankar I'd probably, uh, uh, Begin, former prime minister of Israel, one of kind of the founding fathers. 2 times in the scene
Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:11 Nick Tomaino Um, you know, whatever country you're talking about, or is Israel, um, going to invade, do a grand invasion, um, in Gaza?
Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:46 Beezer Clarkson So I manage Sapphire Partners, which is the LP strategy of Sapphire, and we invest in early stage venture funds, US, Europe, and Israel, and that's what I do.
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:29 Michael Eisenberg My third son, who is not on the front line, was called up also yesterday, and, uh, I have a son-in-law who was wounded in a previous, uh, set of battles, who's gone to do, uh, kind of guard duty down in the south of Israel.
- ▶ 3:46 Adi Levanon That's the size of Israel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:03 Michael Eisenberg They're concerned about the safety of the country. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:58 Harry Stebbings You know, we see flights of, you know, incredibly brave Israeli men going back to fight for Israel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:56 Michael Eisenberg If you ask me what comes next in the next chapter of the State of Israel, I think I do know, and the Israeli tech community, and that is much more investment is going to flow here because people want to invest in resilient societies in the…
- ▶ 14:19 Harry Stebbings I have two, uh, kind of founders who have teams in Israel, and, and both of them said, a third of our team from, you know, the R&D team has now been called up, and then another said, you know, many of our, you know, sales reps have been… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:52 Michael Eisenberg And that's Israel, right?
- ▶ 24:41 Harry Stebbings I just feel as someone in London who's never been to Israel and who's not Jewish and doesn't know a Palestinian, it almost felt wrong for me to comment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:13 Adi Levanon Than, for Israel, than I've ever seen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:07 Adi Levanon If you're afraid to post anything against or pro-Israel, that's fine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:27 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, are there any other big misconceptions that you've seen flying around, or seen circulated on social media, you think that many people have who aren't on the ground, who aren't aware in Israel, seeing what's happening? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:16 Michael Eisenberg There's, youth groups are a big deal in Israel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:17 Adi Levanon And this is how we are also as a country, the military is created so that we will defend ourselves. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:18 Harry Stebbings Do you know, do you know what struck me when I listened to you both today is, like, you said it's not a, is, you said it's not an Israel
- ▶ 45:24 Michael Eisenberg When this is over, Harry, the thing, the thing we need to fix most after the wedding is getting you to Israel for a visit and making another investment here.
Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:42 Richard Socher You can't just go into the Trump article or the Palestine versus Israel article and just be like, ah, I'll make my edit, right?
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:55 Sheel Mohnot Or, or, or it's U.S. and like non-emerging markets, so like Israel.
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:37 Akin Babayigit He's Israeli, spent eight years in the army and so on.
- ▶ 29:37 Akin Babayigit You know, many, many companies in Turkey, also in Israel, uh, where I also do quite a bit of investing that, you know, they have this mantra, and they put it on the walls and say, you know, speed overall, speed above everything else, and…
Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:08 Larry Summers If one thinks about the whole information technology wave, one thinks about American companies, one thinks about Chinese companies, one thinks about Israeli, uh, companies.
Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:24 Guy Podjarny I'd say at the core in Israel, thinking outside the box is the default. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:01 Guy Podjarny I've got a couple of people in the UK, a couple in Israel. 2 times in the scene
Alex Bouaziz: How We Became a $12B HR Company with 2,000 Remote Employees | 20VC #973 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:43 Alex Bouaziz I grew up in France, she grew up in China, moved to the US, and I lived in Israel and a few other places. 2 times in the scene
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:09 Harry Stebbings Um, but there are, you know, Aleph in Israel who I rate a lot, um, Michael Eisenberg.
dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich: The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | 20VC #926 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:16 Sebastian Kanovich I have personally lived in Israel for the last six years.
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:24 Mo Koyfman She moved to Israel after college, where most of our family now lives, and met my dad on a trip back to New York, where in her words, she got stuck. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market
- ▶ 15:04 Harry Stebbings We're now going to hear from Michael Eisenberg, founding partner at Alef in Israel.
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