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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 24:56 Harry Stebbings I completely get you and agree with that, but as your wonderful accent denotes, you are Italian.
- ▶ 30:05 Matteo Franceschetti I, I think in AI where, where we were with credit cards on, you know, when spending and buying things on the internet 20 years ago, where people, particularly European and Italian, I was still living in Italy, they literally didn't want to…
- ▶ 50:39 Matteo Franceschetti Well, I think for me, a lot of things were also, like, I'm, I moved to the U.S. coming from Italy.
- ▶ 52:52 Matteo Franceschetti Well, when the relationship started, we were already, ah, she was living in Mexico, and I was living in, ah, in Italy for our first year, but that was, by then, probably five, six years before.
- ▶ 1:13:33 Matteo Franceschetti The early days was hard because, um, when I started becoming an entrepreneur, my mom didn't want, because my, my, my mom was a, a teacher in high school that, you know, in Italy, you make a, like, probably a thousand euros, something like… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:21 Matteo Franceschetti Well, now the people I admire the most, uh, as no outside business, not like people that you want to emulate, are really people that you might find in many places in the world, but call it in Italy because I'm Italian, that are on the…
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 6:03 Julien Bek Um, Doug is Italian.
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 54:16 Rory O'Driscoll In other words, what you're really saying is, if we don't figure this out, we will be working for the Italians, so we're going to figure it out.
Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:42 Avishai Abrahami Go to Italy and you'll find it's not the same way, right? 2 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:08 Jason Lemkin I mean, Bending Spoon has one trick, which is it uses a lot of folks in Italy that are lower cost for engineering, right?
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:43 Harry Stebbings Um, you know, some of their properties are very well known, but, you know, Evernote, Vimeo, WeTransfer, AOL, Eventbrite, a very massively executed roll-up strategy, a 1,000,000,003 in revenue, and they're filing to go public at twenty… 2 times in the scene
20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
- ▶ 27:55 Chad Peets Like you can kind of get away with the UK sales force for a period of time, but usually if you want to go sell it, I'm dealing with one of the companies now, like France, Germany, Italy, they want people in their country that speak their…
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 5:46 Harry Stebbings Everyone wants to work at Bending Spoons in Italy if you're in tech.
- ▶ 41:24 Federico Simionato It went hyper viral in Italy. 3 times in the scene
20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency
- ▶ 26:03 John McMahon I mean, the greatest salesperson that I've ever seen in my life, that's Carlo Carpinelli, who was out of Italy. 4 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:11 Harry Stebbings The European, the Italian buying the public American company for 1.38 billion dollars.
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:55 Philipp Freise Our generation, so the people that are not retired yet will ask the questions, you know, if the statistics, I give you Italy as an example, are that in a few years time, every fourth person is a, is a,
20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:17 Taavet Hinrikus Italy says we will take part in this project, but this widget has to be produced in Italy. 2 times in the scene
Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:30 Niklas Östberg And we have been disrupted a lot of companies in Spain, Italy, Poland, Norway.
Julian Teixeira, CRO @ 1Password: How to Hire and Train Your First Sales Hires · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:06 Julian Teixeira Um, that happened somewhere in Italy. 2 times in the scene
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:58 Oscar Pierre Uh, it was huge, you know, and that started the, the, the spinning the wheel effect of, uh, of, of us growing a lot, and then we replicated the same strategy in Italy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 Oscar Pierre Look, so after Spain and Italy, when we realized we, we, we had cracked the model, we got super ambitious and we said, hey, uh, because Paris, we failed.
- ▶ 31:34 Harry Stebbings Like we are now having, you know, Peru, Italy, Spain, Kazakhstan, uh, Kenya.
- ▶ 44:57 Harry Stebbings How do you think about market depth versus breadth in terms of like penetration of, you know, you could have stayed in Italy and Spain and just gone more services, more services, gone into pharmacy, gone into cash delivery, gone into, um,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:49 Oscar Pierre Uh, when we were only in Spain and Italy, we got the first offer.
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:58 Reid Hoffman So when, uh, um, when Italy went down with COVID, all of a sudden the specific kind of, um, um, uh, medical manufacturer that was oriented there suddenly broke for the rest of the world.
Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:10 Guillaume Moubeche Uh, they immigrated like from Italy to France, like, uh, had like, uh, lots of shits happening and she couldn't like, uh, study yet, you know, like she worked super hard.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:08 Torsten Reil You know, there's lots of things that you can do with a house in Italy or whatever, and, and, and not work.
Alain De Botton: Why Status is Making You Miserable & Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:56 Alain de Botton So, so for example, the Romans were obsessed by the goddess of fortune, Fortuna, all around Italy. 2 times in the scene
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:23 Markus Villig If Italy hasn't even figured out the ride-hailing regulation in 10 years, I wonder how long it's gonna be for them to update their self-driving laws.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:01 Daniel Khachab and I believe even Italian railway system doesn't let German trains anymore enter their countries because they're just too fucking late all the time.
Ben Fiechtner: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | E1185 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:58 Harry Stebbings Because people want to buy from people who are like them, and when you're in a neutral slash foreign country like Germany or Italy or France or Spain, a Chinese person or an Italian person will instantly have so much more engagement when…
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:45 Val Scholz Or, I don't know, you know, in Italy, we had a weird problem. 2 times in the scene
Luca Ferrari: Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation |E1127 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:32 Luca Ferrari Well, we, we founded it in Copenhagen, Denmark, but we moved it to Italy 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:21 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, obviously being in Italy and in Europe, I suffer from this assumption too.
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:53 Alex Taussig As we got bigger, it became things like, like the UK and Italy and Spain that you had to go, you had to go in and eventually Germany.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:21 Matteo Franceschetti And the reason is these guys, they built, I don't know, one of our investors is the founder of a major fitness company in Italy, right?
- ▶ 1:23:13 Matteo Franceschetti But yeah, I think for you and I, or at least for me, I come from a culture, I'm Italian, right? 2 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:00 Ryan Petersen There's, uh, there's Western countries, Italy and Korea, uh,
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:09 Harry Stebbings Like when you look at Italy's a hundred K tax, you look at Lisbon,
Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:30 Harry Stebbings Because, like you said very accurately, a lot of our audience do take advantage of the benefits of moving abroad, moving to Lisbon, moving to Milan or Italy now where they have the great tax treatment.
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:38 Harry Stebbings Um, I, I heard there was a trip to Italy.
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:42 Henri Pierre-Jacques My mom came from Italy.
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:36 Fabrice Grinda And, you know, look at, look at debted GDP of Italy, right? 3 times in the scene
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 34:07 Fabrice Grinda Look at debted GDP of Italy, right? 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harley Finkelstein on What Great Fatherhood Really Means, Deena Shakir on How Kids Make You a Better Investor and Anne Wojcicki on How Children Change Your Approach to R
- ▶ 14:58 Chris Sacca My ancestors come from Italy.
20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed, Why Venture Has Never Been Less Collaborative, How Becoming a Parent Made Me a Better Investor and Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future of Diversity in Venture with Deena Sh
- ▶ 29:49 Harry Stebbings I have this book with me to take with me to Italy, but I, I probably won't.
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 22:36 Avichal Garg Actually, pretty reasonable venture investor, and there are guaranteed people sitting in India, and China, and Nigeria, and Italy, and Greece, and Brazil, and Turkey, that are better venture investors than, like, the 50th best venture firm.
- ▶ 34:46 Harry Stebbings I was literally just on holiday with my girlfriend in Italy, and she's into all web three.
20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Two Biggest Learnings on Price, How to Manage and Train Young People in Venture, Why Business Classrooms Do Not Work and How to Assess the Two Commodities in Life; Money and Time with Jeff
- ▶ 22:11 Jeff Lieberman I was on holiday, I don't know, 1213 years ago in Italy. 2 times in the scene
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:15 Chris Sacca Like I'm a Calabrian, you know, like I'm, my, my, my ancestors come from Italy.
20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
- ▶ 34:37 Mark Carney Mario Draghi, who is currently the Prime Minister of Italy, and I worked with, closely with him on a number of boards in the official sector, and just a remarkable combination of sense of history, strategic nous, and huge courage.
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 31:15 Chris Sacca Like I'm a Calabrian, you know, like my ancestors come from Italy.
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
- ▶ 30:23 Doug Leone I was noticing that the founders in California were many ethnic founders from India, China, Italy, France, all over the place.
20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures
- ▶ 33:08 Nicolas Szekasy Italy ended up winning, beating Germany in the final three to one, but the good news is that in 86, then Maradona was at his best, and he went to the World Cup with a group of very hungry players, and then Argentina beat Germany.
20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
- ▶ 30:47 Nigel Morris We had gone from credit cards to installment loans to home equities to deposits to mortgages, and we'd done it in the US, the UK, Canada, Italy, France, Spain, South Africa, and, you know, you could see that we'd
20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO
- ▶ 34:04 José Neves That can only be possible because a boutique in Italy and Antonioli and also Davide, two co-founders of NGG, Matt Virgil, by then he was working for Kanye West, believed in him and said, this guy has a great vision.
20VC: It's Time To Talk About Drinking; How To Stop, The Impact It Has, How Life Changes Post-Alcohol and The Biggest Misconceptions on Drinking with Ryan Petersen, Founder @ Flexport, Justin Kan, Founder @ Twitch, Matteo Franceschetti, Founder @ Eight
- ▶ 5:33 Matteo Franceschetti I'm Italian, and I have never been a heavy drinker, but you know, in Italy, you always drink with every meal, sometimes even for lunch, like a glass of wine.
- ▶ 10:09 Matteo Franceschetti Sometimes when I'm on a keto, I miss carbs or I miss pizza, you know, I'm Italian.
20VC: TravelPerk's Avi Meir on Why 2021 Will Be A Record Year For Business Travel, The 3 Priorities For All Founders During COVID, What VCs Can Do To Really Support Their Founders In A Recession
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 29:30 Ash Fontana So I think the first thing I learned from these master craftsmen in Italy is commit your whole life to one thing.
20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- ▶ 5:41 Harry Stebbings Then your operational career, into your kind of growing up period, and says that you grew up in Japan, in Italy, as I said, not a stalker, this was from Dave, and he says, obviously unique places to grow up, but how did that shape then…
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 36:19 Niccolo De Masi I didn't know what kind of company, actually, in Italy.
20 VC 061: Roxanne Varza on Pitching A VC in 10 Minutes and Maximising Media Exposure For Your Startup
- ▶ 20:55 Roxanne Varza Today we have Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Romania, and we're expecting a few more to come shortly.