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The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock Aug 22, 2026 · 3 mentions

Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 4, 2026 · 4 mentions

The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 30, 2026 · 1 mention

Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:02 Patrick Forquer That was like sort of the next move, but it took us a really long time, for example, to expand into Germany, which, which we eventually did, um, expanding into Japan and other places. 2 times in the scene

Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:22 Tobi Lütke Increasingly, I don't know if you on X, what you will see in this like, you're getting a lot of replies from people in Japan.

ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 11, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04:22 unnamed speaker And don't get me wrong, like, I said, I opened, like, Japan by myself without speaking Japanese. 5 times in the scene

How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:18 unnamed speaker I mean, look, this is a high, I checked the SoftBank, you've got SoftBank Holdings, I have to be careful, there's the Telco Group, which is reasonably levered at the Japan level, and then SoftBank Group,

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

  • ▶ 46:24 Gokul Rajaram I remember when Facebook had to go into Japan, Japanese cultural norms were that all the Japanese social networks back then were incognito.

Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:56 Harry Stebbings You only need to look at Japan in the 19 nineties and need for economics. 2 times in the scene

Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:20 Rory O'Driscoll The people who would own the problem if they overinvest, you know, you can cut employees, you can turn off your GPU, but if you dig a big deep hole in the ground in Phoenix and a big deep hole in the ground in Japan and put a fab in there…

Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:15 Alex Rampell If you rewind 10 years before that, they were all Japanese companies during, like, the Japanese stock market bubble. 2 times in the scene

20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf Dec 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:07 Gérald Marolf And together with Jonathan Anderson, the person I mentioned in the very beginning, he came back from Japan and brought some, some, some samples of some shibbery

a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:33 Harry Stebbings I just did a show where the guest talked about the TAM trap, which is, like, why SaaS is like Japan, which is, like, shrinking population, uh, shrinking seats, and actually TAMs being smaller than we thought, and whether it's your…

Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 4, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:20 Jason Lemkin SAS has become like Japan.
  • ▶ 34:47 Jason Lemkin So I think all these things just, I don't think the seed is dead, but, um, as time goes by, I get more and more worried that, that, that, that, uh, it, it feels like Japan. 2 times in the scene

AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:49 Joelle Pineau You go to Japan, you go to Korea, and they do want models that work well in their language.

Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 27, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 25:49 Harry Stebbings You know, we've heard about Sam Altman and the trillion dollars that he needs and requiring the same energy as Japan, and you're actually looking at that again, well, not even the sovereigns have enough money for that, actually.
  • ▶ 29:20 David Cahn And he sort of made this comparison to Japan in the nineties, where basically if you didn't invest, if your portfolio was not leveraged to Japan in the nineties, then you were like the best performing fund in the nineties. 3 times in the scene

Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 20, 2025 · 2 mentions

OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:24:27 Rory O'Driscoll And to the extent that you can do predictions for other things, like the questions were going to be asked, like, you know, I just saw it, you know, who's going to be the next prime minister of Japan was running because the election thing,…

Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:57 Harry Stebbings I mean, Sam said a trillion dollar spend, he needs the energy of Japan or more, to be blunt.

Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 29, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 31:58 Jonathan Ross Europe, South Korea, Japan, um, India, and so on.
  • ▶ 37:40 Jonathan Ross I don't bring up nuclear because I'm not gonna push an energy source that everyone's gonna push back on, but, um, when I was in Japan recently, they were talking about bringing their nuclear reactors back online. 7 times in the scene

ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 8, 2025 · 1 mention

20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader Sep 5, 2025 · 4 mentions

Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:17 Martin Mignot Is this ability to, again, talking about ambition, he could have been the king of Japan and, you know, just run a very successful company then, but no, he, he thought global from day one.

Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 14, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 58:08 Vlad Tenev You've never, you've never heard of this Japanese toilet? 3 times in the scene

KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 30, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 18:34 Philipp Freise Do I open Japan?
  • ▶ 49:29 Harry Stebbings I think one interesting one for me is like, again, I'm a student of economics and history as well, and it's like, you know, if you look at Japan in the 19 eighties, their deficit was huge. 3 times in the scene

Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 12, 2025 · 1 mention

Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 26, 2025 · 1 mention

Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 20, 2024 · 2 mentions

Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:38 Matt Grimm And that's before we start talking about other partner nations like Japan or like Taiwan or Middle Eastern allies or any of that.

Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:01 Antoine Le Nel That we saw in, in, um, in, uh, at King, it was the same creative working globally everywhere, with one exception, Japan. 2 times in the scene

Jeetu Mahtani, Sales Leader @Hubspot: How and When to Go International and Crush It | E1207 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 27, 2024 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 15:06 Jeetu Mahtani But as we went to the right where the complexity increased, let's say Japan, one of the mistakes we or I made is that playbook of sending an expat team was not an option, Harry, because of the language in Japan. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:29 Jeetu Mahtani Where it did break is we underestimated that effort in Japan, because in Japan, only one percent of Japanese prospects were getting found by our English content. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:44 Jeetu Mahtani Japan in the early days was tougher, but it's having good traction now.

David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 11, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:58 David Schneider Um, I'm a, I'm a believer that if, if I'm with the right CEO and the right founding team and the right executive team, that we can be flying the airplane to Japan from San Francisco
  • ▶ 39:47 David Schneider I used to travel into London or Japan and, you know, there'd be a whole team of people waiting to meet me, um, and, you know, fancy dinners and car service and all this other stuff.

Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 9, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:07 Dax Dasilva Pods of whales and whalers from Iceland and Japan or, or a business example, Steve jobs, you know, it's the, there's individuals can, that I admire, whether it's in conservation or whether it's in, uh, technology, there are people that…

Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:45 Harry Stebbings Larry Summers said on the show that Japan is a nursing home, China is a jail, and Europe is a museum.

Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:01 Nilan Peiris It's done very well in APAC, so some of the largest bank in Indonesia, um, second largest in Japan, third largest in South Korea.

Ara Mahdessian: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier | E1175 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 10, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:42 Ara Mahdessian I mean, just imagine like I have to move to Japan or China and this at a time where you don't have, you know, Google translate on your phone and there's no AI real time translation service.

Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 10, 2024 · 3 mentions

Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 22, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 1:34:37 Daniel Dines When we established in Japan, and it was atypical for a company to, because we started, we, our growth in Japan was for a couple of years higher than in the US. 8 times in the scene

David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 25, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:23 Harry Stebbings You know, I had Larry Summers on the show, and he very much, you know, stated that, I can't remember, China's a jail, Japan's, uh, whatever it is, uh, an old people's home, and Europe's a museum.

Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 4, 2024 · 1 mention

Dave Powers: The Meteoric Rise of Hoka Running | E1098 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 22, 2023 · 1 mention

Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 22, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:48 Christian Kleinerman I just came back from Japan two days ago, and a big recommendation I was doing in a large forum was make sure that you build optionality into which model you're leveraging, even though it's easier to

Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 7, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 29:18 Harry Stebbings I had Larry Summers on the show not too long ago, and he said specifically with regards to kind of energy and its impact on, you know, international relations, that China is a prison, Japan is a nursing home, and Europe is a museum. 4 times in the scene

Stephane Kurgan: Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400; How to Find Great Talent | E1041 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 28, 2023 · 1 mention

Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 53:48 Adam Mosseri So we became the number one store in the App Store in Japan, and you couldn't log in, because it was, because it was like, I mean, there's a product wall, and that's a product wall.
  • ▶ 1:00:59 Adam Mosseri Like in Japan it was like six, and in Indonesia it was a 106 or something bonkers.

Kevin Egan: Biggest Lesson on Managing Sales Teams at Slack and Atlassian | E1034 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 12, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:02 Kevin Egan If I'm going to use this service in Japan or if I'm going to use it in Europe, I need to know that you've got local data centers.

Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 26, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:22:06 Akin Babayigit And, um, Pachinko is this kind of like Japanese version of their, I guess, slot machines, et cetera. 2 times in the scene

Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:49 Gina Gotthilf I can make us grow in Japan and I can message people on LinkedIn and they're going to respond because I don't even know the limits that I have.

Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 12, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:19 Larry Summers Japan's a nursing home.
  • ▶ 28:47 Larry Summers It's a joke, but not without some element of truth to say that Europe's a museum, Japan's a nursing home, China's a jail, and Bitcoin's an experiment.

David Allemann: How I founded On Running; Working with Roger Federer; Brand Marketing Tips | E1021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 31, 2023 · 2 mentions

Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 22, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:14:11 Nico Wittenborn We went to Japan recently as a baby moon with her next baby and like went to nice hotels.
  • ▶ 1:27:13 Nico Wittenborn But a few days, like I, like when we were in Japan for, I, for, I really for five days and I check, check my emails.

Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 17, 2023 · 4 mentions

Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:29 Yann LeCun And people had all but abandoned this, uh, type of research, except for a handful of people in Japan.

Mark Carney: First Republic Bank Fails; Will Interest Rates Rise? Global Warming's Net Zero | E1008 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:52 Mark Carney But what we have with the US IRA, with the European response, the Canadian response to the European and the American response, what's happening in Japan, Korea, on and on.

Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 26, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 46:09 Harry Stebbings Um, but like, when you look at like, you know, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, their UIs are incredibly different to ours. 3 times in the scene

Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 29, 2023 · 1 mention

Alex Bouaziz: How We Became a $12B HR Company with 2,000 Remote Employees | 20VC #973 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 1, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:13 Alex Bouaziz Like you come and you can, you can hire one person in South Korea or in Japan, right? 2 times in the scene

Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 28, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:10 Miki Kuusi Our industry, like we went to Japan, uh, after announcing all these rounds and everything, four companies followed us in the half a year that followed. 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 1:12:15 Semil Shah So it's an article, but it's about one of the famous game creators on the New Yorker, um, from Nintendo, and it talks about, um, how he grew up in the woods in Japan and, like, saw all these amazing natural, um, you know, things in the…

GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 2, 2022 · 1 mention

Matt Mullenweg: How I Founded WordPress; Storytelling Tips; How to Give Feedback | 20VC #905 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 11, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:55 Matt Mullenweg Now, what was this nowadays doesn't sound like a big deal, but what happened was a gentleman in Japan, we had no translation framework.

Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 22, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:36 Zhenya Loginov So, for example, when we are setting a new geography like Japan or like France, I want to give as much power and authority to a local leader to be able to run their business as they see fit so that they can be agile on that scale and that…

Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:58 Fabrice Grinda That, that great stagnation is different from the great stagnation that Japan has gone through, which in their case was deflationary.

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 May 9, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:37 Fabrice Grinda Falls in asset prices, especially things like real estate, et cetera, but in light of the fact that we have high inflation, it'll be real decreases in asset values, and that rate stagnation is different from the great stagnation that Japan

20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Instacart with the Growth Leaders Who Built Them; How Instagram Went from 440M to 1BN, How Twitter Changing Their Signup Flow was a Needlemover and How Removing Card Payment Requ Mar 25, 2022 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 7:10 Ed Baker So one that comes to mind is actually in Japan. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:56 Harry Stebbings Absolutely love some of those stories there from Japan to India, and now I want to dive into an incredible conversation we had with Andy Johns talking about some of his biggest lessons both from Facebook and from Wealthfront.

20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons Starting Uber's Growth Team and Scaling Facebook's, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth and What Separates Good From Great in Growth Leaders with Ed Baker, Former VP of Growth @ Feb 16, 2022 · 7 mentions

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 Jan 10, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:06 Mark Carney For Goldman in Tokyo in 1990, and it was just after the Nikkei had crashed, a lot of brave new world thinking about Japan at the time, it went up to just about 39,000 from memory in late 89 and 32 years later, it's just flirting with… 2 times in the scene

20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital Sep 20, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 27:17 Hans Tung I like the Japanese saying of Kaizen, which is a relentless pursuit to improve oneself and that lead to lean manufacturing and other concepts that became popular in the seventies and eighties out of Japan. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:10 Hans Tung To build up a foundation ends up unifying Japan years later.

20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today Aug 30, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:15 Marcelo Claure Not leave SoftBank and to move to Tokyo with the purpose of learning how to invest, and I became the COO of SoftBank and the CEO of Old International Group at SoftBank, and after hanging out with Mazda for a year and a half and helping him…

20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021? Jan 4, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:06 Howard Marks But the point is, oh, and I should mention that Japan and Europe, for example, have been trying to accomplish two percent inflation for years, and they can't make it happen.

20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk Nov 23, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:24 Sarah Tavel I just read Pachinko by Minji Lee, which is this epic family story of a Korean family that migrates to Japan over, I think it was three or four generations.

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 Dec 20, 2019 · 1 mention

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 Oct 28, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:59 Ben Horowitz Like even today, if you go to Japan, you can feel that in everything that they do, you know, like the, the level of pride that people take in any kind of work and the kind of meticulousness with which it gets done is just different than…

20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware Feb 25, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:47 Frank Chen You might think of different ecosystems where sort of Japan and Korea, where this is still prize.

20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk Jan 11, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:56 Avi Meir We never did remote, and we lost great people because we didn't do remote, and some, like, great engineers want to travel to Japan and work from there, so we paid some price, but it was worth it, and now, as you say, we are expanding, and…

20VC: A Framework For Approaching Risk and How It Affects Portfolio Construction | Lessons and Advice From Working with Dropbox's Drew Houston | Why Being A Learning Animal Is The Most Important Factor For Success with Ted Wang, Partner @ Cowboy Ventures Dec 17, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:15 Ted Wang You know, I like to say it's sort of a basic notion of a startup is like, Hey, you, me, and this woman over here are going to jump in a rowboat and we're going to row it to Japan.

20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins Oct 22, 2018 · 1 mention

20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork Jan 26, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:06 Neil Young It was really driven predominantly the decision to sell the company to DNA, which was a Japanese publicly traded game company. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar Sep 22, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:01 Mario Schlosser You know, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, other rich countries in the world spend maybe 10, 11% on healthcare, and those countries, by the way, tend to not have single-payer systems either.
  • ▶ 7:50 Mario Schlosser If we became merely as efficient as, say, Switzerland is, or Germany is, or Japan is in delivering healthcare, we would save a trillion dollars a year 2 times in the scene

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 Sep 18, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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… 2 times in the scene

20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures Mar 1, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:36 Roger Ehrenberg So, you know, Deming was one of the, probably the most famous name in quality management, and what Deming, and Deming was the one that helped transform the Japanese auto and steel industries into the powerhouses that they ultimately became. 2 times in the scene
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