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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 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:39 Harry Stebbings I always remember watching, uh, I think it was John Collison, say like, oh, I, I'm not gonna do the accent, because I'm sheer accents, which is, you know, why I'm not an actor. 3 times in the scene

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 8, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03:48 unnamed speaker You either got to become cash or partisan and settle down and just become the Collison brothers and compound private forever to, you know, to universal

Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 58:21 Jason Lemkin and they'll drag out, they'll drag out the collision brothers or Toby and they'll all do joint PR, but whether for open eye, this is a top five initiative.

General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:19:21 Harry Stebbings Because I worry when we go back to your very early statement that there's not many Patrick and John's or Sam's or Dario's, and it's like the problem is there's not enough truly generational defining entrepreneurs for the supply side of…
  • ▶ 1:28:07 Hemant Taneja And, you know, and honestly, it had a huge impact because I saw him and John build Stripe.
  • ▶ 1:32:58 Hemant Taneja He's gotta give it 10 years, you know, so I'm, we're, it's a compounding business that, you know, Patrick and John always say infrastructure is hard, but it also compounds, and they're sort of steadily just doing that, you know, and, and…

Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:30:44 Rory O'Driscoll So the truth is it's an idiosyncratic bet and the Colossus haven't shared their opinion with me. 2 times in the scene

Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:19 Vlad Tenev I've shared this viewpoint with Patrick and John, and they give me some variant of, oh, well, we're just a small Irish family company.
  • ▶ 52:08 Vlad Tenev I've shared this viewpoint with, uh, Patrick and John, and you know, they, they give me some variant of, uh, oh, well, we're just, uh, a small Irish family company.

Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 26, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 56:05 unnamed speaker Does John and Patrick send you a DM on Twitter? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:30:25 unnamed speaker You know, he's waving the flag of Stripe early days of Silicon Valley, like early days of Stripe in Silicon Valley saying, you know, John Patrick going to be the next,

a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:18 Tom Hulme I was inspired, we invested in Stripe in 2017, and one of the things that struck me is the Collinson brothers were tracking a KPI.

Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 31, 2025 · 2 mentions

Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:29 Harry Stebbings The Collison's have shown, I think very clearly that you can stay for a lot longer than you plan to.

Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:15 Harry Stebbings I think Patrick and John are amazing, but I'm like, is Adyen massively underpriced then at 40?
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