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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 9:52 Matteo Franceschetti This is actually something where Keith was really pushy and he was correct since day one.
- ▶ 27:55 Harry Stebbings Um, a lot of your investors, including Keith Raboi, who's a friend of mine, fucking hates China.
- ▶ 49:55 Matteo Franceschetti No, for us is, is that to the point where I think Delian and Keith, when they invested for the first year, they, I, I'm not sure that they were not even, they didn't even know we were married.
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
- ▶ 1:15 Harry Stebbings I was chatting to Keith Raboi over the weekend about you.
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:58 Harry Stebbings You know, Keith Reborio says, the best founders I work with, honestly, they don't need venture investors.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:34 Harry Stebbings It reminds me very much of Keith, your boy, you want to hire barrels, not ammunition, you know, which is someone who can go from one
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:42 Harry Stebbings Keith Roboy always says the best founders do not need a venture investor's help. 2 times in the scene
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:07 Winston Weinberg And I think like one thing too, I think I said this earlier, but, um, I think Keith Rebois says this, who I've actually never met in person. 4 times in the scene
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:06 Jason Lemkin We would, you know, Keith would have some good comments. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:11 Harry Stebbings So I'm, I'm getting into a very dangerous zone because Keith Reboy is a friend and an LP of mine and Airwallex is a seven million dollar investment of mine. 5 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 12:26 Max Altman Like, we all lived in a house in the mission, and all the best people, whether it's like a Peter Thiel or a Keith, are coming by the house talking about investing,
- ▶ 17:12 Harry Stebbings And Keith Raboi famously turned it down and initialized it instead. 2 times in the scene
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:39 Everett Randle A few months into the job, I was like on an email thread and just like teed off on Keith or a boy, our, our good friend.
- ▶ 8:01 Harry Stebbings And then Keith fired you. 2 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:45 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, how important do you feel it is that you have Keith and you have Eric coming back into the fray as well?
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:45 Harry Stebbings Keith Roboy said on the show before, the best founders don't need your help as an investor.
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:02 Harry Stebbings And I think it was Keith Raboi that didn't do it when Gary Tan did, because Keith wouldn't pay more than 25 and Gary was willing to pay 35.
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:08 Harry Stebbings It makes me think of Keith Raboi, who's like the best founders. 2 times in the scene
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:08 unnamed speaker You know, Keith Raboi says that, you know, the best founders don't need you.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:59 Harry Stebbings I, I often think about Keith Reboys.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:37:01 Harry Stebbings Uh, and I mean, Keith, your boy's been like, you're what?
Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:52 Harry Stebbings Um, Keith Reboit, uh, did a talk, and he said about you should hire incredibly young people, under 30, and that is what Peter Thiel taught him, and that is the secret to building great companies.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:23 Harry Stebbings Like, no, I, I actually, I take the key through a boys school of thought, which is like the best founders don't need you.
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09 Harry Stebbings If we start with Keith Raboi, I love Keith. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49 Harry Stebbings I'm just sorry, I'm just thinking of Keith thinking, yep, that's absolutely Keith. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:57 Kaz Nejatian And I think this is what Keith is saying.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:18 Harry Stebbings One of the most pivotal moments was, I think, probably meeting Keith, uh, one of the most important people in your early career, in your career. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:40 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask you, speaking of kind of lessons from Keith there, kind of a quick fire on Keith, but so many people had so many questions. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:29 Delian Asparouhov No matter how compelling, you know, sort of the opportunity is the GP of, you know, Coastal Ventures, you know, Vinod, Samir, David Wyden, Keith, Sven. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:10 Delian Asparouhov You know, sort of moment right after the Keith departure, and I was obviously, you know, sort of feeling in some ways very emotionally raw.
- ▶ 52:31 Delian Asparouhov And the only way to keep it, you know, at a, you know, top level is I think, you know, sort of how Keith does it, where he just gets so involved in each of the companies where irrespective in theory, if he had done, if he had not done open… 2 times in the scene
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:39 Kevin Hartz It was, I was angel investing and working on Eventbrite, and I was angel investing with Keith Rubois and Javid Karim, and Javid is the co-founder of, of YouTube.
- ▶ 34:42 Kevin Hartz Well, I, I think of when I was stepping down as CEO of Zoom, Keith and Roloff held a lunch for me in the city, in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:25 Kevin Hartz Little known secret is, um, Keith, Javed and I gave an exploding term sheet to Airbnb, and Paul Graham, uh, said no bueno, and teed off on us.
- ▶ 43:26 Kevin Hartz Keith Javid and I had seeded it, very actively involved in it, you know, just kind of everything that could go wrong went wrong, scaling issues, market fit, um, Tony, and we even had Tony Bates join, who was, um, you know, he had joined…
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:19 Harry Stebbings You know, I asked Keith to avoid this one, but I think it's really interesting.
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:07 Samir Vasavada It helped us get, you know, Founders Fund, who ended up leading that seed round, and Keith being one of his first investments at Founders Fund, partially through a warm introduction. 3 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:44 Harry Stebbings Did it say listen to Keith Reboe?
- ▶ 1:11:10 Harry Stebbings Do you think David Sachs and Keith Raboi are underselling their potential by being full-time venture investors? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:38 Harry Stebbings Um, Keith told me I had to ask. 10 times in the scene
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:53 Dan Siroker Some people think, you know, I think Keith Wabaugh said, like,
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:18 Harry Stebbings A lot of the more mature but amazing investors like your Keith Reboys have said on the show, it's a constant fight for relevance to me. 2 times in the scene
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:49 Bastian Lehmann Um, obviously with, with Keys leaving there and, and being somewhere else, they, they, the, the, the belief is that there is very little you can do to actually move the needle, other than writing the check.
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:01 Harry Stebbings I remember, um, when I had Keith on the show, Keith said about just finding the next generation of great talent and it being a young person's game.
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:34 Harry Stebbings Uh, you know, Keith Raboi was, you know, has a go at me for being here.
- ▶ 30:01 Harry Stebbings Because I think Keith would push back
Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:45 Harry Stebbings but then you're Keith through Roy, Doug Leone, John at TCV,
- ▶ 57:29 Harry Stebbings Speaking to you, Christian, that reminds me of like, if Nick at Revolut and Keith were one mind,
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:19 Harry Stebbings Now we, we, we chatted a little bit, uh, before, uh, about kind of Keith Raboi, David, and you know, very good at seed investing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:59 David Tisch Amazingly unique lead investor of multi-stage rounds a la Sequoia, uh, you know, Andreessen, Founders Fund, uh, Keith Nowak-Kosla.
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:50 Harry Stebbings Um, we get to the deal-making stage, and Keith Raboi actually said on the show the other day, it's such a competitive world.
Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:01 Sam Corcos There are some investors who have different reputations, like, uh, Keith from founders fund is known for being pretty full contact. 2 times in the scene
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:52 Matteo Franceschetti Uh, there was another investor that we had called, um, Yunxi, so it was, uh, he's a very large investor that is also, they help us with China to create the manufacturing, so we went through all that, and then Keith led with Kozla, and then… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:16 Matteo Franceschetti We have Keith, we have, you know, Cosla Ventures, we have Founders Fund, Stray Stevens, we have Valor with Antonio Gracias, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:14 Matteo Franceschetti And you see people like Paul Graham or Keith or Boyce, right?
- ▶ 34:48 Matteo Franceschetti There is a, actually some example from, from Keith, Keith Reboys, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:08 Matteo Franceschetti The, the, the things I share, for example, they come, I don't know, from people like Keith or others.
- ▶ 1:15:03 Matteo Franceschetti And, no, everything is, everything, this is another rule from, from, from Keith, I think, from the, his time at Square, where, so essentially everything is public in our company except comp.
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:43 Auren Hoffman Keith or boy.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:11 Harry Stebbings Keith Raboi responded to that.
Harry debates Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: "Should startups target niche markets?" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:28 Matthew Prince Or what is, you know, I don't know, Keith Roboy think about, you know, this or, and I have to confess, I haven't thought about that in a really, you know, really, really, really long time.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:38 Matthew Prince Or what is, you know, I don't know, Keith Roy Boy think about, you know, this or, and I have to confess, I haven't thought about that in a really, you know, really, really, really long time.
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:52 Jason Lemkin Um, and I've asked, I've, I did this, I did this venture 3 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:11 Jason Lemkin And I actually flipped it around and I asked David Sachs, Keith Ravoy, Aileen Lean, and Sacha Patel, all, all the best, how they handle it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:41 Jason Lemkin Gary Tan and Keith, Roboy and David Sacks and Stuart. 2 times in the scene
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:59 Harry Stebbings You know, Keith Raboi promotes Barry's in Miami. 2 times in the scene
Brian Singerman: How I Became a Partner at Founders Fund, Why We Put $400M into Anduril | 20VC #943 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17 Harry Stebbings I had Keith on the show, uh, not too long ago, uh, and he vigorously kind of debated or disagreed with an idea
- ▶ 21:32 Brian Singerman Keith is excellent at starting companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:20 Brian Singerman I, do I love having Keith and Trey as partners?
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:19 Harry Stebbings I think it was Keith Raboy when I had him on the show.
Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:24 Kyle Harrison Keith Raboi talking about, yeah, I measure success based on how many of my, my peers think I'm insane or laugh at me.
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:28 Fabrice Grinda Like, if you talk to, if you look at the sentiment in VC today, I, I was looking at, like, tweets, right, Keith Rabois, and a few others, it's like, it's like the end of the world.
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
- ▶ 19:24 Fabrice Grinda If you look at the sentiment in VC today, I was looking at, like, tweets, right, Keith Rabois, and a few others, it's like the end of the world. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
- ▶ 34:38 Max Rhodes One person I haven't talked about, Keith Ravoy, who, you know, you may have seen on Twitter. 7 times in the scene
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 8:23 Harry Stebbings And Keith, your boy said recently, there are no funds with price discipline. 4 times in the scene
20VC: The Rise of Quick Commerce and Why CPGs ARe Misaligned Being Powered By Ad Spend, The 5 Core Components Consumers Care About When Ordering Today & Why Amazon and Alibaba Will Not Be The Big Players in 10 Years with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR
- ▶ 37:44 Harry Stebbings As always, I cannot thank you enough for your support, and I cannot wait to bring you another set of very special episodes next week, including our memo episode with Keith Raboy.
20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition
- ▶ 25:28 Harry Stebbings It's actually Keith Raboi who has the milkshake test internally, which is like, you start by getting a milkshake for them in, in 20 or 30 minutes, and once you do that, it scales and scales and scales.
20VC: Ramp's Eric Glyman on Why You Should Never Take The Highest Price, Working With Venture Funds vs Crossover Funds and How To Determine What To Buy vs Build as a Founder Today?
- ▶ 28:18 Eric Glyman So on one side of it, let's say like Keith Raboy and the team at Founders Fund, amazing seed investors, right?
20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
- ▶ 36:22 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products with Carter there, Founders Fund's Keith Raboy believes that the best way to run finance at any growing company is to adopt Ramp, The fastest growing corporate card in America.
20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World
- ▶ 11:39 Harry Stebbings The exodus from Silicon Valley is real, certainly if you follow Keith Rabor's Twitter.
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- ▶ 8:06 Michael Eisenberg And we had breakfast together actually right before COVID after a tweet of Keith Raboy.
20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Cuban, Keith Raboy, and they're off to the races in terms of building the portfolio, getting into some really hotly contested rounds for Fit On and Lone Snap.
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor
- ▶ 6:22 Harry Stebbings I heard Keith Reboise say he loves businesses where the whole vertical stack is owned end to end by the kind of company and the provider, and then not reliant or dependent on anyone else.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 9:35 Sumit Gajri I wasn't able to partner with them at the time, but I think I left them with a really positive impression, and we built a trust and a good relationship to where when they started their new company, Roundbit, recently announced their raise…
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 14:31 Semil Shah And if you look in Keith's comments on the threads, he was very specific about talking about if you're paired with a experienced GP at a fund,
20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- ▶ 28:22 Sarah Smith Cuban or Keith or Boyd, Peter Thiel, these are the loudest voices sometimes in the sort of Twitter audio universe making investments.
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings So Keith Raboy, Reid Hoffman, Founder Collective, Felicis, Andreessen, and Thrive, just to name a few.