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Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 3, 2025 · 1 mention

Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:31 Tom Blomfield The partners are specific, and then we have our own speakers, so, um, one night a week will be your group event, and you'll get someone like Brian Chesky, or Paul Graham, or we had Kevin's sister on the Instagram founder come and talk to…

Chandra Narayanan: Top 5 Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook | E1126 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 13, 2024 · 1 mention

Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 24, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 11:43 Adam Mosseri I mean, we lost our, um, we didn't only lose Mike and Kevin, who are amazing product thinkers, and part of the reason I joined Instagram was to work with them. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:33 Adam Mosseri I mean, one is actually some advice that Kevin and Mike gave me later. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:04 Adam Mosseri This is, go back to the Mike and Kevin days, and I, I believe in it.

Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 21, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:08:31 Gina Gotthilf Mike and Kevin are working on a new app called Artifact, and it's disrupting the way that, um, you know, you consume news, which I'm really interested by, actually, because I worked at Quartz Media, so this is something that really, you… 2 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 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:33 Jag Duggal And because of that computer science requirement to be a product manager, people like Kevin Systrom weren't allowed to be product managers at Google, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:06 Jag Duggal And because of that computer science requirement to be a product manager, people like Kevin Systrom weren't allowed to be product managers at 4 times in the scene

David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:37 Harry Stebbings You have a Mike and, um, Kevin at Instagram, and then you have Chad, and then there was another like OG of social who's doing it.

Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 7, 2022 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 4:04 Kevin Weil So I give, I give Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the two Instagram founders, just a ton of credit for, um, for the way Instagram works and, and 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:56 Kevin Weil It was such a lesson because Kevin was just like, this is going at the top of the product.
  • ▶ 54:44 Kevin Weil I have been so lucky in my career, um, you know, across folks like Kevin Systrom, Jack Dorsey, et cetera.

Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 26, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 39:32 Harry Stebbings Speaking of kind of building the graph structure the right way, I remember once hearing Kevin Systrom say that, like, the best social products are fundamentally built on the foundations of giving creators or people tools to create that… 4 times in the scene

Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 7, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:00 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, you know, when we think about, um, the starting point for a lot of these social tools, I, I remember once, I, I don't remember if it was, um, Kevin Systrom or, you know, Mikey who, who said it, but they said that all great…

Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 20, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:03:32 Chris Sacca Doug Leone was like, fuck no, people don't just come to me with deals, but, um, I think, I think Doug was bullshitting, uh, but you know, like Instagram came to me, but like Kevin Systrom literally said, I want three angels, you, Adam… 3 times in the scene

20Growth: The Biggest Growth Lessons from Leading Teams at Instagram & Instacart, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth Teams, How To Onboard Growth Reps Efficiently and The Relationship Between Growth and The Rest of the Org with Bangaly Kaba, H Dec 16, 2021 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 24:19 unnamed speaker Like when we were at Instagram, I was there when we launched IGTV and like, you know, heard Kevin Systrom's thinking around like the future of video and the future of shopping.
  • ▶ 25:35 unnamed speaker and I was forced to make it by Kevin Systrom. 7 times in the scene

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 Oct 11, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:09 Chris Sacca Kevin Systrom literally said, I want three angels, you, Adam D'Angelo, and Jack Dorsey.

20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor Sep 30, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:38 Keith Rabois It was actually, I should give Kevin's sister credit, actually. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them Aug 2, 2021 · 1 mention

20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction Feb 15, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings To date, Christian has raised over fifty-two million dollars for Pitch from some of the very best in the business, including Index with Sarah Cannon, who made the intro today, Thrive, Blue Yard, and then some amazing individuals, including…

20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom Jan 25, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Including Sequoia, Kevin and Julia Hartz, Tony Fidel, Instagram's Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and Brianne Kimmel, to name a few.

20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset Dec 7, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:56 Reid Hoffman And to give you an example, when we were talking to Kevin Systrom about investing in Instagram, and they were 13 employees, and they said, well, what's their major pain point in terms of how they operated?

20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density Sep 7, 2018 · 1 mention

20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs Jul 17, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:28 Harry Stebbings A hunter recently tweeted about Mike and Kevin not getting enough credit for staying and leading Instagram at Facebook.

20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy Mar 23, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Check this out, they have the likes of Y Combinator Continuity Fund, Greylock, Jeff Bezos, Mark Benioff, Drew Houston, Kevin Systrom, and leading angels Ali and Hadi Partovi.

20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad Aug 14, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:15 Jason Calacanis If YouTube had the ability to give Steve Chen and Chad Hurley a hundred million dollars each, or fifty million dollars each, or if Kevin Sistrom could have taken two hundred million dollars off the table, he would have.

20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights? Jun 12, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:56 Kevin Rose The recommendations there for accounts to follow, and I'm not sure, I'd have to talk to Kevin about what's going on behind the scenes there in terms of machine learning or what they're using for, for the recommendations, but they have just…
  • ▶ 18:28 Kevin Rose You know, around foundation, it was really to hopefully inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs to let them know that when they hear someone like an Evan Williams or a Systrom or Elon Musk on the show say,

20VC: Why Great Founders Are Both Visionary & Stubborn, The Investment Mindset Shift From Angel To VC & How To React When The 'S*** Hits The Fan?' with Jesse Middleton, General Partner @ Flybridge Capital Partners Aug 31, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:12 Harry Stebbings Um, I'm really intrigued at what stage is vision actually stubbornness, you know, say Kevin's system, uh, with bourbon, it's really cleverly, um, pivoted to law to Instagram. 2 times in the scene
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