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We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO Jul 18, 2026 · 1 mention

Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:29 unnamed speaker Right, with Larry and everybody, he was the good guy for a little while.

Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:25 Harry Stebbings How did Larry Allison end up choosing solid oxide fuel cells to power Oracle data centers and his data centers, and what did that communication conversation look like?

Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:15:48 Rory O'Driscoll Had he been Larry Ellison and saying, I'm doing it for the money, it would all have been clear, right?

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

  • ▶ 1:04:56 unnamed speaker And the tax itself assumed massive amounts from Larry Ellison, who's been gone a half decade, right?

Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 7, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 23:05 Mitchell Green You would, like, I have a lot of respect for entrepreneurs like Larry Ellison, who effectively did a levered recap of Oracle. 4 times in the scene

Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 8, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 36:45 Harry Stebbings Well, Larry Ellison's not sitting there at 80 going, I wish I played the AI game, that's for sure. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:13 Jason Lemkin I think he's going to be the healthiest hundred and four-year-old that we've ever seen. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:07 Jason Lemkin And if it is wrong, he might, he might be Ellison. 2 times in the scene

SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:31 Rory O'Driscoll Obviously the investor base, even leaving aside Kushner, you obviously have the Ellisons appear to be pretty tight with the White House. 2 times in the scene

Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:07 Jason Lemkin It's just maybe, maybe, maybe Larry Ellison or Mark Benioff could, but I don't think anyone else, there's just not enough calls and like, you can't go from one to a hundred in 10 months without massive inbound demand and a lot of AI.

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

  • ▶ 48:45 Jason Lemkin Including the beginning of Stargate, which I didn't understand and why the hell Larry Ellison was there with Donald Trump.

Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 29, 2025 · 1 mention

The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 25, 2025 · 1 mention

Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2025 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 26:16 unnamed speaker I think briefly making Larry Ellison the richest man in the world. 11 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:01 unnamed speaker They don't need it for compute, because Larry will give them infinite compute in return for money.

Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2025 · 1 mention

Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 3, 2025 · 5 mentions

Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 26, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 50:29 unnamed speaker But isn't like Larry Ellison kind of doing that in a way? 6 times in the scene

Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18:01 Rory O'Driscoll And Larry, depending on the day, is somewhere between the first and the fourth richest man on the planet. 3 times in the scene

Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:53 Harry Stebbings Uh, Larry Ellison said, to enter the frontier model race, you need a hundred billion dollars.

Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 20, 2024 · 3 mentions

Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:59 Harry Stebbings Larry Ellison said that it will cost a hundred billion dollars to enter the foundation model race as a starting point.

Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 21, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:58 Harry Stebbings Larry Ellison said the other day, it's gonna be a hundred billion dollars to enter the frontier model race. 2 times in the scene

Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2024 · 3 mentions

Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 7, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:36 Harry Stebbings Because of some of the egregious spending, Larry Ellison said on a stage recently, it will require a hundred billion dollars to enter the race.
  • ▶ 41:39 Harry Stebbings You mentioned them in the hyperscalers, but when you look at what Zuck has said he'll spend, what, you know, Google has said they'll spend, and Larry Page saying that he's willing to go bust in the race to win, and then Larry Ellison, I…

Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 25, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:50 Marc Benioff I was actually just become about a senior vice president, and I was inexperienced, and I didn't have a lot of leadership skills, and I was working for an incredible CEO, Larry Ellison. 2 times in the scene

20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity Oct 12, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:34 George Zachary One of my mentors, Catherine Gould, who has passed away, Catherine used to work for Larry Ellison when Oracle had just started. 2 times in the scene
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