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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 36:42 Harry Stebbings The data that he had available to him at Google, he could go into Sergey and Larry's office and say, Hey, I want X.
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- ▶ 9:50 Harry Stebbings Can you help me understand, you know, as a podcaster, I specialize in asking basic questions, so forgive me, but why then do people like Dario, like Sam, like Larry and Sergey talk about AGI in the way that they do as an inevitable?
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:34 unnamed speaker In the early days, you have, like, Sergey Bin and Larry Page.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:17 unnamed speaker Instead of getting, you know, 250, I'll pick a number, fifty million from the Larry and Serge's and the Jervisons of this world, you went for two hundred million, and now you're going to get zero.
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:15 Gokul Rajaram Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, all of these are just first time founders.
- ▶ 1:13:52 Gokul Rajaram All four of them, Larry, Mark, Jack, and Tony, and now Brian Armstrong, um, Bill and Ben at Pinterest. 2 times in the scene
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:11 Jerry Murdock I mean, I don't know, as Larry Page has said, if he had extra money, he'd just give it to Elon to let him build things to change the world.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:32 Harry Stebbings Bryn joins Page and leaving California.
- ▶ 1:21:46 unnamed speaker And if it was just one tax, then as bad as it is with Larry and Sergey and Peter Thiel leaving, it was, it would at least be a bounded thing, right?
- ▶ 1:23:50 unnamed speaker Larry Page I get and Peter Thiel is managing money.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:13 Harry Stebbings If it is five years out, and that is now 30, 40, is there a ceiling to what investors are okay with Satya, Larry, Sergey, you name it, spending?
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30:35 unnamed speaker Sergey Brin or Larry Page, you know, that, um, they're gonna build a trillion dollar company, blah, blah, blah.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:14 Sridhar Ramaswamy I still remember like every discussion with Larry and Sergey used to be exhausting. 2 times in the scene
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:07 Harry Stebbings I think what's relevant is the technology cycle, and I think when you see Larry and Sergei, they are back at Google, fucking working. 2 times in the scene
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 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…
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:36 Bret Taylor One of the things that I've admired the most about the leaders you mentioned, whether it's Larry and Sergey, Mark Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, uh, Marissa, whom I worked for at, at Google, um, is this sort of relentless drive.
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:18 Imran Khan Uh, we went to see Larry, Sarge, Eric Schmidt, and I remember one thing that really stood out along the ride, like, listen, this is 20 years ago, so I don't, I can't say word by word, but basically, Larry said that the most transformative… 3 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:17 unnamed speaker You know, there's this whole Larry and Sergey page rank paper that say, uh, said like advertising is fundamentally, uh, incompatible with like serving good results to the user.
- ▶ 53:22 Aravind Srinivas I have been a big fan of Larry Page and I always wanted to do some things that, of that, of that scale of ambition.
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:43 Nikesh Arora I had the privilege of having dinner with that person and Larry, and Larry asked that person, what's the biggest difference between, you know, being a CEO and running for office?
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:53 Shyam Sankar Like, that's a, yes, there's a consequence to that and it has to happen, but you know, like, I don't think Larry and Sergey were like, hey, how do we make money?
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:27 Alex Lebrun Uh, but this is what Zuck did, what Google founders, you know, Sergey and Larry did.
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29 Noah Weiss And I think the thing that stuck out to me was the combination, that deliberate approach to what the portfolio looked like, and the constant kind of Larry and Surya refrain of whatever your ideas you bring to them, what would 10 X a bigger…
Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Jag Duggal I joined Google and Google was famous for the fact that Larry literally looked at every hiring packet, including resume.
- ▶ 20:25 Jag Duggal I, you know, I, after consulting, I joined Google and Google was famous for the fact that Larry, uh, literally looked at every hiring packet, including resume.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:22 Emil Michael You know, it's, um, they call them the coach, the trillion dollar coach, because he would, as you know, coach, um, Steve Jobs, who no one in the world thought was coachable, and then he would coach, uh, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and, and…
David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:01 David Lieb A bunch of people that I knew, um, in the valley who had the ear of Larry and other folks on the board.
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Wesley Chan Um, and in, uh, 2009, I basically went to Larry and Sergey, uh, and said, I love you guys, but, uh, you know, I've been 10 years here and, uh, I missed the old days of being part of a very, very small team. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:12 Harry Stebbings He said that I had to ask this one, which was in terms of the very early days at Google, working with Larry and Sergey in particular, what are the one to two significant product insights you have from that time? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:51 Wesley Chan But the truly visionary founders, Larry and Sergey, Cliff and Mel at Canva, you know, Brian Peterson at Flexport, they have a hundred year plans. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:21 Wesley Chan But when you find that and you've spot that amazing and amazing fountain, that's going to be the next Larry is Sergey or Cliff or Mel at Canva.
- ▶ 42:31 Wesley Chan And it's the art of spotting that because that's what I, you know, spent 10 years of my life doing and being trained by some, by folks like Marissa Meyer or Susan or Salar or Larry and Sergey building products, right? 2 times in the scene
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:22 Tony Fadell Larry had Sergey.
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:42 Aydin Senkut Also, um, Google was Larry and Sergey's company.
- ▶ 46:50 Aydin Senkut They must be related to Larry and Sergey something because like the way they like thought about the company and the future and how many things they said no and what unique things they were doing.
20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harley Finkelstein on What Great Fatherhood Really Means, Deena Shakir on How Kids Make You a Better Investor and Anne Wojcicki on How Children Change Your Approach to R
- ▶ 11:48 Chris Sacca You know, Larry, Sergey, and Eric had a pretty strong compass, but there were times back in Google, and so I'm talking like literally, oh, five, oh, six,
How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:39 Harry Stebbings It looks at now, but it was the 12th search engine, Larry and Sergey, but it wasn't as obvious as it looks now. 6 times in the scene
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:56 Chris Sacca That, you know, Larry, Sergey, and Eric had a pretty strong compass, but there were times back in Google, and so I'm talking like literally, oh, five, oh, six, where we had to decide what to do about, uh, about China.
- ▶ 45:25 Chris Sacca And so thanks to Larry and Sergey, they were pioneers of like, look, we got to make this shit green.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 35:36 Bill Gurley If you lose ten million dollars on a deal, you lost ten million dollars, but my biggest mistake was clear because I brought Larry and Sergey in to present when there were 25 employees, and we didn't lay chase.
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
- ▶ 27:47 Chris Sacca You know, Larry, Sergey, and Eric,
- ▶ 42:32 Chris Sacca Thanks to Larry and Sergey, they were pioneers of like, look, we got to make this shit green.
20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
- ▶ 19:33 Ryan Smith Like, this is the dude that funded Larry and Sergey, and I'm this kid from Provo, Utah that flew out.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 30:12 Shishir Mehrotra So that's how Larry and Circuit got up in front of the company every Friday and answered questions from everybody.
- ▶ 33:07 Shishir Mehrotra A lot of it comes out of the example that gets set, and I think the thing that Larry and Sergey are amazingly good at is challenging you to think bigger, and almost in a, like, Socratic way.
- ▶ 41:33 Shishir Mehrotra I mean, the list of people, this is before he became, like, really close coach with Larry, and Steve Jobs, and so on.
20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 34:38 Sarah Cannon I mean, Paige has his toothbrush test.
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 27:12 Vinod Khosla Larry and Sergey at Google needed a CEO, got a CEO, then Larry came back in, and then he's moved on to other things.
Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
- ▶ 11:35 Todd Jackson And so Google was defined by Larry and Sergey.
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 34:07 Gaurav Jain He's had a product at Google, and Eric Schmidt, and it was by Bill Campbell, who was a coach for Larry and Sergey, Steve Jobs, many of the iconic founders in Silicon Valley.
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
- ▶ 16:02 unnamed speaker Is Larry Page going to come visit?
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 28:43 unnamed speaker So I had a meeting or my firm benchmark had a meeting with Larry and Sergey where they said, will you invest at a hundred pre?
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
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 5:25 Howard Lerman I'm not sure how often Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page or Steve Jobs or Bill Gates were
- ▶ 22:37 Howard Lerman And in 97, Larry Page had that brilliant dream in the middle of the night.
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
- ▶ 37:58 unnamed speaker Right before Google went public, I remember going to an All Hands where I think it was Larry Page who said that
20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- ▶ 24:45 Trae Vassallo You know, she talks about company like Google, you know, we only ever think of Larry and Sergey, but there were incredibly important and influential women who helped lead that company in the early days and helped build out the business…
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 8:09 Paul Buchheit And I remember when Larry Page initially was like, hey, I want you to build some kind of email thing.
- ▶ 14:26 Paul Buchheit And one of the things that really strikes me about both Larry Page and Mark and, you know, a lot of the YC founders like Patrick Collison or founders of Airbnb is they just have a level of conviction that I think ordinary humans just don't…
20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings And what does Larry Page, Mary Mika, Ben Horowitz, and Dick Costolo all have in common? 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 4:32 Jason Calacanis For 10 years, I've had the great, over 10 years, I've had the greatest book agent ever, John Brockman, who does edge.org, which if you're a scientist and you're into science and technology, you probably read Larry Page and Elon Musk will…
20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
- ▶ 20:29 Will Porteous So, I was incredibly fortunate to have a close working relationship with Bill Campbell, the former chairman of Columbia University, chairman and CEO of Intuit, and someone who was Steve Jobs' coach, Jeff Bezos' coach, Sergey Brin, and…
20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- ▶ 24:25 Spencer Kimball And, you know, I, I give Larry and Sergey tremendous credit for how early and how steadfastly they perceived culture to be a crucial aspect of Google's DNA.
20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 3:21 Wesley Chan Skype was sort of making a big inroad at that point, and Larry said, maybe you should think about what people should do on the phone and real-time communications. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:20 Wesley Chan You know, five X the number of people on day one had signed up, and by day three, we were sort of sitting there biting our fingernails because, you know, we had Larry and Sergey walk in the office and go, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:26 Harry Stebbings And then working with Larry Page, what was that like, Larry and Sergey? 4 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 26:28 Aydin Senkut So the founder, I have to be honest, the founder that influenced me the most is Larry Page.
20VC: Tyler Willis on How To Be Innovative With Customer Acquisition and The Future Of Innovation
- ▶ 8:12 Tyler Willis Larry and Sergey didn't look like the Larry and Sergey of today in 1997. 2 times in the scene