Lehman Brothers
6 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 9, 2018 by Ooshma Garg · said 62 times in 25 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Kris Dickson (13), Nicholas Chirls (10), Harry Stebbings (10), Todd McKinnon (4), Frank Quattrone (4), Howard Marks (3), Vlad Tenev (2), Max Motschwiller (2)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 16 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Billy Hult: 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue|E1134 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 14 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- 20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have
- 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks on The Most Important Skill An Investor Can Have, The Right Way To Think About Price Sensitivity & Where Are We At Today; Take More Risk or Less?
- 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 7 mentions in 1 episode
2018 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- 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
- 20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
- 20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
- 20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Lehman Brothers, oldest first
Nov 9, 2018
Jan 20, 2020 positive
Jul 22, 2021
Mar 13, 2023 positive
Dickson: Only nine US banks failed in five years post-financial crisis reforms
“After, after Lehman's collapse, and that the global financial crisis, almost 400 banks failed in this three years after Lehman went down. And so then the regulatory frameworks were amped up, liquidity and capital requirements were amped up, and in the last fiv…”
Mar 13, 2023 neutral
Dickson: SVB failed due to duration and concentration risks, not credit risk
“For SVB, but unlike Lehman, their investments were in agency-backed MBS and Treasuries, relatively conservative and low risk at the time. They just went long on duration for their investments, and they had concentration risk in their depositor base.”
Sep 6, 2024 negative
Chirls: Large VC firms operate like transactional Wall Street banks
“Basically all the same people from Lehman showed up. Highly transactional, all about the money. There was no real art or creativity to it. It was very private equity, like finding the company, dressing it up a little bit, handing it off to the next guy. And I …”