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Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 26, 2026 · 1 mention

Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:56 unnamed speaker You want to be Goldman Sachs, not Lehman Brothers.

a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:55 unnamed speaker And, you know, we were in the Lehman and AIG offices that they went bankrupt and it turns out they didn't need to add to their exposure of private illiquid assets that week.

Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 6, 2024 · 10 mentions

Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 1, 2024 · 1 mention

Billy Hult: 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue|E1134 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:24 Harry Stebbings How does this compare and how did it feel when Bear Stearns went through its troubles, Lehman's went through its troubles, 2008 happened.

Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 1, 2024 · 4 mentions

Mark Carney: First Republic Bank Fails; Will Interest Rates Rise? Global Warming's Net Zero | E1008 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:19 Mark Carney Uh, and then obviously that cascaded into the subprime crisis and, uh, Lehman, et cetera.

Jackie Reses & Kris Dickson: What Happened with SVB? Are VCs to Blame? | E988 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 13, 2023 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 1:28 Kris Dickson Well, I've joined Jackie at LeadBank as the CFO late last summer, but for the 10 years before that, I was the CAO and then the CFO of the Lehman Brothers post-bankruptcy parent estate. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:01 Kris Dickson Because after, after Lehman's collapse, and that the global financial crisis, almost 400 banks failed in this three years after Lehman went down. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:38 Kris Dickson With a team of incredibly talented people at Lehman. 6 times in the scene

Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 27, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:58 Sonali De Rycker It was the day Lehman collapsed.
  • ▶ 12:51 Harry Stebbings You also mentioned, um, 2008 and, uh, the day Lehman's crashed, obviously, and I'm most interested by the book value that you mentioned there, because we're seeing this now where I was on the phone with LPs this morning and they're like,…

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 Jul 22, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:23 Jeff Immelt But we were the world's biggest finance company when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt.

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 Mar 4, 2021 · 1 mention

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 Feb 22, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 8:26 Todd McKinnon The end of 2008, when the financial system was freezing up, Harry, It was like, you know, Lehman Brothers collapsed. 4 times in the scene

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 Nov 30, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:16 Vlad Tenev We met and became friends at Stanford University, where we were both studying physics, and we graduated in 2008, and his first month at a job, my first month at grad school, Lehman Brothers went under, and we had the, uh, the global…

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? Jan 20, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:34 Howard Marks And I wrote a memo about luck, and I said in that memo that if it wasn't for that little bit of bad luck, I could have spent 40 years at Lehman Brothers and had nothing to show of it. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:17 Howard Marks oh eight, Lehman Brothers went bankrupt on September

20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring Oct 4, 2019 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 5:18 Harry Stebbings So I do want to kick off with a little bit almost before the world of law, because you spent four years at Lehman's and I recently tweeted about how impressed I was by kind of a lot of, uh, maybe more traditional wall street bankers turned… 7 times in the scene

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 Nov 9, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:53 Ooshma Garg I interned on Wall Street for just a hot minute for two summers, more out of parental obligation to explore a steady and stable life, which is funny because I was interning in the summer of 2008 and saw the Lehman Brothers collapse happen…

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 Jul 27, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings And prior to GOAT, Eddie probably has the most fascinating of backgrounds, including founding a chain of Japanese dessert stores, yes, Japanese dessert stores, building a slew of different 99 cent apps, and started his career on Wall…

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 Jun 25, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:22 Max Motschwiller I graduated undergrad, 2009 and grew up on the East coast, interned at Lehman brothers. 2 times in the scene

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 Mar 2, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:02 Mariam Naficy Finishing the first year of building Lehman Brothers failed, and I raised institutional money right before that, but we thought we'd never see a dollar of institutional money again.

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 Mar 17, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:44 Kevin Chou But he has a social network to compete against Facebook, and I think we all know who won that game, and so we ended up changing the whole company to be focused on creating sports fan communities, and we did that inside of Facebook,…

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 Jan 9, 2017 · 1 mention

20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 · 1 mention

20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank Dec 2, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:07 Samir Kaji Uh, in 2009, uh, you know, post Lehman and Bear Stearns and the world blowing up,
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