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Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 23:47 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) And so, um, you know, we, we found, like, even in the largest AV markets, where today we don't have AVs, like San Francisco and LA, our human-driven business is growing faster than the rest of the US. 2 times in the scene
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 21:03 Fred Turner Um, who had become a VC, and he, uh, connected me to a group in LA, and they had this license, and they're using it for, like, uh, sports doping testing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:24 Harry Stebbings And so you speak to the deputy mayor of LA. 3 times in the scene
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:54 Josh Browder Like, I guess, growing up, I would visit LA, and you'd, like, go on a bus with all the stars, and, and this was, like, on the tour route, and this bus showed up of these tourists,
- ▶ 43:44 Josh Browder Um, he was based in kind of Los Angeles as a solo founder.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:36:46 Cliff Weitzman And then eventually he came and lived with me first in LA and then in Miami.
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:57 Jake Paul Like, that's probably much worse than, you know, me lighting a pool on fire in, in Los Angeles.
- ▶ 34:11 Jeffrey Wu You can switch from being, like, a celebrity, getting, like, paparazzi when we're out in LA to, like, talking shit as a professional athlete, and then, but actually having to train, like, twice a day, like, eight hours a day doing the…
- ▶ 45:42 Jake Paul I think I've talked a lot about my, my struggles more so in the past because I was, I was struggling, struggling more, um, when I was younger in, like, childhood fame, living in Los Angeles, being surrounded by
- ▶ 54:01 Jake Paul It just became a nightmare, and it was causing so many problems, and I was in Los Angeles, and I didn't like what I was doing.
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:39 unnamed speaker I've spent a lot of time in, in LA, in, in the industry.
Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:20 Demis Hassabis And I think I got there a couple, you know, he invited me at the end of that meeting and, and, and that was our second meeting in, in the space effects factory.
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:24 Lucas Swisher I do remember very distinctly going and visiting Anderil for the billion dollar round down in LA.
20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets
- ▶ 21:00 Chad Peets I put a rep in New York, a rep in Dallas, and a rep in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and I told them they can have all the accounts in those geographies.
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 8:49 Tim Ferriss I marketed that to tech-savvy males, let's just say between the ages of 20 and 35 in San Francisco first, then New York City, then it hopped to the same demographic in Chicago and LA and so on, then it hopped to females in roughly those…
- ▶ 26:49 Tim Ferriss L.A., and they said, we want to do this with you, and A, B, and C megastars are very interested, and we want to make this happen.
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 55:26 Zach Lloyd So I grew up in LA and I have a very distinct memory.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:19 Rory O'Driscoll When, when Facebook Messenger launched, there was the, you know, oh, look, you can order a ticket in Facebook Messenger, and it's true that you can, but what you discover very quickly is, boring though it is to say this next sentence, pick…
20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
- ▶ 1:01:28 Harry Stebbings I might get like squirreled into the woods for this in LA, but you know, Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology in 1949 was told that, um, if you want to get rich, start a religion.
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 36:36 Kieran Flanagan If, did you see the, um, the dental ad from VO three, the guy, so there's a dental practitioner in LA. 2 times in the scene
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:41 Jason Wilk And I think the one benefit of being in LA, it's not a very tech heavy hub, you know, like golf club by play.
20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
- ▶ 56:41 Aatish Nayak I decided to not do that, move to LA, join my friend's company, which ended up failing in a year, but, uh, just something off the beaten path, and when else would I live in LA? 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 1:19:51 unnamed speaker Turns out that really smart engineers in Silicon Valley and in Seattle and in LA build rockets too.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:14 Mitchell Green The experience that I had in LA and, like, San Francisco in a self-driving car is absolutely incredible.
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:41 Elias Torres When, um, I, I lived in L.A. 2 times in the scene
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:12 Shervin Pishevar So, um, and then they, they helped us because when we went around the world and we wanted to launch, it helped to have a celebrity be Rider Zero or Rider One, so I brought Edward Norton into Uber, um, and so I remember for the LA launch,…
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:57 George Arison And so I think for our community in particular, where density is a huge problem, other than maybe in New York City, London and San Francisco, maybe LA, you don't have a huge number of people.
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:02 Scott Gorlick Started out in L.A., then did Philadelphia, then did Atlanta, and sort of the profile of the launcher was, ah, MBA type, private equity, banking, and, you know, the launcher would be responsible for hiring a team.
Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:09 Chad Peets And a rep in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and I told them they can have all the accounts in those geographies.
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:36 Harry Stebbings But in LA, is that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:10 Alexis Ohanian So it's not just the New York teams, the LA teams, et cetera.
- ▶ 58:09 Alexis Ohanian This is, it's gonna sound so silly, but like, the, the, the Clippers installing USB ports at every seat of their, so there's a brand new, so the big, so the Clippers have always been the second-rate team in LA.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:22 Delian Asparouhov In particular, I'd like to, you know, go back to this example of, uh, there's this company that I led the, you know, sort of seed round in, uh, Senra systems, where, uh, the founder proactively chose to come meet me in Miami, even though…
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:47 Pedro Franceschi My house in LA during the pandemic, and feeling so anxious and so stressed, and I was like, I'm like, 25 years old, 24, 25 years old, I don't remember.
Ara Mahdessian: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier | E1175 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:53 Ara Mahdessian We were part of an accelerator in LA called Mucker Labs, which is also a phenomenal program.
- ▶ 8:16 Ara Mahdessian On the flight with me was another founder in LA.
- ▶ 25:48 Ara Mahdessian But even a plumbing contractor in LA will happily open their doors to another plumbing contractor who's struggling and invite them in and teach them everything they know about the business and help them become successful.
David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:00 David Luan Model that you could just say, hey, like, write me a newspaper article about insert celebrity being arrested in L.A., and it would just do a perfect job and be like, oh, they were in, like, they were in, like, the Neiman Marcus store, et…
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:50 Mark Suster And, uh, this is a true story as I was camping with my family, um, in Los Angeles in tents.
- ▶ 37:13 Mark Suster They've raised more than ten billion dollars, and the vast majority of them are in Los Angeles. 2 times in the scene
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:47 Bastian Lehmann Uh, it continues to be very strong in LA.
Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:15 Will Wu I was in LA.
- ▶ 45:01 Will Wu Hand it to the AI, and you say, hey, AI, give me feedback on this new experience as if you were a eighteen-year-old male living in Los Angeles, or as if you were a fifty-five-year-old woman living in New York.
- ▶ 53:05 Will Wu Japanese Topre switches in a custom housing made by someone named Ryan Norbauer, who's like an artisan keyboard case maker in Los Angeles.
Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:39 Tooey Courtemanche Um, he and I were in San Diego yesterday visiting my mom, his grandmother, and he, we dropped him off on the way coming up north in L.A., and he goes, hey, Dad, you want to stop with me and go see the Charger game tonight?
Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:47 Chris Degnan I'm going to hire two people on LA. 2 times in the scene
Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:16 Danny Cohen It was also quite a frustrating moment because, you know, I went to LA a couple of weeks later, 2 times in the scene
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:41 Adi Levanon Flights are coming out from New York, from LA, from all these different locations with the necessary equipment, making sure that all those seats that Michael mentioned are filled.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:50 Guillermo Rauch This company from Switzerland invited me to do a kickoff for a project on site in Los Angeles, Switzerland.
Nick Huber: Biggest Lies of Silicon Valley; Lost Art of Delegation; How to Grow Your Network | E1051 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:17 Nick Huber But I think when the VCs and the tech guys and the people who live in adventure, you know, in LA and New York City and San Francisco, when they're talking about business in general, one must understand that
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
David Allemann: How I founded On Running; Working with Roger Federer; Brand Marketing Tips | E1021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:23 David Allemann At the very beginning, it was New York and, uh, and then other, other parts like, uh, San Francisco, LA, um, Miami, um, Portland, of course, where our, um, where our offices in, in, in the U S these were then attached and, and we started…
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:40 Adam Besvinick Um, none were in LA.
Alex Rodriguez: From MVP to CEO; Business Lessons from Warren Buffett & Magic Johnson | E1010 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:13 Alex Rodriguez And this was in a course of a three-hour, uh, dinner that we had in, uh, LA, uh, near Rodale Drive.
Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:21 Jack Brody I flew down to LA.
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:40:00 Scooter Braun And there was a guy in Sweden, I called him, he was coming to LA two weeks later, and I said, let's meet up, and we became friends.
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:06 Harry Stebbings Why make the move to LA to build light spark rather than Silicon Valley? 3 times in the scene
Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:32 Dara Khosrowshahi Postmates had a very strong position on the west coast, especially in LA.
- ▶ 43:09 Dara Khosrowshahi He's in, he's in, uh, LA now, but we talk every once in a while.
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: The $1BN Amazon Acquisition; How Richard Branson Invested | 20VC #984 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:38 Jamie Siminoff Like, I'm on the island, and a doorbell came up, and like, I need you to go to LA and meet with this Jamie, you know, like, like, Lateef's like, oh, like, you know, like, my life, you know, he's like, probably like, this is just my life.
David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:57 Harry Stebbings They want to go to every drinks party with every VC in LA.
Stevie Case: World's First Female Pro Gamer; Hiring Tips for Sales; PLG vs Enterprise | 20VC #970 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30 Stevie Case I learned to build my own PC because that's what you had to do to be competitive, and it landed me eventually down in Dallas doing video games, and then out in LA working at Warner Brothers making mobile games, like this pre-smartphone, ok?
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:05 Harry Stebbings We've met in LA.
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:34 Sujay Jaswa That's not certain as every restaurant in LA.
20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- ▶ 18:41 Sujay Jaswa That's every restaurant in LA.
Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:40 Cathie Wood And, uh, and I was introduced to Capital Group, which is a very well-known, very large, uh, asset manager on the West Coast, LA, by Art Laffer,
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:09 Paul Davison So millions of people from all over the world, doctors, and writers, and poets, and, and TikTokers, and pizza makers, and, and truckers, and physicists, and, and students in Kentucky, and, and people in the Maldives, and comedians in LA.
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:33 Keith Rabois Sequoia also has a partner, I think this is public, in LA.
20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
- ▶ 33:08 Ian Siegel I remember I was at a company, I'd been hired as sort of like the turnaround guy for this company, and at one point I became like this no-name operator in LA, and so I got twice, I did a turnaround job.
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 3:23 Lenny Rachitsky And so we immigrated to LA. 2 times in the scene
How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:23 Harry Stebbings I will read it on the flight to LA.
20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales
- ▶ 2:10 Kyle Parrish In Southern California, in Long Beach, 30 minutes south of Los Angeles. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
20VC: Getir Founder, Nazim Salur on The Future of Last Mile Convenience, Who Will Win? Lessons on Driver Acquisition and Efficiency, Zone Maturity and Time To Profitability and Scaling to 300 Cities in the US in 2022
- ▶ 27:25 Nazim Salur But then population in Los Angeles, for example, 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
- ▶ 8:44 Ann Miura-Ko They're paying for being in a car with someone to go to Lake Tahoe or to LA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 Harry Stebbings As you said there, the driving to LA, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:33 Ann Miura-Ko Now let's get LA right. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings And so I'm thrilled to welcome Mark Mullen, co-founder and managing partner at Bonfire Ventures, one of LA's leading early stage funds, now on their third fund, with a hundred and one million dollars in the latest.
- ▶ 29:10 Mark Mullen We have four in LA, one in Boston, and one in San Francisco.
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
- ▶ 26:46 Ryan Smith We have one girl who's the oldest, Tanya, and then four boys, and I was with my brother last night down in LA at the basketball game, and we always talk about, you know, my parents split up when I was 13 years old, and
20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World
- ▶ 13:44 Brendan Wallace And we started Fifth Wall actually in Los Angeles. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 14:26 unnamed speaker For doing Kernel, I drove down to LA. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
- ▶ 4:03 Derek Zanutto And as I approached my senior year of college, I was initially intent on, to be frank, moving to LA with my band and making a run in the music business.
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
- ▶ 47:34 Shishir Mehrotra The people that didn't understand that statement 10 years ago were mostly people that underestimated human ingenuity, and they viewed it as you can't possibly be a great video creator if you don't live in LA and didn't go to the USC film…
20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Loom, Joe was in LA as director of product at MyLife.com, and before that, director of operations at MediaPass.
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 9:03 Joe Lonsdale In LA, you want to hang out and be around the actors and actresses, and they kind of run things.
20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
20VC: It's Time To Talk About Drinking; How To Stop, The Impact It Has, How Life Changes Post-Alcohol and The Biggest Misconceptions on Drinking with Ryan Petersen, Founder @ Flexport, Justin Kan, Founder @ Twitch, Matteo Franceschetti, Founder @ Eight
- ▶ 20:22 Matteo Franceschetti I had for a long time a friend who was not drinking, and I never understood how hard it is, and it happened to me because I went to this restaurant in LA to meet with the family of my wife, and I wanted to order a cocktail because they all…
20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- ▶ 5:31 Wayne Chang I was at a dinner last year in LA, and, you know, another, another group put it together.
- ▶ 11:32 unnamed speaker And Wayne and I even had to finally come to an agreement where either I would fly down to visit him in LA, or he would come up to San Francisco 2 times in the scene
20VC: Upfront's Mark Suster on COVID Redefining What A Great Company Looks Like and What Valuations Look Like, Why Pay-To-Play Is Back On The Table & Why We Will See The Death of Party Rounds
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings But to our episode today, and I always remember reading this guest's writing very early in my venture career, and it was so formative to my thinking, and I'm thrilled to welcome back to the hot seat Mark Souster, managing partner at…
- ▶ 34:23 Mark Suster Having lived in Los Angeles and seeing how few people ever use taxis, that clouded my judgment.
- ▶ 43:55 Mark Suster What they do is they produce video games and I'll give you quotations or inverted quotes for the Brits.
20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note
- ▶ 24:28 Tony Schneider Ring in Los Angeles, Peloton in New York City, and Duo in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor
- ▶ 27:15 Kurt Rathmann Los Angeles here in a couple weeks because I'm actively focused on recruiting somebody, and I'm very intent on it, and I'm going to go see them.
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 2:41 Harry Stebbings I'm excited to announce that New York City-based Ezra will be launching in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the coming weeks.
- ▶ 40:09 Harry Stebbings I'm excited to announce that New York City-based Ezra will be launching in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the coming weeks.
20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
- ▶ 3:02 Harry Stebbings I'm excited to announce that New York City-based Ezra will be launching in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the coming weeks.
- ▶ 33:31 Harry Stebbings I'm excited to announce that New York City based Ezra will be launching in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the coming weeks.
20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings I'm excited to announce that New York City-based Ezra will be launching in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the coming weeks.
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