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Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:29 Tobi Lütke High-stress meeting, like picture, eight-year floor somewhere in Manhattan, um, room, the biggest table you've ever seen, lots and lots of people, paper everywhere, prospectuses, calls, um, high-tech and iPad.
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:22 Max Junestrand We're opening up our new office on Manhattan this week.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 20:28 Max Altman The things that failed were things that were built for the market of maybe, you know, San Francisco and Manhattan.
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 16:15 Alex Schultz So like, what we're doing in Louisiana, where we're building a data center the size of Manhattan, or Sam with Stargate, or these massive data centers where we're going to keep going at scaling laws, and we think it's, everyone's confident,…
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:43 George Sivulka Uh, it's like a 110th street in Manhattan.
Billy Hult: 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue|E1134 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:07 Billy Hult I mean, I, you know, I grew up in Manhattan, like, like, you know, so there were no lawns to mow. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:04 Billy Hult I grew up like, you know, pretty, you know, you know, Manhattan, like middle-class.
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:50 Sami Inkinen And I'm walking to Chelsea Pierce, uh, on, on Manhattan, and, and that feeling of that thing's not working was creating anxiety.
Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:13 Jason Lemkin I just remember I told you the story before we met, like when I first started in venture, the first LP meeting I went to was a huge, a huge entity in New York and Manhattan on the 48th floor of whatever.
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:46 Mo Koyfman At an engineering firm in Manhattan, where he met his eventual business partner.
20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a
- ▶ 17:07 Scott Sandell And I literally remember Harry walking around the streets of Manhattan whenever I went there on business trips, looking up at the tall buildings and thinking to myself, what are the other 34 people going to do?
20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
- ▶ 19:49 Rafael Ilishayev We're going to have very, very fast deliveries, not just in the island of Manhattan, but all the boroughs.
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
- ▶ 9:29 George Zachary I grew up in New York City in Manhattan in Queens. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
- ▶ 5:18 Jon Dishotsky But I really fell in love with, with sort of cities when we went back to visit family in Manhattan, and I remember just sort of staying up one night when I think it was like seven or eight, just looking at the city skyline, and I think
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 19:44 Dennis Mortensen So, even in my little world here for where, hey, Amy, can you set up a meeting with Harry from first week of December when he's in Manhattan at my office on 200 Broadway? 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 19:19 Daniel Gross Well, I think Silicon Valley is experiencing a temporary dip in quality of housing, somewhat akin to the kind of Manhattan struggles, New York City struggles in the 19 seventies before Giuliani came in and cleaned it up, where you've got…
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 16:52 Dennis Mortensen So we've been quite honest from the very first days that this would be a long, very hard journey where a lot of people will sit in downtown Manhattan in a basement and not have a product in market for which we could charge.
- ▶ 25:41 Dennis Mortensen And if I'm doing anything in the future, it's going to be in Manhattan.
20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper
- ▶ 24:23 Sarah Tavel I grew up in Manhattan, and I have absolutely no sense of direction.
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 43:05 Jason Calacanis Live in Manhattan for 5000 dollars a month and buy him the equipment to start a business?