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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:02:06 Rory O'Driscoll You have to do Mars.
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:10 Rory O'Driscoll If there was action on Mars, Harry, you'd be there.
- ▶ 12:28 Rory O'Driscoll If there was action on Mars, Harry, you'd be there.
Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Former NASA rocket scientist who worked on Mars missions before founding the energy company that is Bloom.
- ▶ 1:52 K.R. Shridhar Before starting the company, I did the Mars missions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:00 K.R. Shridhar You know, I, I worked on the Mars missions, and I know how to produce water and breathing air on Mars.
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:14 Everett Randle He's done the exact same thing, where at first it was, you know, rocket reusability, and then the second one was Starship's gonna work, and now he has orbital data centers, the Mars mission, the moon, you know, the moon, um, mass launcher,…
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:32:58 Aravind Srinivas Like, I, I don't think Elon wants to stop at, uh, if you look at his pay package for SpaceX, it's structured around, um, creating a colony in Mars with a million inhabitants.
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:11 unnamed speaker And I think he had to give up on going to Mars and go to the moon.
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:03 unnamed speaker Like, take for example, Elon and we're going to Mars. 4 times in the scene
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:32 unnamed speaker I mean, I actually just went into ChatGPT and said, make me a chronological list of every prediction from Elon about full self-driving, and then I did another one, make me a chronological prediction of every prediction from Elon about when…
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:52 Jason Lemkin He might have just gotten to Mars faster.
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
- ▶ 39:40 Peter Rahal Um, I think probably like 200, but profitable right now for, and especially in Mars portfolio, like they need stuff to get to a billion in revenue.
- ▶ 55:14 Harry Stebbings Is that what Mars have done? 2 times in the scene
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:54 Jason Lemkin The bigger issue is when will all the capital on Earth and Mars be exhausted?
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:17 Edwin Chen The long-term vision for AGI to be like, if you believe that we are still only like, despite all of the immense progress that we've made, if you believe that there's only, we're only like, I don't know, one percent, five percent of the way…
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:52 unnamed speaker The deficits may ruin us, as Elon said, we all have to move to Mars, but I got my piece.
Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:45 Reid Hoffman And so that allows him to do, I can see that we can colonize Mars, and here we go.
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:06 Harry Stebbings And is that a trade sale to, like, Mars?
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:58 Delian Asparouhov You know, uh, polygenic risk scoring of embryos to eventual, you know, sort of crispering of, you know, sort of embryos where you're changing DNA to natural selection pressures of, you know, people being on, you know, sort of moon, Mars,…
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:47 Reid Hoffman And I literally kind of laughed at him, thinking, because, by the way, to my defense, his pitch was, I'm going to be the first person to send life to Mars because I'm going to send a turtle to Mars.
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:30 Bastian Lehmann Uh, uh, data and guidance that we can get from better software, um, getting to Mars, uh, all of that.
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:26 Mario Schlosser Fusion power or a flight of Mars.
Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:14 Harry Stebbings People will always love, like, a Mars bar or ketchup or whatever that may be.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:58 Matteo Franceschetti And so around 10 years ago, I started thinking why Elon Musk is taking me to Mars, but I still spend a third of my life on a piece of dumb foam, right?
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:51 Des Traynor Like, think of, like, Elon Musk saying he wants to terraform Mars ultimately.
David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:05 David Meyer It could be talking about how, you know, civilizations on Mars operate.
Noam Shazeer: How We Spent $2M to Train a Single AI Model and Grew Character.ai to 20M Users | E1055 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:37 Noam Shazeer On Mars?
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:40:22 Akin Babayigit When we first said, you know, I'm gonna start a mobile gaming studio, people thought I was like, you know, from Mars, especially my friends I went to business school with.
Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:00 Mike Salguero At least in this country, you look at like the General Mills and the Campbell's and the Tyson's and the Purdue's and the Hershey's, the Mars, like they're, they're kind of all similar.
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:42 Tobi Lütke And so, um, as, if you observe this, like, like visitors from Mars look at a company that is, uh, run in such a way, and they will say, wow, that company is, like, incredible at allocating its resources to, uh, the project that ended up…
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:03 Harry Stebbings Sorry, this is like, you know, landing on Mars.
Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:03 Ben Chestnut Mars Candy is one of them that I read about.
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:39 Marty Cagan And you don't have to be like going to Mars in order to have something passionate people get excited about.
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:12 Jeffrey Katzenberg Is I wanted people who wanted to go to Mars with me, right?
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: How to Build Moats Against Incumbents; How to Hire Engineers | 20VC #931 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:40 Tarek Mansour Uh, you know, I, I love Elon's, which is like, you know, does this get, get us to Mars faster?
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:17 Jim Lanzone We're stuck in this rock floating in space, you know, millions of light years from the next closest rock, which is why I don't understand why Elon wants to focus on Mars.
HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah: The Ultimate Guide to Company Culture | E896 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:56 Dharmesh Shah We're putting someone on Mars.
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
- ▶ 18:39 Rafael Ilishayev So really, really great relationships with kind of Unilever's, P&G's, Mars, Nestle's of the world.
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
- ▶ 43:05 George Zachary Is being at a cafe with him, and him telling me he wanted to send mice to Mars, and me asking him if they're going to eat cheese, and he thinking that I was serious.
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 12:31 Steve Jurvetson Or colonizing Mars for SpaceX, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:45 Steve Jurvetson And if instead, you know, your goal is colonizing Mars.
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
- ▶ 24:21 Daniel Gross Of a plant on Mars, and Elon was going to find some Russian rockets to just send a bunch of stuff to Mars, cameras, take a photo, shut the company down, but hopefully increase NASA's budget. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 19:01 Harry Stebbings But I do, I do want to ask then, what core pillars have you taken in terms of culture from the likes of Mars, Zingerman's, and Netflix that have really been kind of fundamental?
- ▶ 19:29 Joey Zwillinger It's about, you're going to go colonize Mars with a group of a small group of people.
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
- ▶ 21:07 Jason Calacanis You would think they just discovered life on Mars, or they learned how they built a time machine. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+
- ▶ 3:11 Pejman Nozad It's my biggest, single biggest angel investment ever, and when I met Josh, it took me like 15 minutes to commit, and I didn't see even one page of the product he's building, so I think, I believe some founders are from Mars, and he's one…
20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
- ▶ 2:44 Frank Mycroft I loved NASA and the vision of going back to the moon or going to Mars.
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 23:03 Christian Hernandez Space travel, teleportation, tells you what's likely and not likely based on just physics, and democratizes it so that even I can understand, um, how we could possibly get to Mars, or why teleportation won't happen, but why our brain…