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Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:48 Ryan Petersen There are, uh, I love Masa. 5 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:08 Rory O'Driscoll The other thirty billion is contingent on us going public, our AGI, and Massasat, you're going to give us
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:58 Harry Stebbings Okay, the man with the most balls in investing, Massa Sun. 6 times in the scene
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:35 Harry Stebbings The money it takes is provided in large part now for OpenAI by Massa. 15 times in the scene
AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:45 Harry Stebbings Five, six percent, like Massa Sun at SoftBank expects.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:11 Harry Stebbings Massa said that he thinks that we'll see five percent GDP impact. 6 times in the scene
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:33 unnamed speaker Masa rules. 10 times in the scene
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 31:44 Harry Stebbings And how do you think about the challenge respectfully of like Decadon's a hot as fuck company, but no offense against Anthropic, Meta, and Cursor, where you're just against, you know, Massa Sun styles of cash.
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:56 unnamed speaker He's got Sun from SoftBank and Larry Ellison in that awkward photo.
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:17 Harry Stebbings Do you share that concern, or do you think this is a super cycle, of course the investment is required, and the revenue will show itself, like Massa Sun believes it will?
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:39 Martin Mignot I just, I finished Gambling Man, uh, about Massa, from SoftBank. 10 times in the scene
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:10 Miles Dieffenbach I think, you know, Masa and SoftBank, I would, I would put as the, the, the flag in the ground, Vision Fund One, when, when all the other venture firms saw that as the opportunity to just absolutely scale their capital base.
- ▶ 44:55 Miles Dieffenbach He probably could have gone to a cheaper source of capital and raised from Masa at SoftBank or General Catalyst or you name it, right?
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:26 Johannes Reck And ultimately, while I did get to meet Massa, you know, he was just one meeting, uh, you know, along the road of raising that investment. 10 times in the scene
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:00 Shervin Pishevar So you saw Masa announcing the hundred billion dollar 4 times in the scene
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:03 Harry Stebbings I, I, I'm just actually thinking though, you know, when we're talking about the transition of labor forces and kind of what happens to people, uh, you know, Massa said that there's nine trillion of capex, um, that will need to be invested…
Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings Now, Masa Sun said, NVIDIA is undervalued today.
- ▶ 4:44 Harry Stebbings Uh, ok, uh, staying on Massa, he said, the cumulative cost to achieve AGI is nine trillion in capex, but the benefit would be a shift in GDP to nine trillion per year.
Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:48 Harry Stebbings I'm sure you saw, I'm not sure if you saw, but Massa sit on stage and say we will have, I'm not going to do an accent because my accents are terrible, um, but there will be nine trillion dollars of value created every single year, which… 2 times in the scene
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:17 Nikesh Arora I mean, if you look at Masa, he's one of the geniuses of our times, where he's one of the very few people in the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:41 Harry Stebbings It is such a interesting firm and Massa is such a 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:25 Nikesh Arora I think, I think compared to Massa, all of us are on the de-risk phase compared to what he's able to do and how he's, he's able to, he's able to, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 Nikesh Arora The industry, and yes, I may not have known the cybersecurity industry, but having, you know, had the privilege of investing next to Massa or having, you know, worked at Google for 10 years, one has become a student of business, and you…
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:06 Harry Stebbings I think Mass is still there. 2 times in the scene
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:19 Shu Nyatta So when we were at SoftBank in 2017, I think thereabouts, MASA, correctly, was all over AI, and, um, the team was small enough that we were all focused on the topic and looking around at what was interesting and being built in the world of… 5 times in the scene
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:10 Emil Michael I'm just, it's, it's a hard to, I'm, I can help the GoPiff guys go up against Masa, Tiger, who, you know, you name it.
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:38 Brad Gerstner Deploying a ten billion dollar fund or, God forbid, a fifty billion or a hundred billion dollar fund like Masa tried to do, right?
20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 16:19 David Frankel If you speak to some of the original soft bank stalwarts, you know, who worked for Mass and then went on to found very storied funds,
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- ▶ 3:52 Marcelo Claure Then I had a chance to meet Massa, who fell in love with the concept of Brightstar. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:46 Marcelo Claure And, and here we are after that, that's when Masa called me and said, hey, why don't you move to Tokyo?
- ▶ 7:53 Harry Stebbings I mean, such an incredible turnaround, but you know, move to Tokyo, and Masa told you, I heard you on another podcast, actually, before, you said that Masa told you you were a terrible investor, kind of him, and invited you to come and… 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:13 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, we spoke about, you know, the incredible entrepreneurs that come to you in Tokyo and that you met with Masa. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:22 Marcelo Claure So the story of LATAM is after being one year, I tell Masa that we have started to apply the law of diminishing learning.
- ▶ 21:04 Marcelo Claure Number two is anytime we have a chance to get in front of an, of an entrepreneur, Maz or myself, right?
- ▶ 31:26 Harry Stebbings Massa.
- ▶ 33:26 Marcelo Claure So MercadoLibre, in July, 2018, the value was significantly less, and I didn't push mass enough for us to make an enormous play with MercadoLibre, because I didn't truly understand investing back then. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Softbank Managing Partner, Jeff Housenbold on How Softbank Approach Portfolio Construction, Their Optimal Investment Decision-Making Process and What Excites Softbank Most In Opportunities Today
- ▶ 5:07 Jeff Housenbold I also have been an angel investor in a number of startups in the valley and a mentor to a lot of CEOs, so it's been a passion of mine, and as I retired from Shutterfly and was contemplating my next move, I was trying to figure out if I go… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:13 Jeff Housenbold And if you go back and look at Masa's history of investing, he caught the PC and the software wave in the beginning of his career in the formation of SoftBank, which was really Software Bank when it first started.
- ▶ 16:13 Jeff Housenbold We will then, if there's still a meeting of the minds, we'll ask an entrepreneur to go meet Masa. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 8:26 Jeff Fagnan It just been as a really interesting kind of threads and forks that came out of, you know, SoftBank and Moss's original vision.
20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
- ▶ 3:27 Eric Hippeau And, um, uh, SoftBank, Masayoshi Son of SoftBank liked the idea so much that, uh, he, uh, SoftBank then ended up owning, as you'll recall, uh, a third of Yahoo at the IPO.