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OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:12 unnamed speaker Which is the two best financial businesses on the planet are Visa and MasterCard.

Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 29, 2026 · 1 mention

Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 26, 2025 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 35:41 unnamed speaker You know, I think I was, um, you know, Sequoia and, and sort of Tencent and MasterCard led my Series A, um, and Series C we got like, because we are, we just, you know, rejected like acquisition offer from Stripe, um, you know, for close… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:07 unnamed speaker And then obviously, uh, you know, Sequoia and, and then Mastercard also came in with the, with, with Tencent.
  • ▶ 47:34 unnamed speaker And Mastercard was also in the round and Mastercard supposed to give me revenue as well. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:18 unnamed speaker Uh, and then Tencent and Moscow supposed to be the customer.
  • ▶ 51:55 unnamed speaker Sell to other, uh, businesses other than Tencent and Mastercard, like a lot of tech companies basically.
  • ▶ 54:29 unnamed speaker and then Tencent and Mastercard, Tencent and Sequoia said, we want to lead another round.

Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 26, 2024 · 2 mentions

Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 17, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:25 Pedro Franceschi So I think the degree to which financial services underlies a lot of what we do is like highly underestimated and undervalued, um, which is why we spent so much time in the early years building our whole financial infrastructure from the…

Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 21, 2024 · 2 mentions

Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:40 Guillermo Rauch So I never want to deal with like MasterCard and Visa and like all these payment gateways and all this nonsense retries and workflows.

20VC: The Memo: How to Raise a Venture Capital Fund (Part I) | The Core Lessons from Raising $400M Over The Last Four Years| The Biggest Mistakes VCs Make When Fundraising | How To Find and Build Relationships with New LPs Jan 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:33 Harry Stebbings And that's why some of the biggest brands in the world, like Mastercard and L'Oreal, and then more recent companies like Snap and Dropbox, all love and use Ironclad.
  • ▶ 27:37 Harry Stebbings Secure, compliant, and airtight, and really for me as a founder, having that peace of mind when it comes to contracts, it's so invaluable for me, and that's why some of the biggest brands in the world, like Mastercard and L'Oreal, and then…

20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor Sep 30, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:22 Keith Rabois 93% of people could instantly be gratified and accept credit cards, Visa, MasterCard, Amex instantly.

20VC: Why Speed Is The Biggest Differentiator a Founder Can Have, How To Hire Seasoned Tier 1 Talent To An Early Stage Startup & How To Start, Scale and Manage Remote Teams with Domm Holland, Founder & CEO @ Fast Nov 15, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:17 Dom Holland The reality is it needs to be a third party that scales and that provides a great consumer experience, great merchant experience in the same way that Visa and MasterCard scale credit cards between merchants.

20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous Nov 13, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:56 Alex Rampell But you know what happened was that Visa reorganized to become a for-profit, largely to avoid antitrust scrutiny, just because they were one of two companies that do this, MasterCard being the other one.

20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested Aug 29, 2016 · 1 mention

20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24 Oct 23, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:46 Brian Wong We released our loyalty platform a few months ago with MasterCard as our lead client, and we've got a bunch more announcements in the coming month.
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