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The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:10 Anjney Midha In, in Menlo Park, we have a 30,000 square foot facility where we have LLMs that then predict new materials, new superconductors.
- ▶ 9:21 Anjney Midha Please bootstrap a physical R&D lab for me in Menlo Park.
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:41 unnamed speaker You do have to spend four days a week in the Metta office in Menlo Park, but there's great running on the trail on the peninsula.
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:24 Maria Angelidou Um, and then on my way back, you know, my house is, uh, in Menlo Park, California, and so it's 15 minutes away from the headquarters,
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:22 Dan Siroker And the only way you could find the person you wanted to marry was you had to drive down this one street in Menlo Park called Sand Hill Road.
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:36 Alex Lebrun So, the founding moment of Nabla, I was sitting at a terrace at Facebook, um, headquarters in, in Menlo Park. 2 times in the scene
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:47 David Marcus Um, so when the acquisition closed, instead of staying in our office in Menlo Park at the time, um, I asked to have a desk at PayPal and I moved immediately first day.
20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
- ▶ 3:40 Scott Sandell This is before the day of video conferencing, so NEA had an office in Baltimore and an office in Menlo Park, and someone introduced us to the NEA team in Baltimore, and we went out for a meeting, and after the meeting, Peter Barris, who… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
- ▶ 5:07 Ravi Viswanathan And I wanted to go to a pure play firm, and so I knew some folks at NEA and joined them on the East Coast, and after a couple years moved out on the West Coast here in Menlo Park, was there for 15 years, loved it, and in that time, which…
20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- ▶ 5:58 Avidan Ross They said, well, come to Menlo park and we'll show you.
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
- ▶ 10:06 Jeff Fagnan At one point, it had a Menlo Park office.
20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
20VC: How To Test The Strength Of Co-Founder Relations, The Dangers Of Raising A Large Series A & Why The Biggest Challenge For Consumer Companies Is Finding The Second Big Hit with Rishi Garg, Partner @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 4:03 Rishi Garg So I started off at Morgan Stanley and the technology group in Menlo Park as an investment banker.
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 12:21 Ryan Sarver Famously, we had Andy Rubin as a IR here, and he actually founded Android out of our Menlo Park offices, and eventually helped them sell that into Google.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
- ▶ 3:26 Byron Deeter I had dabbled in venture a little bit before, so I got exposure, um, to that working at a firm called TA Associates back when they did it, but really, uh, 2005 was when I made the full-time commitment and jumped over here, uh, to our Menlo…