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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 20:26 Matteo Franceschetti And now nobody cares about, I don't even know what's the cost of electricity at night in, you know, in Miami where I live.
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 48:14 Rory O'Driscoll And yes, on top of your nice business, which is still earning good money, every three years, some idiot gives you three or four billion of free money, and you politely take it and put it into real estate in Miami.
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 25:01 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) But yes, of course, if autonomy starts to make up the majority of markets in San Francisco, LA, DC, Miami, New York, Boston, Chicago, like
The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:18 Nico Laqua Um, same with Miami or, uh, you know, all of these other places.
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:53 Jason Lemkin I'll take this bet, but I think there will be enough sitting in Brickell in Miami day traders, Yahoo's that love the brand.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:36:46 Cliff Weitzman And then eventually he came and lived with me first in LA and then in Miami.
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:28 unnamed speaker A hundred million dollars, 19 year old kid from Miami, something like that, right?
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:29 Harry Stebbings You haven't gone to Miami? 3 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
- ▶ 25:31 unnamed speaker So you're sitting in Miami and you're a couple hundred million dollar home. 5 times in the scene
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:43 Jason Lemkin Fifty million dollar mansion in Miami.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:48 Jason Lemkin Well, we're going to get, we're going to make money out of it, and we should put it in the bank and flee to Miami or Monaco because I don't, but I'm not sure it's good for everybody.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:12 unnamed speaker It's that simple because there wasn't enough gravity to get people to go to Miami outside of, you know, some hedge funds and others, and there wasn't enough gravity to go to Austin because it's really not that nice there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:56 unnamed speaker So you got to go to Miami or Austin at some point in your career, right?
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:24 Jason Lemkin But a third of the fund, you know, it's just, it doesn't even, it doesn't even buy me anything good in Miami. 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 57:08 Max Altman So when we're looking at companies, we did a company called Fleetworks that we're pretty excited about, and they are doing, while it's in the AI voice space, it is for supply chain trucking logistics, and they're helping them match things…
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:23 Everett Randle Again, I was at Founders Fund, so we were spending a fair amount of time in Miami. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:13 Jason Lemkin Maybe, maybe there's a tough time for your founder to leave and go to Miami. 2 times in the scene
20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
- ▶ 59:45 Harry Stebbings Is it a Miami, which is a fleeting place for taxes? 2 times in the scene
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:04 Jason Lemkin You know, some of the folks you've interviewed on TwentyVC have moved to Miami. 3 times in the scene
20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
- ▶ 5:20 Mayur Gupta The first one came when one of my mentors asked me to be a product manager for an ad tech product we acquired here in Miami in, in, in oh six.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:29 unnamed speaker Well, I'm not living in three houses in Miami.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:26 Shervin Pishevar Thank you, and I hope you get on the plane and come to Miami and visit us, me and Emil, sometime.
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:01 Vlad Tenev You know, Miami or, or places like that.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:12 Daniel Khachab Our, our Spain team moved, moved to Florida, because you can do sales speaking Spanish in Miami. 2 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:43 Alexis Ohanian I brought her down to Miami, probably like a month later, just took a bunch of notes and just started asking her a bunch of dumb questions about the sport, about women's soccer, and what we could do.
- ▶ 35:10 Alexis Ohanian What's crazy, so I funded a reality show called The Off Season, which was 11 national team and professional women soccer players in a house for three weeks for an off season in Miami.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:22 Delian Asparouhov In particular, I'd like to, you know, go back to this example of, uh, there's this company that I led the, you know, sort of seed round in, uh, Senra systems, where, uh, the founder proactively chose to come meet me in Miami, even though…
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:58 Kevin Ryan But I'm not seeing the tech talent in Miami, and I don't think it's going to get there.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:23 Keith Rabois Um, I closed a deal in, with, for a Miami-based company at FF with a good friend of mine, the CEO, that we haven't, we haven't announced publicly yet, but had those kind of terms too. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:04 Keith Rabois Now, the, the one example that always occurs to me is, there was a time when Mike was building his company, uh, in Miami, that he's incredibly frugal. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:12 Jason Lemkin They are not buying forty million dollar homes, uh, in Miami.
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01 Keith Rabois Companies like PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, co-founded a company called Opendoor, and as a side project, um, also CEO of up into a 30 person company based in Miami.
- ▶ 20:47 Keith Rabois Miami's great. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:17 Mike Shebat Well, Traba was very intentionally built in Miami because we did want to be close to our customers and Miami was our first market. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:55 Keith Rabois But then also once I've been to New York, then I can take it back with me to Miami.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:36:11 Matteo Franceschetti Uh, when I'm in Miami, where I'm based, I do an hour and a half in the morning, tennis, paddles, something like that.
20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
- ▶ 12:27 Richard Socher So that your model, you can ask about Messi's Miami switch or something, and it will just talk to you about that, even though the LM itself couldn't be trained.
Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:01 Richard Socher We had to build this very complex search backend with a ton of data in it and knowing when to retrieve what facts from the internet so that your model, you can ask about Messi's, uh, Miami switch or something.
Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:23 Adam Mosseri Account When he goes over to Miami.
Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:26 Jean-Denis Greze And from, I'm not saying Miami, but from other places where, where people went and it's around AI because the zeitgeist is here.
Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:58 Harry Stebbings Also, like, for me, I don't know about you, I put, hi Gina, hope you're well, and enjoying the sun in Miami. 2 times in the scene
David Allemann: How I founded On Running; Working with Roger Federer; Brand Marketing Tips | E1021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:23 David Allemann At the very beginning, it was New York and, uh, and then other, other parts like, uh, San Francisco, LA, um, Miami, um, Portland, of course, where our, um, where our offices in, in, in the U S these were then attached and, and we started…
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:42 Adam Besvinick One was in, one was a team split between the Bay Area and Miami.
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:59 Kevin Systrom I guess if you consider, like, Bitcoin and crypto super interesting, I guess you can bet on Miami.
Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:56 Ben Chestnut I'll tell, can I tell you, I visited my, um, great uncle Clarence down in Miami one day, and he was in his nineties.
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:59 Harry Stebbings You know, Keith Raboi promotes Barry's in Miami.
20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- ▶ 18:58 Harry Stebbings Keith Raboy promotes Barry's in Miami.
GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:07 Rafael Ilishayev Philadelphia, Chicago's, uh, Boston's, Miami's, uh, all of our Texas markets of the world that are, are producing cash flow.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:57 Emil Michael Come move to Miami with me.
Mike Chalfen: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | 20VC #904 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:27 Harry Stebbings That on-demand helicopter service through Miami really is a big time.
- ▶ 1:16:15 Mike Chalfen Miami Ed. 2 times in the scene
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:58 Henri Pierre-Jacques Um, I moved to Miami a year ago after living in New York for, for eight years, and I think I realized that productivity isn't tied to the number of hours you work, uh, and Miami really forces you to realize the value of living life, and… 4 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:26 Keith Rabois The biggest, most obvious one is moving to Miami.
20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated
- ▶ 4:09 Eddie Vivas And so I grew up in this small town, and I moved to Miami to go live with my grandparents.
Sid Sijbrandij: How I Founded GitLab; Remote Work vs In-Person; CEO Coaches | 20VC · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:41 Harry Stebbings I think Francis Suarez in Miami is doing a good job on that one.
20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company
- ▶ 30:08 Harry Stebbings Austin versus Miami. 6 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 3:45 Marcelo Claure From a small shop in Miami to being the world's largest mobile phone distribution and supply chain services in the world.
- ▶ 35:51 Marcelo Claure We'll put it in Silicon Valley, New York City, Miami, Sao Paulo, and Mexico City.
20VC: Ramp's Eric Glyman on Why You Should Never Take The Highest Price, Working With Venture Funds vs Crossover Funds and How To Determine What To Buy vs Build as a Founder Today?
- ▶ 37:09 Eric Glyman Founders Fund, and like, all these people are talking about Miami. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
- ▶ 26:05 Justin Fishner-Wolfson Go or Miami or Chicago, right?
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 38:53 Harry Stebbings We've seen Miami rise like never before.
20VC: Cameo's Steven Galanis on Why You Must Fall In Love With Your Mission Not Your Product, How To Extract As Much Value From Your Investor Base As Possible & Should You Really Hire For 6 Months Ahead of What You Need?
- ▶ 23:21 Steven Galanis The first real week that we spent working on this full time, we hired a branding firm out of Miami called vanilla shake and vanilla shake put us through this full branding exercise where we were doing name and category creation.
20VC: Brex Founder Henrique Dubugras on Why Being Mission Driven Is Not The Only Way To Build A Massive Business, Why You Should Not Associate Fundraising with The Cash Needs of Your Business & Why You Don't Have To Follow Startup Theory When It Comes To
- ▶ 3:42 Henrique Dubugras And then, you know, in December, I went to this hackathon in Miami that was worth like 50,000 dollars.
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 11:05 Chris Douvos The South France, or Miami,
20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
- ▶ 14:25 Matt Lerner We have distro dojos here in Asia, in Miami.