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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 36:16 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, it was really sweet that they even built a PowerPoint.
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:13 Ryan Petersen But there's gonna be a big category where you take, like, one of the things I'm having our procurement team doing is make the PowerPoint case study of the one, of the SaaS that we did replace, and how we did it, and how long it took.
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:37 unnamed speaker Is that which would you prefer crank for the next two hours on a PowerPoint or, you know, to get it just right or type it into, you know, Claude and say, make me a PowerPoint that does this, this and this, right? 2 times in the scene
The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:33 Gokul Rajaram You would never assume, why would you ever buy a PowerPoint thing or a presentation thing separately?
- ▶ 39:26 Gokul Rajaram I don't know why Gamma would not create a, just like they've, they've taken their riff on PowerPoint, why can't they have their own take on documents or slides the same way?
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:19 unnamed speaker The idea is, is that if you're building PowerPoint, if you're. 3 times in the scene
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:28 Jason Lemkin Folks talk about it as like an AI PowerPoint, but they missed the point. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:11 Jason Lemkin Not just make me PowerPoint, not just, you know, oh, Gamma's the PowerPoint for AI. 2 times in the scene
Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:43 Rory O'Driscoll You just, I don't want opinions from people who just saw it on PowerPoint.
20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- ▶ 20:21 Max Junestrand And I spent like eight weeks at McKinsey and not, not enough to be sort of indoctrinated, but good enough to be dangerous in PowerPoint.
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
- ▶ 6:24 Peter Rahal And so instead of raising money, I went to PowerPoint, which at the time, that's all I knew to like design the labels.
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:55 Rory O'Driscoll There ain't 10 versions of PowerPoint in 20, 25.
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:09 Jason Lemkin That's a lot of, that's maybe the strongest, like PowerPoint argument that ChatGPT is underrated, right?
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:10 Rory O'Driscoll PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:59 Peter Singlehurst I mean, if you were to see one of these, they look, I mean, we don't use PowerPoint.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:42 Fabien Pinckaers Uh, everybody uses the same Word and Excel and Slides and PowerPoint and everything.
- ▶ 58:41 Fabien Pinckaers Um, I prefer to work on the product, uh, improve the marketing department or the salespeople rather than writing PowerPoint.
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:28 Victor Riparbelli I went out to the world with a great PowerPoint deck, uh, and we think a great vision, but, um, I think understandably most people thought we were pretty crazy, right?
- ▶ 31:32 Victor Riparbelli We give you a great editor, like using PowerPoint or Canva.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:33 Matt Grimm So like if we have an idea of a new capability, a new type of missile, a new type of drone, a new type of submarine, like we can just go do that and then show them and then show them and then say beyond just like, oh, Hey, here's a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:13 Matt Grimm Uh, so if you've spent any time around lawyers or accountants or, uh, you know, folks of that type that bill by the hour, so what happens on these large defense procurements is that one of these prime contractors will come in and they will… 2 times in the scene
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:39 Jeff Wang And so what we did, we pulled together a 50 page PowerPoint strategy presentation, and I had to sit down in front of the partnership in the main, in the Menlo Park office, in the main Ford conference room, in the hot seat for founders and…
- ▶ 1:05:25 Jeff Wang So everyone else, myself included, would come in with these long PowerPoint presentations.
Aman Narang: 5 Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | E1192 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:23 Aman Narang At the end of the day, fundamentally back to like, you know, it's not a business strategy, like any strategy you want, you put PowerPoint together and Excel spreadsheet together as it says, you know, here's a business model.
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:28 Kaz Nejatian We don't sell PowerPoint wear at Shopify. 2 times in the scene
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:37 Val Scholz Even if they don't spend anything anymore, even if they don't improve anything anymore, because like for nearly everything you're going to search around marketing, graphic design, PowerPoint presentations, like Canva's the number one spot.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:29 Kevin Ryan Because obviously one guy shows up right now with a PowerPoint, there's just a person in a PowerPoint.
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:48 Chris Dixon They're doing bureaucratic, you know, PowerPoints, arguing over politics.
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:25 Roger Ehrenberg We literally committed on the basis of a PowerPoint.
Geoff Charles: How To Hire Product Teams & Increase Product Velocity | E1091 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Geoff Charles Then I got kind of bored of PowerPoint presentations.
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:22 Harry Stebbings And my thinking more and more is, incumbents who are fast moving, like Microsoft who are incorporating, you know, into PowerPoint, like Adobe who are incorporating into all of their suite of products, they will take 90% of the gains,…
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:13 Vince Hankes They've shipped AI in Bing, AI in PowerPoint.
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22 Tristan Handy Like you could just sit down and do the work and not make PowerPoint slides about doing the work.
dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich: The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | 20VC #926 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:56 Sebastian Kanovich Not only that they sign up PowerPoint or a presentation of how the solution should look, that's not high performance.
20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Best vs the Worst | How Often Should They Be | Who Should Be Invited | Who Sets The Agenda | How to do Follow-Ups Post Product Reviews
- ▶ 1:50 Scott Belsky The first thing is, you know, I deeply, deeply believe in the fact that a prototype is worth a hundred meetings, and if you can have a discussion around a PowerPoint with bullet points and stuff, I mean, you're gonna miss so much
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:08 Henri Pierre-Jacques So first it's in PowerPoint, not Word, because I don't believe in Word docs.
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- ▶ 17:26 David Friedberg The scientists, the academics, the engineers, the researchers that we primarily start businesses with are not out there going up and down Sand Hill Road with PowerPoints with their crazy idea.
20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team, 3 Questions All Great Product Leaders Ask, How To Structure and Run Effective Product Reviews & Is Product More Art or Science?
- ▶ 11:31 Scott Belsky And if you can have a discussion around a PowerPoint with bullet points and stuff, I mean, you're going to miss so much.
20VC: The Contentful Memo: Point Nine's Christoph Janz on The Cold Email That Led to a Unicorn Investment, How To Approach Market Sizing and Timing & The Pros and Cons of Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Do Them vs When Not To?
- ▶ 20:56 Christoph Janz I guess, to a certain extent, that's still true, but at the same time, so many companies raise what you previously would have called a Series A on the basis of a PowerPoint presentation.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 9:02 Eugene Wei The reason Amazon moved to the six-page memo process was in part because they felt like PowerPoint and the prevalence of PowerPoint in meetings gave too much power to charismatic speakers.
20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
- ▶ 19:44 George Kurtz So when you don't have a product, you got a PowerPoint, right?
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 41:51 Anton Levy Adam, the founder would kick me for saying this, but it's a souped up version, sort of PowerPoint for e-learning.
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- ▶ 20:59 Peter Fenton We didn't sit through PowerPoint slides, and I've talked about the
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- ▶ 13:07 Todd McKinnon I, you know, I made this PowerPoint and, and I kind of argued my case. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
- ▶ 3:02 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you make your way into the world of startups, and how did you most recently come to found the game changer that makes even, like, terrible PowerPoint users like me great at PowerPoints with pitch? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:35 Christian Reber But the money we kind of need, if you think about it, we have to build the next generation of PowerPoint, which is hard on its own, but then we kind of integrate something like Docsend and SlideShare right into the product, so we built…
- ▶ 23:28 Christian Reber So I think I developed over time a pretty good sense for how software is evolving, how hardware is evolving, and I'm, I think as a founder, I'm just trying to identify an upcoming trend, like the rewrite of the office suite, for example,…
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 21:09 unnamed speaker It seemed to be driven by PowerPoint presentations.
20VC: Khosla Ventures Founding Partner, Samir Kaul on Why Pro Rata Is A Cop Out, Why He Likes Technical Risk and Does Not Take Market Risk & How To Approach Time Allocation Across The Portfolio In Venture
- ▶ 14:39 Samir Kaul It was Jack and Jim in a PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 18:26 Ash Fontana They could be running the machine learning model and delivering the results to customers in like an Excel sheet or PowerPoint presentation.
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 5:37 unnamed speaker And when you talk about cutting expenses or changing things in a PowerPoint, there's a real human impact of those elements, and you might be having to replace somebody who is a longtime member of your team, or there might be some nuance…
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 12:08 Bill Gurley So we're frequently meeting with two people on a PowerPoint talking about an industry.
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 24:20 Frederic Kerrest So our PowerPoints were terrible.
20VC: One Question Founders Must Ask Themselves When Approaching Investor Selection, Why Series B Is One Of The Most Challenging Phases & What Makes For A Successful CEO Transition with Jeff Russakow, CEO @ Boosted
- ▶ 21:35 Jeff Russakow It could be 40 to 60% made, and you have a great PowerPoint, and so you don't need this painful year and all this capital to launch the product, but then you've got to sell the product, and now you can be in sales cycles that are nine
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 6:42 Rahul Vohra So, you know, no team, no prototype, no traction, just a concept, and one slide of PowerPoint to raise that money.
20VC: YC's Ali Rowghani on Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull and Jack Dorsey & The 3 Traits All Truly Successful Leaders Share
- ▶ 8:23 Ali Rowghani And so, I started to sort of polish my PowerPoint presentation in preparation for Steve. 8 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 24:42 Peter Fenton It's tragic that most of the board meetings that are practiced in the Silicon Valley involve over 10 PowerPoint slides. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How Both Founders & GPs Should Construct Their Pitch, Why VCs Are Eternal Optimists & What Makes The Best Post-Investment VC/Founder Relationship with Brian Ascher, Partner @ Venrock
- ▶ 6:19 Brian Ascher They're not only useful for fundraising, but the PowerPoint deck has become the de facto business plan.
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 13:01 Josh Stein We realized that businesses were using it for sharing things like PowerPoint, Excel documents, and that was the genesis of this pivot to the enterprise.
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 11:38 Harry Stebbings Yeah, it seemed like two years ago, Ben Evans did the, the PowerPoint on the phone being the sun, you know, central to our ecosystem, and now we're saying, when's it leaving?
20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
- ▶ 7:27 Charlie O'Donnell I've funded PowerPoints.