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Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek Aug 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:26:50 Harry Stebbings The worst is, nah, for or against, Nike or Adidas, Apple or Mac, Apple or Windows, you feel something.

Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:27 Aravind Srinivas That's something far more efficient that can run on, on, on people's local devices, you know, MacBooks, their Windows PCs.

Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 2, 2026 · 1 mention

OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 21, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08:54 unnamed speaker And that's a lot, you know, I mean, the office windows offices, I used to know the 50, sixty billion, but, um, yeah, it's a, it's a big flood of revenue.

Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:08 Mike Cannon-Brookes If you look back to Adobe or Intuit, well, they had to navigate DOS, to client server, to Windows, to the internet, to mobile, to all these things.

OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2025 · 2 mentions

Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 22, 2025 · 1 mention

Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 12, 2025 · 1 mention

Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2024 · 2 mentions

Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:08 Andrew Bialecki I always thought about, you know, Windows and their applications, you know, so Bill Gates, uh, or there's a lot of great folks at Microsoft.

Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2024 · 1 mention

Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 27, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:38 Chris Dixon You didn't care if you got Compaq or Dell as long as you had Windows and Office, right?

Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:37 Tomasz Tunguz I think the analogy of Apple and Linux is really useful here, or Apple and Windows, where you'll have a, one system that is basically fully integrated and closed, and then you'll have another world where people are, are building little, I…

Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 8, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:14 Glen Coates Bing's dead, and like they've literally got nothing to lose, and they've got a business that is completely defensible in other revenue streams like Office and Windows, and all the other stuff they do.

Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 7, 2022 · 1 mention

David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 21, 2022 · 1 mention

Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 6, 2022 · 4 mentions

20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation Jul 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:38 Krista Quarles So like running windows on a Mac or our remote application start, we've got all these sub brands.

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 Feb 15, 2021 · 2 mentions

20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst Dec 28, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour Nov 16, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:26 Stewart Butterfield That's really ingrained, and I tried to explain this to people as the way that you approach Minesweeper, And now we're getting to a world where fewer and fewer people are familiar with Minesweeper, the classic Windows game, but for those…

20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda Sep 25, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:23 Shishir Mehrotra I worked on Office, Windows, and then SQL Server, a wide variety of different projects in lots of different spaces.
  • ▶ 43:21 Shishir Mehrotra I sometimes describe founders in two ways, people that like to create products and people like to create platforms, and I've had the pleasure of having worked on some of the biggest platforms out there, whether it's YouTube or Windows or…

20VC: Why Most The Value In Crypto Will Accrue in Governance, When Institutional Capital Will Enter The Space and How To Think About Liquidity In Crypto with Joel Monegro, Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC Jul 2, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:33 Joel Monegro And if you think about Microsoft's business model at the time, it was almost 100% based on proprietary software combined with proprietary distribution, proprietary software, largely meaning a proprietary operating system that Windows that…

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 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:27 Alex Rampell But I got a Mac, and this was, I was born in 1981, so I got a Mac probably in the late eighties, maybe 1987, 1988, and all of the software out there was for Windows.
  • ▶ 9:19 Alex Rampell All these things were focused on Microsoft and their Windows monopoly, but you didn't really talk about like five other monopolies back then.

20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market Sep 18, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:56 Mike Volpi And many of those still run good old-fashioned on-premise software running on Windows or DOS or something like that.

20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners Nov 28, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:56 Rory O'Driscoll Well, you know, Windows, the operating system is a 15 or twenty billion dollar a year business. 2 times in the scene

20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming Feb 19, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:47 Niccolo De Masi And a lot of people in Silicon Valley thought that I was out there in 2010 believing that there would be more than the iPhone because they wrongly believed that like the PC went all Windows, phones would go all iOS.

20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:40 Keith Teare It wasn't really for consumers at all, and, um, the experience was DOS-based, so there was no Windows internet, it was all DOS. 3 times in the scene
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