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Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 23, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 43:27 Chris Degnan I think that, I think the best board member that I've ever seen, um, is, is Mike Speiser. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:18:23 Chad Peets I was trained by Mike Spizer to do the operational ship, but the reality is I've never sat in the seat. 4 times in the scene

20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets Jan 9, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 7:30 Chad Peets Uh, Mike Speiser obviously is one of my mentors. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:40 Chad Peets Again, when you, you've asked me about people that I work with, it's identifying people quickly that are like-minded, that value the same things that I value, and learning that there's not many of them in the world, the Mike Spizers of the…

20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:35 unnamed speaker As Mike has said to me, look, you're, you're all about saving time and being effective when you deliver messages, which is correct.

20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan Oct 10, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 8:13 Chris Degnan I think when I joined Snowflake, Mike Spicer was, was recruiting me, but Mike didn't know sales. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:40 Chris Degnan Because for the first two years, I didn't get any revenue, and as a salesperson, who you are, is like, you're supposed to bring revenue to the company, and so there were pivotal moments where, like, I would get customers to use the… 2 times in the scene

Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 16, 2024 · 1 mention

Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 23, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 43:58 Chad Peets As Mike has said to me, look, you're, you're all about saving time and being effective when you deliver messaging, which is correct.
  • ▶ 1:06:45 Chad Peets Um, you know, Mike has helped me a lot, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:45 Harry Stebbings I knew when Degnan and Spicer said what they did, it would be a special one.

Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 10, 2023 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 6:47 Chris Degnan So there's a, a venture capitalist by the name of Mike Speiser from Sutter Hill. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:33 Chris Degnan Mike Speiser was like, for two years, you're not selling a thing. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:47 Chris Degnan And if you're open to that, whether you're the head of sales, like Mike Spicer didn't hire me to be the chief revenue officer of Snowflake. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:39 Chris Degnan What was incredibly helpful is having John McMahon on the board of Snowflake, because when Mike Spiser came in to Bob and said, Hey, you're going to go hire someone over Chris.

Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 10, 2022 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 18:25 Brad Gerstner When I took a walk in a park with Mike Speiser, and we talked for 70 minutes about a number of things, and I had known Mike since business school. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:20 Brad Gerstner And I remember Mike called me maybe six months after we made the investment. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:53 Brad Gerstner Is Mike Spicer and, you know, and Bob Muglia going to do that deal with Altimeter, or are they going to do it with a hundred billion dollar fund, um, or a ten billion dollar fund that can't have the impact that doesn't stand in our shoes?

20VC: 3 Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Scaling, Management 101 on Trust Building, Morale Maintenance and Hiring & What We Can Learn About Parenting From Nature Programs with Scott Dietzen Feb 28, 2022 · 3 mentions

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on How To Narrow The Focus and Increase The Quality | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 25, 2022 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many good things from Doug at Square and Mike at Sutter Hill, so thank you so much for joining me today.
  • ▶ 2:05 Frank Slootman Well, I was on the board of pure storage with, uh, with, with Mike Speiser for, uh, many years. 5 times in the scene
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