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Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Former NASA rocket scientist who worked on Mars missions before founding the energy company that is Bloom.
Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:28 Amjad Masad If I'm writing, like, mission-critical software for self-driving cars or, or a NASA or SpaceX mission, I think there's always going to be a need for some kind of IDE.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:40 unnamed speaker It is worth pointing out in, in 1970, they just stopped funding NASA like crazy because of the crash.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 1:19:45 unnamed speaker I hope sort of Elon's success in showing the world that you don't need to be NASA to build rockets.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:19 Jonathan Ross And, um, even more so, you know, that, uh, story about how NASA spent a million dollars designing a pen that could write in space and the Russians brought a pencil.
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:23 Harry Stebbings I heard that you built lasers, you cold-cooled NASA. 4 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:19 Delian Asparouhov I don't think that Elon Musk went around, you know, interviewing consumers about whether or not they wanted electric vehicles when he decided to go build Tesla, or, you know, asked NASA whether they want, you know, sort of cheaper and…
Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:37 Joe Lonsdale When Elon's starting SpaceX, he's competing against like a decadent broken government department that is not the NASA of the sixties, right?
Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:51 Bob Pittman When he announced he was going to put a man on the moon in the early sixties, he had not told NASA. 3 times in the scene
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:48 Oana Olteanu At 18, I won this grand prize in a contest organized by NASA, and that was the first time for me on a plane. 3 times in the scene
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:04 Gustav Söderström This is what NASA has done forever.
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 18:16 Steve Jurvetson Like in the case of SpaceX, they actually had a rocket finally succeed after we invested and that changed everything in their relationship with NASA and contracts that they had.
20VC: The Most Successful Companies Are Not Where Employees Work The Most, How To Know When To Promote From Below Or Bring in External Candidates & Why It Is A Unique Advantage To Be Building A Company Outside A Tech Hub with Rick Nucci, Founder & CEO @ G
- ▶ 2:41 Harry Stebbings That's why companies like Nike, Google, NASA, and Salesforce have already chosen Room to build a better workplace, and Room offers free shipping and the best
- ▶ 40:39 Harry Stebbings That's why companies like Nike, Google, NASA, and Salesforce have already chosen Room to build a better workplace, and Room offers free shipping and the best price on the market, so go to room.com slash two zero VC to learn more.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 2:55 Harry Stebbings That's why companies like Nike, Google, NASA, and Salesforce have already chosen Room to build a better workplace.
- ▶ 57:00 Harry Stebbings That's why companies like Nike, Google, NASA, and Salesforce have already chosen Room to build a better workplace, and Room offers free shipping and the best price on the market, so go to room.com slash two zero VC to learn more.
20VC: Inside The Acquisition Decision-Making Process at Cisco, How To Measure True Success in M&A Evaluation & Why By Not Speaking To Corp Dev Teams You Are Closing The Door On The Biggest Potential Accelerator To Your Business with Rob Salvagno, VP of Co
- ▶ 2:46 Harry Stebbings That's why companies like Nike, Google, NASA, and Salesforce have already chosen Room to build a better workplace, and Room offers free shipping and the best price on the market, so go to room.com slash two zero VC to learn more.
- ▶ 45:16 Harry Stebbings That's why companies like Nike, Google, NASA, and Salesforce have already chosen Room to build a better workplace, and Room offers free shipping and the best price on the market, so go to room.com slash two zero VC to learn more.
20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- ▶ 2:32 Harry Stebbings That's why companies like Nike, Google, NASA, and Salesforce have already chosen Room to build a better workplace, and Room offers free shipping and the best
- ▶ 33:28 Harry Stebbings That's why companies like Nike, Google, NASA, and Salesforce have already chosen Room to build a better workplace, and Room offers free shipping and the best price on the market, so go to room.com slash two zero VC to learn more.
20VC: Why Pre-Product Market Fit Is About Systems Design Not Engineering, The Right Way For Leaders To Approach Wartime Leadership Today & A Guide To Recruitment Forward Planning with Ryan Denehy, Founder & CEO @ Electric
- ▶ 8:03 Ryan Denehy Kind of like NASA in the sixties trying to launch a monkey into outer space.
20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
- ▶ 5:35 Alex Rodrigues One of the top teams here in California is mentored by a bunch of the NASA engineers, and then they have these engineers running the teams and kids who come in and do the, do the bulk
20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund
- ▶ 42:19 Ron Bouganim I'm talking about like, you need to refactor code that NASA uses for
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 24:21 Daniel Gross Of a plant on Mars, and Elon was going to find some Russian rockets to just send a bunch of stuff to Mars, cameras, take a photo, shut the company down, but hopefully increase NASA's budget.
20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings I mean, he's literally an ex-rocket scientist with NASA.
- ▶ 2:44 Frank Mycroft I loved NASA and the vision of going back to the moon or going to Mars.
20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24
- ▶ 27:00 Brian Wong He worked at NASA when he graduated as a rocket scientist.
20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing
- ▶ 24:32 Fabrice Grinda It's basically a former NASA physicist who's asked ludicrous questions