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Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:33 Mike Mignano Um, I was really fortunate at Lightspeed to, uh, collaborate closely with, uh, Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross before they, they went over to Meta, and 4 times in the scene
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:28 Mitchell Green Nat Friedman. 2 times in the scene
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:16 unnamed speaker Um, you know, Nat and Daniel have a venture fund.
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:48 David George Best would be, you know, we, we, we partnered a lot with Nat and Daniel when they were still on the field.
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:21 Harry Stebbings And then in June, you raised like, nineteen million dollars from Brian, Kim, and Andreessen, and then Nat and Daniel from, um, the, I can't remember what it's called, NDFG or something? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:09 Harry Stebbings You've got Andreessen introducing you to celebrities, and you've got Nat and Daniel, two of the brightest minds in AI, who are querying APIs that no one else does.
- ▶ 1:11:12 Mati Staniszewski But investors do, and some of our engineers or users, uh, really, really admire and trust Nat, and I do too, so he's great.
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:01 Harry Stebbings Nat Friedman reporting to Alex Wang after not a huge amount of time. 8 times in the scene
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:48 Jason Lemkin With Alex Wang and Nat Friedman and team, it is completely blown up, right?
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07 Harry Stebbings You said about Daniel and Nat joining Meta, and you said the wild story of NFDG, two Silicon Valley legends, built a 1.1 billion dollar fund, forexed it in two years, and then abandoned it all for Meta this week, which is bluntly what we… 5 times in the scene
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Now, uh, I was looking at where we're going to start, and me and Rory, we were texting saying that this is a good start when it was coming out, and it was about Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, and potentially being acquired by Facebook, or…
- ▶ 9:33 Harry Stebbings There's layers of talent acquisition value, which is your scales with your fourteen billion and your Nat and Daniel and your mirrors.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:24 Harry Stebbings Like, in SF, I'm competing against Peter Fenton, Marc Andreessen, Vinor Kostler, Eli Gill, the Collisons, Daniel and Nat Friedman.
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:57 Mike Krieger I think, especially on the consumer front, um, you know, I was just reading, uh, Ben Thompson, you know, he has Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross on there pretty often, and they're talking about some people being Claude people and some people…
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:36 Sridhar Ramaswamy I mean, with a bubble bursting, as all bubbles do, uh, there's like this super, um, funny conversation and, you know, insightful conversation that, uh, um, Ben Thompson from Stratechery had with, uh, uh, Nat Friedman, uh, where they talk…
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:58 Vince Hankes I don't know him personally, but Nat Friedman, uh, who's now focused a lot on AI 4 times in the scene
20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings David has raised over sixty-nine million dollars with Retool from some of the very best in startups, including Sequoia, YC, Patrick and John from Stripe, Henrique and Pedro at Brex, Paul Graham, Nat at GitHub,
20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
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
- ▶ 31:51 Rahul Vohra And alongside that, we have about a 120 different angels, everyone from, you know, Sam Altman, from YC, through to John Carlson, from Stripe, through to Nat Friedman, the CEO of GitHub, just like incredible folks of that caliber involved.