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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It Sep 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:35 Cliff Weitzman And the analogy my brother and I came up with is imagine you're Michael Jordan, and you want to be in the NBA.

OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:17:30 Matan Grinberg But I think that the idea there is like, we are optimizing for output and the people that we are bringing onto the team, it's like seal team six, like the NBA all-stars, like it is worth every dollar to make them more productive. 2 times in the scene

Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 6, 2026 · 1 mention

Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:20 Jake Paul Why would I watch, you know, the NBA when, like, this game I made for myself has all my favorite things in it, and friends, and storytelling, and I made my own World of Warcraft or Minecraft in a day.

20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf Dec 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:17 Gérald Marolf And I think Jordan is interesting because it is at this point pure nostalgia, and we all have loved what the NBA was in the nineties.

20Sales: Sierra: Inside Silicon Valley's Fastest Growing Sales Machine & How to Prospect, Outbound and Close Enterprise Deals in AI May 2, 2025 · 1 mention

Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:48 Elias Torres And so that, I worked with, you know, Red Bull, Ticketmaster, the NBA, Klaviyo, I mean, that's kind of where the idea for, for agency.

AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 23, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:08:18 AJ Tennant but, like, there's, there's players that have made it to the NBA that, like, they were, you know, that, I don't know, what's a good example, like, Nate, uh, Nash, Steve Nash. 2 times in the scene

Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 7, 2024 · 4 mentions

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

Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:29 Dan Siroker Um, and so that's, you know, the same way that you'd rather get, you know, an NBA player, you know, who's in the prime, not somebody who's on their way out of their career.

Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 10, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:46 Kevin Ryan And my answer is, does anyone ask a really good NBA player who's 32, and who's made a ton of money, why are you still playing basketball?

Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 5, 2024 · 1 mention

Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:19:18 Justin Ishbia Now, on the court, it's fierce competition, but at the end of the day, like, in the NBA, we're all a business partnership, and guess who we're competing against?

Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 8, 2024 · 1 mention

Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:39 Keith Rabois If you're going to be an NFL player, NBA basketball player, and, uh, you know, major league baseball pitcher, the idea of taking time off in your twenties would be literally insane.

Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 17, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:42 Sheel Mohnot And then like, all of a sudden, everyone canceled all the meetings, COVID started, the NBA shut down, like everything happened.

Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 9, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:19:19 Harry Stebbings You see that with a lot of, uh, but the fundraisers that we've seen over the last few years, you know, but neither feed a carry model makes it incredibly profitable as a business to the point where you can make NBA player salaries as a GP… 2 times in the scene

Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 22, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:06 Mike Krieger Um, uh, you know, I love, but then I also love like NFL, NBA, you know, startups, San Francisco news, architecture, man, there is something interesting going on in multiple ones of those categories every single day.

Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 11, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 40:50 Steve Pagliuca Uh, the NBA has a fantastic partnership with the players, where the players are, are guaranteed half the revenues, and the owners get half the revenues.
  • ▶ 47:32 Steve Pagliuca Kevin Garnett was one of the best players in the history of the NBA, so we said, we said, Al, you know, we have an opportunity, they want young players, Kevin Garnett wants to come here, so it's an honor for you to be traded for one of the… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 55:07 Steve Pagliuca The Celtics will win the NBA championship.

Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 26, 2022 · 1 mention

Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar: Why the Best Marketers Think Like VCs | 20VC w/ Harry Stebbings #930 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 28, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:57 Kipp Bodnar I love Peloton, but you know, whether it be basketball, football, like, so for example, in the NFL and the NBA in the US, there are some teams that have, have a person who is both the coach and the general manager.

dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich: The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | 20VC #926 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 16, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 28:56 Sebastian Kanovich It's something I, I watch a lot of NBA, and the best NBA players are typically the ones that don't think, they act, and you can, you can see that everything is very natural. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:43 Sebastian Kanovich I want to be an NBA GM. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital Sep 20, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:03 Hans Tung Even though it's from seems like Japan and NBA seems far away from each other.

20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today Aug 30, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:56 Marcelo Claure I always tell the story that imagine if you're the last team on the NBA, and it's just hard to show up to work knowing that you're going to lose and

20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr Jul 13, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood May 4, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Following the acquisition in 2000, Mark acquired the Dallas Mavericks, where since his taking over, they've competed in the NBA finals for the first time in franchise history in 2006, and becoming NBA world champions in 2011. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam Mar 17, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:09 Kevin Chou Whereas if you go ask people who their favorite NFL player is, their favorite NBA player is, their favorite baseball players, you can find five million people who really love a specific player and follow that player or team for a very long…

20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP Feb 6, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:07 Jules Maltz Basically built a SaaS business out of what was originally a paper call advertising product, and John Donham at TuneIn has built an amazing premium subscription at TuneIn with exclusive NFL, Major League Baseball, NBA content from a…

20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund Jan 16, 2017 · 1 mention

20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures Nov 2, 2016 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:12 Clinton Foy If you look at what happened in the NBA back in the early 19 eighties, you saw teams like the Los Angeles Clippers get bought for eleven million dollars by Donald Sterling. 3 times in the scene
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