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Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 1:08:02 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, you know, the Netscape browser wasn't that early on.
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:14 unnamed speaker I mean, who would have, we got to get Marc Andre, I mean, the fact that we still live in the era of Netscape in so many ways.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:53 Harry Stebbings Speaking of declining 30% and being in the hole, we touched on it earlier, but obviously Mythos leak hammered cyber stocks, uh, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Zscaler all down six percent, Octon, Netscape down seven percent, Tenable down nine…
Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:45 Eran Zinman Um, you know, Yahoo and Netscape gonna suck all the value from the internet revolution, and we know nothing.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:32 Hussein Kanji The Yahoo's, the Netscapes, they went away.
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:11 David Frankel Tesla, I don't know, look at Netscape, right?
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:19 Harry Stebbings There's a brilliant stat, which is like, in the two years following the founding of Netscape, only one percent of internet enterprise value was created.
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:20 Harry Stebbings Chase Coleman had an interesting kind of stat, and it was in the two years subsequent the founding of Netscape, one percent of the value, enterprise value of internet companies was created. 2 times in the scene
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:28 Kaz Nejatian Kind of, like, Netscape? 2 times in the scene
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:05 Danny Rimer And then at the beginning of the internet, literally the first company of import was Netscape. 3 times in the scene
Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:44 Matt Lerner I mean, 2009 mobile apps, you know, and Airbnb, and Uber, and Stripe, and like so many amazing companies were getting born, so that was a huge one, and then yeah, certainly dot com, one dot o, wherever like people were first building these…
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:02 Harry Stebbings I was like, I always heard about Netscape in 95, and I'm like, fuck, yeah, negative one.
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:38 David Clark I remember we got a stock distribution, uh, of, of Netscape, um, and, and it was my job to figure out what we were going to do with stock distributions. 2 times in the scene
Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:01 Peter Wagner Like, if you remember, you know, those days, you know, joining in 96 and, and working in the late nineties, I mean, the internet boom was on, you know, the Netscape IPO had happened, uh, and, uh,
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:06 Frank Quattrone And so when Netscape came along, they thought this was the next platform. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:16 unnamed speaker In a, uh, in a research analyst, and we left Morgan Stanley, and I thought for sure Mary Meeker, who I had recruited to Morgan Stanley as our PC software and hardware analyst, and ultimately became our internet analyst when we did deals…
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:49 Miles Grimshaw You know, if you think back to Salesforce disrupting Siebel, Salesforce launched like five years after Netscape launched.
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:58 Scott Farquhar Escape and Google and eBay and PayPal and so forth.
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:32 Miles Grimshaw You know, if you think back to Salesforce disrupting Siebel, Salesforce launched like five years after Netscape launched.
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30 Vinod Khosla Uh, when the internet really took off, and, uh, I remember investing, uh, meeting Mark in recent to invest in Netscape, the browser company, on a Saturday morning, uh, in Mountain View, um, when it was three people.
- ▶ 41:16 Harry Stebbings What was Marc like back in those early, early days when you backed him with Netscape? 2 times in the scene
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:51 Hadi Partovi And when I was 26, I think, I quit Microsoft to, to start my own startup, Tell Me Networks, with my former enemies from Netscape.
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:50 Marty Cagan Um, my lucky break happened, actually, because, ah, I had done all these products for developers, and as you know, Netscape was really the original internet company, and, ah, I got to work for Marc Andreessen. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:17 Marty Cagan A lot of the early startups were getting going, and a lot of the people either came from Netscape, or they came from eBay, or they came from PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:08 Brad Gerstner I had just seen the Netscape browser.
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:12 Julio Vasconcellos It's that story of Netscape and Jim Clark.
How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:25 John Doerr This is the way I see the Netscape venture, Jim Barksdale, and it won't run out of money, and it could well change the world.
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 4:27 Anton Levy So I double majored in both computer science and went to our undergraduate business school where I was, took a number of finance classes, and I had some incredible finance professors, and so I started to see some of the parallels and… 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
- ▶ 3:53 Hans Tung 93 is a special year, as everyone knows, the launch of the Netscape browser. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:39 Harry Stebbings I have to ask that you mentioned that kind of seeing that and being there, seeing the Netscape IPO.
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 3:54 Mike Lazerow So Netscape and Yahoo and all these companies took off
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings First as SVP of Corporate Development and Chief of Staff to the CEO, and then as General Manager of Netscape.
20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- ▶ 43:22 George Zachary The most memorable board member was someone named Jim Clark, who's the founder of Silicon Graphics, co-founder of Netscape with Marc Andreessen, and several other companies.
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
- ▶ 21:15 Steve Jurvetson So just like Netscape was for the internet, SpaceX was for space, Tesla was for electric vehicles and autonomy.
20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
- ▶ 4:12 Ravi Viswanathan And I got to meet new friends that were working at these crazy companies called Netscape and whatnot.
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
- ▶ 3:57 Rob Salvagno Now, what happened is early in my days at Stanford, the internet boom happened, and Netscape actually went public when I was in my early years at the school, and so what I realized is technology is really where I wanted to be, and I was at…
20VC: a16z's Scott Kupor on The Biggest Learnings From Scaling a16z from $300m to $7Bn AUM, The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching VCs & Why VC Is Simply A Customer Service Business
- ▶ 8:18 Scott Kupor The second thing is just pure market sizing, which is obvious, but you know, you've probably heard the story from Mark, but when they sold Netscape to AOL in 2008, I think the total size of the internet population was under a hundred…
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on The Strategy Behind The New $600m "Back To The Future" Fund, The Truth To Price Sensitivity at Series A & Why Venture Team Building Is Like Basketball Team Building
- ▶ 3:54 Mamoon Hamid We just graduated college as an engineer, and I'd taken my first job at a company called Xilinx, working as a FPGA designer, and I looked around my office or my cubicle, and I had a Sun workstation, and I was using this thing called… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings And before Lightspeed, Jeremy was with AOL, first as SVP of Corporate Development, and Chief of Staff to the CEO, and then as General Manager of Netscape.
- ▶ 4:00 Jeremy Liew Back in 2006, there were not that many people who were focused on the consumer world, and I'd spent the first 10 years of my career working for a variety of Web one point O companies, Netscape, AOL, and so forth, and so when there was…
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 4:35 Jeff Richards And then, you know, as the internet was starting to take off, Amazon had gone public, Netscape had gone public.
20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Before that, even cooler, Frank was director of product management at Netscape, where he led a cross-functional team that defined, shipped, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:39 Frank Chen Yeah, so two big things from my experience, and this is sort of Netscape and Loud Cloud and Optware, which is, one, it is a lot harder to build a business than it looks from the outside, and when you read the hard thing about hard things,…
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 6:07 Danny Rimer And then was an internet analyst for the first wave of the internet, so from 94 to 99, and I had all buys on all my universe of stocks, so we took Amazon public, and we took Netscape public, and we took Lycos and VeriSign and all these…
20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
- ▶ 21:42 Avichal Garg One of the things that the Netscape team did really, really well, Mark Andreessen and co was they made a very strong case that actually encryption is really important for things like e-commerce because you don't want your credit card…
20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- ▶ 3:43 Kevin Thau So it was a perfect time to be jumping in right in the middle of Netscape and internet and the web.
20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- ▶ 25:55 Brian Armstrong It's kind of like the Netscape moment, if you will, for digital currency, and that we've made it dramatically easier for people to use digital currency apps and for developers to build them.
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings But previously, Jonathan was also the founder and CEO of Socializer, Friendster, and Hotlinks, and he was a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nautil.
- ▶ 2:55 Jonathan Abrams And then I, uh, moved to Silicon Valley to work at Netscape, uh, which was a pretty exciting company, um, and had a lot of ups and downs, giving me a sneak peek into a lot of other things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:46 Harry Stebbings But I want to talk then first, let's start off with Netscape. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:16 Jonathan Abrams Uh, I met him, I think he was actually at a different VC firm, uh, when I was just working at Netscape and trying to learn about how that stuff worked.
- ▶ 20:34 Jonathan Abrams So Jerry Kaplan is an entrepreneur who started a few companies, and he started a company called Go that was sort of like an iPad, but 1015 years too early, and this was, you know, probably even before Netscape, because actually I think…
FF 012: Acquired by Microsoft for $200m with Javier Soltero @ Microsoft
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings And before making his move into the world of entrepreneurship, Javier began his career at none other than Marc Andreessen's Netscape as a software engineer.
- ▶ 1:40 Javier Soltero Uh, out of university was at, uh, at Netscape, which is kind of interesting given where I work now. 4 times in the scene
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 44:27 Jason Calacanis You know, it could be the Mosaic browser, or it could be the Netscape browser, where, like, you know, the web is super important, and the Netscape browser, you know, and Mosaic browser, and what Mark Andreessen did there was super… 2 times in the scene