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Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:30 Marc Andreessen I mean, the most straightforward example is the deal we didn't do, we should have done, is the Andrewle Series A, um, right, which was like, which was just, like, sort of obvious that it was gonna be special, and, you know, Palmer, we had…
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:28 Johannes Reck So TalkSpark Capital, our Series A lead, you know, the deal after Get Your Guide was Oculus Rift, right?
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:11 Jiaona Zhang I think that when Zuck first bought Oculus, I was like, huh? 2 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:42 Des Traynor and it's Oculus. 2 times in the scene
Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:04 Hugo Barra After four years in Asia, I came back to the U S and accepted, um, an invite from Mark Zuckerberg to, to run the Oculus team inside of Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:36 Hugo Barra At, at Meta or Oculus, um,
- ▶ 15:05 Hugo Barra Um, and which is how I learned this the hard way, was, um, after I, you know, I called a strategy meeting from my leadership at Oculus on a Sunday morning, you know, which seemed like a reasonable thing to do, because then you have a large…
- ▶ 20:13 Hugo Barra After I took over the Oculus team, that product was called Oculus Go.
- ▶ 20:13 Hugo Barra After I took over the Oculus team, that product was called Oculus Go. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:03 Hugo Barra Um, one year later, after Oculus Go, we launched Oculus Quest, which was our second product, and that product delivered perfectly on those two user needs and had a terrific launch library. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:37 Harry Stebbings Kind of speaking of the consumer needs that you filled there with Quest, um, you know, we've talked about it before, and in the beginning you said, um, there are only two categories of consumers to think about, and so when we think about,…
Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:11 Luc Levesque We had dinner with him and his wife and we ended up playing, uh, Oculus Rift all night actually. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:29 Harry Stebbings When you look back on that time, I, I love that playing the Oculus Rift, ah, story, but when you look back on that time, what were some of the biggest takeaways for you from, from spending the time you did at Facebook in such a pivotal…
20VC: Founding Legendary Entertainment and Creating Batman, The Hangover and 300, The Importance of Luck vs Skill in Success, How Relationships to Money Change & Why Velocity is the Most Important Factor in Company Building Success with Thomas Tull
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings As the founder, chairman, and CEO of Tullco LLC, he's made notable investments in the likes of Figs, Colossal, Il Makiage, Pinterest, Zoox, and Oculus Rift.
20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Testing is Inefficient and Slows You Down, Why It is Impossible To Hire Good PMs so Stop Trying & 3 Key Signals The Best Engineers Present with Grant LaFontaine, Founder & CEO @ Whatnot
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Prior to whatnot, Grant was a PM at Facebook, working on the Oculus App Store, and before that was the founder of kit.com, ultimately acquired by Patreon.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings Finally, Eugene's last position was with Oculus as head of video, and you have to check out Eugene's blog, which you can find links to on the twentyminutevc.com.
20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Wish, Asana, Oculus, and Postmates, to name a few.
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings And prior to changing the world of defense, Palmer founded Oculus VR, where he designed the Oculus Rift. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings And prior to changing the world of defense, Palmer founded Oculus VR, where he designed the Oculus Rift.
- ▶ 8:39 Harry Stebbings I guess my point is that like, they're seemingly very at odds defense and then AR in your experience with Oculus.
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings The likes of Slack, Postmates, Oculus, Cruise, Twitter, the list really does go on.
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 27:20 Anjney Midha But for a user who doesn't have the affordability to drop 3000 dollars on a rift or
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
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Slack, Oculus, Medium, Postmates, Cruise, the list goes on.
20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club
- ▶ 20:47 Alex Mittal Stephen Lake and his team, Aaron Grant and the others there with the backing of Spark Capital, which backed Oculus.
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
- ▶ 3:52 Clinton Foy And I saw Oculus Rift come up and Oculus, as we know, had a two billion dollar exit to Facebook a few years ago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:52 Clinton Foy And I saw Oculus Rift come up and Oculus, as we know, had a two billion dollar exit to Facebook a few years ago.
20VC: Why The Best CEO's Are The Best Capital Allocators, How You Can Build A Business In A Space You Are Not Passionate About & When Is The Right Time To Put The Pedal To The Metal with Josh Hannah, General Partner @ Matrix Ventures
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings They've invested in the likes of Oculus, HubSpot, Zendesk, and even the mighty Apple many years ago.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 10:54 Harry Stebbings And I'd love to hear for you the biggest takeaways as an observer and an investor in Oculus. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:37 Harry Stebbings And, and then moving from Oculus to another killer investment of yours, which is more recent than Oculus, and that's Cruise. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 20:36 Niccolo De Masi You know, Oculus, the Oculus Samsung Gear equipment, if you have the phone already, it's 99 dollars.
- ▶ 20:41 Niccolo De Masi And I think that, you know, whilst Oculus Rift, you know, whatever it is, 700 dollars, 2 times in the scene
20 VC 090: Balderton Capital's General Partner, Suranga Chandratillake on What It Takes To Be A Great CEO
- ▶ 13:35 Suranga Chandratilake And of course, Oculus Rift, also a huge acquisition that seemed weird at the time, um, that we're beginning to understand now.