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Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:39 Harry Stebbings He was founder of Optimizely.
Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:00 Jiaona Zhang There's like Optimizely, there's like all this other stuff.
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:25 Dan Siroker One was an early investor in optimizing and actually a co-worker of mine back at Google, Elad Gil, who's now
- ▶ 8:26 Dan Siroker I was just talking to my old co-founder from Optimize and getting his advice because he's a YC group partner now, Pete Koeman.
- ▶ 11:30 Dan Siroker You know, I've had several times at Optimizely where,
- ▶ 12:15 Harry Stebbings Before we move on to kind of lessons from optimizing, which you kind of touched on, I do just have to ask. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:10 Harry Stebbings When you think about optimizing, you scale it to a hundred and twenty million in ARR. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:57 Dan Siroker I think we had a core magical thing working at Optimizee from the almost beginning, which was this product led growth motion, which, which by the way, didn't exist that term 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:11 Dan Siroker With 20 people today, I feel like we're having a greater impact and ship faster than we ever could with a 120 people and software engineers at Optimizely.
- ▶ 48:39 Harry Stebbings I mean, like he will present it in the way that Optimizely is and people will see the brilliance, but he's not like selling in the way that we talk about that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:44 Dan Siroker I found when we started Optimizely that the, the thing that made it work, and I had like two failed startups right 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:00 Dan Siroker At Optimizely, we said no to, um, areas that ended up being huge, successful companies, like product analytics is a good example.
- ▶ 1:12:29 Dan Siroker You know, I think there's a time when I started optimizing, in 2010, where it was cool to be a founder.
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:31 Adam Fishman This is like Urchin, like way back in the day when Offermatica was the only testing tool out there, well before like Optimizely and all these other things.
20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Devin also sits on the boards of Checkout, where we had Guillaume on the show just last month, Calm, Sax.com, Optimizely, and First Dibs, again, to name a few.
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings As for Peter, he's led deals, sat on the board, or sits on the board of Elastic, New Relic, Digits, Docker, Optimizely, Yelp, and Zuora, to name a few.
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings As for Ashton, he started his career investing as an angel, with early home runs including Spotify, Alibaba, Skype, and Optimizely, to name a few.
- ▶ 6:56 Ashton Kutcher It was in a company called Optimizely, and it was just small angel investment. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Star City, John did over three million square feet of commercial real estate transactions for clients including the likes of Optimizely, Cruise Automation, Weebly, Zenefits, and many more.
- ▶ 5:52 Jon Dishotsky I met the Optimizely guys.
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
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings Before Facebook, Avichow worked on search and ads at Google, started and sold a few companies, and invested in startups including Optimizely, Boom, Color, Cruise, InstaWork, Case Text, and many more incredible businesses.
20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Elad's also an incredible angel, counting the likes of Airbnb, Stripe, Optimizely, Opendoor, and Wish, all in his portfolio.
20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
- ▶ 1:35 Harry Stebbings Pendo is the proven choice of innovative product leaders at Salesforce, Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
- ▶ 31:53 Harry Stebbings Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings Pendo is the proven choice of innovative product leaders at Salesforce, Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
- ▶ 31:15 Harry Stebbings Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc
- ▶ 1:34 Harry Stebbings Pendo is the proven choice of innovative product leaders at Salesforce, Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
- ▶ 27:45 Harry Stebbings Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 1:25 Harry Stebbings Salesforce, Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
- ▶ 28:36 Harry Stebbings Salesforce, Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 1:27 Harry Stebbings Pendo is the proven choice of innovative product leaders at Salesforce, Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
- ▶ 29:55 Harry Stebbings Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings Pendo is the proven choice of innovative product leaders at Salesforce, Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
- ▶ 25:41 Harry Stebbings Pendo is the proven choice of innovative product leaders at Salesforce, Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 1:37 Harry Stebbings Pendo is the proven choice of innovative product leaders at Salesforce, Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
- ▶ 36:26 Harry Stebbings Optimizely, Citrix, and many more leading companies.
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Peter himself sits on or has sat on the board of Twitter, previous guests Cockroach, Optimizely, New Relic, and Zendesk, just to name a few.
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Well, today I'm delighted to be joined by Charlie Blosser, the founder and CEO of WorkRamp, the startup that's transforming how the best companies like PayPal, Twilio, and Optimizely train and develop their employees.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 14:00 Mamoon Hamid And our investment team was mostly folks who've built some amazing products at companies like Facebook and server monkey and optimizely and Yahoo and Dropbox and,
20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Now, Ilya is a partner at Index Ventures in San Francisco, where he's made investments in the likes of Slack, Dropbox, Optimizely, and Intercom, and you can listen to Intercom founder Owen McCabe on Sasta today, and then 20 Minute VC on…
20VC: The Best Determinant Of Product Market Fit & Why Prior Experience Is Not Required For Founder Success with Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings Glassdoor.com, Nutanix, Optimizely, Pendo, Sprinkler, and many, many more incredible companies.
20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings We've got Uber, we've got Twitter, we've got Stripe, Optimizely, just to name a few.