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SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:34:47 Harry Stebbings And that's where we have Pakistan play cricket.
20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
- ▶ 12:18 Harry Stebbings I lost twenty-five million dollars in a day in Pakistan. 2 times in the scene
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:08 Harry Stebbings My biggest failure, you might laugh at this, was I lost in Pakistan.
Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:24 Antoine Le Nel While if you look at the penetration of fintech in India, or in Pakistan, or in, in some places in Africa, in Indonesia, and in all those places, it's like way more mature.
Sean Rad: Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | E1199 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:35 Harry Stebbings So for example, I invested in Pakistan once, and I lost all of my money, and my lesson from that is a business is more than the numbers on paper.
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:40 Harry Stebbings Thinking emerging markets was a good idea and investing in Pakistan.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:20 Harry Stebbings In terms of actual, like, zeros, I had a painful zero, um, in Pakistan. 2 times in the scene
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:02 Mark Suster Like, you know, you're, you have colleagues that left or you took a write off in Pakistan, right?
Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:41 Mudassir Sheikha Uh, look, I, I grew up in, in Pakistan, in Karachi, in a very humble, many fast background.
- ▶ 2:48 Mudassir Sheikha And on my side, something much less dramatic, uh, as part of McKinsey, we were trying to open the office in Pakistan, which is where I'm from, and I realized as part of that process that as a country of two hundred twenty million people… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:25 Mudassir Sheikha So there's just a lot of daily friction of life and a lot of talent in a place like Pakistan and other places like Pakistan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:37 Harry Stebbings One is like in Pakistan, maybe you disagree with me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:43 Mudassir Sheikha In Pakistan, when we were launching the motorbike category, uh, we bought a small billboard that basically told women in the country that if you want to run away from your wedding, you should call a kareem bike because we come quickly and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:01 Mudassir Sheikha In a country like Pakistan or Egypt or Lebanon, you, you do see a lot of, uh, suffering around you and, and you feel, uh, like somehow for some reason you were chosen to be given wealth and it's not something that you deserved or you, you…
- ▶ 44:04 Mudassir Sheikha It's becoming a little bit easier to attract talent to startups, but it's not universal across the region, like in a place like Egypt, Pakistan is starting to become difficult once again. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:50 Harry Stebbings IPO on Pakistan's local stock exchange?
- ▶ 52:15 Mudassir Sheikha I think maybe not a company per se, and many of the countries in the region, uh, Harry, including where I cover Pakistan, there are some obvious things that need to be done that will put us on a different path of growth, but those things… 2 times in the scene
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:02 Sheel Mohnot So I think, like, I think people have invested a lot in, like, Pakistan, Bangladesh, um, parts of Africa. 2 times in the scene
Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:44 Harry Stebbings Like when I invested in Pakistan, uh, and lost a lot of money, I was wrong, but I wasn't confused about making the investment. 2 times in the scene
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:02 Harry Stebbings One of my biggest lessons was when I lost, you know, many millions of dollars in, in Pakistan on an investment, and many reasons why it was a mistake. 4 times in the scene
Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:56 Harry Stebbings What do you tell yourself, and I have this a lot, um, in the case of Pakistan I was just crazy, um, but what do you tell yourself when actually you have that criticism, but you believe that you're being patiently right?
Hunter Somerville: Biggest Mistake LPs Make; Deep Dive into Secondary Markets | 20VC #985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:14 Harry Stebbings In boom times we saw LATAM, Africa, uh, India, Pakistan, booming, like, bigger than ever.
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:13 Harry Stebbings Listen, I've, I've, um, you know, invested in, um, groceries in Pakistan, in airlift, which sadly did not work out, um, not to the surprise of some people.
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:21 Harry Stebbings I'm really just like asking all the questions I want to hear, because I, I very much actually said the same as what you were saying to a friend the other day, uh, and the friend actually in Pakistan said, Harry, like, 2 times in the scene
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:10 Harry Stebbings Listen, I've, I've, um, you know, invested in, um, groceries in Pakistan, in airlift, which sadly did not work out, um, not to the surprise of some people.
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:39 William Hockey Both in the US or the EU, Pakistan or wherever, because people are going to want to build new companies and financial services, and you do that by lowering the barrier to entry.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:30 Harry Stebbings My biggest fuck up in this fund cycle was, was a company called Airlift in Pakistan. 4 times in the scene
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:44 Emil Michael I spent a lot of time in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Pakistan.
Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:04 Harry Stebbings Um, having spent time in Pakistan.
- ▶ 40:09 Harry Stebbings We've got Australia, we've got Pakistan, we've got Latin America. 5 times in the scene
Q-Commerce in Emerging Markets with the CEOs of Airlift, JOKR, & Zepto | 20VC #892 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:26 Usman Gul Ralph obviously founded FoodPana, uh, which we now compete against, uh, here in, in Pakistan.
- ▶ 18:59 Ralf Wenzel Which at least for Latin America, uh, and would be interested, uh, to hear about like, uh, the situation in Pakistan and in India and other markets, uh, allows us to tap into a product margin into procurement margin of up to 50% if we… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:03 Usman Gul And so for like in the month of January, so we've had a lot of exchange rate devaluations, valuations, shifts in, in, in, in Pakistan. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:50 Usman Gul Uh, in our, in our first market in, in Pakistan, uh, sometime between Q four and Q one, um, within the next six or nine months.
20VC: Breaking News: Ankur Nagpal Raises $70M for Vibe Capital, What The Next Decade For Venture Will Look Like, Do VCs Actually Add Any Value & Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Take Them and When To Reject Them
- ▶ 23:33 Harry Stebbings You know, we look at something like Pakistan. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:22 Ankur Nagpal So the most recent investment I'm super excited about, it's actually going back to Pakistan.
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
- ▶ 19:00 Harry Stebbings You know, I obviously invest globally now too, and you know, it's very striking for me, like Pakistan might just let a series B, and the pricing is fundamentally just so different to the US.
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 12:50 Cyan Banister And maybe they're a founder who came from Pakistan, and they came to America, and the journey to get to America is incredibly hard.
20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 4:56 Harry Stebbings Tell me, I spoke to, obviously, your husband, Ansnaf, before the show, and he mentioned, in particular, you're growing up in a 21 person household in Pakistan and moving to the U.S. at 17.
- ▶ 5:07 Harry Stebbings How do you think that time in Pakistan and moving to the U.S., such a big move, how did it impact your mindset? 3 times in the scene
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 25:24 Dave McClure Uh, it's a founder out of Pakistan that moved to the U S and they're doing over a million dollars in revenue. 2 times in the scene
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 41:51 Jason Calacanis In a virtual space without a medical degree, and it might turn out that some kid, you know, from Pakistan who has incredible dexterity and concentration can do the best heart surgery in the world and has no training other than he just, she…