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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 0:25 Rory O'Driscoll In a room in somewhere in Palo Alto, I met literally with guards on the door saying, nobody eats and nobody leaves until you ship Instinct Clone.
- ▶ 10:11 Rory O'Driscoll I would imagine as we speak, there are 20 engineers locked in a room in somewhere in Palo Alto, literally with guards on the door saying, nobody eats and nobody leaves until you ship instant clone, you know, right?
The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park
- ▶ 1:02:51 Joon Sung Park The one person I quickly call out was when I graduated from college, I moved to Palo Alto living in somebody's garage.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28:35 unnamed speaker I, I, I'm in Palo Alto now. 2 times in the scene
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:27 David George Uh, I'm, I'm going to San Francisco after this, and I am going to take a Waymo on the freeway, uh, up to our office in San Francisco from Palo Alto.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:25 Jonathan Siddharth So we are now, uh, working from an office in San Francisco, and we've recently opened an office in, uh, Palo Alto.
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:09 unnamed speaker The excitement when I, I just flew back into Palo Alto today, the Bay area was in SoCal for a week.
20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
- ▶ 18:57 Harry Stebbings I mean, this is sadly a virtual coffee, but we're having a coffee in Palo Alto, and you're advising me.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:41 Jason Lemkin Like now let's say I want to, I want a, an appointment at, uh, what, what's at watercourse way in Palo Alto, right?
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 1:13:09 unnamed speaker That, that takes a tremendous amount of effort and work, and they aren't hanging out at, at sort of coffee shops in Palo Alto, right?
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:39 Adarsh Hiremath But like for me, for example, the moment I knew that I wanted to drop out was, was actually back when we had an office in Palo Alto and the office had exactly three desks, one for Brendan, one for Syria, one for me. 2 times in the scene
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:09 Vlad Tenev You know, there's artificial intelligence companies, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, right in the epicenter of that.
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:00 Shyam Sankar Many of those capabilities, you're not gonna, you're not gonna think those things up in Palo Alto eating strawberries.
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:52 Jason Lemkin They're going to stay just like in the old days, Stanford kids stayed in Palo Alto. 5 times in the scene
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:55 Keith Rabois There was three people out of 254 people in the company that, when we sold the company, that could live in San Francisco because the company was based in Palo Alto. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:49 Jason Lemkin It's more visceral than ever, but if you're an insider in Palo Alto with these board of rich tech people, you can put together a three million dollar seed round with 30 people.
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:49 Nico Wittenborn So I'm in, in, um, Palo Alto three weeks ago, and I learned a lot from him as well, just talking, um,
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:46 Marty Cagan I was in Palo Alto. 2 times in the scene
Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:58 Kevin Weil Zuck after I think a year or two or something dropped out and went, uh, went to Palo Alto to do Facebook full time.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 46:18 Jason Lemkin Can you just run through the deck again, having dinner that night in downtown Palo Alto and get a term sheet?
How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:59 Sahil Bloom At that time, this is at Equinox in Palo Alto, um, where I was, where I was working out, um, there was maybe five or six people that would show up, like, that were crazy enough to show up at the gym every morning at that time.
20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a
20VC: AppLovin's Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry's Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth
- ▶ 35:29 Adam Foroughi If I was doing a phone call with anyone, you'd see me walking around the streets of Palo Alto.
20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
- ▶ 14:58 Krista Quarles And so I said, we picked a street in Palo Alto and I said, give it all away for free.
20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 31:39 Jeremy Levine Now, he's had to learn to do a whole bunch of things that he didn't need to do when he was leading a six-person company in a crappy Palo Alto apartment, but I think the business wouldn't obviously be what it is without him, and I think his…
20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
- ▶ 14:02 Simon Borrero Yeah, lots of stories there, but to tell you a funny anecdote, we were at another investor, and we had the partner meeting in Sequoia, and we're at another investor, very close by in Palo Alto, but we were very tight.
20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics
- ▶ 28:52 Alfred Lin If you wanted to work with Cheesecake Factory, they wanted you to deliver not just in Palo Alto, but all of their Cheesecake Factory restaurants. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
- ▶ 15:56 Vlad Tenev San Francisco to my apartment in Palo Alto
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
- ▶ 3:58 unnamed speaker So long story short is I bought a two-door Honda Civic, and I drove out to Silicon Valley, and I slept on the streets of Palo Alto for about three months.
20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con
- ▶ 30:06 Tomer London Well, I think it's actually the first check to Gusto is like a close friend of Josh's that, you know, they've known each other for many, many years, and he was just actually hanging out with us in a house in Palo Alto where we were just…
20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android
- ▶ 13:56 Harry Stebbings Is it coffees in Palo Alto?
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
- ▶ 5:18 unnamed speaker Mimicked his setup and drove out to Palo Alto and just lived in my car for a few months while I was trying to meet people and get off the ground and network and become somebody worth paying something to do. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:52 unnamed speaker You're living in the car in Palo Alto instead of living in a mansion in Palo Alto, but it's still living in Palo Alto.
20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- ▶ 4:12 Avidan Ross I am well caffeinated, but I would tell you that you have been my driving buddy to Palo Alto more times than you know.
20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks
- ▶ 16:56 Dan Scheinman Literally, Eric was and is one of the greatest human beings I've known, and when I met with him, which was, he and I left Cisco effectively the same day, and we met in a coffee shop in Palo Alto, and I asked him about the next thing, and…
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 3:32 Paul Buchheit I started back when we were in Palo Alto, University Avenue, just in a little office there.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
20VC: The Biggest Indicators Of Success In Founding Teams, How To Balance Both Vision and Operations & Taking Money From "The Man At The Rug Store" with Mar Hershenson, Founding Managing Partner @ Pear.vc
- ▶ 3:58 Mar Hershenson Yeah, so the Launchpad program is a program we run for 10 weeks in the summer out of our office space, which is a little bit eclectic and quirky hacker space in Palo Alto.
20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- ▶ 13:25 Spencer Kimball There's somebody that I, that I met with in exactly this capacity at, uh, one of the really big funds, and she was working in Palo Alto for them, and she was the one that I was interacting with, and I actually really liked her.
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 2:46 Ann Miura-Ko I grew up in Palo Alto, so I was always aware of venture capital, even as a profession.
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 3:09 James Cameron And through that, and I was living in Palo Alto at the time, and through that, when I decided to
20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Nowadays, he is the founder of Palo Alto Incubator Archimedes Labs,