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Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 15:58 Harry Stebbings It's not quite the ten billion dollars that was reported, but OpenRuda, seven billion dollar acquisition by the Irish Paulson brothers, Brewery or Brethren.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:06:13 Rory O'Driscoll I've come to the conclusion that weird control terms are an acceptable part, because otherwise everyone just does what the Collison's do in states private.
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 1:03:58 Rory O'Driscoll You'll probably ring the Collison's and say, hey guys, if you're doing the victory lap on the PayPal headquarters, can you include me in on that trip?
Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:24 Harry Stebbings So this is why the Colisons don't, everything else is great. 2 times in the scene
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:31 Harry Stebbings There are clearly things that Mike is not able to do because he's public that private company founders like the Collison's are able to do.
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:22 Harry Stebbings Given the fluidity of secondary markets, if you spoke to a Collison who's like, yeah, we absolutely want to stay private forever. 2 times in the scene
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:06 Harry Stebbings Disclaimer people, for the Collison's that are listening to this episode, Rory is not in any way being detrimental to Stripe.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:57 Harry Stebbings Do John and Patrick with Stripe have advantages that you don't have as private companies in their ability to invest in long-term, invest in R&D, not think about next quarter quite so religiously?
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:02 Alex Rampell I think Patrick Callison. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:41 Alex Rampell And the thing that's different, like, the, the way that Patrick, the reason why Patrick, um, and John made Stripe work partially is it's like, they just believed that a great number of new companies will be created, and they're gonna pick…
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:13 Harry Stebbings For example, I think the Collison's brand has been expertly crafted.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:48 unnamed speaker You either got to become cash or partisan and settle down and just become the Collison brothers and compound private forever to, you know, to universal
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:14 Harry Stebbings The final one that Pat taught me, and then we'll move to talent, which I do want to touch on for a quick fire, but he said the other one.
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:43 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is, like, Rippling have the Silicon Valley Illuminati around them, and in the same way for me, like, there are some media companies, which I'm not going to name because they'll hate me for it, but, like, they just…
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:21 Jason Lemkin and they'll drag out, they'll drag out the collision brothers or Toby and they'll all do joint PR, but whether for open eye, this is a top five initiative.
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:09 Hemant Taneja I deeply believe that just because we have more money doesn't mean they're more on Patrick Collison's or Sam Altman's that are going to go build iconic companies.
- ▶ 5:28 Hemant Taneja And, and, uh, the reason is because just because we have more money doesn't mean they're more on Patrick Collison's or, um, you know, pick your favorite founder, uh, Sam Altman's, uh, that are going to go build iconic companies.
- ▶ 1:19:21 Harry Stebbings Because I worry when we go back to your very early statement that there's not many Patrick and John's or Sam's or Dario's, and it's like the problem is there's not enough truly generational defining entrepreneurs for the supply side of…
- ▶ 1:27:05 Hemant Taneja I mean, I have to say it was with, uh, uh, Patrick Collison. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:58 Hemant Taneja He's gotta give it 10 years, you know, so I'm, we're, it's a compounding business that, you know, Patrick and John always say infrastructure is hard, but it also compounds, and they're sort of steadily just doing that, you know, and, and…
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30:44 Rory O'Driscoll So the truth is it's an idiosyncratic bet and the Colossus haven't shared their opinion with me. 2 times in the scene
Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:19 Vlad Tenev I've shared this viewpoint with Patrick and John, and they give me some variant of, oh, well, we're just a small Irish family company.
- ▶ 52:08 Vlad Tenev I've shared this viewpoint with, uh, Patrick and John, and you know, they, they give me some variant of, uh, oh, well, we're just, uh, a small Irish family company.
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:05 unnamed speaker Does John and Patrick send you a DM on Twitter? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:48 unnamed speaker So one thing that really inspired me from talking and spending time with Patrick is that I said, oh, you know, like, what's the, what's the longterm thing for Stripe or for yourself? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:25 unnamed speaker You know, he's waving the flag of Stripe early days of Silicon Valley, like early days of Stripe in Silicon Valley saying, you know, John Patrick going to be the next,
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29:25 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is, if you're the Collison's, if you're Ali at Databricks, if you're Elon at SpaceX, you don't need to go public today.
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:19 Harry Stebbings You know, the Collison's have said very publicly, why do we need to go public?
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:16 Harry Stebbings You know, if, if you know the Collinsons, they're like, why would I do that?
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:03 Harry Stebbings Well, I, I think it's John or Patrick Collison. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:29 Harry Stebbings The Collison's have shown, I think very clearly that you can stay for a lot longer than you plan to.
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:15 Harry Stebbings I think Patrick and John are amazing, but I'm like, is Adyen massively underpriced then at 40?
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:37 Mike Krieger Then you see, um, AHRQ, which is this, um, Science and Research Institute that, um, Patrick Callison and some others have started and funded,
Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:32 Harry Stebbings And his talk with Patrick Collison, where he said, nothing great is achieved without pain and suffering, and so I wish upon you plenty of pain and suffering.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:41 Harry Stebbings Are you worried by the extended window of privatization by great, great founders like the Collison's, bluntly just continuously being private for years and years and years?
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:06 Harry Stebbings Uh, and then growth, it would have to be either Pat or Kush.
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:09 Harry Stebbings I don't think John or Patrick want to go public
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:18 Shaun Maguire And then I think one last thing is that, and this is something that John and Patrick Collison do very well too.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:54 Harry Stebbings I think Stripe and, you know, the Collison's is a great example of one that has done, but when you look at the majority of great- Stripe had, you mean the Collison's had a love triangle? 2 times in the scene
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:40 Harry Stebbings Can they help me find the next Collison before someone else?
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:42 Samir Vasavada And we start talking about Vise and what we're building, and he's like, look, like, you know, it's fascinating because I was at this retreat with the Collison brothers, you know, a couple weeks ago, and they were talking about, like, a…
Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:50 Harry Stebbings I'm getting an angry email from Toby and the Collisons, but one of his big regrets was actually letting Stripe into the Shopify ecosystem and not be more dominant in controlling a relationship there.
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:36 Alex Wang This is a fascinating thing actually from, um, you know, I, I actually asked, uh, Patrick Coulson this question as well, and Stripe obviously is an incredible company that has, uh, that for a lot of their lifetime I think has been one of…
- ▶ 1:05:33 Harry Stebbings Like, when you look at the Coulson's, you're like, I don't know why you would if you were Stripe.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:28 Harry Stebbings Well, look, I, you know, I don't think the Colossians ever want to go public with it.
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:01 Tom Blomfield Yeah, in some way, you know, Patrick Collison
- ▶ 1:05:05 Tom Blomfield I mean, I think either of the Collisons would be incredible. 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:14 Sam Altman Uh, the Collison brothers are incredible. 2 times in the scene
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:21 Bastian Lehmann Patrick and John Collison. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:15 Bastian Lehmann Patrick at Stripe, uh, Zach at Plate, uh, Max at Affirm. 2 times in the scene
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:27 Harry Stebbings I find it hilarious the amount of people who want to go up against the Collison's or Toby at Shopify. 2 times in the scene
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:14 Harry Stebbings Um, shared tent with Patrick Collison.
- ▶ 1:26:33 Harry Stebbings Yeah, Pat, Pat, Pat would always be my number one.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:23 Keith Rabois I used to laugh, you know, I remember when I would do, uh, one-on-ones with, like, Patrick Colson and Stripe, 5 times in the scene
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:54 Matthieu Rouif No, no, we don't, like, we don't, it's a trend, like, it's a stripe, uh, stripe brothers, colleagues and brothers, where actually it's one thing they were doing really early on, is like, how do you measure the impact of a teammate?
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:31 Harry Stebbings They're not sitting at the dinner table on a Friday with Collison's and with Sam Altman, but they're also not from Belgium, like the show pad guys totally out of it.
David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:45 David Tisch I think the Collison brothers have, you know, built a investment portfolio that's probably, uh, quite unique and 3 times in the scene
Shreyas Doshi: The 6 Product Metrics You Need To Know; The 3 Types of Product Leader | E913 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:49 Harry Stebbings Uh, so if you, if you look back at the Colossons in particular, can I ask what profile would you put them in, in terms of craftsperson, visionary, or operator? 4 times in the scene
20 Sales: The Stripe Sales Playbook; Who Should Create It, When Should it Be Done, Where Do Many Go Wrong | How To Identify 10x Sales Hires and How To Structure the Hiring Process in Sales with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Head of Americas Revenue & Growth @ St
- ▶ 15:00 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser The scale we were at at that point, it was a full week of just spin up and you had sessions with John and Patrick where they were really, you know, spending time outlining the culture, outlining the company vision, which I felt like drove…
- ▶ 16:35 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser And it's still similar to what I just described, where John and Patrick talk, and you basically get a broad lay of the land of the company strategy, all of our products, operating principles.
20VC: Sweetgreen Founder Jonathan Neman on Leadership Lessons from Managing Through COVID, The Importance of Failing Fast and Iterating & How the Best Leaders Bring Together Brand, Capital Allocation and Strategy
- ▶ 37:11 Harry Stebbings You look at your Patrick's from Stripe's and John's from Stripe.
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 8:50 Harry Stebbings The Collison's fucking killed it on hiring.
20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
- ▶ 34:16 Mark Carney Patrick and John, you know, the founders, their quality, their, you know, their curiosity, their perseverance, empathy, and also that
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
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings David has raised over sixty-nine million dollars with Retool from some of the very best in startups, including Sequoia, YC, Patrick and John from Stripe, Henrique and Pedro at Brex, Paul Graham, Nat at GitHub,
20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 33:26 Reid Hoffman So Paul Graham, who is a founder of Y Combinator, dropped me an email saying there's two Irish brothers, Patrick and John Collison, who are literally spectacular, and they're going to be reinventing banking, and that you should meet with… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- ▶ 5:03 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask you, because I spoke to Pat before the show, and he said in particular, with regards to your time at PayPal, you went from MBA intern to CFO, and he said specifically, ask Roloff, how did that happen, and what were your…
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
- ▶ 27:13 unnamed speaker And I think Patrick Collison has said something about the idea that in 50 years we'll probably look back at the Bay Area as one of the greatest squanderings of potential wealth that the world has ever known, and I tend to agree.
20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
- ▶ 15:25 Ravi Gupta And then this devotion to the mission leads to things like partnering with Patrick and John and Will and Claire. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 9:53 Sahil Lavingia Patrick and John from Stripe are probably still embarrassed, but you have to have an insanely high level of product quality.
- ▶ 35:53 Harry Stebbings Patrick Collison endorsed yours. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 24:24 Vinod Khosla It's the kind of founder we like, like Pat Brown at Impossible Foods, or Jack Dorsey at Square, or Patrick Collison and John Collison at Stripe. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor
- ▶ 0:05 Harry Stebbings We have such a special year of episodes ahead for you, with the likes of Vino Koestler, Howard Marks, Patrick Collison, and more incredible guests coming on the show, so stay tuned there.
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings We are back for the very first 20 VC of 2020, and I'm so excited, so in the coming months we have the likes of Vinod Kostler, Patrick Collison, and Howard Marks coming on the show.
20VC: Clearbit Founder Alex MacCaw on How To Successfully Negotiate with Investors, What Value-Add Do VCs Really Bring & Why You Should Only Have Operators on Your Board
- ▶ 8:28 Harry Stebbings We had a discussion on the show about Patrick Collison and Collison's emphasis on, you know, meeting many, many, many in terms of people in the existing role that you're looking to hire for to really determine what great looks like.
20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings To date, Wasim has raised over fifty-eight million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the business, both in terms of firms and people, including the likes of Index and Stripe, and then on the people side, Octa's Frederick…
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings Prior to Zeus, Cool co-founded Auctomatic alongside Stripe's Patrick Collison.
- ▶ 6:21 Kulveer Taggar You know, my team then, it was me, my cousin, Harge Tagger, Patrick, and John Colson of Stripe.
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 27:57 Geoff Ralston Extraordinary, amazing, incredible people from Paul and Trevor and Robert and Jessica, the founders, to Sam, the Collisons, the incredible founders of incredible YC companies, Drew Houston, Brian Chesky's, the incredible founders of newer…
20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- ▶ 13:15 Harry Stebbings Instantly, the ones that come to mind there are the Collison's with Stripe, and how they think about, kind of, the evolution of payments is incredible, but we did speak about opinions and your thesis and theme-driven investing, so if we…
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 25:05 Daniel Gross My favorite book of late is Finite and Infinite Games, because as I mentioned, I really believe in using games as kind of a mental model to see the world, and hats off to Patrick Collison, actually, for recommending that book to me.
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
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings And now Elad is adding a new string to his very talented bow with the release of his book, High Growth Handbook, published by Stripe, in which Elad interviews 14 leaders from the Valley, from Marc Andreessen to Reid Hoffman to Patrick…
- ▶ 43:35 Elad Gil There's a long list of people, Patrick from Stripe, et cetera.
20VC: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on Why We Are In A Golden Age For VC, Why Pro-Rata Is A Lazy Posture and Why He Does Not Focus On Price
- ▶ 22:31 Hemant Taneja Ilad, John and Patrick, Josh, they're all incredibly thoughtful in what they're doing, and so you better bring your A game if you're going to sit there and try to expand their thinking.
20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- ▶ 25:17 Anu Hariharan So, you know, Patrick Collison from Stripe often says this, which is for every senior exec role that he decided to
20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
- ▶ 11:58 Andy Pflaum You can't build hoping for some quick win in the marketplace or quick outcome, and I think it was Patrick Collison I recently heard saying he was surprised how long it takes to build a successful startup, and he's leading Stripe, which is…
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 14:26 Paul Buchheit And one of the things that really strikes me about both Larry Page and Mark and, you know, a lot of the YC founders like Patrick Collison or founders of Airbnb is they just have a level of conviction that I think ordinary humans just don't…