Pittsburgh, every mention
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The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:05 Shiv Rao I remember in his S-one, he, he's from Pittsburgh as well, and, um, also Union Square Ventures funded, and I'm sure that had something to do with USV being more comfortable with me, because I certainly didn't have a track record. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:21 Shiv Rao We started in Pittsburgh. 2 times in the scene
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:08 Miles Dieffenbach I think if you are doing a more esoteric strategy, such as, you know, bootstrapped companies in, uh, you know, in Australia or, or some of these tertiary in Pittsburgh, right?
20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo
- ▶ 4:55 Harry Stebbings Yes, September 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that's where our headquarters is, and I was the first PM that was handled the baton for 2000
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:33 Severin Hacker It's just like, it, it just, and I, I, I can say this because we, we built Duolingo in Pittsburgh.
- ▶ 1:12:49 Severin Hacker Yeah, you know, by the way, so I, I, uh, I started angel investing with a very similar thesis in Pittsburgh because there's no one other than me and Luis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:47 Severin Hacker They said, in fact, they said, we're the only investor that doesn't care that you're in Pittsburgh.
- ▶ 1:33:25 Severin Hacker Now it flows back into, you know, the Pittsburgh ecosystem and maybe some of it, the New York ecosystem.
- ▶ 1:55:56 Harry Stebbings And there's very few people where five years time, Tuesday night, it's a cold February evening in Pittsburgh or London or wherever you are.
Zaria Parvez: How Duolingo Scaled to 8M TikTok Followers & How to Create Viral Content | E1105 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:31 Zaria Parvez I think I never realized, especially, and I think this is a product of being at a smaller company, being in Pittsburgh, a very slow kind of sleepy town, is realizing when I push post, it's actually going to 7.8 million people.
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:27 Sheel Mohnot Uh, so, so, so we did this Taco Bell one, we did an India, we did an India reception, we're doing Cleveland, where she's from, Pittsburgh, where I'm from, and then a big one in Mexico City, that's, that'll be our friends.
Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:06 Gina Gotthilf So, and I remember one case where someone in Pittsburgh broke embargo and another case where someone in India broke embargo.
20VC: Scaling to $2BN AUM in 3 years, Fundraising Lessons and Tactics from 2,500 LP Meetings & What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time with Harley Miller, Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Left Lane Capital
- ▶ 6:25 Harley Miller I think there was something about sort of growing up in Pittsburgh, middle-class being deep into the bell curve of that common consumer.
- ▶ 16:41 Harley Miller Let me go talk to my family and friends in the suburbs of Pittsburgh or other parts of the middle of the country.
- ▶ 36:26 Harley Miller I go home to Pittsburgh to see my parents, my grandparents, right?
How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:37 Sahil Bloom I'm like a Pittsburgh style guy.
20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital
- ▶ 3:52 Dannie Herzberg So the personal story is my parents moved here in the early eighties as refugees from the Soviet Union, landed in Pittsburgh, Jewish family services, welcomed them, gave them English classes, money, furniture, and eventually helped my dad…
20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
- ▶ 4:52 Nick Mehta I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:16 Nick Mehta And I remember when I was a kid, I was like eight or nine years old, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
- ▶ 17:18 Mark Cuban I think if you take some of the companies, Twitter, or almost any of them, Uber in particular, Lyft, and you move those to Kansas City, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New York, they would have been so much more successful, so much more
20VC: AOL Founder, Steve Case on Why The Best Venture Investments of The Next 10 Years Will Likely Not Be In The Valley, Why The CEO Must Be The Shock Absorber For Company Morale and Why Vision Without Execution is Hallucination
- ▶ 13:11 Steve Case You don't hear about excess capital or companies overvalued in places like Detroit or Pittsburgh or Phoenix or Albuquerque or Madison or Minneapolis or Des Moines or New Orleans, some of the cities that we've visited.
20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- ▶ 20:01 Luis von Ahn And the second thing we really liked is for them, this was the only company for which Pittsburgh, we're located in Pittsburgh, we're not in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- ▶ 19:01 Balaji Srinivasan But Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania has chosen to go into the future, into 2020 or 20 21, um, and allowing self-driving cars, right? 2 times in the scene