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ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 40:32 Aaron Katz We employ people in 27 different countries, um, which gives us a competitive advantage, so I can hire engineers in Portugal and Germany and Singapore.
- ▶ 1:02:12 Aaron Katz I'm looking for the U.S. to, uh, advance further in the World Cup in four years when it's in Spain and Portugal and Morocco.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:23 Jerry Murdock We did deals in Portugal.
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:37 Jason Lemkin No one has heard of the, the young kid from, from Portugal or, or, or, or, or a Sydney that no one's heard of that, that, that figures something out.
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:21 Harry Stebbings Like, you look at Vot, I mean, I, I don't think he gets enough credit for the investor that he is as well, and like, sword in Portugal, where you're like, really?
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:46 Martin Mignot Like, what would convince people to switch bank accounts, which is such a pain, and what I really love with Revolut was a simple trigger with FX, and like, you don't, you know, they didn't sell people, oh, you're gonna switch bank…
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:29 Severin Hacker By the way, also when there's, you know, there was a power outage in, in Portugal and Spain, we, we proactively extended their streak, so, so they don't lose it.
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:44 Peter Singlehurst So, you know, obviously, but we invested in a Portuguese business last year.
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:02 Mike Krieger I want them to do well because I, I love a lot of Europe and I have, um, you know, I lived in Portugal growing up as well.
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:05 Oscar Pierre You go to Portugal and you start from zero.
- ▶ 44:18 Oscar Pierre And one in Portugal.
- ▶ 1:04:24 Oscar Pierre I'd say Portugal, but we, but, but we're gonna get there in a year.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:25 Hussein Kanji I got super excited about a company in Portugal, and one of my partners looked at it and was like, Hussein, like, you missed the trick here.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:38 Klaus Hommels So, for example, everybody says, yeah, but Russia has the capacity or the economic power of something between Portugal and Spain.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:13 Delian Asparouhov But then also within a week of like a cold email, I hopped on a flight, you know, and took a red eye out to Portugal to go through a new very extensive, exhaustive, you know, sort of diligence 2 times in the scene
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:27 Jason Lemkin I would invest in a funky outsider company like Pipedrive from Estonia or Algolia from France or Toctus from Portugal.
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:17 Alex Schultz Um, so the first countries we did it in were Portugal, I think, and Romania, and we saw a tremendous increase in usage.
- ▶ 16:35 Alex Schultz Because I wanted to measure everything, but the data was completely clear, and then we rolled it out globally, and even though we had that small initial dip, we could argue it to everyone whose metrics got hurt, and say the dip is worth…
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:15 Tony Fadell So look, you know, I, like, here's one, like, mission-driven, like I could talk to about Rachel Delacour, uh, at Sweep, or I can talk about, uh, Gilberto over at Smartex over in Porto, Portugal.
20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO
- ▶ 6:35 José Neves I was born in a tiny city in Porto, in Portugal, and moving to a global metropolis and developing my brand there.
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 7:08 Howard Lerman How do you keep on tab of Portugal and Persia, you know, in the land of chariots and couriers?
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 6:09 Christian Hernandez Portugal getting a lot of buzz right now.
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 18:00 James Cameron Places like Ireland and, and Denmark and Portugal and, and Spain.
20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado
- ▶ 7:18 Mattias Ljungman What in great companies coming out of Helsinki, coming out of, um, you know, Portugal, coming out of Germany.