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every year anyone Harry Stebbings 18Jason Lemkin 7Andy Johns 6Sarah Smith 4Matt Lerner 3Paul Berberian 2Leon Wong 2Kieran Flanagan 2Julien Bek 2Alex Wang 2
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Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 0:36 Julien Bek I think right now, if you're gonna invest in the new Neolab, you're basically investing, you know, in the Quora, in the stumble upon when Facebook X came about.
- ▶ 11:13 Julien Bek I think right now, if you're going to invest in the new Neolab, you're basically investing, you know, in the Quora, in the stumble upon when Facebook X came about.
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:29 Jason Lemkin I, I, I wrote this on Quora years ago and I, I had to write so many disclaimers about it because I was going to get hazed, but I wrote that, uh, the question was who's, who's the best entrepreneur you've ever met.
20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 40:04 unnamed speaker Discord or emails in our newsletters, but also these broader channels, like what are people saying about us on Quora, on Reddit, on LinkedIn, on, on X, and all of these other different places sprawled across the internet.
- ▶ 1:06:25 Sandy Diao The biases that ChatGPT may have for mentions from Reddit or Quora, they could be changing every other day.
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 55:01 Kieran Flanagan I don't, I kind of posted about this last week where the real winner of AI search so far is like Quora. 2 times in the scene
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:18 Eran Zinman And, um, you know, he wrote answers on Quora, if you remember.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:08 Keith Rabois I'm going to get, I, I believe that most companies, you know, and I have a chapter in Eli Gill's high growth handbook on the topic in a, in a fairly lengthy core answer as well on, I believe most companies are better
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:30 Jason Lemkin It is, it is a canonical source of a lot of content, but half of my, probably my deal flow came from Quora in the early days. 5 times in the scene
20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more
- ▶ 19:45 Harry Stebbings He then went on to lead growth orgs at companies like Twitter, Cora, and most recently Wealthfront as head of growth and president.
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:33 Julio Vasconcellos You know, she was an amazing sales and people leader, both at Facebook and then at Quora afterwards.
Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:37 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, when you think about also the advising that you said there, you mentioned some of the companies you've worked with, from your Patreons to your Quora's to your Twitters.
20VC: The Contentful Memo: Point Nine's Christoph Janz on The Cold Email That Led to a Unicorn Investment, How To Approach Market Sizing and Timing & The Pros and Cons of Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Do Them vs When Not To?
- ▶ 19:29 Christoph Janz Like, every imaginable question around SaaS, if you look it up, Jason Lemkin has answered it on Quora.
20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings He has worked in some of the leading growth orgs at companies like Twitter, Quora, and more recently at Wealthfront as head of growth and president.
- ▶ 3:01 Harry Stebbings I mean, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Wealthfront.
- ▶ 10:28 Andy Johns So for example, if I'm trying to build the next Quora, the next Twitter, and I'm trying to build that early flywheel of people coming into the platform and creating content, it's really helpful to have somebody who is capable of building… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:19 Andy Johns oh gosh, what's the startup that has like hygiene products for men, like shape razors for men and, uh, you know, like groom, but they just created a custom landing page, like their website.com slash Quora. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 4:07 Semil Shah Quora was in the private beta.
20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over a hundred and twenty-three million dollars in financing from some of the very best in the business, including Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Thrive, Spark, CoToo, and then also some of the world's leading… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:58 Alex Wang So I worked at Quora for, for a couple years, and then 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Prior to joining Bain, Sarah spent five years at Quora, both as VP of Advertising Sales and Operations, and then also from 2012 to 2016 as VP of HR Recruiting and Operations, scaling the company from 40 to 200 employees. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:05 Sarah Smith And so I actually went on to Quora where I knew the founders and worked there for about five and a half years.
- ▶ 9:44 Harry Stebbings I do have to pick up on the other strain that you mentioned, which was Facebook and Quora, experiencing the hyperscaling there firsthand. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:35 Harry Stebbings You've been part of two rocket ships, as we said, Facebook and Quora, and you said to me before that a contrarian thought you hold is engineers are underpaid. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:09 Sarah Smith I happen to stay at core for five and a half years and Facebook for four years.
- ▶ 35:50 Sarah Smith At Quora, we discovered that a lot of women struggle to really write and put their thoughts out there, so I'm going to recommend a couple female writers.
- ▶ 36:30 Sarah Smith Yeah, so I hear this a lot from founders, I think, because I ran the people function at Quora and came from not a traditional HR background.
20VC: Khosla's Keith Rabois on How To Create Sustainability Behind Growth, How To Assess The Potential Of Individuals & Teams & The Biggest Takeaways from LinkedIn, Paypal & Square
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings Simultaneously, he must have one of the best angel track records ever, having invested early in YouTube, Yammer, Palantir, Lyft, Airbnb, Eventbrite, and Quora, just to name a few of the outstanding companies in his portfolio.
20VC: Explosion of First Time Funds, Only 1 Mega Fund Raised: What The Heck Happened in Q1 Venture Markets with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 22:07 Harry Stebbings The likes of Jason Lemkin have done incredibly well with Quora because it is immortal.
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 2:46 Jason Lemkin I started blogging and quarrying and answering questions about all the mistakes I made as a founder after my last company, EchoSign, was acquired by Adobe.
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
20VC: Why You Don't Have To Have Operational Experience To Be A Good VC, Why There Is No Optimal Stage To Invest & Why VCs Should Focus on Reputation Ahead of Cash On Cash Returns with Lyon Wong, General Partner @ Spectrum 28
20VC: Why The Best CEO's Are The Best Capital Allocators, How You Can Build A Business In A Space You Are Not Passionate About & When Is The Right Time To Put The Pedal To The Metal with Josh Hannah, General Partner @ Matrix Ventures
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And he's led investments in the likes of Canva, who we had Melanie on the show previously, Cora, and Huddle, of which we had Andy on the show previously too.
- ▶ 19:36 Harry Stebbings And then I want to touch on one final thing before we dive into the quickfire, and you mentioned ideas there several times, and you recently answered a question on Quora.
20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero
- ▶ 21:33 Paul Berberian I don't, I have a lot of feeds, you know, so I've been getting a little bit addicted to Quora, getting some of these interesting questions, and I go down a rat hole there for a while, and, um, so. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 24:28 Alex Bangash So, so it's, it's, um, you know, on, on, on, on Quora. 2 times in the scene
20 VC FF 029: VC vs Angel Funding & The Future of E-Commerce with Ivan Mazour, Founder @ Ometria
- ▶ 22:27 Ivan Mazour Yeah, I mean, there's a few, there's David Skog, there's a few others as well, but really, basically, every morning, sasta.com, especially now they've done this thing that picks up Quora through scraping,
20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
- ▶ 10:29 Matt Lerner PayPal, Airbnb, Facebook, Hotmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, WhatsApp, Quora, Reddit.
- ▶ 17:48 Matt Lerner I made a Quora post, and I just listed, someone asked, like, what are the reasons startups fail?
- ▶ 21:47 Matt Lerner And then before that, um, he used to run growth at Quora, and before that he was on the legendary Facebook growth team.
20 VC 045: From Idea to Pitch with Alan Jones, Founding Investor @ Startmate
- ▶ 11:09 Alan Jones Um, so if, if you check Quora, actually, um, Quora's, somebody asked a question a little while ago, you know, how do I, what's the best way to attract a co-founder, and, and, um, I'm, I'm pretty excited about the fact that my answer to… 2 times in the scene
James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 4:31 James Altucher Well, there are a lot of sites where you can kind of test the waters, and, like, Quora.com is a Q&A site, you know, people ask questions, and anyone can answer, so you have, like, people like, I don't know, Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia, he…