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Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:32 Jason Lemkin They did it at the perfect age optically, but the big question along with Reed Hastings and Chanteneau and others is like folks turn over every year.
Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:25 Dave Ripley And probably I'm reading, uh, the, uh, No Rules for Rules Netflix book, Reed Hastings.
Mark Goldberger: The Ultimate Guide to Enterprise Sales | E1003 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:40 Mark Goldberger There's a great book by Reed Hastings called No Rules Rules, where he talks about talent density.
Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:57 Barry McCarthy Uh, eventually that led me to, to read Hastings Doorstep in 1999 when Netflix was quite small.
- ▶ 5:32 Barry McCarthy Daniel was using my pattern recognition skills as exceptional in his own way as Reed was exceptional in his way.
- ▶ 15:32 Barry McCarthy Um, it was Reed Hastings who taught me the importance of business models.
- ▶ 18:12 Barry McCarthy You know, what has made, um, among the things that it makes Reed Hastings such a great executive, and I would say Daniel, great executive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Barry McCarthy Whereas Reed, um, at least at, at Netflix, for the most part, not entirely, but for the most part, and Dan, and Daniel, when he pivoted into, into, um, podcasting, have been able to anticipate reading streaming, let's say, by way of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:38 Barry McCarthy Reed was running the business. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:50 Harry Stebbings You've seen Reid manage a board. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:32 Barry McCarthy I guess, I don't know, I was in basic training in, uh, Quantico in what amounted to an, an ROTC program in college, same one that Reed Hastings had gone through. 2 times in the scene
a16z GP Martin Casado: How I Went from Engineer to VC; Lessons from Chris Dixon | 20VC #956 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:02 Martin Casado Like look at Reed Hastings, look at Jensen, like founders are amazing.
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:26 Tristan Handy Um, so we don't, you know, and, and in Netflix in, in no rules, rules, rules, um, Reed talks about, um, how they're very transparent about employee exit reasons.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 34:39 Eugene Wei Because actually games are that way, and they're going to keep iterating games, and that's why, you know, when Reed Hastings of Netflix said our biggest competitor is Fortnite or Sleep, when he says things like that, in fact, everything…
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 20:46 Daniel Levine Netflix was a great example of this, where I've had the good fortune to hear this story from Reed. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 28:39 unnamed speaker I think John Danner and Reed Hastings are basically the only people who are both at the same time.
20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings It's also one of the favorites of Daniel Eck at Spotify, Peter Thiel, and Reed Hastings at Netflix.
- ▶ 6:46 Hamilton Helmer I think Reed is amazing, and Ted is amazing.
20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
- ▶ 8:36 Jean-Charles Samoulian I love this quote from Redesting that you should have been thinking about culture yesterday.
20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building
- ▶ 22:21 Ben Horowitz That was, like, total clarity and urgency around that, and, uh, kind of the example that I use, the parallel example, is Reed Hastings, um, when he switched the business from CDs to streaming, which, or DVDs to streaming, sorry. 4 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 22:19 Kulveer Taggar Yeah, I remember reading, I think, is it Reed Hastings from Netflix who said that culture eats strategy for lunch.
20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals
- ▶ 13:19 Harry Stebbings Tell me, what was your lesson from Reed Hastings around this? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 18:20 Harry Stebbings I think, I always think of Reed Hastings, actually, with Netflix and moving from video delivery to, to kind of the Netflix that we have today and the reinvention there.
20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp
- ▶ 9:33 Harry Stebbings Tell me, what have been your big learnings from being advised by Reed, do you think? 10 times in the scene
20VC: How Startups & VCs Can Build Relationships with Potential Corporate Acquirers? The Challenge Of Operating Both A B2B & B2C Business Model & Why Fundraising Is The One Element Founders Cannot Control with Gautam Gupta, Founder & CEO @ NatureBox
- ▶ 27:56 Gautam Gupta I'm going to sound like a real Netflix whore here, but, uh, I'd have to say Reed Hastings. 2 times in the scene