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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Roblox comes up
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 40:43 Harry Stebbings I spent time with Ho Nam from Altos, and he's spoken about the return concentration with Roblox, and it was mind-blowing to me.
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 1:31:11 unnamed speaker And, you know, you fast, you say to yourself, combine that with world modules that you think of Roblox and you, you know, network things are inherently interesting, right?
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:58 Martin Mignot Yeah, Adyen, Datadog, Roblox. 2 times in the scene
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:17 unnamed speaker That's the Roblox point that, uh, uh, that Altos always makes, right? 3 times in the scene
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:08 Danny Rimer So that's a, that's a really tough thing, but it's, it's made an enormous amount of difference, you know, from Audien to Datadog to Roblox.
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:45 Vinod Khosla So a Taylor Swift will always be an experience, but the Splash AI is become one of the largest music games on Roblox.
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
- ▶ 37:27 Eugene Wei Especially those of us who are older, but I see the share of attention that things like Roblox get among my nieces and nephews.
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- ▶ 4:57 David George So, you know, take my time here, take Roblox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:06 David George And, you know, we've been fortunate to have some recent public companies like Roblox and Coinbase, a bunch of others coming down the pipe.
- ▶ 13:51 David George Roblox, twice.
20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
- ▶ 33:36 Deven Parekh I think I listened to your, one of your episodes, maybe it was first round, talking about Roblox and how that was a ten-year fast journey.
20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings Today, we're focusing on none other than Roblox and First Round Capital's early investment in the company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:44 Harry Stebbings We're going to unpack the original investment, really, for you with Roblox, you know, way back in 2007. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:58 Chris Fralic And we did miss the first round of Roblox and came in a little bit later in between the next round that we ultimately led and when I joined the board. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:01 Chris Fralic And it turns out that fund had Uber and Square and Roblox in it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:55 Harry Stebbings You mentioned the slow bake of Roblox there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:55 Chris Fralic If you look at the ratio of that to their actual substance, like what's happening in the business, then Roblox is a fairly great example of a company that had almost no hype, an incredible amount of substance. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:45 Chris Fralic Roblox is one great example that Bill Gurley is 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:08 Chris Fralic Like, when there's an open role, he will interview a dozen of the world's best people at that role in order to find the one that is the right and best fit for Roblox. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:47 unnamed speaker In order to do that, they couldn't just open up all the millions of games that they have on Roblox that can look like YouTube in terms of almost too much choice, and Microsoft and Xbox forced them to have a very limited small number of… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:01 Harry Stebbings Such an exciting time ahead for Roblox as a public company.
20VC: Rippling's Parker Conrad on Why The VC/Founder Marriage Analogy is Weird, Why The Notion of Focus, Focus, Focus is Overrated, Why Narrow Point Solutions Are Not Best in Class Products & The Rise of the "Compound Startup"
- ▶ 40:35 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you a fantastic episode on Wednesday for The Memo with Chris Freilich on Roblox.
20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings It's been an incredibly successful start to the year for this individual, with his investment in Roblox going public, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome David Zee, general partner at Greylock, where he's led some of the firm's most… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 Harry Stebbings But I do want to start, and before we dive into Roblox, I want to start with a little bit of context.
- ▶ 10:55 Harry Stebbings I mean, you can't give me a bone like that and not expect me to take it, but you know, working with Reed, Mark, David at Roblox, in terms of leadership and what makes great leadership, you've seen the best of the best.
- ▶ 12:08 David Sze I remember when I first met him, he was doing the original physics Roblox engine at my kid's school science fair, and it looked like nothing, and it was kind of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:49 David Sze You know, Roblox, 17 years.
- ▶ 16:32 David Sze But if I'm the board member or I'm the representative for Roblox, I need to have the full weight of understanding when I propose and say we should do that deal, that it's going to be on my back.
- ▶ 20:18 Harry Stebbings I think it's an important point to touch on, especially when we kind of translate it to board environments where, bluntly, you did David Zim, you did Facebook, you did LinkedIn, you did Roblox, you did Discord, you did Next.
- ▶ 25:37 David Sze How quaint and early and odd LinkedIn was, the memo was, or Facebook the memo was, or Roblox the memo was.
- ▶ 30:16 Harry Stebbings Can I ask another one, which is actually, it was Maureen on your team that suggested this, and I love this, she was like, you know, bluntly, a lot of investors segment themselves into early stage, late stage, and they could be segmented,…
- ▶ 31:08 David Sze Whether that's early in the process, mid in the process, or late in the process, if I believe that that journey has the kind of legs, has the kind of opportunity to be a world-changing experience like Roblox has done to the game world and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:20 Harry Stebbings It'd be a little bit Roblox focused, but I do want that. 7 times in the scene
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 42:31 Cyan Banister I think that it helps me, like, I understood that Roblox
20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
- ▶ 11:59 Angela Strange We were joking with some of my partners that their kids keep asking for Robux on Robux.
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 27:03 Anjney Midha And you can see that in places like Fortnite and Roblox and Minecraft.