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Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:23 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Um, but if you look at like, like they're very big in Romania, Romania is not a big market for me, right? 3 times in the scene
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:29 Harry Stebbings A man survived on a dollar a day in Romania for years.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:48 Rory O'Driscoll You're like, I do not want Netflix to have all that leverage on me or they'll have me grinding out rom-coms on a low budget somewhere in Romania.
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:52 Oscar Pierre If you go to Peru or you go to, I don't know, uh, to, uh, Romania.
Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:46 Antoine Le Nel I mean, we became number one in Romania and Norway, 2 times in the scene
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:08 Laela Sturdy Um, UiPath when, you know, made that investment in the series B, the numbers were extraordinary, but the pushback was this company's been around for 10 years based in Romania.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:57 Delian Asparouhov When you look at United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, et cetera, they're all just like completely, you know, sort of falling into societal collapse all for, you know, sort of slightly different reasons, but it comes down to a complete…
- ▶ 24:11 Harry Stebbings Um, the guys at IVP fly to bumfuck nowhere, Romania to do UI path. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:38 Harry Stebbings Thank God he was in Romania.
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:09 Val Scholz It was Ireland, it was Romania, Poland.
- ▶ 44:14 Val Scholz But when we launched it, we went in one market, Romania, from 2000, and after three days we won 64,000. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:05 Harry Stebbings Compare Germany, France, Spain to Romania.
- ▶ 55:31 Val Scholz It was Romania.
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:20 Daniel Dines You need to picture, like, early, 19, 90, Romania, just full of communism, but all the professors, the atmosphere was still very communist, ugly, people with kind of a fixed mindset.
- ▶ 26:26 Daniel Dines I, I was very unhappy being there, not necessarily in Microsoft or in US, but being removed from my comfortable life that I had in Romania.
- ▶ 29:59 Daniel Dines You know, not, none of my friends at that time believed that I'm gonna leave Microsoft and U.S. and go back to Romania with very little money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:30 Daniel Dines I think the science of things, the spring was just about to, I remember early days of tech crunch, so I started to, to be connected, actually, more with what happened in the Bay Area, from Romania than when I was in Seattle, when I was…
- ▶ 1:01:28 Daniel Dines but we were a company in Romania.
- ▶ 1:04:10 Harry Stebbings Respectfully, that was in Romania, and as great as, you know, they are, it's still a more local firm.
- ▶ 1:36:18 Daniel Dines And it was, again, like, uh, this type of seminal moment, when I already had plans to go back to Romania to do some other stuff, but I changed my plans and I went to Japan.
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…
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings So tell me, from Romania to studying in Germany, I heard little bits about driving tanks, not the usual HBS and, you know, living in Menlo Park. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:47 Oana Olteanu Um, and the way I scaled myself is I adopt the Romanian village mentality of if you get it. 2 times in the scene
20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia
- ▶ 3:46 Harry Stebbings Grady, who said, you've started small town in Romania, and now you're a partner in 4 times in the scene
20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
- ▶ 5:08 Brandon Deer So coincidentally, it was right around the time that pretty young startup out of Bucharest, Romania was thinking of making a really strong move into the North American market.
- ▶ 21:49 Brandon Deer I mean, he was born in communist Romania.
- ▶ 28:43 Brandon Deer Started in Romania and expanded to APAC, EMEA, and the likes.
20 VC 061: Roxanne Varza on Pitching A VC in 10 Minutes and Maximising Media Exposure For Your Startup
- ▶ 20:55 Roxanne Varza Today we have Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Romania, and we're expecting a few more to come shortly.
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
- ▶ 24:27 Doug Scott I've, well, there's one going to go through probably today, which is Lifebox, lifebox.mobi, which will be an interesting space, because Radu's a Romanian living in Newcastle, who is very smart and can hustle like no one, he's unfortunately…