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The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 1:05:56 David Frankel Like San Francisco is Rome. 2 times in the scene
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:47:02 Rory O'Driscoll I'd rather be first in a village than second in Rome.
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 3:26 Federico Simionato We were in Rome for a startup event, and he had this idea.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:52 Rory O'Driscoll You know, it's, it's, it's the Julius Caesar quote, I'd rather be first in a village than second in Rome, which indicated he was a psychopath, by the way, but we can come back to that.
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:43 Johannes Reck So we weren't looking worldwide as we did after the Series A, but just looked at Rome, Paris, London, and we went and acquired, you know, all of the supply there and, and, you know,
Alain De Botton: Why Status is Making You Miserable & Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:03 Alain de Botton If your ship came in, if you were a merchant, if you were a venture capitalist in ancient Rome, um, and things did, things went well, they had venture capitalists, um, uh, more or less.
Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:56 Antoine Le Nel So what we do in airport, which is pretty cool, is that, so we do the advertising on jet bridges and so on, you know, if you, if you've been to Rome airport and so on, for example, we've launched something really cool there.
Nick Jones: How I Founded Soho House; Brand Marketing Tips; Hiring Advice | 20VC #898 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:47 Nick Jones I, I think when you look at it, there's a lot of people who want to live in that certain sort of way, and it doesn't matter if it's in the UK or North America, and as we're finding as we grow globally, that way of living is very, you know,…
20VC: Guild Education's Rachel Carlson on The Benefits of Scaling Startups Outside of Silicon Valley, Why Mission and Margin Are So Tightly Integrated & Why Mums Are The Most Under-Utilised Asset In The Economy
- ▶ 23:11 Harry Stebbings You personally described it as leaving Rome in the middle of the Renaissance.
20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 33:24 Jason Boehmig He's a Stoic philosopher who also became an emperor of Rome, and it's literally his notebook.
20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- ▶ 22:33 Spencer Kimball And Edward Gibbon was really exploring the causes for the decline and fall of Rome, and, and whether those applied to the sort of nascent European civilization.
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 23:31 Ryan Smith The second component is that Rome wasn't built in a day and it's going to take time.