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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 32:01 Rory O'Driscoll So if we regulate open AI and anthropic with all the noise that that would have, I don't know if that helps you, because if you're worried about cyber, you're, we said this last week, you're really worried about the North Koreans, the…
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 20:52 Rory O'Driscoll If you don't think the Russian mob are doing that, you know, you're delusional.
OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
- ▶ 1:01:20 Harry Stebbings And then, you know, Icarus, which is the story of the Russian doping, and like, these were films that would not get funded had it not been for his funding, because they were politically sensitive, charged, and he's like, I'm going to…
Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:21 Harry Stebbings How criminal is it that we still buy so much energy from Russia, an adversary that we are openly, you know, funding their competitor of, but we're still funding them to buy energy from?
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:59 unnamed speaker You know, I love this, I often use this expression, you know, the Russian army quantity has a quality all its own, right? 2 times in the scene
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:25 Josh Browder So I was sitting, um, and I've never told this story before, but I was, um, sitting at a poker game at Stanford with my friends, and this is no exaggeration, I, I got a, um, news alert, um, saying, so my father is a human rights activist,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:12 Josh Browder Um, I, I, I physically, like, seen the Russians, like, they've, they've come to our house, like, like, like, like, knocked on the door, um, that news alert, um, where he was arrested. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:36 Harry Stebbings Yeah, it's like, seriously bureaucrat, I've had the Russians, you are nothing, Wandsworth City Council.
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:12 Tobi Lütke 60% of people, more than 60, I think the numbers have gone up since, and people think that the United States is the largest risk to, uh, Canada, like, much larger than, like, Russia or China would be.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41:32 Rory O'Driscoll All the way from there to, is it the new Russia and we got to not give them a single thing because we're scared they're going to nuke us?
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:52 unnamed speaker It used to be hacker farms of people in fill in the blanks, the Philippines, Russia.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27:33 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Like, it's going to kind of continue like this or whatever, and then suddenly came COVID and the war in Russia, and you know, it doesn't think it's like the world just changed, and suddenly came AI, and you suddenly sit there and like, I…
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:10 Jason Lemkin ClickHouse is basically an in-house open source product built at Yandex, which is now Nibius, built in Russia. 2 times in the scene
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:25 Alan Chang When, when we, when we had the, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the gas prices weren't shut up, but the energy companies are offering hundred percent renewable energy tariffs also went up.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28:51 Rory O'Driscoll We had a significant Russia presence, and this was before 2014.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:06 David Cahn And, um, and I think it was very obvious that like, you know, warfare, you see these pictures, these tanks, you know, and these like long chains of tanks from Russia.
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:16 Andrew Feldman I, I think, uh, the arms race certainly didn't, uh, help either the US or, or Russia, uh, in the eighties and nineties.
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:49 Hemant Taneja If you think about the last five years, we've had wars, we had a pandemic, we, we had a situation where because of wars, we actually US, you know, kicked Russia out of swift.
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:35 Harry Stebbings Do you not think open source increases the opportunity set for hostile actors like China and Russia to harm us?
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:50 unnamed speaker Look, I used to invest a lot in China and Russia, uh, back in the 2000 and early 2010. 4 times in the scene
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:14 Taavet Hinrikus We should be living under the assumption that whatever happened in Ukraine now, Russia will try in another country over the next years, and we need to be ready for this.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 1:17:34 unnamed speaker Um, I mean, these aren't heavyweight military drones, but they're drones that, that, that were designed for hobbyists and sixteen-year-old kids are playing a meaningful role, uh, against Russian tanks.
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:36 Oscar Pierre App, and I found, uh, a developing company in Russia, in Eastern Russia, that was the cheapest provider I found, and they promised me that they would, they would deliver a first version of the app for, for like, 8000 euros.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:19 Jonathan Ross And, um, even more so, you know, that, uh, story about how NASA spent a million dollars designing a pen that could write in space and the Russians brought a pencil.
- ▶ 55:57 Jonathan Ross Is it Russia?
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:19 Shervin Pishevar And he bought it, uh, after coming to America from Russia.
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:58 Reid Hoffman Um, what, what if foreign actors, Russia, others, were transferring economics to people with political power in order to influence the U.S. and what they're doing?
- ▶ 7:27 Reid Hoffman Um, or Russia, and that actually, in fact, um, you know, are creating violence and war and, and chaos and, um, you know, kind of in various countries around the world, and you use tariffs and other kinds of sanctions as a way to, to rein…
- ▶ 17:07 Reid Hoffman But now that that's there, I think it's good for Europe to get to its, its, its rightful place, both in, for example, like, defense against terrible players like Russia and things, but also in the world, to be another important force in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:02 Reid Hoffman But then that similarly, when he sees a conspiracy theory on Twitter, that's probably being, um, created by Russian, uh, intelligent assets to destabilize the US.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:07 Torsten Reil One of them was going to be an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the other one an invasion of Taiwan by China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:48 Torsten Reil One of them was going to be an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the other one an invasion of Taiwan by China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:46 Harry Stebbings Do we underestimate the capabilities of Russia and Iran specifically? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:06 Torsten Reil I think Russia is building roughly the same.
- ▶ 1:05:39 Harry Stebbings Where are we in three years with Russia, Ukraine?
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:00 Harry Stebbings Specifically around defense, I want to dive into in what ways is the perceived risk from Russia worsening, and how is support for joint defense in NATO changing?
- ▶ 27:38 Klaus Hommels So, for example, everybody says, yeah, but Russia has the capacity or the economic power of something between Portugal and Spain. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:12 Harry Stebbings We have Russia, Ukraine.
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:52 Markus Villig So, I mean, we, we grew up under the Russian occupation in Estonia, uh, and at the time entrepreneurship was banned, so they couldn't pursue their ambitions.
- ▶ 1:24:06 Markus Villig Russia attacking Ukraine, killing people, and everybody's just basically forgotten about it.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:55 Matt Grimm I think what we would like to see happen is a recognition of and an acknowledgement of what we see as a pretty obvious and emerging conflict around freedom, around democracy, around the rights of citizens to have free speech, free…
- ▶ 9:29 Matt Grimm I think you could see, uh, Russian expansionism vis-a-vis Ukraine kind of keep pushing into Eastern Europe.
- ▶ 10:31 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Russia, Ukraine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:33 Matt Grimm Would appreciate the urgency of the problem, and I think that over the last, call it decade, I think, ah, the, the, the governments of the West have largely gotten complacent to what we view as the, kind of, the major geopolitical… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:00 Matt Grimm Uh, then they'll, they'll either give them to the Russians, then the Russians will shoot them at the Ukrainians, or they'll just shoot them at, at Israel from Iran.
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:08 Eoghan McCabe Yeah, I mean, the United States and Russia have many thousands of nukes pointed at each other, ready to go, and the United States is fighting a proxy war with Russia. 2 times in the scene
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:24 Shaun Maguire Um, look, like, when Russia invaded Ukraine for the first year or so, a lot of the munitions were coming from Iran, and anyways, it's, it's, you know, when, when America was fighting in Afghanistan, Iran was, like, deeply supporting the…
- ▶ 11:20 Shaun Maguire The number one reason why I was afraid of Trump was because in 2016, he was supported by Russia. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Harry Stebbings Middle East, and then Russia.
- ▶ 23:09 Shaun Maguire And it was stolen, you know, for Trump through Russian interference.
- ▶ 28:56 Shaun Maguire Prisoner swap with Russia for Evan, uh, Gersowicz, the Wall Street Journal reporter. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:06 Shaun Maguire And so I just, I think that people, people making the threat, the claim that Russia 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:58 Shaun Maguire People don't understand how much this is happening right now, especially after the war in Ukraine, where US sanctioned Russia, Russia basically moved off swift.
- ▶ 1:04:26 Shaun Maguire You know, and, but have some, there needs to be some security guarantee with teeth that is not NATO, but it's something else to have a deterrence against Russia, just kind of doing the same thing again and just eating away more and more…
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:30 Harry Stebbings By Russia.
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:42 Harry Stebbings Would mean that our biggest enemies, Russia, China, are able to access the same levels of technology that we are.
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:10 Alex Wang Let's say China or Russia had AGI today and the United States didn't, I would imagine they would use that to conquer.
- ▶ 40:59 Alex Wang Uh, there are totalitarian leaders right now in the world, you know, many of them with, for whom, like, you know, let's say China or Russia, uh, had AGI today, and the United States didn't, um, you know, I would, I would imagine, uh, they… 2 times in the scene
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:01 Mark Suster Let's look at Russia. 2 times in the scene
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:22 Mario Schlosser I'm just gonna take my hundred million and buy Russian rockets.
- ▶ 38:55 Mario Schlosser Which was in Russia and Germany are kicked out in the first round after winning the World Cup in twenty-fourteen. 2 times in the scene
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:01 Trae Stephens You know, Iran, Russia.
- ▶ 57:14 Trae Stephens He had clearly been telegraphing his intention, um, with tech development in Russia since even before Android was started.
Billy Hult: 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue|E1134 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:41 Billy Hult If you start with, like, American politics, and then get into the Middle East, and then get into kind of Russia, and then we have, you know,
Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:27 Harry Stebbings Should we trade with Russia? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:35 Joe Lonsdale I'm very concerned about the geopolitical situation with China and Russia and the potential of war.
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Sami Inkinen Yeah, well, I grew up in Finland, uh, about 200 miles northeast of Helsinki, very close to the wonderful border with, uh, Russia.
Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:00 Christian Hecker We need to go to Sweden to maybe Russia to hire these people.
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:21 unnamed speaker I do want to touch on Russia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:54 Erik Allebest They reached out to us to let us know about, you know, this death threat on the internet that someone had ponied up some money to have you killed, and the reasons were because of your stance on, you know, on Russia. 3 times in the scene
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:08 Harry Stebbings Since, uh, sadly Israel, but Russia.
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:32 Nick Tomaino Um, it's not a super well-known venture fund, but, um, really good Russian entrepreneurs that had founded a few multi-billion dollar companies that, you know, were investing, um, in mostly, um, like SaaS, enterprise SaaS companies, but…
Harry debates Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: "Should startups target niche markets?" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:26 Matthew Prince They want you to take on tasks that if they're successful, um, are, are, you know, can get you sanctioned by Russia.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:33 Matthew Prince The, the fact that, you know, we detected in December of 2021 the early indicia of, of, um, of Russia probing, uh, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:39 Matthew Prince They want you to take on tasks that if they're successful, um, are, are, you know, can get you sanctioned by Russia.
Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:40 Mudassir Sheikha They'd done something in Russia and, and Middle East was in that list as well.
Stephane Kurgan: Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400; How to Find Great Talent | E1041 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:00 Stephane Kurgan I went to Russia and Eastern Europe in 91.
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:08 Akin Babayigit Five percent of Facebook's mobile revenue was coming from like three developers in Russia at the time, which is absolutely incredible, right?
- ▶ 30:34 Akin Babayigit They're from, uh, Vologda, Russia, right?
Bill Ackman: SVB Collapse; Biden vs Trump; How I Lost $400M on Netflix; Bill's 10-Year Long | E991 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:49 Bill Ackman We have Ukraine, Russia. 5 times in the scene
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:27 Steve Pagliuca The big wild card is, is going to be the, the Russia-Ukraine situation.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:05 Emil Michael I think about that negotiation is actually, if you think about it as it applies to Russia-Ukraine war, it really matters.
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:21 Wesley Chan Like, I started fundraising, like, three days before, you know, the whole, before Russia started invading Ukraine, I thought I'd be screwed, um, and, you know, it's very terrible what's happening there, but, um,
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:30 Sonali De Rycker So it meant going very early to Russia, to Vilnius.
Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:42 Zhenya Loginov So in high school and college, I did a bunch of like computer programming competitions or Russian competitions and so on.
Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:23 Gary Vaynerchuk So for example, I was born in the USSR and communist Russia from 1917 till 1991 basically did not let people leave the country. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:02 Gary Vaynerchuk And what that meant in Russia talk was in that briefcase was cash to get shit done.
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:06 Fabrice Grinda And, and, and, and at the same time, imagine you have continued geopolitical uncertainty because the, the Ukraine conflict drags on, which I could see dragging on kind of forever, given the quackmire, uh, that, that, that, that the Russian…
- ▶ 43:31 Fabrice Grinda We have, like, what, all the bank earnings have not been announced, but, like, the decoupling of, from Russia, there's going to be massive write-offs of assets there, of, like, Russian debt, Russia, uh, um, 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 45:00 David Fialkow Icarus was the story of the Russian doping scandal, but it didn't start out that way. 2 times in the scene
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 27:08 Fabrice Grinda And at the same time, imagine you have continued geopolitical uncertainty because the Ukraine conflict drags on, which I could see dragging on kind of forever, given the quackmire that the Russian forces are in.
- ▶ 37:14 Fabrice Grinda We have all the bank earnings that have not been announced, but like the decoupling from Russia, there's going to be massive write-offs of assets there, of like Russian debt. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 45:49 Avichal Garg And as we're seeing kind of with the Russia situation in Ukraine right now, there's going to be a Chinese sphere of influence. 2 times in the scene
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 3:16 Lenny Rachitsky Back then I was the USSR, and I'm Jewish, my family's Jewish, and we, my parents always kind of wanted to get out of there, to get out of Russia. 3 times in the scene
How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:16 Harry Stebbings What about, you know, Russia, China, um, Brazil, um, some of the less climate-friendly governments?
20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
- ▶ 4:39 Tony Fadell In fact, they were traded as black market currency in Russia. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 40:32 Palmer Luckey I think, if anything, I'd say, of all the political opinions in the United States, one of the rarest is that we would rather have foreign powers, like China and Russia, have better military technology than the United States.
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
- ▶ 27:49 Angela Strange True Story of Bill Browder setting up one of the first private investment funds in Russia.
20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?
- ▶ 32:36 Steve Blank All of a sudden, Russia's our best friend, and we're not going to pay attention.
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