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Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:22 Jason Lemkin I think he wants Chinese models banned for use by US companies, and I think in an area, in an era where SPF may get pardoned, the founder of Binance already got pardoned, this is pretty imaginable.
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:20 unnamed speaker The B was the Sam Bankman freed round.
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:44 Harry Stebbings There's Thrive, there's Chamath's numbers, there's Gary Tan on bullshit ARR, there's SBF, the greatest ambassador of our generation.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:08 Rory O'Driscoll Great outcome for, I mean, OpenAI, I'm just, as a reminder, everyone, Sam, Bankman, Freed did the seed. 2 times in the scene
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:37 Harry Stebbings People talk about like, oh, SBF investing early, and what a visionary he was. 2 times in the scene
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings Did you ever cross paths with SPF?
- ▶ 33:22 Harry Stebbings Um, but they said, did you ever cross paths with SBF? 5 times in the scene
Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:58 Rory O'Driscoll Do we really have an audit Sam Bankman?
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:43 unnamed speaker SPF had the same thing.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:33:16 Rory O'Driscoll SPS went to prison, but maybe all the, but he was relatively speaking, a young man with a lot of hubris and we've all been there.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Rory O'Driscoll The fact that Sam invested early in Entropic and Curse is astonishing.
- ▶ 18:53 Rory O'Driscoll That was not cool, Sam. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:31 Jason Lemkin Do you think he deserves, do you think he deserves another startup? 10 times in the scene
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:28 Harry Stebbings Were they difficult with you in terms of needing cash back post SPF?
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:31 Jason Lemkin Not Sam Brankman Flea level or Theranos level, but just enough that it crossed the bullshit line.
Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:32 Dave Ripley Probably the, you know, the, the other dynamic that, you know, has existed, um, frankly throughout this year is, um, and that I kind of like stepped into is, you know, we had SPF and FTX and, and all the other failures of, you know, in the…
Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:20 Harry Stebbings The other element that just came up in the DMs a lot was, um, SBF and FTX, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:25 Kyle Samani Talk about Sam. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:29 Harry Stebbings It's like SPF got all the attention, and yes, he's got a little bit, but nowhere near in any weight, and I know it's very different situations, and so, but media tend to cluster crypto in one bucket, whatever it is in buckets. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:54 Harry Stebbings I think a big question is also bluntly that you mentioned that Biden and, you know, the links to SPF and the funding.
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:57 Harry Stebbings I just think given the volatility of crypto, the man is just an unwavering force of strength in the community with CZ, with SBF,
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:19 Nick Tomaino Sam is so good at execution, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:56 Nick Tomaino So I think Sam is going to be the one that, you know, goes to jail and takes the brunt of it. 4 times in the scene
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:31 Harry Stebbings How was the meeting with Sam? 2 times in the scene
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:44 Albert Wenger Bumble themselves way into being scammers, you know, I'm not trying to pass judgment on which one SBF was.
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:16 Jason Lemkin Um, it's not just Sam Blankman Fried or however you pronounce his name.
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:33 Hadi Partovi That's not spreading on Facebook nearly as much as Sam Bankman freed losing billions of dollars.
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:31 Harry Stebbings Well, I mean, that's Goldman if SPF doesn't buy them, which according to him is a very possible likelihood.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:29 Jason Lemkin Sam Blankman, freed and friends.
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:17 Brian Armstrong I mean, I think Sam is a brilliant guy. 4 times in the scene
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: How to Build Moats Against Incumbents; How to Hire Engineers | 20VC #931 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:45 Tarek Mansour One of the things I like, SBF also tweeted about this thing recently.