San Diego, every mention
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every year anyone Miles Clements 3Harry Stebbings 3Wayne Ting 2Shaun Maguire 2Pat Grady 2Matteo Franceschetti 2John Fein 2Glen Coates 2Wesley Chan 1Tooey Courtemanche 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where San Diego comes up
Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 1:15:45 Matteo Franceschetti Um, I almost knew nothing about computers until then, and then after I graduated, I saved enough money with my first tiny startup, call it startup in, in Italy, and then my dad took a loan to send me to San Diego to study English, and then… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:40 Harry Stebbings But you've got to change your life to go from 23 to 30 and to get magna cum laude and speak English and go to San Diego.
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 12:57 Fred Turner And then in December of 2019, as part of the wind down, I sold that license to a company in San Diego for 150,000 dollars to pay some of the creditors.
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:52 Miles Clements You know, he lives in Del Mar outside of San Diego until, um, he basically decided, you know, whether or not he was going to raise money. 3 times in the scene
Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:13 Wayne Ting Um, in the history of Lime, it was, it would probably be San Diego. 2 times in the scene
David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:42 David Schneider We wouldn't be portrayed as some small little Silicon Valley startup or San Diego-based startup anymore.
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:12 Shaun Maguire If you go report that a Jewish dentist in San Diego is stabbed to death by a patient named Mohammed, this actually happened. 2 times in the scene
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:54 Sanjit Biswas But what was interesting is a lot of our salespeople were moving, they're moving to San Diego or Austin, Texas, or, you know, kind of heading to places they wanted to be.
Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:39 Tooey Courtemanche Um, he and I were in San Diego yesterday visiting my mom, his grandmother, and he, we dropped him off on the way coming up north in L.A., and he goes, hey, Dad, you want to stop with me and go see the Charger game tonight?
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:15 Jason Lemkin It's not as simple as it sounds, but finding that soul almost solo founder from Lisbon that knows no one that, that only doesn't even have a desk in San Diego.
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:49 Adam Besvinick Um, but a lot were in other, I'll call secondary tertiary tech hubs, Austin, Chicago, Boulder, San Diego, Portland, Oregon, Toronto, Durham, North Carolina, Boston.
Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:31 Glen Coates I've had a winding and weird career that just looks stupid on paper, but, um, I, uh, I was a comp sci grad, I, I was a video game developer for three or four years, um, I ended up in San Diego, uh, basically one of my high school teachers… 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
- ▶ 3:36 Lenny Rachitsky Got a job right at college in San Diego at a startup.
20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures
20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Peter is the managing partner at BioInnovation Capital, the one hundred and thirty million dollar fund transforming life science investing through backing companies based in shared labs in Cambridge, San Francisco, San Diego, Durham, and…
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 24:09 Micah Rosenbloom So one of my, one of my more recent deals that was announced was a company called SkySafe, which is a drone prevention technology company actually based in San Diego.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 2:45 Howard Lindzon I live in San Diego, uh, one daughter in college, uh, one son in senior, two dogs,
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 8:26 Wesley Chan I had to wind up, you know, scouring the world to find a team in San Diego that also no one had heard of called Urchin Software and brought them into Google and spent three years sort of locked in a closet somewhere building out analytics.
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 11:08 Chris Douvos San Diego or wherever.
20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings But did you know the record for the most days without sleep was 12 days, set by a sixteen-year-old called Randy Gardner in San Diego?