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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town Sep 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:20 Harry Stebbings And I think Rory, you said that AGI will be declared by when Satya and Sam agree that AGI is here.

ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern Aug 31, 2026 · 1 mention

Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive Aug 29, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:19 Eno Reyes Satya wrote a great piece about this.
  • ▶ 49:48 Eno Reyes Right now, Satya has played a masterful game of getting huge upside from the open AI investment and work.

Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated Aug 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 45:18 Rory O'Driscoll But yes, from a valuation peak perspective, anything to do, I mean, it started with the Satya comments on every enterprise needs to have its own knowledge and not give it up to the frontier to which it, 2 times in the scene

The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock Aug 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:50 Jerry Murdock Microsoft, Satya Nadella himself come out and said, look, we've got a lot of the data around the communication, how communication works inside an organization.

Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue? Aug 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:28 Harry Stebbings Is there a fantastic tweet that said Satya should buy it and then make Scott be CEO of Microsoft?

Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B Aug 5, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 51:14 Rory O'Driscoll And you're clearly a hundred percent tracking, Satya, with the kind of Microsoft comments recently on, you know, age companies, and it makes them do enterprises need to build their own value, build their own context rather than do it in… 3 times in the scene

Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 2, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:21 Rory O'Driscoll Ironically, just when they had one of their big announcements and Satya made all this conversation about their direction on AI, maybe it suddenly opened people's eyes. 2 times in the scene

Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:23 Aravind Srinivas Um, Satya even made the statement that it's like a can of water or something, uh, in terms of how efficient these companies are.

Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 1, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 7, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:42 Jason Lemkin And, and when that open AI blew up and they fired Sam, Sacha kept saying that this is not such a huge bet for us back then. 3 times in the scene

The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI Feb 5, 2026 · 4 mentions

Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:12 Jason Lemkin You need somebody like Toby or maybe even, I mean, a Satya or something like that that can take some crazy bets, but most, most companies don't want to take that bet.

Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:12 Jason Lemkin I'm not saying it hasn't happened with Satya and, and, and, but look at our, how many folks in your portfolio without a founder can switch into hyper aggressive mode?

Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:16 unnamed speaker I think when all is said, and as I said before, on Microsoft's side, when all is said and done, the shareholders should award medals to Satya,

Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:16 Harry Stebbings When I hear you talk about the centrality of design there, I think about Satya Nadella's statement

Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2025 · 1 mention

General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:56 Hemant Taneja Well, uh, I think that, that relationship was, if you remember when that was done, everybody says Satya is brilliant.

20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader Sep 5, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 26:19 Alex Schultz But then you look at Demis, you look at Mark, you look at the big company folks, you look at Satya, you look at Sundar.
  • ▶ 55:54 Alex Schultz The way they have revolutionized themselves in the last 15 years, the prescience of Thatya. 4 times in the scene

Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 7, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:57 Harry Stebbings I'm going to give you the chance to grant a CEO of the Year award, and you can grant it to Satcher or Zuck.
  • ▶ 1:03:38 unnamed speaker I'll tell you why you absolutely have to go Versace over Zuck, like by far. 9 times in the scene

Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:46 unnamed speaker And, you know, you know, Sadia made the ever so funny comment that, you know, he wanted to make Google dance.
  • ▶ 47:15 unnamed speaker They did a bunch of layoffs and, uh, you know, and, you know, Satya did his comment on the enigma of growth.

Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 43:13 Harry Stebbings If it is five years out, and that is now 30, 40, is there a ceiling to what investors are okay with Satya, Larry, Sergey, you name it, spending?
  • ▶ 58:33 Harry Stebbings That's Satya's perspective though, isn't it really? 3 times in the scene

Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 2, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:04 Harry Stebbings When we talk about the right form factor for these remote async agents, it kind of makes me think about something that Satya said, and I did write it down because I wanted to make sure that I got it right because I didn't want to misquote… 2 times in the scene

OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 56:12 Jason Lemkin I mean, uh, I see why Satya was sitting pretty and wasn't really concerned about all this. 2 times in the scene

20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak Apr 11, 2025 · 1 mention

Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 31, 2025 · 2 mentions

Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 24, 2025 · 1 mention

Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 21, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 13:00 Elias Torres I mean, Satya is like, as a businessman, like, respect, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:06:46 Harry Stebbings It's funny, Satya said we misappropriate success in AI to AGI, and actually the way that we should appropriate it is 10% increase in GDP. 2 times in the scene

Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 17, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 49:22 Yamini Rangan I, I, I, and you know, I'll tell you, like, I think Satya Nadella is like one of my whole time favorites. 7 times in the scene

20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify Mar 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:19 Matt Biilmann And then I think, of all of those, I think right now the, the Satya is the strongest of the strongest CEO in that space.

Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:35 Jonathan Ross Um, I think Google said 70 or 75, and Satya said Microsoft's doing 80, and then you've also got Stargate, right?

Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 29, 2025 · 4 mentions

George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 22, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:32 Harry Stebbings I thought about actually Satya's statement the other day that he made, which is the notion that business apps exist. 2 times in the scene

Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:36 Eran Zinman I think the, you know, Sataya, the CEO of Microsoft, have done it tremendously

Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:35 Shervin Pishevar So he ultimately won, and, uh, you know, they, they did a great job in hiring Satya, because Satya's just been, I think, the greatest, greatest CEO, uh, one of the greatest CEOs of our lifetimes.

Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 6, 2024 · 1 mention

Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 4, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 51:18 Maria Angelidou Well, I cannot not mention, um, with everything that's going on in our industry, uh, Satya and Microsoft and what he did with open AI and infection AI. 2 times in the scene

Aman Narang: 5 Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | E1192 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 21, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:10 Aman Narang I mean, I've heard just like great things about Satya, about how he's transformed Microsoft, you know, in terms of building an amazing culture and learn from a learning mindset and growth mindset.

Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 16, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:15 Laela Sturdy You point out Satya, I know dozens of incredible CEOs that were not founders and have same, but different mix of special sauce that makes them
  • ▶ 19:52 Harry Stebbings And I said, well, you know, Satya Nadella 3 times in the scene

David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:10 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, you mentioned the realization there across the board from, as you said, Satya and Mark more specifically, um, what happens then a realization that leads to a reduction in that capex spend, a realization that means it's now…

Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 29, 2024 · 4 mentions

Ara Mahdessian: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier | E1175 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 10, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:25 Ara Mahdessian You know, for example, Tui, or Toby at Shopify, or, you know, Chris from Toast, who are so relevant to what we do in vertical sass, but then, of course, you know, like, people like Satya, et cetera, who I could learn so much from.

Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 1, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:50 Matt Clifford Like, you know, one of the things that I found just, like, really dispiriting when I was working in government last year was that, um, it was an enormous privilege, but I, you know, I got to go and meet Satya Nadella and Andy Jassy and,…

Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 12, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:28 Alex Wang Obviously, I don't think this is practical, but I do think Satya Nadella has, has been one of the most brilliant business strategists of the modern era. 3 times in the scene

Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 10, 2024 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 22:49 Harry Stebbings Like, does, does Satya call you and go like, ah, let's take this one. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:58 Reid Hoffman I mean, like, for example, the very first OpenAI Microsoft deal was, you know, Satya and Kevin Scott brought to the Microsoft board.
  • ▶ 1:06:51 Reid AI I'd say Satya Nadella. 10 times in the scene

Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:01 Aravind Srinivas Uh, that's why they were all jokes, you know, when the whole board drama was happening, that Satya acquired OpenAI, like, at a small price.

Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:26 Tom Hulme So I think it was an incredibly smart move by Nadella in order just to lock in a cluster for training.

Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:12 Harry Stebbings I never want to compete against fucking Sam Altman doing foundation models and Dario from Anthropic and Satya at Microsoft.

Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 4, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:18:21 Tooey Courtemanche Um, I have the fortunate, um, privilege of having, um, uh, Satya be a mentor of mine, and I am absolutely fascinated by the complexity of that business, and how he makes sense out of it all.

Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:18 Des Traynor What we saw on Tuesday of this week, I don't know when this will go out, but like, uh, from my mind was like Sam and to some degree even Satya, uh, out there, like talking from a leadership position, from an authoritative position about…

Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 12, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:12 Michael Eisenberg Of the tech leadership, of Satya Nadella, of Sundar at Google, of Zuck, has been astounding, and it's been correct and forceful in condemning, ah, the animalistic barbarian behavior of Hamas and the terror that they've wrought.

Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 22, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 44:03 Harry Stebbings Uh, tell me, Quentin Clark said, were you right about Satya in the beginning? 6 times in the scene

Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 27, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:35:09 unnamed speaker I've been very impressed with what Satya and Microsoft has done with the OpenAI integration. 2 times in the scene

Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 17, 2023 · 1 mention

Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 28, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:48 Sarah Guo I think Satya has done an amazing job making a, making Satya and Kevin Scott, um, have done an amazing job championing, like really believing in this set of technologies, taking a bunch of bets, open AI and otherwise, using it as an… 2 times in the scene

Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight Jul 15, 2021 · 1 mention

20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst Dec 28, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:22 Quentin Clark And I was at Microsoft, and Microsoft before Satya was a little insular.
  • ▶ 9:31 Quentin Clark And ultimately, so the very best people that I've worked with over the years, that includes Gates, it includes McDermott, it includes Satya, it includes so many people, are both great leaders and great managers.
  • ▶ 28:28 Harry Stebbings You've worked with some of the very best founders, as you said, like Bill, Satya, Drew.

20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset Dec 7, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:43 Reid Hoffman I have no, no operational authority, and it's one of the things that's, like, helped being on the Microsoft board, because Satya feels perfectly comfortable having me meet with, like, everybody, like, people in company, product groups, and…

20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open Jul 8, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:01 Byron Deeter Meanwhile, you look at what's happened with Microsoft and the transition they did several years ago, moving to Satya, who was the head of their cloud group, promoting him to the head of Microsoft corporate and seeing this fantastic…
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