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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 1:04:59 Jason Lemkin We're rooting for you, Rory and Scale. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 7:49 Jason Lemkin And, and I know for it scales scale, that's a good outcome, right?
- ▶ 1:04:09 Jason Lemkin So that was the, that was the discussion of the last scale CFO summit going in tonight.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 32:00 Jason Lemkin Listen, maybe, maybe at the scale size or bigger, the math's different, but for a smaller fund, I'm, I have, I'm lucky to have three fund returners, ok?
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:51 unnamed speaker But the scales of the world, you're not blocking exits, right?
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:57 Harry Stebbings I don't work with him, but he's my papa, is Rory O'Driscoll from SCALE, who likewise has been around the block a few times.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:47 unnamed speaker This is our new 20 VC scale SASTR demo day.
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:22 unnamed speaker Um, but I think everyone at scale has a trap, which is there, your installed base is a trap.
- ▶ 59:46 Harry Stebbings I would argue that your fund scale 3 times in the scene
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:40 Jason Lemkin This is not a unicorn trying to figure out what to do with the last twenty million that Saster scale and 20 VC gave it.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:28 Jason Lemkin God, I can't imagine going to the scale partner meetings.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:09 Harry Stebbings So, one of my dear friends is Rory O'Driscoll from Scale, and he always says, the thing I love about Harry is the statement, that's great, Jerry, but what about me?
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:54 Harry Stebbings You're a GP at SCAD, okay?
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:32 Jason Lemkin But the thing is, maybe they're kind, but walking away, like very few firms, I'm sure scale's different.
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:03 Jason Lemkin They got to break, break even last year because scale and 20 VC aren't going to put any more money in, even though they're supportive because the growth's not there, right?
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:08 Harry Stebbings Rory O'Driscoll at scale, who's a phenomenal, I love Rory, a dear friend of mine.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:05 unnamed speaker Let me know if you want 20 VC and scale in it as funds you can raise for.
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:18 Jason Lemkin I like, Rory did a deal, I think in the last week or scale did, I really liked personally, even though I didn't examine it.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:53 Harry Stebbings I'm always told by a dear friend, Rory O'Driscoll at Scale, I don't know if you know Rory, but fantastic investor, and he always says to me, listen, value generation from AI is fundamentally dependent on one simple question.
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25:03 Jason Lemkin What do you, how are you thinking as we come to the end of the year at scale?
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:34 Jason Lemkin Every single portfolio company at scale, 20 VC, or better be using AI by this point to make your product better.
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:13 Harry Stebbings Rory O'Driscoll from scale.
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
- ▶ 7:34 Jason Lemkin Yeah, I don't know what, what scales policy is where I'd be interested to learn.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:09 Jason Lemkin Yeah, and Rory's more A and B, but it's not, two hundred million doesn't really get, get, get you out of bed at scale. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:07 unnamed speaker You know, we had missed the rounds that were the typical scale round for company A. 2 times in the scene
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:42 Harry Stebbings In terms of overestimations, you know, I was just chatting with Rory O'Driscoll from Scale and Jason Lemkin, who we have our weekly show, and they actually said that the biggest problem with today is we're seeing this overestimation of…
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:58 Jason Lemkin And then, and then I hear, Hey, you know, scale wants to put in money at two 50 on that deal.
- ▶ 1:06:26 Rory O'Driscoll And that's why I think this, this deal felt to me from a distance, like I'm not the infrastructure guy at scale, but it felt to me from a distance like that's a, that's a damn smart, obvious combo.
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:31 Harry Stebbings So funny, I'm very good friends with Rory O'Driscoll from SCALE, who I think is one of the most brilliantly strategic, but, um,
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 10:27 Harry Stebbings I did a show with Rory O'Driscoll from Scale, who I think is one of the best SaaS investors of this generation.
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:05 Harry Stebbings I think the fundamental question that Rory or Driscoll actually at scale, I don't like to tell them, but they actually make me quite a lot smarter by hanging out with them.
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:14 Jason Lemkin They bought, uh, scale seven or SASTR one at a 20% discount, immediately marked it up because the, uh, to, to, to, to mark to market, and the funds up 20%.
- ▶ 1:24:47 Jason Lemkin You, you debate this for weeks in 2019, where we'd be at the partner meeting at scale.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:08 Rory O'Driscoll And do you think, the last question here, scale, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I agree with that.
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:32 Brian Halligan The backstory on scale. 2 times in the scene
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:29 Harry Stebbings My question to you on the back of that is, Rory O'Driscoll from Scale always laughs with me.
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:06 Jason Lemkin So if I do my VCs, if I have my spreadsheet junkies on the scale team, I'm going to say, go invest in, in those guys, right?
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:50 Jason Lemkin And I'll give you an example from, from yesterday, from a,
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:05 Harry Stebbings It's interesting though, Roy, if me and you were partners at scale, and I hope I'm not overstepping here, but I would be like, 2 times in the scene
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:07 Jason Lemkin Your candidates outside of some scales are going to be limited to megafunds.
- ▶ 54:10 Jason Lemkin I mean, Rory, Rory, Scales and Investor both.
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:09 Jason Lemkin But we're going to, to Harry's point, when, when you're looking at deals at scale today, um, has defensibility and unique selling proposition, has that gone down when you score a deal?
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:09 Rory O'Driscoll If you're running and you want to make sure that you're matching whatever it is that those guys are, you know, the other people are doing that you perceive as your scale peers, small s, not us, then you're going to do what they're going to…
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:49 Harry Stebbings Rory, why do you not do it with scale in total respect?
- ▶ 58:45 Harry Stebbings That is not a scale deal.
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:16 Jason Lemkin I'm not saying it's true at scale, Rory, but at 90% of VC funds, why would you stay be given? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:14 Jason Lemkin They haven't brought, it's great we bought Zendesk and Anaplan and Shmanaplan, but if none of them are returning cash, that's an order of magnitude bigger issue than these little, you know, these little eight or nine figure checks into…
- ▶ 1:07:01 Harry Stebbings Where do you think your scale is not playing the game correctly today? 3 times in the scene
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:13 unnamed speaker And, you know, and what you see in that is if you don't go and we wrestle with this, if you don't grow the fund size, we were finding a deals that we would have thought were the scale sweet spot.
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:17 Oana Olteanu So because I've invested at the later stages of scale ventures, I could tell that one of the founders I get to work with at Seed is lagging behind go to market.
- ▶ 14:56 Oana Olteanu I left scale ventures. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:12 Oana Olteanu So, scale venture partners, I got my green card, and once I had my immigration freedom, I wanted to invest at the earlier stages, and the other compelling factor was the focus on founder NPS, and not only verbal, but also in action. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Upfront's Mark Suster on COVID Redefining What A Great Company Looks Like and What Valuations Look Like, Why Pay-To-Play Is Back On The Table & Why We Will See The Death of Party Rounds
- ▶ 39:15 Mark Suster So if I said one was my favorite, it would be disingenuous, but I'm going to talk about one that I really enjoyed and who I found valuable, which is Rory O'Driscoll at Scale Ventures.
20VC: Why You Never Want To Fight A Fair Fit For Distribution, Why No Great Company Is Built with 1 Product and When To Release Your Second & What Founders Can Do To Extract The Most From Their Cap Table with Shoaib Makani, Founder & CEO @ KeepTruckin
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings ...investors, including Index, GV, Green Oaks, IVP, and Scale Venture Partners. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:53 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many good things, both from Samesh at IVP, and then also from Alex at Scale.
- ▶ 8:31 Harry Stebbings And when I spoke to Alex at scale before the show, he said, if you invest in rate of growth, there's no better CEO to get behind.
20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings As for Hunter, he is actively involved in the assessment of micro VC managers for the firm, where he sits on the LP advisory boards for the likes of Pear, Foundry Group, Scale Venture Partners, and Bullpen Capital, just to name a few.
- ▶ 20:33 Hunter Somerville There are groups like a scale or an open view that I think are very effective in this category, but it's difficult to do.
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 20:29 Harry Stebbings I do want to cross-check and cross-reference you with another person, and that's Rory at O'Driscoll at Scale, obviously a very successful salesman.
20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings I also want to say a huge thank you to Rory O'Driscoll at scale for the intro to Roger today, without which this interview would not have been possible.
- ▶ 26:30 Harry Stebbings My word, I have to say, as a venture nerd, that really was just a dream interview with me, digging into all things VC and investing there, and a huge thanks to Roger for giving up the time today to appear on the show, and a big hand to…
20VC: The Radical Changes In Public Market Expectations, The Right Way To Assess Valuation & What It Means To Be A Disciplined & Diligent Investor with Randy Glein, Partner @ DFJ Growth
- ▶ 27:31 Harry Stebbings 60 seconds, but I do, I do want one now, and this one do you have to ask, and it's Roy at scale recently said to me on the show, markets make outcomes, team outcomes,
20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 21:31 Harry Stebbings I'm, I'm really pleased you said about the Salesforce product there, because final question before we dive into a quick fire, and it's on, on product and market itself, because I had Rory O'Driscoll at scale on the show the other day, and… 2 times in the scene
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 8:26 Harry Stebbings We actually had Rory O'Driscoll at scale on the show recently, and I asked him what would happen in terms of if you advise a CEO or a founder on a strategy and they ignore it and then go their own way.
20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings So, time to meet the man himself, Rory O'Driscoll, founding member and partner at Scale Venture Partners.
- ▶ 2:27 Harry Stebbings However, enough from me, so without further ado, I'm delighted to welcome Rory O'Driscoll, founding member at Scale Venture Partners. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:06 Harry Stebbings But I do want to break the show up today into three different sectors, and start on the macro, then move to scale, and then move to you as an investor and a board member. 3 times in the scene
20 VC 021: Gender Equality, Startup Valuations and 'Friend Raising before Fund Raising with Sharon Wienbar
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Sharon invests in mobile and internet companies at Scale Venture Partners, where she sits on the boards of Actions, Beach Mint, Everyday Health, Playphone, Reply.com, and Utest.
- ▶ 1:11 Sharon Wienbar So I've been here at Scale Venture Partners for about 15 years, and before that I have sort of two professional past lives.
- ▶ 2:52 Harry Stebbings And as a partner of Scale Venture Partners, where you are now, you work alongside two other female partners, I believe, and I think that's the highest number in the industry, um, leading me to ask, with the scientific studies coming out… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 Sharon Wienbar It's one of the strengths, I think, of scale venture partners, even though we're a single location firm, so we have one office here in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 23:47 Sharon Wienbar So, for example, what, you know, what the companies that come to scale venture partners are looking for is they're looking for 2 times in the scene