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Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:20 Jason Lemkin Okay, Scott was, Scott Belsky was paying twice what anyone else would pay to get shit done. 3 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27:23 unnamed speaker One, uh, Scott Belsky leaving bad sign for AI at Adobe. 5 times in the scene
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:33 Jason Lemkin And all of a sudden Scott Belsky and team are heroes.
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:28 Jason Lemkin You know, it also, you know, I mean, Scott Belsky was right. 4 times in the scene
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:52 Harry Stebbings You know, I'm friends with Scott Belsky, for example, who obviously former CPO to Adobe just recently.
Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:43 Harry Stebbings You know, I had Belsky and Gustav on the show, and they said that we will kind of measure the quality of a candidate by the quality of their prompts.
David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:54 David Luan I think the main way it plays out is, um, actually, this is something I'm gonna steal from, um, our angel investor, Scott Belsky, who, uh, has just thought about this so much. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:02 Jason Lemkin Scott wanted to, Scott Belsky, I mean, he's great.
Jean-Michel Lemieux: Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | E1129 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:44 Harry Stebbings And they don't move as fast as they do today, with people like Scott Balski fucking dominating at the helm of Adobe. 2 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:01 Des Traynor It can do all that shit, really, like, at least the tech demos I've seen, the stuff that, like, Scott Belsky shares and all that.
Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:14 Harry Stebbings When I say, like, master product mind, I immediately, for me, think about two people, Scott Balski and Antoine Martin.
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:34 Harry Stebbings Like, Belsky tried it, Joe Fernandez tried it, like all these people who are good tried it, and it did not work.
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:32 Harry Stebbings Like Belsky tried it, Joe Fernandez tried it, like all these people who are good tried it and it did not work.
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:40 Harry Stebbings Scott Belsky actually said on the show, uh, intuition is what takes you to the mountain.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:41 Semil Shah And then this is more of a, um, you know, is a close friend for many years, but I think Scott Belsky, if I were an early stage. 2 times in the scene
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:08 Harry Stebbings It is clear that like Tony Fidel, Scott Belsky, the innovations and, um, creativity that come from visionaries like them.
Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:12 Harry Stebbings And I am the grown-up product operator, and then I compare it to the best that I'm friends with, like, Belsky or, like, Tony Fidel, and they're still, like, the kids in the playground with product, like, brilliant minds, free, creative,…
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings When you sent me the names of people that I should speak to before the show, I mean, we had Hugo Barrett, what a hero, Mickey Malka, I mean, the most wise man in venture, Scott Belsky, Product OG, and Andy Ratcliffe, one of my heroes, so…
- ▶ 17:30 Harry Stebbings And obviously you became an EIR there, um, which is where you met Scott. 6 times in the scene
Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:35 Harry Stebbings I actually had Scott Belsky on the show say the devil's in the default when it comes to product and growth, being just accepting what is, is where the devil lies. 3 times in the scene
Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings I've been a fan from afar for a while, and then when Scott Belsky said, Kayvon is the best, you have to have him on, I jumped at the chance.
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings It is so great to meet, but I want to start with actually the story of you and Scott that we just touched on before. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:02 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, you mentioned before when we were chatting that actually some of his lessons really impacted you and how you thought. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:29 Harry Stebbings Scott Belsky said on the show, the devil is in the default.
- ▶ 47:50 Kayvon Beykpour Um, Scott Belsky. 6 times in the scene
Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:47 Harry Stebbings When you think about this question, actually Belsky had a great answer to this one, so no pressure on the question. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:32 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, I want to go back to the screwdriver actually, because it reminds me of my conversation with Scott on the first mile experience.
20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt
- ▶ 5:43 Harry Stebbings I thought, actually, it was Scott Belsky who said it well, which was, he said, intuition takes you to the mountain, data gets you up it.
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
- ▶ 24:31 Harry Stebbings I had Scott Belsky on the show the other day, and one of his biggest strengths, a lot of his references said, was his ability to work cross-functionally between product and design.
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 43:32 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible first 20 product with the one and only Scott Belsky.
20VC: Sweetgreen Founder Jonathan Neman on Leadership Lessons from Managing Through COVID, The Importance of Failing Fast and Iterating & How the Best Leaders Bring Together Brand, Capital Allocation and Strategy
- ▶ 11:42 Harry Stebbings You said there about becoming CEO four years ago, and when I spoke to Scott, in particular, Scott Belsky, he said, ask John about the time when there were three CEOs.
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
- ▶ 14:44 Harry Stebbings I mean, speaking of kind of your own dimension story there, I am really interested, because I obviously spoke to Scott Belsky before the show also, and he asked me one really interesting one, and obviously Meerkat and Houseparty competed…
- ▶ 16:19 Ben Rubin So what's interesting, in the example Scott brings, he's talking about Meerkat versus Periscope.
20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- ▶ 20:29 Brianne Kimmel So in that bucket, I would think of investors like a lot Gil, Scott Belsky, the entire collective of hashtag angels, angels who are both helpful, but I think most importantly, they've established this track record in the ecosystem where…
20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings And I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Danny Reimer, Mamoun Hamid, John Lilly, Scott Belson,
- ▶ 11:06 Harry Stebbings And when I chatted to Scott Belsky before the show, he thought this was particularly a fascinating element. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Current VC Financing Mechanism For Consumer Brands Is Broken, Why The Infrastructure To Power Emerging Brands Is Broken and What The Re-Platforming of Retail Means For The Next Decade in Consumer with Adam Pritzker, Chairman & CEO @ Assemble
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings And I do also want to say a huge thank you to Scott Belsky, Edgar Lee at Oatry, and Mimi Chun for the fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 3:16 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Brad Hargreaves and Scott Belsky for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Adam.
- ▶ 26:47 Harry Stebbings As I said, Scott told me it would be wonderful to have you on the show.
20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @
- ▶ 22:08 David Frankel Well, I loved a tweet from my friend, Scott Belsky, where he said, um, resourcefulness is muscle and resources are carbs.
20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Joe has raised over sixteen million dollars in funding for Joy Mode from friends of the show, including Homebrew, Slow Ventures, Founder Collective, Scott Belsky, Collaborative Fund, and Lowercase, just to name a few.
20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
- ▶ 12:57 Harry Stebbings Brings me to an article actually Scott Belsky wrote, which was kind of really the rapid iteration A-B testing that's now inherent with a lot of micro consumer brands.
20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital
- ▶ 12:30 Harry Stebbings Does that take into account that, as Hunter Walt recently said on the show, the truly great deals come from dark deal flow, the likes of Scott Belsky, uh, previously at Benchmark, who founded his startup that was internally funded within…
20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings I'd also like to say a huge thank you to Scott Belsky for the intro to Ben today, without which the episode would not have been possible.
- ▶ 2:43 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Scott at Benchmark for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Ben.
- ▶ 11:08 Ben Blumenfeld So someone, you know, like Scott Belsky or like Jeff Veen.
- ▶ 25:49 Harry Stebbings Scott told me it'd be a fantastic episode, and you've absolutely duly delivered, so thank you so much for joining me on the show today.