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Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:21 Marc Andreessen Um, and then, you know, Bill Gates, you know, his father was a lion of the, you know, Seattle establishment, and he went to all the best, you know, prep schools in Harvard, and, you know, as, as, again, as far as I know, had a perfectly…
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 34:01 Luke Harries In that geo compared to a comparable like New York or Seattle.
20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
- ▶ 27:12 Chad Peets You have them all over the place, and that person's manager is, is in Seattle.
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:04 unnamed speaker Well, you put him on a plane to Seattle and he came back with a bunch of money and now he's king.
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 35:03 Luke Harries In that geo compared to a comparable like New York or Seattle.
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:46 Victor Lazarte So, and, like, the, the, the raw math is, um, like, 70% of the largest tech comp, 70% of, like, all companies in the world were starting the west coast of the United States, like, like, Bayer, Seattle, and I think 0.1% of people live…
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 1:19:51 unnamed speaker Turns out that really smart engineers in Silicon Valley and in Seattle and in LA build rockets too.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:40 Mitchell Green And by the way, to be clear, if you're an associate who's worked here for two years, or a year and a half, and you're going to Seattle for a wedding, and you say, hey, I want to stay on Monday, we'll be like, wonderful, you should meet… 2 times in the scene
TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06 Reid Hoffman I will remain living in Seattle, Washington. 2 times in the scene
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:32 AJ Tennant Like, get in the day of the life, and then the, the, the cherry on top was, I knew, I knew the CEO at the time, John Ledger, used to hang out at the W Bar in Seattle, and so,
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:21 Dmitry Gurski But I never use business class even in my trips to United States, even to Seattle or San Francisco because all the time I'm thinking, okay, five, 10,000.
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:03 Dan Siroker Human beings who, like, fly up to Seattle and meet with the, you know, headquarters, and we had this magical thing of getting large enterprises to adopt our product without a human being in the loop, and I think we too quickly ran away…
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:30 Daniel Dines I think the science of things, the spring was just about to, I remember early days of tech crunch, so I started to, to be connected, actually, more with what happened in the Bay Area, from Romania than when I was in Seattle, when I was…
Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:34 Emil Michael So I flipped it to, uh, to, uh, to Seattle to see Steve Ballmer and Hottie went jogging with him once a month or something.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 4:52 Eugene Wei I went off to Seattle across the country, and that's kind of how I got my first foothold in tech.
20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
- ▶ 42:18 Krista Quarles I mean, you know, it's a 108 in Seattle and my team's there today.
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
- ▶ 4:25 Jay Simons Yeah, I was a young kid from a small town on the coast of Washington State, and I'd gone to college in Seattle, but Seattle at the time was a pretty small and provincial place, so to suddenly land in Seoul, Korea, and Tokyo, and Burma was…
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- ▶ 3:31 Linda Lian So the first one was after a stint at a late stage startup in San Francisco, I moved back to Seattle, didn't know what I was supposed to be doing, cold messaged someone on LinkedIn, his name was David Rosenthal.
20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
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
- ▶ 3:26 Quentin Clark Like, we're up there in the woods in Seattle, and we didn't really kind of get down to the valley very much, right?
20VC: Basecamp Founder David Heinemeier Hansson on Why It Is The Biggest BS To Chase Being A Unicorn, His Relationship to Wealth and Status and Why Now More Than Ever It Is A Myth Entrepreneurs Have To Raise VC
- ▶ 27:08 David Heinemeier Hansson As we talked about remote work, the fact that you don't have to live in Silicon Valley or New York or Seattle or any other high priced metropolitan area to collaborate, to launch something new, you can live wherever and it's going to be…
20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- ▶ 30:37 John Vrionis You know, we invested in a company called Shoot Jinko, based in Seattle, and they were the IT specialists at Starbucks that
20VC: Brad Feld on Why Market Size At Early Stage Is Not Helpful, His Biggest Learnings From The Boom & Bust of The Dot Com and How The Best VCs Work For Their CEOs
20VC: Cameo's Steven Galanis on Why You Must Fall In Love With Your Mission Not Your Product, How To Extract As Much Value From Your Investor Base As Possible & Should You Really Hire For 6 Months Ahead of What You Need?
- ▶ 9:20 Steven Galanis I would jump on a plane to Seattle or to whatever event.
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 3:58 Jeff Richards I grew up in Seattle. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 37:02 Rahul Vohra The rational thing to do is to go and spend the money elsewhere, perhaps in Seattle, where there's less taxation, or perhaps in Canada, where there's R&D credits, the government will literally give you money back to set up an R&D office…
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- ▶ 23:16 Dave Vasen It was really interesting is when I came back to Silicon Valley after being in Seattle for a couple of years is there's this knock against MBAs.
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 26:19 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi I would say at Gradient, as we look through different parts of the world where, you know, AI activity is starting to brew, you know, we're starting to make concerted efforts in particular regions, whether that be Seattle or Toronto, and…
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 20:51 Fritz Lanman and then we brought a bunch of friends along and a bunch of friends were also just kind of figuring out how to do it at the same time, whether it was Charlie song or Adrian who were up with us in Seattle and starting to invest or the S
20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- ▶ 4:51 Leore Avidar Was really exciting to me, and so when I was at AWS, I began seeing the success and thinking about, hey, what are the other ways that I can create superpowers for developers, and so when I moved to Seattle, my co-founder Harry was there at…
20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- ▶ 30:21 Anu Hariharan So Convoy is a B to B trucking marketplace based in Seattle.
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common
- ▶ 4:09 Brad Hargreaves So San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, Washington, D.C., places like that.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
- ▶ 14:08 Frank Mycroft Yeah, uh, the, it's a great question, and, ah, we're fortunate, one of our, our seed investors, we were led by Madrona Venture Group up in Seattle, and, ah, one of their partners was the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency,…
20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- ▶ 16:51 Rebecca Kaden It actually started inside of our office in Seattle.
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 12:30 Hussein Kanji You know, you kind of moved up to Seattle, which is a little bit of a puzzlement.
20 VC 066: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Seth Levine: 'VC Is Not A Scalable Business'
- ▶ 12:59 Seth Levine And, you know, we have some concentrations in New York, in Portland to Seattle.
20 VC 065: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Brad Feld: Founders Should Be Obsessed, Passion Belongs In The Bedroom
20 VC 061: Roxanne Varza on Pitching A VC in 10 Minutes and Maximising Media Exposure For Your Startup
- ▶ 10:43 Roxanne Varza In Europe, we're in France, Germany, the UK, and in the States, we're in Seattle.
20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
- ▶ 2:03 Jon Staenberg And there was a gentleman in Seattle who was a bit of a mentor and had one of the very first venture funds in Seattle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:36 Jon Staenberg It's, uh, I'm sure Ron Conway has done many, many more than that, but in Seattle.
- ▶ 10:15 Jon Staenberg I just spent yesterday looking at a company in Seattle in virtual reality.
- ▶ 10:49 Jon Staenberg Those are two Seattle companies later. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:12 Jon Staenberg This has been a real pleasure for me, and, uh, if you're ever in Seattle, please come visit. 2 times in the scene