Sebastian Siemiatkowski
20 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2021 by Sebastian Siemiatkowski · said 41 times in 12 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2026 12 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 20 mentions in 2 episodes 10 per episode
2024 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
Everything said about Sebastian Siemiatkowski, oldest first
Mar 1, 2021
Siemiatkowski: Operational clarity motivates teams before corporate purpose does
“Sports have, and games have, that makes it motivating, and these essential building blocks have to be in place first, and if you have those building blocks, then you can also add to that a great sense of purpose, and some kind of positive contribution to socie…”
Mar 1, 2021
Siemiatkowski: Leaders should share personal context when in bad moods
“But at least what I've learned to do much more nowadays is that I'm trying, to your point about vulnerability and kind of approachability, I try to at least tell people that. If I go into a meeting, I'm just like, guys, just so you know, like, I had a quarrel …”
Mar 1, 2021
Siemiatkowski: Leaders with self-sustained teams can manage up to 14 direct reports
“In the best of worlds, if you have great leaders That are very self sustained and really can push forward themselves. Then you can have a lot of direct reports. You can even manage up to, you can maybe do 14 people. If you are in a tougher starting phase or wh…”
Mar 1, 2021
Mar 1, 2021 positive
Siemiatkowski names Michael Moritz as the best board member he has had
“Michael Moritz. Michael is amazing in so many ways that like I could write a book about Michael and what he's done for me and the support he's given me. And someday I will tell the stories of what really happened. And I think he genuinely very different to a l…”
Mar 1, 2021 negative
Wealthy people claiming money does not bring happiness are out of touch
“I do think that having that Freedom. And that is sense of, you know, not being dependent on that does give you something very valuable in life that is really different. And I, so that's why I think it's a little bit like, I don't really like when people with m…”
Mar 1, 2021 neutral
Siemiatkowski: Financial and entrepreneurial success cannot repair a broken family
“If I could make it, if I could create something, and if I could improve my financial standing, I would somehow be able to mend the family, which unfortunately life later teaches you doesn't really happen, because it doesn't work that way.”
Mar 1, 2021
Siemiatkowski was relieved when Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth left
“With Niklas and me, it was slightly different because at the end, me and Niklas became a little bit like an old couple. An old couple to me is one where you kind of stop listening to each other, so you don't anymore actually hear what the other person is sayin…”
Mar 1, 2021
Siemiatkowski: Personal accountability accelerates leadership learning speed
“Because they're so obsessed of trying to kind of think about what other people could have done differently, and why situations arised, and why it wasn't their responsibility, and so forth. They spend a lot of time on that, because we've unfortunately brought u…”
Feb 16, 2026
Siemiatkowski passed on early advisory and angel investment role in Nubank
“He sends me an email, which was like, hey, Sebastian, would you like to, like, advise me a little bit? I'm starting this new company. And I was like, I'm sorry, I don't have the time. So I lost out on a lot of, a lot, I would have been a great angel investor t…”
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Siemiatkowski: Tech executives are hiding the reality of AI job displacement
“I feel like Dario maybe is one of few that actually is willing to stick up and say that officially. I feel a lot of the other executives of these big companies are getting nervous. They don't want, they're seeing the negative backlash of talking about this, an…”
Feb 16, 2026 neutral
Siemiatkowski: Enterprise AI adoption is delayed by human habit change
“My problem is that like I overestimate, it takes time for people to change habits and ways of working and stuff like that. So I actually think it's going to take a little bit longer. The adoption, it's not necessarily the capabilities of the technology, but li…”
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Siemiatkowski: Klarna should have exercised greater caution on hiring before layoffs
“I could have been, you know, more careful, specifically on the hiring side, because it was very sad and difficult to me to, like, a few quarters earlier be hiring at a high pace, and then a few quarters later have to announce layoffs. That, that I felt that, l…”
Feb 16, 2026 bearish
Siemiatkowski: Software Creation Cost Is Heading to Zero
“You should think that software cost of creating software is going down to zero. That's it. So and that means that like everyone will be able to generate software at any point of time. So it is a massive change. And I was a hundred percent con, you know, convic…”
Feb 16, 2026
Feb 16, 2026 positive
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Siemiatkowski: Media perception flipped when Klarna valuation dropped to $6.5B
“When we were the most, you know the most highest valued fintech in Europe, blah, blah, blah. Then like, I could do no wrong. Whatever I said was like, that's brilliant. He's so smart. And then when we like, you know when we came down to 6.5, and we had to do l…”
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Feb 16, 2026