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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 36:42 Harry Stebbings The data that he had available to him at Google, he could go into Sergey and Larry's office and say, Hey, I want X.
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- ▶ 9:50 Harry Stebbings Can you help me understand, you know, as a podcaster, I specialize in asking basic questions, so forgive me, but why then do people like Dario, like Sam, like Larry and Sergey talk about AGI in the way that they do as an inevitable?
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:34 unnamed speaker In the early days, you have, like, Sergey Bin and Larry Page.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:17 unnamed speaker Instead of getting, you know, 250, I'll pick a number, fifty million from the Larry and Serge's and the Jervisons of this world, you went for two hundred million, and now you're going to get zero.
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:36 Harry Stebbings Maybe he's done a Sergey.
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
- ▶ 29:56 Harry Stebbings I love seeing Sergey Brin rock up to a random hackathon in Miami. 5 times in the scene
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:32 Harry Stebbings Bryn joins Page and leaving California.
- ▶ 1:21:46 unnamed speaker And if it was just one tax, then as bad as it is with Larry and Sergey and Peter Thiel leaving, it was, it would at least be a bounded thing, right?
- ▶ 1:23:41 unnamed speaker So bear in mind, like, I think that is an important, you know, I, it's crazy that to me that, um, Sergey Brin left because he's driving AI at Google based in the Bay Area, right?
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:38 Jason Calacanis Like, go into Sergey Brin mode, but you do have time.
- ▶ 1:13:53 Jason Calacanis And Sergey's back running Google.
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:37 Jason Lemkin I'm gonna maybe be trite, but I think Sergey brought back hyper-aggressiveness to Google. 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 48:28 Jason Lemkin Google had to bring Sergey Brin out of jet skiing and windsurfing and retirement to whip the troops into shape.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:09 Jason Lemkin Contrast this with Sergey Brin coming back to Google, everything else happening. 2 times in the scene
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:34 Harry Stebbings The only thing that I do think is just interesting is Sergey is back
Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:19 Harry Stebbings You know, Sergey Brin was asked the other day, what will search in the internet look like in 2030?
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 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?
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30:35 unnamed speaker Sergey Brin or Larry Page, you know, that, um, they're gonna build a trillion dollar company, blah, blah, blah.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:14 Sridhar Ramaswamy I still remember like every discussion with Larry and Sergey used to be exhausting. 2 times in the scene
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:07 Harry Stebbings I think what's relevant is the technology cycle, and I think when you see Larry and Sergei, they are back at Google, fucking working. 2 times in the scene
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:36 Bret Taylor One of the things that I've admired the most about the leaders you mentioned, whether it's Larry and Sergey, Mark Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, uh, Marissa, whom I worked for at, at Google, um, is this sort of relentless drive.
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:18 Imran Khan Uh, we went to see Larry, Sarge, Eric Schmidt, and I remember one thing that really stood out along the ride, like, listen, this is 20 years ago, so I don't, I can't say word by word, but basically, Larry said that the most transformative…
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:17 unnamed speaker You know, there's this whole Larry and Sergey page rank paper that say, uh, said like advertising is fundamentally, uh, incompatible with like serving good results to the user.
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:53 Shyam Sankar Like, that's a, yes, there's a consequence to that and it has to happen, but you know, like, I don't think Larry and Sergey were like, hey, how do we make money?
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:27 Alex Lebrun Uh, but this is what Zuck did, what Google founders, you know, Sergey and Larry did.
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29 Noah Weiss And I think the thing that stuck out to me was the combination, that deliberate approach to what the portfolio looked like, and the constant kind of Larry and Surya refrain of whatever your ideas you bring to them, what would 10 X a bigger…
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:22 Emil Michael You know, it's, um, they call them the coach, the trillion dollar coach, because he would, as you know, coach, um, Steve Jobs, who no one in the world thought was coachable, and then he would coach, uh, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and, and…
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: How to Build Moats Against Incumbents; How to Hire Engineers | 20VC #931 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:00 Tarek Mansour You know, when you think about, you know, obviously Sergey
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Wesley Chan Um, and in, uh, 2009, I basically went to Larry and Sergey, uh, and said, I love you guys, but, uh, you know, I've been 10 years here and, uh, I missed the old days of being part of a very, very small team.
- ▶ 4:12 Harry Stebbings He said that I had to ask this one, which was in terms of the very early days at Google, working with Larry and Sergey in particular, what are the one to two significant product insights you have from that time? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:51 Wesley Chan But the truly visionary founders, Larry and Sergey, Cliff and Mel at Canva, you know, Brian Peterson at Flexport, they have a hundred year plans. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:21 Wesley Chan But when you find that and you've spot that amazing and amazing fountain, that's going to be the next Larry is Sergey or Cliff or Mel at Canva.
- ▶ 42:31 Wesley Chan And it's the art of spotting that because that's what I, you know, spent 10 years of my life doing and being trained by some, by folks like Marissa Meyer or Susan or Salar or Larry and Sergey building products, right?
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:22 Tony Fadell Larry had Sergey.
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:42 Aydin Senkut Also, um, Google was Larry and Sergey's company.
- ▶ 46:50 Aydin Senkut They must be related to Larry and Sergey something because like the way they like thought about the company and the future and how many things they said no and what unique things they were doing.
20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harley Finkelstein on What Great Fatherhood Really Means, Deena Shakir on How Kids Make You a Better Investor and Anne Wojcicki on How Children Change Your Approach to R
- ▶ 11:48 Chris Sacca You know, Larry, Sergey, and Eric had a pretty strong compass, but there were times back in Google, and so I'm talking like literally, oh, five, oh, six,
How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:39 Harry Stebbings It looks at now, but it was the 12th search engine, Larry and Sergey, but it wasn't as obvious as it looks now. 3 times in the scene
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:56 Chris Sacca That, you know, Larry, Sergey, and Eric had a pretty strong compass, but there were times back in Google, and so I'm talking like literally, oh, five, oh, six, where we had to decide what to do about, uh, about China.
- ▶ 45:25 Chris Sacca And so thanks to Larry and Sergey, they were pioneers of like, look, we got to make this shit green.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 35:36 Bill Gurley If you lose ten million dollars on a deal, you lost ten million dollars, but my biggest mistake was clear because I brought Larry and Sergey in to present when there were 25 employees, and we didn't lay chase.
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 27:47 Chris Sacca You know, Larry, Sergey, and Eric,
- ▶ 42:32 Chris Sacca Thanks to Larry and Sergey, they were pioneers of like, look, we got to make this shit green.
20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
- ▶ 19:33 Ryan Smith Like, this is the dude that funded Larry and Sergey, and I'm this kid from Provo, Utah that flew out.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 30:12 Shishir Mehrotra So that's how Larry and Circuit got up in front of the company every Friday and answered questions from everybody.
- ▶ 33:07 Shishir Mehrotra A lot of it comes out of the example that gets set, and I think the thing that Larry and Sergey are amazingly good at is challenging you to think bigger, and almost in a, like, Socratic way.
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 27:12 Vinod Khosla Larry and Sergey at Google needed a CEO, got a CEO, then Larry came back in, and then he's moved on to other things.
Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
- ▶ 11:35 Todd Jackson And so Google was defined by Larry and Sergey.
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 34:07 Gaurav Jain He's had a product at Google, and Eric Schmidt, and it was by Bill Campbell, who was a coach for Larry and Sergey, Steve Jobs, many of the iconic founders in Silicon Valley.
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 28:43 unnamed speaker So I had a meeting or my firm benchmark had a meeting with Larry and Sergey where they said, will you invest at a hundred pre?
20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk
20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- ▶ 24:45 Trae Vassallo You know, she talks about company like Google, you know, we only ever think of Larry and Sergey, but there were incredibly important and influential women who helped lead that company in the early days and helped build out the business…
20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
- ▶ 20:29 Will Porteous So, I was incredibly fortunate to have a close working relationship with Bill Campbell, the former chairman of Columbia University, chairman and CEO of Intuit, and someone who was Steve Jobs' coach, Jeff Bezos' coach, Sergey Brin, and…
20VC: Why Radical Candor Is Crucial in Workplaces, Why 85% of Work Relationship Mistakes Happen and Why You Should Not Try and Be More Likeable with Kim Scott, Co-Founder @ Candor Inc
20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- ▶ 24:25 Spencer Kimball And, you know, I, I give Larry and Sergey tremendous credit for how early and how steadfastly they perceived culture to be a crucial aspect of Google's DNA.
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 18:20 Wesley Chan You know, five X the number of people on day one had signed up, and by day three, we were sort of sitting there biting our fingernails because, you know, we had Larry and Sergey walk in the office and go, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:26 Harry Stebbings And then working with Larry Page, what was that like, Larry and Sergey?
20VC: Tyler Willis on How To Be Innovative With Customer Acquisition and The Future Of Innovation
- ▶ 8:12 Tyler Willis Larry and Sergey didn't look like the Larry and Sergey of today in 1997. 2 times in the scene