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Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 30:02 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) And, and, and the notion that we were going to be able to raise more than everyone in the world combined, it was just never going to happen, um, past a certain point because you had players like SoftBank investing in the market as well.
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 19:36 Rory O'Driscoll Nikesh has worked for one of the most aggressive risk-taking human beings on the planet, that's SoftBank.
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 53:00 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, look, in the end, let's be secondary to SoftBank. 2 times in the scene
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:35 Ryan Petersen I, in part because of me, because she, she got assigned to cover, uh, SoftBank, who's my investor. 2 times in the scene
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:59 Aravind Srinivas Nvidia and SoftBank own five percent each.
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:14 Rory O'Driscoll Forty billion from SoftBank, but you've got to borrow thirty billion to get that forty billion, so we're going to give you a little time to pay that money.
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:36 unnamed speaker The SoftBank money comes in tranches.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:04 Harry Stebbings SoftBank gets a forty billion dollar bridge loan to buy OpenAI stock. 7 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 26:29 unnamed speaker The only problem is SoftBank seems tapped out. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:40 unnamed speaker It would, um, uh, I, I do, I do think thinking on, and listen, I could be wrong on this one, but thinking on this live now, I do think there's risk that they've exhausted some pools of capital from, from, from the, the, the round trippers,…
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:14 Jason Lemkin So the believers, the soft banks and others will give them more money.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:23 Harry Stebbings By, it was SoftBank, no?
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:39 Harry Stebbings SoftBank closes its OpenAI investment,
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:14 David George You know, like, the original SoftBank Vision Fund did a lot of really good things. 3 times in the scene
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:26 unnamed speaker This is not, this is not Tiger or SoftBank rolling the dice.
- ▶ 39:03 Harry Stebbings Uh, one was the thinking machines at fifty billion, and the other was Teal and SoftBank exiting Nvidia, and just like, what it means for, are we top of the market? 4 times in the scene
AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:45 Harry Stebbings Five, six percent, like Massa Sun at SoftBank expects.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:45 unnamed speaker SoftBank can put in their twenty two billion, and the investors as a group, I mean, SoftBank will own about 10%, and everyone else will own low single digits. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:10 unnamed speaker I mean, cause right now, the weird thing right now is SoftBank is closing two separate deals right now. 2 times in the scene
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:11 Harry Stebbings Yeah, SoftBank reportedly securing a five billion dollar margin loan secured by ArmShares to invest in OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:02 Rory O'Driscoll You know, soft bank proved to everyone's complete satisfaction, right?
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:22 unnamed speaker Its peak was 45, Sequoia, which SoftBank did, um, Sequoia brilliantly did the round at five or six, and obviously two or three X that, and I think overall seven X the overall investment.
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:38 unnamed speaker So yeah, it used to be what, um, SoftBank, but wasn't Oracle part of that? 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:02 Harry Stebbings We know they had a forty-five billion dollar price round before, soft bank led, then a repricing to six and a half, and now going public at 13 to 15. 5 times in the scene
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:39 Martin Mignot I just, I finished Gambling Man, uh, about Massa, from SoftBank.
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:10 Miles Dieffenbach I think, you know, Masa and SoftBank, I would, I would put as the, the, the flag in the ground, Vision Fund One, when, when all the other venture firms saw that as the opportunity to just absolutely scale their capital base.
- ▶ 43:51 Harry Stebbings When you're GC, Lightspeed, um, SoftBank, 2 times in the scene
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:57 unnamed speaker Same thing with SoftBank.
- ▶ 24:22 Jason Lemkin And so what I think Tiger did in my, and SoftBank, but really Tiger and B to B is they lowered the bar because everyone won.
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:02 Johannes Reck I think the only equivalent at much greater scale happened in 2019 when we raised from SoftBank Vision Fund, like that massive round.
- ▶ 31:11 Johannes Reck And, um, then all of that leads up to raising a massive round from SoftBank Vision Fund and Tim Asik in 2019.
- ▶ 31:19 Harry Stebbings How does the SoftBank round come together? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:42 Johannes Reck We just raised this massive vision fund. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:51 Johannes Reck So in February, um, we have this BART meeting with SoftBank
- ▶ 47:39 Harry Stebbings Yeah, you could look at your SoftBank round and go, wow, it's ridiculous, crazy amount of money.
- ▶ 52:53 Harry Stebbings Because it was on top of the one and a half billion from SoftBank. 3 times in the scene
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:43 Sam Lessin That the marks that you made up or the marks of SoftBank listed something somewhere are completely irrelevant. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:20 unnamed speaker I'm sitting there as SoftBank or someone like that.
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:35 unnamed speaker Yeah, and, uh, and I'm at SoftBank. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:21 unnamed speaker Like, then you raise, like, three rounds, and end of the twenty-twenty-one, SoftBank was talking to me about, you know, leading an eight billion dollar round, and obviously we didn't, you know, entertain that conversation.
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:56 Jason Lemkin Ok, so Sequoia and SoftBank and Tiger and Dragon are coming at twenty-five billion.
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:43 Immad Akhund Well, I guess I won't name the company, but there was a company where, like, SoftBank came in with, like, this crazy number, and, you know, they offered everyone a secondary, and I was like, you know, if SoftBank's doing it, I should… 2 times in the scene
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:56 unnamed speaker Of the last decade, Tiger and SoftBank are already out of the game.
- ▶ 44:29 unnamed speaker And, you know, Southbank gone, Tiger, you know, effectively gone.
- ▶ 45:54 unnamed speaker Vision Fund and Tiger, they kind of, you know, kind of went over the top of the curve and just kept going a little too long, like, you know, you know, your degrees of freedom and, you know, and Jason will wrestle with the same thing.
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:38 Harry Stebbings Softbank. 2 times in the scene
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:35 Jonathan Ross And that was sort of the, the bet that SoftBank was making, which was they could win the Keynesian beauty contest.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:29 Shervin Pishevar And so, like, Kleiner Perkins came in, Mudrahani led that deal, I think they put a hundred million in at that round, um, and then, you know, then it was, you know, uh, the SoftBank raise, and, and, uh, um, you know, the much bigger raises,…
- ▶ 47:48 Shervin Pishevar So the SoftBank conversations, ironically, Travis and Emil started those conversations, the ultimate twelve billion dollar investment from, from, uh, SoftBank Vision Fund.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:19 Harry Stebbings They, they, they are always collated in this, like Sequoia raises eight billion, and you're like, wow, another SoftBank.
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:37 David Frankel Softbank, and that was like the apotheosis, but at every stage the money was just going out like crazy.
- ▶ 35:40 Harry Stebbings You mentioned, like, you know, the companies that raise from, you know, your Tigers, and your Andresens, and your SoftBanks, and then have these down rounds.
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:29 Scott Gorlick Um, there were a lot of competitors in different markets, and at the same time as we were raising money, um, SoftBank was pouring money into all the different competitors, right? 2 times in the scene
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:26 Harry Stebbings We've seen the removal, not removal, but soft bank retreat.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:12 Jason Lemkin Everyone used to be a risk averse and then they wanted tiger to do it and they wanted soft bank to do it.
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:30 Harry Stebbings Speaking of kind of the word momentum again and speed, I do think in the investing world of your former shop in SoftBank, can I ask you, what are one to two of your biggest takeaways from that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:22 Nikesh Arora And, uh, I've been blessed that I've had the opportunity to make some money along the way in my various jobs at Google or SoftBank.
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:07 Tom Blomfield Probably SoftBank. 2 times in the scene
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:15 Mark Suster SoftBank, Tiger, Coachu, and Insight.
- ▶ 29:47 Mark Suster SoftBank, Tiger, Coachu, and Insight. 5 times in the scene
Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:05 Peter Wagner Um, I mean, it's like one of the existential questions, and, uh, you know, it's, I think they can, and, and we do it all the time, and, you know, there, there is, there is a risk here, uh, and so there's certainly lots of otherwise good…
- ▶ 59:55 Peter Wagner So, you know, like SoftBank, you know, like
20VC: Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley and Orlando Bravo on "Does Price Matter"; When to Pay Up vs When to Stay Disciplined, The Biggest Lessons on Price Discipline from 8 of the World's Best Investors
- ▶ 6:06 Harry Stebbings What if we hand over now to Marcello Claw, co-founder of Bicycle Capital, formerly of SoftBank?
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:22 Harry Stebbings Like Marcello Claw from SoftBank said that actually post kids, he had a reason to fight.
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:51 Jason Lemkin Their response was if these valuations are reasonably market correct, they're, they're not done by crazy tiger or soft bank things that don't make sense.
- ▶ 33:36 Jason Lemkin It didn't all come from what's his name at SoftBank himself.
- ▶ 34:51 Jason Lemkin You know, SoftBank or whoever, Andreessen won't invest in any.
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:51 Jason Lemkin No one in the world wants, no one at, at, at, at SoftBank or Tiger, or even the better ones, the Iconics, or I can't imagine any of them respond to raw inbound emails.
- ▶ 1:10:24 Harry Stebbings Jason, what happens to Tiger and SoftBank? 2 times in the scene
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:41 Marcelo Claure I met Shu a few years back, who was referred to me as I was dividing softbank into two, and a lot of people told me that I should have somebody called Shu join my team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:11 Marcelo Claure SoftBank was the time to go fast.
- ▶ 7:08 Marcelo Claure In the planet today, the most valuable one, but more importantly, I think sitting at SoftBank for two years, and seeing so many industries, so many different founders, so many different models, how do you scale, how do IPO, how do you…
- ▶ 19:56 Harry Stebbings Okay, so combined we have a 10, but seven and a half, uh, you know, in your time with SoftBank. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:39 Marcelo Claure So there's a lot to be done in Latin America that we just got started as SoftBank.
- ▶ 32:27 Marcelo Claure Softbank was leading the way and they all came behind.
- ▶ 40:13 Marcelo Claure What excites me is to go help build an entrepreneurial landscape, which we started with SoftBank, generate sufficient exits, which are starting to happen, which has happened in the last couple of years, and that's going to create other…
- ▶ 43:07 Marcelo Claure That many, because there wasn't, you know, that sort of investors, which is what SoftBank started, and we sort of have an obligation, like, like, if you ask me, why are you doing this? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:15 Harry Stebbings Um, and they said, when you look at, you know, the investing period with SoftBank, what are the biggest mistakes you think you made that you're looking to correct with Bicycle? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:27 Marcelo Claure I got SoftBank to be an investor into Nubank, but we were so new, I think it was our first week, and we just said, no, this is it. 6 times in the scene
Sri Batchu: Biggest Growth Lesson from Instacart & Opendoor; 70% of Experiments Should Fail | E1040 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:48 Harry Stebbings But if they had enough cash, a SoftBank was behind them.
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings And then they told SoftBank about that one, and they heard you're investing.
- ▶ 21:17 Sheel Mohnot I mean, they dropped forty-five billion on the Vision fund.
- ▶ 1:13:16 Harry Stebbings What happens to Tiger and SoftBanch? 5 times in the scene
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:28 Harry Stebbings What happens to SoftBank and Tiger?
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:11 Harry Stebbings So actually you're forgetting Hunter's soft bank sized ego.
20VC Special: How To Fundraise Like a Pro: How to Size and Price a Round, How to Create FOMO and Urgency in a Fundraise, How to Structure Angel Allocations, The 7 Deadly Sins of Fundraising Decks, The 3 Signs a Potential Investor is Bad News
- ▶ 16:01 Harry Stebbings I could have a fund the size of SoftBanks if I had a dollar for every time someone said that to me.
Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:19 Harry Stebbings oh my god, we're getting eaten alive by Tiger and SoftBank in every deal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:39 Martin Escobari The fair price, when you were competing against SoftBank and over the last three years, and you've talked to people who've become partners of GA over the last three, four years, which was crazy.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:14 Harry Stebbings We've seen many firms come in, whether it's your altimeters, D-ones, durables, and then obviously SoftBank slightly before that, but like this explosion of capital.
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:46 Brad Gerstner I suppose if you want to go raise a hundred billion dollars, then fine, you know, do like SoftBank did and hire 50 people over a course of a year.
20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Two hundred and thirty billion devices, with everything from sensors, to smartphones, to servers, and in 2016, SoftBank made Arm its largest ever acquisition, with a reported price of thirty two billion dollars.
- ▶ 26:02 René Haas Arm is owned by SoftBank. 2 times in the scene
Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:55 Sheel Mohnot More of an extent, especially, you know, SoftBank pulling out of the market is a big hole.
20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity
- ▶ 3:05 Harry Stebbings So we're going to kick off this episode with Marcello Claw, former CEO at SoftBank, and now chairman and CEO at Claw Capital.
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:19 Harry Stebbings Do you know what worries me though, actually, and I'm just free flowing here, but it's like, actually, I speak to a lot of the big players, your co-twos, your D ones, your durables, your, you know, soft banks of the world, your tigers, and…
Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:27 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, that's a really good one, which is like, you know, so many of my companies today have like, 300 months of runway, thanks to Code Two or SoftBank.
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:45 Harry Stebbings With the market crashing in the way that it has done, you know, SoftBank, I think, or sorry, Tiger posted 34% down publicly.
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:12 Fabrice Grinda People said that of SoftBank, people said that of Tiger, uh, and many of the crossover funds.
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 24:00 Fabrice Grinda People said that of SoftBank.
20VC: Scaling to $2BN AUM in 3 years, Fundraising Lessons and Tactics from 2,500 LP Meetings & What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time with Harley Miller, Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Left Lane Capital
- ▶ 33:14 Harry Stebbings Can you do that same level of work in today's compressed fundraising timelines with soft banks, with tigers, with your crossovers, doing checks on coffee meetings?
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