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Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated Aug 27, 2026 · 4 mentions

Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash Aug 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:09 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) Argentina, Korea, the Middle East, like, these are leading brands that consumers identify with, have high household awareness, and are not, like, easily supplemented, and so I think there's value in those brands.

The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel Aug 7, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:24:46 David Frankel So certainly Kupong was like, got back, I said to Eric, Korea, and he said, you know, do you even know if it's north or south? 3 times in the scene

Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market Aug 2, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:36 Harry Stebbings South Korea have fucking caused, called a national convene, like, community meeting today because their stock markets are down 40%. 3 times in the scene

Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks Jul 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 37:10 Jason Lemkin Uh, you know, the Korean, the Korean markets are down 28% this month as we record this, right? 3 times in the scene

Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 16, 2026 · 6 mentions

Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 14, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08:43 unnamed speaker So I'm sure Samsung and SK Hynix, even as we speak, are digging holes in the ground in Korea.

Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 11, 2026 · 1 mention

ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 11, 2026 · 4 mentions

20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf Dec 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:42 Gérald Marolf We're not using it the same way, but, but the way I think I've spent a lot of time in South Korea this year, the way you look at where there's more speed in subculture and how things develop and more appetite again to taking a product and…

AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:44 Andrew Ng It turns out South Korea has vastly proportionate, disproportionate influence because of their leading entertainment industry.

Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:49 Joelle Pineau You go to Japan, you go to Korea, and they do want models that work well in their language.

Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 29, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 31:58 Jonathan Ross Europe, South Korea, Japan, um, India, and so on.
  • ▶ 41:06 Jonathan Ross There's over three hundred million in the US, and if you start bringing all the allies together, South Korea, who, by the way, knows how to build nuclear power plants. 2 times in the scene

20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko Aug 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:48 unnamed speaker She takes care of everything while I'm, you know, here in London or Korea or Singapore or wherever, so.

Sean Rad: Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | E1199 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 9, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:22 Sean Rad So in, in Korea, group dating is actually the, like the, I don't know if it is now, but back then when we were looking at it, that's like the socially accepted norm.

Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:01 Nilan Peiris It's done very well in APAC, so some of the largest bank in Indonesia, um, second largest in Japan, third largest in South Korea.

Ryan Akkina: How MIT Builds Their Venture Fund Portfolio & How MIT Approach Direct Investing | E1109 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:21 Ryan Akkina You know, we had enough time to go visit, uh, the company in South Korea and tour some of the warehouses and things like that, get to know BOM a little bit better.

Dave Powers: The Meteoric Rise of Hoka Running | E1098 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 22, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:41 Dave Powers We have fantastic distributor partners in Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Korea.

Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 13, 2023 · 1 mention

Mark Carney: First Republic Bank Fails; Will Interest Rates Rise? Global Warming's Net Zero | E1008 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:52 Mark Carney But what we have with the US IRA, with the European response, the Canadian response to the European and the American response, what's happening in Japan, Korea, on and on.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 3, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:14 Tobi Lütke And it's like, the US isn't even reversed, but like, I don't have the numbers on top of my, my, my, my fingertips, but I think to remember, and if it's not true in the US at this level, it's, it's worse in South Korea and other places, but…

Alex Bouaziz: How We Became a $12B HR Company with 2,000 Remote Employees | 20VC #973 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 1, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:03 Harry Stebbings I mentioned to you before the show, we have people in South Korea and Columbia and use Deal for 20 VC.
  • ▶ 32:13 Alex Bouaziz Like you come and you can, you can hire one person in South Korea or in Japan, right?

Cambly CEO Sameer Shariff: Why I Raised $60M and Didn't Touch a Dollar | 20VC #914 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 5, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 43:25 Sameer Shariff The literally the first hire that Kevin and I made, we were two sort of former Google software engineers, uh, and employee number one was a Korea country manager. 2 times in the scene

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 Jun 10, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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: 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 May 11, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 30:16 Ryan Smith You're never going to be able to get up, and so you're going to be stuck with the decisions you make, and so ultimately, you can either fight it and say, hey, look, I'm not going to learn, and I'm going to take shortcuts, which was my… 4 times in the scene

20VC: TravelPerk's Avi Meir on Why 2021 Will Be A Record Year For Business Travel, The 3 Priorities For All Founders During COVID, What VCs Can Do To Really Support Their Founders In A Recession May 29, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:08 Avi Meir I had a chat with a South Korean company where they see a lot of domestic travel.

20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability Apr 17, 2020 · 1 mention

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? Jun 28, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:05 Steven Galanis You know, imagine how big this could be in Bollywood, or how big this could be in, uh, Korea with K-pop, or in Brazil, or in Mexico with telling novellas. 2 times in the scene

20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware Feb 25, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:47 Frank Chen You might think of different ecosystems where sort of Japan and Korea, where this is still prize.

20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins Oct 22, 2018 · 2 mentions

20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon Oct 1, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:11 Rebecca Kaden Clothes and apparel and accessories, live stream themselves, trying stuff on, talking about the clothes, figuring out what they like, and it goes on Taobao and soon to be other platforms, largely in China and Korea, and women watch it, and…

20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment Jun 26, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 26:30 Jeremy Levine Well, actually, so we, the most recent investment actually was, it was a very recent one just a few weeks ago and back, but it was a company in Korea called Toss, which could be simplistically described as a Venmo-like service for Korea 3 times in the scene

20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam Mar 17, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:53 Kevin Chou And if you don't provide them interesting ways to spend early enough, at least in the China market, for example, and sometimes we see this in the Korean markets, the other players will turn out because they just think, okay, there's…

20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures Mar 1, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:17 Roger Ehrenberg And in the 19 fifties, he went over to Japan and Korea and they became amazingly successful because they built this process oriented approach, this data driven approach that was far superior to that, that we were using in the U S at the…

20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like Apr 25, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:26 James Wise Uh, so, and I completely disagree, you know, if you just look at the stats, Britain has got the highest purchase rate of e-commerce products per capita of anywhere in the world apart from South Korea, well ahead of the US.

20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile Mar 11, 2016 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 18:05 Niccolo De Masi It's something which already favors companies in places like China and Korea and a number of emerging markets that can access global markets if they can do it well with the local talent pool. 3 times in the scene

20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content Feb 26, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:36 Gary Liu And even as a VC continues to have these incredible ideas that he builds, including a coupon, which is, uh, the massive South Korean company that just got, I think a billion dollars worth of investment.

20 VC: How To Say No Fast and Efficiently and Why UX Must Always Be At The Core Of What You Do with Sitar Teli, Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures Dec 30, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:19 Sitar Teli So, uh, out of university, I, well, first I spent a year, uh, teaching English in, in South Korea.

20 VC 088: David Frankel @ Founder Collective: The Most Founder Friendly VC in Existence Nov 16, 2015 · 2 mentions

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