Southern California
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 22, 2016 by Greg Bettinelli · said 35 times in 23 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Jeffrey Katzenberg (5), Brian Garrett (5), Greg Bettinelli (3), Paul Berberian (2), Harry Stebbings (2), Dave Powers (2), Vlad Tenev (1), Scott Galloway (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- 20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales
- 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
- 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
- 20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- 20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 5 mentions in 1 episode
2016 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today
- 20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero
- 20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Southern California, oldest first
Aug 22, 2016 positive
Nov 26, 2022 negative
Katzenberg: Hollywood publicly humiliates failure while Silicon Valley embraces it
“In Southern California, you know, so let me just start with the following... Failure comes with huge public humiliation... In Silicon Valley, you know, you fail, you get onto the next thing. Like failure makes you smarter, makes you stronger.”