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We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO Jul 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:10 Fred Turner And then five months later, acquired a company in Southern California to get the same license for twenty seven million.

"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 9, 2026 · 1 mention

Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 7, 2025 · 1 mention

Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:09 unnamed speaker The excitement when I, I just flew back into Palo Alto today, the Bay area was in SoCal for a week.

Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:22 Scott Galloway My dad was handsome, strong jawline, and a Scottish accent, which meant in seventies, Southern California could not only think with his dick, he could listen to it.

How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 24, 2025 · 1 mention

Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:57 Matt Grimm Like, we live in Southern California, and life is expensive, and Andrel shares don't pay the daycare bills, so like, I totally, a hundred percent appreciate someone who's in a position where they're saying like, hey, if I sell 20% of my…

Dave Powers: The Meteoric Rise of Hoka Running | E1098 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 22, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:14 Dave Powers It was a boot that, you know, surfers in Australia and Southern California would wear after surfing. 2 times in the scene

Aloe Blacc: The Secret to Songwriting & Storytelling; Working w/ Avicii on “Wake Me Up” | 20VC #979 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 18, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings You grew up in Southern California, raised by your, obviously, parents.
  • ▶ 1:33 Aloe Blacc By 17, I was releasing music to friends and, and people all, you know, all over the Southern California area.

Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 26, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:57 Jeffrey Katzenberg So the reason why it's a great question, Harry, is, is that in many respects, it, it exemplifies, uh, the difference between the culture of Northern California and the culture of Southern California. 3 times in the scene

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 Nov 23, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:25 Jeffrey Katzenberg So the reason why it's a great question, Harry, is, is that in many respects, it exemplifies the difference between the culture of Northern California and the culture of Southern California. 2 times in the scene

Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 15, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:11 Adam Fishman Um, and when Raj was doing his due diligence on John and Logan, Raj somehow found, uh, Logan's high school principal and contacted Logan's high school principal from Southern California and asked him about Logan.

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 Dec 8, 2021 · 1 mention

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 Jul 29, 2021 · 1 mention

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 Mar 4, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:18 Vlad Tenev So I was in Southern California at the time, and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna get a really nice pair of binoculars so that I can see this thing.

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 Feb 24, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:58 Jeremy Liew And, uh, one of the things that surprised us a little bit was that this was very strong in Southern California, Northern California, and Georgia when we first invested.

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 Feb 18, 2021 · 1 mention

20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures Oct 7, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:19 John Fein I learned soon thereafter, graduating, that that just wasn't for me, and so I gravitated to the only thing I really knew at that time, which was computers and technology, and so I ended up moving to Southern California about a year after I…

20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures Feb 5, 2018 · 5 mentions

20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today Aug 22, 2016 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:37 Greg Bettinelli And so I continued to work at Nordstrom, but also had done pretty well through the exit, um, and started doing some angel investing in Southern California companies and can only national companies.
  • ▶ 19:09 Greg Bettinelli I believe that, you know, there's plenty of capital out there, locally, nationally, and globally, and they're starving for great ideas and great entrepreneurs building great businesses, so the capital will find the great businesses, and… 2 times in the scene

20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero Aug 19, 2016 · 2 mentions

20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market Mar 23, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings Rebecca is a partner at consumer-only fund Maveron, where she identifies emerging consumer-focused entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Southern California, and New York.

20 VC 022: Letting go of the life we planned and the Power of the Female Narrative with Matthew McCall Mar 26, 2015 · 1 mention

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