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OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:16 unnamed speaker And keep in mind, like, my parents immigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States with basically nothing.
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:25 Tobi Lütke It's, it's, it's, it's a, it's always true when, uh, there's, uh, a lot of collectivism around, um, uh, which is really just centralization of power with the state.
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:03 Taavet Hinrikus We had great education during Soviet times, uh, and I think we had an early start thanks to Skype.
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:01 Max Levchin She's long gone, but you know, she, she was a Soviet scientist that managed to have her astronomy PhD thesis referenced in like 2 times in the scene
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:40 George Arison Look, I grew up in the Soviet Union, where literally, like, if people knew what you believed in, you could go to jail. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:58 George Arison It's surprising to me how little people talk to me about my upbringing in the Soviet Union. 2 times in the scene
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:48 Markus Villig Uh, and the reason for it was very simple because they grew up in the, in the Soviet Union.
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28 Dmitry Gurski Like, the world, Soviet world was destroyed.
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:36 Shaun Maguire My great grandfather, Arthur Cohen, was a geologist who worked in the Black Sea, and he took my family to go visit, like, the region after the Soviet Union collapsed so we could go see it. 3 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:57 Delian Asparouhov When you look at United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, et cetera, they're all just like completely, you know, sort of falling into societal collapse all for, you know, sort of slightly different reasons, but it comes down to a complete…
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:12 Matt Clifford The top people in nuclear security in the US and, you know, like, former Soviet, um, people, and it's, it's an extremely compelling book.
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:38 Trae Stephens Like, the capabilities, the huge expensive platforms that we built for competing with the Soviet Union are not particularly relevant in a future conflict with, you know, a China or an Iran.
- ▶ 49:57 Trae Stephens So like when we were preparing for a fight against the Soviet union, we were building nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, um, advanced fighter jets with the idea that we're competing with mig 29 in an airspace.
- ▶ 1:04:27 Trae Stephens I mean, there's obviously like questions that, that you should ask, but at the same time, like if the U S government comes to us, let's say that we were making stinger missiles, um, during the, the early Afghan conflict with the Mujahideen… 2 times in the scene
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:02 Thomas Plantenga And they first told their stories about, you know, how they grew up in Lithuania, meaning growing up in the Soviet Union, like Soviet Union falls apart, like big chaos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:33 Thomas Plantenga It's a country that's been run over by the Soviets, the Germans, and like, you know, if you live between Kalingrad, Belarus and Latvia, you, you kind of like are always aware that maybe something goes wrong.
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17 Mo Koyfman Uh, my father is an immigrant from the former Soviet Union who came to America when he was 35.
Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:23 Gary Vaynerchuk So for example, I was born in the USSR and communist Russia from 1917 till 1991 basically did not let people leave the country. 4 times in the scene
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 3:16 Lenny Rachitsky Back then I was the USSR, and I'm Jewish, my family's Jewish, and we, my parents always kind of wanted to get out of there, to get out of Russia.
20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital
- ▶ 3:52 Dannie Herzberg So the personal story is my parents moved here in the early eighties as refugees from the Soviet Union, landed in Pittsburgh, Jewish family services, welcomed them, gave them English classes, money, furniture, and eventually helped my dad…
20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- ▶ 34:07 Katherine Boyle And we've seen sort of that current that was really in existence under the former Soviet Union move to what we call democratic countries.
20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- ▶ 5:38 Ilya Sukhar Yeah, I was born in the mid-eighties in the Soviet Union. 2 times in the scene