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Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:53 Mark Suster SpaceX is a hardware company.
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:54 Trae Stephens Uh, you know, Spotify, Stripe, Airbnb, Palantir, SpaceX, Andrel, um, stem centric.
- ▶ 46:46 Trae Stephens Like there's not gonna be a hundred space X's.
- ▶ 52:09 Trae Stephens And I don't think it's like random chance that Palantir, SpaceX, and Andrew were all founded by billionaires. 2 times in the scene
Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:37 Joe Lonsdale When Elon's starting SpaceX, he's competing against like a decadent broken government department that is not the NASA of the sixties, right? 2 times in the scene
Ryan Akkina: How MIT Builds Their Venture Fund Portfolio & How MIT Approach Direct Investing | E1109 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:59 Ryan Akkina Uh, not to say I have a hard, uh, a really hard set view either way, but I think I used to be much more skeptical of them, and I think the existence of things like, you know, Tesla and SpaceX and Enduro have, uh, forced me to reconsider…
Dominik Richter: You Only Have Two Options With VC Funding | E1089 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:29 Dominik Richter Like, uh, there were definitely some elements of, um, SpaceX in particular that I didn't understand as well before the book and then after.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:40 Harry Stebbings What are those mistakes that you would tell me as a young startup founder listening who sees shiny logos from Apple and Tesla and SpaceX and goes, wow, that's great.
- ▶ 58:01 Matteo Franceschetti If you tell me, oh, look, I wanted to join a space company and it was, forget SpaceX, right?
20VC: NEW FORMAT: Harry Stebbings on Why Seed Pricing is as High as Ever, Why Series A is the Best Place to Invest Today, Why Growth Founders Need to Reshape Expectations, Why M&A Windows Remain Shut and When Will IPO Windows Crack Open
- ▶ 20:29 Harry Stebbings Databricks, SpaceX potentially go out next year. 2 times in the scene
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:08 Richard Socher Obviously we're, we can get much more payload up much more cheaply now, uh, thanks to SpaceX, but progress is not as linear, uh, or as exponential as a lot of people think.
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Stephane Kurgan: Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400; How to Find Great Talent | E1041 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:46 Stephane Kurgan I think the coolest thing, it's probably SpaceX, you know.
20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
- ▶ 30:08 Marty Cagan Look at all the people that go work for Tesla or SpaceX, despite crazy everything, because they are so passionate about what those companies are trying to do.
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:26 Marty Cagan Look at all the people that go work for Tesla or SpaceX, despite crazy everything, because they are so passionate about what those companies are trying to do now.
- ▶ 53:08 Marty Cagan And if you look, you know, if you look at companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Google, Amazon, Stripe, Apple, that's the foundation of every one of those companies, empowered engineers.
Brian Singerman: How I Became a Partner at Founders Fund, Why We Put $400M into Anduril | 20VC #943 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:58 Brian Singerman And I came in and that's when, uh, we were considering, uh, a little investment in a company called SpaceX and, you know, said, this is what I want to do.
- ▶ 1:11 Harry Stebbings And what an entry point with the SpaceX investment.
- ▶ 16:38 Brian Singerman You know, I don't think any of our LPs are upset that there's multiple rounds of SpaceX in multiple different funds, right?
- ▶ 41:36 Brian Singerman And I, I'm not going to talk about like me personal, but from a founder's fund perspective, we've had a, we've been fortunate to have a lot of successful investments.
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
- ▶ 9:07 Harry Stebbings SpaceX, and many more.
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:27 Tony Fadell Elon's not the CEO of SpaceX.
Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:40 Des Traynor Like, there was a chance to invest in SpaceX, but, like, I didn't have a hundred grand, and that was the smallest check.
Peter Singlehurst: The Most Powerful Investor You've Never Heard of | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:32 Peter Singlehurst So for instance, we would put two businesses like Tanium and SpaceX in the same category, uh, within our diversification thinking, because we would view both of those companies as providing the underlying infrastructure for the continued…
Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:37 Kayvon Beykpour The other one on a totally different, um, totally different token is I am awestruck and inspired by what SpaceX is doing. 4 times in the scene
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:44 Fabrice Grinda We're going to want it to decrease their exposure to some assets, and hopefully we're going to see big discounts in, in secondaries of these extraordinary leaders, and if I can get, you know, if I can invest in whatever Stripe or SpaceX at…
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
- ▶ 44:53 Fabrice Grinda And if I can invest in whatever, Stripe or SpaceX at a 50% discount in the last round, I will.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 19:37 Jason Lemkin What would happen to SpaceX if Elon Musk was gone or Tesla?
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
- ▶ 39:29 Lenny Rachitsky I don't know if this will be surprising or interesting, but when I think that, I think companies like Figma, Stripe, Tesla, SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun
- ▶ 9:48 Brian Singerman Like, look, we invested in SpaceX before they got the first rocket shit up up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:14 Brian Singerman Similar to SpaceX, right?
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings With home runs in the likes of SpaceX, Palantir, Stripe, Facebook, Airbnb, Newbank, and many more.
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 37:19 Emilie Choi If they say SpaceX, I have a good feeling that they're kind of on that path of somebody who could be really successful and excited about being at Coinbase.
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Prior investments from Velvet Sea Partners include Twitter, Square, SpaceX, Snap, Facebook, Pinterest, and many more incredible companies, and prior to becoming an investor,
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- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Their portfolio includes the likes of SpaceX, Wish, Anduril, Flex
- ▶ 4:26 Justin Fishner-Wolfson You ended up leaving the SpaceX investment, co-led the Spotify investment with Sean.
- ▶ 15:48 Justin Fishner-Wolfson And I think even Founders Fund, you know, I mean, back, back in Founders Fund too, I mean, SpaceX was a, basically a forty million dollar position out of a two hundred million dollar fund, and it was a rocket company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:43 Harry Stebbings I guess kind of the subsequent question for me is like, you mentioned kind of putting more in the SpaceX as time goes on and building the position.
- ▶ 25:39 Justin Fishner-Wolfson If I say, oh, you know, we're investors in SpaceX or Wish or whatever, Gusto, like it doesn't, we're oftentimes doing business with many different people, right?
- ▶ 35:54 Justin Fishner-Wolfson SpaceX probably wins this for me. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
- ▶ 29:54 Vlad Tenev What SpaceX has been doing, and, and definitely see that some of these ideas, like reusability of, of rocket launch systems into low Earth orbit, were ideas that have, have been around for quite some time. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- ▶ 8:24 Roelof Botha There are many businesses that can't bootstrap their way all the way, and Elon makes this joke, obviously, about SpaceX that you don't iterate your way into space.
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Her portfolio includes the likes of, check this out, SpaceX, Uber, a
- ▶ 4:06 Cyan Banister So my first check was into SpaceX. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:47 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask you, because you mentioned kind of winning the startup lottery with Iron Port, and then obviously the first check into SpaceX.
- ▶ 15:55 Harry Stebbings You mentioned SpaceX there, and you mentioned Elon, and we chatted a little bit about it before. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 22:05 Katherine Boyle But I think there's a huge difference between the drones and the autonomous vehicles of the world and the SpaceX's of the world where all of the regulations were set that SpaceX went through. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:41 Katherine Boyle The real need for a company that's going after such a big space, that really is a company that's going to follow in line with the Palantirs and SpaceX's of the world, is capital.
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 7:48 Palmer Luckey And when I looked at national security, it was a very interesting space where the only two unicorns in the last 30 years in defense, Palantir and SpaceX, were both founded by people who had just sold their company for billions of dollars.
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Steve's incredible portfolio includes the likes of SpaceX, Tesla, Planet, Memphis Meats, Hotmail, and the deep learning companies Mythic and Nirvana. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:31 Steve Jurvetson Or colonizing Mars for SpaceX, right?
- ▶ 15:41 Steve Jurvetson I think I was also early in synthetic biology, but I was probably just right on electric vehicles, probably just right on space with both SpaceX and Planet Labs and smallsats in general.
- ▶ 18:16 Steve Jurvetson Like in the case of SpaceX, they actually had a rocket finally succeed after we invested and that changed everything in their relationship with NASA and contracts that they had. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:30 Harry Stebbings And bluntly, when you look at the returns and the profiles of SpaceX and Tesla, to name two obviously very prominent ones, they're returns that are completely, I mean, they make kind of multiple 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:03 Steve Jurvetson If you look at, okay, at the 10 year mark, where it was Tesla, where it was SpaceX.
- ▶ 29:17 Steve Jurvetson It's SpaceX with rockets.
- ▶ 34:34 Harry Stebbings I mean, speaking of those people that you're most attracted to work with and the people that most want to change the world, there is one relationship that you have that I do have to dive into before we move into Quickfire, and it is the…
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- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Tiny does also invest in businesses, including the likes of Superhuman, SpaceX, Pitch, and Buffer, to name a few.
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Now, Kraft is one of Silicon Valley's leading early stage funds, with David's portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Facebook, Tesla, SpaceX, Palantir, Affirm, Airbnb, Slack, and Bird, to name a few.
20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- ▶ 26:12 unnamed speaker Reach a point where they can actually win a Nobel Prize or a Fields Medal or, in a less ambitious thing, you know, get a job at whatever the SpaceX is of that time, just on the merits of what they have contributed to the global knowledge…
20VC: Why Venture Fund Life Cycles Do Not Align To Companies Today, Actionable Strategies To Separate Good From Great When Assessing and Hiring Multiple Candidates & Why We Need More Adventure in Venture Capital with Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO @ Boom Sup
- ▶ 10:35 Blake Scholl So for example, for today, it's really easy to raise money for a rocket company because SpaceX is a success, but that doesn't strongly translate over into aerospace as much as you would hope it would.
- ▶ 13:02 Blake Scholl My best intro was a guy who had worked for me at Groupon, had played hockey in college, was someone who now worked at SpaceX.
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- ▶ 13:51 Vinod Khosla It was reinvented by people like SpaceX and Rocket Labs, one of our companies.
20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings And has an incredible portfolio, including the likes of Tesla, SpaceX, AngelList, and CoinMind, just to name a few.
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 17:45 Geoff Ralston And the first three launches of SpaceX had blown up, and someone asked him, so, like, did you think about quitting?
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- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Cabify, the largest ride-sharing service in Latin America, and if that wasn't enough, Brendan's also an incredibly active angel investor in the past, having led over 60 angel investments in the likes of Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Lyft,…
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- ▶ 12:56 Daniel Gross To work on whatever project they think may be even too small to focus on today, so that eventually it becomes something as big as relativity or SpaceX.
- ▶ 24:11 Daniel Gross I mean, SpaceX with all of its grand and glory was started as effectively almost as like a Hollywood ask moonshot project to just like take a photo of
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- ▶ 21:22 David Waxman So, you know, a legacy industry like aerospace, which has been here since probably the thirties, has new life with SpaceX and a bunch of drone companies, one we're invested in called AirMap.
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- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings One of the world's leading funds with investments in the likes of Facebook, Airbnb, SpaceX, Spotify, and many more incredible companies.
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- ▶ 22:03 Jason Calacanis SpaceX goes away, which is exactly where Elon was at.
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- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Randy's investments include the likes of Twitter, Tumblr, SpaceX, and Tesla, just to name a few.
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- ▶ 15:12 Emily Melton Tesla, uh, or SpaceX.
- ▶ 15:54 Harry Stebbings Do you approach it with the mindset of the worst that can happen is it can go to zero, but the best is it can go to SpaceX, which is now eleven billion? 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 23:30 Harry Stebbings And then SpaceX, bright future or too much capital required from the markets? 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 18:49 Greg Bettinelli You have SpaceX, you have Tinder, you have Honest Company, commerce, other commerce companies like Loot Crate, um, that I think are doing very interesting things.
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- ▶ 25:49 Frank Mycroft I, I, I honestly, I have to say, given my space background, um, and my, my now vehicle transportation background, it would have to be Elon Musk, you know, what he's done with Tesla, what he's done with SpaceX.
20 VC 071: Pre-Seed Investing, Why Now Is The Best Time with Nicholas Chirls @ Notation Capital
- ▶ 25:46 Nicholas Chirls Dot com, it's been, uh, it's been profiling, uh, recently, um, Elon Musk and, and, and Tesla, and I think they just, the SpaceX post just came out, and, uh, previously had a series on artificial intelligence that, uh, that was…
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