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ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 1:02:12 Aaron Katz I'm looking for the U.S. to, uh, advance further in the World Cup in four years when it's in Spain and Portugal and Morocco.
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:30 unnamed speaker Felt that it was 95% likely that Spain would beat Cape Verde last night and put a million dollars in. 2 times in the scene
Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:28 Chad Peets I mean, you want to hire in Germany or France and Spain and decide you want to fire somebody.
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:13 Patrick Forquer We just opened in Spain.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:44:38 Cliff Weitzman The way I liken it is you had Columbus going to the richest man in the world at the time, the King of Spain, and saying, hey, I want to get to India, AGI.
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:19 Tobi Lütke I mean, I think it's both underestimated and overestimated, but like, uh, you know, I think the much more bigger threat is that, uh, uh, in a lot of countries, I think this happened in, uh, Spain already, and I think even in the United…
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:26 unnamed speaker Um, I love that there's a company in, in Spain called, uh, Teke Robotics, T-H-E-K-E-R.
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:32 Marc Andreessen Um, and like I said, like, I, look, I, I have a lot of European friends who say, like, look, Mark, you don't understand, like, for a normal person, living in Spain is, like, much better than living in the US, because, like, the baseline is…
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:19 Jerry Murdock Fund two had a company called MetaQuattro in Spain that went public.
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:43 Alex Rampell There's a company in Europe called Vilex, and Vilex was started by this entrepreneur, um, who, uh, basically bought up every legal record in Spain, um, and then start, you know, like, like physical legal records at the courthouse, put them…
20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
- ▶ 29:45 James Gibson You should be able to do some pretty basic calculations on should you build your new, let's say localized tax feature in Spain, or should you build this hyper specialized feature for enterprises?
- ▶ 46:40 James Gibson Maybe that sounds obvious, but we kind of assumed that you could continue to scale just having these global features that work everywhere and actually not having tax in Spain or a local IBAN in, uh, in France, these kinds of things are…
20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- ▶ 51:22 Max Junestrand We have operations in the States, in London, in Stockholm, but we also have sort of hubs in Finland, Germany, Spain, France, with people who are working on the ground with our clients.
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:09 Martin Casado People hear the name Martine, and they're like, oh, he must be so, and then, you know, I was actually born in Spain, so I'm a Spanish citizen, so they're like, you know, he must be some, like, sophisticated European.
20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
- ▶ 57:23 Fernando Fanton In average, obviously, the joke a little bit is, you know, it's a beautiful continent, Spain, south of France, and you know, people like to enjoy it, and I think it's been a bit wealthier.
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:21 Jason Lemkin I'm saying Vilex, a twenty-five-year-old Spanish company, made the AI jump.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:13 Rory O'Driscoll He said, look, I'd been at the thing 10 years, I made a lot of money, I got married, I have a life, I have a lovely house in Spain, and I started another company.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:29 Severin Hacker By the way, also when there's, you know, there was a power outage in, in Portugal and Spain, we, we proactively extended their streak, so, so they don't lose it.
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 25:48 Matt Biilmann Like, because early on when I was CTO of a company in Spain, we were like mass producing websites for small to medium businesses in Europe and so on, right?
Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:30 Niklas Östberg And we have been disrupted a lot of companies in Spain, Italy, Poland, Norway.
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:43 Oscar Pierre There was the generation one of food delivery, uh, in, in the case of Spain, Barcelona, where we started the business, it was Just Eat that basically had a marketplace, um, where they aggregated restaurants that did the delivery…
- ▶ 6:59 Oscar Pierre When you cross the border, it doesn't matter how big and how well-known, uh, your brand is in Spain.
- ▶ 13:02 Oscar Pierre So we, we cracked Spain, um, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 Oscar Pierre Look, so after Spain and Italy, when we realized we, we, we had cracked the model, we got super ambitious and we said, hey, uh, because Paris, we failed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:34 Harry Stebbings Like we are now having, you know, Peru, Italy, Spain, Kazakhstan, uh, Kenya.
- ▶ 44:12 Oscar Pierre So large baskets, grocery marketplaces, one in Spain.
- ▶ 44:57 Harry Stebbings How do you think about market depth versus breadth in terms of like penetration of, you know, you could have stayed in Italy and Spain and just gone more services, more services, gone into pharmacy, gone into cash delivery, gone into, um,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:49 Oscar Pierre Uh, when we were only in Spain and Italy, we got the first offer.
- ▶ 57:49 Oscar Pierre And the other one is Mercadona, which is the Walmart of Spain, uh, 40% market share offline.
- ▶ 59:32 Oscar Pierre And unfortunately, the, the, yeah, the country where we suffer from regulation the most is Spain. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:45 Oscar Pierre No, there were no big examples in Europe or at least in Spain.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:38 Klaus Hommels So, for example, everybody says, yeah, but Russia has the capacity or the economic power of something between Portugal and Spain.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:12 Daniel Khachab Our, our Spain team moved, moved to Florida, because you can do sales speaking Spanish in Miami.
- ▶ 56:44 Daniel Khachab Spain. 3 times in the scene
Jeetu Mahtani, Sales Leader @Hubspot: How and When to Go International and Crush It | E1207 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:49 Jeetu Mahtani And in between, you've got France, Germany, Spain, and all the other countries.
Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:28 Mike Hudack When, when Facebook bought WhatsApp, I think 99% of people in Spain had WhatsApp.
- ▶ 33:02 Mike Hudack I, I think that my favorite was, ah, I went on a trip to Spain at some point with, with a bunch of people from the team, and we, um, went there and we really learned the importance of selection.
Ben Fiechtner: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | E1185 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:58 Harry Stebbings Because people want to buy from people who are like them, and when you're in a neutral slash foreign country like Germany or Italy or France or Spain, a Chinese person or an Italian person will instantly have so much more engagement when…
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…
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:05 Harry Stebbings Compare Germany, France, Spain to Romania.
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:18 Thomas Plantenga People were saying, just share your data with Wallapop, help them out, because like, you're never gonna go to Spain.
- ▶ 22:36 Thomas Plantenga So, ah, like, the story from outside looks like, okay, they had friends, and they went to Belgium, they went easily to Spain, then the Netherlands, that looks like a very smooth, well thought, true story.
- ▶ 47:53 Alex Taussig As we got bigger, it became things like, like the UK and Italy and Spain that you had to go, you had to go in and eventually Germany.
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:17 Jason Lemkin Like, I just, I'm not gonna cruelly quit, but, um, you know, I'll go to Spain.
Stephane Kurgan: Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400; How to Find Great Talent | E1041 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:17 Stephane Kurgan Uh, Telefonica and, and BBVA in Spain for 2.4 billion. 2 times in the scene
Maggie Hott: 3 Questions You Must Ask When Interviewing Sales Reps | 20VC #960 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:48 Maggie Hott So I spent a lot of time traveling and living in different places all over the world, from Africa, Scotland, Spain,
GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:34 Harry Stebbings Why did you pull out of Spain? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:02 Harry Stebbings Like closing Spain straight away would have been one.
20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
- ▶ 30:47 Nigel Morris We had gone from credit cards to installment loans to home equities to deposits to mortgages, and we'd done it in the US, the UK, Canada, Italy, France, Spain, South Africa, and, you know, you could see that we'd
20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 3:19 Andrew Dudum You know, I had the lucky chance of helping run that company, sell that company to Telefonica in Spain in 2012.
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
- ▶ 4:12 Harry Stebbings We were talking about the weather helping and contributing to that with the rain in Spain. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:18 Avi Meir We see, like, the official police Twitter account here in Spain tweeted a video of how they used a helicopter that I presumably, and all of us taxpayers pay for, to chase a guy that was camping in the middle of a mountain.
- ▶ 21:28 Avi Meir Don't take my actual states, but you'll have some kind of corridors or maybe countries will allow, the UK will allow everybody from France, but not from Spain.
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
- ▶ 22:38 Brian Garrett Yeah, so while chasing those breadcrumbs, I ended up in Mallorca pitching a family office that owned one of the largest airlines in Spain and ended up in a seven 47 flight simulator.
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 3:10 Chris Farmer So I was born in London and lived in a number of countries growing up, including Bahrain, Spain, France, etc.
20VC: Redpoint's Tom Tunguz on Winning with Data: How To Gain A Competitive Advantage & Dominate Markets with Data and 5 Steps To Create A Data Driven Company
- ▶ 17:27 Tomasz Tunguz So there's a reason that when somebody wins a Powerball lottery, which is the, tends to be the biggest lotteries in the U S or like El Gordo in Spain, that there's as many camera crews as possible.
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 6:22 James Cameron Um, CartoDB in Spain, one of our most recent investments, is another sort of example that, you know, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Harry Stebbings And talking in kind of hubs of innovation and technology, we've also seen huge amounts of growth in the Spanish startup ecosystem. 9 times in the scene
20 VC 061: Roxanne Varza on Pitching A VC in 10 Minutes and Maximising Media Exposure For Your Startup
- ▶ 20:55 Roxanne Varza Today we have Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Romania, and we're expecting a few more to come shortly.