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Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 26:17 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) If you look at delivery as a sort of comparable vertical here, McDonald's and Starbucks also are strong leaders in their individual verticals.
OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
- ▶ 40:59 Harry Stebbings I literally just had my dear friend Jason Lankin, you run SAS to come back and be like, couldn't figure out what time Starbucks opened on Deep Seek.
The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park
- ▶ 9:04 Joon Sung Park They want to know, imagine you're a Starbucks.
- ▶ 11:17 Harry Stebbings Like Starbucks, if they can predict that Frappuccino sales will be down in two quarters, they can amend, bluntly, their buying cycle. 4 times in the scene
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:45 Tobi Lütke Um, then cycles seven times through the payroll of people in there, like, again, into the company, then into, um, through, through, um, payroll out, and then to the barista's, uh, salary at the, at the local Starbucks, and so on, so on, so…
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:27 Jason Lemkin And whether that, whether he's the jobs coming back to Apple or Schultz coming back to Starbucks, we don't, we don't know.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:56 Sebastian Siemiatkowski This is why it's very worthless to go and ask, what is the opening hour of the Starbucks down on the corner?
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- ▶ 18:21 Simon Squibb So for example, I'm launching a competitor to Starbucks as part of my business model. 5 times in the scene
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:24 unnamed speaker But he's not the, the, the Belton's, he's not the guy running Starbucks from Newport Beach, whatever that guy is, right?
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:51 unnamed speaker I mean, if you look at the, you know, the, look, the founder comes back narrative is definitely, there are precedents, including obviously the most amazing one, and then the Starbucks guy who keeps coming back every three years, like it or…
20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
- ▶ 14:03 Eleonore Crespo This time that they are spending listening to the customer, sourcing the best product, trying to refine their coffee, when you have twice the time as a co-CEO, that gives you a superpower.
Carvana CEO & Co-Founder, Ernest Garcia: Building a $50B Company, Losing 99% and Coming Back · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:01 Ernest Garcia He's, he's now the CEO of Starbucks and was previously the CEO of, of Chipotle.
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:05 Harry Stebbings I read Howard Schultz's book on Starbucks and leadership lessons from Starbucks. 2 times in the scene
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:33 Nabeel Hyatt Starbucks was also a venture-backed business.
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:00 Dan Fougere Having a beer at TGI Fridays after the meeting or at Starbucks or whatever it is.
Aman Narang: 5 Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | E1192 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:00 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned that kind of, you'd like to actually almost be in the middle, it seemed like in the early days, which is like, you have enough revenue where it's a sustainable business, it's not only a bust, but also it's not the largest…
Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:41 Andrew Bialecki The reason we got into, we started with SMBs, I, both my co-founder and I came from enterprise sales and, you know, we would sell to big, huge companies like Starbucks and Bank of America and Marriott, and we saw how long it took to get in…
- ▶ 57:50 Harry Stebbings And I always think of Starbucks with this and the float that they have from their loyalty cards is probably one of the biggest secret weapons in the financial mechanics of that business. 2 times in the scene
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:35 Dan Siroker But Starbucks, you know, Starbucks.com, a guy there who's in charge of optimization and conversion for Starbucks.com, had that experience, and he saw forgiveness, not permission to put, you know, to run our product. 5 times in the scene
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:05 Trae Stephens I think like we are, we have a, a, a responsibility to our vocation and it doesn't matter what you're doing, whether you're a barista at Starbucks or, you know, starting a defense company.
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:14 Sanjit Biswas And we've done things like driver rewards programs where people basically get, you know, Starbucks cards and things like that for being safe on the roads.
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:28 Harry Stebbings I'm like, you know Starbucks?
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:34 Drew Houston Every Starbucks I go into, like, I will look over your shoulder on your laptop and I'll try to see if there's a Dropbox icon there and I never get tired of, uh, of looking, of seeing that or people are like, oh, you must be really tired of…
Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- ▶ 41:05 Casey Winters You can think of it like the Starbucks loyalty app for every other place around you.
20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
- ▶ 28:36 Tony Fadell Those are durable applications, but we should not be using single-use, non-home-compostable plastics for forks and, you know, all of this stuff at Starbucks and all these other things
20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi
- ▶ 17:17 Hamilton Helmer So Starbucks changing from one coffee cup size, sorry, from three to one, that's an innovation, and it saves the money.
20VC: Alexa Von Tobel on Raising NYC's Largest Ever Female Led Fund , Portfolio Construction, Compression of Fundraising Timelines, Reserves Management & Personal Branding in Venture
- ▶ 8:40 Alexa von Tobel In a Starbucks.
20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- ▶ 30:37 John Vrionis You know, we invested in a company called Shoot Jinko, based in Seattle, and they were the IT specialists at Starbucks that 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Raising A Mega-Round Makes Your Life Harder Not Easier, Why Your Board Is Not Your Boss and Lessons on Successful Board Management & The Biggest Breakpoints in Company Scaling with Emmanuel Schalit, Founder & CEO @ Dashlane
- ▶ 1:49 Harry Stebbings Inspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many…
- ▶ 36:51 Harry Stebbings Well, Point is an aspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on…
20VC: Why Startup Valuations Are Not As Overpriced As You Think, How To Determine Whether An Investor Is Truly Aligned To Your Mission and What 2 Traits Make The Truly Special Board Members with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- ▶ 1:52 Harry Stebbings Inspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many…
- ▶ 29:01 Harry Stebbings Forex at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many more.
20VC: Why Speed Is The Biggest Differentiator a Founder Can Have, How To Hire Seasoned Tier 1 Talent To An Early Stage Startup & How To Start, Scale and Manage Remote Teams with Domm Holland, Founder & CEO @ Fast
- ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings Inspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many…
- ▶ 36:15 Harry Stebbings Like, three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many more.
20VC: Why Pre-Product Market Fit Is About Systems Design Not Engineering, The Right Way For Leaders To Approach Wartime Leadership Today & A Guide To Recruitment Forward Planning with Ryan Denehy, Founder & CEO @ Electric
- ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings Inspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many…
- ▶ 35:25 Harry Stebbings Well, Point is an aspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on…
20VC: Why Startup Founders Have One Core Job, How To Reduce Risk & Increase Probability In Your Startup & Why You Should Not Send A Pitch Deck Pre-Investor Meeting with David Rogier, Founder & CEO @ Masterclass
- ▶ 13:12 David Rogier From the CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz.
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 13:43 Fritz Lanman There was a group of us that was working in this, this strategy function that was focused on the platform services division at the time, which was Kevin Johnson, who's now the CEO of Starbucks.
20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
- ▶ 11:01 Paul English To come in and meet me for a job interview, either at my company or at a Starbucks, let's say near where he currently works.
20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 21:42 Mike Maples So, for example, Starbucks convinced the world that they no longer needed to spend only 50 cents for a cup of coffee, but rather should spend four dollars for a latte or for, you know, more money, even for a, for a basic 3 times in the scene