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Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 13:40 Rory O'Driscoll Because, you remember, he's now long since gone and owns a basketball team, but Steve Barmer would jump around the stage sweating, screaming, it's developers, developers, developers, right?
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:36 unnamed speaker Bill and Paul Allen own, you know, good sluggies and even bomber owned enough to buy a basketball team at the end of it.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:04 Rory O'Driscoll And, um, developers, developers, as Steve Ballmer used to say, which is what Claude Code is becoming.
Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:06 Niklas Östberg Uh, Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:21 Shervin Pishevar Steve Ballmer. 3 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:22 Alexis Ohanian Uh, cause the Lakers, the number one team, uh, Balmer, obviously very successful, invested a ton in this team, and they've built a brand new arena, and one of the things that went viral recently was they showed off, um, it's not over to…
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:08 Harry Stebbings Um, very bold risks, writing a billion dollar check to open AI, completely transforming a business that Steve Ballmer had let plateau.
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:23 Hadi Partovi My early career at Microsoft, since I was, uh, since I was 18 years old, I'd been an intern at Microsoft, uh, since freshman year of college, and even in my freshman year of college, I met Steve Ballmer in the cafeteria and said hello to… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:43 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, while we're on Bomber, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:25 Hadi Partovi Let me give you an example from a review with bomber. 10 times in the scene
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:25 Emil Michael For one hour with Steve Ballmer at Microsoft, one hour, and everyone thought it was crazy. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Emil Michael Yeah, I always talk about this one, and it was such, it was the hardest one I've ever done, and it was with, you know, the, the, the most fun one I ever did was with Steve Ballmer doing a deal over the weekend when he broke my Blackberry,…
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- ▶ 15:43 Michael Eisenberg Microsoft, which even went down in the Balmer era, has come back with a vengeance.
20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building
- ▶ 15:51 unnamed speaker But, you know, in the early days of that battle, when they had way better product, Google had a way better product, Balmer would, and Balmer's still CEO at the time, would show up in companies and say, I'm here.
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
- ▶ 14:07 Fritz Lanman We had done the early work that got Gates and Bomber focused on Google as a threat to the business, and at the time, back then, they were more focused on the enterprise side and on the threat that Linux kind of represented, and so we had… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 16:23 Clinton Foy It just recently sold in the last two years for two billion dollars to Steve Ballmer.
20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- ▶ 0:52 Harry Stebbings But before we meet Amir, Steve Ballmer once said,
- ▶ 25:15 Harry Stebbings However, before we leave you to sail off into the weekend, do not forget Steve Ballmer's quote on the importance of access to great design, which is why DesignCrowd is the place offering you access to over 500,000 registered designers on…
20 VC 090: Balderton Capital's General Partner, Suranga Chandratillake on What It Takes To Be A Great CEO
- ▶ 11:40 Suranga Chandratilake Um, I think the power of what he did has become sadly visible since he stepped away from Microsoft day to day, because unfortunately, although Steve Ballmer and so on are, you know, great executives, clearly very smart, very able people,…