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Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 42:01 Harry Stebbings He's Swedish, um, and he's a thoughtful Swede. 4 times in the scene
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 45:11 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, just on geography, we've spoken about Lovable, we've spoken about Lagora, two companies based in, obviously, Sweden, and then you have Anthropik and you sitting on the west coast.
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:55 Patrick Forquer And certainly we have the perception when we come into a deal that I think everyone just, people think I'm from Sweden, for example.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:45 Jerry Murdock I had the founders of true collar in Sweden come to Aspen. 2 times in the scene
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:24 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Of high growth and profitability that actually got us like this reward because we were like, I think only one of two companies in Sweden that ever had such a long streak of high growth and profitability at the same point of time.
- ▶ 1:19:00 Sebastian Siemiatkowski And the thing is, I said to myself, look, you know, a biggest, like, one of the biggest idols of mine, obviously, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, born in Sweden, the same day I am, third of October, 81. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:17 Sebastian Siemiatkowski I think that the, the, uh, you know, seeing all these other Swedish kids going to their summer holiday houses and having, you know, a surplus that to me looked great.
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:20 Max Junestrand We can talk about some of the differences between, you know, US, Europe, but I think the, the termination period in the US versus in, let's say, Sweden is actually one of the structural benefits of having a big office in the US.
- ▶ 36:04 Max Junestrand You have that in Sweden.
- ▶ 1:05:20 Max Junestrand Um, and I think I, you know, when I, when I grew up looking at Niklas and Daniel and Sebastian and seeing this Swedish tech companies succeed, that was phenomenal.
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:23 unnamed speaker But their ability to do pretty darn well in Sweden and project power.
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf
- ▶ 32:16 Gérald Marolf They're like Swedish consumer electronics things, quite
20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify
- ▶ 1:08:34 Harry Stebbings I once went out with a Swedish girl who taught me that there is a saying in Sweden, which is like, it's good not to stand out. 2 times in the scene
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:38 Alex Bouaziz And on the same spirit, um, I don't know if you know Fred from Voy, uh, but those two guys, I've, I've been falling in love with Swedish tech recently. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:01 Rory O'Driscoll And then Legora came in from Sweden, for God's sake, and killed it.
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:37 Mati Staniszewski And there's like just so many more, like Gora recently in, in, in Sweden that, that, that raised around.
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:57 Harry Stebbings Very humble Swedes, aren't you?
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
- ▶ 5:42 Max Junestrand And in Swedish college, you can't pick your courses.
- ▶ 16:21 Harry Stebbings How did you go into, like, the biggest law firm in Sweden, and let them accept you and welcome you into their office to see how they work?
- ▶ 21:31 Max Junestrand And I actually had a term sheet from a Swedish VC, which I got the same day as we had our 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:50 unnamed speaker So we go through the batch, we close deals in Sweden, and then it comes to demo day.
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 49:19 Kieran Flanagan Like if you go to, if you look at Sweden alone and some of the AI companies being built out of that country, like there's just so much good stuff happening.
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:53 unnamed speaker You could, ah, it'll be interesting to see fast forward five years where the incumbents have Harvey are, um, the Swedish company.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:07 Larry Aschebrook At that time, the penetration of the usership in, in, in Sweden was like, 25% of the population used it.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:30 Harry Stebbings Final one, guys, before we do a quick fire, I was in Sweden at this dinner and Elon's tweet came out and we're not going into politics, so it's not a political question.
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:45 unnamed speaker Sweden, those two people from the Midwest and in the space of, you know, three short months, convert them into highly marketable properties in return for a mere seven percent.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:17 Harry Stebbings How do you think then about Synthesia, about 11 Labs, about some incredible lovable in Sweden being built from Europe?
Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:42 Niklas Östberg You, you, you train every day, you go out in the dark two hours interval training in the dark forest of Sweden.
Anton Osika, Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable: Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention - Better than ChatGPT · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:23 Anton Osika And then, uh, when I'm back in Sweden, I'm like, okay, where do I apply this?
- ▶ 30:20 Anton Osika That, that in Europe, people are more like, about, uh, living a balanced, uh, life, and, uh, we're, we're kind of taught that we should, uh, in, in Sweden, we, we talk about, uh, the law of jante, which is that you should be better than…
- ▶ 46:04 Harry Stebbings I love the Swedes.
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:21 Harry Stebbings Because it's a big task to go after the US market from Sweden of all places, um, respectfully.
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:32 Shaun Maguire I went to like all over the world, but one, I had a pretty formal experience in Sweden where I was on the train from Stockholm to Malmo and like, you know, half of the train were migrants and it was just clear they were not being… 4 times in the scene
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:25 Harry Stebbings Uh, or Sweden, or one of these, you know,
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:45 Nicolai Tangen Well, it's very concentrated, and you know, you have the market cap of individual companies, which surpass the market capitalization of all the Swedish companies, for instance.
Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:39 Johan Brenner They were launching a personal finance app in the U S from Sweden.
- ▶ 53:00 Christian Hecker We need to go to Sweden to maybe Russia to hire these people.
Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:22 Mudassir Sheikha Magnus, I joke around with, you grew up in Sweden.
Stephane Kurgan: Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400; How to Find Great Talent | E1041 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:50 Stephane Kurgan And, and the other, uh, insight is, you know, the, the Swedish model, uh, which of, of, uh, I would say labor relations 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:35 Harry Stebbings Speaking of people being proud to work with King, you mentioned also kind of the Swedish culture there. 4 times in the scene
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:40:00 Scooter Braun And there was a guy in Sweden, I called him, he was coming to LA two weeks later, and I said, let's meet up, and we became friends.
Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:25 Harry Stebbings I don't ever see why you should not announce a round of funding, so argue with me back here, but the reason being, like, if someone reads a TechCrunch article and goes into Sweden because Volt is in Sweden, fuck me, they're not going to… 2 times in the scene
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:39 Gustav Söderström So that took off in a little bit in, in, uh, Sweden and in the Nordics.
- ▶ 27:16 Gustav Söderström I'm in Sweden here.
- ▶ 38:44 Gustav Söderström In fact, just talking and debating with really smart people who are not afraid of you importantly, which I think is also sort of a Swedish societal trait that you're not so afraid of authority is way cheaper than writing code.
Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:35 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is with the boldness and decisiveness, it goes against the gradual release iteration testing in Australia and Sweden with new markets.
Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:55 Gary Vaynerchuk In 1971 or two, there was a political event that happened where some Russians tried to hijack a plane and go to Sweden to escape the country.
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
- ▶ 4:46 Sebastian Siemiatkowski I think Sweden at that point of time was quite difficult.
- ▶ 14:44 Sebastian Siemiatkowski In Sweden, there's this course called situation adopted management, right?
- ▶ 21:59 Sebastian Siemiatkowski And then on top of that, obviously, keep very close on the recruitment and trying to understand, like, especially in a country like Sweden, which a country where a typical saying is like, which means like, everyone should come, everyone…
20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
- ▶ 3:36 Justin Fishner-Wolfson And one of the guys who came to the conference was Ken Howery, who people may realize is, you know, currently our ambassador to Sweden.
20VC: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
- ▶ 2:09 Harry Stebbings That is very kind of you, but I actually spoke to Ben before the show, and he mentioned you're fleeing to Iran as a refugee and living in a Swedish ghetto, so it's a little bit of a different start for me, bluntly, but an offshoot is how… 4 times in the scene
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
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 11:01 Christian Hernandez Cryex in Sweden, that's a, um, FX crypto, um, exchange for, you know, financial institutions.
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 22:02 Hussein Kanji You know, and then every single geography, you know, in, in Sweden, it's Crandom and Nordzone, you know, in France, it's Partech
20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado
- ▶ 23:47 Mattias Ljungman Uh, it, it sort of, it, it just makes fun of people, and it, and it, and you have a wonderful heroine who comes from South Africa, who lives in the, uh, I think it's Lesotho, basically, and, and, you know, it deals with apartheid, it deals… 2 times in the scene
FF 010: Becoming Europe's Hottest Startup with Carl Waldekranz, Co-Founder and CEO @ Tictail
- ▶ 3:10 Carl Waldekranz Uh, and, and, and from that point then forward, we became this extremely startup tech-focused company, uh, worked with Spotify from the launch in Sweden all the way to the launch in the U.S.,
- ▶ 8:55 Carl Waldekranz Sweden, the UK, Germany, France, and, and of course
- ▶ 19:39 Harry Stebbings And, and Daniel Waterhouse at Balderson, actually, I asked him for his advice on, before this interview, just for maybe questions to ask, and he wanted to know that you've built a team so successfully in New York, but you've managed to… 2 times in the scene