Switzerland, every mention
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GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:58 Johannes Reck We went back, um, to Switzerland to ETH and said, you know, we have to build a website.
- ▶ 9:48 Johannes Reck So I remember I was talking to Oliver Sumber at the time, you know, we had started to relocate some of the staff from Switzerland to Berlin because Switzerland was just too expensive for us to survive in our bootstrap mode. 2 times in the scene
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:10 Severin Hacker Not in Switzerland, not anywhere in Europe.
- ▶ 1:30:24 Severin Hacker You know, I, I felt like I, you know, I grew up in this small town in, in, in, in Switzerland, um, made it to the US, got a PhD, uh, started this company out of, it's my first job.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:31 Jonathan Ross I think we need something more sophisticated, but I mean, yeah, it's, it's, it's a big cheese, Swiss cheese wall.
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:06 Daniel Dines We call it the Switzerland of the platform.
- ▶ 25:43 Harry Stebbings If I'm blunt, if you're, if you already have the position in Switzerland, you already have the distribution. 2 times in the scene
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:50 Kaz Nejatian We have very deep partnerships with many tech companies, and like, and it's not because we're like, you know, Switzerland.
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:35 Harry Stebbings Go to, go to Switzerland.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:06 Danny Rimer So the, the parallel that, you know, obviously we have to come up with examples of how to think about it, and I do have Swiss roots, right? 2 times in the scene
Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:48 Nicolai Tangen Do you know, one I, I'm really fond of is a guy called Albert Bene in Switzerland.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:30 Guillermo Rauch And the company in Switzerland picked it as their like primary framework to build a very innovative UI at the time. 3 times in the scene
David Allemann: How I founded On Running; Working with Roger Federer; Brand Marketing Tips | E1021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:13 David Allemann And there's no better way to do that than on a long hike in the Swiss mountains. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:05 David Allemann Switzerland is seven million people. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:15 David Allemann Switzerland is small.
- ▶ 37:17 David Allemann And, uh, some of our friends in Switzerland noticed as well, and Switzerland is a small place. 2 times in the scene
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:54 Yann LeCun Um, the only European countries that can rival country that rival the US in terms of the quality of, uh, job for an academic or a scientist is Switzerland. 2 times in the scene
Mark Carney: First Republic Bank Fails; Will Interest Rates Rise? Global Warming's Net Zero | E1008 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:52 Mark Carney Well, nothing, at least on the current version of what the Swiss authorities have done.
- ▶ 22:23 Mark Carney And it wasn't perfect, but the fact is that when, uh, it hit the wall, the Swiss authorities, the international authorities had many more options
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20 David Marcus Well, I think it was a series of events, uh, on, in my personal life, uh, as well as, uh, a deeply rooted, uh, frustration about, uh, uh, monopoly, um, you know, one of telecom and internet service providers in Switzerland where I was at… 3 times in the scene
Aloe Blacc: The Secret to Songwriting & Storytelling; Working w/ Avicii on “Wake Me Up” | 20VC #979 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:54 Aloe Blacc Switzerland, um, clean air, clean water, beautiful green, uh, Hills, um, wonderful food, nice people, safe environment.
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:12 Fabrice Grinda I was thinking of putting a lot of my cash in Swiss francs in Switzerland. 5 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 35:23 Fabrice Grinda And I did an analysis, and I realized, and I actually came to the conclusion that it's the opposite. 6 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: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 4:13 Danny Rimer David, the wisest of them all, has turned into a history teacher at our local high school in Switzerland.
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 32:38 Jeff Fagnan So Fred, I remember back when he was actually in Switzerland, I believe it was, when we were at Atlas, and he was in a farmhouse in the
20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- ▶ 6:31 Luis von Ahn You have to do something that is, that's 10 times better than the school system, and you know, the school system, for example, in Switzerland, it's pretty good.
20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
- ▶ 4:01 Mario Schlosser You know, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, other rich countries in the world spend maybe 10, 11% on healthcare, and those countries, by the way, tend to not have single-payer systems either.
- ▶ 7:50 Mario Schlosser If we became merely as efficient as, say, Switzerland is, or Germany is, or Japan is in delivering healthcare, we would save a trillion dollars a year 2 times in the scene
20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
- ▶ 22:43 Erin Glenn Plus, Switzerland is such a gorgeous place.