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NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 24:55 Rory O'Driscoll And I got to say it, some people in Sydney, some people in our shop will love it.
ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 42:34 Aaron Katz We have an office in Sydney, Australia.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 12:00 Jason Lemkin Maybe in Sydney, in Australia, it's easier to retain your talent than in the Bay Area, right?
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:18 Patrick Forquer You know, Sydney, um, Bangalore, like we, we've been, we've been all over the place.
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:37 Jason Lemkin No one has heard of the, the young kid from, from Portugal or, or, or, or, or a Sydney that no one's heard of that, that, that figures something out.
Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:00 Matt Plank We've got a team in Sydney selling into kind of, um, Australian market.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:52 Harry Stebbings And you're like, no, I'm in Sydney. 3 times in the scene
Jeetu Mahtani, Sales Leader @Hubspot: How and When to Go International and Crush It | E1207 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:03 Jeetu Mahtani While I was in Dublin, I took one of the members of the Tiger team, his name was Sam Schulman, and Sam moved to Sydney to open our Australia operation and be, you know, part of the landing team.
- ▶ 15:24 Jeetu Mahtani So I was not able to send that expat leader to Japan like I was able to do in Dublin and Sydney.
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:35 Cameron Adams They'd just moved to Sydney over from Perth at the time, and they had a school yearbook business.
- ▶ 34:17 Cameron Adams Um, but we also have a ton over in Sydney as well.
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:48 Harry Stebbings And I saw in Sydney, they gassed the Jews. 2 times in the scene
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:35 Scott Farquhar You know, even if we try and isolate our children from that, um, you know, I bought an expensive house in, in Sydney and, uh, my kids, friends at school, talk to them about it, how much it costs.
- ▶ 45:28 Scott Farquhar He flew down to Sydney, and we gave him a big check for a 100,000 dollars, and that started our relationship with Remda Reed.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:36 Nikhil Basu Trivedi And so it's obviously the one that stands out for me personally, you know, the company was based in Sydney, Australia. 2 times in the scene
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:05 Vince Hankes The one that I think stands out the most to me, you know, or at least comes back to me a bunch in my psyche is when I was at Tiger, I flew out to Sydney and spent a bunch of time with the Canva team in person.
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:49 Harry Stebbings If you are in Paris, or Bucharest, or Sydney, it's, it's how we discovered today through Twitter, because they don't know the engineers in this specific circle.
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:59 Wesley Chan You know, the founders, you know, look, my best company that I've had the privilege of working with is Canva, which is located in Sydney.
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 29:23 Wesley Chan Uh, and we saw how many minutes and how many hours and how many days people were spending on it once they started downloading software that was just clear to us that we had to be involved somehow, despite the fact that they were in Sydney…
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 8:07 Melanie Perkins Um, we now have over a hundred staff across our two offices here in Sydney and our other offices in Manila. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:15 Melanie Perkins When we raised our most recent round, we had five firms fly here to Sydney, which was a lot of fun to see how the tables had finally turned after so much effort in the initial stages.
20 VC FF 20: Shaking Up The Food Industry With Willie Biggart @ Spoonfed
- ▶ 3:52 Willie Biggart This is BD is, is one of the top agencies now in the European structure, and they've also got an office in Sydney, Australia.
20 VC 045: From Idea to Pitch with Alan Jones, Founding Investor @ Startmate
- ▶ 0:06 Harry Stebbings Today's show is a very special show, as we welcome Sydney's finest, Alan Jones. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:45 Alan Jones Here in Australia, we have a majority of our startups based in Sydney, but we have a few in other regional capitals.
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
- ▶ 1:56 Doug Scott Spent a lot of time in Australia and Sydney.