Taiwan, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Taiwan comes up
Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:18 Harry Stebbings With that, how important is it that we onshore TSMC-like capabilities in companies given Taiwan's vulnerability to China? 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:28 Mitchell Green It's like, I would, I guess I'd tell people, like, if you're worried about China invading Taiwan, you really shouldn't worry about your bite dance position.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:37 unnamed speaker With a made in Taiwan sign on it.
AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 1:03:04 Alex Schultz Well, firstly, it's a huge success in like Japan and Taiwan.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:33 unnamed speaker I think we need to be in a capacity to be strong enough to defend ourselves, otherwise we're going to be bullied, and otherwise we're going to lose, and if we are perceived to be weak, there will be, I think our perceived weakness is more…
Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:23 Wayne Ting I was in, I was an immigrant from, my parents are from Taiwan, moved to Nebraska when I was young, and
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:42 Reid Hoffman Um, but, ah, so a single point of dependency on Taiwan has a bunch of global risk.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:07 Torsten Reil One of them was going to be an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the other one an invasion of Taiwan by China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:48 Torsten Reil One of them was going to be an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the other one an invasion of Taiwan by China.
- ▶ 1:06:17 Harry Stebbings You mentioned China-Taiwan earlier as the second needle moving moment in the kind of inception of Helsing. 2 times in the scene
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:44 George Arison And even more crazy, the entire engineering team, which was at this point was in Taiwan, quit when the transaction happened.
- ▶ 51:14 Harry Stebbings And I don't mean that rudely, but when you under invest in product, when you've got a team in Taiwan, when you've got an audience that has a very visceral problem, it's a home for them.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:38 Harry Stebbings Speaking of the American industrial base there, we are gonna get to kind of supply chains, but I do just want to ask, what changes specifically with regards to China and Taiwan? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:45 Matt Grimm Uh, and then, and then second, I think is a pretty clear indication of at least their ambitions vis-a-vis Taiwan.
- ▶ 9:24 Matt Grimm I think you could see a, uh, invasion of Taiwan that would get very spicy.
- ▶ 33:38 Matt Grimm And that's before we start talking about other partner nations like Japan or like Taiwan or Middle Eastern allies or any of that.
- ▶ 1:29:55 Matt Grimm Uh, and then you put that together with what I view has been a, uh, pretty well demonstrated, um, at least ambition for kind of, uh, empire building, whether that's through Belt and Road in Africa, whether that's through invading Taiwan.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:22 Daniel Khachab If you go on the infrastructure part, close to a hundred percent of all GPUs are built in Taiwan. 2 times in the scene
Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:35 Antoine Le Nel Like, you know, like for example, if, if tomorrow I was to launch, I don't know, in Taiwan, it would be difficult, you know, like things will take more time.
- ▶ 42:00 Harry Stebbings Global, uh, element there of, you know, Taiwan and Indonesia and then Germany.
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:03 David Cahn Yeah, I mean, the politics of this stuff is crazy, but I think the political ramifications of all of these chips are coming from Taiwan.
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:11 Trae Stephens Uh, and you're quite, the problems that you're dealing with, with things like, uh, airspace superiority in Iraq or Afghanistan, totally different than determining airspace superiority in Ukraine or in, you know, a potential Taiwan conflict.
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:19 Sami Inkinen Um, we decided to go, we, as in me and my wife, we decided to go to a 10 day silent meditation retreat in Taiwan, uh, soon after, um,
Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:18 Tomasz Tunguz If I take the New York Times article about whatever, um, the events in Taiwan, and I mix it with a CNN article, and it produces a new article, is that a new thing where I should have copyright? 2 times in the scene
Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:38 Dara Khosrowshahi I'd say it's a toss up between those still, although I think Taiwan would, uh, uh, would object to. 2 times in the scene
Bill Ackman: SVB Collapse; Biden vs Trump; How I Lost $400M on Netflix; Bill's 10-Year Long | E991 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:08 Bill Ackman Um, we have China with its eyes on, uh, Taiwan.
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:38 Harry Stebbings You said about the globalization of fans there, and totally with you, where, like, normally it would just be local fans who support it, and now you have, you know, Taiwanese fans who support Chelsea, and you name it.
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:04 Fabrice Grinda Uh, perhaps Xi Jinping will be less than, given the difficulties Putin has had in Ukraine, will say, okay, maybe Taiwan, uh, is, is not on the cards, and so we regain a level of geopolitical stability.
- ▶ 44:19 Fabrice Grinda Not to mention, you know, whatever, Xi Jinping deciding to use this distraction of Ukraine to go after Taiwan.
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
- ▶ 15:52 Fabrice Grinda Now, you put these two into play, and at the same time, perhaps Xi Jinping will be less than, given the difficulties Putin has had in Ukraine, will say, okay, maybe Taiwan is not on the cards.
- ▶ 37:52 Fabrice Grinda Not to mention whatever, Xi Jinping deciding to use this distraction of Ukraine to go after Taiwan.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 3:37 Hans Tung I was born in Taiwan, and I came to the U.S., specifically in Los Angeles, when I was 13 years old.
- ▶ 5:11 Hans Tung Banking took me to Asia, and I was doing tech investing in Asia, and that's when I see the rise of semiconductor business, the fat business out of Taiwan, and all the Taiwanese VC that made money of the semiconductor value chain by…
20VC: Why It Is Good Company Funding Has Been Down 6 Quarters In A Row, Why Unanimity Does Not Work In VC Decision-Making & Why It Is Dangerous To Be A Spreadsheet Investor with Scott Raney, Partner @ Redpoint Ventures
- ▶ 12:41 Harry Stebbings Do you get concerned when you see VCs enter into these previously unknown markets where kind of software knowledge and domain knowledge on all the traditional software skills isn't maybe so applicable to supply chain logistics in Taiwan…
20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
- ▶ 1:30 Jon Staenberg And, uh, I ended up spending time, uh, living in Asia, actually living in Taiwan after undergraduate, where I worked for a company called Acer Computers, if you remember way, way, way back then.