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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 50:35 Harry Stebbings your intercoms and your talk desks
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:37 Jason Lemkin I can tell you when I invested in support in the early days, talk desk, gorgeous, front, no one wanted to do support in the early days.
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:00 unnamed speaker There's the dial pads, the talk desk, there's the others that have, but a lot haven't.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:13 unnamed speaker Pipedrive and Algolia and TalkDesk.
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:09 Harry Stebbings When you do Algolia, when you do talk desk, when you do new name, owner, owner grew grows growing at its rocket ship today. 3 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:19 Jason Lemkin I used to do all these customer references before when I had three months or two months at sales loft or three weeks with talk desk.
Brendon Cassidy: Why You Should Never Hire Someone You Do Not Know in Your First Five Hires | E1124 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:36 Brendon Cassidy And like, so a talk desk,
- ▶ 23:35 Brendon Cassidy And so like talk desk after like our first three or four hires, we were hiring young, up and coming, smart, ambitious, coachable, and every single one of them are VPs of sales now.
- ▶ 46:39 Brendon Cassidy Like talk desk is certainly like a company that had a really went through a tough period and they've now completely course corrected. 3 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:14 Jason Lemkin They did it with Talk to Us with me back in the day.
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:24 Jason Lemkin I could see where search for talk desk and search for alcoholia and even things that seem simple, like CRM for pipe drive or with greenhouse that the Jack knows where I was pre revenue and then sales loft, which I remember everyone laughed…
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:18 Rick Zullo Like, yes, there are certain TAM constraints on some of these companies, but I think you talked about in one of the last round tables, Jason, about talk desk, that you were like, oh, this is like, you know, own company, it's a five nine,…
- ▶ 51:45 Jason Lemkin Like, I don't know what's going to happen with pipe drive or Algolia or talk desk or sells off, but shoot, I'm pretty sure we're going to the next round, like pretty good founders.
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:27 Jason Lemkin I would invest in a funky outsider company like Pipedrive from Estonia or Algolia from France or Toctus from Portugal.
- ▶ 33:12 Jason Lemkin I remember my first, my first Decacorn talk desk, I wrote in the investment memo, this will never be worth more than a hundred and fifty million.
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24 Jason Lemkin I did talk to us worth ten billion.
- ▶ 7:06 Jason Lemkin Um, I remember when I, when I invested in talk desk, the best comp was five, nine, which is public today. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:24 Jason Lemkin Like when I met talk desk or, you know, these, these, these non-traditional other entrepreneurs, they're not going to just check the box.
- ▶ 26:43 Jason Lemkin Talk desk, call center.
- ▶ 42:57 Jason Lemkin I just want to invest the extra time on the gorgeous is and the revenue cats and talk to us now go is I'm willing to invest those cycles to see beyond those and take that risk.
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04 Jason Lemkin I did pipe drive, talk desk, Algolia, greenhouse, and sales loft all within 12 months.
- ▶ 25:42 Jason Lemkin If, if there's any chance, if there's any chance I can find another talk desk or Algolia or pipe drive or sales off, or if I can find a GitLab or Figma, like you should drop everything.
- ▶ 43:43 Jason Lemkin I didn't think any of them would except for talk desk. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:26 Jason Lemkin So it's not that this is the best strategy, but what I found with the best investments I've done, Algolia will talk about talk desk, sales loft, greenhouse, um, gorgeous, um, pipe drive.
- ▶ 13:44 Jason Lemkin So I invested in Toctex as my third investment worth ten billion.
- ▶ 42:06 Jason Lemkin Because then talk desk, I was my third.
- ▶ 47:40 Jason Lemkin My third investment was talk desk, which is worth ten billion today.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings In the past, Jason has made investments in the likes of Algolia, TalkDesk, PipeDrive, and RevenueCat, to name a few.
- ▶ 10:48 Jason Lemkin My first Decacorn, Sastra Podcast, zero, zero, one, you did with Tiago from TalkDesk.
- ▶ 36:04 Jason Lemkin I mean, the investment I made in talk desk at Storm, Storm was the largest investor.
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings But back to Jason, and he's led or sourced the first VC investment in some of the fastest growing SaaS companies of today, with the likes of Algolia, TalkDesk, Rainforest QA, and PipeDrive, just to name a few.
- ▶ 25:34 Jason Lemkin When I invested in TalkDesk, which is one of my best investments, I was able to help put in the entire first management team within 60 days, and this was when Tiago was the only US employee, so that's value add.
- ▶ 31:35 Jason Lemkin So, like a lot of my best investments, like TalkDesk and Algoli and others, at the time, to announce it
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Partner at DFJ, where his current board responsibilities include Box, Chartbeat, LaunchDarkly, LendKey, SugarCRM, and previous guests with me on Sasta, in the form of Periscope Data and TalkDesk.
- ▶ 15:56 Harry Stebbings Box, talk desk, your Twilio's of the world. 2 times in the scene