technology

also referred to as: the technology

25 statements across 24 episodes · 10 bullish · 4 bearish · 24 people on the record · first statement Mar 25, 2016 by Branko Cerny · across every show →

Everything said about technology, oldest first

Mar 25, 2016 negative
Insight
Cerny: Unaligned sales tools force reps to contort their process
“When the technology doesn't map onto how a salesperson would optimally want to run that conversation, it actually becomes a hindrance. The rep has to contort themselves and their sales process to the inadequate tool that they have at their disposal.”
Branko Cerny Mar 25, 2016 ▶ 4:02 Immediately's Branko Cerny on The Rise Of Bottoms Up Sales and The Importance of Branding For Enterprise SaaS Companies
Jan 13, 2017
Insight
Nelson: Tech adoption is far more incremental than people predict
“I think everything tends to be much more incremental than we like to think of it before it happens.”
Maren Nelson Jan 13, 2017 ▶ 6:50 20VC: Building An AI Company For The Long Term? How Humans & Machine Learning Can Work Together? What Applications Are The Conversational Interface Best Suited To with Maran Nelson, Founder & CEO @ Clara Labs
Mar 24, 2017
Assertion Partly supported
80% of US manufacturing job losses came from tech, not China
“80% of the jobs that disappeared in US manufacturing did not Go to China. They went to technology.”
Christian Lanng Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 4:26 20VC: How To Raise $200m In Any Economic Climate, Scale From Garage To Global In Record Time & The Biggest Startup You Have Not Heard About with Christian Lanng, Founder & CEO @ Tradeshift
Oct 18, 2017
Insight
Arbesman: Modularity is a core hallmark shared by biology and technology
“Modularity is a hallmark of both biology and technology.”
Sam Arbesman Oct 18, 2017 ▶ 16:53 20VC: Lux Capital's Scientist-In-Residence on Why We Cannot Just Be Specialists Today, The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Thinking & Computational Creativity That Makes Man and Machine Partners with Sam Arbesman
Feb 4, 2019
Insight
Technology and productivity are the only way Western economies retain jobs
“I mean, I would argue that technology and productivity is the only path to having jobs.”
Sam Lessin Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 14:11 20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
Sep 11, 2020 negative
Insight
Alex Tew: Tech prioritizes external efficiency over internal mental states
“A lot of technology is really focused on the external world, if you like, improving the efficiency of the world that is out there, as opposed to focusing on the world within, particularly our mind and the emotional states that we're in”
Alex Tew Sep 11, 2020 ▶ 29:43 20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands
Jan 4, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gurley: Technology will massively expand global talent and opportunity matching
“And so I think in the future, we're going to have this massive ability to match whatever your comparative advantage is as an individual with way more financial opportunities and way more ways of means of making money than you had in the past. It's almost like …”
Bill Gurley Jan 4, 2021 ▶ 38:40 20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
Dec 6, 2022 bullish
Insight
Casado: Modern technology allows investors to back innovation with predictable returns
“But I just think that now technology is mature enough that you can invest in innovation and get predictable returns. It's a fundamental belief of mine.”
Martin Casado Dec 6, 2022 ▶ 57:34 a16z GP Martin Casado: How I Went from Engineer to VC; Lessons from Chris Dixon | 20VC #956 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 3, 2023 positive
Opinion
Tobi Lütke: Walt Disney is an understudied figure in technology leadership
“I think Walt Disney is I think someone that is understudied in technology”
Tobi Lütke Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 1:18:04 Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 3, 2023 bullish
Opinion
Hankes: AI's World-Transforming Impact Equals iPhone, AWS, and Google
“But the technology, if you really think about it and the zeitgeist it's captured, I mean, it is of that elk, in my opinion, of the transformation it can have of the world.”
Vince Hankes May 3, 2023 ▶ 18:34 Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 27, 2023 negative
Insight
Rabois: Tech opportunity cost in your twenties is uniquely high
“In technology, the opportunity cost in your twenties is very high. If you look at a lot of people who have been most successful, the foundations of their career are in their twenties.”
Keith Rabois Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 38:28 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Klaviyo uses identical underlying technology for SMB and enterprise customers
“The funny part is the technology isn't, you know, for us, I mean, it obviously just kind of scales, It's not really all that different. The product and technology, it's really just matching up with what are the things that matter most to those folks.”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 12:21 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 30, 2024
Insight
Tang: Access to technology and education increases inequality rather than equalizing
“The ability to use the resources to acquire education, technology, all that, all of those tools becoming a, not equalizer, actually is disequalizer.”
Donald Tang Sep 30, 2024 ▶ 52:46 Donald Tang: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast - The Fastest Growing Company in History | E1208 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 9, 2024
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Wang: Public tech markets exhibit power law returns without needing heavy leverage
“You could take leverage, but then you're taking more volatility and I just don't think in technology where you already have a lot of beta, you already have a lot of volatility. You don't need to take a lot of you don't need to take a lot of leverage, especiall…”
Jeff Wang Oct 9, 2024 ▶ 4:55 Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 11, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McCabe: Very few tech industry figures are not voting for Trump
“And that's why everyone I talk to, it's very few people I talk to in technology who are not voting Trump at the moment. Very, very few. There are some people who are either triggered by Trump or they're they don't actually study a lot of these topics, but most…”
Eoghan McCabe Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 32:20 Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 11, 2024 positive
Insight
McCabe: Tech success relies on timing growth cycles and self-reinvention
“In technology, it's all about timing, and it's all about, you know waving successive growth cycles and riding the trends in that moment in time, and then you must reinvent yourself and kill yourself.”
Eoghan McCabe Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 5:27 Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 19, 2025 positive
Insight
Hacker: Technology can deliver the efficacy of 1-on-1 tutoring universally
“With technology, there's a way we believe that anyone can have access to a, the equivalent of a one-on-one tutor with the same efficacy.”
Severin Hacker May 19, 2025 ▶ 2:22 Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Frosst: AI will exacerbate income inequality without proactive labor policy
“And I'm worried that technology has the potential to exacerbate that without being deployed correctly and without having good Yeah, without having good policy around, around employment.”
Nick Frosst Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 32:44 Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 8, 2025 bullish
Insight
Staniszewski: Voice is becoming the primary interface for surrounding technology
“How now the interaction is shifting, where voice is this big interface for the technology around us.”
Mati Staniszewski Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 5:51 ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 2, 2026 neutral
Insight
Zeev: Technology is only 5% of defensibility in complex businesses
“The more operationally complex a business is, the more it's about distribution. The more it's about integration with source and with other pieces of software or content in the case of Navan or part of the ecosystem, the more the more it's in a regulated, this …”
Oren Zeev Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 8:31 Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Feb 12, 2026
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Cannon-Brookes: Technology's fundamental role is to change and expand TAM
“Our whole job in technology is to change TAM, actually.”
Mike Cannon-Brookes Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 29:53 Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Insight
Adam Foroughi: AI Dramatically Lowers Creation Costs While Demanding Higher Talent Standards
“I'm a believer that the technology unlocks a lot more output and our ability to imagine things create and then go and create becomes not only cheaper, much more believable, but it requires people to really level up.”
Adam Foroughi Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 1:05:30 AppLovin CEO: Why Founders Shouldn't Angel Invest & Why the Best Don't Need Mentorship · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 7, 2026
Insight
O'Driscoll: Executives must spend 10% of their time directly using new technology
“If you're not using the technology yourself at least 10% of your time, then you're in the business of listening to other people tell you things that you don't know if it's true or not.”
Rory O'Driscoll May 7, 2026 ▶ 1:30:11 Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 neutral
Insight
Shridhar: Almost All Technology Infrastructure Eventually Shifts to the Edge
“Almost everything in technology ultimately moves to the edge closer to where people are.”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 34:52 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 6, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mignano: Humans will cede unprecedented control to AI agents
“We have never handed over so much of ourselves to a technology before than we're about to do with agents.”
Mike Mignano Jul 6, 2026 ▶ 19:47 Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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