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Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:04 Andrew Feldman I, for years, did business with extraordinary entrepreneurs there at, at Baidu, and at Tencent, and Didi, and all these companies, and they're every bit as good as anybody in Silicon Valley.
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:39 Jason Lemkin Providers are giving away OpenClaw because you've got grandma and grandpa lined up on the streets outside of Tencent, Alibaba with their free OpenClaw because it just burns tokens, right?
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:40 Mitchell Green Look, Byte, so Alibaba and Tencent should be, you know, two giant, um, you know, Chinese companies should represent roughly how ByteDance should trade.
- ▶ 27:05 Mitchell Green Keep in mind, like, Alibaba and Tencent, or Alibaba's stock has, like, doubled off the lows over the last year.
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:27 unnamed speaker So the like of, ah, you know, Tencent and, you know, WeChat and Alipay and Alibaba all took off and you just live in this
- ▶ 35:41 unnamed speaker You know, I think I was, um, you know, Sequoia and, and sort of Tencent and MasterCard led my Series A, um, and Series C we got like, because we are, we just, you know, rejected like acquisition offer from Stripe, um, you know, for close… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:55 unnamed speaker So we basically went to raise money from Sequoia and Tencent. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:46 unnamed speaker The deal was stored and Sequoia was not willing to invest until Tencent kind of make a decision, uh, and are basically running out of money. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:14 unnamed speaker oh, we'll only invest with Tencent? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:18 unnamed speaker Uh, and then Tencent and Moscow supposed to be the customer.
- ▶ 51:55 unnamed speaker Sell to other, uh, businesses other than Tencent and Mastercard, like a lot of tech companies basically.
- ▶ 54:29 unnamed speaker and then Tencent and Mastercard, Tencent and Sequoia said, we want to lead another round. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:29 unnamed speaker Uh, so DST and Tencent led the convertible notes.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:21 Mitchell Green Tencent is not really a truly global business. 4 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:15 Reid Hoffman You know, Alibaba, Tencent, et cetera.
David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:54 David Vélez Tencent, it's a, it's a, it's a very strong example.
Rob Lacher: How I Scaled to $600M AUM; Hiring Tips for VCs; Venture Capital in Europe vs USA | E999 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Rob Lacher We always complain that we don't have a Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Tencent who are the most profitable companies in their clusters, and they're the biggest tech drivers next to VCs.
- ▶ 52:16 Rob Lacher And the interesting thing is, you know, and back to your Google question, we always complain that we don't have a Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Tencent who are the most profitable companies in their clusters, and they're the biggest tech…
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:51 Fabrice Grinda I sold 10 cents at the IPO because I'm like, you know, it's fully baked in, fully priced.
- ▶ 59:58 Fabrice Grinda I think it was like, I, at that time it was only QQ, it was ICQ of, uh, of China or AIM of China.
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
- ▶ 49:11 Fabrice Grinda I sold 10 cents at the IPO because I'm like, it's fully baked in, fully priced. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:16 Fabrice Grinda I think it was like, at that time, it was only QQ.
20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Prior to Tencent acquiring a majority stake in the company at a reported 10.2 billion dollar acquisition price, Ilka raised over one hundred and forty three million dollars for the company from Excel, Index, Atomico, IVP, LVP, Initial and…
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 40:30 Daniel Levine It's kind of a very, very popular project that's been adopted by huge companies like Cisco, Uber, Cloudflare, Century, Mux, Instana, Segment, Tencent, ByteDance, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Substack, Chris was the co-founder and CTO at Kik, letting users connect with friends, groups, and the world around them, and the company raised over two hundred and twenty million dollars in funding from Spark, Tencent,…
20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Reddit has raised over five hundred and fifty million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the world of venture, including Sequoia Capital, Mark Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Sam Altman, Josh Kushner, Alfred…
20VC: Lime CEO Brad Bao on How Lime Assess The Micro-Mobility Landscape and Competition Today, What It Takes To Launch and Win A New City & Why Lime Have Spent $0 on Marketing To Date
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings And before that, spent an incredible eight years at Tencent in numerous different roles, including VP of Business Development for Tencent Games, and General Manager for Tencent's US branch, where he was responsible for Tencent's US… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings And before that, spent an incredible eight years at Tencent in numerous different roles, including VP of Business Development for Tencent Games, and General Manager for Tencent's US branch, where he was responsible for Tencent's US…
- ▶ 4:10 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you make your way from the world of VC and Tencent to founding one of the hottest companies today in the form of Lime? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 Harry Stebbings You mentioned there the eight years with Tencent. 4 times in the scene
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 22:48 Jeff Richards And so when you get it right, whether it's an Uber or a Facebook or an Alibaba or a Tencent or a JD, when you get it right, they run and they wildly exceed your expectations.
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 6:06 Glenn Solomon Tencent's WeChat was created on mobile, and it's probably the most valuable digital asset in the world today.
- ▶ 18:54 Harry Stebbings One thing that's very common, though, between US and Chinese markets is kind of the incumbent heavy nature with Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu. 6 times in the scene
20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
- ▶ 27:00 Neil Young In the Western markets, I think there's ultimately the opportunity to build a company that is as meaningful and as impactful and as scaled as a company like Tencent has been in the East. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 13:46 Crystal Huang There's Tencent.
- ▶ 17:44 Crystal Huang So everybody talks about Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, which they call BAT. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- ▶ 21:13 Harry Stebbings Do you think we're getting to a level where the cat for those small brands on those huge channels, though, is now out of proportion to their budgets and leaves itself only open to the supercells and the mega 10 cents of the world?
20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 18:44 Jason Pressman Are very powerful, and if you look not only at Facebook and Snapchat in the US, but a lot of the really compelling social networks overseas, like Tencent, Alibaba, and some of the feature sets that they have, and the way people interact in…
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Prior to Kleiner Perkins, MZ was with Tencent, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:20 MZ Zaveri Moved out here, you know, started running the company, and, and eventually, sort of, you know, the company had a lot of turbulent times and bumps along the way, and eventually, we parted ways, still good friends, but ended up parting ways,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:55 Harry Stebbings Fantastically concise, but how else a way to start them with a question from Nico, who asks, what were the big takeaways from your time with Tencent? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:38 Harry Stebbings So if we move from themes to stages of market, and where you've had a lot of experience, as you discussed earlier with your time at Tencent,
- ▶ 19:44 Harry Stebbings Uh, I want to discuss seed, and before we dive into the quickfire round, I have to ask, you were obviously active in the market with Tencent. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:13 MZ Zaveri Yeah, I think, you know, my time at Tencent gave me a lot of exposure to different monetization models. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 27:49 Aydin Senkut And then my, uh, good friend David Wallerstein at Tencent. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 19:38 Niccolo De Masi Um, so we stick to our knitting, we take a long-term view, as is our, our board, and certainly our biggest shareholder, Tencent, takes a very long-term view.
- ▶ 27:47 Niccolo De Masi The whole celebrity game platform, I, it wouldn't surprise me if it's our biggest earner amongst the four genres we've got, but, you know, we have a big shooter game coming out as well in partnership with Tencent.
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 13:49 Christian Hernandez And you saw that in China actually a fairly long time ago where, you know, QQ, um, the original Tencent app before WeChat was actually literally this all-encompassing consumer portal inside of a mobile device because that was the primary…
20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming
- ▶ 10:45 Niccolo De Masi Tencent is our largest shareholder today. 2 times in the scene