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20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 12:16 Steve Jurvetson It'd be as if you could ask Elon in the early days of Tesla, what does the company look like in 20 years? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:02 Steve Jurvetson The moment you sat in a road store or any Tesla product, you have this experience. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:17 Steve Jurvetson And I was like, wow, that was just before the Model S.
- ▶ 21:15 Steve Jurvetson So just like Netscape was for the internet, SpaceX was for space, Tesla was for electric vehicles and autonomy.
- ▶ 21:30 Harry Stebbings And bluntly, when you look at the returns and the profiles of SpaceX and Tesla, to name two obviously very prominent ones, they're returns that are completely, I mean, they make kind of multiple
- ▶ 27:03 Steve Jurvetson If you look at, okay, at the 10 year mark, where it was Tesla, where it was SpaceX.
- ▶ 37:22 Steve Jurvetson Same with Tesla.
- ▶ 45:18 Steve Jurvetson He started in the Midwest and eventually moved more into technology with Tesla and others.
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Now, Kraft is one of Silicon Valley's leading early stage funds, with David's portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Facebook, Tesla, SpaceX, Palantir, Affirm, Airbnb, Slack, and Bird, to name a few.
20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi
- ▶ 16:00 Hamilton Helmer And we'd have 600 mile Teslas instead of 300 mile Teslas.
- ▶ 32:46 Hamilton Helmer And the award I would give on that one would be to Tesla.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 39:43 Mike Maples And so, for example, if you say I traded a hundred shares of Tesla, it's put in the record digitally that you did.
20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- ▶ 13:13 Harry Stebbings And when we chatted before, you said we have the Tesla go-to-market. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 14:02 Vinod Khosla Tesla and Waymo that did the most radical things in automotive and changed the trajectory of automotive.
20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- ▶ 15:33 Immad Akhund this company called Memphor, they built something at Pebble, and then they rebuilt it at Tesla, and then, like, they were like, okay, you know, I built it twice, I'm just going to do a startup that does this.
20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings And has an incredible portfolio, including the likes of Tesla, SpaceX, AngelList, and CoinMind, just to name a few.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 28:23 Byron Deeter Tesla is the one that is front and center for me. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
- ▶ 15:17 Harry Stebbings Can I ask a real question for me that fascinates and intrigues me is Uber and Tesla and the kind of merging towards each other's markets that I think we'll see over the coming years. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 17:37 Geoff Ralston I remember hearing Elon Musk talk about what it was like for him when Tesla was something like four hundred and forty five million dollars in debt.
20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware
- ▶ 17:19 Harry Stebbings Is that, you know, I'm always perplexed by kind of Tesla moving down the stack into having an Uber-style service, and then Uber moving up the stack into having a Tesla-style car creation process. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:09 Frank Chen So I'm thinking it's going to be more of a binary shift because the cars where you need human input, so you think of Tesla Autopilot, or you think of Nissan's ProPilot, right?
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 24:50 Anjney Midha And then the question becomes for the industry, for the vertical, in our case, AR, what is the right way to, to build an operating plan that somebody who's at a really great position at a place like Tesla or Facebook or Twitter, where many…
20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk
20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- ▶ 5:47 Avidan Ross I was approached by a team leading Tesla and they basically said to me, we need two million dollars and we're going to build a vehicle telematics company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:00 Avidan Ross And I got to see the Elon Musk, Martin Eberhardt school of building hardware, which was the Tesla roadster. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 21:59 Daniel Gross You know, very much similar to how one of Tesla's major learnings over the course of the past year was
- ▶ 22:06 Daniel Gross I think they still have humans plugging different things together in the gigafactory.
20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 17:40 James Currier More and more businesses, whether it's batteries for Tesla, or whether it's, you know, security systems, or it's largely going to be the winners are going to have network effects.
20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
- ▶ 10:27 Mario Schlosser You know, you can make those trade-offs or in deciding to buy a Tesla versus a BMW or something like that, or even a GM.
20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 20:22 Renata Quintini I think every product and service has a natural cost curve, and now we're seeing more and more sort of private entities, private balance sheets footing the development of really important tech, and those things may be expensive, and if you… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:06 Renata Quintini Even if you're, you know, if you think about the big successes in Frontier, like a Tesla, Nest,
20VC: How Both Founders & GPs Should Construct Their Pitch, Why VCs Are Eternal Optimists & What Makes The Best Post-Investment VC/Founder Relationship with Brian Ascher, Partner @ Venrock
- ▶ 10:36 Brian Ascher Or it could be a technology insight like, uh, Tesla realizing that they could build a really awesome electric car when up to that point people thought electric cars were, were bogus. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How LPs Can Add Strategic Value To Portfolio Companies & Why Real Estate Is On Every Whiteboard In Silicon Valley with Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder @ Fifth Wall
- ▶ 23:02 Brendan Wallace The second question, which I think is interesting to look at Tesla around is price point, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Scott Belsky on What Makes Truly The Best VCs? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on 'The First Mile' & The Key Ingredients To The Perfect Onboarding Process
- ▶ 19:48 Harry Stebbings And then one interesting one that I'd love to hear your thoughts on is obviously we're seeing Uber develop with, with the kind of manufacturing of, with their cars, and then we're also seeing potentially Tesla go down into the marketplace,… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund
- ▶ 13:25 Ben Blumenfeld I think Tesla's another great example, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Radical Changes In Public Market Expectations, The Right Way To Assess Valuation & What It Means To Be A Disciplined & Diligent Investor with Randy Glein, Partner @ DFJ Growth
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Randy's investments include the likes of Twitter, Tumblr, SpaceX, and Tesla, just to name a few.
20VC: Why You Should Not Invest From Patterns, Why No Good Business Was Built As An Analogy Of Another & Why The Rise Of The 'Celebrity Investor' Is Concerning with Emily Melton, Partner @ DFJ
- ▶ 15:12 Emily Melton Tesla, uh, or SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings I'm also immensely excited for this week on the show, as we feature one of the most prominent funds of the last decade, with investments in the likes of Skype, Tesla, Twitter, AngelList.
20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 24:31 Harry Stebbings So mine, for example, is Tesla's going wrong and it creating mass public concern and a consensus that kind of robots are bad after all.
20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- ▶ 22:56 Harry Stebbings And then Tesla, is it going to be a market winner or are there too much capital requirements from the public market?
20VC: Who Will Own The Data? Is There An Incumbency Advantage in AI? When Will Artificial Super Intelligence Come To The Forefront with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures
- ▶ 18:35 Harry Stebbings Talking about, you said there about, uh, horse-drawn drivers, uh, how long till driverless cars will become mainstream mass market with, uh, uh, likes of Tesla's technology? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer
- ▶ 20:10 David Pakman We think cars will be sold direct to consumer the way Tesla is doing it.
20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
- ▶ 25:49 Frank Mycroft I, I, I honestly, I have to say, given my space background, um, and my, my now vehicle transportation background, it would have to be Elon Musk, you know, what he's done with Tesla, what he's done with SpaceX.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 17:17 Nabeel Hyatt So the kind of autopilot that we now see in Tesla, only they had produced it, you know, um, long before Tesla had produced it. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 7:07 Nikhil Basu Trivedi In December, 2015 that Tesla is two years away from a self-driving car. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:46 unnamed speaker And a new type of approach, something like Uber or Lyft, for example, or Google or Tesla, will actually lead to, you know, the approach that catalyzes this autonomous transportation revolution. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:53 unnamed speaker So, so an example of this is, you know, Tesla has a 30 person team working on autopilot, which is their 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 unnamed speaker Autonomous sort of cruise control and lane changing and lane keeping, uh, software and application that's live today in, uh, in Model S's and Model X's.
- ▶ 11:00 unnamed speaker Autonomous sort of cruise control and lane changing and lane keeping, uh, software and application that's live today in, uh, in Model S's and Model X's.
- ▶ 11:41 unnamed speaker It'll lead into advantages around the hardware and the capabilities they build into future vehicles like the Model three.
- ▶ 17:48 Harry Stebbings And in, in terms of pricing model, are we gonna see a Tesla, like, scaling down to the mass market, do you think?
20 VC 071: Pre-Seed Investing, Why Now Is The Best Time with Nicholas Chirls @ Notation Capital
- ▶ 25:46 Nicholas Chirls Dot com, it's been, uh, it's been profiling, uh, recently, um, Elon Musk and, and, and Tesla, and I think they just, the SpaceX post just came out, and, uh, previously had a series on artificial intelligence that, uh, that was…
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 38:17 Harry Stebbings And talking of, uh, Elon Musk you mentioned there, I read somewhere you got, you've got the Tesla S first, first one? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:19 Harry Stebbings And do you think he can do it with Tesla? 2 times in the scene
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