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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 7:03 Matteo Franceschetti Let's say you pick Texas and, I don't know, California. 2 times in the scene
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 1:06:20 Harry Stebbings Texas pausing float camera usage.
- ▶ 1:19:12 Rory O'Driscoll And that's happening in Texas. 2 times in the scene
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 51:34 Jason Lemkin It's bad for, it's, it's even crazy that Texas is in on it, right, is in on the NIMBYism.
- ▶ 1:00:12 Rory O'Driscoll Elon in the first, the 2018 Tesla package, and obviously after a lot of two-ing and four-ing, he got another package just recently, finally approved after they moved to Texas.
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 36:53 Fred Turner We looked at one in Florida and we looked at one in Texas.
- ▶ 1:25:00 Fred Turner I mean, I, you know, I'm a Texan now.
Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:31 Andrew Feldman If that's Texas, that's great.
Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:15 unnamed speaker I was actually checking out the judge, Texas judge, Gonzalez.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:02 unnamed speaker You know, it's not like you need to be in California to be a Tesla board member or a SpaceX board member, given they're down in Texas.
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:44 unnamed speaker Texas does, but Austin even doesn't.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:58 Harry Stebbings So Stargate Texas data center expansion to gigawatts potentially being axed capping in at 1.2 gigawatts.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:10 Jerry Murdock Kenya's the size of Texas with, you know, 13 major tribes with 76 individual clans and dialects, and we wanted to document it all.
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 8:41 Luke Harries Fred Turner, incredible founder, and is now building one of the largest health tech companies in Texas.
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:43 Alan Chang For example, in the state of Texas, like where, you know, a lot of people say it's a home of energy.
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:50 Matt Fitzpatrick We took the old Pinterest space in San Francisco, um, London, Paris, Poland, DC, and just opening Austin, Texas now.
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:33 unnamed speaker Slap them on a trailer and make them generate electricity for a data center down in Texas.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:29 Rory O'Driscoll We're, you know, our stuff is in Texas.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:43 David Cahn And you, you know, you talk to people, they're flying electricians to Texas and they're trying to buy out generator capacity
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:03 unnamed speaker You think you're in a business that needs five hundred million to cash flow break even, and suddenly you're in a business that needs five billion to cash flow break even, and you want bulldozers digging a hole in somewhere in Texas.
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:47 Andrew Feldman I mean, Samsung built a fab in Texas, and they had to change the design of a fab because they had local fire ordinance.
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:38 unnamed speaker You know, 50,000 personal injury lawyers of whom 40,000 live in Texas.
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 9:43 Luke Harries Fred Turner, incredible founder, and is now building one of the largest health tech companies in Texas.
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:40 Rory O'Driscoll I think it's the, I don't quote Minister Dallas, that there's Texas trying to get together an exchange with some of the lean
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:55 Andrew Feldman Uh, in Texas, for example, are getting a huge amount of data centers built.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:56 Harry Stebbings I always like to see both sides, um, that, um, Gurley does still scare the shit out of me at six foot 10 in a Texan.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:25 Daniel Khachab And our France team, they moved first to California and then to Texas, and the German team, I think, went also to Texas, and then 2 times in the scene
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20 Saam Motamedi So I grew up in Houston, Texas, um, was born and raised there all through high school and then moved out to California for school.
Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:08 Mike Schroepfer If you actually look Texas on an average, there's a, there's ERCOT, which is the Texas power grid shows their power mix. 2 times in the scene
Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:22 Justin Ishbia Medicaid in Texas may be very different than Medicaid in Utah. 2 times in the scene
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:12 Sanjit Biswas And by the way, I was a new student, and I've just moved from Texas, and probably what my friends didn't tell you is I was pretty
Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:55 unnamed speaker I can't be in Texas or whatever it is.
Lori Jiménez: How to Increase Sales; Hiring Tips from Google; Best Way to Grow Sales Teams | E1043 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:33 Lori Jiménez You know, you flew out to Texas, you took them to the steakhouse, you did all that stuff, right?
GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:07 Rafael Ilishayev Philadelphia, Chicago's, uh, Boston's, Miami's, uh, all of our Texas markets of the world that are, are producing cash flow.
Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:49 Gary Vaynerchuk Working hard, staying curious, staying up late at night and not playing video games, but reading the internet, finding out about social media, flying to London to go to Future of Web Apps to learn, going to South by Southwest to Texas to…
Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mac the VC on the Journey from Homeless To Becoming A VC | Full Interview with Harry Stebbings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:10 Mac the VC And I met a founder in Dallas, Texas, a gentleman by the name of Roberto who runs a company called RoboAmp, doing some really incredible things, but nobody wanted to support him because he was a Latin guy in Texas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:33 Harry Stebbings When you look at follow-on funding, and you give it to your top tier series A's, B's, C's, do you find that actually they are fully embracing Maryland, Texas, you name your, I don't know America very well.
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 8:57 Keith Rabois For example, the state of Texas in 2003 was actually a problem. 2 times in the scene
20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
- ▶ 4:36 Rafael Ilishayev We then, for one reason or another, decided to go to Texas, and we opened up Austin as city number four, and only as we were approaching the fifth and sixth city did we raise our first round, right?
- ▶ 18:45 Rafael Ilishayev But we're also working with a lot of the local players that have like a one million dollar budget instead of, you know, a multi-billion dollar budget that said, hey, I'm not big nationally, but I'm an authority in Dallas, Texas.
20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World
- ▶ 16:44 Max Simkoff Maybe it's correlated that, you know, people going to Texas and Florida.
20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
- ▶ 26:01 Justin Fishner-Wolfson But twenty million is very different if you live in, you know, Dallas, Texas, or San Francisco,
20VC: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
- ▶ 24:59 Ali Ghodsi They need to figure out how do we take this super awesome product and make sure that random salesperson in Texas, who might not care so much about this company, and they're just here a year, and they're not going to spend that much
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 38:02 Cyan Banister So I'm hearing about people going to Montana and Wyoming and Texas, and I'm not talking about Austin, Texas.
20VC: Arlan Hamilton: "We Have Come For Cake, Not The Crumbs", Arlan's Plan To Return $1Bn in 10 Years, Why Arlan Plans To Giveaway or Invest 90% of Her Wealth & What The LP Class Can Do To Ensure More Under-Represented Managers Get Funded
- ▶ 3:45 Arlan Hamilton I grew up in Dallas, Texas, and for the first 30 years of my life, I kind of bounced around the country.
20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
- ▶ 4:06 Apurva Mehta As LPs, we spent 15 years as allocators, most recently as co-CIOs for a children's hospital endowment in Fort Worth, Texas.
- ▶ 30:24 unnamed speaker Last question that I'm really interested by is, you're based in Texas, and you have this incredible tight network in the valley. 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 40:56 Steve Jurvetson We're in Texas. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games
- ▶ 4:24 Josh Buckley So after about 12 months of running this thing, and it became a pretty significant business for a fifteen-year-old, I had a lot of people approach me to buy this thing off my hands, and I actually agreed one day to sell it to a company in…
20VC: Why Pre-Product Market Fit Is About Systems Design Not Engineering, The Right Way For Leaders To Approach Wartime Leadership Today & A Guide To Recruitment Forward Planning with Ryan Denehy, Founder & CEO @ Electric
- ▶ 18:23 Harry Stebbings The response was, Ryan executes like a Texas prison warden.
20VC: Clearbanc's Michele Romanow on Why 40% of VC $ Raised Today Goes To Google and Facebook, How To Create A Financing Mechanism For The Repeatable Parts Of Your Business & Why We Need To Stop Celebrating Fundraises
- ▶ 18:29 Michele Romanow California, New York, Massachusetts, and Texas.
20VC: AOL Founder, Steve Case on Why The Best Venture Investments of The Next 10 Years Will Likely Not Be In The Valley, Why The CEO Must Be The Shock Absorber For Company Morale and Why Vision Without Execution is Hallucination
- ▶ 15:53 Steve Case A place like Cleveland, Ohio, where the Cleveland Clinic is, or Baltimore, Maryland, where Johns Hopkins is, or MD Anderson, Texas, where MD Anderson is based, or Rochester, Minnesota, where the Mayo Clinic is based.
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 5:18 Ooshma Garg My dad is the head of nutrition at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, the chief of nutrition and an endocrinologist there. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
- ▶ 9:47 Nick Brown I also think most of these businesses tend to start as largely coastal businesses, and so they'll nail California, New York, parts of Texas.
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
- ▶ 3:49 Amanda Bradford My dad worked in startups, helped build the Unix operating system, so we were a pretty geeky family, and so we came from California to Texas, and then Texas to North Carolina.
20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 4:49 Brian Garrett And so inherently we were chasing deals all over Silicon Valley and Texas and Colorado.
20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify
- ▶ 3:04 David Barrett More, more graphics for the game industry in Texas.
20VC: How To Test The Strength Of Co-Founder Relations, The Dangers Of Raising A Large Series A & Why The Biggest Challenge For Consumer Companies Is Finding The Second Big Hit with Rishi Garg, Partner @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 2:52 Rishi Garg I was born in a remote part of northern Alberta, and I grew up in a remote part of southern Texas, about a hundred miles south of Houston, in a place called Bay City.
- ▶ 28:05 Rishi Garg I may tell you that there's one public sort of involvement that I've had that may be just interesting, which is that I'm on the board of a company called Rent-A-Center, which is based in Dallas, Texas.
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
- ▶ 2:57 Maren Nelson I'm from Texas. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 14:37 Balaji Srinivasan And the reason that choice is important is right now, in order to choose between different taxi regulatory regimes, you actually have to physically migrate from, say, New York City to Texas.
- ▶ 18:54 Balaji Srinivasan So Austin, Texas has chosen to take itself back into the past, into 2012 or what have you, into a pre-ride sharing era, ok?
20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- ▶ 6:36 unnamed speaker Who's in the Shetland ponies who lives in, in Texas, right?
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 5:31 Ann Miura-Ko Mike Maples, someone who had just moved out from Texas to become a venture capitalist.
20VC FF 035: Why Crowdfunding Is Not Right For Tech Startups with Ryan Caldbeck @ CircleUp
- ▶ 3:34 Ryan Caldbeck But in consumer retail, if you, Harry and I start a fund trying to invest into one million dollar revenue consumer retail businesses, instead of finding them in one of two cities in the U S we're getting on a plane and we're flying to…