TikTok, every mention
271 scenes, the whole family · ← back to TikTok
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Harry Stebbings 226Zaria Parvez 37Victor Riparbelli 13Alex Schultz 12Ketty Slonimski 11Gustav Söderström 10Jason Lemkin 9David Tisch 9Phil Carter 8Cliff Weitzman 8
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where TikTok comes up
Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 5:09 Matteo Franceschetti Yeah, is, then it becomes Meta, Google, TikTok, and, and all those channels. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:01 Harry Stebbings I, I'm also really impressed that TikTok works for you, because TikTok is freaking hard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:36 Harry Stebbings Dude, I've seen, I've seen the TikToks.
- ▶ 29:15 Matteo Franceschetti Websites are at the most just literally like if you just want to scroll and see some, some picture and read a bit more about the product, but all the purchases, all their credit cards are on Red Note or kind of Amazon equivalent and…
Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble
- ▶ 31:00 Jean-Denis Greze Much like Snapchat structurally in the market is defensible, even though it's not nearly as good a business as TikTok or as Facebook or Instagram, because it's fundamentally different.
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 42:18 Jerry Murdock At around, I'll say within 20% of that number, and, ah, one of them was Twitter, and the other one, um, was TikTok, the founder of ByteDance, and founder just, you know, he got advice from, ah, someone called The Coach, who was pretty…
How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 6:46 Matt Swulinski Everyone's like, oh, we have to do TikTok and Reddit.
- ▶ 49:36 Harry Stebbings Should I bother doing TikTok?
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 28:07 Nikesh Arora Same reason here on TikTok.
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:24 unnamed speaker It was TikTok, and it got adopted here.
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:23 Mike Mignano YouTube, TikTok,
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:21 Harry Stebbings It's like, um, Charlie D'Amelio, I think, you know, obviously on TikTok where it's like the lesson there is you have to make internal champions and you can't bring an Instagram star to TikTok and say like, hey, parlay your audience. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:05 Harry Stebbings And the reason I say that is because if you were to do amazing shorts with each of, maybe they don't want it and they want to stay anonymized, but if you were to do amazing shorts on turning 300 dollars into a million dollars, I mean, that…
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:09 Cliff Weitzman It automatically posts it to Meta, and TikTok, and YouTube, and all the platforms, and it gives me all the data that I want.
- ▶ 21:08 Cliff Weitzman It's almost like duplicating the algorithm that TikTok and Instagram have anyway, where when you post a video, a thousand people see it.
- ▶ 27:32 Cliff Weitzman You take the same piece of content and you put it on TikTok, you put it on Instagram, you put it on YouTube, you change the hook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:59 Cliff Weitzman TikTok is interesting, but they're not as big. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:29 Cliff Weitzman Partly because streams get clipped, and then those clips can get watched seven billion times in a week on TikTok and Instagram Reels and all these other places.
- ▶ 1:33:28 Harry Stebbings You can watch it on YouTube and we have shorts across IG and TikTok and Instagram.
AppLovin CEO: Why Founders Shouldn't Angel Invest & Why the Best Don't Need Mentorship · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:04 Adam Foroughi Facebook's ad system, TikTok's ad system, ours.
- ▶ 52:07 Harry Stebbings One of my very dear friends has built up a half a billion dollar position in ByteDance, obviously TikTok's parent company, and he said one of the reasons is because he had, they have the most advanced targeting engine in the world. 3 times in the scene
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:17 Jake Paul So, like, we go back and forth, and we've built this ecosystem, and we're just differentiated and in the right markets in sports, in content, and, you know, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and we've been at the forefront of it since
- ▶ 33:19 Jeffrey Wu Maybe, I think, I think we're, we got to spend, like, three hours with the president a couple weeks ago, and I, maybe not to make the direct comparison, but I was just very impressed with the president just, like, on, and, like, context…
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:57 unnamed speaker TikToks and YouTubes are doing it, and it's in permanent decline because every other country provides larger subsidies, right?
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:24 Jason Lemkin Them, them and TikTok.
- ▶ 1:06:42 Harry Stebbings I think there's a lack of desire for one or two years in a role who've been indoctrinated, who's been indoctrinated enough to think that the world is a certain way with a certain set of tools, and what you actually want is the…
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:59 Harry Stebbings If your agent, all the historical context on every pizza order you and your wife have made, and you know the price point, the location, so you know the delivery time that you're estimating, and it can also analyze every TikTok to Instagram…
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:53 Jason Lemkin Well, I built a TikTok and it sent, it sent an email for me last night.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:36 Sebastian Siemiatkowski But like these X posts and TikTok posts, like nobody, it just goes, one answer, right?
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:07 Mike Cannon-Brookes You've, you've moved your marketing to TikTok or some other way of the business model, right?
20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:10 Harry Stebbings Another very, very significant bit of news that we've all been waiting for for a long period is TikTok deal finally done. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- ▶ 15:27 Simon Squibb It's partly because I'm in media, but also, you know, I joined TikTok when I'm 45 years old. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:25 Simon Squibb I, I am trying to fix the education system, and I'm making one TikTok a day to make that happen. 2 times in the scene
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:19 Jason Lemkin We tried to do, listen, Instagram's full of ads, TikTok's full of ads, but it's pretty mediocre for discovery.
- ▶ 50:22 Jason Lemkin If there's any ROI, it only has to be like one percent of ad spend going to TikTok and Instagram to move over there.
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
- ▶ 31:35 Harry Stebbings Do you have TikTok and do you 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:01 Harry Stebbings I also always think that just because you focus on one channel, speaking, say, at events, doesn't mean you can't go multi-channel with that, and so I would be like, hey, how do we get video editors to go to every single thing that he does,…
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:23 unnamed speaker It's been two years of TikTok, two years of Teemu,
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:02 David George Like I would say TikTok is maybe the exception, maybe Uber.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:27 Rory O'Driscoll I didn't talk about the fact that you have the whole TikTok dynamic, because that's a, you know, immediate company present in the phones of, you know, millions of Americans who has an end owner that is ultimately based in China.
Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:16 Harry Stebbings Basically, a little boy goes up to his bedroom and, um, gets lost down kind of rabbit holes of TikTok and Reddit, and it does not turn out well.
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 29:41 Tim Ferriss Publications are just supporting what was in it, and a lot of what was in there was already based on various publications and case studies in the literature, so it wasn't just pulled out of my ass, but the four-hour body, and this had…
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:44 Harry Stebbings It's on my TikTok.
20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 35:36 Sandy Diao And one of the co-founders in the company became essentially a TikTok Instagram persona, right?
- ▶ 46:33 unnamed speaker Let me pick TikTok ads for a moment here. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:39 unnamed speaker So for example, I don't know if you've had experiences using TikTok shops before, but it's this like really cool combination of live stream where it's sort of anchor or hosts can talk about the product and drive conversions directly to… 2 times in the scene
Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:44 Mike Cannon-Brookes Young people, the TikTok, Snapchat generation, I can't count myself, unfortunately, in that generation, I don't think anymore.
20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky
- ▶ 32:32 Ketty Slonimski For example, TikTok that brings, like, very different type of users that we realize in a few weeks can go under one heart, and we start to rethink how we make this whole thing work. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:43 Ketty Slonimski But I do believe when talking about organic, there is an opportunity in the market to hack it, to bring, like, you know, again, TikTok AI native person who gonna, like, launch 30,000 videos per day and see if he can get to great influences…
- ▶ 53:28 Ketty Slonimski I think if we were talking about user acquisition managers and growth PMs, you need to bring native AI people, like, 17 years old teens, who spend their time on TikTok, like, 24 hours a day, who can bring your real leverage there, and…
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:52 Harry Stebbings So, bet us on when will a final TikTok deal be reached between the US and China?
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 51:55 Alex Schultz People don't, don't understand, like, TikTok was tiny, it was the beginning of the pandemic, like, it was very early on, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:21 Alex Schultz Well, I think we did it focused on the US, and TikTok shops are successful outside of the US and UK.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:51 Jason Lemkin You're going to, if you're not productive, if you can't, if you've, if you were too busy to get the podcast out this week, if Harry had to do it himself, if you forgot to do the TikToks, the gig's going to be up across tech.
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:51 Harry Stebbings Do you think TikTok should be allowed though, for example? 2 times in the scene
20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
- ▶ 30:04 Harry Stebbings I would have told a story about building the COD product, why you chose it, going and finding it, doing taste tests, do TikTok shorts with the team being like, oh, that's on.
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:38 Scott Wu And I'm thinking of like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and so on.
- ▶ 47:50 Harry Stebbings Uh, I've, I've so enjoyed this, and I, I watched this, uh, actually TikTok, um, and it said, if you want to build a relationship with someone, ask them about the trait within themselves that they are most proud of, or they like the most,…
Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:25 Scott Galloway And so you, you've seen this trend on TikTok where they say, all right,
- ▶ 53:37 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, do you feel like the public snippets, the media, TikToks, and Reels that go around of you are a representation of who you are, Scott?
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:02 unnamed speaker TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X, thirty two million.
- ▶ 57:11 unnamed speaker And, and, and it was such a, and then, and then his point is, and his point when he did the interview was like, listen, I want to bring, like you guys on Twitter and LinkedIn are like two or three years behind what's going on on TikTok and…
20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 45:33 Matthew Pohlson But like, you know, like clean talk, you know, there's a whole like TikTok of people who love cleaning. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:42 Matthew Pohlson You would not believe TikTok during the Spanish flu was huge.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:08 Jason Lemkin It took TikTok five times longer.
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
- ▶ 32:37 Harry Stebbings Do you have TikTok and do you 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:07 Harry Stebbings Not, I think, 300,000 followers on TikTok and millions of views a month.
- ▶ 43:05 Harry Stebbings Focus on one channel, speaking, say, at events, doesn't mean you can't go multi-channel with that, and so I would be like, hey, how do we get video editors to go to every single thing that he does, get him speaking for, I don't know, 10 a…
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:30 Severin Hacker In fact, I, if I open, when I open TikTok and look at our own Duolingo stuff, I was like, I don't get it.
- ▶ 55:36 Severin Hacker So it's, it's, I think at some point we were bigger on TikTok than Nike. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:43 Severin Hacker It's not AB controlled, AB experiments, but it's more like, let's try this on TikTok.
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 13:47 Richard Socher Young people now look directly on TikTok 2 times in the scene
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:20 Harry Stebbings I think TikTok is a weapon of consumer data aggregation and acquisition.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:11 Harry Stebbings Um, there is a lot of public concern in the U.S. or excitement, which other side you sit on, that TikTok will be shut down, um, or kind of divested. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:25 Mitchell Green Like, kids in China go on, bite, go on TikTok to read about, like, science experiments and math projects.
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:27 Peter Singlehurst Shut down TikTok. 5 times in the scene
Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:52 Yamini Rangan On YouTube, they're on Instagram, they're on, you know, other, you know, TikTok, and they're on LinkedIn, and you need to be where your customers are, not just expect them to come to where you are, which is your digital, you know,…
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 44:19 Matt Biilmann tiktok sci-fi epos with like ai generated video that's just like
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:28 Mike Krieger I mean, TikTok being an interesting example of that, uh, on the other side.
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:52 George Bonaci Uh, like think about when TikTok first came out, I don't think any B to B brands were thinking about advertising on TikTok. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:10 Harry Stebbings I run a fucking media company in a world of TikTok and Deep Seek. 2 times in the scene
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:11 Solly Solomou And then what, TikTok came in 2016.
- ▶ 24:34 Solly Solomou Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, and the emergence of these platforms over time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:39 Harry Stebbings Should TikTok be banned? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:07 Harry Stebbings The integration of shop's really smart. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:15 Harry Stebbings If you go on my TikTok, Instagram, you name it, there's protein recipes, there's inspirational talks from Tony Robbins, and Alain de Botton, and great thinkers, uh, there's baby videos, I think baby videos are hilarious.
- ▶ 1:10:14 Solly Solomou Whether it can compete with the TikToks, and the Metas, and at this scale, I mean, these players are
- ▶ 1:10:48 Solly Solomou I would say TikTok, I would buy.
Brian Tolkin, Head of Product @Opendoor: How to Hire the Best Product Teams | E1257 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:47 Harry Stebbings When you look at TikTok, when you look at Red Note, when you look at the intrusion of 2 times in the scene
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:10 Jonathan Ross But what, what happens if the CCP requires that they start to say, what about TikTok?
- ▶ 15:30 Harry Stebbings My challenge is TikTok you can ban and shut off. 3 times in the scene
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:30 Victor Riparbelli I think you have all the trends that like you look at TikTok, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:56 Victor Riparbelli I think a lot about this and, um, I think, I think TikTok is actually a really great product, potentially like a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I think what, what TikTok has done, when I look at my TikTok feed today, I would say it's 90%… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:35 Harry Stebbings Should TikTok be banned? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:19 Victor Riparbelli And I think when you look at the, there's a lot of, like, moral panic about TikTok, for example, like, oh, people's attention spans, like, decreasing massively, and, and maybe those are real problems, but what if we're just tired of overly… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:27 Victor Riparbelli Exactly what people say about TikTok today, right?
Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:52 Mikey Shulman This is a product of platforms like TikTok.
- ▶ 33:57 Mikey Shulman You should ask somebody at Spotify or at TikTok and not me. 5 times in the scene
page 1 of 3 · 100 scenes per page · newest episode first next →