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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Tokyo comes up
ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 42:36 Aaron Katz We have an office in Tokyo.
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:54 David George Um, but you know, London, Tokyo, there'll be some of the best international markets possible for autonomous driving.
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
- ▶ 1:09:33 Raz Herzberg Or another example, we just opened our offices in Tokyo earlier this year. 2 times in the scene
20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency
- ▶ 54:15 John McMahon Like Boston to Tokyo is a 12 hour time difference, so when you go to bed, you're supposed to wake up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:01 Harry Stebbings When the alarm goes off at 10 to five and you're in Tokyo, and you're tired as shit, and you are going, I don't want to be here.
20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita
- ▶ 3:51 Harry Stebbings Not at all, but we were just talking a little bit about your upbringing, and you said I moved a lot and mentioned Tokyo and some other areas where you spent time in your childhood.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:00 Harry Stebbings Well, there's the Tokyo test. 4 times in the scene
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:19 Shu Nyatta One of the biggest things I've learned from him, he has this wonderful quote that I saw in Tokyo First, and then it travels with him, so clearly it matters.
Jackie Reses & Kris Dickson: What Happened with SVB? Are VCs to Blame? | E988 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:18 Jackie Reses And, uh, the more they instill confidence before Monday morning, and frankly, Tokyo opens this afternoon at, uh, four PM.
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13 Steve Pagliuca My, my, my family had moved to Tokyo, so I was kind of on my own.
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:58 Brian Armstrong I find it to be like, not that fun, but if I go to something like, oh, I mean, like I'm going to be in Tokyo, you know, later this year or whatever for, for work, we have an office there and, um, you know, I can meet interesting people…
20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
- ▶ 5:06 Mark Carney For Goldman in Tokyo in 1990, and it was just after the Nikkei had crashed, a lot of brave new world thinking about Japan at the time, it went up to just about 39,000 from memory in late 89 and 32 years later, it's just flirting with…
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- ▶ 4:15 Marcelo Claure Not leave SoftBank and to move to Tokyo with the purpose of learning how to invest, and I became the COO of SoftBank and the CEO of Old International Group at SoftBank, and after hanging out with Mazda for a year and a half and helping him…
- ▶ 7:46 Marcelo Claure And, and here we are after that, that's when Masa called me and said, hey, why don't you move to Tokyo?
- ▶ 7:53 Harry Stebbings I mean, such an incredible turnaround, but you know, move to Tokyo, and Masa told you, I heard you on another podcast, actually, before, you said that Masa told you you were a terrible investor, kind of him, and invited you to come and… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:13 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, we spoke about, you know, the incredible entrepreneurs that come to you in Tokyo and that you met with Masa. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
- ▶ 4:25 Jay Simons Yeah, I was a young kid from a small town on the coast of Washington State, and I'd gone to college in Seattle, but Seattle at the time was a pretty small and provincial place, so to suddenly land in Seoul, Korea, and Tokyo, and Burma was…
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- ▶ 21:24 Rahul Vohra For example, they type in eight a.m. in Tokyo, and they realize that time zone math happens without them ever really having to think about it.
20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
- ▶ 28:54 Brandon Deer London's a really great hub for us, and EMEA, Tokyo, and Japan.
20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Today, they're building AI products in San Francisco, Paris, and Tokyo.
- ▶ 10:56 Phil Libin In, right now, in San Francisco, in Tokyo, in Paris.
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 15:05 Howard Lerman And the office leaders from Berlin to London to Paris to Tokyo are in that.