Toronto, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Toronto comes up
Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
- ▶ 59:41 unnamed speaker I, I went to school in Toronto.
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:55 Anish Acharya You can make it happen anywhere in New York, London, Toronto, Tel Aviv, you name it, but there's something different about saying I'm going to give everything else up and be singular in my focus and move everything to SF to make it happen.
Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:07 Joelle Pineau Yes, you know, we have a headquarter in, in Toronto.
20Sales: From $2M ARR to $40M ARR: The Playbook | How to Use AI To Supercharge Your Sales Team | Why Pipeline Reviews are BS | The Sales Call Script that Closes 99% of Prospects and How to Hire the Best Sales Reps with Kyle Norton, CRO @ Owner
- ▶ 16:47 Kyle Norton And then week two, everybody comes in person to Toronto now, and we're doing much more practical application. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:50 Kyle Norton On Wednesday, the end of April, we had to, like, have a big surge to hit the number, and I was in the office in Toronto. 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:52 Mitchell Green We're investors in a company in Toronto that we own the business called Gravity.
Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:36 Aidan Gomez Uh, in the Transformer times, around that time, um, because he was big in the Toronto scene. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:44 Aidan Gomez We have offices in Toronto, London, New York SF.
Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:42 Mark Roberge They gave Adam his own office in Salesforce tower, his own desk in Salesforce tower in San Francisco and in the Toronto office.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:36 Kevin Ryan And because she was at multiple shipping conferences, which most of us have not been at, she ran across a company that people were saying great things about called BoxHub, which is a marketplace for containers based in Toronto, which we…
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:49 Adam Besvinick Um, but a lot were in other, I'll call secondary tertiary tech hubs, Austin, Chicago, Boulder, San Diego, Portland, Oregon, Toronto, Durham, North Carolina, Boston.
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:30 Yann LeCun then I, when I finished my PhD, I did a postdoc with him, and then joined Bell Labs, and, and while I was in Toronto,
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:54 Tobi Lütke So we had to go to, you know, Montreal and Toronto and so on, uh, and Waterloo and other places.
Stevie Case: World's First Female Pro Gamer; Hiring Tips for Sales; PLG vs Enterprise | 20VC #970 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:20 Stevie Case The, uh, the guy, Matt golden, a golden, golden venture partners out of Toronto.
20VC: How Today's Market Changes How Companies Should Approach Burn and Runway, Are Financing Markets Closing? How To Know When To Pay Up vs Stay Price Disciplined & Why The Most Important Thing in Venture is Generating Positive Selection with Bill Cilluf
- ▶ 4:43 Bill Cillufo And then had five year wonderful run up in Toronto, leading our Canadian business, our international business, and almost going back to the future for the early days of CapOne.
Shopify President, Harley Finkelstein on What is Being a Good Husband | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:08 Harley Finkelstein and I was practicing law in Toronto.
Cost Plus Drugs: EXPLAINED | Mark Cuban Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:03 Mark Cuban I've paid for a bunch of studies that, you know, does things like compare, you know, why is it that, what, what's the difference between the operating costs of a hospital in Toronto versus the operating costs of a hospital in New York? 2 times in the scene
Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- ▶ 40:53 Casey Winters And then Ritual is a company I work with in Toronto.
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
- ▶ 6:56 Chris Best Another thing that I did differently is that with Kik, we stayed in Waterloo, which is this town an hour outside of Toronto, whereas with Substack, we sort of came to the valley.
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 25:13 Sarah Kunst So on paper, if you'd said, guess who Prince Harry's gonna marry, you would have had to ask a lot of people to get somebody to say, I bet a TV actress who's based in Toronto, right?
20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
- ▶ 21:19 Ravi Viswanathan You know, we've done deals in Toronto and Atlanta and Chicago where they're used to actually operating with a very lean mindset because there just wasn't so much venture out there.
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 26:19 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi I would say at Gradient, as we look through different parts of the world where, you know, AI activity is starting to brew, you know, we're starting to make concerted efforts in particular regions, whether that be Seattle or Toronto, and… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify
- ▶ 7:25 Harley Finkelstein And I moved to Toronto to work for a fairly large law firm, and I, I just hated it.
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 9:01 Micah Rosenbloom And I went up to Winnipeg and we ended up, you know, leading the round with golden golden ventures out of Toronto.
20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- ▶ 3:05 Josh Udashkin And I graduated from JD MBA, uh, in Toronto.
20 VC 045: From Idea to Pitch with Alan Jones, Founding Investor @ Startmate
- ▶ 6:33 Alan Jones Um, so currently we have three startups in the US, one in New York, one in LA, one up in Toronto.