Turkey, every mention
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every year anyone Nazim Salur 9Akin Babayigit 9Harry Stebbings 8Cem Sertoglu 4Philipp Freise 3Sameer Shariff 2Justin Ishbia 2Fabrice Grinda 2Avichal Garg 2Torsten Reil 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Turkey comes up
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:09 Philipp Freise In Turkey, I think we lost around five hundred million.
- ▶ 6:27 Philipp Freise Um, we lost a whole bunch more in Turkey. 2 times in the scene
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:09 Harry Stebbings This was when I was in Turkey only? 5 times in the scene
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:04 unnamed speaker Uh, I frankly, I even moved away from, from Turkey, uh, which remains a democracy and a U.S. ally, but that Erdogan is like, to me,
Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:20 Niklas Östberg I think if you take the example of Turkey, I think there was a lot of hesitations and moving into a global tech stack.
- ▶ 52:18 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, we saw Getir scale inordinately, very quickly, and incredibly successful in Turkey, and then roll out across Europe, and then bluntly roll back with just the same speed. 2 times in the scene
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:37 Torsten Reil You remember the, the, the TB-II's, for example, from Turkey, uh, the Barakta ones, um, over time that's evolved towards more and more drones.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:31 Klaus Hommels We decided to found Macafoni together, a company in Turkey that we sold for a hundred fifty million.
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22 Cem Sertoglu I'm Turkish, born and raised in Istanbul. 4 times in the scene
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:49 Dmitry Gurski Really difficult because, uh, borders were closed, it was impossible to get papers, and we had to organize no flights, and we had to organize charters to Armenia and Turkey, and then organize.
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:39 Ethan Mollick I mean, I hope so, but let's just, the first randomized control trial we have, I have some of my colleagues at Wharton, um, was giving GPT-IV people for math tutoring in Turkey.
Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25 Justin Ishbia My grandfather came over on the boat from, um, Turkey, and when he was eight, and my grandfather settled in New York, and then when he was in his, you know, early twenties, moved to Detroit.
- ▶ 1:27:49 Justin Ishbia I think it was a lot harder for my grandfather to come from Turkey to the U.S. and knowing nobody with no hundred dollars in his pocket than it is for people today and my kids to, you know, grow up in an American society, have education…
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:06 Thomas Plantenga Completely re-innovated how fast they produce and how fast they're able to deliver from China and Turkey into Europe and the US.
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30 Akin Babayigit So, um, I grew up in Turkey, uh, until I was 16, and I was this mega nerd. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:52 Akin Babayigit Yes, so I went, and I, I flirted with the idea of going to Turkey at the time, because my wife, who's, by the way, the most absolutely incredible woman I've ever met in my life, she is irrationally attached to her family, so she said,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:37 Akin Babayigit You know, many, many companies in Turkey, also in Israel, uh, where I also do quite a bit of investing that, you know, they have this mantra, and they put it on the walls and say, you know, speed overall, speed above everything else, and…
- ▶ 1:38:19 Akin Babayigit They would have these term homeworks in Turkey that would take you months and months.
Cambly CEO Sameer Shariff: Why I Raised $60M and Didn't Touch a Dollar | 20VC #914 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:48 Sameer Shariff What we learned as we kind of dug in was if you're, um, yeah, if you're a pilot in Turkey and you, uh, and you only know Turkish, uh, you can fly anywhere you want in Turkey, but if you want to fly internationally, uh, English is the… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 22:36 Avichal Garg Actually, pretty reasonable venture investor, and there are guaranteed people sitting in India, and China, and Nigeria, and Italy, and Greece, and Brazil, and Turkey, that are better venture investors than, like, the 50th best venture firm.
- ▶ 45:58 Avichal Garg And you say, okay, well, what does that mean for a place like Brazil or India or Turkey?
20VC: Getir Founder, Nazim Salur on The Future of Last Mile Convenience, Who Will Win? Lessons on Driver Acquisition and Efficiency, Zone Maturity and Time To Profitability and Scaling to 300 Cities in the US in 2022
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings With an established status in Turkey, where the company trends towards a super app,
- ▶ 2:52 Nazim Salur Turkey, and I was looking at the screen of B-Taxi, and at that moment, I saw we were able to give taxis on an average of three minutes.
- ▶ 15:18 Nazim Salur We didn't come up with this, we were giving this from day one in Turkey, and anywhere we go, this is our standard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:07 Nazim Salur In Getir, Turkey, in six years, we have scored very well in all these aspects. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:51 Nazim Salur But we experimented in Turkey with a few private labels, but a few, not too many.
- ▶ 38:05 Nazim Salur Turkish entrepreneurs saw the value in us. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 3:19 Aydin Senkut I was born in Istanbul, Turkey, but I think what was really interesting, uh, is I followed, uh, a career in tech about 1012 years at firms like Silicon Graphics and Google, uh,
20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing
- ▶ 8:47 Fabrice Grinda Mostly in the US, uh, and a little bit in the rest of the world and in large markets in Brazil, Turkey, Russia, India, China, UK, Germany, and France.
- ▶ 20:14 Fabrice Grinda So if it's going to be, if it's a consumer-facing marketplace, or if it's something in Brazil or Turkey or Russia or Germany where we can help,