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20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 25:39 Nitesh Banta I use Nuzzle, Twitter, Medium to find new articles.
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 32:44 Harry Stebbings And if you loved the episode today with Rebecca, you can check her out on VCRebecca on Twitter, or you can follow me on Twitter at HarryStebbings, or on Snapchat at HStebbings, or even read some hopefully thoughtful and rather pensive… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings And before being at YC, Gary co-founded Posterous, and helped build it to a world-class website used by millions, which was ultimately acquired by Twitter.
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
- ▶ 24:52 Balaji Srinivasan In your peripheral vision by simply looking at the Twitter feed of, uh, of folks, right?
20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- ▶ 8:43 Justin Caldbeck And I think between, you know, my experience at the companies that I mentioned and my partner's experience investing early on in Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, I think we've got a lot of pattern matching and experience investing in and…
- ▶ 12:23 Justin Caldbeck I think if you look at a lot of the social ubiquity platforms like Facebook or Twitter or Snapchat, uh, there was no monetization plan early on.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 16:46 Harry Stebbings I can't remember if it was on Twitter or where I saw it.
- ▶ 21:38 Howard Lindzon I wouldn't have passed on Twitter and Zynga because evaluation, um, cause everything lined up.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 4:25 Harry Stebbings And one of the investments from those early angel funds was Twitter.
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings And prior to joining Redpoint, Ryan was a director at Twitter, where he oversaw the Twitter platform and its developer ecosystem. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:29 Harry Stebbings And then Twitter's allowance of more than the 140 characters, not more, but, uh, you know, they've given that stretch where ads are now, uh, don't count and pictures don't take up characters. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:56 Harry Stebbings And if you'd like to stay in the world of the 20 Minute VC and Redpoint, then you can follow me on Snapchat at hstebbings, or you can follow Ryan on Twitter at rsalva.
20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
- ▶ 20:20 Adam Leibsohn And so if you are searching for what happened on the video music awards last night and you're on Giphy and you're looking for that content, you're looking for it inside of Twitter. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Great Founders Are Both Visionary & Stubborn, The Investment Mindset Shift From Angel To VC & How To React When The 'S*** Hits The Fan?' with Jesse Middleton, General Partner @ Flybridge Capital Partners
- ▶ 28:47 Harry Stebbings Who knew Twitter could start beautiful things like this?
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 12:25 Peter Pham And I'd even consider a favorite of a tweet an engagement.
20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer
- ▶ 24:56 Harry Stebbings I really do appreciate it, and if you love the show today and would like to stay in the loop, then you can follow me on Snapchat by adding at hdebbings, or you can follow David on Twitter by adding Pacman, that's P-A-C-M-A-N.
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 25:00 Sean Flynn I find that when I go to Twitter, it's just really hard for me to, you know, find the signal from the noise, and what Nuzzle does is basically it filters all the news through the contacts of my friends that I follow on Twitter or through… 2 times in the scene
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings It is, of course, Union Square Ventures in New York, with investments in the likes of Twitter, Twilio, Zynga, Lending Club, SoundCloud, and a recent interview of ours, actually, CircleUp, just to name a few.
- ▶ 10:50 Harry Stebbings And is this not kind of contrary or prior investments in the Twitters, Tumblers, Foursquares of the world?
- ▶ 20:45 Albert Wenger Obviously large companies, whether it's Google, Facebook, uh, Twitter, Snapchat, they control
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
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings So joining me today is Anne Muraco, co-founder at Floodgate, one of the Valley's leading early stage venture funds, with Twitter, Twitch, Weebly, and many more, all in their immense portfolio.
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 19:25 David Cohen You know, Ryan responded on Twitter as the story goes and jumped in his car and drove across the country.
20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Annie is a general partner at the renowned Charles River Ventures, who have invested in the likes of Twitter, Yammer, and Mailbox, just to name a few.
20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Who've backed the likes of Twitter, Snapchat, Dropbox, Uber, and Instagram, just to name a few.
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings All the best VC and startup articles curated by my good friend Nick Frost at Thinker on Twitter.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 13:21 Nabeel Hyatt If you look at all of our big wins from Oculus to Twitter to Tumblr to Cruise, like all of these companies were, at the day that we invested, were very hard to actually model the exact market size of that company,
20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 15:04 Harry Stebbings And speaking of Asia, I have to ask, uh, we mentioned Uber, uh, Apple obviously invested a billion in Didi Chung, I think I pronounced it correctly, um, you never know, I'm sure I'll get corrected on Twitter, um, but, but what do you make…
20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 2:08 Harry Stebbings And you must follow at Think on Twitter.
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 23:52 Jonathan Abrams Somebody gets angry about us for some really ridiculous reason and sends us a bunch of mean emails, and the next day we see that, uh, Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer, two former Obama advisors, are talking about Nuzzle on Twitter and in a…
- ▶ 24:33 Jonathan Abrams And, you know, people have said, you know, they've tweeted, oh, I wish I had a nuzzle for video, a nuzzle for podcast. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World Of Software with Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 2:07 Harry Stebbings We'd also like to thank Mattermark for providing all the data and analysis for the show today, and if you've been living under a rock and have not signed up for Mattermark Daily, then check it out for the best VC and startup articles,…
20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper
- ▶ 6:04 Sarah Tavel You know, this was a time when Twitter was growing like crazy, so there were all these consumer internet sites that were very text-focused, and
- ▶ 17:19 Sarah Tavel My personal blog tweeted it, and on Medium tweeted it, and I was just blown away, um, by Medium. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings Before joining Greylock, Josh was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter's active user base by nearly 10 X. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- ▶ 22:16 unnamed speaker So I read all the obvious ones, like, you know, Termsheet and Circle ABC and TechCrunch and Twitter and Twitter and Twitter.
20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings We've got Uber, we've got Twitter, we've got Stripe, Optimizely, just to name a few.
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 31:52 Niccolo De Masi I always like to joke, like, how much does Facebook or Twitter, you know, pay to these people? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 27:52 Harry Stebbings Absolutely amazing to hear his story, his journey, and his thesis, so a huge thank you to him, and you can find him on Twitter at Christian Hearn, and if you're loving the 20 Minute VC, then do follow us on Twitter at 20 Minute VC, or you… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content
20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC
- ▶ 27:04 Harry Stebbings Likewise, you can follow us on Twitter, 2 times in the scene
20VC: Arielle Zuckerberg @ Kleiner Perkins: A Review Of My First 6 Months in Venture
- ▶ 1:48 Harry Stebbings We were so pleased when we saw on Twitter that you're a fan.
- ▶ 20:15 Arielle Zuckerberg Well, actually, I have thought about, a little bit about this, and it has to do with your thought leadership question, and I would like to blog more, or, you know, tweet, or post on Facebook more.
20VC FF 035: Why Crowdfunding Is Not Right For Tech Startups with Ryan Caldbeck @ CircleUp
- ▶ 20:19 Harry Stebbings I just spoke to Jeff Seibert, Senior Director of Product at Twitter, and he said that one of his main problems, pre-acquisition, was being overly transparent with his employees, leading to them not actually working and concentrating on…
20 VC FF 032: Jeff Seibert on Lessons From Being Acquired By Twitter & Box and Now Leading Twitter's Consumer Product
- ▶ 0:04 Harry Stebbings The 20 Minute VC is always on the cutting edge of tech, and with that in mind, I'm sure many of you will have seen about the restructuring that happened at Twitter recently. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:11 Harry Stebbings The acquisition by Box, the acquisition by Twitter, and now life at Twitter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:29 Harry Stebbings And jumping to another stage of your life now, we said we'd break it up into three, to the acquisition of Crashlytics by Twitter. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:44 Harry Stebbings But one of the problems that you did say that you encountered within the acquisition itself with Twitter was a breakdown of the reporting structure. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:47 Harry Stebbings And I'd love to now dive into the third and final chapter of today's interview and discuss how life is now following the acquisition and what the plans are ahead for the senior director of product at Twitter. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:00 Jeff Seibert And so I've spent the past six months, uh, leading the, uh, the Twitter app or Bluebird is what it's called internally. 2 times in the scene
20 VC: Investing in Hardware and The Future of IOT with Kate Shillo, Director @ Galvanize Ventures
- ▶ 27:52 Kate Shillo Like Facebook Messenger, Twitter, um, Kik and others. 3 times in the scene
20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO
- ▶ 7:10 David Tisch but it also brings more talent here, and so you've seen what used to just be Google get joined by an incredible office at Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, Uber all have offices here, and I think you're going to continue to see that…
20 VC FF 029: VC vs Angel Funding & The Future of E-Commerce with Ivan Mazour, Founder @ Ometria
- ▶ 30:47 Harry Stebbings And if you're loving the 20 Minute VC, do not forget to sign up for our newsletter on thetwentyminutevc.com, or you can follow us on Twitter at 20 Minute VC,