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Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:25 Harry Stebbings I tweeted recently
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:09 Harry Stebbings Given the fact that you've done Crashlytics, you've now been in Twitter, you've now founded Digis.
- ▶ 10:49 Harry Stebbings Um, tell me, obviously I know this story of being an investor, but you know, we have Crashlytics, then we have Twitter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:00 Jeff Seibert Like Twitter was a podcasting startup.
- ▶ 37:29 Jeff Seibert It is extremely challenging, and what's interesting is the counter reaction, because you're seeing Reddit, Twitter, et cetera, shut off APIs, put in more strict rate limits, et cetera, et cetera.
- ▶ 59:32 Jeff Seibert And this was one of the biggest challenges Twitter faced internally back in the day was just complete indecision from leadership.
Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:12 Beezer Clarkson Say, it's like anything on Twitter. 2 times in the scene
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:29 Matthew Prince You had to, I simply reply to one tweet, and the next thing you know, I'm on a podcast.
- ▶ 55:57 Matthew Prince Another late night tweet, I was in, I was in DC, um, meeting with some of our team and one person on our team was like, got emotional.
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:24 Michael Eisenberg You know, Josh Koppelman wrote yesterday on Twitter, uh, your morals matter more than your metrics.
- ▶ 26:02 Michael Eisenberg It's about to go up on my Twitter feed as soon as we're done here, from a very senior political figure in Europe.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:21 Harry Stebbings You'll say, I want, uh, this CAC to LTV across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:32 unnamed speaker I actually tweeted yesterday, uh, how many very, very successful companies today raised a hundred X ARR rounds.
Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:07 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, you know, you tweeted also about kind of SF real estate and how the demand for it is going significantly up with, especially the rise of AR startups demanding more office space.
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:35 Eric Paley I mean, I, I joked, I tweeted this,
- ▶ 1:21:27 Mike Maples So I sold some of my Twitter stock when it was valued at, um, a little over a billion. 3 times in the scene
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:38 Harry Stebbings And we, we kind of, uh, chatted because I put a tweet out saying, uh, the biggest companies built in AI will actually be services companies helping integrate AI into large enterprises.
Nick Huber: Biggest Lies of Silicon Valley; Lost Art of Delegation; How to Grow Your Network | E1051 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:27 Nick Huber And then they go home and get on YouTube and they listen to more advice and they get on Twitter and listen to more advice. 2 times in the scene
Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:29 Harry Stebbings Cause like, does that mean enterprise products should not do YouTube and Twitter?
Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:41 Harry Stebbings Literally, he told me that you reached out to him on Twitter and that was the catalyst to them, you know, getting to know you and ultimately leading your round. 4 times in the scene
Sri Batchu: Biggest Growth Lesson from Instacart & Opendoor; 70% of Experiments Should Fail | E1040 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:46 Sri Batchu You send me, you know, a message on LinkedIn or Twitter or whatever.
Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:58 Adam Mosseri Um, if you get more reach elsewhere, like if, you know, obviously Twitter, um, is, is definitely a risk, then there's, is it just worth your time?
Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:44 unnamed speaker And so you, I would write to these journalists and I would, you know, because on, on LinkedIn, you only get a really small message that you can send and on Twitter, there's like a 140 characters.
- ▶ 48:17 Harry Stebbings You're like, hey, we're in this, tweet it, LinkedIn it, Instagram it, like, how do you help with that distribution?
- ▶ 51:41 Harry Stebbings Every Twitter handle has YCW-Twenty-One, YCW, it is the value or sign of accreditation. 2 times in the scene
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings We've been back and forth on Twitter many times. 3 times in the scene
Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:45 Tomer Cohen If you come to LinkedIn expecting the same dopamine rush you get from Facebook or Twitter because of the likes and views, then I don't think you're thinking about the LinkedIn platform correctly.
Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:36 Harry Stebbings It's almost like the same problem as Twitter in some ways, I find, which is like, Twitter's a great product, like, sneaking in the early days was, but like, you now need to layer on a business model that works. 2 times in the scene
Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:49 Harry Stebbings Which I actually took and tweeted, by the way, thank you. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:37 Emad Mostaque This is why you've got the check marks coming out of Twitter, and the organizational thousand pounds a month, and Facebook doing the same, because you need to have a level of authenticity, a level of authority.
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:03 Yann LeCun By the social network Twittersphere.
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:17 Chris Paik Um, let's take Twitter. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:29 Chris Paik And on a consumption side, it's just competing the same way that YouTube and Twitch, YouTube and Twitter and TikTok and Instagram, Snapchat, all compete for entertainment.
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:10 Vince Hankes Social came after, you know, Facebook was connecting all these people online and Twitter was the town square for broadcasting information.
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:35 Scooter Braun Twitter is not a real place.
- ▶ 20:06 Scooter Braun And, yeah, and, um, cause they, they, we wouldn't put up a tweet, like, and they arrested us, and for causing a riot, but we didn't cause the riot, and my record got expunged later.
Ophelia Brown: How We Raised $432M in a Pandemic; What's New in European Venture Capital | E990 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:49 Harry Stebbings Like, it's really, like, I tweeted it when I did them, but it was fantastic to see.
Jackie Reses & Kris Dickson: What Happened with SVB? Are VCs to Blame? | E988 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:32 Jackie Reses I can't imagine any of those three people are sitting on Twitter and WhatsApp rumor mongering about what is happening.
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:33 Alex Schultz They're bringing it back in Twitter, Snapchat, these companies focus on following, like how often does YouTube prompt you to still follow an account?
- ▶ 17:15 Alex Schultz His impact on Twitter's ad business is under, under, under, underappreciated.
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:48 Kevin Systrom There's parts of this product that exist, you can DM people, you can post socially, like, Facebook or Twitter, like, they're entire, there's entire pieces of this app that people can use, it's just locked away and not launched.
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:09 Steve Pagliuca The huge difference is that when we're working at Gartner Group or one of the great companies to make them great, we are not under media and radio and television and, and now Twitter and Instagram scrutiny every five seconds for…
20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Now, dropping this knowledge in today's episode is product leaders from Adobe, Airbnb, Stripe, Google, Twitter, and this episode is one to bookmark and keep so many incredible nuggets of wisdom in here.
- ▶ 44:13 Harry Stebbings For the last seven years, Kyvan has been at Twitter, where he led all of the teams across product, engineering, design, research, and customer service. 3 times in the scene
Alex Bouaziz: How We Became a $12B HR Company with 2,000 Remote Employees | 20VC #973 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:12 Harry Stebbings I know, but I tweeted before the show that you, you printed more cash than central banks
- ▶ 28:54 Harry Stebbings There's this, like, revolt on Twitter where, like, everyone's coming back saying, ah, it's back with AI, baby.
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:02 Hunter Walk He had left Twitter.
- ▶ 12:39 Hunter Walk I have 280,000 Twitter followers and no LPs.
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:33 Harry Stebbings Um, what do you think of Elon's acquisition of Twitter? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:03 Albert Wenger Like the blue check program was just a 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:25 Albert Wenger And so I don't feel different about TikTok than I feel about Twitter or Facebook for that matter.
Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario: How I Turned Canned Water to a $700M Company | E968 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:13 Harry Stebbings You, I, I'm sure you know, I, I, I hope you do, um, you did a brilliant video, um, I saw it on Twitter the other day, where you got two random people, and they basically said that liquid death was like the worst water ever, or whatever it…
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:59 Jason Lemkin Um, look, it's, it's exactly what, this is one thing where Twitter has it right, ok?
- ▶ 28:42 Jason Lemkin I tried to summarize my thinking actually today in a tweet, which is in the old days, before ten million in ARR, you could just couldn't raise much money. 2 times in the scene
ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:05 Henry Schuck It's a company that I woke up every day for 10 years wondering about, uh, uh, searching Twitter to see mentions of, searching LinkedIn to see mentions of, every day, first thing, boom, what are they doing?