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Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:43 Cliff Weitzman And he was based in Ukraine. 3 times in the scene
99% of Drone Companies Will Die & Why Anduril’s Products Aren’t an Ethics Debate | Matthew Steckman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:21 Matthew Steckman Profiting off of, uh, the war in Ukraine. 4 times in the scene
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:25 Alan Chang When, when we, when we had the, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the gas prices weren't shut up, but the energy companies are offering hundred percent renewable energy tariffs also went up.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:40 David Cahn And the transformer moment was the, was the Ukraine war. 3 times in the scene
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:42 Philipp Freise So let's not forget, we have had a terrible tragedy in Ukraine for years now, and they're still standing, and it's because of the innovative companies like Helsing that have supported them.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:31 unnamed speaker I, I'm investing a lot actually in Ukrainian defense startups, because I think my vision is that Ukraine could become the manufacturing hub for defense. 4 times in the scene
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:07 Taavet Hinrikus One is the Ukraine war. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:24 Taavet Hinrikus Like if you look at how the, how war has happened in Ukraine,
- ▶ 50:14 Taavet Hinrikus We should be living under the assumption that whatever happened in Ukraine now, Russia will try in another country over the next years, and we need to be ready for this.
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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- ▶ 1:17:17 unnamed speaker Now, what Andrew has shown, and I think what some of the war in the Ukraine has shown is that commercial technology can really have an impact in a way that was unexpected. 2 times in the scene
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:35 Mike Maples You know, he helped with Ukraine.
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:27 Harry Stebbings And that includes Ukraine? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:59 Reid Hoffman And by the way, the initial defense of Ukraine would not have worked without Starlink.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:07 Torsten Reil One of them was going to be an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the other one an invasion of Taiwan by China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:48 Torsten Reil One of them was going to be an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the other one an invasion of Taiwan by China. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:53 Torsten Reil With, with the right simulation environment go really far, um, but there will be some things that maybe you didn't expect that aren't covered in your simulation, um, that happens in particular when, when you're deployed, as, as our, um,…
- ▶ 41:29 Torsten Reil I mean, so we have, we can already look at Ukraine and look at the trends there, and the trend, um, even at the beginning there were some drones that were being used. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:39 Harry Stebbings Where are we in three years with Russia, Ukraine?
- ▶ 1:15:00 Torsten Reil I think we wish we had known that the Ukraine war was going to happen that quickly.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:12 Harry Stebbings We have Russia, Ukraine.
- ▶ 35:13 Klaus Hommels I'm, there are some advantages, uh, as, as facts, because you, you cannot get either the equipment we bought, um, in, in, in enough numbers, and the efficiency, um, in, in the Ukraine shows that you have to buy other stuff.
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:06 Markus Villig Russia attacking Ukraine, killing people, and everybody's just basically forgotten about it.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:29 Matt Grimm I think you could see, uh, Russian expansionism vis-a-vis Ukraine kind of keep pushing into Eastern Europe.
- ▶ 10:31 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Russia, Ukraine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:25 Matt Grimm They went to, they have gone to bat for us in numerous times with VCs who were either, uh, uncomfortable with the, and these are, these are in the early days, you know, post Ukraine, all of this has changed.
- ▶ 1:26:13 Matt Grimm I think we're seeing it play out in Ukraine right now, uh, and I think we're seeing it play out with, uh, Iranian missiles that they're lobbing at Israel, uh, uh, from, you know, western, western Iran. 2 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
- ▶ 1:12:24 Dmitry Gurski Emotionally for our organization was hard, uh, that moment when, uh, we got political instability in Belarus and then war in Ukraine, and we had to relocate urgently the whole company, and also I had to relocate myself in two days.
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:27 Shaun Maguire It's a war in Ukraine where America could not have botched the initial response more.
- ▶ 6:24 Shaun Maguire Um, look, like, when Russia invaded Ukraine for the first year or so, a lot of the munitions were coming from Iran, and anyways, it's, it's, you know, when, when America was fighting in Afghanistan, Iran was, like, deeply supporting the…
- ▶ 1:01:58 Shaun Maguire People don't understand how much this is happening right now, especially after the war in Ukraine, where US sanctioned Russia, Russia basically moved off swift.
- ▶ 1:02:26 Harry Stebbings Should the US stop funding Ukraine? 7 times in the scene
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:50 Michael Eisenberg I think younger people, uh, particularly in Israel, but maybe elsewhere, are going to surprise us, and this is going to be an incredible generation who's going to be forced to stand up and fight, because, you know, Israel's one place, but…
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:18 Reid Hoffman Like, he, uh, has helped assemble the world on Ukraine.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:27 Kevin Ryan I'm obviously very biased on this, uh, but the single thing that I'm concerned about is Trump winning on multiple dimensions, giving away, uh, Ukraine, uh, you know, Supreme Court justices, very, very, very poor execution of every aspect…
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:26 Mario Schlosser Like none of us is, you know, gonna get shot at in the trenches of Ukraine if, if, if our stock price goes down.
- ▶ 1:06:03 Mario Schlosser It's not like that somehow in the trenches of Ukraine.
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:11 Trae Stephens Uh, and you're quite, the problems that you're dealing with, with things like, uh, airspace superiority in Iraq or Afghanistan, totally different than determining airspace superiority in Ukraine or in, you know, a potential Taiwan conflict.
Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:51 Joe Lonsdale I'm not a fan of what they're doing in Ukraine. 5 times in the scene
Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:02 Christian Hecker And so when I, or we saw first cracks in the interest rates and okay, there was like this war situation in Ukraine and, and, and, and, and it was a very realistic scenario.
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:38 Erik Allebest Russia invading Ukraine. 2 times in the scene
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:21 Shyam Sankar Uh, you know, you look at Ukraine.
Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:13 Harry Stebbings To what extent is planning even valuable in your business when you have COVID, when you have Ukraine, when you have your global place that just throw the world into chaos?
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:40 Matthew Prince Continue to commit, and I, and I think it would be harder for Ukraine to, to be able to defend themselves. 2 times in the scene
Bill Ackman: SVB Collapse; Biden vs Trump; How I Lost $400M on Netflix; Bill's 10-Year Long | E991 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:49 Bill Ackman We have Ukraine, Russia. 3 times in the scene
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:27 Steve Pagliuca The big wild card is, is going to be the, the Russia-Ukraine situation.
Alex Bouaziz: How We Became a $12B HR Company with 2,000 Remote Employees | 20VC #973 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:35 Alex Bouaziz So I had to find amazing people in locations where I could actually, uh, be able to pay the bills at the end of the month and, uh, you know, hired a few people in the Ukraine, in Serbia, in the UK.
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:05 Hadi Partovi Poverty is at its lowest wars despite the war in Ukraine or the war in Yemen is at its lowest.
Brian Singerman: How I Became a Partner at Founders Fund, Why We Put $400M into Anduril | 20VC #943 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:26 Brian Singerman Now it's not post, you know, Ukraine and post a couple of other things, but before it was like, you know,
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:05 Emil Michael I think about that negotiation is actually, if you think about it as it applies to Russia-Ukraine war, it really matters.
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:21 Wesley Chan Like, I started fundraising, like, three days before, you know, the whole, before Russia started invading Ukraine, I thought I'd be screwed, um, and, you know, it's very terrible what's happening there, but, um,
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:38 Fabrice Grinda Status grow in Ukraine, and I'm not saying it's a good one or a bad one, but I'm just saying if the geopolitical uncertainty of Ukraine ends in some way, shape, or form, and again, I'm not saying it's the highly, the most probabilistic… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:50 Fabrice Grinda So perhaps herein lies the issue, is if you'd asked me last October, pre Putin invading Ukraine, and oil prices going above a hundred, um,
- ▶ 29:44 Fabrice Grinda And so, in light of what's going on in Ukraine, in light of the fact that we have super high debt loads right now, you know, US debt and GDP is over a hundred percent, um, could I see a world where we have, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:39 Fabrice Grinda Now it's like the Ukraine, but maybe at some point it becomes the, the sustainability of government debt. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 15:34 Fabrice Grinda At the same time, if we reach some level of status quo in Ukraine, and I'm not saying it's a 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Fabrice Grinda Herein lies the issue, is if you'd asked me last October, pre-Putin invading Ukraine, and oil prices going above a hundred, I thought Omicron was going to be good because it was so light, like, it affected everyone, but no one really got…
- ▶ 26:51 Fabrice Grinda In light of what's going on in Ukraine, in light of the fact that we have super high debt loads right now, you know, U.S. debt and GDP is over a hundred percent, could I see a world where we have five, six, seven, eight percent inflation… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:52 Fabrice Grinda Not to mention whatever, Xi Jinping deciding to use this distraction of Ukraine to go after Taiwan.
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- ▶ 45:49 Avichal Garg And as we're seeing kind of with the Russia situation in Ukraine right now, there's going to be a Chinese sphere of influence.
Sid Sijbrandij: How I Founded GitLab; Remote Work vs In-Person; CEO Coaches | 20VC · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:48 Sid Sijbrandij And then we hired Dimitri in Ukraine and it kept going like that.
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 3:14 Lenny Rachitsky So I was born in what is now Ukraine.
20VC: Gitlab Founder, Sid Sijbrandji on Lessons From Scaling from 400 to 1,000 People in 1 Year, Why You Have To Have A Low Level Of Shame On The Product You Release & The Secret To Making Remote Work So Effectively At Scale
- ▶ 5:04 Sid Sijbrandij We agreed on a payment, and I went to the local Western Union money office in the Netherlands to wire it to the Ukraine.
20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp
- ▶ 6:01 James Reinhart We have an office in the Ukraine and an office in San Francisco and an office in New York and distribution centers.
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
- ▶ 5:54 Doug Scott We've also, internally, we had a big team in the Ukraine and Poland, and we've almost, uh, killed most of our external dev, mainly because the speed of development.