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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 21:22 Rory O'Driscoll If you're getting 10% of the salary of every lawyer in the US or the UK, that's an amazing business.
- ▶ 1:13:03 Rory O'Driscoll Years ago when I had my own small business in the UK, I look back and I stuck at it for four years.
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 31:15 Harry Stebbings Lost the glasses, and it kind of became more like Piers Morgan, if you know Piers Morgan in the UK, a highly despised figure, very opinionated. 2 times in the scene
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 49:15 Rory O'Driscoll That returns in the UK, and I was the only company doing it, right?
ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 34:01 Harry Stebbings We had obviously Vinod Khosla by, um, I always get it wrong, but I'm a Brit, so forgive me.
- ▶ 52:48 Harry Stebbings Wait times in the UK for a GP at months.
- ▶ 54:31 Harry Stebbings In the UK, we have a game, okay, it's called, forgive the crassness, Shag, Marry, Kill.
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
- ▶ 1:11:13 Harry Stebbings So I get in a lot of trouble in the UK and in Europe for being kind of the nine nine six guy.
- ▶ 1:17:54 Harry Stebbings And in the UK we have a game, uh, and I'm probably getting in trouble for this, and it's called, um, Shag Marry Kill.
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 11:41 Julien Bek Um, you know, recently we, we backed a company called Ineffable here in the UK with, um, a large seed round, as, as you mentioned.
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 27:12 Harry Stebbings When you think about that, and the rebuilding of the entire stack, if you start with chips, we see more and more people coming in at the chips layer, whether it's etched or fractal in the UK.
- ▶ 49:38 Harry Stebbings If you look at utilities providers in, you know, the UK, you have your British Gas and your British Telecoms.
- ▶ 1:00:52 Harry Stebbings In the UK, we have a game called Shag, Marry, Kill, okay?
How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 25:03 Matt Swulinski Like, so like US, UK, like, you know, we have good data and it'll be fine, but like where page speeds really starts to matter is both AEO and SEO.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 55:31 Rory O'Driscoll Yeah, I said the UK, which is one of the most centralized states in Europe in terms of central authority, and Andy Burnham's trying to change that. 2 times in the scene
OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
- ▶ 1:07:10 Alex Atallah Imagine if somebody had, like, someone was curious about finding every lead pipe in America, or every lead pipe in the UK, and, like, had a, an approach to it, but they really need, like, to make it mature, um, and, and stress test it.
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 1:10:26 David Frankel So I think there are times where knowing a vertical, being relevant in that place, and in the service industries, I think it's good for the UK, by the way,
- ▶ 1:14:16 David Frankel Yeah, so Great Britain displaced China. 2 times in the scene
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 1:17:12 Rory O'Driscoll By the way, Harry, just to explain, that's a dig that you guys in the UK call it router, and we over here call it router, and we invented them, so we were allowed to pick.
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings You actually grew up in the UK. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:53 Fred Turner So it started off my first company in the UK, which was called TL Biolabs at the time, basically sequencing dairy and beef cows to predict various traits about the animal from an early age. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:49 Fred Turner Coming from the UK, where I was used to, like,
Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:42 Harry Stebbings If I was sitting with you and we have pubs in the UK, I'm not sure if you have pubs in Israel, you probably have bars.
- ▶ 42:10 Harry Stebbings To change a university curriculum in the UK, this is, so forgive me, I'm sure it's pretty similar around the world, but it takes three years to change the material that goes on or goes through a yearly program.
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13 Harry Stebbings I am no longer at the beach in the UK.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06 Harry Stebbings I always say this is like, you know, the UK is Saint-Tropez and then people look up front and on sea and they're like, huh?
- ▶ 30:44 Rory O'Driscoll I'm in the UK.
- ▶ 41:16 Rory O'Driscoll Who's going to win the general election in the UK or who's going to be the next president in the US is a huge, enormous, ginormous business.
Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:37 K.R. Shridhar I think Europe is waking up faster than I would have expected because of AI, and I'm optimistic hearing both from the EU and UK about the changes they want to make.
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:21 Aravind Srinivas Success because we were not, we were financially lower middle class in India, which is not even like lower middle class in UK or the US.
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:53 unnamed speaker You know, the, the 700 most successful politician in Britain isn't even a backbench MP.
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:45 Harry Stebbings I want, sorry, forgive me, we live in the UK where there's the Green Party, which there's this idealist movement that's like, oh, increased, well, yeah, then we leave, and then you have nothing.
- ▶ 1:02:19 Brendan Foody British law or good at French law or whatever the jurisdiction is in the world.
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:56 unnamed speaker When Britain ruled the waves, I like to do my little Britain digs here, right? 3 times in the scene
Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:09 Harry Stebbings Again, I sit here in the UK.
Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:12 Chad Peets I just think it's hard to find the types of people, uh, harder, I should say to find the types of people, particularly outside of the UK in Europe that are willing to put the effort in that I think is required to be successful.
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29 Josh Browder Growing up in the UK, um, I'm proud to have known of you before you became a world famous podcaster.
- ▶ 5:56 Josh Browder Yes, so I escaped the UK to go to Stanford, and there was a, um, Stanford Review article, which is a student publication, and the publication said,
- ▶ 17:23 Josh Browder I was fresh off the boat, I'm not trying to get in trouble, but I was, like, fresh off the boat from the UK, came down in breakfast clothes, and...
- ▶ 21:46 Josh Browder Um, and so I went to an event, British
- ▶ 28:46 Josh Browder I think it's just the UK culture.
- ▶ 43:50 Josh Browder Um, and he was running a kind of a staffing business, um, which there's a million staffing companies, even in the UK.
- ▶ 49:07 Josh Browder I mean, if you can't explain the business to someone at the pub in the UK, like, if you go to a pub and say I'm building observability for AI agents, they'll laugh at you.
- ▶ 1:01:49 Josh Browder Another ceiling is that, coming from the UK, I've always wanted to build a real business.
- ▶ 1:02:54 Josh Browder Um, a lot of our customers are from middle America and actually the UK.
- ▶ 1:04:45 Josh Browder Fresh off the boat from the UK, dropping out of college.
- ▶ 1:11:26 Harry Stebbings You see it in the UK, too. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:03 Josh Browder Depreciation doesn't exist in the UK.
- ▶ 1:22:31 Josh Browder So, um, when I started Do Not Pay, I did a Freedom of Information Act request in the UK for the top 12 reasons why parking tickets are cancelled.
- ▶ 1:23:18 Harry Stebbings The final one before we do a quick fire is you mentioned the UK and growing up in the UK. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:44 Josh Browder Anyway, going back to the UK, um, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:52 Harry Stebbings And have I been infected by UK
- ▶ 1:29:12 Josh Browder Why are they charging VAT on investments in the UK in some investments?
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:27 Patrick Forquer So we were using the full force of our global team in the US, Europe, and the UK and Australia.
- ▶ 51:36 Patrick Forquer So APJ, India, EU, the UK, and the US.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:45 Cliff Weitzman So I got this cabin on a river in the UK, and for four days in a row, all I did
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:29 Tobi Lütke Again, I, I think Europe, especially now that the UK has left the European Union, needs to double down on Prussian, uh, uh, economic theory, uh, of Friedrich List and his, uh, co-conspirators and just define excellent games that create…
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:52 Harry Stebbings With, I, I'm in the UK, and I'm in London, um, do you think Trump's doing a good job?
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:20 Harry Stebbings Versus in the UK and the US, very big, and much easier.
Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:07 Demis Hassabis You know, there's a very good one in the UK that, uh, uh, you know, was set up under Prime Minister Sunak, and I think it's doing great work, and then there's one in the US, and maybe some of the leading countries that have the best…
- ▶ 25:34 Harry Stebbings My question was on being in the UK.
- ▶ 25:39 Harry Stebbings I'm very proud to be in the UK. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:31 Demis Hassabis I think in the UK, I mean, this may apply to other European countries too.
How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:16 Harry Stebbings How should I think about the preventative healthcare companies that I'm pitched every day, whether it's your pre-Novos or your Necos in the UK, which is expanding to you.
- ▶ 31:50 Andrew Dudum I mean, they're the dominant player in Australia, dominant player in the UK, dominant player in Germany, uh, you know, quickly growing in Japan. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:45 unnamed speaker On the UK, it happened on the budget.
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:12 Harry Stebbings The, like, well-priced company up north in the UK that's doing, like, accounting, whatever.
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:09 Harry Stebbings From the UK, we look at SF, and I say to companies it's better to build in Europe because it's impossible to acquire talent and it's impossible to retain it.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:54 Sebastian Siemiatkowski We realized first, if we're just big, at that point in time, we weren't even in the UK yet.
- ▶ 50:23 Sebastian Siemiatkowski We even didn't have late fees in the UK for a period of time at all, but it turned out that that wasn't great either because then people to some degree were overextending themselves.
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:07 Harry Stebbings Yes, you can build a sufficient size business, say, in the UK, a three to five billion dollar business, say, as an example.
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:19 Max Junestrand I was on Bloomberg a couple of weeks back and they had a big infographic that said that the most deployed generative AI tool in the top 200 law firms in the UK
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings and so I did a show with Simon Squibb, a brilliant entrepreneur in the UK,
- ▶ 12:25 Harry Stebbings But, sorry, the biggest problem with the UK 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:29 Simon Squibb I don't, they're not paying tax in the UK.
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:08 Harry Stebbings In the UK we have a game called Shag Marry Kill.
- ▶ 45:47 Harry Stebbings UK lawyers work pretty hard. 2 times in the scene
20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
- ▶ 26:09 Harry Stebbings We're coin-operated, and we're thinking dollars and great British pounds in the UK.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27:06 Harry Stebbings And I think that's probably one of my biggest concerns right now, especially in the UK, you see the disparity of welches between London and everyone else.
20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
- ▶ 27:55 Chad Peets Like you can kind of get away with the UK sales force for a period of time, but usually if you want to go sell it, I'm dealing with one of the companies now, like France, Germany, Italy, they want people in their country that speak their…
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:32 Alan Chang Even if you look at like the wealthy, you know, Brits living in London, right?
- ▶ 18:40 Alan Chang In, in the whole developed economies, UK is in the deepest trouble. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Harry Stebbings Can you just help me and say, you know, I was talking to one of the biggest, um, kind of data infrastructure providers the other day, and they were like, listen, the reason we're not in the UK is because as a percentage of revenue, energy… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:34 Alan Chang Yeah, I think, uh, to be clear, I think the US also share a lot of similar problems, um, to the UK to a lesser extent, and also depends on what state you're talking about. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:22 Harry Stebbings If you were in charge of the UK's energy policy program, what would you do differently that we're not doing today?
- ▶ 25:35 Alan Chang So, like, if you look at the, what the Brits and Europeans pay in terms of, you know, cost per kilowatt, it's roughly 25 to 30 dollar cents.
- ▶ 27:17 Harry Stebbings Do you stand by that on talent levels in the UK? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:51 Harry Stebbings I mean, right now it looks like Nigel Farage and reform will be that government, and actually when you look at populace and the UK populace, transparently, it's not the intellectual Matt Clifford that is the average person on the street.
- ▶ 30:29 Harry Stebbings We said about talent in the UK.
- ▶ 1:05:49 Harry Stebbings I think you're one of the great entrepreneurs in the UK.
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:31 unnamed speaker All the airline engine manufacturers, you know, GE in the United States and Rolls-Royce in London, in, in, in Derby in the UK.
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:21 unnamed speaker The idea is you can go much further down the wealth continuum and give the same kind of product that the super rich get in terms of managing your stuff, managing your taxes, which is how he knows in the UK are now north of 50% and getting…
- ▶ 1:05:05 unnamed speaker Even, you know, I'm sure people in the UK know this, but in the US, unlike the UK, everyone has to file their own taxes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:10 unnamed speaker You may as well be in for a penny versus in for a pound, as we would say in the UK.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:51 Harry Stebbings What I mean by that is there's six and a half million people today in the UK of the working population who actively do not work because of an inability to work.
20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency
- ▶ 58:15 Harry Stebbings Sadly, I live in the UK and I work US. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 3:50 Harry Stebbings You grew up in the Midwest, which for me is, like, a Brit.
- ▶ 53:54 Harry Stebbings I sit in the UK where it seems like an obviously moronic decision.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12 unnamed speaker Are you just recognizing that Harry, like all English people, has no command of foreign languages?
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:52 unnamed speaker No, I think in the UK it's called crown immune. 2 times in the scene
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