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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. 3 times in the scene
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 40:33 Jerry Murdock But Onkosha said this is one of the best CEOs ever seen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:57 Jerry Murdock I mean, Vinod with Avin and, you know, his companies, they did amazing.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 40:12 Jason Lemkin And maybe just two small things, we can move on, but one, I think Vinod's leading the round, right, or co-leading the round or something, so he's just redoing, he already, he already, granted OpenAI hasn't gone public, but he's, he's… 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:43 Harry Stebbings It led to a slew, I mean, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of founders sharing horror stories, uh, including the Cloudflare CEO, um, who said about, you know, his experience with Kostler and Vinod Kostler, uh, 8 times in the scene
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:39 unnamed speaker Even Vinod, who is very direct that there's going to be a lot of job losses, right or wrong, Roy disagrees, but 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:01 unnamed speaker There are categories where the agents are doing, like Vinod and everyone's talking about what the world will be like in four years, right?
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:54 Gokul Rajaram Um, I invested in a company, this was before Marathon, but with my Marathon partners, we're part of the Marathon, they led the round with Vinod, Vinod Khosla and Mickey Malka at Ribbit and a company called Lead Bank, which was my…
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:32 Jason Lemkin I honestly don't know if Vinod wants to build a generational fund. 5 times in the scene
Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:20 Jason Lemkin Um, and when Vinod says it, I believe it, but when most of the rest of the VCs believe, say it, I think they're just water cooler talk, but now we're really seeing it.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:58 David Cahn I mean, Sam Altman, Vinod Khosla, Jeff Bezos, like, some of the biggest AI bulls have now come out and basically said, hey, we're in a bubble of some, some way, some sort of the other, and each has their own perspective on exactly how…
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:07 Harry Stebbings You know, you've had Vin or Kosa be like, we have to lock this down.
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings I was literally just telling you, it is a cool prep when you get to call up like Vinod Kostler, uh, Joe Lonsdale, and you call them and you're like, hey, what should I ask?
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:24 Harry Stebbings Like, in SF, I'm competing against Peter Fenton, Marc Andreessen, Vinor Kostler, Eli Gill, the Collisons, Daniel and Nat Friedman.
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:21 Jason Lemkin I literally think they're predicated on this, and Vinod's been saying this for years, and I didn't get it until 90 days ago, six, 90, until we ran our own AI with 130,000 conversations through it.
- ▶ 42:15 Jason Lemkin Vinod said this so many times until I was at EF did a demo day out here and I watched the note again after building our AI with 130,000. 3 times in the scene
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:09 Harry Stebbings Vinod Coase has famously said, you know, 90% of VCs actually just trying to find you. 2 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:50 Harry Stebbings Vinok Khosa says very interestingly that 90% of VCs detract value. 2 times in the scene
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:49 Harry Stebbings Elon Musk posting a picture about Vino Kostler's beach with no plebs allowed.
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:31 Dmitry Gurski Once I got very good lesson from, uh, Vinod Hostler, uh, like founder of Hostler Ventures, many years ago, and, uh, that moment our company was, uh, big enough, and we had many ideas how to build our product, and many ideas for… 3 times in the scene
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:11 Harry Stebbings I think it's Vinod Khosa who says that 90% of investors are net negative, um, which is potentially slightly damning.
David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:11 Harry Stebbings Do you share Vinor Kosa's view that 90% of VCs detract value?
Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:37 Harry Stebbings Vinod Khosa says that 90% of VCs actually detract value.
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:10 Harry Stebbings Vinod and Marc Andreessen have taken two very opposing sides saying that once it's out of the box, you can't put it back.
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:34 Harry Stebbings You know, we have Vinok Khosla on the one hand that says we cannot have such powerful models open source.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:29 Delian Asparouhov No matter how compelling, you know, sort of the opportunity is the GP of, you know, Coastal Ventures, you know, Vinod, Samir, David Wyden, Keith, Sven. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:58 Delian Asparouhov Obviously we're seeing this kind of play out in the drama sphere of Twitter over the past 24, 48 hours with Parker Conrad, Vinod, Mike Solana, David Sachs, et cetera.
- ▶ 50:59 Harry Stebbings I can't remember the exact number, so if Vinod's listening, don't kill me or sue me if I get it wrong.
- ▶ 1:00:47 Delian Asparouhov They look closer to, you know, sort of a Vinod Khosla than a, you know, sort of pure SaaS investor, you know, sort of Jason, you know, sort of Lemkin.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:30 Kevin Hartz I think, you know, Vinod has, like, a corollary to this, that you've gotta, like, burn through, like, forty million in venture before you really know what you're doing, and, you know, angel is, is, you just gotta start, uh, learning and,…
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:07 Dan Siroker Uh, I think there's Vinod Khosla who said something like, 80% of venture capitalists add negative value to startups. 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:45 Keith Rabois As you know, Vinod is like a pioneer in AI thinking.
- ▶ 41:16 Keith Rabois I went pretty flat at square when I was running hot at like 11 and like Vinod and Roloff gave me feedback that that was too much.
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:31 David Clark So you wouldn't invest in Vinod Kozler? 3 times in the scene
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:46 Harry Stebbings Vinod Khosla.
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:41 David Tisch Nobody knows the answer to AI, like how the market plays out, where the value gets created, what the best tenure out companies look like, other than probably like Vinod Khosla. 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01 Keith Rabois As an MD at Coastal Ventures, and we had a really successful run together, uh, KB-Four, KB-Five, and KB-Five were the funds I was a partner in, and we produced, you know, really stellar returns working as a collaboration team between… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:48 Keith Rabois These were very unstructured and very vigorous debates, particularly with Vinod and Samir, David, and sometimes Sven. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:32 Harry Stebbings Uh, can I ask, I, I obviously spoke to Vinod before this, and he said in particular, no one really runs the firm, partners work closely together, each MD can decide to make an investment even if the others disagree.
- ▶ 8:23 Keith Rabois But Vinod's right in the sense of, there were times at KD where I wanted to do X, Y, or Z in my six years there, and there was some critical feedback, and maybe I listened to it.
- ▶ 12:11 Keith Rabois Really wanted me to join the board in the seed round, and this was in maybe my second year at KB, so I asked, you know, Binod and Samir at the party meeting, can I join the board, and the uniform reaction was like, no way, you can't be…
- ▶ 55:10 Keith Rabois There are times when Samir would be a much better partner, for example, than I would be to the, to a specific founder, depends again, or Vinod, Vinod can be, or Sven, it really depends what the company's doing and the founder's skill set. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:03 Keith Rabois Vinod, uh, Roloff, um, taught me some lessons.
- ▶ 1:00:35 Keith Rabois When sell, the market didn't really appreciate Square fairly for a long time, so there's lots of debate internally, and Vinod had a very strong perspective that proved out to be incredibly valuable, incredibly pricey, predicated on a…
- ▶ 1:01:27 Harry Stebbings Vinod's so special. 16 times in the scene
Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Do you agree with Vin or Coastal that 90% of VCs actually detract value?
- ▶ 39:06 Harry Stebbings Do you agree with Vinal Coastal that 90% of VCs actually detract value?
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:52 Harry Stebbings I mean, I think, you know, I had Vinokosa on the show before, and he's like, you know, I'll take all the market timing risk in the world, but I won't take adoption risk. 2 times in the scene
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:39 Harry Stebbings I've been prepping for a show with Vinod Khosla, um, and he's spoken before about his concern around strong AI moving into the hands of the Chinese. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:35 Jason Lemkin Vinod Khosla, who's wildly successful.
Mike Maples: Lessons from SVB; Crisis Management Tips; USD's Status as the Reserve Currency | E993 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:01 Harry Stebbings I always think of actually Vinod Kostler, who said, like, I will take as much technical risk as you give me, but I just don't want any market risk.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:54 Emil Michael Susan, under the radar, um, VC in terms of being at Vinod, Vinod Costa, it's his firm, and David's been a partner there for about 15 years, and has made some of their biggest wins in Okta, um, you know, all the big, big, uh, they, uh,
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:34 Keith Rabois Vinod Coastal sort of has a similar version of this where we used to write our internal emails on investments with articulating upside case.
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:08 Chris Sacca Dorr and Vinod and these guys who went into climate early, um, their vision was there and their passion was there, and I'm, and I deeply respect that they risked so much of their personal capital, but the unit economics weren't there yet.
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 43:54 Chris Sacca Bless Doerr and Vinod and these guys who went into climate early.
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings This schedule was a total team effort, so huge thanks to Frederick Karras at Okta, Ryan Carlson at Okta, Pat Grady at Sequoia, Vinod Kostler, and Neil Bushry.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 39:11 Shishir Mehrotra Vinod Post was my primary investor. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 9:18 Joe Lonsdale So having founders around, being founders, whether we're talking about Vinod Khosla or Peter Thiel or Marc Andreessen or Reid Hoffman or the list goes on and on.
20VC: Khosla Ventures Founding Partner, Samir Kaul on Why Pro Rata Is A Cop Out, Why He Likes Technical Risk and Does Not Take Market Risk & How To Approach Time Allocation Across The Portfolio In Venture
- ▶ 5:57 Samir Kaul Newbar is still a very close friend and was a mentor to me, and I helped start four companies, of which Vinod had invested in three of them, and when Vinod left Kleiner Perkins and decided after some time off to start Coastal Ventures, he… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:57 Samir Kaul We get judged by what is our return, and these are all things I've learned really from Vinod.
- ▶ 27:14 Samir Kaul When working with Vinod, we did Jivo, which is a public company, with Francis Arnold, who just won the Nobel Prize.
20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor
- ▶ 0:05 Harry Stebbings We have such a special year of episodes ahead for you, with the likes of Vino Koestler, Howard Marks, Patrick Collison, and more incredible guests coming on the show, so stay tuned there.
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings We are back for the very first 20 VC of 2020, and I'm so excited, so in the coming months we have the likes of Vinod Kostler, Patrick Collison, and Howard Marks coming on the show.
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Okta, the independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time, and to date, Frederick's raised over four hundred and fifteen million dollars with Okta from some of the very…
- ▶ 25:05 Frederic Kerrest I mean, the support that we got from Mark and Ben and Andreessen Horowitz that we got, obviously, from Mike at Floodgate, from Anil and the entire team at Greylock, and then from Vinod and David Wyden at Kosla, those were the major…
20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- ▶ 8:52 Trae Vassallo John Doar's style was very different from the node coastless style. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 3:32 Bing Gordon And then my wife started working for John Doerr and Vinod Khosla as a recruiter later in the eighties. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
- ▶ 8:58 unnamed speaker Like I think my VC investors from my company, Color, Vinod Khosla, Joe Lonsdale, and Hemant from General Catalyst are all awesome.
20VC: Khosla's Keith Rabois on How To Create Sustainability Behind Growth, How To Assess The Potential Of Individuals & Teams & The Biggest Takeaways from LinkedIn, Paypal & Square
- ▶ 8:24 Keith Rabois One was on the importance of talent, or as, you know, as Vinod likes to say here at Khosla, the team you build is the company you build.
20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 25:42 Jules Maltz I mean, I used, I still get intimidated by some of the big names in venture, and a lot of people are, I think, well, how can I ever, you know, beat, I don't know, whoever it is, Peter Fenton, or Scott Sandell, or Vinod Khosla, or Mike…
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
- ▶ 23:41 Doug Scott Uh, actually, Kovach, um, one of the West Coast VCs, I've seen that most times VCs on the board just wanted to speak because they want to be there, and I wouldn't say this is, you know, everywhere, but I think my worry is there's a lot of…
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 49:26 Jason Calacanis I mean, to sit there as a startup and be, you know, let's say you have three founders from each startup at a Y Combinator talk with, you know, even if they got like Fano Khosla or Michael Moritz or something, and they have this incredible…