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Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:04 Rory O'Driscoll If I put a gun against Harry's head, he couldn't tell me about Corel, VisiCalc, Lotus, etc., etc., and all of those stocks traded high and then went down, but it doesn't matter a damn because in the end, as a whole, the system, the venture…
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:59 Alex Rampell I published this chart with the help of my friend ChatGPT of, um, how long it took VisiCalc, which was the first spreadsheet that came out in 1979 to lose to Lotus one, two, three, and then how long it took Lotus one, two, three to lose to… 2 times in the scene
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:03 Frank Quattrone To me, it was the same reaction I had when I saw Google search versus, you know, the initial search engines, and the same reaction I had when I first saw VisiCalc, the electronic spreadsheet, when I had to do manual calculations before…