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Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:43 Harry Stebbings Honestly, I remember interviewing Vlad from Robin Hood, ok? 6 times in the scene
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:19 Cliff Weitzman 23 and me of Honey, of Grammarly, Flat from Robin Hood, and all those became Speechify investors very early on.
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:51 Anjney Midha Like, you know, one of the beautiful things, I, I, uh, my friend Vlad, who runs Robinhood, floated recently this, like, venture fund thing on, on Robinhood.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:24 Harry Stebbings I've had Vlad on the show multiple times, and I think Vlad was astonishing. 4 times in the scene
20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
- ▶ 38:46 Harry Stebbings I interviewed Vlad. 2 times in the scene
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:57 Alex Rampell Same thing for Vlad at Robinhood.
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:28 unnamed speaker You guys could chime in, but I really think, to me, a space I don't understand and thought was borderline ridiculous is Vlad at Robin Hood. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:36 Harry Stebbings Vlad is incredible.
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:54 Harry Stebbings I know Vlad pretty well. 7 times in the scene
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:13 Harry Stebbings I have Mark Benioff, I have Vlad Tenev from Robinhood on the show.
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 29:25 Harry Stebbings I actually had Vlad on the show from Robinhood the other day, and they built their own customer support engine.
- ▶ 31:03 Harry Stebbings Vlad said 50%.
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:35 Harry Stebbings I had Vlad on the show from Robin Hood today, it went out, and he said 50% of code created by Robin Hood is now by AI. 2 times in the scene
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:58 Harry Stebbings I interviewed Vlad at Robinhood, both very recently, and they both said that 50% of their net new code is created by AI.
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:27 Jason Lemkin Vlad, get me some open AI. 4 times in the scene
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 1:15:42 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and stay tuned for an incredible TwentyVC coming on Monday with Vlad Tenev, founder and CEO at Robinhood.
TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:44 Harry Stebbings You know, I, I know Vlad at Robinhood very well.
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:09 Harry Stebbings I had Vlad on from Robin Hood the other day, and I said, like, do you have to as a public?
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:31 Shardul Shah When, uh, I have so much respect for Danny, who we talked about, for Jan, for Marton, for Adriana, Nina, Carlos, Vlad, when they disagree, like you take it really seriously, you sleep on it.
- ▶ 28:41 Shardul Shah Vlad, who just joined us, um, has an uncanny ability to read body language over Zoom. 2 times in the scene
20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings And I do also want to say a huge thank you to Vlad at Robinhood for the intro today.
- ▶ 3:24 Harry Stebbings I heard so many great things from Vlad, so thank you so much for joining me today. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a
- ▶ 3:41 Rick Yang One of our principals at the time, Sheil, knew Vlad and Beju very well from Stanford, and our partner Kitu was actually working closely with Jan Hammer over at Index, who had led the Series A. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:43 Rick Yang I mean, Vlad and Beijou are such unique people in that they are very natively and authentically tied to the mission of the company, and also embedded in sort of consumer culture and consumer behavior.
- ▶ 19:14 Harry Stebbings We see Vlad in particular today, and he's a very public, controlled figure. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:27 Rick Yang Like, it's one of those things that it's so hard to quantify or describe until you see it, but both Beju and Vlad had it from the very beginning. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:51 Scott Sandell So she's running point on bringing in all the key executives, even if Vlad and Beju were the ones who closed them. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- ▶ 9:40 Nick Shalek But even with the right people, we just benefited enormously from climbing, like the wind being at our back in tech and fintech, and even more from getting to back entrepreneurs like Fred and Brian at Coinbase or Ken at Credit Karma or…
- ▶ 27:58 Nick Shalek So when Vlad called in the morning and said Robinhood had a collateral issue and needed an impossible sum of money right away,
20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
- ▶ 26:22 Harry Stebbings I remember speaking to, you know, Glad at Robin Hood, and it's when you have big exits like you have done, your children are also brought up just by nature in different environments to those in which you work.
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
- ▶ 36:54 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode with Vlad at Robinhood on Thursday.
20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
- ▶ 4:52 Harry Stebbings I had recently Vlad Tenev from Robinhood on the show, and he spoke about kind of his growing up in Eastern Europe and how it impacted his mindset. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings We are back, and this is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and on Monday we feature an incredible billion-dollar founder in the form of Vlad at Robin Hood, and today we're joined by another incredible billion-dollar founder who's…