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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 14:44 Rory O'Driscoll I don't know what things that we do separately in the West, because it's interesting.
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 1:44 Harry Stebbings Um, how significant were the two model announcements that we saw today, and what should we be taking from their seemingly catching up or close to with the frontier models we have in the West?
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:44 Matan Grinberg You can act faster in the West.
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:33 Marc Andreessen And I think, I think he was generally wrong about that for, you know, for, for, for, for lives, at least elsewhere in the West.
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:15 Alan Chang And they built, you know, whilst, you know, in the West, like there are people debating, oh, is renewables better? 3 times in the scene
AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:03 Harry Stebbings It's such a different company to anything that we're used to in the West.
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:52 Hemant Taneja Uh, it is important that you see AI infrastructure in, in the West, uh,
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:27 Philipp Freise I mean, look at our political systems all over the Western world and the election results, right?
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:03 Andrew Feldman There is a, a desire for, uh, to, to be included in the West in their own way, but also to, to, to enjoy the benefits of it.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:44 Jonathan Ross So they're concerned that in terms of workforce, the US could catch up, the West could catch up, and then at the same time, um, they have a huge population advantage, and this is why I so much want for Europe to get into the fight on AI,…
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:46 Mike Maples Um, and, and not enough people have internalized that idea and how powerful philosophically that was, but like everything around us in the Western world, much of it came from, um, Christianity.
Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:00 Marc Benioff Um, he is of someone who really brought mindfulness, uh, to the West.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:08 Matt Grimm The mindset of the PRC, I think their approach to basic human rights, I think their conducting of an ongoing genocide with their Uyghur population, I think their approach to free speech, to political assembly, to religious freedom, are…
- ▶ 4:47 Matt Grimm Think that if America does its job and the West and our allies do their jobs, I think no. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:04 Matt Grimm Nonetheless, I think if the, if a Cold War escalates to a hot war, like we as the West writ large need to be in a position where we, where we either have stockpiled enough to make it through a conflict, or we have developed ideally our own…
- ▶ 23:33 Matt Grimm Would appreciate the urgency of the problem, and I think that over the last, call it decade, I think, ah, the, the, the governments of the West have largely gotten complacent to what we view as the, kind of, the major geopolitical… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:58 Matt Grimm Uh, and the US right now does not have the production capacity, nor does the UK, nor does Australia, kind of the West at large, to, to make enough munitions to fully equip a prolonged nation on nation conflict.
- ▶ 1:29:09 Matt Grimm Most complex and difficult adversary for the West, I would say no. 3 times in the scene
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22 Vlad Tenev Like, very, very little travel was happening from Bulgaria, which is where I was born, to the Western world, but
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:24 Shaun Maguire In the West cannot fathom that there's real evil in the world, and I can tell you very certainly that, like, there is evil.
- ▶ 42:46 Shaun Maguire You know, I think the whole West is in decline relative to the East.
- ▶ 46:34 Shaun Maguire And that will like, that will literally destroy the West from inside.
- ▶ 1:04:09 Shaun Maguire I think that China will just wildly outproduce munitions compared to the West.
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:32 Matt Clifford Well, I think if you look at like, why, why has it been so fascinating, um, in the West, you know, basically because,
- ▶ 21:13 Matt Clifford Well, I think one thing that's really interesting is the asymmetry in how we in the West learn about China and how they learn about us. 3 times in the scene
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:29 Michael Eisenberg It's serious because it shows what you're fighting for, which is freedom and the values of the West.
Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:06 Harry Stebbings My question to you, and sorry for the hard questions, a dear friend of mine, Constantine Kissin, uh, says actually it's almost arrogant of us in the West to expect Brazil, India, China, the largest nations who will control the future of…
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:35 Vinod Khosla I worry that the Western political system 2 times in the scene
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:07 Nico Wittenborn And depression is on the rise in the, in the West.
Mike Maples: Lessons from SVB; Crisis Management Tips; USD's Status as the Reserve Currency | E993 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Mike Maples The Western world has not been adequately responsible with how it treats its money.
Q-Commerce in Emerging Markets with the CEOs of Airlift, JOKR, & Zepto | 20VC #892 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:05 Harry Stebbings In the West, we're seeing everyone, you know, announce layoffs. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 41:21 Josh Silverman I think Amazon will continue to be the default for everyone in the Western world, and the more the world has a default, the more it yearns for an antidote.
20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
- ▶ 13:42 Sam Lessin One is in the West, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:50 Sam Lessin For instance, I think that things as basic as, you know, the Constitution, et cetera, really are going to have to be reexamined in a lot of ways, and I don't think that we have the social structures to do that very well in the West. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify
- ▶ 21:15 David Barrett As for why, I think Carnage and Culture is interesting, because it shows the rise of defining what the West is, whereas Guns, Germs, and Steel talks about sort of, like, the origin of
20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
- ▶ 15:41 Kevin Chou And you can screw that up in the early days through monetization, at least in the Western markets. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 16:53 Chris Morton So our customer is there, but we felt that we'd be able to build the best team in London because London has more success in fashion technology than any other city, certainly in the West.
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 28:05 Niccolo De Masi We're bringing it to the whole Western world, so North and South, you know, America.