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Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 49:56 Rory O'Driscoll But going back to the thing, just a comment, the other fun fact, I mean, you just got to note the fun fact, which is Benchmark's best fund, one of the, I shouldn't say the best fund because actually the eBay fund was the best fund in the… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:22 Jason Lemkin Hopefully, hopefully you've got an Uber in there, uh, and maybe, maybe, you know, maybe a WeWork that you cashed out and just time to move on, guys.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:26 unnamed speaker Well, Plessy, what did he lose on WeWork?
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:33 Marc Andreessen Um, so at the height of the WeWork meltdown, um, when it was in the newspaper every single day, um, and, and, you know, kind of, and kind of, you know, reaching its, its end point, um, I talked to a friend of mine who is one of the legends…
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:59 Harry Stebbings And I think you obviously see that with, with, uh, Adam and, and WeWork being the first there in terms of just, uh, fiduciary responsibility in terms of how they spent money and
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:24 Gokul Rajaram Even in V work benchmark made money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:37 Harry Stebbings You mentioned WeWork there.
- ▶ 1:03:05 Harry Stebbings Um, anyway, we mentioned WeWork earlier.
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:53 Harry Stebbings Like, when you look at, say, a WeWork, Benchmark were fantastically smart to get out of it. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:56 unnamed speaker SoftBank did have a ratchet in WeWork.
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:35 Jason Lemkin Whether they're, whether they're WeWorks or Hoppins, there's, there's gotta be 20 or more of them.
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:59 unnamed speaker Um, and this WeWork stuff happened.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:29 Rory O'Driscoll WeWork being the most obvious example of, you know, major failure, hubris, grandiosity, you know, implosion of money on a large scale, but no convicted crime.
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:33 Harry Stebbings Have we lost the grit in the U.S., in the U.K., where we have the WeWorks and we have the nice cultures?
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:49 Shervin Pishevar WeWork as an, as an example. 4 times in the scene
Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:14 Jiaona Zhang And so for transparency, um, a thing I've done at Web, uh, Webflow, even, uh, for my teams, you know, at, at, um, we work, I do this thing called scorecard and scorecard is essentially like, these are the most important projects.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:31 Kevin Ryan But, you know, I, I bought, three years ago, I bought the company Meetup for ten million, because WeWork was getting rid of it, and had panicked, and COVID had just started. 3 times in the scene
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:43 Harry Stebbings It could be a WeWork of the world where fundamentally the business model isn't as good as one thing.
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:29 Akin Babayigit You know, yeah, and actually, I was talking with a colleague of mine, Alex Verbitsky, before the call, and he told me about a time when, you know, they were at a WeWork offsite. 2 times in the scene
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:04 Semil Shah We own chairs and we work, but
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:18 Tristan Handy In a, in a, we work or in a coworking space generally.
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:39 Harry Stebbings It was, you know, WeWork
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 44:43 Harry Stebbings Michael, what are the enduring lessons from WeWork? 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Rise of Quick Commerce and Why CPGs ARe Misaligned Being Powered By Ad Spend, The 5 Core Components Consumers Care About When Ordering Today & Why Amazon and Alibaba Will Not Be The Big Players in 10 Years with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Prior to Joker, Ralph spent close to seven years as the founder and CEO at Food Panda, as well as enjoying roles as chief strategy officer at Delivery Hero, interim chief product and experience officer at WeWork, and even moving to the…
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings At SoftBank, Marcello oversees the company's strategic direction and its portfolio of operating companies, including the likes of WeWork, SB Energy, Fortress, Boston Dynamics, as well as SoftBank's stake in T-Mobile US. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:35 Harry Stebbings You know, six kids, a career in football, the soft bank career, and I was speaking to Bruce Dunleavy, who sits on the WeWork board with you, and he said, you do so much, so much more than anyone else. 6 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 11:37 Hubert Palan But if I look at our, even the early round series A, like Ilya Fushman showed up at our office, you know, for people here at, uh, WeWork, but like he wanted to see the other people.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings High yield bonds, and convertible securities, and joining Howard, who better to have than the one and only Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes…
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and wow, I'm so excited for the show today, joined by a master of marketplaces, one of my favourite writers in the venture space also, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Sarah…
20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
- ▶ 5:20 Brandon Deer Small, we work a handful.
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 37:05 Harry Stebbings And then the next one from Greg Sands, he says, is we work full of shit? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 29:06 Vlad Magdalin I mean, you see the stuff that we work, you see like Travis having to leave Uber.
20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 2:40 Harry Stebbings Powerful real-time insights into customer conversations, and that's why some of the world's most innovative companies use Dialpad today, including the likes of Stripe, Uber, HubSpot, WeWork, and many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 38:42 Harry Stebbings Plus, with Dialpad voice intelligence, you can do more than just listen, and you can really unpack powerful real-time insights into customer conversations, and that's why some of the world's most innovative companies use Dialpad today,…
20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
- ▶ 2:43 Harry Stebbings Including the likes of Stripe, Uber, HubSpot, WeWork, and many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 35:18 Harry Stebbings Plus, with Dialpad voice intelligence, you can do more than just listen, and you can really unpack powerful, real-time insights into customer conversations, and that's why some of the world's most innovative companies use Dialpad today,…
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 2:25 Harry Stebbings Plus, with Dialpad voice intelligence, you can do more than just listen, and you can really unpack powerful, real-time insights into customer conversations, and that's why some of the world's most innovative companies use Dialpad today,…
- ▶ 41:44 Harry Stebbings Plus, with Dialpad voice intelligence, you can do more than just listen, and you can really unpack powerful, real-time insights into customer conversations, and that's why some of the world's most innovative companies use Dialpad today,…
20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- ▶ 2:51 Harry Stebbings Plus, with Dialpad voice intelligence, you can do more than just listen, and you can really unpack powerful real-time insights into customer conversations, and that's why some of the world's most innovative companies use Dialpad today,…
- ▶ 34:48 Harry Stebbings And that's why some of the world's most innovative companies use Dialpad today, including the likes of Stripe, Uber, HubSpot, WeWork, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings One of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, Stitch Fix, eBay, and many, many more incredible companies.
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Now, Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, Stitch Fix, eBay, and many, many more incredible companies.
20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
- ▶ 7:35 Jon Dishotsky And I think WeWork was the first one that really sort of set the stage. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- ▶ 12:47 Sarah Smith And then also we have that rise of Airbnb, WeWork, Uber, even eBay, I would say has taught us that we're
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm thrilled to welcome back Sarah Tavill, general partner at Benchmark, one of the world's leading VC funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, eBay, WeWork, Yelp,
20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- ▶ 5:35 Jason Stoffer I think there are certain companies like Uber and WeWork, which were able to use capital as a blunt force object to build a business.
- ▶ 23:23 Jason Stoffer You would have your next gen technology brands like a WeWork or an Airbnb.
20VC: Why Fundraising Is Like Dating and How to Play The Game Successfully & How To Increase The Flexibility of Your Burn When Growth is Ambiguous with Rachel Blumenthal, Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome
- ▶ 15:57 Rachel Blumenthal In essence, a WeWork for dedicated office spaces, and the beauty of that is that we weren't constrained to a long-term office lease, a five, ten-year office lease.
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, eBay, WeWork, Yelp, and many more revolutionary companies of the last decade.
20VC: How LPs Can Add Strategic Value To Portfolio Companies & Why Real Estate Is On Every Whiteboard In Silicon Valley with Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder @ Fifth Wall
- ▶ 5:19 Brendan Wallace We work in Airbnb after Uber.
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 30:31 Jason Lemkin So, so far, I think it's worked well, but it is a kooky idea to have a post accelerator sort of time frame space, a post WeWork space, and I love the companies we have it now, but hopefully it's an experiment.
20VC: Why Great Founders Are Both Visionary & Stubborn, The Investment Mindset Shift From Angel To VC & How To React When The 'S*** Hits The Fan?' with Jesse Middleton, General Partner @ Flybridge Capital Partners
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings So starting this one a little bit differently today, because intros are hard, and they're hard to make fun and different every time, so I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you like from intros and what you don't like from an intro, so… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings He co-founded WeWork Labs in 2011 and ran WeWork X, M&A, startup investments, business, and digital product development, as well as inside sales during his five-year tenure at the company.
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings He co-founded WeWork Labs in 2011 and ran WeWork X, M&A, startup investments, business, and digital product development, as well as inside sales during his five-year tenure at the company.
- ▶ 2:03 Harry Stebbings But, but talk to me a little now, starting, on the founding story of WeWork, and, and how that transitioned now into your new role in venture. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:57 Jesse Middleton And so ultimately, you know, got together with them about five and a half, a little over five and a half years ago to start what we called WeWork Labs, which was our take on what very early stage companies needed outside of a three month…
- ▶ 4:14 Harry Stebbings That's such a good segue into, into the question that I'm about to ask in terms of the WeWork experience, and what was the biggest takeaway that you've taken with you now to your time as an investor with Flybridge? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:08 Harry Stebbings And you said earlier about WeWork's, uh, insane vision, uh, from the start.
- ▶ 11:12 Jesse Middleton Like, how often did the first investors in Uber or Airbnb or WeWork, you know, feel the way that I'm feeling now?
- ▶ 15:28 Jesse Middleton To run a marketing campaign at WeWork, let's say, and by tomorrow, we could see results.
- ▶ 17:52 Harry Stebbings Uh, most problems tend to happen, and, and as you said, you have kind of six roles in the operations with WeWork just alone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:34 Jesse Middleton But the second thing may be, oh, well, this gives me a great opportunity to kind of think about how I make this better for the future, and I think that, you know, we had many stories in the earliest days of WeWork where we, we didn't have… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:02 Jesse Middleton We work labs location, which was on Varick street.
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 30:53 Harry Stebbings As always, we so appreciate your support, and cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's show with Jesse Middleton, founder at WeWork, and newly announced general partner at Flybridge.
20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
- ▶ 25:32 Sam Lessin So, you know, there's, we live is another company that's working on this from the, we work guys.
20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24
- ▶ 9:17 Brian Wong Um, and then they also had services that helped, uh, founders, uh, sort of just get started, whether it be, uh, getting the company formed to, uh, even simple things like we had bumped out of their offices for the first, uh, three months…
20 VC 062: Shaking Up London's VC Scene with Fede Pirzio-Biroli, Founder @ Playfair Capital
- ▶ 15:38 Fede Pirzio-Biroli Um, I think, you know, especially today, it's becoming, with the, with kind of, with the arrival of WeWork and, you know, the 2 times in the scene