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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 29:09 Matteo Franceschetti It's like if you were buying everything on WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:07 Matteo Franceschetti Yeah, so, um, we have two different channels, so one is Slack for work, and one is WhatsApp for private communication, so our life, and we never mix them, and so I might be screaming on Slack, we have to get this done by the end of the… 2 times in the scene
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 5:47 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is there are a ton of people who I know who've picked it up and love it and engage with it in a way that they wouldn't any other AI tool other than ChatGPT because it's in WhatsApp. 3 times in the scene
Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble
- ▶ 7:53 Jean-Denis Greze It would be meta and WhatsApp, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:53 Jean-Denis Greze Like their WhatsApp parent groups and like Facebook groups and places like that, right?
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 1:04:16 Harry Stebbings It's got WhatsApp 2 times in the scene
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 8:32 Jason Lemkin I mean, Zuck did Instagram and WhatsApp like in an hour on the back of a napkin and paid high, right?
How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 36:33 Matt Swulinski I send them in WhatsApp, right?
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:02 unnamed speaker By investing nine hundred million dollars into, into cred, right? 3 times in the scene
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:49 Paul Erlang Look at Facebook, look at WhatsApp, like all of these business, social businesses that really scaled are global from day one.
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:57 unnamed speaker You need, for the SPV work, it needs to be one, one, one WhatsApp message, and I get the, I get the two hundred million to invest.
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:55 Harry Stebbings Don't, like, dip your toe in with one or two meetings, because the associate WhatsApp groups are so pernicious, where if you meet me, and I don't think you're great, I promise you they put you in the weekly roundup, which they send out,…
- ▶ 1:12:55 Ryan Petersen Well, he had this guy next to him call, and like, or WhatsApp, I forgot, I think it was a text message.
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:43 Harry Stebbings I woke up to this in my, like, you know, um, group where we have a team WhatsApp, and it's like, Oz Garvin, IPO twenty-twenty-eight.
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:46 Harry Stebbings I'm going to WhatsApp it to you on the 31st of December 20, 27.
The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:11 Harry Stebbings But if you were asked a question on what's apps like,
Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:33 Jason Lemkin They're in WhatsApp groups.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:29 Cliff Weitzman The reason why meta ads are so good is because they know what you message on Instagram and what you message on WhatsApp.
- ▶ 1:00:04 Cliff Weitzman Like, I don't know why people don't use WhatsApp calls more.
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:15 Rory O'Driscoll Like he was on Instagram or WhatsApp, or maybe he'll be wrong.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:29 Rory O'Driscoll Before that, it used to be WhatsApp at 16.
- ▶ 1:30:26 Jason Lemkin Give me their WhatsApp or their text because I'm going to send them a couple of deals before this, right after we get off this show.
Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:11 Aaron Levie Like, I, I have Slack channels and, and WhatsApp groups where people on the weekend are, are just like working with Cloud Code or Codex building stuff, and they're public company CEOs.
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:21 unnamed speaker The number of times it happens at twenty billion is low, but WhatsApp is the other great example of that. 2 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings Gokul, I've wanted to do this for years, and you have, I mean, you've coyly played hard to get, let's put it mildly, uh, after my continuous WhatsApp messages, but thank you so much for joining me today, man.
Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:17 Harry Stebbings Are you in CEO groups, WhatsApp groups? 2 times in the scene
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:59 Harry Stebbings If your agent, all the historical context on every pizza order you and your wife have made, and you know the price point, the location, so you know the delivery time that you're estimating, and it can also analyze every TikTok to Instagram…
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:18 Alexander Emberikos Um, and so, you know, the concrete vision I have is, like, at some point, we'll, like, add an agent to, um, like, our family WhatsApp or something, and it'll just start, like, being useful, um, to the family without anyone having to think…
20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:56 Harry Stebbings Which is why I send WhatsApps.
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- ▶ 8:04 Simon Squibb You raised seventy million on WhatsApp. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:32 Simon Squibb Of course he's, you know, he can WhatsApp people and get money, but that's why I like your nineteen-year-old story, because you didn't have a big following then.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:13 unnamed speaker I think Andreessen should target Ben and Mark actually did not WhatsApp me on this, but I think your math Rory is so powerful to me.
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:48 Alex Rampell It's never the CEO, unless you're like, you know, what, you know, Yankum at WhatsApp.
20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
- ▶ 47:50 Harry Stebbings That is a really beneficial way for other people to be reminded, ah, yeah, actually get off email and get onto WhatsApp or get onto going to their customer event.
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:05 Harry Stebbings Do you stand by the belief that, you know, we're all in the same WhatsApp groups, and everyone says, ah, but the level of talent coming out of Imperial and Cambridge and Oxford, absolutely we can parallel the US.
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 12:20 Federico Simionato A few people in a WhatsApp group
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:17 Maor Shlomo Uh, or you built a personal assistant and you've integrated WhatsApp and you want to tell the personal assistant, Hey, remind me in two days to pick up the kids or whatever. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 50:15 Harry Stebbings I think the biggest mistake they make is they speak kind of sporadically, and what they forget is, and I don't think people know this, but like the WhatsApp, especially in Europe, WhatsApp, I don't know what you have in the US, but the… 2 times in the scene
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:33 Rory O'Driscoll If there was a Calci bet, and maybe I should check it that, you know, some version of this AI strategy will not produce meaningful revenue despite a twenty billion dollar burn and will look more like meta VR and less like Instagram and…
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:04 Mati Staniszewski You can, of course, expand from voice into conversational agents, and by that I mean you start building omnichannel solution with email integration, WhatsApp integration, which is kind of that, you know, more classic customer support.
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 9:35 Alex Schultz We had a central growth team who would help WhatsApp, who would help Instagram, who would help Facebook, who, you know, now helps Reality Labs.
- ▶ 28:29 Harry Stebbings And you'll put screenshots of WhatsApp saying, how do I respond to my boyfriend's question?
- ▶ 44:55 Alex Schultz Meta the company produces WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:01 Harry Stebbings Do you like this, uh, AI integration into WhatsApp? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:37 Alex Schultz You can buy an ad on Facebook or Instagram and now on WhatsApp in the status tab where you click on the ad and a messaging thread opens. 8 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:28 Harry Stebbings My response to the team WhatsApp group, where one of our partners is an angel, was, shit.
- ▶ 22:31 unnamed speaker You've had some small bets that worked brilliantly, like Instagram, best acquisition of the last, of the prior decade.
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:06 unnamed speaker And if Zuckerberg is right, like he was about Instagram and WhatsApp, everyone will go, yay.
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:13 Harry Stebbings I thought WhatsApp for doctors and nurses would be a good business.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30:53 Harry Stebbings You're not chatting to them in an Irish WhatsApp group.
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
- ▶ 46:00 Kieran Flanagan Yeah, I was talking to someone on WhatsApp this morning and I was trying to figure out what is their, you know, I could reel off the other companies, you know, OpenAI wants to be the kind of personal assistant via AGI to every human on the…
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:40 Harry Stebbings Did you just like WhatsApp a load of mates and be like, hey, I'm doing a fund?
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:12 unnamed speaker You know, it's funny, Harry, when you and I were in London this last summer at the Sastre Europa, there was a CEO speaking, um, and he told me that he's in a WhatsApp group of, and they're at scale, they're at nine figures in revenue. 2 times in the scene
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:08 Jason Lemkin Instagram, 10% of Facebook WhatsApp.
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:54 Victor Lazarte But, but on that topic, I think like social networking and like we now have software that makes us more efficient at, so that makes us more efficient at connecting with our friends, you know, like you have WhatsApp and you have like…
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 18:36 Matt Biilmann Like we all use Slack and Messenger and WhatsApp and all of these chat tools for good reasons.
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:32 George Bonaci Uh, a great example is like WhatsApp. 3 times in the scene
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:16 Harry Stebbings This is often not in my interest, but like, don't go out too early because they talk so much that if you go and meet one, it will likely go in an associates WhatsApp group that you are meeting.
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:16 Solly Solomou Some sort of series that you want to connect with, with your friends and you're in WhatsApp and you're talking about it
- ▶ 1:09:23 Solly Solomou Their version of WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:32 Harry Stebbings And so you Slack and WhatsApp? 2 times in the scene
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:18 George Arison Per person per day, um, which is more than WhatsApp messaging in a given day, uh, per, per user.
Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:35 Harry Stebbings So we have 20 Growth, which is a WhatsApp group with, like, the biggest growth leaders in the world.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:36 Daniel Khachab Do you people know how to use WhatsApp? 2 times in the scene
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:43 Harry Stebbings Sadly, what WhatsApp groups have changed is the ability for associates to communicate very, very fast with large groups that actually, oh, I met Mark.
Zach Perret: Why ‘Founder Mode’ is the Most Dangerous Blog Post for Founders | E1215 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:24 Zach Perret And so what oftentimes happens is, you know, we have these WhatsApp threads with the founders and lots of questions and we hear a question enough, I'll go down and write a blog post.
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:41 Bret Taylor So if you look at the use of WhatsApp around the world, this means that you can essentially exist as a business and WhatsApp and be a completely full featured customer experience. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:03 Bret Taylor And then you have the mobile native experiences like WhatsApp door dash, you know, Uber, 4 times in the scene
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:29 Eric Vishria Um, but two, you know, we talked about this, like there, there's almost nobody who has, um, who's had wins in consumer land at the scale of like WhatsApp and wins in enterprise land. 2 times in the scene
Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:23 Mike Hudack I admire WhatsApp so much in the early 6 times in the scene
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:03 Val Scholz And I think it's, it's similar in, in other firms where, I don't know, let's say WhatsApp or, um, Revolut in a way, um, you know, because Revolut is very incentivizing for others to join because, you know, at some point it becomes, you're…
- ▶ 24:02 Val Scholz I think, you know, the difference is like, if you look at really like companies that really nailed product market fit, whether it's like OpenAI with ChatGDP, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, um, they had very early proper product market fit.
- ▶ 50:18 Harry Stebbings Wait, it's like, it's like the WhatsApp idea, which is like, invite them to WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:03 Aravind Srinivas We're all used to using WhatsApp and Signal and all that, but 5 times in the scene
Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:33 Harry Stebbings It's like, will we see outbound really just decay and die as a channel completely because you just have infinite supply of it, and suddenly it's like, shit, we need to find WhatsApp or text as a new channel loop because it's just too…
Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:41 Jiaona Zhang I just feel like, you know, what he's seen with, like, something like VR, AR, but also even, even something as simple as, like, messaging, but just the way he thought about the world of, like, here's Facebook, here's WhatsApp, here's a… 3 times in the scene
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:22 Tom Blomfield Spencer is like the most connected person I know in the world, and whenever I go to a new city, Spencer will like herald my arrival and send like three or four or five WhatsApp messages
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:54 Daniel Dines That was like WhatsApp is written in Erlang.
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:10 Harry Stebbings People get 10 emails a day, and I think they're about to get a hundred emails a day, and I think they're about to get a hundred text messages a day, and 50 WhatsApps. 2 times in the scene
Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:05 Gili Raanan And I think the last seed fund, you know, I think it took me like, um, 90 seconds to raise the fund, you know, nine WhatsApp messages and it was done.
Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:10 Peter Lacaillade I mean, we're often on WhatsApp.
Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:05 Harry Stebbings The one that I do say, like, one that is worth it is literally, if you have half an hour, go to Crunchbase, go see their other angel investments, if they do many, and if you've got a good founder network, like I'm sure you do, um, or many…
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:43:41 Matteo Franceschetti And then we use WhatsApp for personal stuff. 2 times in the scene
Roundtable #6 with Rebecca Kaden, Nicole Quinn, Eurie Kim, Harry Stebbings | E1083 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:10 Nicole Quinn So on the acquisition side of things, everybody thought it was insane when Facebook paid ninety billion for WhatsApp, right? 2 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:39 Des Traynor So like from the very start, we had this idea of like an actual messenger, like, you know, WhatsApp style messenger embedded in the product.
- ▶ 48:32 Des Traynor I don't know how Facebook think about this at all, but what I would say is like Facebook have to look at their actual business, which is like Instagram and WhatsApp and it's like, you know, Facebook itself 3 times in the scene
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:45 Adi Levanon It's a whole WhatsApp group.
- ▶ 21:03 Michael Eisenberg So, my seventeen-year-old nephew has a WhatsApp group of 2000, 16 and seventeen-year-olds who are going to supermarkets to help stock shelves, going to warehouses to help out, and distributing food and other, and other things.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:14 Phin Barnes It's always wonderful to talk to you, whether we're on the show or on WhatsApp, uh, you know, it's always great to hear your voice or, or read your words.
Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:58 Suchit Dash You could just send a video, and because we couldn't host video because it was too expensive, we just sent it to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, and that made it the product really lightweight.
Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:49 Brian Balfour Like in some parts of the world, like WhatsApp, for example, is just a massive growth factor, um, for folks. 2 times in the scene
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:41 Marcelo Claure Look at Netflix, WhatsApp, and all that.
Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:09 Adam Mosseri I talked to somebody, I talked to Will Cathcart a lot, who runs WhatsApp.
- ▶ 23:40 Adam Mosseri If I was gonna run late to today's podcast, the best way to let you know would probably be to text you on WhatsApp.
Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:40 Harry Stebbings Does Toby drop you a WhatsApp and say, hey Dave, got time to jump on a FaceTime?
Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:37 Harry Stebbings I'm kind of chatting to them on a weekly, quarterly basis on WhatsApp anyway, and I think that's what managers need more of, which is just the natural relationships, where it's like, oh, meet my friend Rob, he's raising now, and he's…
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:51 Harry Stebbings I, I, I, my first ever investment, fun fact, was like a WhatsApp for doctors and nurses in the UK.
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