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2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 23, 2017 by John Lilly · said 34 times in 20 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 4, 2026 · 1 mention · from 1:01:43
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 15, 2026 · 1 mention · from 21:07
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2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention · from 19:12
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 20, 2025 · 1 mention · from 1:05:00
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention · from 2:22
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2024 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2024 · 4 mentions · from 25:29
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 18, 2024 · 1 mention · from 9:18
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2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 6, 2023 · 1 mention · from 1:03:49
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2023 · 1 mention · from 24:10
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2022 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode

20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale Sep 2, 2022 · 9 mentions · from 8:55
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 30, 2022 · 1 mention · from 31:42
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 25, 2022 · 1 mention · from 8:57
Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 6, 2022 · 1 mention · from 39:35
20 Growth: Why Retention Defines Product Market Fit, What is Good Retention Levels Today, The Most Counterintuitive Elements of Product and Growth & Why So Many Startups Mess Up Hiring For Growth Teams with Brian Hale, Head of Consumer Product & Growth @ Apr 6, 2022 · 1 mention · from 4:03
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2021 2 mentions in 1 episode

2020 1 mention in 1 episode

2018 1 mention in 1 episode

20VC: The Fundamentals Of Optimising The Fundraising Process, SAFE's vs Priced Equity Rounds & Why Hiring Is Really A Big Data Problem with Chris Hutchins, Founder @ Grove & Former Partner @ Google Ventures Feb 23, 2018 · 1 mention · from 2:40
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2016 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage? Dec 14, 2016 · 2 mentions · from 9:40
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue Mar 9, 2016 · 1 mention · from 3:13
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2015 2 mentions in 1 episode

20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures Jul 13, 2015 · 2 mentions · from 5:39
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Everything said about Windows, oldest first

Jan 23, 2017 bearish

Opinion

Lilly: Microsoft has completely lost its software distribution advantage

“Microsoft has completely lost the distribution advantage, because people don't really create as much as a higher percentage of their material anymore on, on Windows machines.”

John Lilly Jan 23, 2017 ▶ 14:50 20VC: Greylock's John Lilly on How Greylock Continues To Invest In The Next Big Markets, The Importance Of Building Tribes & Why There will Be Another Boom In Mobile

Feb 21, 2026 positive

Assertion Contradicted

Emberikos: OpenAI is the only firm building OS-level sandboxing for Windows AI agents

“We're basically the only company that cares about OS level sandboxing for coding agents. For instance, there's none that exists on Windows. We're the ones building that and we're doing it in open source, so hopefully other people can use it.”

Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 1:00:58 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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