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Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:43 Jason Calacanis It is committing a hundred million a year of IT that's probably coming out of their Windows NT box or some other crappy budget that they don't need, and this doesn't mean that they won't put twenty million into third-party software as well.

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

  • ▶ 21:07 unnamed speaker It's, this isn't work, Workday spending a little bit less on, uh, on making sure that the, the, the Windows 98 integration works properly.

Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:12 Jason Calacanis It might be five or 10 years for someone to look at a tool, kick the tires, think about it, get nervous, wondering if it's win three, one compatible.

Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 20, 2025 · 1 mention

Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:18 Daniel Dines Look, we had, um, we had an workflow engine, for instance, that was like Windows workflow engine, and we have perfected it over the years, but now we have switched to a more modern technology, that, that workflow engine, and we are…

Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 25:29 Bret Taylor Windows NT to 95 to 98 to 2000, you know, or something like I might be mixing it up.
  • ▶ 25:29 Bret Taylor Windows NT to 95 to 98 to 2000, you know, or something like I might be mixing it up.
  • ▶ 25:29 Bret Taylor Windows NT to 95 to 98 to 2000, you know, or something like I might be mixing it up.
  • ▶ 25:29 Bret Taylor Windows NT to 95 to 98 to 2000, you know, or something like I might be mixing it up.

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

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

  • ▶ 24:10 Yann LeCun So on Sun Microsystems, it was Solaris and, you know, whatever web server and Java, and then on the, on the Microsoft side, it was Windows with IIT or whatever, you know, and ASP, which was their kind of, ah, server and client-side…

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

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

  • ▶ 8:57 Emil Michael Um, Steve Ballmer purposely pours his water on my Blackberry because it wasn't a Windows OS phone.

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

  • ▶ 8:55 René Haas There are lots of them, but I would say one of the biggest things, and I'll go back to the early days of Windows on ARM, and we were very, very excited 10 years ago about the promise of Windows on ARM and everything that it was going to…
  • ▶ 8:55 René Haas There are lots of them, but I would say one of the biggest things, and I'll go back to the early days of Windows on ARM, and we were very, very excited 10 years ago about the promise of Windows on ARM and everything that it was going to… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:55 René Haas There are lots of them, but I would say one of the biggest things, and I'll go back to the early days of Windows on ARM, and we were very, very excited 10 years ago about the promise of Windows on ARM and everything that it was going to… 3 times in the scene

Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 6, 2022 · 1 mention

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

20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are Apr 8, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:54 Guillaume Pousaz I mean, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, my first Pentium computer was like changing my life pretty much.
  • ▶ 2:54 Guillaume Pousaz I mean, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, my first Pentium computer was like changing my life pretty much.

20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital Jan 6, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:33 Gaurav Jain So we went to companies like Time Magazine, CNN Money, Sports Illustrated, and we built their first iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android apps.

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

  • ▶ 2:40 Chris Hutchins My team created a Windows app called Desk Happy, where you'd be reminded to stand up at your desk.

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

  • ▶ 9:40 Garry Tan So investing in Windows Mobile and J to me and Blackberry, because we said, well, 2 times in the scene

20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue Mar 9, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:13 Christian Hernandez I went to Microsoft, which is not a high growth environment, but I joined the windows mobile group, which was the fastest growing business without within Microsoft, a mobile geek from day one.

20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures Jul 13, 2015 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:39 Jonathan Libov In prior businesses like, ah, Microsoft Office or Windows, um, or any other software that came packaged in a CD or even a box,
  • ▶ 26:15 Jonathan Libov Um, and try to get a start off the ground where we had a prototype working on a Windows CE phone.
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