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Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:09 unnamed speaker Like, I'm, I'm not a revenue user, I'm a TransferWise user when I'm sending money back to Ireland.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:01 Harry Stebbings We've had Deliveroo bought by the Americans, so taken off the London Stock Exchange, and this week we had Wise, TransferWise otherwise known, announce that they're gonna also list on the US. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 58:58 Harry Stebbings You know, one of the best things about, you know, the startup team 10 years ago, well, 1213 years ago was Revolut, Monzo, Transferwise.
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04 Taavet Hinrikus And I think, you know, through the years of building, building wise and still working at Skype, I was like, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:25 Taavet Hinrikus You know, we got in the seed round, we got Max Levchin when we were raising money for Transferwise, as it was called before, Beforewise. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 Taavet Hinrikus I am very proud of the fact that when, when we built Wise, everybody had stock options, including every customer support agent. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:47 Taavet Hinrikus I mean, if I look at, you know, maybe, maybe looking back now, Wise now looks like a simple fintech company. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:48 Taavet Hinrikus You know, which I think is BS, you know, something that hasn't been spoken widely, even so wise supposedly raised a shit ton of money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:14 Taavet Hinrikus Yes, in certain sectors which are deemed hot, you know, 20, 21, if you were an ex wise employee, everybody would write a check to you without even meeting you.
- ▶ 55:25 Taavet Hinrikus I think Wise is an example of a company that is well known amongst the investor universe that can go public anywhere. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:50 Taavet Hinrikus I have realized, I have generated liquidity through the years from wise.
- ▶ 1:00:41 Taavet Hinrikus I mean, Wise has a fair share of startups.
20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
- ▶ 52:48 Harry Stebbings Founder of Wise.
Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:54 Harry Stebbings Thinking of the flywheel, I'm at the beginning of the flywheel, and what concerns me most is 10 years ago or 15 years ago, whatever it was, but when TransferWise and Monza and Revolut all started, it was a great place to start a fintech…
- ▶ 28:41 Harry Stebbings Do you think WISE have done better being in the UK than they would have done if they're in the US? 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:17 Mitchell Green I've got one in TransferWise over here.
- ▶ 45:44 Mitchell Green A payments company, like, we invested in TransferWise over here.
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:50 Peter Singlehurst So, to take an example that's close to home, Wise. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:56 Peter Singlehurst So we're still big, you know, shareholders in Affirm and, uh, and Wise.
- ▶ 53:50 Harry Stebbings You've mentioned Wise several times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:18 Peter Singlehurst I've got an enormous amount of respect for Christo at Wise. 3 times in the scene
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:16 Harry Stebbings 10 years ago, I remember when I started, and it was like, transfer-wise, it was Monzo, it was Revolut, and actually there was a series of kind of financial regulatory, not loopholes, but freedoms, that meant that London was a great place…
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:00 Hussein Kanji And then right after that, Tavit went public with Wise on the LSE, and I tried to talk him out of it.
Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:47 Harry Stebbings Well, there's a lot of products which are better, different, but the markets are so crowded that actually Revolut actually sell it pretty well, TransferWise sell it pretty well, and there's 15 other players that sell it pretty well, and so…
Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:58 Harry Stebbings How did you come to Wise then? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:41 Harry Stebbings Just to set the foundations, like what do WISE do? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:25 Nilan Peiris Our first customers came from, ah, and the day we, we launched WISE was when the, the TechCrunch 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:06 Nilan Peiris So people telling their friends about Wise and this great product is, and driving word of mouth is what's been the big driver of Wise's growth. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:01 Nilan Peiris So what's really hard to do is above the line, and getting it above the line to work, and I think we've run, we've run above the line TV campaigns. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:07 Nilan Peiris And the kind of strategic thesis at the heart of wise is whoever has the lowest cost, highest quality product, will take the whole cross-border market. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:14 Nilan Peiris So in WISE, you can, in the WISE account, you can push one button and hold all of your cash in government bonds.
- ▶ 16:15 Nilan Peiris For us, uh, we had this really fun challenge. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:43 Nilan Peiris But, uh, so just stepping it through and making that more practical, um, with us, customers talked about price, talked about speed, talked about ease of use. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 Nilan Peiris Um, so my dad used Wise, and then he'd use Barclays, and then he'd tell me, like, is he 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:52 Nilan Peiris When we launched the Wise Account in Brazil, it, it went like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:12 Nilan Peiris So Newbank have, uh, offered the Wise account now to their customers, and we, we have Newbank and Wise co-branded cards to their ultravioleta, their most, most valuable customers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:55 Nilan Peiris Every, every team at Wise is clear what huge means. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:52 Nilan Peiris Levers of growth and wise, and like, like I talked to you through at the beginning where we have a money transfer business, we have an account business, we have an enterprise business, and can, yeah, explain what our strategy is in each of…
- ▶ 32:39 Nilan Peiris Great example is WISE platform, uh, where we're taking WISE, our infrastructure out, and we're selling it to banks. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:39 Nilan Peiris Great example is WISE platform, uh, where we're taking WISE, our infrastructure out, and we're selling it to banks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:19 Nilan Peiris So we run, I, I kick-started it, Wise Connect, our enterprise conference, we run it in
- ▶ 35:54 Nilan Peiris We stumbled on this earlier at Wise. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:28 Nilan Peiris Like you prefer someone to wise, you get money, like I get money, you get money, we both get money, we've played with different amounts of money.
- ▶ 45:57 Nilan Peiris Um, and they're joining wise or wherever because they think that reason 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:58 Nilan Peiris And if I was in that role, I would have done that, and that's usually a big tick, or sometimes they're like, no, I don't get it, but ultimately through this conversation, they're really talking about their limit, because they hit their…
- ▶ 49:35 Nilan Peiris For me at WISE, it is, how does it make payments faster?
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:55 Val Scholz I think Transwise couldn't really figure out like, how can we give it away for free and still make more money than them?
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:56 Roger Ehrenberg And wise did this brilliantly actually, you know, they, they made money, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:50 Roger Ehrenberg Is similar to what we did in wise, like the, the BBVA simple thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:12 Roger Ehrenberg Then when you think of our other IPOs, Datadog, Wise, and DOCN, those we've been much more measured and systematically distributing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:44 Harry Stebbings Because IA has amazing bangers, Wise, Datadog, um, yeah, the trade desk, great founders come to you, LPs come to you, and success is this cyclical snowball down a hill?
20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Datadog, DigitalOcean, Wise, and Recorded Future.
20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Welcome back to the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, at hstebbings.com, with two B's on Instagram, and if you haven't heard our episode with Chamath at Social Capital from Monday, then that really is a must, but to our show today,…
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 29:34 Mike Maples Owned a fair amount of trade desk and transfer wise.
20VC: Index Ventures Partner, Mark Goldberg on The Questions Founders Must Ask A Multi-Stage Fund Before Taking Their Money At Seed, Why Most Angels Will Lose Their Money & Why We Will See Our First $100Bn Neo-Bank Shortly
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Plaid, Adyen, and Transferwise, to name a few, and all five billion dollar plus companies, I hasten to add.
20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings Their incredible portfolio includes the likes of TransferWise, Datadog, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:16 Jesse Beyroutey So I tried to respond to everything from early on with actually, I think the first company that I had the pleasure of working on at IA called TransferWise started doing this and we ended up doing it with a lot of our other portfolio…
20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Henry's raised over a hundred and forty seven million in funding from some of the very best in the business, including USV, Spark, K-Nine Ventures, and Meritech, and then also leading founders, including Flexport's Ryan Peterson,…
20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
- ▶ 13:29 Tom Blomfield So we introduced TransferWise about six months ago.
20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings IA Ventures is one of New York's leading early stage funds, with investments in the likes of TransferWise and The Trade Desk.
- ▶ 24:46 Roger Ehrenberg I guess for me, my most recent public investment was, was Octane lending kind of alternative finance is an area that I'm super passionate about, you know, simple transfer wise.
20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper
- ▶ 22:30 Sarah Tavel Um, and the examples I gave in my blog posts are things like Airbnb and Uber and Netflix even, I mean, transfer wise, there's, there's a long list of companies that fit that.
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 25:39 Hussein Kanji Um, you know, whether it's TransferWise or World Remit or Eberry, you know, or, you know, there's so many of these, or Zopa or Prosper, right?
20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
- ▶ 22:11 Matt Lerner And he runs growth at transfer wise.
20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech
- ▶ 11:39 Greg Rogers There's the, the transfer wisers were already out there, the funding circles.
20 VC 011: London's Early Stage Funding Scene with Thomas Jones
- ▶ 14:50 Thomas Jones There's TransferWise is a good example. 3 times in the scene