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How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 6:08 Matt Swulinski The strong video intent platforms, both in meta and like YouTube ads.
- ▶ 30:34 Harry Stebbings What are your lessons on how to do YouTube well? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:21 Matt Swulinski Non-branded search, Pmax, YouTube ads, everything prints there, um, and the reason why it's like, it's, it's the middle of the funnel, but you have essentially all top to bottom right in one platform, and if you have, like, all the right… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:55 Matt Swulinski YouTube, Reddit, and like the, the social narrative. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:02 Harry Stebbings Like, you need to be writing the creative, shooting the video, editing the video, putting the video on meta, whatever it is, Instagram, YouTube, you name it.
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17 Harry Stebbings Did you see it in the YouTube, which goes, Harry is so burnt.
- ▶ 31:46 unnamed speaker Kind of lied about the books, and they, and they definitely lied about training on YouTube, and they're going to push the envelope here to make their LLMs better, and HubSpot did it, and Salesforce is going to be tempted to do it, and…
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:46 Mike Mignano And so now I'm actually a huge fan of insanely high production value when it comes to podcasts, when it comes to YouTube videos.
- ▶ 34:15 Harry Stebbings It's YouTube.
- ▶ 57:23 Mike Mignano YouTube, TikTok,
- ▶ 1:01:05 Mike Mignano You know, we've got YouTube. 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
- ▶ 24:15 Paul Erlang You have to go watch YouTube videos or, or go search to find libraries and
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:34 unnamed speaker I'm not a, I don't have my professorial background on my YouTube, but it clearly is where it is today, right?
Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:56 Nikesh Arora Whether it's YouTube, that's the only place to go look for streaming video, or Google, that's the only place to go do a search.
- ▶ 20:59 Nikesh Arora That happened YouTube.
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:56 Aravind Srinivas So, um, as honest as I can get, an Uber driver in San Francisco, um, once told me that he watched one of my, uh, YouTube interviews
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:03 Matan Grinberg Well, they order on Amazon, Peter Thiel's Zero to One, and they look up on YouTube how to start a company.
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:16 unnamed speaker I mean, you know, I've watched some of the launches on, you know, my little, on little YouTube and I'm like, they're just so, the whole thing's so impressive.
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:44 Jason Calacanis And whatever, I can't tell you, and I actually think that the, we, we, the Google, uh, the YouTube agent is really good. 2 times in the scene
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:52 Cliff Weitzman I'm okay doing an experiment on app loving or a specific new product that Google dropped for YouTube videos.
- ▶ 19:09 Cliff Weitzman It automatically posts it to Meta, and TikTok, and YouTube, and all the platforms, and it gives me all the data that I want.
- ▶ 25:47 Cliff Weitzman And that YouTube ad basically launched the company took a whole new stratosphere and performed for like three years straight.
- ▶ 27:32 Cliff Weitzman You take the same piece of content and you put it on TikTok, you put it on Instagram, you put it on YouTube, you change the hook.
- ▶ 29:55 Cliff Weitzman YouTube is pretty good, especially on desktop.
- ▶ 1:18:06 Cliff Weitzman And then Instagram and then Facebook and then YouTube. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:57 Cliff Weitzman YouTube is an interesting one.
- ▶ 1:24:17 Cliff Weitzman Um, one, the reason why is because, like we talked about platforms, YouTube was the number one place for a long time.
- ▶ 1:33:20 Harry Stebbings We actually have a very strong product perspective on YouTube versus Spotify. 3 times in the scene
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:45 Jason Lemkin But I watch so much YouTube and, and on YouTube, it's becoming more and more AI generated content. 3 times in the scene
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:56 Jake Paul YouTube, like,
- ▶ 3:27 Jake Paul Vine and YouTube was, like, popping, and that, and I've known that statistic for the longest time.
- ▶ 20:17 Jake Paul So, like, we go back and forth, and we've built this ecosystem, and we're just differentiated and in the right markets in sports, in content, and, you know, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and we've been at the forefront of it since
- ▶ 53:13 Jake Paul The biggest underdog, the YouTuber, the Disney kid, and if I can become world champion, I think it would be the most inspiring sports story, or one of the most inspiring sports stories that in modern day history that I can inspire kids… 4 times in the scene
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:57 unnamed speaker TikToks and YouTubes are doing it, and it's in permanent decline because every other country provides larger subsidies, right? 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:06 Marc Andreessen But by the way, I will say YouTube comments have gotten much better. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:07 Marc Andreessen And, you know, maybe the current version of that is whatever, whatever I read on X yesterday or whatever I saw on a YouTube video or whatever, right?
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
- ▶ 20:24 unnamed speaker I watched yesterday on YouTube.
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:02 Jason Lemkin And this was before even YouTube had launched.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:31 unnamed speaker Because Jason will correct me like he did entirely correctly on YouTube. 2 times in the scene
Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:48 Harry Stebbings One thing that Monday has done unbelievably well, and we spoke about it last time, was the customer acquisition machine you've built on SEO, content, YouTube.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:56 Jerry Murdock I mean, that just, I mean, look, you can say there's a billion users on their other properties like YouTube and things.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:22 Jason Lemkin And as of the last 45 days, you can watch an incredible short on YouTube that was entirely AI generated where you can watch Star Wars stories that are better than the crappy last three movies that are AI generated. 4 times in the scene
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 1:36:46 Jason Lemkin Get us to a 100,000 verified, uh, uh, YouTubes per episode.
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
- ▶ 11:28 Omer Shai On YouTube, social activity, some competitions that we're doing, and we're measuring eventually everything that we're doing.
- ▶ 19:42 Omer Shai and I'm doing YouTube
- ▶ 27:14 Omer Shai For example, one of our product, we weren't sure that the YouTube activity that we're doing
- ▶ 29:16 Omer Shai So compared to other activities, search is something that I'm measuring specifically by TRIs that I'm comfortable in compared to let's say a YouTube or social or LinkedIn or different other social activity that we're there.
- ▶ 33:18 Harry Stebbings Do you break channels down to specific people and allocate three to SEO, four to YouTube, three to TikTok, or do you have a blended across to make it a more cohesive unit?
20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings And spent five years as the director of product management at Google, where check this out, he was responsible for all of YouTube's applications.
- ▶ 29:24 Noam Lovinsky Like one of my favorite examples of that, and this is more from like YouTube as a platform and the definition that 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:39 Harry Stebbings Leaders over the years, as we said, from YouTube to Google to Meta to Thumbtack, you can't choose Shashir, by the way.
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:35 Alex Rampell I mean, I think this is where behind every technology revolution and kind of go back to like Silicon, then the personal computer, then the internet, then kind of internet two point O where you could write to the internet, things like…
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 31:38 Luke Harries Yes, and we've actually just hired our first in-house creator, whose only job is to create TikToks, YouTube videos, Instagram shorts, YouTube shorts for 11 Labs, and the way we actually hired this guy is, if you typed in 11 Labs on… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:38 Luke Harries Yes, and we've actually just hired our first in-house creator, whose only job is to create TikToks, YouTube videos, Instagram shorts, YouTube shorts for 11 Labs, and the way we actually hired this guy is, if you typed in 11 Labs on…
- ▶ 42:01 Harry Stebbings I also always think that just because you focus on one channel, speaking, say, at events, doesn't mean you can't go multi-channel with that, and so I would be like, hey, how do we get video editors to go to every single thing that he does,…
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:46 Jason Calacanis And yeah, we're going to, this is like when, when they all take, uh, all the content creators take stuff offline on YouTube or cable, like it's a negotiation. 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:08 Rory O'Driscoll Netflix will say, zoom out, call this entertainment, take into account YouTube, take into account broadcast TV, we're still teeny tiny, push it through.
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
- ▶ 35:47 Federico Simionato You can, you can look at our YouTube videos.
- ▶ 58:08 Federico Simionato But YouTube, Android, Google search, all the AI stuff that they're doing, it's just like theme park world for APM, I think.
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 5:40 Tim Ferriss A lot of time on algorithms on YouTube as a driver of growth.
- ▶ 6:49 Tim Ferriss It probably would not have been, it wouldn't have been YouTube.
- ▶ 12:37 Tim Ferriss If your business is predicated on CPMs from ad dollars from YouTube, okay, maybe that is a real metric.
- ▶ 13:04 Tim Ferriss I've had clips, shorts, that have exceeded a hundred million views.
- ▶ 1:05:29 Tim Ferriss There's 700 shows on YouTube that do roughly the same thing, maybe in a different way, but at the time it was novel, so it was a special place for people who are looking for that.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:08 David Cahn Think about YouTube selling for a billion dollars.
20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 22:54 Sandy Diao We came across this accidentally when oftentimes in the early days of Descript, we had these customers who loved us so much that they would actually publish a full length tutorial and review video on channels like YouTube.
- ▶ 32:39 Sandy Diao I'm not necessarily going to see users come in because they watched the video on YouTube, but you can use that as a conversion engine for all these different surfaces, and the payback on that is going to be a much longer period of time.
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 9:13 Harry Stebbings They have, they have YouTube.
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:38 Andrew Feldman Maybe YouTube changed it a little bit in that you had different instructors.
20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky
- ▶ 30:41 Ketty Slonimski Discord, Reddit, YouTube following.
- ▶ 52:33 Ketty Slonimski YouTube. 6 times in the scene
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:49 unnamed speaker I believe the early offers on YouTube were significantly lower and the,
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:23 unnamed speaker Since when it competed with YouTube.
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:23 Brendan Foody Like my parents preconceived notions is that they didn't have YouTube.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:06 Jason Lemkin This isn't even stealing YouTube videos like OpenAI did.
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:30 Mati Staniszewski YouTube doesn't support it.
- ▶ 25:36 Mati Staniszewski Our friends from YouTube community that then posted on Discord that we are opening this up.
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
- ▶ 13:16 Harry Stebbings Oh, and by the way, you've got, you know, the SCG, the cricket ground in Australia who wanna buy YouTube, but you've gotta fly out to them.
- ▶ 52:48 Alex Schultz Fine, some of that was either hiring in the pandemic, but a ton of it was also like, we hit this air gap where we were doing exactly the right thing of bringing in this new field of reels, or shorts as YouTube call it, or whatever, but we…
- ▶ 52:48 Alex Schultz Fine, some of that was either hiring in the pandemic, but a ton of it was also like, we hit this air gap where we were doing exactly the right thing of bringing in this new field of reels, or shorts as YouTube call it, or whatever, but we…
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:57 unnamed speaker What best design product to make YouTube thumb? 2 times in the scene
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:29 Edwin Chen And so YouTube's videos are way higher quality and more engaging in the end.
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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
- ▶ 51:05 Kieran Flanagan What that's really helping us to do is expand our YouTube footprint in non-English countries much, much quicker, and it's working really well. 2 times in the scene
Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:14 Scott Galloway Would we have a more robust economy if we broke up Alphabet and YouTube was its own company? 2 times in the scene
20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo
20Sales: From $2M ARR to $40M ARR: The Playbook | How to Use AI To Supercharge Your Sales Team | Why Pipeline Reviews are BS | The Sales Call Script that Closes 99% of Prospects and How to Hire the Best Sales Reps with Kyle Norton, CRO @ Owner
- ▶ 32:58 Kyle Norton And he was like, we're all in on YouTube. 3 times in the scene
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 32:40 Luke Harries Yes, and we've actually just hired our first in-house creator, whose only job is to create TikToks, YouTube videos, Instagram shorts, YouTube shorts for 11 Labs, and the way we actually hired this guy is, if you typed in 11 Labs on… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:05 Harry Stebbings Focus on one channel, speaking, say, at events, doesn't mean you can't go multi-channel with that, and so I would be like, hey, how do we get video editors to go to every single thing that he does, get him speaking for, I don't know, 10 a…
20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita
- ▶ 7:22 unnamed speaker My manager at YouTube
- ▶ 26:21 Harry Stebbings We don't do YouTube.
- ▶ 55:41 unnamed speaker One of them is a mentor of mine who is now CEO of Grammarly, and he's the lead product at YouTube, Shashir.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:07 Jason Lemkin Well, you know, I want to hear what Rory thinks, but I, I watch a lot of YouTube and they have, and they have movies and boy, the room came up.
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
- ▶ 46:34 Mayur Gupta YouTube. 3 times in the scene
20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
- ▶ 27:11 Ishan Mukherjee Second is when you think about how you train onboard folks, it's very similar to schools versus teaching your kids through YouTube, which is you got to completely change how you train people by making it more kind of AI enabled and so that…
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Now, if you like the show, it makes a huge difference if you like and subscribe, and you can find this episode on iTunes, on Spotify, and on YouTube.
Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:52 Yamini Rangan On YouTube, they're on Instagram, they're on, you know, other, you know, TikTok, and they're on LinkedIn, and you need to be where your customers are, not just expect them to come to where you are, which is your digital, you know,…
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:24 Mike Krieger Or is Gemini better for being able to train on, on YouTube?
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:26 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is someone's really been working hard on the YouTube, the Instagram, the SEO, and you say, George,
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