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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 37:12 Cliff Weitzman Either you want a ton of money, or you want a lot of credibility in B to B like Zoom did, or you're hiring, and the value of the package that you offer is so much better when your stock is liquid.
- ▶ 38:13 Cliff Weitzman So you do a Zoom screen share, and you show them how the best engineer in the team is orchestrating agents, and they're like, oh, wow, I didn't know you could even do that. 3 times in the scene
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 27:41 Julien Bek And probably for five decades, we've been doing Monday ICs, um, in person or on now on zoom.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:04:18 Jason Lemkin Like, I would just end the, end the Zoom with Wall Street if they didn't like what I was doing at Revolut.
- ▶ 1:23:05 Jason Lemkin But getting rid of collaborative free seats, which is how we all grew up using zoom, right?
Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:43 Clay Bavor And it's different when your connection to that amazing team is via a Brady bunch of Zoom squares.
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:33 Harry Stebbings I don't actually really do Zooms anymore, because I just, A, find that the quality of interaction is so low, and B, find I'm so disengaged.
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:50 Harry Stebbings Jump on a Zoom call, lacking clarity.
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:56 unnamed speaker There it, and I'm, listen, we can talk about what it's actually having just, uh, begun to build an app while we're on this zoom, uh, or this, uh, whatever.
- ▶ 1:09:02 unnamed speaker They don't, and they don't create files on Dropbox and they don't hop on zoom. 2 times in the scene
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:54 Harry Stebbings One of the worst things for me exactly there is like when three people come to a Zoom call in particular, and it's like, we have 30 minutes. 3 times in the scene
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:40 Patrick Forquer Getting on site is super critical because people don't pay attention on Zoom.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:53 Cliff Weitzman The second thing I learned is once we would get on a Zoom call, we'd chat, and there was one thing that always succeeded, which is I have listened to a hundred books a year, every year for the last 15 years.
- ▶ 37:44 Cliff Weitzman And so send me screenshots, and I will get people on a Zoom call, screen share the entire engineering, and I'll show them how I use it.
- ▶ 1:35:47 Cliff Weitzman We got on a Zoom call.
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:40 Rory O'Driscoll Just to push a little bit on the positive on Atlassian again, because I actually, I think you're changing to go, because I thought your other rule was not new customers, but the, which obviously is the best of all, but I don't think it's… 2 times in the scene
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:39 unnamed speaker Every week, multiple Zooms, multiple calls, and there are exceptions, for sure, but I would say, here's why I'm pessimistic and why I think that the drawdown is accurate, even though I don't understand the public markets.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:54 unnamed speaker They remember the Peloton addicts of 20, 20 on zoom. 2 times in the scene
This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:16 Sean Boscanian We are doing things, um, you know, on Zoom.
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:53 Gokul Rajaram We'll see if they are the case, but they are these unique products that really open up non-consumption markets, which means that I would never have actually bought a note-taker before, uh, a separate note-taker outside of Zoom or something. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:59 Jason Lemkin No, which will be, is that as soon as this call ends, this, this zoom ends, my AI talks to me.
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:32 Mike Cannon-Brookes I think there were 16 of us that got together, we'd meet on Zoom every single week, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:44 Jason Lemkin I know, but I think, listen, but I think Zoom, I mean, HubSpot and Monday, even Zoom are below the fold.
20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
- ▶ 43:30 Ariel Cohen But we had, you know, during COVID, kind of May, June, July timeframe, a lot of employees leaving to Zoom when they were at their peak, like, and I remember even then I was talking with them 2 times in the scene
Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
- ▶ 25:53 Oren Zeev Uh, I had no doubt that people, because some people were saying, oh, after COVID people are gonna just stop traveling for business and just do everything over Zoom. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:08 Oren Zeev Um, uh, I met them over zoom
- ▶ 1:11:31 unnamed speaker Zoom is gonna continue.
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:53 Winston Weinberg It was a Zoom
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30:00 unnamed speaker They work just as hard, and I got laid off from Zoom, and I, it's been 12 months.
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:26 Jason Lemkin When your AI names itself, like mine did over the holidays, Ren, when it's running 24 seven, when it knows everything that's happened, not just your granola, which does your Zooms, it knows what happened in my personal life, it knows my…
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:29 Matt Fitzpatrick It can't just be, um, you know, someone in a zoom screen in New York.
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:27 unnamed speaker One year of Zoom. 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:20 Harry Stebbings You know, Zoom, Zoom has many more engineers. 4 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 12:14 Federico Simionato And since during COVID people were used to doing things on zoom or on video calls, we were like, yeah, let's put
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:30 Jonathan Siddharth Like during like the COVID era, like the, one of the tools that sort of spiked was like this, uh, it was basically like a speakerphone for like having conference, um, having better distributed team Zoom meetings.
20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency
- ▶ 1:01:59 John McMahon And gut feel is something that's really difficult to do, at least for me to do, over Zoom.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:08 unnamed speaker So a whole bunch of corporate America will just go with that, especially, you know, it's like the, it's like the Zoom versus Teams discussion and there'll be bundled people.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:24 David Cahn When Sequoia invested in Zoom, they didn't want to raise capital, right?
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:37 unnamed speaker You know, when you looked at the growth rate for Zoom in twenty-twenty-one and early twenty-twenty-two, people, what do you think was going to happen? 2 times in the scene
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:01 Alex Bouaziz Like, on Zoom without meeting any of our investors.
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
- ▶ 1:01:51 Zach Lloyd It's like, get, get rid of the black box in Zoom is like a very interesting, it just makes the product experience so much better, so I like it.
Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:24 Mike Cannon-Brookes We have HRS systems and CRM systems and project management systems and lots of communication systems from Zoom and Slack and all the things, right?
20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
- ▶ 50:37 Chris Degnan Zoom does not tell you what's happening in an office.
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:06 unnamed speaker I want to, I want to see zoom back.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:05 Jason Lemkin I mean, you look, do you even get a meeting with Dario or do you just get, you probably just get a zoom.
- ▶ 1:09:26 Harry Stebbings Jeff, I'm sure you're in, I'm sure you have consistently over the years spent time with a generation of public company CEOs and founders from your Atlassians, to your Zooms, to your Mongos, to your Octas, to your boxes, to your Dropboxes,…
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:09 Harry Stebbings Snowflake, Mongo, Box, Elastic, Okta, Zoom. 4 times in the scene
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:52 unnamed speaker I'm glad to see that just literally this week, we were seeing Mongo, um, even Okta, which had been struggling, Box, um, last, the other day, Zoom, which is, you know, which is not exactly a rocket ship anywhere, but seeing growth…
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:29 Jason Lemkin No one wants to see Zoom's revenue EPS go down.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:11 unnamed speaker The best example of that is, let's take it, Zoom, a company I love and so wish I'd done. 2 times in the scene
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:21 Jason Lemkin But on the other hand, you know, it has a privileged position at Zoom, but Otter AI just announced across a hundred million in revenue, right?
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
- ▶ 15:27 unnamed speaker That was like a big Zoom chat moment of like, everyone's like, whoa.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:23 Rory O'Driscoll Do you use Zoom?
- ▶ 1:18:03 Jason Lemkin That's still struggling to, to, to, to, to, to get their zoom, zoom webinar working.
20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
- ▶ 46:07 Eleonore Crespo And we were lucky because that was just post-COVID where all of our customers were on Zoom.
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:30 Jason Lemkin I have some time and I'm just not the, I'm just not this zoom guy.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:27 unnamed speaker So, you know, anyone who needed a Zoom account or a DocuSign account has a DocuSign account, because they all got on COVID.
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
- ▶ 6:45 Jason Lemkin Now, would you grow, would you grow at the, you know, would you go from one to four million in a year like Zoom did, right? 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:44 Mitchell Green Um, we, we, I do think, I do think like a company like Zoom went public because they're, you know, it's a very profitable business growing fast. 3 times in the scene
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings Peter, we last did this on Zoom.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14 Harry Stebbings Um, but I wanted to start with Zoom. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:27 Jake Saper I mean, in the Zoom case, it's a great example.
- ▶ 10:08 Jake Saper That fund, I believe was fund three, which is the same fund that, uh, has Zoom. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:11 Jake Saper Um, but the thesis was during COVID everyone's working out from home and these people need a business in a box to help them run their own show so they can do it on zoom, et cetera.
- ▶ 24:05 Harry Stebbings I do want to go back to the element you mentioned about Zoom, which was freaking nuts, which was a hundred X revenue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Jake Saper When you have seven people doing it or 12 people doing it, and you have one quarterback who's the, the diligence lead, which is the role I played at Zoom, pulling it all together.
- ▶ 37:04 Jake Saper I think the other thing that really helped with that, that given that my partners weren't able to take that same sunburn walk with me, is Alex and Rebecca, his co-founder, did one-on-one Zoom calls with every one of my partners.
- ▶ 45:36 Jake Saper But in Zoom's case, obviously, um, you know, there was a, uh, an increase in, um, in the use of video conferencing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:20 Jake Saper I mean, we did zoom at 10%, right?
- ▶ 1:09:49 Jake Saper The best fund thus far is the Zoom fund, which is our fund three.
- ▶ 1:10:23 Jake Saper When do we sell Zoom?
- ▶ 1:13:58 Harry Stebbings Including Zoom? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:54 Jake Saper I mean, I think like obviously being involved with Zoom very early was, was huge.
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:40 Oscar Pierre All hands or zoom call where you say something, uh, you're talking about values.
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:36 Solly Solomou So I remember sitting on the sofa with my wife and little boy who, I think he was about two years old at the time, and ringing the bell on the sofa on this Zoom multi kind of, it was madness.
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:18 Max Levchin And so the notion of everybody back in the office, even if all of your meetings are on zoom, because you're talking to our team in Madrid from San Francisco, it's hard to make that argument. 3 times in the scene
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:37 Nabeel Hyatt It's kind of the worst version of venture, uh, of what I really didn't want startups to become, which is everything was pushing to Zoom. 2 times in the scene
Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:45 Wayne Ting Every day we wake up, we kick off a Zoom meeting with the entire executive team.
- ▶ 50:20 Wayne Ting I think it's called Visionary Leadership, and to his credit, somebody introduced us, and he spent two hours over Zoom just listening to me complaining about all the challenges I faced, and he just was so thoughtful in the response that he…
Carlos Delatorre, CRO @Harness: Why Every Sales Rep Should Do Pipeline Generation | E1251 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:07 Carlos Delatorre Is it something that they can learn on a zoom call?
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:08 Harry Stebbings Raised two rounds of financing with clothes hanging behind him on Zoom.
- ▶ 14:41 George Sivulka I actually was trying to pitch one of my former bosses at a professional services firm, uh, and he looked at me on the Zoom call, and he almost cried.
- ▶ 15:35 George Sivulka Uh, and I get on the Zoom call, and I've, I've literally got, like, clothes hanging behind me, and they're, like, all of a sudden, Mike shows up, and then four other partners, and then 80 partners, and, like, the Zoom screen tessellates… 2 times in the scene
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:50 Eran Zinman And, uh, it was all on Zoom because before COVID, he used to take like a bright jet and meet investors and do like a bus tour, but it was mostly on Zoom. 2 times in the scene
Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:59 Harry Stebbings Like, like, I hate Zoom.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:37 Mike Maples We did one on Zoom.
- ▶ 39:09 Mike Maples So like Zoom. 2 times in the scene
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:50 Zachary Bookman If you want to build a zoom, you got a 10 X better product.
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:41 Dan Fougere And this is another reason to get out of your office and get off zoom and go to the customer's building and hang out with them and spend time because 58 minute meeting on zoom where everybody else is paying attention. 3 times in the scene
Alain De Botton: Why Status is Making You Miserable & Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:04 Harry Stebbings Zoom is, you know, to make everyone happier.
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:33 Vlad Tenev At least I'd normally be in a studio for are happening over my zoom connection.
- ▶ 50:46 Vlad Tenev And the Zoom call, right?
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:59 David Frankel Next thing, you know, I'm on a Zoom, and he's in San Francisco in a hotel room, and I just come off that Zoom, and I say to my associate, I say, we're dead, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:20 David Frankel So, Jake, uh, sourced Zoom for Emergence, uh, deserves a lot of that credit.
Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:35 Maria Angelidou Like, you don't need to only go to your directs, like, that's, that's really important, and we'll just quickly get on Zoom, and we'll talk about that, as long as you're not, you don't make out of it, like, this whole meeting, and, you…
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:41 Shardul Shah Vlad, who just joined us, um, has an uncanny ability to read body language over Zoom. 2 times in the scene
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:00 David Cahn Zoom, Snowflake, right?
Ben Fiechtner: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | E1185 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:01 Ben Fiechtner Zoom filters work well.
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