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Ben Fiechtner: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | E1185 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:01 Ben Fiechtner So I hope it's changed a little bit with the world of zoom.
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:26 Ethan Mollick Like, it's just, the issue is, is that that's where the connections are, and it turns out Zoom only gets you so far. 2 times in the scene
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:55 Cameron Adams but yeah, most of the time they're done over Zoom or through a camera doc.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:55 Matt Clifford I remember being on the initial kickoff call for the 28, you know, I was running this, um, you know, the summit for the prime minister, and there were 28 countries coming, and we did this kickoff call on Zoom, or Teams.
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:59 Samir Vasavada Like, you can't build culture when, you know, people are, you know, all on Zoom all day.
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:49 Harry Stebbings Do you find Zoom board meetings very effective as in person? 4 times in the scene
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:17 Danny Rimer But we felt that was the only way to make sure that we understood body language through Zoom calls and screens by bringing that culture to those new geos.
Janie Lee: Three Core Skills that Make the Best PMs | E1165 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Ashley Kelly: The Playbook to Start and Scale Your SDR Team | E1162 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:14 Ashley Kelly Uh, actual panels, what used to be in person sadly is now over zoom in this new modern world.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:54 Jason Lemkin We see it at Zoom.
- ▶ 56:23 Jason Lemkin Uh, I don't know how some of the zooms will do it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:02 Jason Lemkin True meet, true meet, like true zooms.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:31 Jason Lemkin Um, and, um, but the main thing I just do is I almost immediately do, um, another zoom with the CTO.
- ▶ 16:03 Jason Lemkin I think it may take you 20 of these, uh, Zooms to learn.
Aaron Levie: How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever & Startups vs Incumbents:Who Wins?|E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:00 Aaron Levie Um, we're still enough though that we can literally get on a zoom call and our all hands is like everybody in the company on one call
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:58 Tom Blomfield On Zoom presentations with an investor reception in the evening seems like a really good balance of the two before, uh, of the, you know, all on Zoom versus all in person. 3 times in the scene
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:54 Tom Hulme I remember doing sort of family quizzes on a Sunday night over Zoom, the most dystopian thing I can possibly imagine now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:45 Tom Hulme Like, you and I went for walks during that period, and I remember us joking that we just became, like, we became very efficient at our jobs by doing 30 Zoom calls a day, but actually we'd become efficient at our jobs by taking all the fun… 2 times in the scene
Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:07 Rujul Zaparde Uh, and, uh, and we would, uh, uh, keep a Zoom meeting going, uh, the entire day, because we're in different locations during the pandemic. 4 times in the scene
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:12 Girish Mathrubootham विशेश रूप से COVID के आसपास, जब कंपनी तेजी से ग्रो कर रही थी, तो Zoom platform पर अच्छा माहोल बनाना वाकई कठिन हो जाता था, है न? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:55 Girish Mathrubootham اگلے دو تین سال بہت کٹھن رہی ہیں کوئی بھی آفیس نہیں آرہا لوگ زوم میٹنگ سے زوم میٹنگ میں شفٹ کر رہے ہیں مجھے نہیں پتا تھا مجھے اب بھی نہیں پتا کہ جب کوئی آفیس نہیں آرہا تو سنسکرٹی کیسے بنائی جائے کیا میں تھوڑا عجیب سوال پوچھ سکتا ہوں لیکن…
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:33 Girish Mathrubootham So I think today, if you look at many, many successful PLG companies, whether it's, uh, uh, Atlassian or Slack or, uh, Zoom or, uh, HubSpot,
- ▶ 37:49 Girish Mathrubootham See, I think, ah, in, in pockets as the company grows larger, specifically around COVID, when, ah, it was incredibly hard to build culture on Zoom, right? 2 times in the scene
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:18 Kevin Ryan And we weren't used to doing everything by Zoom at the time.
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:02 Frank Quattrone Zoom has always been a great company, right? 2 times in the scene
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:45 Sami Inkinen To transport your brain from one Zoom meeting to another, that is a very, very poor existence.
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:38 Erik Allebest I am micro dosing on Zoom. 2 times in the scene
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:49 Terrence Rohan So like, this guy can be raising a round, and it's just done in days, and it's just like, the Zoom is done, multi-stage fund done, is it?
- ▶ 41:13 Harry Stebbings You sit in a Zoom, whatever you want to call, a mutual shared
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:29 Brian Halligan I don't have anything beyond the obvious things of do it live, not on Zoom.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:09 Keith Rabois It wasn't good for founders to do Zoom-based investing.
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:51 Jason Lemkin But you, it's got, you, you just have to smell it across the, the zoom or the Riverside, that urgency, it just has to reek.
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:17 Sanjit Biswas So we do zoom calls and it ended up being this really fascinating sort of silver lining because all of a sudden I wouldn't lose like a whole day traveling to see one customer.
- ▶ 29:25 Sanjit Biswas You know, Zoom, screen share.
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:49 Mike Shebat Be on, be on zoom, but like actually be going to, to doing something else.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:46 Harry Stebbings Just use Zoom.
Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:08 Harry Stebbings There are 6000 companies, including Zoom, Siemens, Okta, DocuSign, and many more, who depend on Outreach to power their revenue organizations.
- ▶ 28:37 unnamed speaker But if Chris Dagnan, the chief revenue officer of Snowflake is in town, or I can get a Zoom call with Chris, or Frank Slootman, or Mike Scarpelli, or some senior person within Snowflake, then
- ▶ 56:27 Harry Stebbings There are 6000 companies, including Zoom, Siemens, Okta, DocuSign, and many more, who depend on Outreach to power their revenue organizations.
Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:15 Danny Cohen You know, hopefully that initial meeting or initial Zoom, if you ask the right questions, the holes become pretty clear, and you have a quite quick sense of this, either this isn't ready or this isn't for me full stop.
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:53 Jason Lemkin And you know, it's funny when I started investing 10 years ago, and I remember when Slack and Zoom took off, I was like, I didn't see them.
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:13 Michael Eisenberg let's just say customer meetings have been canceled, uh, for the most part, or moved to Zoom.
- ▶ 42:25 Michael Eisenberg He joined by Zoom from the border of Gaza, uh, to celebrate, and there was giant singing.
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:14 Scott Farquhar There's so many people being dragged into the workplace and commuting in two hours each way to turn up to a desk and sit on a zoom call.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:32 Phin Barnes Maybe you ask your daughter to clean up because you need to go and get back online and do a zoom or email.
Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:48 Marc Benioff Like I was just with a customer before we had this conversation and I'm in my zoom room here
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:40 Jason Lemkin I'm the number three investor, but put the zoom together
- ▶ 41:22 Jason Lemkin I like it when I'm already want to invest before the zoom starts.
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:58 Jason Lemkin I was literally on a zoom yesterday with the founder.
Lori Jiménez: How to Increase Sales; Hiring Tips from Google; Best Way to Grow Sales Teams | E1043 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:42 Lori Jiménez Let's, for the sake of the exercise, say we've hired someone that has really, that is curious, that really cares and is interested in that person on the other end of the Zoom call, right?
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:23 Marcelo Claure You're a lot bigger than in Zoom.
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:19 Sheel Mohnot And then they were like, Hey, just get on a zoom call with us. 2 times in the scene
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:25 Harry Stebbings But Zoom is like bringing happiness.
Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:08 Clément Delangue AI was used on Zoom to remove your backgrounds.
20Sales: How to Scale a Career While Scaling a Family; Work-Life Balance; Parental Leave | E1012 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15 Stevie Case We'll do a Zoom session.
- ▶ 13:07 Lauren Schwartz We have a Zoom access to rehearsal so I can actually listen in while I'm traveling so that I can accomplish both what's expected of me in my job and also continuing to work music for upcoming concerts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:21 Stevie Case Your child is going to show up on camera during Zoom calls.
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:54 Chris Paik And I think in retrospect, in hindsight, I just got very lucky that rising tide lifts all boats and, you know, New York and other cities, um, anywhere that wasn't Silicon Valley also benefited greatly from globalization and internet and…
Mark Goldberger: The Ultimate Guide to Enterprise Sales | E1003 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:21 Mark Goldberger I was competing against Zoom, and this was before the pandemic when, when selling video conferencing was maybe a little bit harder.
- ▶ 31:09 Mark Goldberger Can you take duct tape, chewing gum, and a Zoom link, and MacGyver a seven-figure closed one deal, right?
- ▶ 39:56 Mark Goldberger If you were selling zoom at the time, it was a pretty easy job. 2 times in the scene
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:34 Scooter Braun We started doing Zooms every week privately. 2 times in the scene
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:28 Tobi Lütke It's actually much more shared experience if everyone's in their own square on a zoom call.
Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:48 Jag Duggal You're trying to be inclusive and particularly in a zoom world.
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:31 Adam Grenier You want it to be something that you can add fuel when you need that fuel, whether that's because you're Zoom, and there was a pandemic, and you're like, oh crap, like, we need to go win the market right now, like, move as fast as…
- ▶ 54:00 Adam Grenier Uh, but we, we didn't, like, have, like, Zoom calls, and then just, like, random phone numbers would just show up on our Zoom calls, and we'd be like, oh, we gotta hang up, get into a new Zoom room, like, things like that, where it's just… 3 times in the scene
David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:37 David Tisch Uh, sort of the shift to, to zoom.
Stevie Case: World's First Female Pro Gamer; Hiring Tips for Sales; PLG vs Enterprise | 20VC #970 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:19 Stevie Case You know, everybody's on zoom, 24, seven.
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:43 Jason Lemkin We're not going to see Zoom go from one to four billion in one year ever again.
20VC Special: How To Fundraise Like a Pro: How to Size and Price a Round, How to Create FOMO and Urgency in a Fundraise, How to Structure Angel Allocations, The 7 Deadly Sins of Fundraising Decks, The 3 Signs a Potential Investor is Bad News
- ▶ 6:45 Harry Stebbings Speaking of the way you present, if you're doing a Zoom call and it's a first meeting, do not have more than two people on the call from your team.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:53 Jason Lemkin Uh, it, it makes it harder to invest over Zoom when you won't cut certain corners, right?
- ▶ 1:00:10 Harry Stebbings How do you feel about the need to meet in person in this Zoom invested world? 2 times in the scene
20 Sales: The Ultimate Guide to Sales Onboarding for New Sales Reps and Sales Leaders, The Biggest Red Flags in the First 30 Days & What Can Be Done to Set Them Up for Success with Leaders from Figma, Dropbox, Miro and more.
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings From the likes of Figma, Notion, Loom, Zoom, Miro, and more, and founders, if you have sales reps and you want to get the best out of them from day one, this is for you.
Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:07 Cathie Wood Uh, only three are Tesla, Zoom, and I'm talking about our public portfolios, uh, Tesla, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:56 Cathie Wood When I think about metaverse, I think about Zoom. 3 times in the scene
Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:52 Martin Escobari You can't tell on Zoom, but I have a rather big head.
Brian Singerman: How I Became a Partner at Founders Fund, Why We Put $400M into Anduril | 20VC #943 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:48 Brian Singerman Now that that's over and now that people are meeting back in person, great.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:29 Emil Michael It could be for 20 minutes on a zoom.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:35 Drew Houston And so, um, we're all using a ton of different tools is that we have very fragmented experience, you know, under the zoom window here is just total mayhem, a hundred tabs open.
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:50 Harry Stebbings Does Zoom and COVID change the way that you do these sessions and these, like, you know, debates? 2 times in the scene
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:19 Paul Davison Why did Zoom work?
- ▶ 15:19 Paul Davison And I think, you know, like I was saying shopping, it was Amazon and dating was Tinder and meetings with zoom.
- ▶ 20:46 Paul Davison Like if you think about a zoom concert, wouldn't be really fun because the experience of being there is such a part of it.
David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:37 Harry Stebbings Do you think Zoom helped that? 3 times in the scene
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
Calendly CPO Annie Pearl: Hiring Advice for Product; Calendly's Second Product | 20VC #921 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:22 Annie Pearl Asana or Zoom, you know, at some point they, they have to add on that sort of direct selling motion to complement the PLG business.
Kieran Flanagan: Hiring Tips for Growth; North Star Metrics; Hubspot's Mistake | 20VC #916 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:49 Kieran Flanagan We all have to schedule time and put the Zoom link in and actually interact with each other through these kind of video chats.
20VC: The Memo: What is a Sales Playbook? Does the Founder Need to Create It? Should the First Sales Hire Be a Leader or a Rep?
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings To answer these two core questions, we have sales leaders from Dropbox, Loom, Asana, Zoom,
- ▶ 9:34 Harry Stebbings I had Mitch Tarika from Zoom on, and I've had some prior guests on the show who say, always start with a head of sales.
- ▶ 27:24 Harry Stebbings And last, but by no means least, I'm thrilled to welcome Mitch Tarika, head of America's sales at Zoom. 2 times in the scene
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:27 Tony Fadell We didn't have Zoom and social networks.
- ▶ 44:20 Tony Fadell Outside of zoom meetings, you're most likely not going to be the person who gets the promotion or that bonus or whatever.
Sam Taylor: How I Became VP of Sales at Loom; Lessons from Dropbox | 20VC #908 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:23 unnamed speaker Um, so I'd say iterative for us as we've scaled the team, just because we've moved from being, there being four sellers a year and a half ago, we can all just sit in the proverbial zoom room and break it down together to, um, broader…