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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Zoom comes up
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