Seattle, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Seattle comes up
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 0:38 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 0:49 David Rosenthal But today, Ben, you are hosting me at your lovely home here in Seattle.
- ▶ 5:53 Ben Gilbert Like, there's two nights in Seattle here.
- ▶ 57:07 Ben Gilbert At this point, it's almost a MacGuffin, where, like, it's like Seattle's NBA team.
- ▶ 1:44:37 David Rosenthal It was somewhere up, uh, like North gate or somewhere like North of Seattle and like, but
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:54 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 1:45:06 Ben Thompson It's really interesting to consider, like, the different cultures between Seattle and San Francisco.
- ▶ 1:45:10 Ben Thompson Seattle just
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01 Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 0:40 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 0:55 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 11:05 Ben Gilbert Medina side, Seattle side, LA.
- ▶ 11:08 Peter Fenton We've been in LA, we've been in Seattle.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 0:54 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 1:04:21 Ben Gilbert And of course, then they get to Prime, and they get to Prime now, and now they're trying to do one day Prime, and all sorts of things can happen the same day if you're spoiled like me and live in Seattle.
- ▶ 3:10:51 Ben Gilbert Who you introduced me to in 2013, 20 14, when he was visiting Seattle.
- ▶ 3:11:03 Ben Gilbert Somewhere in Pioneer Square in Seattle.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 0:49 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 25:05 David Rosenthal Tim O'Reilly flies up to Seattle and meets with Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 27:12 David Rosenthal Uh, Tim and O'Reilly, he invites Tim up regularly to Seattle, has him speak at all hands within the company, evangelize this idea of web two dot O and APIs within Amazon.
- ▶ 1:11:02 David Rosenthal So Chris is actually from South Africa, and right around this same time, he and his family wanna move back to South Africa, leave Seattle, move back to Cape Town in South Africa.
- ▶ 1:12:41 David Rosenthal Bradstone writes in the everything store quote EC two was born in isolation with Pinkham talking to his colleagues in Seattle only sporadically
- ▶ 1:47:08 Ben Gilbert And of course, one of their buildings in Seattle is that, you know, when the sound waves like get bunched up or spread out, like when a siren goes by, it's the Doppler effect and redshift is the light equivalent.
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 0:36 Ben Gilbert I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 0:26 Ben Gilbert Tom also had such a huge impact on Seattle and really the whole technology ecosystem helping to build the law firm Perkins Coie and the telecommunications firms Western Wireless and Macaw Cellular that really make up a large part of the…
- ▶ 1:38 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 10:37 Ben Gilbert I had some conversation with you in maybe 20 14 about how you basically owned Amazon stock by owning Seattle real estate and you were doubly long Amazon with your very concentrated holdings in the company and owning your house in Seattle.
- ▶ 10:52 David Rosenthal The only time I've ever sold any meaningful amount was to buy our first Seattle house because I needed the capital for the down payment.
- ▶ 44:45 Ben Gilbert A convenient one-day drive or less half-day drive from Seattle.
- ▶ 47:45 Ben Gilbert Someone sort of just interviewed him right outside the conference.
- ▶ 1:01:15 Ben Gilbert Seattle's obviously one of them of a candidate city in part because of its proximity to Roseburg, Oregon.
- ▶ 1:01:24 Ben Gilbert But anyway, they end up deciding on Seattle.
- ▶ 1:06:18 David Rosenthal Seattle is the obvious choice.
- ▶ 1:06:31 Ben Gilbert Seattle's population has been going crazy, especially with people with unbelievably high disposable income, and so you would not want to in this day and age.
- ▶ 1:06:52 David Rosenthal Jeff had zero connection to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:06:56 David Rosenthal I was exactly the same way when I came to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:07:15 David Rosenthal And instead of going due west to California, they go northwest to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:09:41 David Rosenthal He's moving up to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:27:24 David Rosenthal This was the era of grunge in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:31:14 David Rosenthal So they raised that one million dollar round from a bunch of kind of local business folks in Seattle, of which Tom is one and one of the most involved in the company.
- ▶ 1:37:28 Ben Gilbert She's not going to move to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:41:00 Ben Gilbert It is worth highlighting this period of time, this 94 to 97, this pre-going public time, even though they had the imprimatur, as you put it, David, of Kleiner Perkins, and even though they were located in Seattle near Microsoft, and even…
- ▶ 1:51:49 David Rosenthal Well, all of a sudden, this little company in Seattle is filed to go public.
- ▶ 1:52:24 David Rosenthal The Reggio brothers, when Amazon files for an IPO, they fly out to Seattle and they schedule a dinner with Jeff and Jeff brings along Tom is Tom.
- ▶ 1:55:04 David Rosenthal So, uh, these two, like, you know, tough New York guys, they're like, where are you coming to this nerd out in Seattle?
- ▶ 2:13:19 David Rosenthal And Pierre fly up to Seattle.
- ▶ 2:13:32 David Rosenthal They fly up to Seattle to meet with Bezos and Blackbird.
- ▶ 2:13:43 David Rosenthal Jeff and Jeff take them on a tour of the Seattle Fulfillment Center, and Pierre's like, he's such an, like, engineer.
- ▶ 2:23:32 David Rosenthal You gotta move up to Seattle.
- ▶ 2:23:37 David Rosenthal We'll move up to Seattle.
- ▶ 2:35:01 Ben Gilbert By the way, while he's commuting back to the East Coast every single weekend, rather than being on the ground in Seattle.
- ▶ 3:05:22 David Rosenthal They fly up to Seattle and they meet with Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 3:23:43 David Rosenthal Seattle hometown heroes.
- ▶ 4:01:58 Ben Gilbert The fact that for decades, most of the best entrepreneurial talent in Seattle just stayed at Amazon.
- ▶ 4:02:05 Ben Gilbert And the knock on Seattle for so many years was that, you know, thank God Amazon's a pretty big kind of bureaucratic company at this point, and people are leaving to start companies.
- ▶ 4:02:17 Ben Gilbert Totally.
- ▶ 4:14:34 Ben Gilbert Seattle's whole startup ecosystem.
From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:40 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 0:41 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 2:30 David Rosenthal San Francisco, Seattle.
- ▶ 21:36 David Rosenthal First house we lived in in Seattle was a Sears catalog home.
- ▶ 1:13:33 David Rosenthal Costco was a merger of Costco in Seattle, in the Northwest, with Price Club,
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 0:30 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 46:54 Ben Gilbert Like, AWS got probably a five-year lead on cloud by piling people on the plane from Seattle, going down to the Bay Area, evangelizing like crazy to all these startups.
- ▶ 50:58 Ben Gilbert We had Jim Weber, the CEO, on stage with us for our arena show a couple weeks back in Seattle.
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:49 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 46:57 Ben Gilbert Oh, Seattle is far worse at this.
- ▶ 47:00 David Rosenthal Seattle is far worse than that.
- ▶ 47:11 David Rosenthal I think, yes, that is Goshen Silicon Valley, definitely in Seattle, but people are proud of the companies that they've built and the size of like my company did a hundred million in revenue, or I get a unicorn status valuation.
- ▶ 52:09 David Rosenthal You're not, you know, here in California anymore or Seattle or the West Coast.
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:48 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 1:15 David Rosenthal and I'm an angel investor today back home in San Francisco, but man, what a special day that was in Seattle.
- ▶ 5:06 Ben Gilbert So I think a lot of people are probably familiar with this brand, especially in Seattle, especially if you are a runner, but the story of this business is absolutely unbelievable and extremely under told until now.
- ▶ 36:11 Jim Weber I pitched us, we're the crazy uncle out in Seattle.
- ▶ 55:12 Jim Weber So we now are executing retail partnerships with the best retailers for running gear to runners at Super Jack and Jill in Seattle, um, Fleet Feet Running down in, I think, Menlo Park.
- ▶ 1:08:28 Ben Gilbert We're so pumped to get to share it with you for all those of you who can't travel to Seattle.
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 2:15 Ben Gilbert PitchBook is, uh, PitchBook is Seattle's, like, monster amazing business hiding in plain sight, and it's been really cool to get to know their team more and more and more, uh, and understand the business and, uh, just learn how on four…
- ▶ 3:10 Ben Gilbert Tonight we have Jim Weber, the CEO of Brooks Running, another Seattle monster business that we're very excited to talk to you about.
- ▶ 5:07 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Woo!
- ▶ 5:20 David Rosenthal And I'm David Rosenthal, and most days I'm an angel investor based in San Francisco, but today I'm an angel investor based in Seattle.
- ▶ 15:34 Packy McCormick Not gonna do that, because we're all the way out in Seattle.
- ▶ 18:31 Packy McCormick Because we're in Seattle, and Opendoor vanquished a Seattle company, Zillow's iBuying program,
- ▶ 20:20 David Rosenthal Uh, what about, um, Redfin is still in the market, another great Seattle company.
- ▶ 21:10 Packy McCormick Like, it does remind you of another Seattle company, Amazon, uh, in that, like, that you really need to get your costs right, and they're the best by far at doing that.
- ▶ 42:08 Matt Spitz I'm taking advantage of not having children this week and doing an 18 hour turn and burn to Seattle.
- ▶ 48:12 David Rosenthal So, um, uh, Pat Monahan, I think the lead singer of Train, obviously a San Francisco band, I think he wrote that song because he moved up here to Seattle.
- ▶ 48:27 David Rosenthal Yeah, so when YC is, you know, ready to move up to Seattle.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:46 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 3:48 Ben Gilbert Many of you have already RSVP'd, but if you have not, we would love to see you at our arena show in Seattle.
- ▶ 2:03:51 Ben Gilbert Excited to see Shu, uh, as well at the Seattle Arena Show.
- ▶ 2:13:41 Ben Gilbert If you're contemplating coming to Seattle on May fourth, we would love to see you there.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:11 Ben Gilbert At Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, we are here tonight to announce the very first guest that will be joining us for that show.
- ▶ 0:29 Ben Gilbert We wanted to have a really fun local Seattle success story, but I think most people have no idea the magnitude of the success story here or Jim's personal story.
- ▶ 0:55 David Rosenthal Local Seattle story.
- ▶ 2:28 David Rosenthal If you live in Seattle, definitely come.
- ▶ 2:29 David Rosenthal If you don't live in Seattle, Alaska Air has great great flights to SeaTac.
- ▶ 3:05 Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:30 Ben Gilbert Save the date of May fourth, Star Wars Day, for something in Seattle, Washington, and we hope to be able to see you in person.
- ▶ 1:16 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
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