Birmingham, every mention
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How I Built This 16
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 8
My First Million 5
20VC 3
Top Founders 2
Big Technology 2
the a16z Podcast 2
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every year every show How I Built This 16 WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 8 My First Million 5 20VC 3 Top Founders 2 the a16z Podcast 2 Big Technology 2 
Founders 1 
the Pitch 1 
Cheeky Pint 1 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 Capital Allocators 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Birmingham comes up on How I Built This, WTF is with Nikhil Kamath, My First Million, 20VC, Top Founders
Advice Line with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar
- ▶ 19:52 unnamed speaker Leicester, Nottingham, kind of Birmingham. 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
- ▶ 1:26:29 Josh Browder So I tell my friends in the US, if you drive from here to Birmingham, uh, which is a city, um, north of here, for, for those who don't know, um, too quickly, it's not about if you go past a speed camera too quickly, um, if you get there…
Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Power, Identity & Why Patience Beats Ambition | Nikhil | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:24:33 Nikhil Kamath I don't remember what book I was reading this in, but at one point in time in UK's history, Birmingham was the center of innovation. 2 times in the scene
He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
- ▶ 20:36 Ryan Anderson And I got, I got on a plane and flew to Birmingham, Alabama and met with this law firm and, uh, sold the three person deal.
Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition
- ▶ 4:19 Kanishka Narayan Uh, and so we've forgotten the fact that James Watson, both Glasgow and Birmingham, discovered the steam engine and then powered the modern industrial revolution.
Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
- ▶ 3:38 Guy Raz He grew up in the 19 nineties and early 2000 near Birmingham in England's Midlands.
- ▶ 13:28 Guy Raz There's one other bit of context that I want to, I'm curious about, which is Birmingham, I think, and maybe I'm wrong with this, is sort of, is sort of like the center of bodybuilding culture in the UK a little bit. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:25 Guy Raz So, it's interesting, because most of these guys would walk down the streets of Birmingham or wherever, and nobody would have any idea who they were.
- ▶ 48:38 Guy Raz Like, there's media attention, there's interest, like, what is this UK brand that, you know, started in Birmingham?
India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 15:15 Nikhil Kamath When you look back at things like customs duty or tariffs, back in the day when, say, the British had the industrial revolution originating from Birmingham, the reason why things like that could happen is 2 times in the scene
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
- ▶ 1:18:08 Sachin Kansal It's, uh, it's, uh, Irish family that's in a town called Birmingham and they go through all these years and they do all sorts of bad things, but again, it's an amazing story.
Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
- ▶ 40:40 Dr. Clarence B. Jones Now, I was the only person who could go in to see Martin when he was in jail in Birmingham. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Norma Kamali of Norma Kamali
- ▶ 9:08 Ahmed Ejaz And then we're in, we're in negotiations right now to, to open a third store in, in Birmingham.
Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:23 Antoine Le Nel I mean, why, I mean, why would London versus Birmingham would be closer than London versus Paris?
Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan
Startup Funding Competition: Can This Founder Raising Venture Capital Secure a $550M Exit.
- ▶ 0:58 Josh Muccio Today, how Bill Smith, a high school dropout from Birmingham, Alabama, started, scaled, and sold, shipped for five hundred and fifty million dollars in three years.
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
- ▶ 20:37 David Senra He became one of Birmingham's largest employers and then moved into politics and transformed the city.
Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:04 Puneet Goyal One in London, one in Birmingham.
Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:13:42 Nikhil Kamath Like, uh, industrial revolution, which happened in Birmingham many, many years ago.
Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:52:31 Nikhil Kamath Birmingham, whatever.
Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:28:46 Nikhil Kamath You know why the industrial revolution happened in UK, in Birmingham, it started when it happened?
I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
- ▶ 11:34 Miles Copeland yeah, this guy's from Birmingham,
- ▶ 22:14 Miles Copeland The problem was a lot of the groups were so disorganized, they couldn't get to themselves to shows, you know, so I would book Generation X, let's say, in Birmingham. 3 times in the scene
Elon Musk Laid Me Off At Twitter: Simon Balmain
- ▶ 0:53 Simon Balmain Uh, I'm in, I live in Birmingham, which is, uh, in the middle of the country. 2 times in the scene
An Incubator took 25% But Helped These Co-Founders Merge, Raise Seed, and Hit 3 Paying Customers
- ▶ 10:47 Tanavi Ethanandan We're going to the family attractions expo in Birmingham.
How to Network with Billionaires with Andrew Wilkinson | My First Million Ep. #174
Rahul Moodgal - Master Fund Raiser (Capital Allocators, EP.87)
- ▶ 6:46 Rahul Moodgal So I spend four years commuting between three cities, living in the one in the middle, which is Birmingham, studying in London, and then teaching at Kiel, which is sort of in the Midlands, sort of near Manchester.
EP 462: $8.8M 2015 Sales of iPhone Repair Parts with CEO Chris Koerner
- ▶ 13:47 Chris Koerner I raised a million bucks last year from a VC firm in Birmingham.
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
- ▶ 3:45 Doug Scott The angel investing came out about by accident because I was invited to Oxygen's original demo day in Birmingham via a friend.