Barry McCarthy

Everything Barry McCarthy said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Opinion

Disney is a rare legacy media brand broad enough for DTC subscriptions

“Disney is one of the few examples of a company with a, that had a brand that was umbrella that was broad enough that consumers saw value in the brand broadly enough that they were willing to license the content of subscription model. But many, many, many compa…”

Barry McCarthy Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 42:25 Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC Assertion Supported

Jay Hoag funded Netflix post-dot-com bust when capital markets completely froze

“I remember when Netflix was actually going down after After the dot-com bust, we were running out of money, even though we were going, we're doubling every year, but the world is in meltdown. You couldn't get capital from anybody. And he stepped up in a moment…”

Barry McCarthy Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 46:31 Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC Insight

Exceptional tech executives process data rapidly and pivot based on harsh realities

“One is that they deal with the world as it is, not as they want it to be. And they process data at a bit rate that, you know, humbles most of us. And they have the capacity to pivot based on the data that they ingest.”

Barry McCarthy Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 18:21 Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC Assertion Partly supported

Pure Software's IPO was the second most successful ever at the time

“Now he had been very successful building company called pure software, which ended up selling and been taken public by Morgan Stanley. And I think was maybe the second most successful IPO of all time. If I'm recalling correctly, a little bit out of my depth th…”

Barry McCarthy Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 2:47 Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

The other half of the tape: Barry McCarthy's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 10 times in 5 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 4Gautam Gupta 4Woody Marshall 1Daniel Ek 1

Statements about Barry McCarthy, by other people (1)

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Ek: Spotify direct listing was brainchild of former CFO Barry McCarthy

“So first off, I think the person who deserves the most amount of credit for it is not me. It's Barry McCarthy, my former CFO. It's really his brainchild, so I don't want to take credit.”

Daniel Ek Mar 8, 2021 ▶ 43:21 20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Barry's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Executive Advisor, TCV	1	28	50% 4/8	full record on 20VC →