Silicon Valley, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Silicon Valley comes up
Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques – Harlem Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.24)
- ▶ 7:25 Ted Seides For a long time, part of the thesis of Silicon Valley had to do with the entire ecosystem of talent that all comes together in a particular geographic community. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:27 Henri-Pierre Jacques Silicon Valley exists for other founders, but doesn't exist for the founders that we're serving.
Christopher Zook – Thematic Investing and Raving Fans at CAZ Investments (Capital Allocators, EP.226)
- ▶ 36:09 Christopher Zook So we're partnering with our relationships in Silicon Valley to be able to do that. 2 times in the scene
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 17:16 Bill Trenchard And, um, we were right out of school, and we just sold that to Microsoft, and that's really what brought me to Silicon Valley was that move, and that's what started the rest of the career.
- ▶ 21:02 Chris Douvos That brought you to the Valley.
- ▶ 24:11 Bill Trenchard Yeah, I'd say in the Valley today, there's really two types of investors and most fall in the first bucket.
Brian Higgins - King Street Capital (Manager Meeting, EP. 21)
- ▶ 12:44 Brian Higgins Today, they're going Silicon Valley and, and the like, but back then Wall Street was one of the areas of focus.
Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222)
- ▶ 35:35 Richard Tedlow But basically, the charismatic leaders that I live in Silicon Valley, that I see around here, are people who make believers out of skeptics.
- ▶ 38:17 Ted Seides And I'm curious, you've been sitting in and around Apple and Silicon Valley for a while.
Satya Patel – Homebrew (Manager Meetings, EP.18)
- ▶ 15:42 Satya Patel And we were fortunate having worked in the Valley for a long time and having a lot of relationships that we knew we'd be able to raise some amount of capital from
- ▶ 33:49 Satya Patel And so the name Homebrew is a throwback or a nod to the old Homebrew Computer Club of the seventies that started in the Valley.
- ▶ 40:37 Satya Patel And while it's been true that Silicon Valley has been kind of the epicenter and will continue to be for some period of time, it's also true that there is demonstrated success in markets all across the United States and all over the world… 2 times in the scene
Savneet Singh – The Operator/Investor whose Software is Feeding the World (Capital Allocators, EP.220)
- ▶ 18:13 Savneet Singh And the thing that I like to say is that oftentimes Silicon Valley is a culture is about fun. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:09 Savneet Singh When you're in a venture business or sort of that Silicon Valley type of world,
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 18:34 Paula Volent So of course, I took all the impossible ones, and I started going to Silicon Valley and making appointments, and Bowdoin, people said Bowdoin.
- ▶ 20:21 Paula Volent I used to go up and down Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:23 Paula Volent Silicon Valley a lot.
Matt Brown – Democratization of Alternatives at CAIS (Capital Allocators, EP.214)
- ▶ 47:26 Matt Brown That technology company on Silicon Valley was called Apple.
Katie Hall – Hall Capital Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.213)
- ▶ 32:52 Ted Seides So from where you sit starting the business effectively out of the buyout world and certainly near Silicon Valley, would love to hear your perspective on, let's just start with private equity these days.
Jan Garfinkle – Arboretum Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.09)
- ▶ 6:05 Roz Hewsenian So it's the based in Michigan part that's interesting, and it has to do actually with the fact that when Helmsley was formed as a foundation, we actually could not get into the Silicon Valley venture capital funds.
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Diameter Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.05)
- ▶ 21:55 Jonathan Lewinsohn We all spend a lot of time thinking about Silicon Valley, venture capital, who's going to make, you know, the robotic butcher that's going to change all of our lives.
Bill Ford – General Atlantic (Manager Meetings, EP.03)
Private Equity Masters 5: Virginie Morgon – Eurazeo (Capital Allocators, EP. 204)
- ▶ 50:08 Virginie Morgon I love that term that you find at the Silicon Valley, which is exponentiality.
Ashby Monk – Innovation in Institutional Portfolios (Capital Allocators, EP.196)
- ▶ 33:26 Ashby Monk It's like the way we build technology in Silicon Valley.
a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
- ▶ 57:09 Jesse Walden I would describe that as the ownership economy, where in Silicon Valley, employees at startups get equity in the startup to align their incentives with the success of the company.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 30:02 Jeff Hausenbold And then the success of Silicon Valley and the success of the first wave of companies from Cisco and eBay to the second wave of Facebook and Twitter to now the third wave of the DoorDashes and the SoFi's and the Airbnbs are leading people…
- ▶ 44:34 Jeff Hausenbold That's just the coopetition of what Sandhill Road and Silicon Valley is about.
David Baran and Kazuhiko Shibata – Friendly Activism in Japan at Symphony (Capital Allocators, EP.176)
- ▶ 1:02:24 David Baran It's like a series B round in the valley.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 22:05 Chris Dixon Probably the biggest area of activity in Silicon Valley right now is on the enterprise software side and, you know, SaaS, software as a service.
- ▶ 48:12 Chris Dixon And if you just sort of head count the very smart people that come to us that are in Silicon Valley, that are coming out of top computer science programs, et cetera,
- ▶ 1:02:51 Chris Dixon I do wish I had moved to Silicon Valley earlier. 2 times in the scene