Silicon Valley, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Silicon Valley comes up
Charles Van Vleet – Thinking Differently with Pensions at Textron (Capital Allocators, EP. 283)
- ▶ 24:15 Charles Van Vleet Somebody in Silicon Valley says, great idea.
- ▶ 52:02 Charles Van Vleet You know, you need to, maybe you need to start to, to pick up a little bit more Silicon Valley reading, or biotech reading, or there's a lot of exciting things going out there to begin with.
Annie Duke – The Power of Quitting (Capital Allocators, EP.273)
- ▶ 48:25 Annie Duke They started thinking about it, and I think it was about 2008, and the idea was to build high-speed rail, like in Japan or other places, that would connect San Francisco and Silicon Valley to LA and San Diego to the south. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:48 Annie Duke There's a whole long list of things that you might think he's super proud of, but what's interesting is the thing he's the most proud of is actually coaching founders to quit, which really goes against what we think about as Silicon…
Brent Montgomery – The Disney Flywheel at Wheelhouse (Capital Allocators, EP.265)
- ▶ 27:09 Brent Montgomery He did work with Silicon Valley, the TV show, Game of Thrones, an enormous deal.
- ▶ 44:29 Brent Montgomery They're Silicon Valley.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 15:18 Chris Dixon If they were run by a traditional Silicon Valley management team, they'd be taking money in every category.
- ▶ 38:27 Chris Dixon It's not at all strange to them in the way it is to Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 52:27 Chris Dixon I just met him and then he introduced me to a bunch of relevant experts and I think they all said negative things that he still invested and he helped me and he opened up this whole community and introduced me to people in Silicon Valley…
Larry Kochard – From Endowment Professor to OCIO Chief at Makena Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.250)
- ▶ 27:18 Ted Seides It was surprising to hear that McKenna with its roots in Stanford Management Company out in the Valley didn't have a bigger venture allocation, but there's so much going on after very, very strong returns last fiscal year. 3 times in the scene
Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- ▶ 23:14 Steve Drobny We've been doing this for a long time, and in 2014, being based in LA, seeing what was happening in Silicon Valley, seeing what's happening in technology, we thought there's a real opportunity to get involved in technology here, but not in…
- ▶ 27:13 Steve Drobny Technology used to be in San Francisco, Silicon Valley. 5 times in the scene
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 19:57 Sebastian Mallaby He basically started by compiling a list of the 15 smartest people he knew in Silicon Valley, and going to have lunch with each of them, and at the end of the lunch he would say, can you tell me who is the absolute smartest person you know?
- ▶ 40:24 Sebastian Mallaby We just don't have that risk taking attitude that they have in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:12 Sebastian Mallaby Venture investors in Silicon Valley
- ▶ 47:45 Sebastian Mallaby Companies in Silicon Valley that have built big operations in China may face a point where they need to separate the two brands.
Steve Papa – Entrepreneur's Perspective on Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 13 (Capital Allocators, EP.244)
- ▶ 37:55 Steve Papa Boston culture very much is changing, but historically Silicon Valley was much more back a founder, 2 times in the scene
Kathy Xu – Venture in China at Capital Today, Venture is Eating the Investment World 12 (Capital Allocators, EP.243)
Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- ▶ 7:25 Arjun Sethi So I was born and raised in California, Santa Clara, and people used to joke that I was just a product of Silicon Valley.
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 7:32 Annie Lamont So I got out of Stanford at the time that Silicon Valley was exploding. 2 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 1:02:07 Josh Wolfe You have people that were born and raised in Nigeria and Ghana and Kenya who have gone to Silicon Valley and trained at Stripe and Google and Facebook and Amazon and are coming back, and they're coming back
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 12:17 Aydin Senkut and then I think it really helped me be one of the youngest students in the MBA program at Wharton, and then that helped me, like, with my first foray into Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 29:13 Aydin Senkut I just want to tell you that everybody thought for the longest time, Googles and Facebooks can only happen in Silicon Valley, but very quickly it became more democratic and international. 3 times in the scene
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 11:51 Fabrice Grinda And as a twenty-three-year-old with very limited capital, not well-connected to the Valley or
Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230)
- ▶ 23:50 Chris Douvos One thing that Silicon Valley is very good at is creating this recursion between value and perception.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 16:27 David Rosenthal Like the university of California at Berkeley did this amazing oral history project of early Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 27:48 David Rosenthal They were one of the OG growth firms in the Valley IVP that you mentioned.
- ▶ 39:37 David Rosenthal He was an entrepreneur, early employee, entrepreneur, Silicon Valley operator type.
- ▶ 46:07 David Rosenthal People are even talking in Silicon Valley about, like, why is there not a native Goldman Sachs of Silicon Valley, and that's a really good question. 2 times in the scene