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Over Capacity Built the Internet. Vijay Says AI Is Next Dec 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:44 Sean Weisbrot Entrepreneurs from different countries in the union, but they're all leaving for Silicon Valley because they can form companies in Delaware and raise money from people anywhere in the world because the frameworks are simple to understand.

20 Years of Meditation Taught Him to Feel Nothing - Here's Why That Wins Oct 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:12 Brad Ferris Well, so much of startup culture comes out of the Silicon Valley mindset, and if you've taken a bunch of investor money,

Stanford Found More Brand Notes Made the Content Perform Worse Jun 17, 2025 · 3 mentions

He Called It a 10-Year Project Before They Even Had a Prototype Apr 26, 2025 · 1 mention

Founder Market Fit Got Them $4.2M Before a Product Existed Mar 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:23 Sean Weisbrot Cause I've heard people complain that they felt as a, an underrepresented founder, someone who's not basically a white man, um, that they're, they're from India or from other countries that, that like Silicon Valley VCs looked down on them. 2 times in the scene

Finland Aims for an 8, Not a 10, and That Changes Everything Jan 30, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:10 Sean Weisbrot And so the European startups I talked to look for, to Silicon Valley to get their investment. 2 times in the scene

Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You Jan 25, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:15 Adam Jiddelson You know, there's, I think for me, it was more like I grew up in Silicon Valley, and everybody's parents were doing something spectacular and crazy, but no one parent and no one experience stands out in my mind.

Founders Only Capture 5% of the Value They Actually Create Dec 19, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:44 Mark Staus Uh, one was in San Francisco, one was in the Valley, one was in Miami.

They Gave Her Responsibility Without Authority - She Saw It Coming Sep 19, 2023 · 4 mentions

When the Time Comes You'll Know What to Do (Then She Changed the Mantra) Jul 19, 2023 · 1 mention

Fusion, Quantum, and a Motor That Fits Inside a Wheel May 2, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:32 Sean Weisbrot So if I had a company based in Silicon Valley that was looking for investment money from someone just like you, but they have no presence in Europe, you would say no?

The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You Apr 19, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:34 Henri Huselstein Yeah, we had been working together on a project, um, with a actually Silicon Valley financed, uh, startup here in Berlin, which was quite unusual as well.

He Joined VC With No Plan to Stay - Here Is What He Was Really After Apr 5, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:19 Sean Weisbrot So all of his development is done in Shanghai, but all of his sales and marketing are done out of Silicon Valley with, uh, like people who are living there and working there.

10,000 Investor Meetings Later, He Saw One Same-Day Commitment Mar 28, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:39 Sean Weisbrot And I thought it would be quite interesting, especially because he's in Austin where a lot of startups have moved from, uh, Silicon Valley since COVID. 2 times in the scene

Sleep Deprivation Is a War Tactic. Mothers Do It for Months. Mar 8, 2023 · 1 mention

The Formula for Grossing $400000/Month With a Remote Team Jan 29, 2023 · 1 mention

Codifying Empathy: What 1 Million Slides Taught This Founder Nov 25, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:34 Rajat Mishra If you had asked ten-year-old Rajat, you know, you would be in Silicon Valley building a company, and you have, have a thriving business, and, you know, you have two kids, getting to do what you want to do, helping people.

The Phantom Stock Plan Founders Use Before Going Public Apr 13, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:39 Cassidy Toles So I actually operate a small firm in Silicon Valley, although I have clients all up and down the West coast, as well as in a couple of other countries and a couple of other States, mostly startups, mostly small businesses, although doing…
  • ▶ 19:00 Cassidy Toles The thing about Silicon Valley is that you hear so many pitches and so many people looking for money that there's a party game we play called Pitch, where two people suggest, one of them says,

The Warm Intro Hierarchy Investors Won't Tell You About Feb 18, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:57 Sean Weisbrot So the investors that are available to startups based in Spain, are they mostly from Silicon Valley?
  • ▶ 9:51 Sean Weisbrot So in, in Silicon Valley, for example, I've heard of people raising five million dollar seed rounds, but when you look at Southeast Asia, it's normally like 250,000 dollar seed rounds. 2 times in the scene

They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed Feb 11, 2021 · 1 mention

45% of This Cancer Drug Was Fake — Here's How We Proved It Dec 28, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:26 Sean Weisbrot Sypheme has gone through 500 startups in Silicon Valley, Microsoft Accelerator, Lafayette Plug and Play, and Tals at Station F, a massive startup hub in Paris, and they recently raised three million euros from the French government in a…
  • ▶ 22:29 Hugo Garcia-Cotte Uh, including, uh, at some point where we were in the, in the Silicon Valley, and where the rent was insane.
  • ▶ 24:33 Sean Weisbrot You were talking about, uh, being in Silicon Valley and everything, uh, being expensive there.

The Hidden Cost of 9-9-6: Why Bay Area Engineers Are Spoiled Dec 20, 2020 · 2 mentions

The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know Dec 8, 2020 · 2 mentions

The Secret Weapon That Quietly Beats Every Competitor Dec 3, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:57 Sean Weisbrot Whether or not they're making very calculated decisions to reinvest in R and D that nobody can see the benefits of, um, in terms of new functions and features, or they're poorly mismanaging their funds, like most large growth companies,…
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