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20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC with Harry Stebbings

20 episodes

Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258

The discussion focuses on the challenges and opportunities for startups building on AI platforms, emphasizing the blurred lines between infrastructure and application providers.

Brian Tolkin, Head of Product @Opendoor: How to Hire the Best Product Teams | E1257

The discussion focuses on product management insights from Uber's experience, emphasizing the importance of upfront pricing, understanding cultural differences, and balancing user and business needs.

TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254

Monzo's revenue is divided into transaction-based revenues, balance sheet lending, and 'good fees' from subscriptions and savings products.

How to get a job at NASA from a cold call ๐Ÿš€

A determined student secures a NASA internship by persistently cold-calling and impressing a professor with research knowledge.

The greatest value destruction since firing Steve Jobs from Apple?! ๐Ÿคฏ

The video discusses the impact of leadership changes at Uber, particularly the departure of Travis Kalanick, and its effect on the company's potential growth.

The #1 Problem with seed round investing? ๐ŸŒฑ

The purpose of a seed round is to validate a future insight with minimal capital to reduce risk.

Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236

The video discusses Salesforce's strategic focus on AI and agentic technology to enhance productivity and customer experience, while also reflecting on leadership lessons and the future of AI.

What does the future of AI look like? ๐Ÿค–

The discussion focuses on the investment potential in AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and x.com, highlighting the commoditization of AI technologies and the strategic shift towards human labor for better value communication.

How did this Founder raise $500M by surprise?! ๐Ÿ’ฐ

์ด ์ฐฝ์—…์ž๋Š” ์ผ๋ณธ์—์„œ 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๊ธˆํ•˜๋ ค ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ 5์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Marc Andreessenโ€™s lesson on pricing ๐Ÿง 

์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์˜ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ทœ๋ชจ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ „๋žต์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Marc Andreessenโ€™s brutal management lesson โฐ

์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์—„์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ์–ป์€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋‹ด.

Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235

์ด ๋น„๋””์˜ค๋Š” ๋ฒค์ฒ˜ ์บํ”ผํƒˆ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž ํšŒ์ˆ˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜คํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฒค์ฒ˜ ํŽ€๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ๋ถ„๋ฐฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ 15~20๋…„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The trick to building a winning SaaS company? ๐Ÿคซ

์ด ๋น„๋””์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…์šฉ SaaS์—์„œ ๋†’์€ ์œ ์ง€์œจ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This company earns $2M per employee! ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿ’ฐ

Grinder๋Š” 150๋ช… ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์˜ ์ •๊ทœ์ง ์ง์›์œผ๋กœ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์šด์˜์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Why do most startups break down? โš ๏ธ

์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—… ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋น„ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The craziest company story?! ๐Ÿคฏ

์ด ๋น„๋””์˜ค๋Š” Joel Simai๊ฐ€ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ผ์ธ๋”์˜ ๋งค๊ฐ ๊ณผ์ •๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ์ฃผ์š” ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๋“ค์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.