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20Sales: What I Learned Scaling Datadog from $60M to $1BN in ARR | How to do Outbound in 2024 | Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading with Dan Fougere

Nov 22, 2024 · 01:10:05

✨ Dan Fougere details scaling Datadog's revenue from $60M to $1BN ARR.

Dan Fougere

01:10:05

20VC: Turning $16.5M into $2.1BN; Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History: UiPath | Why VC is Not Being Commoditised | Why Price Does Not Matter | Lessons on Loss Ratio, Selling and Signalling with Cem Sertoglu

Nov 20, 2024 · 01:03:26

✨ Cem Sertoglu discusses the $16.5M to $2.1BN UiPath investment.

Cem Sertoglu

01:03:26

20VC Alain De Botton on Why Companies Are Not Families | Why Status is Making You Miserable | Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail | Why We Are Richer Yet More Anxious Than Ever & Why You Should Not Always "Be Yourself"

Nov 18, 2024 · 01:12:09

✨ Alain De Botton explores why companies aren't families and the misery of status.

01:12:09

20Growth: Inside Perplexity's Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | Why Paid Acquisition is a Drug and Brand Marketing is BS | The Good, Bad and Ugly of A/B Tests and Why Micro-Optimisations are Under-Rated with Raman Malik

Nov 15, 2024 · 59:19

✨ Raman Malik reveals Perplexity's growth strategies and what didn't work.

Raman Malik

59:19

20VC: Bolt; The Most Insane Story in Startups | Turning a $5K Loan into an $8BN Company | Why Every VC Turned Down One of Europe's Biggest Winners | Competing with Uber & The Future of Micromobility and Self-Driving

Nov 13, 2024 · 01:29:09

✨ Markus Villig recounts building Bolt from a $5K loan to an $8BN company.

01:29:09

20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

Nov 11, 2024 · 01:23:27

✨ Matt Grimm discusses how a Trump administration impacts the defense industry.

Matt Grimm

01:23:27

20VC: Sam Altman on The Trajectory of Model Capability Improvements: Will Scaling Laws Continue | Semi-Conductor Supply Chains | What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI and Where is Opportunity

Nov 4, 2024 · 39:53

✨ Sam Altman discusses the future trajectory of AI model capabilities.

39:53

20VC: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Founder Mode | Building 8x $100M Revenue Lines | Lessons from Raising $5BN and the Gamestop Saga | The Future of Artificial Intelligence, Wealth Management and Home Ownership

Nov 1, 2024 · 52:29

✨ Vlad Tenev shares lessons from Robinhood's $5BN fundraising and the Gamestop saga.

52:29

20VC: Linear's Karri Saarinen How to be Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | How to Fundraise with Leverage | How to Select Investors and How to Give Them Homework in the Raise Process & Growth Lessons from Airbnb and Coinbase

Oct 30, 2024 · 47:30

✨ Karri Saarinen advises on capital efficiency and fundraising with leverage.

47:30

20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

Oct 28, 2024 · 01:13:24

✨ Daniel Khachab discusses the decline of SaaS and the rise of AI-first companies.

Daniel Khachab

01:13:24

20VC: The Truth About Multi-Stage Firms; Why Portfolio Services are for VCs not Founders | Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | Why Reserves are Bad for Founders & How Boutique Firms Will Win with Mark Goldberg @ Chemistry

Oct 25, 2024 · 56:21

✨ Mark Goldberg critiques multi-stage firms and their portfolio services for founders.

Mark Goldberg @ Chemistry

56:21

20Sales: Biggest Lessons Scaling Slack from $6M to $1BN in ARR | How to Build a Customer Success Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | The Framework to Hire All Sales Reps: Take-Home Assignments, Hiring Panels and more with AJ Tennant @ Glean

Oct 23, 2024 · 01:00:40

✨ AJ Tennant shares lessons from scaling Slack from $6M to $1BN ARR.

01:00:40

20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on Investing Lessons from Leading Rounds in Figma, Slack and Rippling | Lessons Building a Generational Defining Firm with Kleiner Perkins | AI: Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws

Oct 21, 2024 · 59:13

✨ Mamoon Hamid discusses investment lessons from Figma, Slack, and Rippling.

Kleiner Perkins

59:13

20Growth: Revolut's Chief Growth Officer on The Growth Playbook Revolut Used to Scale to $2.2BN in Revenue | How Revolut Launch and Grow Products | Why the Best PMs Don't Need A/B Tests & Why CAC is a BS Metric with Antoine Le Nel

Oct 18, 2024 · 56:41

✨ Antoine Le Nel explains Revolut's growth playbook and scaling to $2.2BN revenue.

Antoine Le Nel

56:41

20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

Oct 16, 2024 · 50:53

✨ Zach Perret warns against "founder mode" and potential bad behavior.

Zach Perret @ Plaid

50:53

20VC: Investing Lessons from FC Seeding Uber, Airtable and Coupang | Why Pro Rata is the Original Sin in VC | Why Liquidity Has Died in 2024 | Why LPs are Pissed with VCs | The Hard Truth About Seed Fund Economics with David Frankel @ Founder Collective

Oct 14, 2024 · 01:27:20

✨ David Frankel shares seed investing lessons from Uber, Airtable, and Coupang.

01:27:20

20VC: Why Most AI Investments Will Do Worse than the S&P 500 | Why Early Stage VC is F******* | The Danger of Kamala Harris and Why Trump and Vance are Best | Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control with Eoghan McCabe @ Intercom

Oct 11, 2024 · 46:33

✨ Eoghan McCabe predicts most AI investments will underperform the S&P 500.

Eoghan McCabe @ Intercom

46:33

20VC: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta | How to Play AI in the Public Markets | China & Europe: Is the Future Bleak | The Opportunity for Crossover Funds with Jeff Wang, Managing Partner @ SCGE

Oct 9, 2024 · 01:12:11

✨ Jeff Wang discusses Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund strategy.

Jeff Wang

01:12:11

20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Oct 7, 2024 · 01:10:32

✨ Eiso Kant discusses raising $500M to compete in the race for AGI.

Eiso Kant

01:10:32

20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Oct 4, 2024 · 50:52

✨ Maria Angelidou shares insights on effective product reviews and hiring.

Maria Angelidou

50:52

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