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“I Wouldn’t Sell For $100BN”
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-07-21 14:01
Company Strategy & Vision - The company emphasizes quality as its top priority, surpassing all other considerations [1] - The company aims for significant growth, targeting a valuation of $30 billion to $100 billion [1] - The company is profitable and has complete control over its future direction [2] - The company possesses all the necessary resources to pursue its objectives [2] Competitive Landscape - The company distinguishes itself from competitors, viewing many as "body shops" or disguised as technology companies [1]
Were We Wrong About Grok?
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-07-19 14:00
When Grock launched, I thought it was a spite app, right. I thought I thought all of X was a spite app. I thought he bought it out of spite.I thought payments were spite out of PayPal. And I thought Grock was just to dig that knife right into Sam Alman. But if you step back for a minute, he's shown that if you know what you're doing and you buy the GPUs and you assemble an Sier team, whatever this data exactly means, whether it's pulled ahead or not, you caning catch up.And he has access to not unlimited ca ...
Inside Cognition’s takeover of Windsurf!
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-07-18 14:00
I think there's an unspoken covenant that as a founder you go down with the ship and I think that for better or for worse it's changed a bit over the last year and I and I think it's a bit disappointing to be honest. I think there's some real truth to your point that often there are actually a lot of really valuable pieces that get left behind. The only thing that anyone wants to talk about this week is cognition buying wind surf.We unpack it all today with Scott Woo, co-founder and CEO at Cognition in AI c ...
Why Lovable’s Market is HUGE
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-07-18 05:00
Market Analysis & Competitive Landscape - The market size for developer tools like Replit and Lovable is potentially 50 to 100 times larger than Cursor and Cursor Windsurf [2] - Many developers use tools like Lovable or Replit to complete 60% to 70% of a project, then integrate it into other platforms like Cursor for finalization [1] Product Development & User Adoption - Developers are leveraging these tools to reach a certain development stage before transitioning to other platforms [1] - The success of Replit and Lovable hinges on maintaining developer satisfaction and meeting user needs [2]
“Windsurf was HOPELESS before this deal”
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-07-17 14:37
Windinsurf was hopeless before this deal. You could never attract 30 S tier developers to fix Windinsurf, but they fixed it in 1 hour. Literally in 90 days, Windsurf could be better than it was before this deal.This deal, as crazy as it sounds, because they have the people. Some of these deals almost seem too cheap. If you look at the crappy multiples we see for some startups, undifferentiated company raising at 300 pre with less than a million of revenue.And then you see what is Windurf selling for. 20x re ...
Should Stripe Go Public?
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-07-17 05:00
Do you think Stripe should go public. I think Stripe can do whatever it wants and obviously they can raise infinite amounts of capital from the private markets to run their business. I do think it's a big problem that a retail investor can't get access to Stripe shares which has been a category defining company.You could tokenize that. I've shared this viewpoint with uh Patrick and John and you know they they give me some variant of uh oh well we're just a small Irish family company. Um, please don't tokeni ...
Crazy Cash Delivery Service Idea
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-07-16 14:01
Service Innovation - First Republic Bank offered high net worth individuals a "cash truck" service, delivering cash to their homes via armored vehicles [1] - The company aims to solve the ATM problem by delivering cash on demand, combining logistics with finance [4] - The company is exploring mass market potential for cash delivery, similar to DoorDash or Deliveroo [3] Market Opportunity - The company identifies a need to solve the inconvenience of going to the bank or ATM [2][4] - Tipping is highlighted as a common use case for cash, particularly in the American market [2]
Why I Like Being Public
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-07-16 05:00
Company Perspective on Public Listing - The company enjoys being a public entity [1][2] - Sees earnings calls as opportunities to connect with shareholders and retail investors [2] - Views earnings calls as a "postgame press conference" [2] Analogy to Sports - Draws a parallel between business performance and sports, specifically postgame press conferences [2][3] - Postgame press conferences are entertaining regardless of whether the team wins or loses [3] - Losing games can reveal internal issues or player shortcomings, which is also entertaining [4] - Poor performance is likened to being "railed by the press," a business equivalent [4]
How Stock Token Works
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-07-15 14:00
Tokenization of Private Company Assets - The company tokenizes traditional assets held in a box on a one-for-one basis, placing the tokens on blockchains for trading [1] - This process is analogous to stable coins, where assets like US Treasury bills back the tokens [1] - Tokenization provides access to private company shares or other exposures [2] Structure and Exposure - The structure involves an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) holding instruments like profit participation units and convertible interest securities [2] - Robin Hood holds and tokenizes the SPV, providing retail investors with exposure [2]
The truth about tokenisation
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-07-14 14:01
Tokenization & Market Access - Tokenization is generally favored, but less so when applied to specific companies [1] - The mechanism for tokenization should ideally function without requiring explicit consent from the companies being tokenized [1] - There is a significant issue regarding retail investors' inability to access shares of companies like Stripe [1] Company Perspective - Stripe executives express reluctance towards tokenization, citing their status as a small Irish family company [1]