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Harry Stebbings

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
30471 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Oh, dude, I so enjoyed doing this.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Thank you so much for putting up with me.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

You've been utterly fantastic.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Dude, me and Pat Grady.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Pat Grady was one of the first people I met in Venture.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

And he was an associate.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

And I was like a 17-year-old.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

And like, I laughed with Pat.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

I said to him the other day, dude, you've gone from associate to head of Sequoia.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

And I've gone from podcaster to podcaster.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

But before we leave you today, you have the idea, but often with AI tools, you hit a wall.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Well, Base44 is where that friction disappears, turning how you talk into how you build.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Full stack web and mobile apps, sites, autonomous super agents, all built in minutes, not weekends spent on damn configuration.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Base44 ships it all out of the box.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

The backend, the database, the authentication, and the hosting.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

It handles the heavy lifting.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

so you can just stay in the flow.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

It doesn't just replace the busy work, it multiplies you.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

It makes you so much more capable, an effective version of yourself.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

In this market, being fast is the baseline, but to win, you gotta be first.