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Harry Stebbings

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
33225 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

Engineering is one that you mentioned several times.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

Engineering is one that you mentioned several times.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

How have you seen engineering productivity change with AI in the last year or two?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

How have you seen engineering productivity change with AI in the last year or two?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

Databricks, I think, released yesterday that 50% of their code is generated by AI.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

Databricks, I think, released yesterday that 50% of their code is generated by AI.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

What does it mean to move to value creation?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

What does it mean to move to value creation?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

How do you do that?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

How do you do that?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

Can you talk to me about when you optimized for a KPI that turned out to be wrong, and what you learned from that?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

Can you talk to me about when you optimized for a KPI that turned out to be wrong, and what you learned from that?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

You said multiple times about it's very easy to have massive spend on the LLMs and just on the AI slot being created.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

You said multiple times about it's very easy to have massive spend on the LLMs and just on the AI slot being created.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

How did you think about the decision whether to invest in your own model as Harvey did, as Cursor did, TBD on how that goes, we'll see, versus use existing frontier models?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

How did you think about the decision whether to invest in your own model as Harvey did, as Cursor did, TBD on how that goes, we'll see, versus use existing frontier models?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

Do you think the majority of companies we see created today will be commoditized, eaten by Anthropic and OpenAI and Frontier models?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

Do you think the majority of companies we see created today will be commoditized, eaten by Anthropic and OpenAI and Frontier models?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

What does your team use internally, engineering-wise, Cursor or Cloud Code?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

What does your team use internally, engineering-wise, Cursor or Cloud Code?