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Rory O'Driscoll

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1472 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

It's a reminder in today's age of extreme greed to be kind.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

He didn't just, wasn't just nice to him.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

He accelerated all of his stock and made sure that it wasn't about money.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

He was appreciated.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

He walked him out the door.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

I don't see this happening often enough.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

I've seen two CEOs at the end of this year just quit their startups that I invested in.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

Be kinder.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

Go the extra yard like Peter did with Elon.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

It just may pay off like owning 10% of a $1.5 trillion IPO.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

Even for a billionaire, it might pay off.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

I'm going to take Figma only because I don't believe Cursor's future is assured.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

I think a cursor is magical.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

I think it's a gift to humanity for folks that have built software.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

If we keep doing this podcast long enough, we're going to see I'm right about something else, which is everything's much less stable than we thought this year.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

The categories, the Harvey's, the cursors, these are incredible companies.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

I wish I invested all of them.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

Don't get me wrong.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

We're going to look back in 24 months and see there was a lot less stability in these so-called leaders than we thought.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

It's not that they were going to go to zero, but we are so early in AI that I'm going to take Figma on this one.