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Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:14 Scott Farquhar We had Rich Wong at Excel who ended up being, like, 6 times in the scene
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:17 Nikhil Basu Trivedi I'll put one that I miss right now working with, which is, uh, Vas Nadarajan at Excel. 2 times in the scene
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:18 Jason Lemkin But I knew these VCs that had offered me term sheets, the Byron Dieters from Bessemer and Josh Stein from Threshold and the Excel team.
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:11 Sheel Mohnot Um, you know, I think my friends at Excel have done a pretty good job as well.
- ▶ 1:10:08 Sheel Mohnot Our, our, um, we've invested a lot with Excel, and I, I think they, they do a really good job.
TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:25 Harry Stebbings Was there ever a time when it went flat or like, I remember when you raised that, you know, your, I think it was your A from Excel and from GV and from great people and everything just always looks up.
Rob Lacher: How I Scaled to $600M AUM; Hiring Tips for VCs; Venture Capital in Europe vs USA | E999 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:25 Harry Stebbings Do you want, do you worry that then, like, uh, Lightspeed or Excel or Index will say to entrepreneurs, oh, we're in another deal with Rob and Visionaries, and they only have three percent, so actually in this next one, we can cut them down.
- ▶ 22:21 Rob Lacher Bloody red ocean, uh, and I think valuations have been quite aggressive, uh, compared to the traction that the companies had, and at the same time, it's not yet a space where we can add so much value with our network, so we said, we're…
- ▶ 30:13 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Sequoia, Excel, and Index.
- ▶ 1:00:28 Rob Lacher You imagine, I could mention the usual ones like Excel, Index, Kikawa and the likes, but let's, let's pick a different one.
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:43 Harry Stebbings Excel want to do 2.5 of the three million seed round.
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:05 Hadi Partovi Uh, and we met the day they got their term sheet from Excel, uh, you know, for the a hundred million dollar valuation. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:09 Jason Lemkin It allowed me to have a more aligned collaboration with the founders than I might have had if I were Excel, the largest investor, right?
- ▶ 54:09 Jason Lemkin And so many are going to get dropped and really good funds used to, in the old days, people would drop Excel and they would drop everything but Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:28 Jason Lemkin Excel has rebuilt their brand and it's enough.
- ▶ 1:13:44 Jason Lemkin I mean, Excel led three rounds, but I would say if, if there's a small shout out, it would, okay.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:25 Harry Stebbings In, in Europe, that's an uncomfortable position if I'm honest, because you have the leads Excel index Sequoia Europe, but you know, but some of the best known and they always want 15 minimum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:34 Semil Shah And he famously talked about, um, you know, getting off the Excel train in the pre-Facebook fund, you know, they were going through a lot of hard times or Peter Fenton has given interviews about this.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:35 Emil Michael I mean, I love, I think Excel's done very well in Europe and your hood.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:01 Drew Houston Um, but Pejman made an introduction to Samir Gandhi, who's now at Excel, but he was at Sequoia at the time.
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:47 Logan Bartlett And, uh, I worked alongside, um, the, the Vista equities of the world and the TA associates, the JMIs, uh, and actually got some exposure to folks like battery, Excel, Bessemer, uh, red point.
Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings I heard so many good things from Ali, from Anu, from Rich at Excel, actually.
- ▶ 26:47 Daniel Yanisse I was really lucky because my first board member, Rich Wong from Excel is amazing.
20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings For many investors and founders operating today, this is the first crash that they've seen in their professional life, me being one of them, and so today I wanted to bring together the lessons and wisdom from some of the best investing…
- ▶ 5:37 Harry Stebbings From one legend to another, I'm now so excited to hand over to Jim and Arthur, founders of Excel.
- ▶ 18:45 Harry Stebbings Now I want to move to the wonderful Sonali Dereika at Accel.
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings You've been in the venture game for a number of years now, so talk to me, how did you make your way into venture first, and then come to be at Excel, obviously, for the last 10 years or so? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:37 Sonali De Rycker Um, we were raising our early fund at Excel.
- ▶ 13:19 Sonali De Rycker Yeah, so what I'm really surprised at, Harry, because I sometimes check where things are sitting, you know, because we're now, uh, going to be soon in our 40th year, uh, we've always seen that it pays to be kind of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:48 Harry Stebbings I do want to, you mentioned obviously the accounting principles that you have at Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 Harry Stebbings Um, and I wanted to ask you, if you were to kind of describe Excel's culture that you want to build for Excel London in that same way, how would you describe it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:57 Sonali De Rycker And if you ask Excel, we really care about, we care about kind of enduring businesses and legacy.
- ▶ 51:56 Sonali De Rycker If you just kind of go back when we started out in 2000, we made the commitment to start Excel here because it wasn't just about Silicon Valley. 4 times in the scene
20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 37:05 David Fialkow His name is Jim Schwartz, and he's the co-founder of Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:47 Harry Stebbings I had Jim on the show from Excel, and it was one of the most incredible discussions.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 30:27 Jason Lemkin One was of course signaling, oh my God, Excel, Sequoia, whoever, 2 times in the scene
20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 18:44 Harry Stebbings Because given the expansion of firms across stages, unless you get in early, you probably won't get in at all if Excel are doing Seed, Soer Index, Soer Sequoia.
20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings And prior to joining Sequoia in 2020, Luciana was a partner at Excel in London.
- ▶ 7:13 Luciana Lixandru I joined Excel end of 2011.
- ▶ 25:21 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, you know, I've seen you in terms of the way you work with younger partners, and I've seen you bring up incredible talent through the ranks, you know, obviously both with Sequoia, but then at Excel also.
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 8:34 David Frankel Tom Lee, and I had been on a board I had with Sonali Dereka at Accel.
- ▶ 38:58 David Frankel So listening to, you know, the founders of Accel and the founders of Sir
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 0:01 Harry Stebbings This is TwentyVC with me, Harry Stebbings, and you might remember last month we did a show with Arthur Patterson and Jim Schwartz at Excel, where they analysed how today compared to the booms and busts of the eighties.
20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Arthur and Jim founded Excel Partners in 1983. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:20 Harry Stebbings So you were both in venture pre-Excel. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:43 Harry Stebbings Can we go back to the first conversation that you guys had about starting Excel?
- ▶ 6:49 Jim Swartz So when we started Excel, it was pretty clear to us. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:50 Harry Stebbings How was that first fundraise with Excel?
- ▶ 9:30 Jim Swartz It was the third fund, which we, we raised in 1989 because 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:38 Jim Swartz And then those people continued in the XL-IV, which was a fantastic fund.
- ▶ 12:06 Harry Stebbings When did the Excel brand really hit with LPs and bluntly fundraising was much, much easier? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Arthur Patterson And Jim had made a really strategic move in about 83, 85, where we raised that XL-II was actually a focused telecom fund of a smaller size, but I think it was about forty million, and I think KP even invested in it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:43 Jim Swartz That there's no single person that runs Excel.
- ▶ 27:52 Harry Stebbings That would scare, if I was in Excel, you know, I mean, it would scare a lot of people to lose the chip, and it would make me pull back, even with conviction. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:14 Harry Stebbings What do you think you did that made Excel India, Excel Europe, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:03 Arthur Patterson We use all the same early stage people to get the growth going and, and we try to stay in the same areas, but that's going to be a significant problem for Excel and a significant problem for anybody else.
- ▶ 34:52 Arthur Patterson And we've kept the firm that way. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:04 Harry Stebbings 38 years ago, founding Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:13 Harry Stebbings I've always loved this ecosystem, with everything that I have, which is why I fell in love with it when I was 13, and so to bring that story to life of Excel, and that founding journey, it was just incredible. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings Prior to their IPO earlier this year, Will raised over 1.7 billion dollars for the company from some of the best in the business, including Excel, Index, General Catalyst,
20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
- ▶ 0:07 Harry Stebbings The Memo episode with Samir at Excel last month, discussing his investment thesis and rationale for leading multiple rounds into CrowdStrike, and I'm so thrilled today to be joined by George Kurtz, founder and CEO at CrowdStrike, a leading… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:06 George Kurtz Because we thought the opportunity was so big, and that's part of the reasons why I hooked up with Samir at Excel, because they got the big vision, and they were in it for the long term.
20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Lisa Landman at NEA and Andrew Brachia at Excel for some fantastic
- ▶ 4:57 Anthony Casalena And then the next round of money in was index and Excel, and that was actually mostly secondary with only a little bit of primary. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 23:20 Anton Levy Sequoia is saying, hey, I'm going to take my Series A business, or Excel, who are world class in the Series A business, and saying, wait a sec, why am I not doing the B's, C's, D's?
20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings It is, of course, CrowdStrike, and the person to unpack the investment and incredible journey, Sumir Gandhi, partner at Excel and leader of multiple 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:43 Harry Stebbings Find out more today at diligent.com, but that is quite enough from me, so now I'm so excited to hand over to Samir Gandhi, partner at Excel.
- ▶ 28:31 Sameer Gandhi So like, you know, part of this is like, why are we not capturing more of that for Excel versus letting it go to the outside?
20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings From the likes of Excel, SoftBank, Fidelity, Bailey Gifford, D-One, and more, and Raphael has scaled the company to over 550 U.S. cities, with over 7000 employees nationwide, And I want to say a huge thank you to Jed at Headline and to…
- ▶ 28:38 Rafael Ilishayev Aller took a bet on us in the series C.
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Scott at Atlassian, Alex at Excel, and Juliet on your team at Bond, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 4:03 Harry Stebbings I love the breadth that venture allows, but I want to start on something quite strange almost, but I listened to your discussion with Alex now at Excel, and in that discussion, you mentioned actually being in Asia, and being a musician in…
- ▶ 27:39 Jay Simons Even when I think about Alassian, like Alassian probably in Excel's portfolio was probably, I'm guessing, like rated as, you know, maybe a B company because like our growth profile wasn't, you know, we weren't growing at a hundred percent. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
- ▶ 40:15 Nigel Morris Well, I love all of the boutique fintech venture firms, so Mickey Malkert, Ribbit's a dear friend, Matt Harris again at Bain, uh, Hans Morris at Nica, I've known for 30 years, and then the mainstream, you know, the really great…
20VC: David Tisch on Why Ownership in Venture Does Not Matter, His Biggest Investing Misses and Hits and How His Investing Style Changed as a Result & 3 Core Reasons VCs Pass That Do Not Make Sense
- ▶ 16:42 David Tisch Sequoia, Andreessen, Excel's been making early stage investments throughout their entire history.
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Prior to their 3.2 billion dollar acquisition by Twilio in 2020, Peter raised over two hundred and eighty three million dollars for Segment from Excel, Thrive, Meritech, GV, General Catalyst, and Kleiner Perkins, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:45 Harry Stebbings In terms of, like, problem solving, which is, you know, at the core of a lot of debates and decision making, I spoke to Vass at Excel, and he said, again, I mean, you seem to be pretty world class at quite a number of these different…
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Prior to Benchmark, Peter was a general partner at Excel Partners in San Francisco, and as a result of his incredible track, Peter's been on the Forbes Minus list more times than I've done podcast episodes.
20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To date, Matan has raised over two hundred and fifty four million for Melio from the likes of Excel, Bessemer, Aleph, Cotu, and General Catalyst, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:33 Harry Stebbings As I said, I've heard so many great things, both from Michael at Aleph and from Julian at Excel, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 32:16 Harry Stebbings Again, I do want to say a huge thank you to Michael Eisenberg at our left, to Michael at KOTU, and to the very special Julian Beck at Excel.
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- ▶ 42:11 Michael Eisenberg I mean, Philippe at Code Two, and Julian at Accel, and Philippe at Accel, and just amazing people. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Prior to Tencent acquiring a majority stake in the company at a reported 10.2 billion dollar acquisition price, Ilka raised over one hundred and forty three million dollars for the company from Excel, Index, Atomico, IVP, LVP, Initial and…
- ▶ 3:01 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Kevin at Excel, to Ken at Initials, David at LVP, so thank you so much for joining me today, Ilka.
- ▶ 10:45 Harry Stebbings Excel. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
- ▶ 29:02 Hubert Palan Like, if you're in the middle of closing a big round, and you have investors competing for you, and you're trying to keep secrets, you know, from them, like, you don't want to tell the whole company, like, hey, you know, we have Sequoia,…
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings And prior to their IPO, Etsy raised funding from some of the best in the business, including Danny Reimer at Index, Albert Wenger at USV, and Jim Breyer at Excel, to name a
20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings In just 13 months, Johnny's raised over a hundred and seventy four million dollars for Hopin, from the likes of Excel, IVP, Slack, North Zone, Co-Two, Salesforce, and of course, TwentyVC fund disclaimer. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Stewart raised over 1.3 billion dollars from the likes of Excel, Thrive, SoftBank, Kleiner, IVP, T-Road, GV, and Andreessen, to name a few incredible investors. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and my word, what a broad-ranging discussion we have in store for you today, and so diving right in, I'm thrilled to welcome Daniel Levine, partner at Excel, one of the leading venture… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:03 Harry Stebbings However, that's enough from me, so now I'm very excited to hand over to Daniel Levine, partner at Excel.
- ▶ 3:33 Harry Stebbings Started as an associate at Excel, then left and returned to it. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:35 Harry Stebbings Seeing the personalization of venture more than ever, and like, people want to fundamentally connect with Dan Levine, and no offense, not with Excel, and it's not Excel, it's like name or any firm, and I think that's what's given rise to… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:50 Harry Stebbings I see the big players, Excel included, and your Andreessen's, your founders' funds, 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:15 Harry Stebbings What's the hardest element of your role with Excel today, do you think?
20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
- ▶ 37:26 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you a fantastic episode with Dan Levine at Excel on Thursday.
20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader's Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings And prior to their IPO in 2019, PagerDuty raised funding from some of the best in the business, including Excel, Andreessen Horowitz, Baseline, Bessemer, and Harrison Metal, to name a few.
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings With Gumroad, Sahil has raised from some incredible investors, including Excel, Kleiner Perkins,
- ▶ 30:26 Sahil Lavingia Excel put 400 K into that. 2 times in the scene