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20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Prior to their reported 1.2 billion dollar acquisition by SoFi, Clay raised just eighty six million dollars in funding with Galileo from the likes of Excel and Ryan Smith at Qualtrics, having run the company as a profitable company before… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:10 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from John and Excel, and so thank you so much for joining me today, Clay.
- ▶ 5:39 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask you, because we mentioned kind of your front row seat to the world of fintech there with Galileo, and I spoke to John at Excel before the show, and he asked, given your unique positioning, when you look at the landscape…
- ▶ 18:41 Clay Wilkes It changes that dynamic a bit, and I'm not naive to that, and so that was ultimately one of the reasons why we chose to do the deal with Excel, and I'm very glad that we did. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:12 Clay Wilkes And going back to Excel, they've seen so many and been a part of so many successful stories that really anything that they were offering was important to me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:36 Harry Stebbings As I said at the beginning, I've watched kind of the Galileo journey, as we said, since VCs do bring exposure, since the Excel round, but it's been incredible to see, and I've just so enjoyed having you on.
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 17:50 Andrew Wilkinson I would be calling benchmark and Excel tomorrow, but I just don't see that.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 24:06 Harry Stebbings Excels, KP's, Sequoia's, Lightspeed's.
20VC: Are VCs Still "Open For Business", How VCs Attitude To Risk Has Changed & The 2 Most Valuable Assets To Founders Today with Fred Destin, Founding Partner @ Stride VC
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings Prior to co-founding Stride, Fred was a general partner at Excel, where he was the lead investor and board member at Deliveroo, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:08 Fred Destin And we sat down, I was at Accel at the time, and we had the most electrifying interview, which was followed by a couple of hours of discussion. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Alexa Von Tobel on Raising NYC's Largest Ever Female Led Fund , Portfolio Construction, Compression of Fundraising Timelines, Reserves Management & Personal Branding in Venture
- ▶ 26:45 Alexa von Tobel You know, I've gone to him and said, hey Josh, teach me, or Samir Gandhi and Arthur Patterson who founded Excel and were part of the Learn Best story.
20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings To date, UiPath has raised over nine hundred and seventy seven million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the world, including Sequoia, Excel, Meritech, IVP, Capital G, Kleiner, CoTo, and more. 2 times in the scene
20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 16:55 David Tisch so Sequoia, Founders Fund, you know, and Andreessen, Excel, and all the other names that I now offended somebody by not mentioning, as those funds look at a deal, and you're looking at a similar deal, you better move really quickly, and…
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Excel, Ron at Rainfall, Brienne at Work Life, Benjamin Ling, and Y Combinator, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:21 Harry Stebbings As I said before the show, it's rare that I feel like I'm a complete fanboy, and in the presence of a celebrity, I heard so many great things from Ron at Rainfall, Brianne Kimmel, Aaron at Excel, so thank you so much for joining me today,…
- ▶ 23:57 Vlad Magdalin And, and that's exactly what happened with the ruin at Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:28 Vlad Magdalin We have a true partnership with Excel. 3 times in the scene
20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Jason has raised over eighty-four million dollars with Ironclad from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia, Excel, Greylock, Emergence, IA Ventures, Semo Shah's Haystack, and then obviously Ali Raugani, who led their…
- ▶ 24:43 Jason Boehmig Steve at Excel, Jesse at IA are just some of the people that I've been fortunate enough to run into.
- ▶ 31:27 Jason Boehmig And, you know, every time I kind of walk into the Excel Sequoia office and even saw Ironclad's logo kind of go up on the logo board at Excel the other week, 2 times in the scene
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 8:13 Semil Shah To this network, Imagine if a firm of repute like Excel or Lightspeed, where I'm a venture partner, or Andreessen Horowitz, which is on fire right now, they say, we'll give you three million dollars, Harry, to start your company, and you… 2 times in the scene
20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Clark has raised over three hundred and fifty million dollars with InVision from some of the world's leading investors, including Iconic, Spark, Excel, Battery, Tiger, Firstmark, and even Atlassian. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings Clark, I've been so looking forward to this for a long time, so I've heard many great things from Megan at Spark, Vass at Excel, Matt at Iconic, so thank you so much for joining me today, Clark.
- ▶ 21:43 Harry Stebbings You mentioned your wife there, and actually, I heard from Vast at Excel about the incredible family and community man you are, as well as the CEO.
20VC: How To Build Meaningful Relationships With Your Investors, 4 Key Elements CEOs Must Focus On In Scale Mode & How Top Optimise Leadership Team Dynamics with Joel Flory, Founder & CEO @ VSCO
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings To date, Joel's raised over seventy million in funding with VSCO from some of the best in the business, including Excel, Glyn Capital Management, and Goldcrest Investments.
- ▶ 3:10 Harry Stebbings Joel, it is such a pleasure to have you on the show today, having heard so many great things from Ryan in Excel.
- ▶ 7:11 Harry Stebbings You chose Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:56 Joel Flory For example, at Excel, that from the day he reached out, he was there the next day for a beer, and it's not just getting a drink, but really that wanting to get to know you, wanting to see the office, wanting to see how you work, and I… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings As for their fund investing, they've backed the likes of Excel, Founders Fund, Thrive, Lightspeed, Foundry Group, and many more incredible managers.
20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- ▶ 11:21 Assaf Wand Usually, if there is a partner from a top fund, there is a tendency to give overweight to his idea and decision point, where it's not substantiated by the merit of his idea, but just rather from the fact that he came from Sequoia, he came…
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 3:54 Harry Stebbings You're at Excel, one of the leading funds in the world, and you left to start Stride. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:12 Fred Destin You know, half the time we don't have any data at all anyway, and so I think that the notion that data is going to disrupt early-stage venture fast to me is somewhat exaggerated because I, I mean, we did some of that work at Accel.
20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings In its simplest words, Monzo is the bank of the future, allowing you to open a full UK bank account in minutes from your phone, and to date, Tom has raised over a hundred and ninety million dollars in VC funding for Monzo from the likes of…
- ▶ 23:36 Tom Blomfield It was led by General Catalyst, a guy called Adam Valkin, and Axel came in as a new investor alongside General Catalyst, a lady called Sonali de Riker. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 17:42 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi And there was a particular set of investors that made an investment into AdMob and Sequoia Capital being one of them, Excel being the other. 2 times in the scene
20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn
- ▶ 14:37 Barry Eggers All four of the founders were investing in enterprise, and so that was sort of how we made our name, and I think with enterprise, it is you're judged by entrepreneurs by your body of work, your platform, and so the first big early stage…
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings To date, Goat have raised over ninety-seven million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the business, including Excel, Index, Up
20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Pete led the company from inception to more than fifty million monthly unit users, two hundred and fifty million dollars in VC funding from the likes of Sequoia and Excel, culminating in their merger with Zillow in 2015 that valued Trulia…
20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings To date, Paul has raised over forty four million dollars in funding with Lola from the likes of CRV, Excel, General Catalyst, and GV, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:05 Paul English And then the other thing I like about, when I think about the different PCs I've worked with, that I've enjoyed working with, like Harry Nellis is at Excel London.
20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings To date, Jack has raised over one hundred and sixty million dollars in VC funding with SeatGeek, from the likes of John Lockhart at Excel, Founder Collective, TCV, and most recently a fifty seven million dollar series deal led by Glyn… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:04 Harry Stebbings Today, actually on you and on the theme of skills and hiring, really, and I was lucky enough to chat to both John at Excel and David at Founder Collective before the show, and they both mentioned a certain element to me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:36 Harry Stebbings How have you seen the process differ from, say, the very early stages with the founder collectives of this world to maybe the much later stages with the excels and the growth rounds that you've seen?
- ▶ 19:02 unnamed speaker I spoke to John in Excel about it, and I'd love to hear, as would he, how was that acquisition process for you?
- ▶ 27:19 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic guest Jack was to have on the show, and a huge thanks to him for giving up the time today, and to John at Excel, and David and Micah at Founder Collective for the fantastic questions.
20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
- ▶ 3:27 Jerry Chen I was a young investor at Axel Partners at the
20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 22:22 Brian Garrett That was wisdom that Teresa gave to me when she was at Excel, and it stuck with me very well, because I was trying to do too much poorly in too quick of a time frame.
20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, at hstebbings, with two Bs on Snapchat, and we are back for part two of this very special feature week with Excel Partners. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:20 Jake Flomenberg And somewhere along the way of that conversation, I had chats with a lot of the other partners at the firm and 2 times in the scene
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Well, I'm thrilled to be featuring Excel this week, and joining me in the hot seat from Excel, we have Rich Wong, general partner and the man behind investments in the likes of Rovio, which IPO'd earlier this year, SwiftKey, which was… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:12 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so without further ado, I'm thrilled to hand over to Rich Wong, general partner at Excel.
- ▶ 3:03 Rich Wong And I'd known the Excel team for many years, mainly because we had worked in similar telecom and internet spaces in the past. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:26 Harry Stebbings Talk to me, how does Excel source those truly great entrepreneurs who are miles away from the valley in many cases, and how do they really find those great deals? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:53 Harry Stebbings How would you respond to that suggestion, probably with Excel lying in that multi-stage fund assertion?
- ▶ 10:03 Rich Wong You Excel actually has two different vehicles in the U.S. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:24 Harry Stebbings In terms of Excel's portfolio, there's a lot of companies raising big rounds and a lot of exciting opportunities ahead. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:20 Rich Wong If I were to go back to my time before Excel, my open wave systems, you know, the fundamental landscape in telecoms was changing right as we were trying to make a transition ourselves, and we were continuing to invest in technologies…
- ▶ 18:17 Harry Stebbings Before we dive into the quickfire, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you've seen yourself evolve as a board member over your time since 2006 with Excel, and where the inflection points have been in your learning.
- ▶ 22:52 Harry Stebbings How does Excel think about training the next generation? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:51 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate your support, and I cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's episode with part two, Jake Flommenberg, partner at Excel.
20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained
- ▶ 25:15 Semil Shah They just raised a series a from Steve Laughlin at Excel.
20VC: What Does It Take To Raise A Venture Fund Today, An Analysis of The Explosion of Seed Financing & Why IRR No Longer Takes Centre Stage with Samir Kaji, Senior Managing Director @ First Republic Bank
- ▶ 18:09 Samir Kaji So if somebody spins out of Sequoia or somebody spins out of Excel, those fundraising periods tend to go really quickly.
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 9:17 Jonathan Abrams I actually met Peter when he was actually still at Excel before Benchmark had even poached him a while back, and big fan.
20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
- ▶ 25:25 Harry Stebbings Um, so please, I, I often get someone's looking for a job at Excel.
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
- ▶ 13:41 unnamed speaker What is Excel thinking?
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings And prior to Benchmark, Peter was a managing partner at Excel in San Francisco.
- ▶ 5:53 Peter Fenton Anyway, that, that's the brief history, and I've been doing the job since I was 26 when I got, I was hired by Excel Partners, and, uh, spent seven years there before coming to Benchmark, where I've been for the last 10 years.
20VC: The Biggest Indicators Of Success In Founding Teams, How To Balance Both Vision and Operations & Taking Money From "The Man At The Rug Store" with Mar Hershenson, Founding Managing Partner @ Pear.vc
- ▶ 5:24 Mar Hershenson Accel, first round, Index, just really, really top name people.
20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 6:56 Leo Polovets Maybe like helps them get to, you know, building a public company and a couple of top funds like the Sequoias and the Excel's notice.
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 13:55 Jason Lemkin Well, you know, Excel and Sequoia and Andreessen came back to market, so we're pretty good there, and we love Homebrew and Data Collective and Cowboy and all these small funds, and we're good there, and we love Felicis, and there's just no…
20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 4:43 Roger Ehrenberg So, it depends on which kind of firm you're talking about, Harry, because certainly you've got firms like the Excels and the Greylocks and, you know, even someone like Akosla
20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 11:04 Jules Maltz Listening, actually, to the interview you did with Fred at Excel, and he talked a lot about Deliveroo and their unit economics.
- ▶ 28:03 Jules Maltz It's got a great board with Rich Wong from Excel and Ali Raghani from Y Combinator, and, you know, I was lucky enough to join the last round in a small way and super excited about that company long term.
20VC: The Fundamentals To Creating A Successful Venture Partnership & The Optimal Investment Decision Making Process with Ryan McIntyre, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Hello, and welcome back to part two of our very special feature of Foundry Group this week on the 20 Minute VC with me, your host, Harry Stebbings, found on Snapchat at hstebbings, and if you listened to Monday's fantastic episode with…
20VC: How 50% Of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, How To Build A Relationship Of Trust With Your VC and How Entrepreneurs Can Detect VC BS with Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings I'm delighted to say that Fred Destac, general partner at Excel and former guest and I, will be running the London Marathon in April.
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings Excel and Insight Venture Partners, having raised a hundred and fifty million Series B in 2014.
- ▶ 10:51 Ryan Smith I remember Excel partners who Excel and Sequoia, they led our series a Excel had reached out for three years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:14 Harry Stebbings When you were, as you said, cash flow positive and the business was thriving, what was that kind of catalyst for you guys realizing that now was the time for venture funding and you wanted to take Excel and Sequoia's money?
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 26:41 Paul Martino But you know, I don't want to be the one person who said no to the Facebook fund for Excel. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings And prior to his prolific angel investing career, Rick was the founder and CEO of BranchOut, who raised forty-nine million dollars in funding from some of the world's best investors, including the likes of Excel, Redpoint, Mayfield, and…
- ▶ 4:20 Rick Marini The, the first dot com crash, uh, started my second company branch out back in 2010 and, uh, branch out raised forty nine million dollars from Excel and Mayfield and Redpoint and Newark West and Floodgate and some great angels. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 20:51 Alex Bangash Excel, benchmark, and increase.
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 3:35 Michael Kim At the same time, at Rustic Canyon and being in venture, I saw that the absolute best firms like the Sequoia XLs,
- ▶ 12:23 Michael Kim The larger VCs like the Sequoia, Excel benchmarks, Greylocks of the world, um, are very focused on ownership into the best companies, and that, that dynamic itself precludes, uh, outside parties
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings And a universal checkout cart that has pulled in more than sixty million dollars in funding from the likes of Balderton, Excel, and DFJ, just to name a few.
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings Therefore, I'm delighted to welcome Brian O'Malley, partner at the world-famous Excel Partners. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:56 Brian O'Malley We've got a really great collection of partners here at Excel.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
- ▶ 27:49 Harry Stebbings As always, a huge thank you for your continued support, and I look so forward to bringing you Wednesday's show with Brian O'Malley, partner at Excel Partners in San Francisco.
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 30:46 unnamed speaker Excel. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Fundraising Is Also Business Development with Nicolas Dessaigne, Co-Founder & CEO @ Algolia
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Having started life as an offline search engine for mobile, they transitioned to helping companies deliver an intuitive search as you type experience on the web and mobile, and they were part of YC's winter, 2014 batch, and recently raised…
- ▶ 12:09 Harry Stebbings We've got Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:44 Nicolas Dessaigne And so that was like the perfect timing for us to raise our sales day, uh, that we did with Excel.
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 20:28 Aydin Senkut So when I was calling the CEO to join their run along with Excel and Atomico, we were like a tiny little fund, but they let us in.
20VC: Sprig's Gagan Biyani on The 3 Principles Of Fundraising and Building The World's Largest Restaurant
- ▶ 15:57 Harry Stebbings And we've spoken about the food now, and, and obviously we're primarily a VC-based show, and so we've got Battery, Excel, Ludlow, Greylock, all past guests of the show, and obviously Great Minds Think Alike, because they're also investors…
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 21:30 Christian Hernandez And you look at Greg Marsh at One Fine Stay, um, you look at, um, Avid, who was at Excel, and then did Boutique, now at Google Ventures. 2 times in the scene
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 0:05 Harry Stebbings And following our episode with the awesome Fred Destin, we are back in the land of Excel, and joining me today in the hot seat is James Cameron, early stage investor at Excel, where he focuses on enterprise software, security, fintech, and… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings James, absolutely fantastic to have you on the show for the second installment of Axel Feature Week. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:42 James Cameron been the big, one of the biggest revelations for me since, uh, joining Xcel is, you know, we always used to talk about these
20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings It is, of course, Excel Partners. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings It's an absolute pleasure to have you on the show today, and it's a very special episode as we're sitting here in Axel's office in London. 2 times in the scene