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▶ 31:45 Fred Destin Um, and you know, Wonga is an Excel portfolio company. 2 times in the scene
▶ 39:37 Harry Stebbings And I'd like to give a huge hand to Fred for giving up his time today to be on the show, and for inviting me into the Axel office. 2 times in the scene

▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings Having started off his career with Microsoft, he then made the leap into venture with the world-renowned Axel Partners, where he was a board observer with the likes of Playfish, which were acquired by Electronic Arts, and he made seed…
▶ 2:10 Hussein Kanji I moved out to London in 2005 to go to graduate school here, and I think the second week of graduate school, uh, one of my colleagues from the Bay Area, uh, who knew the Accel partners pretty well, and specifically one of the partners made… 5 times in the scene
▶ 3:32 Harry Stebbings Why did you decide to leave the security of Axel? 5 times in the scene
▶ 9:25 Hussein Kanji You know, 24 months in, we realized we were nowhere close to getting to our goal, and our goal was pretty humble compared to Axel. 2 times in the scene
▶ 12:48 Hussein Kanji Uh, and you moved to London and you joined Naxxel, which is again, a top, you know, it's a great firm. 2 times in the scene
▶ 18:21 Hussein Kanji Social gaming, there was no term in social gaming when we at Accel did play Phish. 2 times in the scene
▶ 21:52 Hussein Kanji You know, so the, the big ones here are Index, Axel, Balderton.
▶ 23:06 Hussein Kanji And so you can do, we used to do this Excel inside of, uh, inside of, we used to do this exercise instead of Excel called the prepared mind. 2 times in the scene

▶ 7:04 Marvin Liao So, you know, I would say, like, there's a traditional VC, like, the benchmark and the Excels, or the, um, you know, you go down the list of, like, the Mayfields and Greylocks, like, the traditional, sort of, these

▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Chad is the CTO at Wunderkinder, the brains behind the wildly successful productivity app Wunderlist, previously cited by previous guests Michael Tresco of Axel and Matthias Leungmann of Atomico as their must-have productivity app, and…

▶ 11:19 Fabrice Grinda We work with the end capital in Europe, and those would be the ones we spend, that we share the most deals with, but the reality is, you know, everyone from Accel, to Benchmark, to Matrix, to Venrock, et cetera, to Spark, or VCs that we…

▶ 5:33 Javier Soltero So, um, and so that's why we ended up bootstrapping Hyperic actually for two years before we raised money ultimately from Excel and Benchmark who were great investors. 2 times in the scene
▶ 5:51 Harry Stebbings And it's interesting you say there about Axel and Benchmark making great investors. 2 times in the scene

▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Previously, Spencer was co-founder of Spontaneously Inc. and an investor at Accel in London, where he sourced and worked with Halo and Birchbox, just to name a few.

▶ 3:37 Charlie O'Donnell Uh, they're invested in Excel, for example, all the way on from Excel number one, uh, all the way on through.

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