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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.