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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Accel comes up
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.