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