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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Accel comes up
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:05 Hadi Partovi Uh, and we met the day they got their term sheet from Excel, uh, you know, for the a hundred million dollar valuation. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:09 Jason Lemkin It allowed me to have a more aligned collaboration with the founders than I might have had if I were Excel, the largest investor, right?
- ▶ 54:09 Jason Lemkin And so many are going to get dropped and really good funds used to, in the old days, people would drop Excel and they would drop everything but Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:28 Jason Lemkin Excel has rebuilt their brand and it's enough.
- ▶ 1:13:44 Jason Lemkin I mean, Excel led three rounds, but I would say if, if there's a small shout out, it would, okay.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:25 Harry Stebbings In, in Europe, that's an uncomfortable position if I'm honest, because you have the leads Excel index Sequoia Europe, but you know, but some of the best known and they always want 15 minimum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:34 Semil Shah And he famously talked about, um, you know, getting off the Excel train in the pre-Facebook fund, you know, they were going through a lot of hard times or Peter Fenton has given interviews about this.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:35 Emil Michael I mean, I love, I think Excel's done very well in Europe and your hood.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:01 Drew Houston Um, but Pejman made an introduction to Samir Gandhi, who's now at Excel, but he was at Sequoia at the time.
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:47 Logan Bartlett And, uh, I worked alongside, um, the, the Vista equities of the world and the TA associates, the JMIs, uh, and actually got some exposure to folks like battery, Excel, Bessemer, uh, red point.
Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings I heard so many good things from Ali, from Anu, from Rich at Excel, actually.
- ▶ 26:47 Daniel Yanisse I was really lucky because my first board member, Rich Wong from Excel is amazing.
20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings For many investors and founders operating today, this is the first crash that they've seen in their professional life, me being one of them, and so today I wanted to bring together the lessons and wisdom from some of the best investing…
- ▶ 5:37 Harry Stebbings From one legend to another, I'm now so excited to hand over to Jim and Arthur, founders of Excel.
- ▶ 18:45 Harry Stebbings Now I want to move to the wonderful Sonali Dereika at Accel.
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings You've been in the venture game for a number of years now, so talk to me, how did you make your way into venture first, and then come to be at Excel, obviously, for the last 10 years or so? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:37 Sonali De Rycker Um, we were raising our early fund at Excel.
- ▶ 13:19 Sonali De Rycker Yeah, so what I'm really surprised at, Harry, because I sometimes check where things are sitting, you know, because we're now, uh, going to be soon in our 40th year, uh, we've always seen that it pays to be kind of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:48 Harry Stebbings I do want to, you mentioned obviously the accounting principles that you have at Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 Harry Stebbings Um, and I wanted to ask you, if you were to kind of describe Excel's culture that you want to build for Excel London in that same way, how would you describe it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:57 Sonali De Rycker And if you ask Excel, we really care about, we care about kind of enduring businesses and legacy.
- ▶ 51:56 Sonali De Rycker If you just kind of go back when we started out in 2000, we made the commitment to start Excel here because it wasn't just about Silicon Valley. 4 times in the scene
20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 37:05 David Fialkow His name is Jim Schwartz, and he's the co-founder of Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:47 Harry Stebbings I had Jim on the show from Excel, and it was one of the most incredible discussions.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 30:27 Jason Lemkin One was of course signaling, oh my God, Excel, Sequoia, whoever, 2 times in the scene
20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 18:44 Harry Stebbings Because given the expansion of firms across stages, unless you get in early, you probably won't get in at all if Excel are doing Seed, Soer Index, Soer Sequoia.
20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings And prior to joining Sequoia in 2020, Luciana was a partner at Excel in London.
- ▶ 7:13 Luciana Lixandru I joined Excel end of 2011.
- ▶ 25:21 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, you know, I've seen you in terms of the way you work with younger partners, and I've seen you bring up incredible talent through the ranks, you know, obviously both with Sequoia, but then at Excel also.
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 8:34 David Frankel Tom Lee, and I had been on a board I had with Sonali Dereka at Accel.
- ▶ 38:58 David Frankel So listening to, you know, the founders of Accel and the founders of Sir