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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Accel comes up
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:46 Cem Sertoglu We, we introduced them to Accel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:15 Cem Sertoglu About a year and a half later, or two years later, then, uh, Rich Wong at Accel Growth came and led, uh, the, the, the B round at a billion dollar valuation. 2 times in the scene
Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Now, I was chatting to, uh, Miles at Excel beforehand, and he said, you've just got to start with context, and so I didn't want to do like the, oh, how did you come to found linear?
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:08 Mark Goldberg Some of the folks that I respect immensely are the Excel Venture team, Dan Levine, Vasanatha Rajan.
- ▶ 53:58 Mark Goldberg So I, I, you know, I, I, that's an obvious choice for me that there are some other great funds as well, including IVP at the series, a, I think Excel ventures continues to just do really interesting, innovative work.
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:58 David Frankel I, if it's Sequoia, A-sixting Z, Accel, you name it, I want that name, and I think there will always be a steady supply of founders who think that way.
- ▶ 33:35 David Frankel It's kind of like the, you know, um, Accel,
- ▶ 1:17:17 David Frankel Sequoia will, it doesn't matter, by the way, I don't want to single out Sequoia here, but it doesn't matter if you take your check from Andreessen, Sequoia, Axel, you name them, right?
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:16 Laela Sturdy I love Rich Wong at Excel.
Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:26 Dax Dasilva And within a few weeks, we had Excel partners who, you know, the investors behind
- ▶ 31:53 Dax Dasilva How it feels different from VC, and we've had really, we had some really great VCs with Inovia and with Excel, um, and some pension funds.
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:46 Harry Stebbings When, you know, I think it was Founder Collective that led the first round in Excel.
Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:27 Harry Stebbings Was it paying an Excel? 2 times in the scene
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:48 Danny Rimer Clearly, clearly the folks at Sequoia are a big, a big fierce competitor, and the folks at Acceler are fierce, um, and, you know, I would say there are a number of different players, but those come to mind for consumer stuff.
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:57 Tom Blomfield We've had Sequoia and Andres and Accel and Founders Fund and Google Ventures and all of these funds leading rounds in companies in the last batch.
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:56 Mark Suster Sequoia, Accel, people like that, who don't ever have to think about fundraising, they immediately take markdowns.
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:28 Daniel Dines That's an interesting story, because between seed series and series A that we did here in London with Axel, I had to raise a bridge round from my investors, from existing investors, and we were negotiating for a long time, like, to do a…
- ▶ 1:04:08 Harry Stebbings How did you feel going into Excel? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:22 Daniel Dines So I said basically no to Sequoia to our Series B, and we, Series B was led by Excel US, and Capital G, Kleiner Perkins, and some other people participated in, but I said no to Sequoia.
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:39 Girish Mathrubootham और वह product पहले वर्ष में डेड़ मिलियन और दूसरे वर्ष में छे दशमलव पाँच मिलियन तक पहुँच गिया और फिर board ने मेरे इस model के बारे में समझा और फिर मेरे शुरू के दिनों के VC निवेशक शेखर ने Excel से कहा गिरिश आप कितने product बना सकते हैं तो…
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:58 Girish Mathrubootham And, uh, then my, uh, uh, early VC investor Shaker from Accel said, Girish, what are all the products that you can build?
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:32 Chris Dixon It was like Sequoia and Kleiner and, uh, Benchmark and Excel.
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:07 David Clark So if I look at the firms that are on, um, you know, I look at someone like, um, like Excel, um, who, you know, is probably on the third or fourth generation now of, of, um, of leaders within that firm. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:52 David Clark and so I, I think I'd like to try and democratize venture to some extent, and that works on multiple levels, so it's about giving, giving everyday investors the opportunity to invest in a Sequoia, or an Accel, or an Andreessen, or a…
Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings Um, how did you get the job at Excel? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:52 Harry Stebbings Some of those, uh, entrepreneurs that you worked with were during your time with Excel, you know, close to, I think, 15 years, 14 years and whatever months it was. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:12 Harry Stebbings What did Excel not do that with the benefit of hindsight you would have done or would have done differently? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:42 Peter Wagner And in 2000, you know, we launched Excel London, uh, and Kevin Camoli came on, and he did a tremendous job, uh, in, in building that.
- ▶ 37:59 Harry Stebbings I guess you worked with an Excel, did you, for a period?
- ▶ 50:20 Peter Wagner I still, I still hold a lot of our Facebook, um, investment, you know, back from, um, uh, you know, the Excel days.
- ▶ 52:03 Harry Stebbings Which is, you know, you mentioned holding Facebook stock that, you know, Excel was a phenomenally successful period for you in terms of wealth generation.
- ▶ 57:15 Harry Stebbings Was it tough doing wing because like at Excel you have a fundraising machine.
Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:55 Christian Hecker So obviously Johan was the product market fit and then series B, uh, with founders fund in Excel was the, um, um, uh, scaling in Germany, going deeper in the market, get really maybe millions and billions of assets.
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14 Thomas Plantenga Then we ran that for a while, and there you had Investors Insight and Accel on the board.
- ▶ 58:32 Thomas Plantenga So, and I think, you know, I really learned what are qualities VCs by working with Lightspeed, Accel, Insight, all these companies, all these investors that we have are like of a breed that is high, high quality.
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:06 Harry Stebbings And you're one of many, you know, Excel funded one, Sequoia funded one, Basseman funded one, it's kind of like race.
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:08 Jason Lemkin I know iconic said they were way up and Excel said they were back in Salesforce, but I just, I didn't, I didn't see enough greed in the markets in 20, 23.