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Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:07 Alex Rampell On the other side, I will meet people that will start a company almost exactly like TrialPay, or almost exactly like a firm.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:16 Harry Stebbings You've left a firm or you've left square or you've left whatever.
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:56 Peter Singlehurst So we're still big, you know, shareholders in Affirm and, uh, and Wise.
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:08 Max Levchin The story about knowing the letter grade of every person you hire in your company, whether it's 2000 people like a firm, but that's just silly.
- ▶ 9:33 Harry Stebbings But when you are the size of a firm, you know, it's impossible to only have A team players. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:16 Max Levchin When I started the company, I sat down with a bunch of bankers and said, hey, I'm gonna start a company where 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:47 Max Levchin I, but, um, we have a whole culture of postmortems at a firm where we record every decision we make, especially, I'll give you like a very retail one, now that I said postmortem. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:11 Max Levchin Like we have a prototyping team at a firm that is trusted slash empowered to ship stuff that is just
- ▶ 32:40 Max Levchin Nothing we did going back to the beginning of a firm time and learn from it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:43 Max Levchin Very first time I had to do it was certainly not a firm, which, and every time I have done it, I said, I have, I hope to never do it again. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:26 Max Levchin One of my favorite internal lines at a firm is 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:04 Harry Stebbings Um, is Klarna growing faster than the firm? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:56 Harry Stebbings Is your mentality tied to the market cap of the company? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:35 Max Levchin So before Affirm was a thing, I made a list of
- ▶ 56:10 Max Levchin They're not a firm customer, so I have to full, full disclosure. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:21 Max Levchin This has to do with a story in the very early days of a firm where I try to teach people how to make pickles because I love pickles too. 3 times in the scene
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:24 Kaz Nejatian But we have similar, like, relationships with Affirm, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:41 Kaz Nejatian And I think Shopify and Stripe, Shopify and Affirm, Shopify and Meta, Shopify and Google, Shopify and Apple, like, these are incredibly powerful partnerships.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:41 Delian Asparouhov It happens to be that, you know, we picked up on that trend and saw that there was going to be upcoming tailwinds far ahead of anybody else, but we also invested in Airbnb, Affirm, et cetera.
Larry Shurtz: How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Vertical Teams | E1151 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:29 Harry Stebbings Max Levchin from Affirm said on the show, when there's doubt, there's no doubt.
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:15 Bastian Lehmann Patrick at Stripe, uh, Zach at Plate, uh, Max at Affirm.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:26 Keith Rabois I remember when we were considering the first institutional investment in max elections company at a firm.
Brian Singerman: How I Became a Partner at Founders Fund, Why We Put $400M into Anduril | 20VC #943 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:27 Brian Singerman Stencentrics, Affirm, you know, Airbnb, we'll see you without, you know, Stripe.
20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity
- ▶ 9:02 Harry Stebbings Some of Cyan's biggest hits include Uber, Affirm, Opendoor, Postmates,
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:44 Henri Pierre-Jacques If you didn't get out before the bubble busted, if you were still in whatever company, you know, Affirm, Coinbase, Robinhood, and you hadn't actually liquidated it yet, like you just lost 70% of your value, right?
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:16 Keith Rabois Um, actually some have, you know, like I'm sure Opendoor actually is profitable, a firm will be profitable, but usually it's a 10 to 15, 20 year journey by the time that happens.
- ▶ 34:22 Keith Rabois But typically companies like that attract a lot of talented VCs or firm.
20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings Outside of Anderil, Brian has led investments in the likes of Affirm, Oscar Health,
- ▶ 20:02 Brian Singerman Even back in the day, it wasn't the cheap price where we invested in a firm at, at the time, because Max Lepchin is one of the greatest entrepreneurs ever born, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 1:45 Harry Stebbings Harness has helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affiliate, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:09 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, Coinbase, and Plaid capture more value with their finances.
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings And as for Keith, he led the first institutional investments in DoorDash, Affirm, and has also led investments in Ramp, Trade Republic, Fair, and Stripe, to name a few.
- ▶ 5:57 Keith Rabois In addition, we do use debt and debt is the oxygen for businesses like Affirm.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings Harnesses have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, Coinbase, and Plaid capture more value with their finances.
- ▶ 13:54 Hans Tung In fact, we end up investing both Peloton and Affirm because of that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:38 Harry Stebbings Often you need to do the work, whether it's like really digging into the financing solutions that Peloton provide, and that's how you find a firm, or the diligence that we do with customer, you know, research and analysis.
- ▶ 37:36 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, Coinbase, and Plaid capture more value with their finances.
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
- ▶ 1:25 Harry Stebbings Harness has helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, Coinbase, and Plaid capture more value with their finances.
- ▶ 48:16 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, Coinbase, and Plaid capture more value with their finances.
20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, Krista's also on the board of Affirm and Kimberly Clark today.
- ▶ 35:21 Harry Stebbings Running the board that you do today, but then also sitting on Kimberly Clark, Affirm, among others you have done before.
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
- ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, and Coinbase capture more value with their finances.
- ▶ 36:34 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, and Coinbase capture more value with their finances.
20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
- ▶ 1:58 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, and Coinbase capture more value with their finances.
- ▶ 44:47 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, and Coinbase capture more value with their finances.
20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO
- ▶ 1:57 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, and Coinbase capture more value with their finances.
- ▶ 38:58 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, and Coinbase capture more value with their finances.
20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
- ▶ 2:00 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, and Coinbase capture more value with their finances.
- ▶ 39:46 Harry Stebbings Harness have helped founders and early employees at companies like Stripe, UiPath, Affirm, and Coinbase capture more value with their finances.
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings As a little context on Jeremy, though, as mentioned, partner at Lightspeed, one of the leading firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Affirm, Snap, Mulesoft, Epic Games, and more. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
- ▶ 33:29 Avlok Kohli Alec, the founder, was the head of credit at a firm, and he and his founding team built a betterbill.com and have found extreme product market fit.
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Her portfolio includes the likes of, check this out, SpaceX, Uber, a
20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
- ▶ 18:30 Angela Strange The founders were part of the risk and fraud team at Affirm, and here's what they noticed one day. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Now, Kraft is one of Silicon Valley's leading early stage funds, with David's portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Facebook, Tesla, SpaceX, Palantir, Affirm, Airbnb, Slack, and Bird, to name a few.
20VC: Lightspeed Partner, Merci Victoria Grace on The Future of Collaboration Tools, Bundling vs Unbundling, Synchronous vs Asynchronous & What It Means To Productise The S*** Out of Venture
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings But to our episode today, and I had heard so many great things about this guest from many different people in the industry, and so I'm delighted to welcome Mercy Victoria Grace, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the Valley's…
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Vinod is the founder at Kostler Ventures, one of the Valley's most renowned firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Square, a
- ▶ 14:58 Vinod Khosla It was Square, Stripe, Affirm, Funbox, a few companies like that, just to mention some of our own company.
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings West Coast franchises in the new scene of entrance, with a portfolio including the likes of Lambda, Calm, GitLab, Affirm, Bird, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Khosla Ventures Founding Partner, Samir Kaul on Why Pro Rata Is A Cop Out, Why He Likes Technical Risk and Does Not Take Market Risk & How To Approach Time Allocation Across The Portfolio In Venture
20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings But to our episode today, and I'm thrilled to welcome to the hot seat today, Arif Jan Mohamed, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out,…
20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- ▶ 38:09 Brianne Kimmel You can think of it as a firm for software businesses.
20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Max Levchin's Affirm, Cameo, Stitch Fix, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings So Jeremy is a partner at Lightspeed, one of the leading firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Snapchat, MuleSoft, Max Levchin's Affirm, AppDynamics, and many more incredible companies. 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
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Thrilled to welcome Barry Eggers, founding partner at Lightspeed, one of the world's leading venture funds with a portfolio that includes, check this out, the likes of Snapchat, MuleSoft, Affirm, Stitch Fix, AppDynamics, Nutanix, and many…
20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings MuleSoft, Max Levchin's Affirm, AppDynamics, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings So Alex is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Snapchat, MuleSoft, Mattis Levchin's Affirm, The Honest Company, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, Alex also served as an advisor to the SV Angel Fund, and co-founded three other companies, TXN, Point, and Affirm, with Max Levchin.
20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Now, Nicole is a partner at Lightspeed, one of the world's leading venture funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Snapchat, Nest, Stitch Fix, AppDynamics, and Max Levchin's Affirm, just to name a few from their incredible portfolio.
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
- ▶ 29:26 Harry Stebbings As always, we so appreciate all your support, and cannot wait to bring you Friday's episode with Max Levchin, founder and CEO at Affirm.