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Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:46 Mamoon Hamid Or another example is, uh, Syed Ali at Aleph.
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:51 Harry Stebbings Yeah, we released a show today with Eisenberg, Michael Eisenberg of the left, and he said US number one, he said China number two, Israel number three, and then basically Europe number four, you guys will regulate yourselves to shit, as…
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:36 Michael Eisenberg Of the last 17 investments we made at Aleph, one was a SaaS company.
- ▶ 42:39 Michael Eisenberg We don't get the same kind of credit the benchmark gets that because Aleph invested, so someone's got invested, we don't have to do one more round, but we try to kind of peel back on it.
- ▶ 59:42 Harry Stebbings Where is Elef in 10 years time? 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
- ▶ 1:00:00 Harry Stebbings I, Eisenberg at Aleph, who's a very close friend and an investor in my funds, told me like, how many of your founders have you met in person?
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:09 Harry Stebbings Um, but there are, you know, Aleph in Israel who I rate a lot, um, Michael Eisenberg.
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
- ▶ 4:48 Harry Stebbings Now we're going to move to a very special episode with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and Michael Eisenberg at a left. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 15:04 Harry Stebbings We're now going to hear from Michael Eisenberg, founding partner at Alef in Israel. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings Michael spent 15 years as part of the Benchmark partnership before co-founding Aleph, one of Israel's leading early-stage funds, with a portfolio including Lemonade, Melio, and HoneyBook, just to name a couple of their unicorns.
- ▶ 32:23 Michael Eisenberg And I think it's one of the really powerful things about the benchmark model that we've adopted at Olive as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:26 Michael Eisenberg We copied it at Olive, right?
20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
- ▶ 0:01 Harry Stebbings This is TwentyVC with me, Harry Stebbings, and on Monday we released this incredible episode with Michael Eisenberg at LF. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:33 Harry Stebbings As I said, I've heard so many great things, both from Michael at Aleph and from Julian at Excel, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 22:18 Harry Stebbings But I want to start with one from Michael, actually, uh, from Olaf, who's obviously on your board, and he said, how do you try and use your board most effectively today?
- ▶ 32:16 Harry Stebbings Again, I do want to say a huge thank you to Michael Eisenberg at our left, to Michael at KOTU, and to the very special Julian Beck at Excel.
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings Now, Michael is co-founder and equal partner at Elef, with over five hundred and fifty million dollars under management, and a portfolio including the likes of Lemonade, Melio, and HoneyBook. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:13 Harry Stebbings And so I want to start with that, and so how did you make your way into the world of venture, and then how did Aleph come to be? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:11 Michael Eisenberg The second part of this is it informs our investment strategy in general at Olive, which is a lot along the lines of benchmark, which is we like to work with partners. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:26 Michael Eisenberg Our motto at Olive is different is better than better.
20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
- ▶ 39:36 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you a phenomenal episode on Monday with Michael Eisenberg at LF.
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
- ▶ 5:33 Harry Stebbings When I spoke to Michael at Evelyn, he asked specifically, when you look at the process now with the benefit of hindsight, and it's a tough one to ask, but it was Michael, so I thought it was important.