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20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 10:27 Max Altman We were able to put in a pretty good check, co-lead it with initialized Gary and Alexis, who also had a great fund that vintage.
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:38 Harry Stebbings It's your Alexa Haney at seven, seven, six style, or it's your all in unison Sequoia.
Kirsten Green: The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM | 20VC #912 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:33 Harry Stebbings Alexis Ohanian asked this on Twitter when I tweeted about you coming on.
20Growth: The Biggest Lie in Startup Growth and Marketing, Why You Do Not Need To Diversify Customer Acquisition Channels in the Early Days & When and How To Build Your Growth Team with Rob Schutz, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer @ Ro
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings And I do want to say a huge thank you to Roe founder Z, David Tisch at Box, and Alexis Ohanian for some amazing, amazing questions and suggestions today.
20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- ▶ 3:44 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from so many mutual friends, from Avichel Garg, from Dylan Field, from Alexis Ohanian, who all actually provided questions as well, but thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 10:12 Harry Stebbings But as I said, I spoke to Alexis Ohanian before the show, and he suggested that I ask a question around YC Demo Day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:47 Harry Stebbings I want to say a huge thank you to him for making the time to do the show there, and a huge thank you to Dylan and Alexis for providing some fantastic questions.
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Alexis Ohanian, Gokul Rajaram, and Gary Tan for some amazing questions and suggestions today.
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 39:22 Mark Mullen And as you see, um, Alexis Sohanian from seven, seven, six did the deal with us. 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
- ▶ 43:24 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you a fantastic episode this Thursday with Alexis Ohanian.
20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings Today, this company ranks as the number five most visited website in the US, and I've also been lucky enough to have his wonderful co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, on the show previously. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:40 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things, both from Daniel Kahn and Alexis Ohanian, so thank you so much for joining me today, Steve. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:03 Harry Stebbings Alexis, and two about the early days with YC. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:59 Steve Huffman Alexis and I left in 2009, and then I returned in 2015.
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
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To Sohanian, Gary Tan, and the wonderful Matt Mazio.
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Cool has raised over fourteen million dollars in VC funding from some very dear friends of the show in the form of Gary and Alexis had initialized, James and Peter at NFX, Mike at Floodgate, Y Combinator, GV, and Naval Ravikant, just to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:07 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Gary Tan, from Alexis, from James and Pete at NFX, so thank you so much for joining me today, Cool.
- ▶ 10:44 Harry Stebbings I mean, speaking of the investors that did really get it and latch onto it, as I said earlier, I spoke to Gary and Alexis that initialized, and I actually, in my stalking, saw a tweet where you said about the foundational impact that…
- ▶ 21:57 Harry Stebbings No, I, I do totally get you, but I, I spoke to Alexis before the show, and he mentioned the product market fit that you clearly, clearly achieved, and the incredible growth that you're seeing today.
20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
- ▶ 1:07 Harry Stebbings And I do also want to say a huge thank you to YC's Daniel Gross, Alexis Ohanian, Alex Bangash, and Ryan Peterson for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 7:50 Garry Tan Actually can help with, and so rather than be sort of a very, very tightly knit one or two person partnership, we've really opted to be a much bigger partnership, and so Alexis and I started this fund, but we did bring on seven additional…
- ▶ 12:37 Garry Tan I think what put us in the business, frankly, we're Alexis and I being partners at Y Combinator very early is seeing a very, very high volume of great founders.
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings The company was ultimately acquired by Lawworks, and I'd also have to say a huge thank you to two people who've always been so awesome and supportive to me, Alexis Ohanian and Gary Tan.
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings As I said, I feel like I know you well already, having heard so much from Micah at Founder Collective, Gary and Alexis at Initialize, and Sundeep at Felicis.
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Upfront, and include angel investments from Elad Gill, Ashton Kutcher, and Alexis Ohanian, just to name a few.
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- ▶ 2:27 Harry Stebbings As I said, I heard so many great things from Alexis at Initialize to Ali at YC, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 6:33 Harry Stebbings And what an incredible rise in journey it's been, and we mentioned some of the backers there from Alexis that have initialized to Ali at YC, and I do want to start on that theme of fundraising, because we've spoken before, and you've said…
- ▶ 24:41 Harry Stebbings Question from Alexis Ohanian. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 21:34 Harry Stebbings We just had Alexis Sohanian from initialized and read it on the show. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings You might remember we had Alexis Ohanian and Gary Tan at Initialize Capital on the show a couple of weeks ago, and Alexis mentioned their most recent investment in a company called WorkRamp. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:31 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Alexis that initialized for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Ted.
- ▶ 7:29 Ted Blosser Um, I know Gary Tan and Alexis Ohanian from our investors at Initialize, they've been very, very good in helping us build our brand. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 Ted Blosser And we wanted to apply those same growth strategies to the enterprise market, especially with Alexa's experience with Reddit and Gary's experience with Posturus and their time at YC.
- ▶ 24:23 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to Gary and Alexis at Initialize Capital for the intro to TED today, without which the show would not have been possible.
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 15:44 Harry Stebbings I'm intrigued now, having been both an investor with Alexis and Gary in the early days of Initialized, and a founder, 2 times in the scene
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 29:32 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all the support, and I cannot wait to bring you Monday's episode with Alexis Ohanian at Initialized.
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Now, if you haven't heard Monday's episode with Alexis Ohanian, that really is a must, because today we are joined by Alexis' co-founder at Initialized, Gary Tan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:23 Garry Tan In Coinbase's case, my partner Alexis actually helped make that first mainstream press article happen with that press intro, so it's just funny how that works.
20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways
- ▶ 26:40 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all the support, and I cannot wait to bring you Monday's episode with Alexis Ohanian at Initialized.