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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- ▶ 21:32 Adam D'Augelli And so I was on the board of ring through the acquisition by Amazon.
20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- ▶ 30:48 John Vrionis And so they built a whole product and solution based on their experience around helping companies solve compliance, SOC to compliance initially.
20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 33:44 Harry Stebbings For consumer, does Amazon do more to make the market than destroy it? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 20:03 Ash Fontana Amazon vertically integrates from warehouses to websites.
20VC: Why Speed Is The Biggest Differentiator a Founder Can Have, How To Hire Seasoned Tier 1 Talent To An Early Stage Startup & How To Start, Scale and Manage Remote Teams with Domm Holland, Founder & CEO @ Fast
- ▶ 12:45 Harry Stebbings And then related to this, does it need to be an independent platform or can the monopolistic regimes of Facebook and Amazon and Apple not do it themselves? 5 times in the scene
20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- ▶ 29:03 Ilya Sukhar So when we looked at what Facebook was selling us on the stream, which didn't come to fruition, but the dream was build Amazon Web Services, but the Facebook version of it under the Parse brand with the Parse ecosystem as the starting…
- ▶ 31:44 Ilya Sukhar Either Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake.
20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 11:27 Clark Valberg And I'm voting for Amazon or Walmart, Uber or Lyft.
20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader
- ▶ 29:13 Hiten Shah That's Amazon.
20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing
- ▶ 8:28 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, I had a guest on the show the other day that said, really, with the strength of Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, anyone who feels they have any form of defensibility, be it casual resources themselves,
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 7:35 Byron Deeter This record acquisition by IBM of Red Hat is really all about Amazon Web Services crushing them in public cloud, them trying to make a play for hybrid cloud more aggressively and essentially draw a buffer line where they can be relevant…
- ▶ 22:56 Byron Deeter I'm not nearly as technical as he is, and so just observing the product strategy discussions, and he's pulled in some of the Bezos Amazon message
20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution
20VC: Cameo's Steven Galanis on Why You Must Fall In Love With Your Mission Not Your Product, How To Extract As Much Value From Your Investor Base As Possible & Should You Really Hire For 6 Months Ahead of What You Need?
- ▶ 15:22 Steven Galanis Is Amazon, or you think of it as an e-commerce marketplace, every one of our SKUs walks and talks and has, you know, hundreds of thousands or millions of followers, some of whom happen to be abroad.
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings Four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston, where his research coverage included such companies as Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft, and he was also the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO.
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings Before that, Justin was the co-founder at Twitch, the world's leading video platform and community for gamers, which was acquired by Amazon for nine hundred and seventy million dollars, reportedly.
- ▶ 4:26 Justin Kan And so in 2014, you know, sold Twitch to Amazon.
20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
- ▶ 22:59 Harry Stebbings In the world of Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, really, defensibility has died in the resources, talent, and energy that they can provide to any single problem they choose.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on The Strategy Behind The New $600m "Back To The Future" Fund, The Truth To Price Sensitivity at Series A & Why Venture Team Building Is Like Basketball Team Building
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Mamoun is a partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture firms, counting Google, Airbnb, Amazon, Spotify, Square, and many more billion-dollar companies among their portfolio.
- ▶ 7:33 Mamoon Hamid Then all the things that have been built on top of the internet, companies like Xilinx, Tandem computers, Compact computers, Sun Microsystems, Lotus, Intuit, Symantec, Amazon, of course.
20VC: Why Consumer Brands Must Embrace Physical Retail To Avoid Inflated Online CACs, How To Alter Fund Strategy When Investing In Consumer Retail & Why The Era of The 1,000 Store Brand Is Over with Brendan Wallace, Founder and Managing Partner @ Fifth Wa
- ▶ 15:39 Brendan Wallace On frankly, Google AdWords to grow very quickly online, but now Amazon is the number one spender on Google AdWords, and frankly, they're making the cost of customer acquisition almost prohibitive for many of these new upstart brands, and…
- ▶ 32:40 Harry Stebbings She said that Amazon does more to make the market than to destroy it for digital retailers. 7 times in the scene
20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- ▶ 38:04 Harry Stebbings I will be doing an Amazon shop after this.
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
- ▶ 31:44 Jeremy Liew Left Snap last year, together with his wife Kate Kahn, who was an SVP at Amazon, they started a company building a multi-brand e-commerce retailer, and we'd built a strong relationship with him over the course of the five or six years that… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- ▶ 25:06 Dylan Field So I think as we've seen better developer tooling, lower costs for cloud services like AWS,
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
20VC: Why The Current VC Financing Mechanism For Consumer Brands Is Broken, Why The Infrastructure To Power Emerging Brands Is Broken and What The Re-Platforming of Retail Means For The Next Decade in Consumer with Adam Pritzker, Chairman & CEO @ Assemble
- ▶ 5:42 Adam Pritzker So in 2018, more stores closed than opened, and Amazon is clearing out retailers.
- ▶ 6:06 Adam Pritzker And typically, those new emerging brands spend more money on inputs like ingredients or materials and use channels like Shopify and Amazon Marketplace for distribution.
- ▶ 9:21 Adam Pritzker With marketplaces like Amazon, social platforms like Instagram, and e-com platforms like Shopify, the buyer is now individuals, not stores.
- ▶ 10:00 Adam Pritzker So Amazon did 7.5 billion dollars of sales on black Friday. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:03 Harry Stebbings Adding it to the Amazon wishlist as we speak, but what emerging consumer brand do you most respect, and most importantly, why? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:53 Adam Pritzker I mean, it's a fantastic distribution channel, and obviously, they're clearing out stores, but I think what Kirsten is pointing to is that they're also providing an incredible marketplace for emerging brands, and we have a lot of brands in…
20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
- ▶ 1:04 Harry Stebbings Victoria's deep operating experience also includes leadership roles at Amazon, American Express, Travelocity, and RingCentral, and I do want to say a huge thank you to Aydin and Sundeep at Felicis and Asaf at Hippo for some fantastic…
- ▶ 23:21 Victoria Treyger First of all, the Amazon efficiency machine, which is what I call it. 4 times in the scene
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 4:04 Jeff Richards It was, you know, back in the day before we had Microsoft, before we had Amazon, very grassroots companies that really were part of the scene in Washington State, and I then went to college, Dartmouth College on the East Coast, and then… 2 times in the scene
20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware
- ▶ 13:46 Frank Chen So programming robots to put stuff in the boxes that Amazon is sending you sort of
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 9:47 Anjney Midha I think Amazon did that with books, and I think that's going to happen with startups too. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:51 Anjney Midha I think whether that ends up being AWS,
20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
- ▶ 10:50 Sam Lessin And, you know, what Amazon came along and says, look, 3 times in the scene
20VC: The 3 Stages of Denial For Founders When Scaling, Why You Will Likely Be Unable To Hire Through Your Network & The Interview Question All Founders Must Ask with Olof Mathé, Founder & CEO @ Mixmax
- ▶ 19:52 Olof Mathe Also helps you avoid a little bit ending up in either ends of that spectrum that we mentioned before, the spectrum being hiring someone who's just way too senior and has the immaculate twenty-year resume from Google, Facebook, Amazon,…
20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- ▶ 6:07 Assaf Wand So building the backend, yeah, I can go to AWS. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 8:58 Fred Destin If you're sitting in the room with Jeff Bezos at Amazon and you're trying to get two hundred million dollars more out of your exit price, are you the kind of person who can do that?
- ▶ 13:15 Fred Destin I mean, PillPack is a company that got acquired by Amazon for a billion dollars.
- ▶ 35:10 Fred Destin This is back to this argument of, you know, you bought Amazon at the IPO, and you held it to today, and look where it's at, right?