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20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 10:16 Danny Rimer Obviously, Amazon, Facebook, Apple,
20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
- ▶ 32:42 Tom Blomfield And then Apple came along with the iPhone and showed all the things you could do with a smartphone.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- ▶ 29:04 Jeff Morris Jr. The other book is called Google by Ken Oletta, and a funny story is I actually optioned the film into TV rights to this book a long time ago, and the reason I love this book so much is that it shows the impact of Bill Campbell on Google,…
20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- ▶ 8:31 Avidan Ross All the technology existed before, but because of the smartphone wars, the war between Apple and Samsung and Google and Nokia and Blackberry, a lot of the components that you find in a
- ▶ 15:54 Avidan Ross So now if we take the peace dividends of the smartphone wars and now say we have autonomous vehicle wars going on between Apple and Zoox and Cruise and obviously Waymo being the first into this industry, what we found is that there's a…
- ▶ 25:44 Avidan Ross So we think that big companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft have built out fantastic engineering manager programs.
20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund
- ▶ 24:50 Ron Bouganim I think it is fair to say that consumer products, you know, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, drive the higher valuations because in the consumer space, the distribution reach and adoption is more pervasive than
20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product
- ▶ 8:40 Phil Libin They're just like self-serving good for Silicon Valley, and they're becoming less and less important because of a lot of platform work that, well, honestly, Silicon Valley companies have done because of Apple and Google and Amazon.
- ▶ 12:31 Phil Libin All you have to do is look at the average tenure of employees in these big companies, like the average number of months that someone is staying an employee at Google, at Facebook, at Amazon, at Apple is surprisingly short.
20VC: Learnings From Backing The Likes of Spotify and Airbnb, The World of Growth Investing Today and The Right Way For Investors To Think About Liquidity with Woody Marshall, General Partner @ TCV
- ▶ 13:52 Woody Marshall You know, Apple's over a trillion dollars.
20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @
- ▶ 16:32 David Frankel Apple hasn't admitted it, but over the last few decades, IDEO has done unbelievable work for Apple, amongst others. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:19 David Frankel I think that a company like Apple, um, is doing more and more of this, but addiction to phones, addiction to apps, lack of mindfulness, lack of real human interaction, um, and I think that more and more tech apps, websites, applications,…
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 5:03 Howard Lerman I will say that I think if you historically look back at the greatest companies in history, they typically have come from more of a grassroots organic type of feel like Microsoft or Apple or even IBM or going back to the Ford Motor…
20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density
- ▶ 21:14 Andrew Farah And so if you don't work with someone who understands what it's like to ship a 100,000 units or to build a factory in Asia for the Apple wash or to hire a senior strategic sourcing manager to manage your 137 unique components,
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings And prior to Pioneer and YC, Daniel was the director at Apple, where he focused on machine learning as a result of his prior company, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:27 Daniel Gross It was effectively a search engine that got acquired by Apple in 2013. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:31 Daniel Gross I was 23 at the time leading a bunch of machine learning and the I teams across Apple, across iOS, iOS 10, the watch, and a bunch of other platforms.
20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv
- ▶ 3:42 Heather Fernandez I was at Apple for a moment.
20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
- ▶ 28:52 Elad Gil And really, if you look at the other most valuable companies in the world, be it Google or Apple or Microsoft, these actually tend to be companies with extremely high profit margins.
- ▶ 38:54 unnamed speaker I would argue that Google and Apple and, you know, Amazon are the most innovative companies in the world, and they do that as public companies.
20VC: Why Most The Value In Crypto Will Accrue in Governance, When Institutional Capital Will Enter The Space and How To Think About Liquidity In Crypto with Joel Monegro, Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC
- ▶ 9:12 Joel Monegro If you think about these as layers, we got proprietary hardware that later became commoditized, and then we had proprietary software that later became commoditized, and the world we live in today is one of proprietary data, where the… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- ▶ 28:19 Max Motschwiller And Facebook, Google, Apple, and in some respects, Amazon, they, they are just so large and their user bases are so far reaching and engaged.
20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- ▶ 3:10 Trae Vassallo And so I remember, gosh, when I was probably in grade school, being incredibly inspired by these Apple IIs we had at school, and it just clicked.
- ▶ 16:02 Trae Vassallo He and Tony Fidel had started this company that ultimately became the iPod and then the iPhone, and then, and so he spent 10 years at Apple building iPhones and iPads.
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 5:27 Glenn Solomon But I think if I think about the last decade, plus the six most important letters that I've seen are iOS, which ushered in really the era of mobile computing, which Apple's iPhone came out in 2007 and AWS where Amazon really ushered in the…
20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
- ▶ 21:15 Adrian Aoun What are the next Google, the next Apple, but let's go after the industries that are far less sexy.
- ▶ 34:19 Adrian Aoun Now, when I think of scale in tech, I think of Google with three billion daily users, Facebook and Apple with almost two billion.
20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
- ▶ 27:00 Andy McLoughlin I mean, you know, they were Apple's app of the year across all categories last year, doing, you know, millions and millions and millions of users globally now.
20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square
- ▶ 7:21 James Loftus So you could go a year or two sometimes without seeing all the deals that a Google or Facebook or an Apple's done.
- ▶ 10:17 James Loftus There's been softening at the other end of the market from the Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon end.
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 14:51 Alex Taussig And then the app stores are just dominated by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple.
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
- ▶ 9:19 Leore Avidar How is your company going to be that next billion dollar startup, and how can you create that sense of urgency that if they don't invest in you, they are going to miss out on the next Google and Apple.
20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
- ▶ 9:29 Harry Stebbings Platform shift itself, and one that Peter Fenton said on the show, with regards to the starvation of free and open distribution, how do you think about this in the kind of potentially fallow period for consumer, in the incumbency advantage… 4 times in the scene