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Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:05 Cliff Weitzman So Dylan Field from Figma, uh, Mike Krieger from Instagram, Ev from Twitter, uh, Zillow founders, Audible founders, Grammarly founders, Robinhood founders, Honey founders, 23 me founders, Plaid founders,
Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
- ▶ 1:08:16 unnamed speaker Or, uh, the one that I know I could have done is I try to convince the partnership to buy, I made the investment, uh, in Audible was my first big home run, and then it went public, and it was a good, a great, we sold, uh, not all the… 3 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
Oren Zeev: How I Raised $1 BILLION in 12 Months | 20VC #888 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:32 Oren Zeev Help me back then is not to be overly obsessed with the mistakes that I've made and just basically start over, you know, and, you know, I moved here in 2002, you know, the first deal that I did off the bat was, uh, was audible, which was a…
- ▶ 41:59 Oren Zeev Um, uh, a bigger miss, a bigger miss in my mind, at least, uh, was again at Apex, where, uh, Audible, which I did, uh, I bought 40% off in 2003, and, uh, took it public 2000, the company went public again for the second time, 2004. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:11 unnamed speaker You know, you tend to remember more the, the first meanings that turn into great outcomes, like the first meeting with audible, the first meeting with house, the first meeting with, uh, you know, I w I 2 times in the scene
20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
- ▶ 28:17 Guillaume Pousaz Audible is actually, uh, is hugely important to me.
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 37:47 Josh Silverman I read about 50 books a year, because Audible has changed my life, so I listen to books.
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
- ▶ 35:02 Stewart Butterfield I literally have to open the Kindle app or the Audible app, so I don't know my favorite book, and if I did, it would probably be some philosophy thing.
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Is Overrated, The Downside of Thematic Investing, Making Quality Decisions In Uncertain Conditions & Why He Has No Reserves Allocation
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings Over the past decade, Oran has backed the likes of Trip Actions, Tipality, Audible, Howes, Chegg, and Hippo Insurance, to name a few, and
20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con
- ▶ 28:49 Tomer London So I love Audible. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 4:05 Bing Gordon I also was on a founding board member of Audible, the books on tape on the internet company that Kleiner invested in, did not have a board seat, and I had a board seat there, so I got to participate in Kleiner's investment reviews for… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:06 Bing Gordon So I'm doing a board now with Brad Burnham, and he was early on in Audible as well, and now we work together on Duolingo.
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Now, Auron is the founding partner at Zeve Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most under-the-radar but high-performing funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Howes, Chegg, Audible, Bonobos, and recent guest with Addy Seidman at…
- ▶ 17:45 Harry Stebbings Uh, the incredible portfolio you've built up, including category leaders from Houzz to Audible to Chegg.
- ▶ 22:47 Oren Zeev Audiobooks in the case of Audible. 3 times in the scene
20VC: How Startups Should React To Today's Funding Environment & Why Big Markets Are More Forgiving with Jenny Lefcourt, Partner @ Freestyle.vc
- ▶ 25:36 Jenny Lefcourt So I'm now addicted to buying them on Audible, and then just listening whenever I can on the go. 2 times in the scene
20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise
- ▶ 24:04 Hiten Shah On Audible, it's three x, and on YouTube videos, it's, uh, two x. 3 times in the scene