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Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 42:56 Harry Stebbings Um, Bain Capital Fifth Wall joining alongside
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:50 David Frankel I was in it with Bain Capital, pre-Founder Collective. 2 times in the scene
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:17 Kevin Ryan The other thing I would say, I had incredible investors at DoubleClick, uh, Bain and Greylock, for example, I had just remarkable partners.
Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:15 Peter Lacaillade And we were the first check there, and I like to say that I got more push, I got as much or more pushback from the get-go doing bank capital as I did doing Shore Capital.
Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:07 Davis Smith Our investors that are coming later, bank capital, they, you know, they invested, uh, two and a half years ago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:19 Davis Smith And I had this misalignment where I had Bain Capital and some other investors that were looking and saying, Hey, you know, this has been a great investment for us.
- ▶ 31:47 Davis Smith Our last investor with Bain Capital, Cecilia Chao.
- ▶ 40:09 Davis Smith I go get Kirsten green or someone from our board, Cecilia Chow from bank capital to go jump on a call.
- ▶ 51:22 Davis Smith And I started a process being capital gave me a handful of search firms to go talk to. 3 times in the scene
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:38 Adi Levanon There is now, um, a wonderful, uh, supportive, um, letter being posted, being, you know, signed by, I think now there's a 150 different venture capital funds globally that have signed on from, you know, eight VC to upfront to Bain to all…
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:36 Steve Pagliuca And, and she was always supportive to the day she died in everything that I was doing, whether it was Bain Capital or charity events or, or, or anything like that.
- ▶ 4:50 Steve Pagliuca There was no Bain Capital at the time, and I did that because I was actually getting it, trying to get a doctorate in economics at Harvard.
- ▶ 7:56 Steve Pagliuca Uh, and, and, and, and I, I've given that advice to, to generations of Bain Capital people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:27 Steve Pagliuca The high performance teams at Bain, at the Celtics, the teams we've had, they look at every detail,
- ▶ 13:01 Steve Pagliuca Well, investing style today is, it's, it's, it's a, it's always a balancing act between the facts and, you know, coming from, from Bain & Company and Bain Capital, the whole ethos of Bain Capital and Bain & Company is, is fact-based…
- ▶ 18:40 Steve Pagliuca And, uh, uh, uh, we, we actually came in, and information partners, bank capital, and, and bought the company with the management team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:21 Steve Pagliuca And Bain Capital, we've always been micro economists. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:35 Steve Pagliuca They hire Bain and Company McKinsey to do what we do internally at Bain Capital. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:23 Steve Pagliuca Unfortunately, that involves a lot of late night work and a lot of work at Bain Capital has a huge work ethic.
- ▶ 32:26 Harry Stebbings When we think about, you know, owning sports teams, and then obviously, you know, business building, as we've discussed with Bain, how does it compare when you think about building a sports team in a franchise? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:11 Steve Pagliuca I had had an apartment in London, as I said, in the early days of Bain,
- ▶ 48:01 Harry Stebbings Having been through all you have done with Bain, with only sports teams, how do you analyze your risk mindset today, and how has it changed over time?
- ▶ 51:53 Steve Pagliuca We interview and, and hire into Bain Capital. 5 times in the scene
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:49 Julio Vasconcellos She was, uh, she was, uh, at, uh, Bain Capital Ventures, uh, right before spinning off and doing her own thing.
20VC: Has Price Discipline Disappeared? Is it Possible to Build Ownership Over Time? Why Venture Is Less Collaborative Now Than Ever? How fast Do Breakout Companies Become Obvious? How To Construct an Optimised and Repeatable Investment Decision-Making Pr
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you though to Nick Shallock at Ribbit, Nigel Morris, and Matt Harris at Bain.
20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings But prior to that, Gainsight raised over one hundred and fifty six million from some of the best, including Lightspeed, Battery, Bessemer, Insight, and Bain, to name a few.
20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings Matt Harris at Bain.
- ▶ 3:12 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Frank on your team, to David at Newbank, to Matt at Bain even, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 30:05 Harry Stebbings From funding to exit, it was actually Matt at Bain who asked this, and it's like, exit timing is so crucial.
- ▶ 39:56 Nigel Morris I quote, Matt Harris at Bain, I think is a total mensch and a superhuman being. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit
- ▶ 11:29 Misha Esipov One person I've really admired is Matt Harris at Bain Capital.
20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise
- ▶ 10:03 Harry Stebbings I had another guest on the show recently, Matt Harris at Bain, and he said that Series A valuations don't matter anymore.
20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings Then I knew that I had to make this episode happen, and so with that, I'm very excited to welcome Matt Harris, partner at Bain Capital Ventures, a leading US venture fund with a portfolio including the likes of 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:16 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you make your way into what I always call the wonderful world of venture and come to be a partner at Bain Capital Ventures today? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:23 Matt Harris Well, I started 25 years ago in consulting at Bain & Company and then pretty quickly joined Bain Capital, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:30 Matt Harris And our observation, again, across 20 years of venture capital here at Bank Capital Ventures is that if you own 20%, 25%, 18%, something meaningful of a company that ends up being important, then it doesn't really matter whether your entry…
- ▶ 27:47 Matt Harris I think we run into a peril here at Bank Capital and many firms where we do analysis to convince ourselves in or out of things, and I stand by our practice of doing analysis. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lime CEO Brad Bao on How Lime Assess The Micro-Mobility Landscape and Competition Today, What It Takes To Launch and Win A New City & Why Lime Have Spent $0 on Marketing To Date
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings You might remember a month or so ago, we had Sarah Smith at Bain on the show, and she discussed her thesis for the Series D investment in Lime. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:59 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things, both from Brendan at Fifth Wall and from Sarah at Bain.
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
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings She's gone out of her way in the past to help me, and just really is a truly wonderful person in the industry, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Sarah Smith, partner at Bain Capital Ventures, a leading US venture 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Harry Stebbings But you've heard quite enough from me, so now I'm delighted to hand over to Sarah Smith, partner at Bain Capital Ventures.
- ▶ 4:19 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you make your foray into what I always call the wonderful world of venture and come to be at Bain today? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:31 Harry Stebbings I do want to dig into some of the elements, though, of your investing today with Bain. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:07 Harry Stebbings You were the first female GP at Bain, but still only nine percent of GPs are women.
- ▶ 31:13 Sarah Smith So my partner, Ajit Bain, found me by asking his network for referrals, and Jocelyn Goldfein from Zeta Ventures gave them my name. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:10 Sarah Smith It's an apprenticeship business, and I personally had incredible mentorship from my partners in Bain.
- ▶ 40:30 Sarah Smith Like, I think there are some firms that would really struggle with that, but for me, luckily, I felt Bain already had an extremely respectful and open culture, and so I felt right at home.
20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- ▶ 16:23 Josh Kopelman Today, he's at Bain Capital.
20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann
- ▶ 12:22 Jerry Neumann You know, Matt Harris, who is now at Bain Capital, was incredible.
20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings And before joining Lightspeed, Justin was a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where he was responsible for launching the firm's West Coast office.
- ▶ 3:34 Justin Caldbeck So, you know, I, I started in venture, uh, in, uh, in early 2000 and, uh, five with, with Bain Capital Ventures up in Boston. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:59 Harry Stebbings Now, pre binary, you mentioned your experience with the likes of Bain and Lightspeed, some incredible funds. 3 times in the scene