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Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:22 Sam Lessin The problem with Menlo is that I don't know how you know, like the, I, you know, I say this as someone who started my career at Bain and company.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:45 Harry Stebbings You never came out of McKinsey or Bain and made your first entrepreneurial project.
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:37 Harry Stebbings And no one comes out of Cambridge and just makes money at Bain for the first time.
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:38 Harry Stebbings I don't think great, great entrepreneurs first made money from getting a job at Bain after three years at Oxford.
- ▶ 31:08 Harry Stebbings Um, but it's like, I just see so many thirty-year-olds come out of Bain who are writing ten million dollar checks at large funds, and I'm like, you have no fucking idea how hard it is to raise money to run a business.
Billy Hult: 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue|E1134 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:48 Harry Stebbings No great person who was hugely ambitious fell out of McKinsey and Bain and thought, oh, now I'm going to be really ambitious and courageous.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:09 Harry Stebbings With a business when they're 23 or 24 or with a job at McKinsey or Bain.
Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:56 Emad Mostaque Why would you do that when you can have your own models via the open source models that we make, or when you can hire them from McKinsey, which is OpenAI, or Bain, which is Google and others.
Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28 Mike Duboe And so right out of school, I joined Bain because of this pattern. 2 times in the scene
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:21 Harry Stebbings You said Bray humbly, and you know, Nirvan Moshe both told me how humble you are, um, and she said it Matt at Bain, but you, you said Bray humbly, you don't know if you're a success yet, um, my question to you is, we will have big breaks… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:44 Steve Pagliuca There are so many smart people out there that they're, they're just as smart as we are, but we've just had, we've just had opportunities and serendipity and luck, and I think the Bain culture, the Bain and Company culture, when I came to…
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 25:02 Steve Pagliuca Well, I, I think the first element was the idea of taking the consulting skills developed at Bain & Company and applying that to, uh, actually, actually owning the businesses.
- ▶ 25:13 Steve Pagliuca Bain & Company had been a very successful consulting firm, growing great businesses and great clients globally, and the idea that Bill Bain had was, well, if we could own those companies, we could do that even faster, better, and put, and,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:40 Steve Pagliuca So we grew up on, on the, the analysis heavy culture of, of, of, of, of, of, of Bain and company that we brought that over to Bain Capital, but I think we've realized over time, it's the combination of those two and the balance of those…
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:13 Brian Armstrong Um, we also use a decision-making framework called RAPID, um, R-A-P-I-D, which Bain developed
20VC: Sweetgreen Founder Jonathan Neman on Leadership Lessons from Managing Through COVID, The Importance of Failing Fast and Iterating & How the Best Leaders Bring Together Brand, Capital Allocation and Strategy
- ▶ 3:39 Harry Stebbings You actually keep me nutritious and filled when I'm in the States, so I think I owe you the thanks, but I want to start with a little bit on you, because I heard from a wonderful friend Sean that when you started Sweetgreen, it was in your… 4 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 20:09 Emilie Choi It's a Bain thing.
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Before Opendoor, Julia spent three years as a consultant at Bain, and if that wasn't enough, Julia is also an avid cyclist and is now setting up a women's cycling apparel line alongside her investing.
- ▶ 31:37 Julia DeWahl Joining Bain out of college was a big inflection point for me, actually. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 17:19 Sarah Kunst Go join a venture fund, or you go work at a big tech company, and so entrepreneurship used to be perceived as a massive risk, and now I think for a certain segment of people, they see it as just another box you check, and if you happen to…
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
- ▶ 3:23 Matt Harris Well, I started 25 years ago in consulting at Bain & Company and then pretty quickly joined Bain Capital,
20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings As for Zach, as CEO, he's scaled Plaid to today with over 300 employees, three international offices, and over ten billion transactions analyzed, and prior to founding Plaid, Zach was a consultant at Bain for his sins, and I'd also have to…
- ▶ 3:57 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you make the move from consultant at Bain to founding one of the hottest companies in fintech with Plaid, and what was that aha moment for you? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:16 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, though, I obviously have been stalking you for the last 48 hours, and I saw your tweet about the same way you said spending a year at Bain when you were 22, and all of your friends wanted to be investors, and 3 times in the scene
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 9:48 Harry Stebbings But then I had like Marco Thumbtack on the show who said that actually you can be a consultant coming out of Bain and do a SWOT analysis and come up with an idea that maybe doesn't have such founder market fit.
20VC: How To Optimise Decision-Making Frameworks, How To Really Get The Most Out Of Your Board and When Your Brother Is Also Your Co-Founder; The Secret To Working with Family with Rob Sadow, Founder & CEO @ Scoop
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Before founding Scoop, Rob was a manager at Bain & Company, and before that spent time in Israel with Better Place, working to provide electric vehicle networks to help accelerate the global transition to sustainable transportation.
- ▶ 5:23 Rob Sadow A lot of how I think about decision-making actually comes from my time at Bain.
- ▶ 13:11 Rob Sadow I was at Bain, as we talked about as doing strategy consulting.
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 @
- ▶ 18:53 David Frankel Operating partner, Bain, to join as COO. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Prior to Forerunner, Yuri was a consultant at Bain, and before that was an investor at Castaner Partners.
- ▶ 3:39 Eurie Kim On a board with him at a company called Serena and Lily, which is in Kirsten's angel portfolio, and he thought we would get along, and we both had similar backgrounds in investing and love for consumer brands, so he made the introduction,…
20VC: Michael Dearing on 5 Key Principles He Uses To Assess Startup Founders, Why Benevolent Dictatorship Is A Beautiful Thing & Why Markets Are Better Capital Allocators Than CEOs
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings But prior to being in VC, Michael spent six years at eBay across numerous roles, and before that held positions at Shoe Warehouse as CEO, the Walt Disney Company in corporate strategy, and then Bain & Company as a consultant.
20VC: Why It Is Good Company Funding Has Been Down 6 Quarters In A Row, Why Unanimity Does Not Work In VC Decision-Making & Why It Is Dangerous To Be A Spreadsheet Investor with Scott Raney, Partner @ Redpoint Ventures
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Prior to Redpoint, Scott was responsible for new products at Northpoint Communications, and before that, Scott worked at Bain & Company, helping clients in the private equity and technology industries.
20VC: Inside Google's Growth Fund & The 3 Criteria They Look For With Potential Investments with Laela Sturdy, General Partner @ CapitalG
- ▶ 3:17 Laela Sturdy Earlier in my career, before I was at Google, I worked at a company called Bain & Company, a management consulting firm. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 4:16 Chris Farmer And so after the bubble burst, I, I joined SkyBits to help them navigate the downturn and ended up running almost every non-engineering role at the company at one point or another, really learned how to, to build a business, played a key…
20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
- ▶ 15:58 Erin Glenn And then the other is, there was a study done a while back by Bain that shows customers who are owners of the business spend more, they refer more, they talk about the business more, and they're more loyal.
20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
- ▶ 10:42 Arteen Arabshahi Like I didn't do the, the two years at McKinsey or Bain or, um,
20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Following game replays, Chris has held leadership positions at AOL and Bain, before making his foray into venture capital with Atomico, the London-based venture fund founded by Skype founder Nicholas Zenstorm.
- ▶ 2:19 Chris Dark Um, and, you know, and then, so, I started that, I did that in parallel, doing my PhD, and then went to Bain & Co for a few years.
20 VC 021: Gender Equality, Startup Valuations and 'Friend Raising before Fund Raising with Sharon Wienbar
- ▶ 1:18 Sharon Wienbar I started my career as a consultant at Bain & Company, and then made the transition from there to working in marketing in the technology business, and specifically in software.