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Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 1:10:02 Harry Stebbings And, and, and you know what, on top of that, I'm worried you can forgive me for going off on this ramp, but you know, Brandon at McCaw has mouthed off, uh, and I say that nicely, uh, but mouthed off on Twitter about Sequoia's tranche…
Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:40 Becca Lindquist So I don't know if you know Bill Bench over at, um, Battery.
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:59 Alex Rampell I remember, like, arguing with the partner at Battery.
Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:51 Dave Kellogg Well, you know, battery came up with a famous slide, uh, well now famous slide, but they basically said, I'm going to get the, I think to support 30 sellers, they argued that today it takes a 110 personal organization and that tomorrow…
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:34 Jason Lemkin There's, there are certain rates that you just have to grow and whether, and, and, and Neeraj from battery simplified it all for triple, triple, double, double, right?
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings And this was way back in the day when I think you were at Battery.
- ▶ 1:47 Logan Bartlett And, uh, I worked alongside, um, the, the Vista equities of the world and the TA associates, the JMIs, uh, and actually got some exposure to folks like battery, Excel, Bessemer, uh, red point. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings Battery, it's a phenomenal institution as well. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:25 Logan Bartlett I remember back at Battery looking at the opportunity and just thinking, hey, it just, the, the customer calls at the time were kind of raw about the business and, and how well the cloud was actually working.
- ▶ 43:55 Logan Bartlett Uh, the best single board member I've worked with, Neera Jagarwal was my mentor at Battery.
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: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Battery, Code Two, Green Bay, and more.
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 4:57 Semil Shah And so I had two really close friends, Gautam Gupta, who's now an M-thirteen, and Nuko Mandan, who's a partner at Lightspeed, at the time was at Battery, pull me aside and say, hey, look, be a venture partner at one of the firms.
20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Clark has raised over three hundred and fifty million dollars with InVision from some of the world's leading investors, including Iconic, Spark, Excel, Battery, Tiger, Firstmark, and even Atlassian.
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 27:03 Alex Clayton But outside the firm near Jaggerwalt battery, he's been wildly successful.
20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates
- ▶ 35:18 Hunter Somerville We got to know them when they were at Battery.
20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 2:48 James Currier Well, I had been working at Battery Ventures as an associate in the nineties and learned all about the venture capital world and 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- ▶ 13:37 David Waxman So over 10 years ago, battery ventures and index ventures co-led our A round.
20VC: How To Assess Founder Psychology, Why Talking About Financial Returns In The First Meeting Is Always Wrong & How To Allocate Time Amongst A VC Portfolio with Kara Nortman, Partner @ Upfront Ventures
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings For Tinder, Cara also spent time at incredible institutions such as Microsoft, Battery Ventures, and Morgan Stanley.
- ▶ 5:46 Kara Nortman Voice and data over, you know, kind of new forms of the last mile, IP, those sorts of things, and got to know this firm Battery Ventures through that process and ended up going and working at Battery, which is, you know, kind of a big VC,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:49 Kara Nortman Sort of the perspective I have really from my early days at Battery gave, yeah, I mean, my early days at Battery gave me that perspective because there were companies that people had written off and were literally given to me to babysit in…
- ▶ 26:03 Kara Nortman I mean, starting with Rick Frisbee at Battery Ventures when I was
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 28:12 Rick Marini Uh, James had worked at Battery Ventures, uh, before that and had some other, uh, you know, had a great background.
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings He joined Excel from Battery Ventures, where as a general partner, he led investments in some incredible companies, including Dollar Shave Club, Skullcandy, Trade King, Bizarre Voice, Cooper, and 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings And if you've listened to our episode with Neeraj Agrawal on Monday, then you would know that to celebrate the release and success of the official SASTA podcast brought to you by myself and the godfather of SAS himself, Jason Lemkin, we… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19 Harry Stebbings Battery ventures? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:31 Harry Stebbings Logan, it's so awesome to have you on the show, having met in real life in San Francisco at your Battery Party. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:22 Harry Stebbings Versus branding battery. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:33 Logan Bartlett Having a firm that's been around for 33 years, uh, like Battery has, and having partners that have been here for, you know, 1520 years, um, they've seen a lot of things, and
- ▶ 16:09 Harry Stebbings We know that battery is slightly full-stack investors, you know, going from seed to pre-IPO, as I think Niraj said, but, you know, largely you're Series A, B investors, am I right?
- ▶ 25:05 Harry Stebbings What a top man, and so great to have Logan on the show, and a huge thank you to the team at Battery for providing us with Niraj and Logan this week to celebrate the release and success of the official SASTA podcast, brought to you by Jason…
20VC: The Best Determinant Of Product Market Fit & Why Prior Experience Is Not Required For Founder Success with Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings From Battery Ventures. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:24 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so now it's time to dive into the show today, and welcome the main man, Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner at Battery Ventures.
- ▶ 3:04 Neeraj Agrawal Sure, you know, I've been at Battery now, 16 years, you know, seems an amazingly long time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:42 Neeraj Agrawal I'd say when I first started at battery, the typical founder, so I started battery when I was 27 years old, and I would say the typical founder that came in the door would be somebody like, uh, David Acharya at Blade Logic, uh, maybe 34… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:18 Neeraj Agrawal Battery's a bit unique that we do all these stages, so I personally have made investments across all these stages.
- ▶ 18:13 Neeraj Agrawal Um, you have on the product side, which you see less of these days, but Battery was an investor in Frencer way back in the day, and I think they were way ahead, but unfortunately grew too fast, they couldn't keep up, and Facebook…
- ▶ 21:59 Neeraj Agrawal I, I don't know if we really had a shot at this, but we had conversations with Salesforce, um, when I first started Battery in 2000, I think it was, we had a conversation in 2001 or two. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:29 Harry Stebbings Absolutely brilliant, and to celebrate the success and release of the official SASDA podcast brought to you by Jason Lampkin and I, the SAS fund does not stop here on the 20 Minute VC, and with it being Battery Week, 3 times in the scene
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 14:31 Harry Stebbings And kind of speaking of comparative moments there, and looking back in time, you've, you've worked with very much the old god of VC, with, you know, Kleiner and Benchmark and Battery backing Friendster, and then now with Nuzzle, it seems,…
20VC: Sprig's Gagan Biyani on The 3 Principles Of Fundraising and Building The World's Largest Restaurant
- ▶ 15:57 Harry Stebbings And we've spoken about the food now, and, and obviously we're primarily a VC-based show, and so we've got Battery, Excel, Ludlow, Greylock, all past guests of the show, and obviously Great Minds Think Alike, because they're also investors…
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 10:53 Christian Hernandez And then Series A's, which we've done, uh, Kimi in New York, which is a robotic locksmith, uh, along with, um, Battery.