Ben Lerer

7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 5, 2016 by Ben Lerer · said 9 times in 3 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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2017 3 mentions in 1 episode

20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Jan 2, 2017 · 3 mentions · from 19:53
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2016 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden Jul 1, 2016 · 3 mentions · from 7:30
20 VC: Investing in Hardware and The Future of IOT with Kate Shillo, Director @ Galvanize Ventures Jan 13, 2016 · 3 mentions · from 6:48
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Sep 5, 2016

Insight

Ben Lerer: VCs Should Invest Institutional Capital Like Personal Money

“I think in its best scenario, you invest other people's money the same way that you would invest your own money.”

Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 7:20 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A

Sep 5, 2016 negative

Opinion

Ben Lerer: A Donald Trump Presidency Would Be The Worst US Event

“Him becoming the president would be the worst thing that has happened in the history of the United States since its inception. I think he is a racist pig who makes other Racist, sexist, misogynistic, disgusting people feel like they are allowed to share those …”

Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 25:38 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A

Sep 5, 2016

Insight

Ben Lerer: Television made brand building easier 20 years ago

“Brand building 20 years ago was easier in that you, like, you sort of Could buy your brand growth, which was, there was really one channel that, that was so much more powerful than all the others from a marketing perspective, which was television advertising.”

Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 22:03 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A

Sep 5, 2016 positive

Insight

Ben Lerer: Long-Term Independent Startups Must Provide Early Investors Periodic Liquidity

“Generally speaking, we'd love our companies to sort of take the approach that you've seen a war be take, for instance, which is we're going to build something for 20 years. We're going to put our heads down. And then in those situations, you would hope that th…”

Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 20:56 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A

Sep 5, 2016

Insight

Ben Lerer: Blinding Co-Investor Information Leads To Cleaner Venture Decisions

“Making sure that we in some cases have less information about who's investing makes me more capable of making cleaner decisions.”

Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 11:20 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A

Sep 5, 2016

Insight

Ben Lerer: Seed Investors Must Rely On Imagination Because Startups Pivot Frequently

“So many of the businesses that we invest in don't end up looking like what we invest in. We need to be able to have an imagination.”

Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 9:16 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A

Sep 5, 2016

Insight

Ben Lerer: VC Firm Branding Drives Top-Tier Deal Flow To Spot Outliers

“Brand is what gives us so much Amazing deal flow, which enables us to really be able to see enough companies to be able to identify the ones that seem to be the outliers and the really special ones”

Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 8:46 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A

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