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Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:52 Gokul Rajaram All four of them, Larry, Mark, Jack, and Tony, and now Brian Armstrong, um, Bill and Ben at Pinterest.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:50 Shervin Pishevar And I was chasing it, and Evan and I hit it off, um, and, uh, unfortunately Menlo passed, uh, on the, on that round, and then the next round as well, and they, um, and then Pinterest, I looked at when I was angel investing, so that was my… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:49 Shervin Pishevar I, I passed on it, uh, because it didn't, it just, you know, it was, you know, the presentation just didn't, didn't hit it, didn't hit it for me, um, but if I had met Ben, I, I, I would have gotten the sense of his brilliance, but over the…
Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- ▶ 27:24 Casey Winters Well, you know, Jack, who was ahead of product at the time, we were having like a product team meeting and he was like, Hey, all of you are going to product review too often to try to get in front of Ben, our CEO and talk product and talk… 4 times in the scene
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 8:13 Jeremy Levine And so when Ben was describing his vision for Pinterest, it hit me like a ton of bricks.
- ▶ 17:36 Harry Stebbings So I do want to kind of hand over to you on that, and I guess what drove the excitement around Ben and the team and gave you the conviction that you had? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:48 Harry Stebbings Can I ask one final thing on Ben before we move to a pre and a post-mortem, which is like, obviously people and leaders transition and change over time a lot. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:32 Jeremy Levine And, you know, some people, like Ben, scale all the way up.
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- ▶ 4:24 Sarah Tavel And I loved the company so much that I ended up deciding or really calling Ben, the CEO, and asking for a job one day because I realized that I would always regret it if I didn't throw my hat into the ring and work there because I was just…
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 20:00 Shishir Mehrotra Maybe to give you some examples, one of the most fun ones I did was with Ben Silverman at Pinterest, where we went through thinking through what different ordering you could come up with for Pinterest. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 4:01 Sahil Lavingia And so Ben sent me an email. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:39 Harry Stebbings I'd love to hear, how did your time with Ben and Pinterest impact your operating mindset, do you think, when you look back now? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 31:03 unnamed speaker But I was a judge at the NYU business plan contest, and Ben and Paul, the original team, along with Ben's girlfriend's brother, who's now 5 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- ▶ 4:41 Sarah Tavel And I loved the product and company so much that I ended up doing something pretty unusual, which is that I basically pitched myself to Ben one day as working in the company, not staying outside of the company and pitched myself as this BD… 2 times in the scene
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 12:48 Fritz Lanman And I've tried to steal from them from Amazon and from, you know, what I saw, you know, Facebook and other companies and also my best startups and whether it's Ben Silverman's product thinking at Pinterest and try to figure out my own…
- ▶ 18:28 Fritz Lanman I'd gone to Yale with the founders, Paul and Ben and my good friend, Shanna Fisher introduced Hank, my partner and I did the deal.
20VC: Benchmark's Scott Belsky on What Makes Truly The Best VCs? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on 'The First Mile' & The Key Ingredients To The Perfect Onboarding Process
- ▶ 15:02 Scott Belsky They are obsessed with, I mean, I remember talking to Ben Silverman in the early days of Pinterest, asking him what his plans were for the next six months, thinking that he had a few sprints towards a few product features. 4 times in the scene