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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
20VC: A Framework For Approaching Risk and How It Affects Portfolio Construction | Lessons and Advice From Working with Dropbox's Drew Houston | Why Being A Learning Animal Is The Most Important Factor For Success with Ted Wang, Partner @ Cowboy Ventures
- ▶ 12:33 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, when it comes to kind of that portfolio construction and the ownership focus, I'm not such a believer in kind of building ownership over time, and I really believe that ownership's fundamentally built on first check, with…
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 37:22 Danny Rimer Doing a restructured round where Gurley from Benchmark came in for a couple of reasons.
20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- ▶ 14:05 Ryan Caldbeck Union Square Ventures, Benchmark, or some other exceptions to what I said.
20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
- ▶ 9:04 Harry Stebbings We have Peter Fenton at Benchmark on the show.
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
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm thrilled to welcome back Sarah Tavill, general partner at Benchmark, one of the world's leading VC funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, eBay, WeWork, Yelp, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:24 Harry Stebbings However, you've heard quite enough of these dulcet English tones, so without further ado, I'm thrilled to hand over to Sarah Tavel, general partner at Benchmark.
- ▶ 3:48 Harry Stebbings Now, I would love to kick off those days, Sarah, with a little on you, so tell me, how did you, for those that maybe didn't hear our first episode, come to make your way into what I always call the wonderful world of Venture, and come to… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:33 Harry Stebbings I mean, we're going to dig into the board later, and I can't wait for that, but I do have to ask Sarah, you mentioned the element of being labeled the fixer, so to speak, at Pinterest, and so in terms of hyper-growth companies, and seeing…
- ▶ 10:45 Harry Stebbings Ok, so starting on the evaluation phase, we had your own Andy Ratcliffe, founder at Benchmark on the show, and he said, contra to many early stage investors, it's primarily about the market, saying, great team, poor market, market wins.
- ▶ 12:51 Sarah Tavel You may be hearing the benchmark bias in me, but I am definitely a believer that going after big markets is 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:53 Harry Stebbings Speaking of the one or two investments that we do back there, Sarah, you've backed chain analysis in the world of crypto since joining Benchmark.
- ▶ 33:43 Harry Stebbings So fantastic to have Sarah back on the show there, and I cannot wait to see the many exciting years she has ahead of her at Benchmark, and if you'd like to see more from Sarah, you can find her on Twitter, at Sarah Tavill.
20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings To date, Heather's raised over twenty three million dollars in funding with Solve from some of the greatest in the world of venture, including Bill Gurley at Benchmark, Teresa Gow at Aspect, James Slavitt at Greylock, and Pete Flint at NFX.
- ▶ 20:48 Harry Stebbings I mean, Bill Gurley at Benchmark, James Slavitt at Greylock, 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 17:13 Jeff Fagnan It's a really hard question, because, like, I feel like one of my favorite individuals, Mitch Lasky from Benchmark, once told me that partners are there to save each other from themselves.
20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX
- ▶ 18:42 Pete Flint I think eBay said they didn't even spend the initial investment from benchmark.
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
- ▶ 5:56 Jerry Neumann So if you make a hundred investments in companies that were led by Sequoia and benchmark and union square ventures, yes, that's a great strategy.
20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings To date, Mariam's also raised eighty-nine million dollars in VC funding with Minted, from some of the very best in the business, including our favorites, Floodgate, Benchmark, Menlo, Slow, and Ridge Ventures, and then prominent individuals…
20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC
- ▶ 7:19 Sam Altman Work together in one organization, and you see some firms that make the small partnership model work really well, like Benchmark, for example.