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20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings And prior to their IPO in 2017, Katrina raised just forty two million dollars in venture funding, from some of the very best in venture, including Bill Gurley at Benchmark and Steve Anderson at Baseline, and in just six years, Katrina took…
- ▶ 2:18 Harry Stebbings As I just said, I heard so many good things from Bill at Benchmark over the years, so thank you so much for joining me today.
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
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and wow, I'm so excited for the show today, joined by a master of marketplaces, one of my favourite writers in the venture space also, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Sarah… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:33 Harry Stebbings And how did you become a GP at the world renowned benchmark? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 Sarah Tavel So Hip Camp, which is one of the first investments I made at Benchmark, Alyssa, the CEO, started off going after really just land for campers.
- ▶ 30:45 Harry Stebbings Tell me, what's the hardest element of your role with Benchmark today, Sarah? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
- ▶ 36:09 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode on Monday with Sarah Tavel at Benchmark.
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
- ▶ 45:53 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
- ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
- ▶ 12:45 Alex Pall We like to think of ourselves as complimentary people investing alongside the best firms out there, benchmarks, the Andreessen's, the Sequoia's.
- ▶ 27:27 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
- ▶ 1:43 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
- ▶ 40:14 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands
- ▶ 12:41 Harry Stebbings And I had Peter Fenton from Benchmark on the show, and he said something that's always stuck with me.
20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
- ▶ 1:43 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
- ▶ 33:51 Harry Stebbings They've raised almost thirty-three million dollars from Benchmark and GV, and the team behind Digits is just epic.
20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A*
- ▶ 34:07 Kevin Hartz So we look with great fondness and admiration at firms like Sequoia Capital and Benchmark and Andreessen Horowitz as companies that are really building not just these investment vehicles that come and go, but really as the term Sequoia…
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings In addition, over the last few years, Ben has enjoyed roles at Sequoia as a scout, and then also at Benchmark as an entrepreneur in residence.
- ▶ 36:51 Ben Rubin Look, I had a really interesting experience with Benchmark, which was, you can call it an EIR, and I think that's the kind of a vehicle we used, but it wasn't really an EIR. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
- ▶ 29:30 Apurva Mehta Those brand names do matter, whether that's Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital.
20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
- ▶ 3:32 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Oliver at DD, from, uh, Roloff at Sequoia, from Chathan at Benchmark.
20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
- ▶ 30:19 Harry Stebbings Actually just getting allocation to the best when, as we said, with such transparent markets today, Sequoia come in harder than ever on front, or you name that company and benchmark do the same and your top funds do the same.
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 17:50 Andrew Wilkinson I would be calling benchmark and Excel tomorrow, but I just don't see that.
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
- ▶ 13:36 Sarah Kunst If you tell me, hey, Sarah, I'm raising at a twelve million valuation and benchmark,
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 26:04 Mike Maples In Series A, I think Benchmark does a great job of that.
- ▶ 38:39 Mike Maples I would say that Bill Gurley at Benchmark was impressive on the Demand Force board, and then some of the people that I just respect the clarity of their thinking 2 times in the scene
20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Wayne and Jeff have raised over thirty-two million dollars for Digits, from some of the best in the business, including Peter Fenton at Benchmark, and Jess Verrilli at GV, and then also the most incredible base of angels, with the…
- ▶ 24:17 Harry Stebbings You did also choose Peter Fenton to work with from the first round with Benchmark.
20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings To date, Howie's raised over a hundred and seventy million dollars from some of the best in the business, including, check this out, Benchmark, Thrive, Code Two, Caffeinated, Founder Collective, CRV, and Freestyle, to name a few.
- ▶ 21:00 Harry Stebbings One person who's done that from the sidelines, but as a VC many times is Peter Hansen at Benchmark. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings But to our episode today, and I was first alerted of this guest's incredible last 12 months by Chathan at Benchmark, who also made the intro, so huge thanks to Chathan for that.
- ▶ 2:54 Harry Stebbings I heard so many great things from our mutual friend and the very wonderful Chathan at Benchmark.
20VC: Howard Marks on How COVID-19 Impacts Our Economy, Liquidity and National Debt, Why The Theory of Falling Knives and Market Bottoms is Wrong & Why The Best Investors Are Fundamentally Unemotional
- ▶ 8:57 Harry Stebbings I asked actually Bill Gurley at Benchmark before the show, what would you ask Howard?
20VC: How To Solve The Chicken and Egg Problem in Marketplaces? How Important Is Differentiated Supply? How To Prevent Leakage? How to Create Marketplace Defensibility and more with Alyssa Ravasio, Founder & CEO @ Hipcamp
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings To date, Alyssa has raised over forty-one million dollars in funding from some of the best in the business, including Sarah at Benchmark, Andrew at Andreessen, Brad Fell, Dave Morin, Sam Shank at Hotel Tonight, and more.
- ▶ 3:01 Harry Stebbings Alyssa, my word, I've heard so many great things, both from Sarah at Benchmark, and then also from Sam at Hotel Tonight.
- ▶ 5:25 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Sarah Tavel at Benchmark earlier, but then also the team at Andrees, and it always looks kind of easier in hindsight and from the outside. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:35 Harry Stebbings Again, a huge thank you to Alyssa for joining me on the show today, and a big thank you also to Sarah Tavill at Benchmark and Sam Shank at Hotel tonight for the fantastic questions, suggestions.
20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings On the VC side, Matt has worked with the likes of Peter Fenton at Benchmark,
- ▶ 11:33 Matt Mochary I mean, the master of this is Peter Fenton at Benchmark.
20VC: Why You Never Want To Fight A Fair Fit For Distribution, Why No Great Company Is Built with 1 Product and When To Release Your Second & What Founders Can Do To Extract The Most From Their Cap Table with Shoaib Makani, Founder & CEO @ KeepTruckin
- ▶ 13:37 Harry Stebbings Actually, Sarah Tavel at Benchmark said exactly the same on the show.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 13:12 Sumit Gajri If you look at Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Union Square Ventures, and Benchmark, they've all built funds which deploy diverse fund structures and portfolio construction, and they're extremely successful, and if my fund could be as good…