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Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:31 Harry Stebbings Dude, I met Matt years ago when he was at Betaworks with John. 3 times in the scene
Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:32 Nicholas Chirls In, at, at notation over the last, call it 1012 years, and, you know, I was, I was an investor at Betaworks before that.
Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:37 Clément Delangue When we, when we started, our first investors were Bidaworks and French angels.
20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings At USV, Andy sits on the boards of YouNow, Science Exchange, Figure One, and previous guests Circle Up, and prior to joining USV, in 2007, Andy co-founded Betaworks, alongside prior to any VC guest John Borthwick.
- ▶ 3:06 Andy Weissman and then stumbled my way into starting a company about a decade ago, and that company was called Betaworks, and as a New York company, we wanted what we thought the best and smartest and most empathetic venture investors in New York to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:36 Andy Weissman You know, Betaworks, we had two parts of our business.
20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings However, to the show today, and as a tech and venture nerd, today's guest has been an individual I've immensely respected and admired for many years, and so I'm very honoured to be joined today by John Borthwick, a founder and CEO at… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:58 Harry Stebbings However, enough from me, so I'm now delighted to hand over to John Borthwick, founder and CEO at Betaworks.
- ▶ 3:15 Harry Stebbings After months of stalking, uh, I've been an admirer of Betaworks and of yours for a long time, so thank you so much for joining me today. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:57 Harry Stebbings But I do want to move back to Betaworks, and, and the structure reminds me a little bit of machine learning, really, and the fact that no one really quite knows what it is in terms of studio, fund, incubator, but there have been whispers,… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:19 Harry Stebbings But then, going back to the hypothetical Betaworks fund there, and you said about the difficulties in plugging that gap at the very earliest stages of funding for companies, how would you then position, as we said, a completely… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:53 John Borthwick I mean, another way to think about Betaworks, Harry, is that I think that, you know, the, a lot of the innovation that's taking place today is deconstructing.
- ▶ 27:41 Harry Stebbings Um, but, but I'd love to discuss then, uh, BetaWorks' biggest daily challenge.
- ▶ 30:33 Harry Stebbings And then I'd love to finish today on the next five years for you and for Betaworks and the big vision ahead. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:21 Harry Stebbings As John said there, he avoided me for many months, but I'm so grateful to him for coming on the show today, and it was so fantastic to hear his thoughts and see the incredible journey for Betaworks.
20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings From the likes of General Catalyst, RRE, Lightspeed, and Betaworks earlier this year.
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 18:51 Peter Pham We're an LLC, uh, similar to beta works, but we don't have a fund.
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 8:07 Christian Hernandez Oh, seven did things like beta works, dollar shave club.
20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content
- ▶ 3:48 Gary Liu He's one of the Betaworks partners and Digg CEO since the relaunch in 2012. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:05 Gary Liu The first was that a lot of the folks, the people, and the tech went to Washington Post, and then the second was that a bunch of the patents went to LinkedIn, and then finally the brand, Dig brand itself, the URL, was sold to Betaworks. 4 times in the scene
20 VC: Investing in Hardware and The Future of IOT with Kate Shillo, Director @ Galvanize Ventures
- ▶ 5:25 Kate Shillo Kenny was chairman of the Huffington Post, which had, like, 30 employees, and Betaworks was, like, just starting, and he was chairman of that, but he was chairman of all those things, plus the standard hotels and some other stuff, and we… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:01 Kate Shillo So it actually reminds me a lot of Betaworks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 Kate Shillo The, one of the co-founders, uh, is a Betaworks alum, too, which is cool.
- ▶ 26:00 Kate Shillo Um, currently Slash, because I'm still playing with it, I love it, uh, Sunrise Calendar, uh, Moment app, which is for photos, two dots, thanks to Betaworks.
20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings At TechCrunch's awards, and they've raised investment from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Betaworks, and many more incredible investors, and Ryan himself is an absolute legend, and obviously has an immense talent and eye for…
- ▶ 5:36 Harry Stebbings And it's very funny that you've got onto kind of people and communities very quickly, because I, I asked Matt Hartman at Beta Works, and then Kevin Carter, obviously, uh,
- ▶ 17:37 Harry Stebbings Um, okay, and then, and then, you know, when I spoke to Matt, he said, you know, one of the reasons that BetaWorks found you, sorry, BetaWorks found you, was you kept popping up on their social media engagement shots, and, and everyone…
- ▶ 24:28 Ryan Hoover These investors that, that, uh, you know, like Matt, for example, he was a super early user, Matt at beta works.
20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings Uh, BetaWorks company, happy now John Borthwick. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:44 Erin Glenn I've been in love with New York City since I was a kid growing up in Oklahoma, and came out here, started meeting with companies, met the Betaworks guys, and really fell in love with Choir, which was AlphaWorks at the time, and this whole… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:53 Erin Glenn For our business, it's a huge opportunity that will just be further delayed, but we do have incredible backers supporting us in Betaworks and SB Angel, Lair Hippo, 6 times in the scene
20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Hello, and welcome back to the 20 Minute VC, and this very special week with the wonderful Betaworks, one of the world's most successful startup studios, with investments in the likes of Tumblr, Twitter, and Airbnb. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:51 Harry Stebbings Now, you've had an astonishing career from being a tech blogger and entrepreneur through founding Engie Gadget, and then a product person, and now you're at Betaworks. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:23 Harry Stebbings So could you explain a little more about your focus on the West Coast when Betaworks is based in New York? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:08 Peter Rojas My email is just peter at betaworks.com if anyone wants to get in touch with me.
- ▶ 21:04 Peter Rojas To me or to Betaworks more generally. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:55 Peter Rojas Um, I mean, we have a lot of inbound with Betaworks, uh, which is great, and so we haven't necessarily had a, a challenge finding deal flow, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:08 Harry Stebbings In his new role on the West Coast with Betaworks, And do not forget, if you would like the chance to win the incredible venture deals by the legend that is Brad Feld, all you have to do is leave a review on iTunes, and then email harry at…
20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings It is, of course, Betaworks. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:37 Harry Stebbings Well, Matthew, welcome to the 20 Minute VC for this very special episode featuring the fantastic Betaworks. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:30 Harry Stebbings How would you define BetaWorks? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:01 Matt Hartman I, I really enjoy that part of the process, and Betaworks on the seed investing side really focuses on, on that, both on our, on our seed investing side and on our company creation side, on those very early days of the company, shaping the…
- ▶ 11:38 Matt Hartman And it kept coming back up, and we're like, well, maybe this is somebody who's a big fan of Betaworks. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:26 Matt Hartman And I noticed when they launched the feature, and it's a Betaworks company, so I get some of the early, the early, uh, features.
- ▶ 23:04 unnamed speaker Um, beta works is, is a special place partly because I mentioned earlier, we have a hundred people here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:04 Harry Stebbings It really has been fantastic, and it's been so great to delve inside the world of BetaWorks.
20 VC 071: Pre-Seed Investing, Why Now Is The Best Time with Nicholas Chirls @ Notation Capital
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings And prior to notation, Nicholas was head of investments at Betaworks, leading investments in companies such as Electric Objects, Inc., Estimote, Inc., URX, Namo Media, Inc., which was bought by Twitter, Inc., and Grand Street, acquired by…
- ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings And now you're a partner at Notation, and you've been head of investments at Betaworks, but can you kick us off by telling us where it all started for you, and how you made your move into the venture industry? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:49 Nicholas Chirls I left Betaworks about a year ago, ah, to start Notation Capital, which is a, a venture firm based in, based in Brooklyn, New York, with another partner. 2 times in the scene