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Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:17 Everett Randle So like you can have the square cash app deal.
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:49 Josh Browder For every anthropic employee who's making 20 to a hundred million, there's 7000 block employees being laid off.
How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:52 Harry Stebbings I don't know if he has, but he basically said his biggest lesson from Square, where he was for many years,
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:25 unnamed speaker And I think, uh, we talk about these, you know, a thousand people at last year or whatever, but I think Epic games is just, it's, I think it's a more interesting view of the future than block.
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:40 Jason Lemkin So, but I do think that the block thing, you could argue it's, it's different and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:27 Rory O'Driscoll I think that first category, but Block is clearly an example of the first category and maybe Meta, but I'll come to Meta in a second. 2 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:13 Gokul Rajaram I mean, very strong valuation, not a crazy valuation, but a strong valuation because Jackie was Jackie and she had built the bank at Square.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:59 unnamed speaker Just one thing that I was thinking about to highlight if we get to block later, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:45 unnamed speaker Well, look, I, I, I think people missed the, on Block in particular, I know that their profitability was way up, but I think their top line is only growing like three percent, something like that, right? 10 times in the scene
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:18 Lucas Swisher I think, I can't remember exactly, but I think the companies were Google and Square and Amazon, right?
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:25 Hemant Taneja Square and, you know, uh, whatever else.
20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko
- ▶ 4:37 unnamed speaker so I was like looking at Mongo or Square or some of those companies and, and he was like, yeah, this company called Databricks, it's way earlier stage than anything you're looking at, but it's got the most upside of any company in my whole…
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:35 unnamed speaker Uh, but during that setting up process, the first problem we, we found is that there's no square equivalent in sort of 2013. 2 times in the scene
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:16 Harry Stebbings You've left a firm or you've left square or you've left whatever.
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:43 Jason Wilk They've written short reports on places like, uh, Square, Cash App, and they decided to exit the business, which I thought was kind of interesting.
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:39 Scott Gorlick So, this was 2011, 2012, and, you know, I was going out and meeting companies like Airbnb, Square, fairly early, along with, like, 50 other companies.
Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:06 Dax Dasilva You know, you may be better served by a Clover or a Square or a Shopify.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:32 Delian Asparouhov Yeah, um, so, uh, in summer of 2012, I ended up being an intern, um, uh, at, um, Square. 9 times in the scene
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:09 Harry Stebbings I said to him, you know, I didn't think that Square necessarily always invests in better companies.
- ▶ 58:50 Saam Motamedi And the next year I'm going to go map out Stripe and Square and Klarna and all these great businesses.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:36 Harry Stebbings Does Square always win?
- ▶ 51:29 Pat Grady And the result of that when it works is companies like Square, where at IPO, it was a, I don't know, maybe a couple hundred million dollar gain.
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:49 Reid Hoffman I've, uh, he's worked for me twice, once at PayPal, once at LinkedIn, um, and, um, you know, I, I provided him his instrumental reference for working at Square and, you know, a sack of other things, and so, um, I called Keith because he,…
Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:20 Keith Rabois You want to be actually at that leadership training, um, uh, sort of DACA kind of built for square, which is you actually want to be inconsistent on this, whether you're like quote unquote micromanaging or you're giving a lot of rope…
- ▶ 41:16 Keith Rabois I went pretty flat at square when I was running hot at like 11 and like Vinod and Roloff gave me feedback that that was too much.
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:08 David Clark But I, I look at, I look at what happened with Square, for example. 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:34 Keith Rabois Yeah, no, no, no, it's gonna, it, it, it's fair, it's great, it's a wonderful company, and you know, the logic I had was, it wasn't like I misled anybody, nobody actually asked me if I was joining the board, but, um, the logic I had was…
- ▶ 35:27 Keith Rabois But, you know, I worked at PayPal, Square, I understood financial services pretty well.
- ▶ 46:30 Keith Rabois Jack is very design-driven, and he wanted to build Square in a design-driven culture, which is, you know, let's say, jargonistically, like, Apple-esque.
- ▶ 54:20 Keith Rabois I ran a large fraction of Square.
- ▶ 1:00:23 Keith Rabois So, for example, uh, KB before my days, uh, invested ten million dollars, or roughly ten million, in the seed round for Square. 3 times in the scene
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:50 Keith Rabois Like I, I took eight years between square and taking over, you know, CEO of open store.
- ▶ 51:37 Keith Rabois So Max Rhodes, who worked with me at Square and now runs Fair.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:03 Matteo Franceschetti And, no, everything is, everything, this is another rule from, from, from Keith, I think, from the, his time at Square, where, so essentially everything is public in our company except comp.
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:31 Harry Stebbings Well, if you've been at Uber or Square or Twitter or you name it for six years plus, they all just come out and raise five.
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli: The Funding Market Today; Last-Mile Delivery; Competing w/ Carta | E1005 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:39 Avlok Kohli And, uh, I actually learned a lot of this in my time at square. 4 times in the scene
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:39 David Marcus Uh, and it didn't have a card present, uh, terminal at the time where Square was actually really, really capturing market share in the offline market.
Jackie Reses: The Most Powerful Woman in Finance; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | E996 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:25 Jackie Reses I remember when I was at Square, I ran HR.
- ▶ 12:48 Jackie Reses I made a lot of mistakes when building some of the functions at Square around hiring for domain knowledge. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:59 Jackie Reses Surreal career experience, and the people at Alibaba are extraordinary, and as I was watching what was happening in China, there was a lot to learn as an American company with regard to the velocity of invention, the creativity that they…
- ▶ 32:20 Jackie Reses You could look at companies like Audien Square, Stripe, say, wow, they have taken the idea of the inbound of a transaction and made it incredibly frictionless. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:42 Jackie Reses Like, you attack a horizontal, and I'll use Square as an example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:24 Jackie Reses You know, when I was at Square, I saw how painful connecting into the financial services market was. 4 times in the scene
Jackie Reses & Kris Dickson: What Happened with SVB? Are VCs to Blame? | E988 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:07 Jackie Reses Like, you know, look, I worked at Square. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:25 Jackie Reses The other thing that's interesting, that when companies, like we used to do this at Square, when you do backup contingency planning, you have to ask the question of, like, what do you have that's printed?
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:46 Hunter Walk and then you'll get the square deal, you know, type of thing.
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:38 Jason Lemkin They all met that bar, right?
Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:02 Cathie Wood And with Square or Block Cash App, you know, Jack Dorsey is, and Elon, they've been talking.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:09 Emil Michael RingCentral, all these ten billion dollar enterprise companies that you didn't know that Coastal was a big investor in them, they did Square, and David was a big part of all those.
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:54 Julio Vasconcellos It's kind of a, a square meets toast for, for Latin America.
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:26 Harry Stebbings When you think about time allocation across the portfolio, it's a very nice founder marketing tool to say, no, we care about everyone equally, but we both know that it's your squares, your fares, your altimas that drive returns, and…
- ▶ 30:14 Keith Rabois You know, some of these I declined meeting while I was running Square, when I was running, you know, companies, so I didn't have infinite freedom or infinite, you know, control of my schedule.
- ▶ 41:19 Keith Rabois Um, but fundamentally, I think the last one we announced publicly is found, which does bookkeeping, taxes, uh, and payments for SMBs, micro merchants led by Lauren, who I worked with at Square. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Two Biggest Learnings on Price, How to Manage and Train Young People in Venture, Why Business Classrooms Do Not Work and How to Assess the Two Commodities in Life; Money and Time with Jeff
- ▶ 36:38 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product micro-surveys and concept tests to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development, so they can make every product decision a…
20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia
- ▶ 2:46 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use
- ▶ 43:33 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product microsurveys and concepts
20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings And prior to starting fair, Mac spent close to five years at Square in numerous different roles, including Director of Consumer Product at Caviar, and the schedule stay was such a team effort.
- ▶ 5:13 Max Rhodes I then ended up leaving the management consulting firm that I was at and joining Square. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:00 Harry Stebbings My question to you, like listening to that though, before we dive into the business itself and your leadership, you mentioned the time at Square there. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:23 Max Rhodes Part of it is also, I was really fortunate to work for incredible product leaders at Square. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:45 Max Rhodes I worked for him at Square, one of the most brilliant business thinkers out there.
20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company
- ▶ 2:31 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product micro-surveys and concept tests to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development so they can make every product decision a…
20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup
- ▶ 29:31 Harry Stebbings We have Meta, we have Block. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 2:34 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product micro-surveys and concept tests to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development and
- ▶ 43:09 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product micro-surveys and concept tests to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development so they can make every product decision a…
20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 2:32 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product micro-surveys and concept tests to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development and
- ▶ 44:27 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use Sprig's in-product microsurveys and concept tests to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development so they can make every product decision a…
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on How To Narrow The Focus and Increase The Quality | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many good things from Doug at Square and Mike at Sutter Hill, so thank you so much for joining me today.
20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
- ▶ 2:38 Harry Stebbings Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom all use
20VC: Whoop Founder, Will Ahmed on How CEOs Can Perform at their Highest Level, Why There is Value in Struggle Early On, Why Realism is Overrated in Startups and How To Create a Culture of Delegated Decision-Making
- ▶ 41:22 Harry Stebbings Sprig is trusted by the world's most innovative companies, including the likes of Square, Dropbox, and Loom, to name a few.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 36:21 Bill Gurley That brought Square to us on the A.
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings Keith joined LinkedIn, Slide, and Square when they had no revenue.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 20:17 Hans Tung Perfect example of that is Square. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:51 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Square and Peloton there. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
- ▶ 37:03 Doug Leone So think of all the great companies that you love in the public market, whether it is Square, or whether it's Google, or whether it's ServiceNow.
20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
- ▶ 20:40 Angela Strange And then merchants, like a lot of them have the local square equivalent, but they
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Prior investments from Velvet Sea Partners include Twitter, Square, SpaceX, Snap, Facebook, Pinterest, and many more incredible companies, and prior to becoming an investor,
20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- ▶ 23:38 Nick Shalek Last year, you probably know this, but you know, you've heard some of these stats, like PayPal became more valuable than Bank of America and Square became more valuable than Goldman.
20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
- ▶ 33:11 Nigel Morris And very few of them now saying, look, we're going to be able to outcompete the plaids and the credit commas and the squares of this world.
20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
- ▶ 7:42 Chris Fralic Didn't feel right at the time, and clearly was a big miss for us, but it informed us to not get hung up on price for what we think can be breakout companies, and so one example where we learned and invested at an even higher price was with…
20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Biz is also an investor in the likes of Slack, Square, Intercom, Beyond Meat, and Blue Bottle Coffee, to name a few.
- ▶ 15:18 Biz Stone Oh yeah, that was weird, but because Jack had just been named not interim CEO anymore, so okay, we're gonna go ahead and have you as the real CEO, even though you're also CEO of Square.
- ▶ 24:45 Harry Stebbings You know, I think not many people know, but like investing in Nest, Square, Slack, Intercom.
- ▶ 31:36 Biz Stone Oh, that would probably be square because it's something like a thousand X return or something.
20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Prior to AngelList, Avlock built and sold two companies, Fastbyte acquired by Square in 2015, and Fairy, which was also acquired, and if that wasn't enough, Avlock is also an angel in 25 companies.
- ▶ 3:54 Avlok Kohli The most notable one was an acquisition of a food delivery company, Fastbyte, which was bought by Square in 2015. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:07 Harry Stebbings You mentioned kind of the lessons from Fast Byte, and then also the time with Square. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:10 Avlok Kohli The one that definitely stands out is when Jack took on the dual roles as CEO of Twitter and Square, and I was at Square when this happened, and for months there was discontent. 8 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings As for Roloff, at Sequoia he's led rounds in the likes of YouTube, Instagram, Eventbrite, Square, MongoDB,
- ▶ 35:45 Roelof Botha So I'm on the board of Mongo, which is an enterprise infrastructure software company, Natero, which is a bioinformatics company, Square, which is a financial services company.
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
- ▶ 31:49 Sahil Lavingia Pinterest and Slack and Square, and there's probably a dozen sort of ten billion dollar plus companies, Twilio, etc., and you need those if you're a billion dollar firm.
20VC: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Someone who's been an incredible advisor to me over the years, member of the ecosystem, and just all around a wonderful person, and I'm so thrilled to welcome back to the show today, Alad Gil, one of Silicon Valley's most successful and…
- ▶ 3:40 Elad Gil So as an investor, I'm involved with companies like Airbnb, Airtable, Andrill, Coinbase, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Samsara, Stripe, Square, and others.
- ▶ 5:01 Elad Gil As people have to social distance, as they have to think about going back to work or not, there's a really big shift in terms of people extending working from home or making it primary, like what Coinbase is doing, Square is doing,…
- ▶ 19:48 Elad Gil Square had a structure on its last round where I think there was some sort of IPO conversion clause or ratchet.
- ▶ 28:55 Elad Gil Like Square has actually done some really interesting things there recently.
20VC: Upfront's Mark Suster on COVID Redefining What A Great Company Looks Like and What Valuations Look Like, Why Pay-To-Play Is Back On The Table & Why We Will See The Death of Party Rounds
- ▶ 32:47 Mark Suster But virtually every company has that, you know, Keith Raboy at Square in the early days with Jack, when Jack was working across multiple companies, but there's a million examples of great compliments to founders that really help build…
20VC: 3 Addictions Of Early-Stage Startup Founders, How Founders Should Strategically Think Through Unit Economics From Day 1 & Why Micromanagement Can Be Beneficial In The Early Days with Adena Hefets, Co-Founder @ Divvy Homes
- ▶ 3:41 unnamed speaker And so I actually did this, what was a very weird path at the time, but ended up going to around a 300 person startup at the time called Square, which now is a really big public company. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:05 unnamed speaker My time at Square really let me see what it's like to be an employee in a
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