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20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Vinod is the founder at Kostler Ventures, one of the Valley's most renowned firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Square, a
- ▶ 12:22 Vinod Khosla Take something like Square. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:39 Vinod Khosla So I didn't include successes like Square or Stripe or Nutanix. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Khosla Ventures Founding Partner, Samir Kaul on Why Pro Rata Is A Cop Out, Why He Likes Technical Risk and Does Not Take Market Risk & How To Approach Time Allocation Across The Portfolio In Venture
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings However, to the show today, and I've wanted to feature this firm for a very long time, one of Silicon Valley's most renowned firms, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Samir Kool, founding partner at Coastal Adventures, one of the…
- ▶ 14:33 Samir Kaul You know, I think when we invested in the Series A of Square, I think it was around a thirty million dollar valuation. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on The Strategy Behind The New $600m "Back To The Future" Fund, The Truth To Price Sensitivity at Series A & Why Venture Team Building Is Like Basketball Team Building
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Mamoun is a partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture firms, counting Google, Airbnb, Amazon, Spotify, Square, and many more billion-dollar companies among their portfolio.
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings With a portfolio, including the likes of Alibaba, Slack, Square, Xiaomi, Peloton, Opendoor, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:55 Jeff Richards Square was one.
20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings One of the world's leading seed funds, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Uber, Warby Parker, Flatiron Health, Square, Hotel Tonight, Goat, and more incredible companies.
- ▶ 9:19 Josh Kopelman So, uh, if Twitter is the painful example, I'd say Square is the counterpoint to that, right? 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings As for Ted, prior to VC, Ted spent over 20 years as a leading Silicon Valley lawyer, and a partner with Fennec & West for the last 10 years, where he worked with some of the most notable companies of our time, including Facebook, Dropbox,…
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 23:34 Ooshma Garg I was researching angel investors for our company, and at the time, Keith was at Square, and he had been involved in Yelp, and he had been angel investing in a number of other consumer companies, especially in peer-to-peer and e-commerce. 3 times in the scene
20VC: First Round's Phin Barnes on How The Best Founders Optimize for Learning Per Dollar Spent, What Makes A Truly Special Founder/VC Relationship and Why Pattern Recognition is Another Term For Intellectual Laziness
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm so thrilled to welcome Finn Barnes, partner at First Round Capital, one of the most prestigious and successful early stage fans of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Square, Warby Parker,…
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
- ▶ 4:46 Fritz Lanman It was a seed investor in Square and Pinterest and Wish and a couple other great ones.
- ▶ 17:42 Fritz Lanman I mean, my first one was square and I had looked into payments a bit for Microsoft because, you know, we had so much cash in the balance sheet that one of the things we could have done was become a bank.
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Billion dollars under management across eight funds, and a portfolio including the likes of Airbnb, Didi, Alibaba, Slack, Square, and the list really does go on. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Corporate development lead at Square, where he's made multiple acquisitions and investments, including the likes of Order Ahead and Investing in Eventbrite. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:21 Harry Stebbings But I'm now so excited to dive into the world of corporate development and welcome James Loftus at Square.
- ▶ 2:49 Harry Stebbings And how did you make your way to be corp dev lead for Square? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:21 Harry Stebbings Where would you stand on the thesis that companies are bought and not sold, having sat on both sides of the table, both with Andreessen and with Yahoo, Google, and now Square?
- ▶ 8:00 James Loftus Over the last year or two, what might be a factor to bolster up that if those companies look for bigger deals because it's harder to move the needle is that there's the, for lack of a better term, there's all the unicorns and companies…
- ▶ 12:23 James Loftus So we approach it from two different ways at Square. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:00 Harry Stebbings So one of the 1200 GPs has recommended that Square buy the 20 minute VC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:35 James Loftus This is true for Square, but it's true at Yahoo, and it's true at Google, too. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:28 James Loftus To engage with us, even if you're not interested in selling the company, if you, if you want an introduction to someone at square, if you want to talk to our business development team, if you think that there's a product manager that you… 5 times in the scene
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings Google, Amazon, Twitter, Square, Airbnb, just to name a few.
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings With a portfolio including the likes of Airbnb, Stripe, Square, and Pinterest, just to name a few.
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings Kevin's also been a prolific angel investor, with a portfolio including the likes of Twitter, Square, Facebook, Facebook,
20VC: How Both Founders & GPs Should Construct Their Pitch, Why VCs Are Eternal Optimists & What Makes The Best Post-Investment VC/Founder Relationship with Brian Ascher, Partner @ Venrock
- ▶ 12:24 Brian Ascher I remember seeing Jack Dorsey's pitch for squares series a, and he literally started with like, these are 75 things that could kill this company in the short term. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Now, MZ is a partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of the world's most prestigious venture funds, with prior investments in the likes of Google, Amazon, Twitter, Square, and Airbnb, just to name a few.
20VC: Khosla's Keith Rabois on How To Create Sustainability Behind Growth, How To Assess The Potential Of Individuals & Teams & The Biggest Takeaways from LinkedIn, Paypal & Square
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Keith's unparalleled operational track record does not stop there, as he's forged several of the most important new social and commerce platforms, including key roles at LinkedIn, PayPal, and being COO at Square.
- ▶ 6:20 Harry Stebbings You, you managed to brilliantly avoid some of the incredible companies that you've worked with, with the likes of PayPal, and Square, and LinkedIn being just a few.
- ▶ 10:22 Keith Rabois Square is a very different kind of company.
- ▶ 21:58 Keith Rabois So I think those are the things that, you know, just with time, I think also the flip side of that is if you've spent a lot of time in executive roles, like whether it's PayPal or LinkedIn or square or slide is a good example of this…
- ▶ 25:26 Keith Rabois I had this attorney, an eternal desire at square one. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify
- ▶ 13:28 Harley Finkelstein You can do just e-commerce plus just point of sale plus, you know, maybe a card reader from like a company like square and you can bundle those all together.
20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings He also spent two years at unicorn payments company Square, as well as co-founding two prior startups.
- ▶ 5:26 Spencer Kimball Three years down the line, we'd been acqui-hired by Square. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 18:43 unnamed speaker And now you look at his portfolio over the last sort of five, six, seven years, he's in almost every exciting startup, Airbnb, Stripe, Square.
20VC: How To Test The Strength Of Co-Founder Relations, The Dangers Of Raising A Large Series A & Why The Biggest Challenge For Consumer Companies Is Finding The Second Big Hit with Rishi Garg, Partner @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings And prior to Twitter, Rishi was the first head of corporate development at Square.
- ▶ 6:42 Rishi Garg And then in January of 2012, I started work at Square. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:01 Harry Stebbings And then let's do Square. 7 times in the scene
20VC: AngelList's Parker Thompson on How He Evaluates Startup Founders & Why The Move To Series A Is Harder Than Ever?
- ▶ 29:05 Parker Thompson He was one of our early engineers at Pivotal, super talented, left Pivotal to join the Square founding team as an engineer, spent a number of years there, co-founded the startup with one of his colleagues that he'd worked with there for…
Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings And over the past eight years, Rob has led their investments in the likes of Mint.com, acquired by Intuit, Uber, Square, Nip, acquired by Twitter, and Eero, just to name a few of their incredible portfolio companies.
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