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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