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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