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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
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