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Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 25:01 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) But yes, of course, if autonomy starts to make up the majority of markets in San Francisco, LA, DC, Miami, New York, Boston, Chicago, like
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:00 Matt Fitzpatrick I've, you know, if you look at my last, if you look at my last four, five weeks, um, Riyadh, Geneva, Paris, Berlin, London, um, uh, San Francisco, Boston, Singapore, now London again.
20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency
- ▶ 8:49 John McMahon So if I'm going to drive from Boston to New York
- ▶ 54:15 John McMahon Like Boston to Tokyo is a 12 hour time difference, so when you go to bed, you're supposed to wake up. 2 times in the scene
20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
- ▶ 39:14 Chris Degnan And they were in Boston, and we went into there,
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29:38 Hemant Taneja And, and I remember my partners from Boston came, and they were, they just felt bad for me.
- ▶ 1:31:30 Harry Stebbings Fuck this, I'm getting back to Boston.
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:57 Brian Halligan and I get off the plane from Boston, landed in Sand Hill road.
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:20 Rory O'Driscoll They may do this whole, I was at school in Boston thing, whatever.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:31 Mitchell Green Um, so this, so this example, um, this company WorkHuman is an awesome business up in Boston.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:33 Jake Saper I flew out to Boston because I was visiting my then girlfriend, Danny Hertzberg, who was an employee at HubSpot at the time.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:01 Matt Grimm So, uh, we find these companies and like the, the, why I was in Australia was related to this company we acquired based out of Boston called
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:13 David Frankel So I go to TD Garden in Boston. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:59 David Frankel So, leave South Africa and go back to live in, you know, Boston.
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jeetu Mahtani, Sales Leader @Hubspot: How and When to Go International and Crush It | E1207 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:31 Jeetu Mahtani The Tiger team coming from Boston is going to be in Dublin paired one-on-one or in a really nice ratio.
Aman Narang: 5 Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | E1192 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:31 Aman Narang I mean, we, we met with like all the prominent VCs, I'd say, in the Boston area.
- ▶ 57:26 Aman Narang We're driving from Boston, New Hampshire.
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:43 David Cahn And so I flew out to Boston. 2 times in the scene
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:47 unnamed speaker Well, my biggest loss as an investment was very early on, where we invested in a Boston-based company called Harvest Automation, and a bunch of really clever guys out of, uh, iRobot.
Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:06 Andrew Bialecki I mean, used to, uh, you know, played, um, you know, grew up in the northeastern part of the US, uh, in Boston, and, uh, you know, we played hockey during the, the,
- ▶ 24:54 Andrew Bialecki So I got introduced a couple of folks around Boston.
Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:58 Mike Schroepfer You've got Commonwealth Fusion Systems is based in outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:59 Nikesh Arora Uh, right by Roxbury in Boston.
Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28 Jiaona Zhang Uh, so I was living in Boston, you know, thing called product.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:32 Kevin Ryan So in 1996, the number one question I got running DoubleClick was, why aren't you in Boston? 3 times in the scene
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:41 unnamed speaker So we did Boston, we did New York.
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:22 Brian Halligan There's a song that James Taylor, I know people roll their eyes with James Taylor, he's a little bit of an eye roll, but he's from Boston, and, uh, you know, I appreciate that.
- ▶ 29:27 Brian Halligan You'll run into somebody and, you know, you'd be walking down Newberry Street in Boston, bump into an employee, and you'll have coffee with them.
- ▶ 36:15 Brian Halligan And I joined one in Boston.
- ▶ 58:54 Brian Halligan So I remember, so we're a Boston-based company, and Boston-based company is like, no one gave us a hoot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:17 Brian Halligan Uh, it's with a firm here in Boston, a storied firm, and it had a storied founder, and, uh, we had pitched one of the partners several times, Guy Jeffrey, and he was interested, so we came in for the full partner pitch.
Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:23 Peter Lacaillade This, when they were based in Boston.
- ▶ 1:20:39 Peter Lacaillade Maybe, you know, it gets cold in Boston, and, uh, maybe, maybe a trip to Jamaica this winter.
- ▶ 1:21:05 Peter Lacaillade Well, in 10 years, my son, Reed, will be 16, so I'm living outside of Boston, you know, doing what I do, I think.
20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
- ▶ 8:01 Richard Socher Maybe it's Boston, maybe it's Montreal, maybe it's Yale, but you probably want to put more probability on the word being Boston. 2 times in the scene
Nick Huber: Biggest Lies of Silicon Valley; Lost Art of Delegation; How to Grow Your Network | E1051 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:43 Nick Huber I mean, five years ago, I was driving a box truck around the streets of Boston, you know, during the really busy season.
Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:13 Richard Socher Maybe it's Boston, maybe it's Montreal, maybe it's Yale, but you probably want to put more probability on the word being Boston than Yale because there are more people probably driving to Boston because it's a bigger city.
Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25 Rob Go And so I was in Boston. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:09 Rob Go Um, most of the successful early stage funds were getting bigger and bigger, and you saw the writing on the wall for some of those firms, and I figured, you know, there's gonna be a seed stage specialized fund that's not based in the Bay…
- ▶ 28:13 Rob Go Like, part of why the Boston venture market at the time was, was not thriving the way the west coast market was, um, is there's a little bit of a scarcity mindset here, a little bit more of a protective attitude towards everything, um,…
- ▶ 39:46 Harry Stebbings I hope Boston's great this time of year.
TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27 TJ Parker Um, so I was in pharmacy school in Boston, um, and doing the classic going down weird rabbit holes in the internet as a, as a college student and
- ▶ 42:59 TJ Parker Um, and so, you know, I think from a financing standpoint, uh, we got incredibly lucky because, and this is not usually a lucky turn of events, but Fred at the time had been at Accomplice, which was a fund in Boston, and led the Series A…
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:49 Adam Besvinick Um, but a lot were in other, I'll call secondary tertiary tech hubs, Austin, Chicago, Boulder, San Diego, Portland, Oregon, Toronto, Durham, North Carolina, Boston.
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:35 Yann LeCun So a lot of things the U.S. does right, but they, one thing that the U.S. system, or, or like they're off, does, does right also is the willingness to take risk and invest on ideas that seem, you know, a little crazy, but, but basically,…
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:22 Scooter Braun He was like, if you ever want to come up to Boston and still talk to us, come by.
Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:23 Mike Salguero And they ended up not investing, but we were able to raise money, uh, in Boston by, frankly, by people who were a little pissed off that, um, Silicon Valley was trying to take two entrepreneurs and put them over in, in California.
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:50 Steve Pagliuca And the first component was fundamental to build a championship team because Boston wants championships and that's how you, how you drive engagement.
ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:16 Henry Schuck So I think a culture of like hard work and practice leads to better outcomes is, you know, the number one thing that I'm trying to instill, you know, at the same time, like she's growing up very differently than I grew up and you're not… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:38 Henry Schuck To square my values with fly back and forth to Boston.
Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20 Hugo Barra Um, I came to the US, um, as an immigrant when I was 19 years old, um, to go to college in Boston.
GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:07 Rafael Ilishayev Philadelphia, Chicago's, uh, Boston's, Miami's, uh, all of our Texas markets of the world that are, are producing cash flow.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:46 Drew Houston And, um, it culminated in this, I was taking this bus ride from Boston to New York to visit my friends, but I wanted to get some work done for, uh, my company.
- ▶ 42:25 Drew Houston And Pejman's like, oh, you guys need to come down, like, because we were, we were living in Boston, but we were just in Mountain View visiting for a
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:57 Brad Gerstner Uh, but my classmate who became my wife decided that we're going to stay in Boston.
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:20 Mo Koyfman and I joined an upstart venture capital firm out of Boston called Spark Capital.
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:44 Sonali De Rycker I was in Boston.
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:18 Henri Pierre-Jacques Uh, we had fundraising meetings, like, we literally went to Boston, I remember, and they had one of their fundraising team members come with us in the car, and we drove to every institution, and we went to Brandeis, went to Harvard, went…
20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 9:39 David Fialkow All we knew is that we were going to take some of the money we just made selling our travel business, and we were going to hatch companies in Boston.
- ▶ 11:10 David Fialkow It was seventy million, most of it was from us, and then a handful of checks from some of our friends in Boston, who would become mentors to us, mostly investors, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:10 David Fialkow Jim Schwartz told us in the summer of 2011 that if we didn't open a presence in California because we were only in Boston, we would never survive as a firm. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:01 David Fialkow Aren't you a Boston-based term?
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
- ▶ 23:22 David Frankel So Matt flew to Boston.
20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital
- ▶ 4:10 Dannie Herzberg And so family landed in Boston, settled down, laid roots there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:20 Dannie Herzberg I had moved to Boston to take care of my mom, and it was a no-brainer decision.
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 14:33 Ali Partovi And Jerry, I remember clearly saying, oh, ViaWeb, the company in Boston, we looked at them, and our guys said there were some issues.
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
- ▶ 15:07 Keith Rabois So we felt like because we might have to test and learn, we wanted a market that people buy and sell houses for most of the year, as opposed to let's say a cold weather market like Boston or Denver.
20VC: Getir Founder, Nazim Salur on The Future of Last Mile Convenience, Who Will Win? Lessons on Driver Acquisition and Efficiency, Zone Maturity and Time To Profitability and Scaling to 300 Cities in the US in 2022
- ▶ 28:39 Nazim Salur Those are going to be New York, Chicago, and Boston.
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
- ▶ 3:46 Nick Shalek I'd been an investor earlier in my career at Yale investments and then had been part of a team focusing on incubations at general catalyst in Boston.
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 29:10 Mark Mullen We have four in LA, one in Boston, and one in San Francisco.
20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
- ▶ 4:32 Rafael Ilishayev Philadelphia helped fuel Boston's growth, which then helped fuel Washington DC's growth.
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 3:20 Peter Reinhardt We were super excited about this, built way too much code over the summer of YC, raised a little bit of money coming out of YC Demo Day, and then we started deploying this classroom lecture tool into classrooms in Boston, all over the…
20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- ▶ 3:49 Michael Eisenberg And I found myself summarily fired, but not knowing it, because the firm was in Boston, and I was in Israel, and it wasn't this kind of internet era.
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?
- ▶ 2:11 Harry Stebbings So I do want to ask, in starting off, you know, you went from designing book covers in Boston, thanks to Fred for the context there, to entering the world of startups, and I'd love to hear about that entrance and then the realization with
20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- ▶ 44:16 George Zachary A bioengineering company in Boston.
20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- ▶ 3:26 Wayne Chang So, believe it or not, Jeff and I met at a startup dinner in Boston back in 2011, and it was at a dinner that I wasn't even invited to.
- ▶ 27:57 Jeff Seibert Like, I feel so fortunate that Wayne crashed that dinner, that we got to meet in Boston, that we were very, very thoughtful with how we built the Crashlytics team.
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 4:32 Emmett Shear YC, I was an avid reader of Paul's essays, and YC gets announced that they're, they're running the summer founders program at the time in Boston. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
- ▶ 3:51 Brandon Deer I was working for a enterprise software expansion stage focused venture capital firm out in Boston called OpenView Venture Partners. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 10:39 unnamed speaker It was still small partnerships with thin teams and really much more of a ad hoc community that had maybe somewhat of a deep community in Silicon Valley and around Route one 20 in Boston.
20VC: Inside The Mind of A Leading LP: How LPs Evaluate New Fund Managers on Everything from First Meeting to Portfolio Construction To Fees and Carry with Lisa Edgar, Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners
- ▶ 7:02 Lisa Edgar It's changed, obviously, dramatically from a very small cottage industry that was really Silicon Valley in Boston, so it was really US-based, and I would say the biggest change that we see today is really the globalization, and sitting in…
20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures
20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot
- ▶ 3:13 Wasim Daher Then Oracle acquired it, and we were in Boston this whole time.
20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution
20VC: a16z's Scott Kupor on The Biggest Learnings From Scaling a16z from $300m to $7Bn AUM, The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching VCs & Why VC Is Simply A Customer Service Business
- ▶ 25:00 Scott Kupor Look, I think the biggest thing we've got to change is we have to kind of get out of our own bubble and realize that the entire U.S. doesn't live in the fifty-mile radius of the Bay Area or in the New York-Boston area.
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
- ▶ 5:32 Mamoon Hamid I made my way to Boston.
20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware
- ▶ 6:34 Frank Chen And actually academics who have studied why Silicon Valley beat route one, 28 in Boston, they will point to this as a feature, which is in Boston. 2 times in the scene
20VC: AOL Founder, Steve Case on Why The Best Venture Investments of The Next 10 Years Will Likely Not Be In The Valley, Why The CEO Must Be The Shock Absorber For Company Morale and Why Vision Without Execution is Hallucination
- ▶ 13:27 Steve Case In general, the companies in places like Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston probably are a little overvalued because of the supply-demand dynamic, because most of the venture capital is based there, and most of the venture…
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 14:41 Fred Destin So HubSpot in Boston was famous for not having any titles for the longest time.
20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
- ▶ 21:02 Harry Stebbings What must I be reading on my next trip to Boston? 6 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @
- ▶ 16:41 David Frankel In fact, for a very brief time, the team, the pullback team worked out of the Boston IDEO offices, and I recall, with your partner Fred, having some of the very first board meetings at IDEO.
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 19:29 Howard Lerman You have a breakfast meeting where you pitch investors, four meetings that are about one hour each as you zoom around whatever city you're in from Boston to Kansas city, a lunch meeting where you pitch more investors, four more meetings, a…
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 18:37 Daniel Gross If over time, say, we find a crew of biologists, and maybe Boston is the place to take them, we'll take them to Boston.
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 8:39 Jeff Fagnan Bringing some things over from Israel and setting up headquarters here in Boston. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:21 Jeff Fagnan And if that would have been the case, you know, Dropbox, we would have led to see the series a and probably kept a drew in Boston and it would have just changed everything.
- ▶ 24:11 Jeff Fagnan She's working here in Boston with a really interesting company called AppCues, and I'm going out there.
- ▶ 24:45 Jeff Fagnan So Sam is a founder at Insight Squared, and we think Sam is probably one of the most talented product individuals in Boston, if not the most talented product individual in Boston. 2 times in the scene
20VC: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on Why We Are In A Golden Age For VC, Why Pro-Rata Is A Lazy Posture and Why He Does Not Focus On Price
- ▶ 3:27 Hemant Taneja And I was approached by a few venture firms in Boston.
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