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The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 18:56 Harry Stebbings Do you remember bullpen? 5 times in the scene
Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:45 Tom Loverro He's now at Bullpen Capital.
20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings And to date, John's raised over twenty-eight million dollars in funding for Star City, from the likes of Social Capital, Y Combinator, Bullpen Capital, NEA, and Kima Ventures in Paris, just to name a few.
- ▶ 14:22 Jon Dishotsky And so in the end, actually, we took on the folks from Eric Weizen from Bullpen Capital, and I'm just a huge fan of Bullpen Capital and what Paul has built over there. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings As for Hunter, he is actively involved in the assessment of micro VC managers for the firm, where he sits on the LP advisory boards for the likes of Pear, Foundry Group, Scale Venture Partners, and Bullpen Capital, just to name a few.
- ▶ 10:46 Harry Stebbings I know Paul Martino at Bullpen very well, 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Upscale Management Teams Effectively, When Should The CEO Play The Role of "Lifeguard" & What Role Does The Board Play In The Team Upscaling with Matt Straz, Founder & CEO @ Namely
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Since founding Namely, Matt has grown the company to over a thousand clients, a 150,000 users, and has raised over a hundred and fifty seven million dollars from the likes of Sequoia Capital, True Ventures, Matrix, and Bullpen, just to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:10 Harry Stebbings Likewise, I want to say a huge thank you to Pat Grady at Sequoia, and Paul Martino at Bullpen, for the intro to Matt today, without which this episode would not have been possible.
20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- ▶ 13:46 David Waxman And then the problem is compounded because you have all these new layers of professional investors like me, but now you have pre-seed investors and seed investors and some like Bullpen, who's specialized in post-seed.
20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings Tony's also the co-founder and CEO at About.me, acquired by AOL in 2010, and they've since raised funding from some of our true favorites in the industry, including Brad at Foundry, Softech, and Bullpen, just to name a few.
20VC: AngelList's Parker Thompson on How He Evaluates Startup Founders & Why The Move To Series A Is Harder Than Ever?
- ▶ 17:18 Parker Thompson Bullpen.
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Now, Paul is a co-founder and general partner at Bullpen Capital, the fund that finds overlooked companies by understanding biases in venture capital, and Paul has led several of Bullpen's key investments, including FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:48 Harry Stebbings However, enough from me, so without further ado, I'm delighted to welcome Paul Martino, co-founder at Bullpen Capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:05 Harry Stebbings Found bullpen, although as a startup, but still as a venture fund.
- ▶ 16:29 Paul Martino When you raise that much money and your prior raise was only three million bucks from bullpen, you can imagine what a huge change in valuation you have at the backside of navigating the crunch with the bullpen product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:05 Paul Martino We, we, we have this saying at Bullpen, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:16 Paul Martino We're trying to invest in fundamentally quality companies, and so you won't read a lot of stuff on Bullpen's website about, well, the hot new markets will be blank, blank, and blank. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:29 Harry Stebbings So in terms of that contrarian approach, I'm intrigued, because you're raising Bullpen three, um, and I heard on Venture Studio that you wanted to put a much more institutional structure in place with Bullpen.
- ▶ 24:34 Paul Martino There shouldn't be as many false negatives as bullpen is finding. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:50 Paul Martino You show up with a strategy as different as bullpen or as different as correlation ventures or as different as signal fire.
- ▶ 30:03 Paul Martino That is what bullpen is all about.
- ▶ 33:48 Paul Martino Cleanify is a classic example of a bullpen deal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:51 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic guest Paul was to have on the show today, and I'm so grateful, Tim, for giving up the time to come on, and such exciting times lie ahead for Bullpen, and we cannot wait to see them unfold.
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 34:01 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all the support, and I cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's episode with Paul Martino at Bullpen Capital.