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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
- ▶ 28:34 Ooshma Garg A lot of the U.S. companies have not expanded internationally, and our industry is actually an international industry in the U.K., Canada, Australia, etc.
20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund
- ▶ 4:14 Ron Bouganim You're sort of bestowed upon it in Canada, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 26:47 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi I think access to capital is going to become more global, and things like AngelList, as well as governments and countries really investing, like Canada has, into the startup ecosystem, I think is going to have a long-term impact on where…
20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team
- ▶ 6:30 Philip Krim We now have 20 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, and they've been doing so well that we're now committed to scaling that to over 200 stores in the next three years.
- ▶ 9:10 Philip Krim We're in Europe, we're in Canada, we're in the U S and we're operating through multiple channels of distribution.
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
- ▶ 23:37 Fritz Lanman So we're actually up to 50 cities now in four countries, Australia, UK, Canada, and the US, and we are just beginning to pour fuel on the fire again.
20VC: Why Virtually All Companies Hire The Wrong Way, Why EdTech Is The Most Brutal Market & How To Scale Your Sales Team for Engineering Founders with Mike Sliagadze, Founder & CEO @ Top Hat
- ▶ 22:18 Harry Stebbings So 30 seconds each of being in Canada. 4 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
- ▶ 2:04 Harry Stebbings And Eero is only available in the US and Canada, and you can check it out at Eero.com.
- ▶ 30:09 Harry Stebbings And Eero is only available in the US and Canada, and you can check it out at eero.com.
20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 2:12 Harry Stebbings And Aero is only available in the US and Canada, and you can check it out at aero.com.
- ▶ 29:57 Harry Stebbings Sports, slow sports, drop-offs, or buffering right out of the box, and Eero is only available in the US and Canada, and you can check it out at Eero.com.
20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings And Eero is only available in the US and Canada, and you can check it out at Eero.com.
- ▶ 26:56 Harry Stebbings And Eero is only available in the US and Canada, and you can check it out at Eero.com.
20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
- ▶ 1:52 Harry Stebbings And Eero is only available in the US and Canada, and you can check it out at Eero.com.
- ▶ 25:03 Harry Stebbings And Eero is only available in the US and Canada, and you can check it out at Eero.com.
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
- ▶ 2:07 Harry Stebbings And Eero is only available in the US and Canada, and you can check it out at eero.com.
- ▶ 25:32 Harry Stebbings Fast, reliable Wi-Fi, so despite the increased number of devices with Christmas coming, you'll still be able to get powerful mesh Wi-Fi in every nook and cranny of your home, yes, backyard included, and no more dead spots, slow spots,…
20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations
- ▶ 2:33 Chris O'Neill So, so grew up in Canada, a very small town in Canada, and found my way to the valley in way back in 1998.
- ▶ 10:43 Chris O'Neill Well, first I should, as a good Canadian, I grew up playing hockey and worshiping Wayne Gretzky.
- ▶ 22:48 Chris O'Neill Like, so I, I do some angel investing almost exclusively, actually exclusively in Canada when I think about it.
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
- ▶ 3:58 Harley Finkelstein So the t-shirt, the bag, the hat that you get in the first day of school, we made that for a bunch of different schools and around Canada. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:09 Harley Finkelstein Certainly, you know, located in Canada, uh, is, has a lot of benefits, but, but perhaps we're, we're sort of outside the bubble of Silicon Valley, where a lot of these companies are based.
- ▶ 23:42 Harry Stebbings So you mentioned being in Canada. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 7:24 James Cham And then the other thing is that, in part, thanks to a set of guys who hit out in Canada for a little while, diligently working on a set of techniques that continue the work of, you know, folks from 40 years ago, we've got
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 2:41 Howard Lindzon Canadian, born, uh, 51 years ago this week.
- ▶ 19:00 Howard Lindzon I'm Canadian.
20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- ▶ 14:20 Karthik Sridharan And, uh, and Canada.
20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- ▶ 1:25 Harry Stebbings Which are really simple and really transparent, and once bought online, the mattresses are then shipped to your door if you live in the UK, US, and Canada, for free that is, and you get a 100 night trial to ensure that the mattress is…
- ▶ 3:04 Josh Udashkin I, I'm actually, I'm Canadian.
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 30:23 Harry Stebbings Not only do Lisa deliver free to anywhere in the UK, US, and Canada, but the mattresses are delivered in a very special way as they're compressed, boxed, and then shipped.
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 25:40 Harry Stebbings The mattress itself will be delivered to your door in a matter of days to anyone in the UK, US, and Canada, and the lack of showroom allows them to focus on what matters, customer satisfaction, which is reflected in their transparent and…
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 1:53 Harry Stebbings So if you live in the US, UK, or Canada, you can also get your mattress delivered to your door.
20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 1:48 Harry Stebbings With their incredible mattress, and I never knew the engineering and science that went into mattresses before, before I came into contact with Lisa, but with Lisa, this is front and center, as their mattress is made up of three unique…
- ▶ 31:17 Harry Stebbings Not only are they engineered to perfection, but also all Lisa mattresses are made in the UK and the US and can be shipped for the free to the US, UK, and Canada.
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 29:16 Harry Stebbings Not only are they engineered to perfection, but all Leesa mattresses are made in the UK and the US, and can be shipped for free to the US, UK, and Canada.
20VC: What LP's Want In VCs with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 27:55 Harry Stebbings And not only are they engineered to perfection, but all Leesa mattresses are made in the UK and the US, and can be shipped for free to the US, UK, and Canada.
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 1:10 Harry Stebbings Also, all Lisa mattresses are made in the US and the UK, and can be delivered to the US, UK, and Canada.
20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 26:55 Harry Stebbings The mattress itself will be delivered to your door in a matter of days to anyone living in the UK, US, and Canada, and the lack of showroom allows them to focus on what matters, customer satisfaction, which is reflected in their…
20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings And once bought online, the mattress is then shipped to your door, if you live in the UK, US, and Canada, for free, and you get a hundred night trial, to ensure the mattress is perfect for you.
- ▶ 29:39 Harry Stebbings Not only do they deliver to anywhere in the UK, US, and Canada for free, but the mattresses are compressed, boxed, and then shipped.
20VC: How Startups Should React To Today's Funding Environment & Why Big Markets Are More Forgiving with Jenny Lefcourt, Partner @ Freestyle.vc
- ▶ 1:47 Harry Stebbings And they deliver to the UK, US, and Canada, and the entire experience is a painless one, and you can check it out at lisa.com forward slash VC, and enter the promo code VC-seventy-five for a wicked 75 dollars off.
20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
- ▶ 1:39 Harry Stebbings Lisa offer an online experience where the mattress is even shipped to your door in a matter of days if you live in the UK, US, and Canada.
- ▶ 28:11 Harry Stebbings I ordered it online from my office, and it was delivered a few days later, and this is possible for anyone in the UK, US, and Canada.
20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay
- ▶ 1:22 Harry Stebbings Even more amazing, Randy wouldn't have even had to leave his house, as Lisa delivered to the UK, the US, and Canada for free,
20VC: Why More People Should Be Entrepreneurs & How Do You Know When You Are Ready with Matt Clifford @ Entrepreneur First
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings They also completely avoid the showroom experience, offering an all online experience, meaning they have a much lower cost structure, which is really reflected in their prices, which are really simple and really transparent, and once…
- ▶ 25:40 Harry Stebbings Not only is delivery free to anywhere in the UK, US, and Canada, but the mattresses are compressed, boxed, and then shipped, and although crazy, it's amazing, and actually extends the life of the mattress itself.
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 1:25 Harry Stebbings Their mattresses are crafted with three unique layers, one of which is memory foam, perfect for when you get to my age and your back is not what it used to be, and another of cool latex-like foam, designed to keep you cool at night, and I…
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 1:08 Harry Stebbings I hate to traipse around a showroom, and with Leesa's end-to-end online experience, you don't even have to leave your home, and it can be delivered to your door if you live in the US, UK, or Canada.
- ▶ 26:52 Harry Stebbings Even more than that, though, all Leesa mattresses are made in the US and the UK, and can be shipped to the US, UK, and Canada.
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 1:33 Harry Stebbings Lisa offer free shipping to the UK, US, and Canada, and all their mattresses are made in the UK and the US.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
- ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings For free to the US, UK, and Canada.
- ▶ 27:14 Harry Stebbings This is also possible for all residents in the UK, US, and Canada.
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 1:21 Harry Stebbings Right to your door if you live in the UK, US, or Canada.
- ▶ 35:33 Harry Stebbings Not only that, but all Leesa mattresses are made in the UK and the US, and they can be delivered right to your door if you live in the UK, US, or Canada.
20VC: Fundraising Is Also Business Development with Nicolas Dessaigne, Co-Founder & CEO @ Algolia
- ▶ 1:37 Harry Stebbings Lisa delivered to all customers in the UK, US, and Canada, and all Lisa mattresses are made in the UK and the US.
- ▶ 24:18 Harry Stebbings And as I said earlier, with the weekend coming, why spend your time traipsing around a terrible mattress showroom when you could head over to lisa.com, that's l-e-e-s-a.com forward slash vc, and enjoy an end-to-end online mattress buying…
20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 1:43 Harry Stebbings It's delivered to your house if you live in the UK, US, or Canada, and all mattresses are made in the UK and the US.
- ▶ 26:27 Harry Stebbings Not only are they engineered to perfection, but all Leesa mattresses are made in the UK and the US, and they can be shipped to the UK, the US, and Canada for free.
20VC: The Best Determinant Of Product Market Fit & Why Prior Experience Is Not Required For Founder Success with Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 1:57 Harry Stebbings And can be shipped for free to the US, UK, and Canada.
- ▶ 26:25 Harry Stebbings Of course, this is also possible for all residents of the UK, US, and Canada, and all the mattresses are made, actually, in the UK and the US.
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 2:50 Jonathan Abrams So I started off working in Canada at Nortel doing telephone software.
- ▶ 21:06 Jonathan Abrams And I read that book when I was still in Canada.
- ▶ 28:44 Harry Stebbings Not only are they engineered to perfection, but all Leesa mattresses are made in the UK and the US, and can be shipped for free to the US, UK, and Canada, and they have a 100 night trial.
20VC: Why Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World Of Software with Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 1:45 Harry Stebbings Not only are they engineered to perfection, but all Lisa mattresses are made in the UK and US, and can be shipped for free to the US, UK, and Canada.
- ▶ 31:01 Harry Stebbings And not only do you avoid that, but they also deliver to your door, to anyone in the UK, US, and Canada, and for every 10 they sell, they give one to a shelter.
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 1:43 Harry Stebbings Of course, this is also possible for all residents of the UK, US, and Canada.
- ▶ 29:55 Harry Stebbings I did not even have to leave my house to buy it, as they offer an end-to-end online experience, meaning no more mattress buying showroom nightmares, and not only did I not have to leave my house, but the manufacturing did not even leave…
20VC: Sprig's Gagan Biyani on The 3 Principles Of Fundraising and Building The World's Largest Restaurant
- ▶ 1:22 Harry Stebbings That still is not enough for them, as they like to give back, which is why for every 10 mattresses Lisa sells, they donate one to a shelter, and these mattresses are not just any mattresses, they're engineered with three unique layers,…
- ▶ 27:29 Harry Stebbings And not only did I not leave my house, but the manufacturing did not leave the country, as all Lisa mattresses are produced in the US and UK, and shipped to the US, UK, and Canada for free.
20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper
- ▶ 1:29 Harry Stebbings Even more, all the mattresses are made in the UK, US, and can be shipped to the UK, US, and Canada for free.
- ▶ 27:34 Harry Stebbings Now, the Leesa mattress is a hundred percent made in the US and the UK, and ships for free to anywhere in the US, UK, and Canada.
20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next
- ▶ 1:36 Harry Stebbings And even better, the mattress itself is made a hundred percent in the US and UK, and it's shipped for free to anywhere in the US, UK, and Canada.
- ▶ 24:42 Harry Stebbings They've thrown out the old system of awkwardly posing on a bed in a showroom, as you always do in your own room, I'm sure, and offer a fully online shopping experience where the mattress is delivered to your door in a box, providing you…
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 26:08 Niccolo De Masi In, you know, in Canada, Beta, it's, it's made ephemera money, and it's done for both, well, well in both the free and the grossing charts.
20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?
- ▶ 33:43 Fred Destin Uh, making money for our investors is number two because, you know, we look after pensioners money and, and, and we looked after pensioners money in Canada, the USA, the UK, Holland, and I, and I care a lot about that, you know, making…
20 VC: The Ultimate Guide To Marketplaces with Boris Wertz, Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures
- ▶ 4:08 Boris Wertz Um, we started that company, raised some money, built it to, uh, to Europe's market leader, and then sold it in 2002, two years later, to, uh, our competitor in, uh, in Canada called A-Books.
20 VC 095: How VCs Find Startups and How To Add Value Once Invested with David Teten @ ff Venture Capital
- ▶ 3:52 David Teten With investments in Canada, Israel, UK, Amsterdam, and potentially elsewhere, depending on what deals come through.
20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24
- ▶ 3:43 Brian Wong Um, but, uh, I grew up, uh, in Vancouver in Canada, and, uh, I, uh, was, you know, very typical Canadian childhood.
- ▶ 4:47 Harry Stebbings Now, moving back to when you, you moved to the US from Canada, I remember listening to you on the foundation, and you said, with Kevin Rose that was, and you said that one of the first people you wanted to meet was Fred Wilson.
20 VC 065: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Brad Feld: Founders Should Be Obsessed, Passion Belongs In The Bedroom
20 VC 020: Revolutionising Investing with Luke Lang, Co-Founder of Crowdcube
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