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Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:24 unnamed speaker So maybe the, the, the greatest, uh, seed investor of several generations ago, Chris Saka, right now he, he put a lot of money into Twitter and others, right? 2 times in the scene
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:45 Jason Calacanis It wasn't true of other super cycles, not of the Saka era and others.
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 59:28 Tim Ferriss Like, Chris Saka's first fund. 3 times in the scene
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:03 Shervin Pishevar Um, I would say it, it would be lowercase, um, Chris Saka's fund.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:58 Harry Stebbings Have you ever done a Chris Sackett and done a Nom Nom?
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:54 Adam Besvinick And trying to figure out how to move from traditional finance to venture and ultimately, um, ended up working for Chris Saka and lowercase capital while I was in business school off of a cold email to Chris and then diligently annoying and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15 Harry Stebbings Before we can go any further, I just have to ask, Chris is such a good dude. 6 times in the scene
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:11 Harry Stebbings Chris Sackler says that one.
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:00 Hunter Walk Um, Chris Saka, Josh Koppelman, Michael Deering, that type of stuff. 2 times in the scene
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:33 Harry Stebbings I had Chris Sacker on the show.
Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:02 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, and this, I, I mean this, not, you put yourself in those positions, but like, I had Chris Sacker on the show, and he said, I may be lucky, but it wasn't by accident.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 36:35 Jason Lemkin Listen, if you can maintain what you're doing at 20 VC, it's epic because there's a lot of folks who have kind of done the next generation thing of what Saka did in the early days. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Scaling to $2BN AUM in 3 years, Fundraising Lessons and Tactics from 2,500 LP Meetings & What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time with Harley Miller, Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Left Lane Capital
- ▶ 49:00 Harry Stebbings Stay tuned for Wednesday's episode on what it means to be a great parent and what great parenting teaches you about great leadership with Chris Sacker, Harley Finkelstein, Dina Shakir, and many more incredible names.
20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed, Why Venture Has Never Been Less Collaborative, How Becoming a Parent Made Me a Better Investor and Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future of Diversity in Venture with Deena Sh
- ▶ 20:12 Harry Stebbings I ask Chris Saka. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Two Biggest Learnings on Price, How to Manage and Train Young People in Venture, Why Business Classrooms Do Not Work and How to Assess the Two Commodities in Life; Money and Time with Jeff
- ▶ 33:22 Harry Stebbings You know, as Saka said on the show, like, yeah, I'm, I'm confident, and I'd say how brilliant I am, because I need to sell how good I am to founders.
20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
- ▶ 19:24 Harry Stebbings I had Chris Sacker on the show recently. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
- ▶ 23:29 Harry Stebbings And so, I want to specifically ask around, like, and I spoke to Naomi, I spoke to Chris, I spoke to Roloff, and they all said about this, which is, like, ask about
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
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings First round, and then on the individual side, Max Levchin, Chris Saka, Ron Conway, and Naval Ravikant, to name a few.
- ▶ 4:31 Sahil Lavingia Raised ten million bucks from Kleiner Perkins, Max Lefgen, Naval, Chris Saka, the wonder kind of story, college dropout, everything like that.
20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- ▶ 5:36 Katie Stanton So with a fund, it was Chris Saka, who told me he was creating this new fund called lowercase capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:11 Harry Stebbings Well, I mean, I did not know that Chris Sacker and Lerkes was the first LP check, and I think on record, that must make you one of the most successful LPs in the Valleys.
20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- ▶ 28:17 Sarah Smith So when you don't come from wealth, like in my case, and you see super angels like Chris Saka or Mark
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date with Brightwheel, Dave has raised over thirty-three million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the business, including Bessemer, GGV, Lowercase, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, our friends at ENIAC, and then the likes…
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
- ▶ 33:52 Ron Bouganim So that's what goes back to that intensity is something I certainly observed over at Lowercase Capital and why I referenced Matt Mazzeo and Chris Saka. 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 21:25 Fritz Lanman We were kind of a class of vintage behind the Chris Saka's and the 2 times in the scene
20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- ▶ 29:38 Harry Stebbings If there was one thing that made you choose Chris at Fuel as the next move, what would that one thing have been? 4 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 14:02 David Waxman Chris Saka, where pro rata rights are sort of viewed as a separate asset class, an additional asset rather than just a means for a fund to protect his position.
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 23:58 Jason Calacanis If you're Chris Saka, or you're Ron Conway, or, you know, you're Esther Dyson, you have this massive, incredible network, and every single person brings you their best deals.
20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Including Alfred Lynn at Sequoia, Chris Sacker, Jeff Clavier, Eileen Lee, Lightspeed, the list goes on.
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 16:39 Jason Lemkin So everyone wants to follow the Mike Maples of the world, the other, the, the Chris Sockers, the breakout folks.
20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- ▶ 18:51 Justin Caldbeck I'd say there's two, the two best that I've, I've worked with who I really respect for different reasons are, uh, I would say Chris Saka and Bill Gurley. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 22:13 Ryan Sarver And then I think kind of in our industry, uh, Chris Saka has been a close friend and probably the, the person I go to the most for kind of personal and career advice. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 4:51 Alex Bangash Now, if you look at, you know, just pick, just pick the Forbes Midas list, for instance, and you will see that four out of the top 10 VCs, Steve Anderson, Chris Saka, Josh Copeland, Peter Thiel,
- ▶ 12:57 Harry Stebbings Uh, often we see, you know, fund managers like Chris Sacker who smash it, but there's also fund managers in the turning tides,
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 7:28 Charles Hudson I actually think that there's a lower threshold because people like Jeff, Steve Anderson, Chris Saka, and others showed that you could take a small amount of capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:57 Harry Stebbings And I'm very glad you mentioned Chris Sacker there, because now we've covered why they've risen. 4 times in the scene
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 17:29 Jonathan Abrams We've also noticed that both Hunter and Satya at Homebrew, all the folks at SoftTech, Matt and Chris at Lowercase, are all engaged, ah, with Nuzzle.
20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings So joining me today, I have none other than the incredible Matt Mazzeo, Managing Director at Lowercase Capital, alongside the legendary investor that is Chris Sacker. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:18 Harry Stebbings Okay, so let's start off, and this, we're not going to start off with the beginning, how did you get into it, but am I right, you met Chris at South by Southwest? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:41 Matt Mazzeo I mean, like for eight years, uh, Chris and I became closer and closer friends and kept sort of running across each other. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:09 Matt Mazzeo Chris has talked about this a lot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:52 Matt Mazzeo I mean, lowercase is Chris. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:06 Matt Mazzeo Part of the challenge you have when it's a really light fund in terms of headcount, it's Chris Jackson and I, and because we're so collaborative and we do see a lot of deals out there, I need to get better at how I manage through that time.
- ▶ 23:05 Matt Mazzeo And so, I'll dive in a little bit there, like, um, you know, a partner like Chris to be a great mentor and sort of help me think through some of the things that we really care about in identifying qualities within an entrepreneur, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:17 Matt Mazzeo You're often standing out on a ledge defending investments, uh, when people still think they're crazy, and often the best ones are, um, and you sort of have to defend that, uh, in my case, I get, you know, Chris to back me on those, but…
- ▶ 31:18 Harry Stebbings And then what's been the biggest learning experience from working with Chris? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:22 Harry Stebbings First, you can sign up for the Lowercase Alpha on lowercasealpha.com to try all the up-and-coming products from Lowercase's portfolio companies, and if you want to dress like Chris Sacker himself, you can also buy some of his wonderful…
20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital
- ▶ 26:40 unnamed speaker Um, of the new generation, there's a guy, Chris Saka, uh, in New York. 3 times in the scene
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 8:16 Harry Stebbings Let's put Chris Sack and Tim Ferriss.
- ▶ 11:35 Jason Calacanis Now, there's going to be the scorecard of returns, and that's important, so I don't know if I could ever catch up to Chris, um, but I know that in terms of how helpful I am, I know that I'm as helpful as Chris, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:42 Jason Calacanis So I love when you have the Sokka, Gary Vaynerchuk,
- ▶ 27:39 Jason Calacanis So the audience has been pretty clear that they, they really love the conversations with Gary Vaynerchuk and Sokka, you know, it's the most, you know, people say it's number one.
- ▶ 51:23 Jason Calacanis The founders sometimes are meeting with, you know, Chris Saka, and they don't know