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NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 39:02 Rory O'Driscoll People working at Salesforce, Cisco, and people working at JP Morgan, including, you know, QA, all the rest, you've got about five hundred billion dollars a year of US labor spend, right?
ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 57:30 Aaron Katz And, uh, Mike was an operator, uh, worked at Cisco for a long time, ran corp dev.
Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- ▶ 7:48 Anastasios Angelopoulos I'm a Cisco.
Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:21 Andrew Feldman CIO arose as a role with Cisco with their sort of rise to dominance is prior to the mid nineties.
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:21 Jason Lemkin Every single, Cisco, Cisco's back.
- ▶ 1:21:56 Harry Stebbings I don't want, I don't want to end on a negative, but Cisco cuts 4000, LinkedIn cuts eight 75, Meta cuts 8000.
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:20 unnamed speaker Because, again, for context, folks, in 21, late 21, Sequoia correctly said, over the long term, our very best companies continue to compound, and if you held all the companies, even the bad ones, the good ones would have swamped it,…
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:54 Alex Rampell So, you know, you go back, like the infrastructure layer for PCs was, I don't know, like Microsoft and Apple, like the operating system players, the infrastructure player for the internet was like Cisco and Akamai.
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:52 unnamed speaker Cisco, the darling of 99, just got back this week to its 99 stock price.
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:19 Andrew Feldman And I, I think that we saw that with Cisco, uh, who, who emerged as a dominant position, you know, 99, 2002 1001.
- ▶ 1:16:56 Andrew Feldman And before I, uh, competed with Nvidia, I competed with Cisco for 15 years, and every dollar that, that, that we sold there, if we didn't build better product, if we weren't more aggressive, if we weren't more creative, would have…
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:31 Jason Lemkin Cisco, Cisco, that's where our grandpa learned to be an engineer.
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:10 Mati Staniszewski So that's, that's like the, the, the, on the enterprise side, whether it's Cisco, these are not the, the, the contracts there, but Cisco, Twilio, um, recently working with Epic Games.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:20 Jason Lemkin I said go to Cisco. 2 times in the scene
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:22 Bucky Moore So I would say the single biggest thing that I've changed my mind on as an investor in the 11 or so years that I've been doing this comes down to, you know, what I did before investing, which is I was, as I said, I was a member of Cisco's… 2 times in the scene
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:48 unnamed speaker And they've had a, you know, from way back when, when they did Cisco and you distributed at two hundred million pre when it went public and anyone who's still holding their stock feels pretty good.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 39:17 Jason Lemkin I remember when, um, right after AppDynamics got bought for Cisco for a 3.7 billion, Jody Bonsal came to Saster.
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:32 Andrew Feldman Cisco, Juniper.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:16 Jonathan Ross The famous stories of, um, turning on Huawei switches and you see Cisco's logo and all the bugs and right.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:32 Mike Maples But like Eric had been at, at Cisco as part of Webex for 10 years.
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:39 Michael Eisenberg Same thing happened, you know, uh, Cisco bought, um, blank on the name of the company for six billion dollars in the fiber optic routing space, and I think, 2001, then that bubble burst, and you know, it took a bunch of years to kind of…
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:32 Danny Rimer Should it do this partnership with Cisco and get paid?
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:25 Frank Quattrone I think companies like Cisco and IBM and the ones that all had two hundred billion dollars of cash, they could have scooped up every great emerging growth company
Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:00 Dave Kellogg Or you just say, well, it worked at Cisco or worked at Salesforce or worked at wherever.
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28:49 Jason Lemkin So it's great to have added sponsors and partners like Cisco and IBM and others that we did not have before, which is great.
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:35 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Meraki in those early days.
- ▶ 9:47 Harry Stebbings When you look back at Meraki and like translating that to Samsara today, first, what didn't work with Meraki that you have very deliberately left behind and not taken with you to Samsara? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:43 Sanjit Biswas And by the way, with Meraki, there was a hardware component.
- ▶ 42:52 Sanjit Biswas So for us, um, you know, we were talking earlier about what are some of the differences between Meraki and Samsara. 4 times in the scene
Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:10 Chris Degnan Some of them went public, like AppDynamics got bought by Cisco.
Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings | E1071 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:13 Deven Parekh Cisco just bought Splunk.
- ▶ 17:00 Deven Parekh Um, when, you know, Cisco comes along, or, you know, IBM comes along, or name whoever strategic you want comes along and says, hey, you know, here's a 1,000,000,004.
- ▶ 43:08 Deven Parekh Cisco just bought Splunk.
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:27 Vinod Khosla My biggest mistake ever was I was at Sun and Cisco routers was software running on Sun machines and Sun's logo or tagline used to be the network is the computer.
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:16 Vince Hankes And so when we think about other hype cycles, I mean, if you go back to even the.com bubble, uh, when that ran up, I think the, I don't know the exact stat, but I'm sure people on the show will fact check me, but I think Microsoft, Intel,…
Stevie Case: World's First Female Pro Gamer; Hiring Tips for Sales; PLG vs Enterprise | 20VC #970 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:14 Harry Stebbings Because the value prop changes incredibly when you're selling from an SMB or a startup to Cisco or Chase or First Republic.
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25 Sujay Jaswa Mega enterprise accounts, Cisco, BMW, IBM, LVMH, accounts like that.
20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- ▶ 5:03 Sujay Jaswa Mega enterprise accounts, Cisco, BMW, IBM, LVMH, accounts like that.
Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:59 Cathie Wood It is the first, the, it and Microsoft are the two beneficiaries of the first rip and replace cycle that we've seen in the enterprise communication space since the early nineties when Cisco was building out the internet now, but, but that… 2 times in the scene
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:56 Drew Houston So like Sequoia has funded Google and Apple and Yahoo and, or, or, you know, Cisco, list goes on and on.
20 Sales: Zoom's Head of North America Sales on When To Hire a Head of Sales, Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Before Sales Reps, The 3 Traits to Look for When Hiring Sales Reps & What Sales Leaders Can Do To Make Their Sales Team Feel Like They Are Wi
- ▶ 4:39 Mitch Tarica I spent seven years there and finished my last three years leading North America and helping WebEx go through a very successful IPO and then a very successful acquisition by Cisco, which is where I got to meet some very special people in…
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:03 Chris Sacca They do have, you know, like, um, my friend David Ulovich is, uh, he built open DNS, incredibly successful, uh, went to Cisco and ran an org of thousands of people and was great at it and left there to go to Andreessen, which is an org of…
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 11:47 Michael Eisenberg I'm looking at the list of Cisco's acquisitions. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 41:23 Chris Sacca My friend David Ulovich is, uh, he built OpenDNS, incredibly successful, went to Cisco and ran an org of thousands of people and was great at it and left there to go to Andreessen, which is an org of thousands of people.
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 17:56 Emilie Choi Mike Volpe, who was famously that head of Corp Dev at Cisco during the heyday of Cisco M&A, he once said something to me, which I never forget.
20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- ▶ 8:10 Byron Deeter You could throw in there certainly the Cisco's of the world as well, and nonetheless the AT&T's and Verizon's and British Telecom's and all these folks.
20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 41:21 Reid Hoffman He was the person who built Cisco's, like, corp dev practice and so forth, but also knowledge about what he knows and what he doesn't know, and so, you know, he basically is like, when he goes, okay, this is really what you need to do, or…
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 40:30 Daniel Levine It's kind of a very, very popular project that's been adopted by huge companies like Cisco, Uber, Cloudflare, Century, Mux, Instana, Segment, Tencent, ByteDance, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
20VC: The Implications of a Biden vs a Trump Administration on Venture and Startups, How The Rise of Rolling Funds, SPACs and Solo Capitalists Will Impact Venture & What We Can Do To Swing the Race Pendulum in VC with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Ligh
- ▶ 3:41 Barry Eggers I was working at Cisco and I started doing acquisitions for Cisco and really enjoyed that and bought a few companies. 2 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
- ▶ 2:36 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash
- ▶ 40:21 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC.
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC.
- ▶ 3:46 Cyan Banister There's like four or five that failed before I won the startup lottery, which was a company called Ironport and Ironport exited to Cisco for a sizable amount.
- ▶ 52:20 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash
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
- ▶ 2:39 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash
- ▶ 47:00 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash
20VC: Arlan Hamilton: "We Have Come For Cake, Not The Crumbs", Arlan's Plan To Return $1Bn in 10 Years, Why Arlan Plans To Giveaway or Invest 90% of Her Wealth & What The LP Class Can Do To Ensure More Under-Represented Managers Get Funded
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC.
- ▶ 36:06 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC.
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com.
- ▶ 42:03 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com.
20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC, and check this out.
- ▶ 37:42 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco
20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC, and check this out.
- ▶ 5:44 Dev Ittycheria Lo and behold, those companies got bought by people like Cisco and others, and obviously the founders did really well, and what struck me was that these founders were having a lot of fun, they'd obviously done well financially, and they…
- ▶ 40:58 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC, and check this out.
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC, and check this out.
- ▶ 53:08 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco
20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note
- ▶ 24:17 Tony Schneider Ring.com to Amazon, Duo Security to Cisco, and most recently, the Peloton IPO.
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
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings ...corporation, which was ultimately acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999 for 7.2 billion dollars.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 28:04 Sumit Gajri Yeah, honestly, the biggest and best companies ever, you know, generational businesses today, the Cisco's, Facebook's, Apple's, Amazon's of the world, they don't rely on those channels very much.
20VC: Inside The Acquisition Decision-Making Process at Cisco, How To Measure True Success in M&A Evaluation & Why By Not Speaking To Corp Dev Teams You Are Closing The Door On The Biggest Potential Accelerator To Your Business with Rob Salvagno, VP of Co
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Rob Salvagno, VP of Corporate Development and Cisco Investments at Cisco, where he's responsible for leading all M&A efforts, as well as managing Cisco's strategic venture capital. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Rob Salvagno, VP of Corporate Development and Cisco Investments at Cisco, where he's responsible for leading all M&A efforts, as well as managing Cisco's strategic venture capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:02 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough from me, so now I'm very excited to delve into our last episode of 2019 delving into the world of Cisco.
- ▶ 3:36 Harry Stebbings So, did you grow up knowing that you wanted to lead corp dev practices for the world's leading tech companies, and how did you make your way into the world of corp dev with Cisco? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:20 Rob Salvagno Well, when we think of capital efficiency, I think that just points to the attractiveness of a particular business model, and it plays into one of our key tenants, which is, one, on one side, we are going to look at valuations, and as we… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:24 Rob Salvagno The businesses that Cisco's in. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:31 Rob Salvagno So when I look at just the partnerships or investments or acquisitions that I've been involved with, Meraki, OpenDNS, AppDynamics,
- ▶ 16:08 Rob Salvagno So the, the corollary to what I just mentioned and being open to working with a large partner like a Cisco is I think you fundamentally need to control your own destiny to begin with. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:32 Rob Salvagno If you go back to what corp dev does, you know, one of those things that we do is we have a very tight partnership with the business units within Cisco. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:09 Rob Salvagno I would say it's still the minority of situations that Cisco's involved with. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:43 Rob Salvagno Thing for the business once it was in Cisco. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:55 Harry Stebbings What is the most challenging element of your role with Cisco to stay, Rob? 5 times in the scene
20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings And prior to Lightspeed, Arif worked in the corporate business development team at Cisco as part of transaction leadership and execution on a number of great deals, including the likes of Webex. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:45 Arif Jan Mohamed I went to Cisco Systems, which is and was one of the most acquisitive companies in the valley. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
- ▶ 30:37 Zach Coelius So I was at the beginning, literally at the very beginning of Airbnb, Dropbox, Uber, Meraki, I mean, Pinterest.
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 8:42 Frederic Kerrest I was reading the other day, someone had looked back on their career, one of the investors from, I think it was Sequoia, who'd invested in Cisco and Apple and all these other well-known brands, and they'd said, look,
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
- ▶ 3:52 Dave Vasen So I started my career doing online learning with Cisco I,.
20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings As for Barry himself, he's led investments in Snapchat, Metasolve Software, which was acquired post-IPO by Oracle, Callista Technologies, which was acquired by Microsoft, Arbor Networks, acquired by DHR, Growth Networks, acquired by Cisco. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:21 Barry Eggers I just so happened to go to Cisco early on in the 19 nineties, and started doing acquisitions, and was recruited by my partner Chris Sheppy, who was a classmate of mine at Stanford, and he recruited me, and I joined the firm, and together,…
20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings And prior to angel investing, Dan spent 18 years at Cisco in numerous roles, including Senior VP of Corporate Development, where he rebuilt CorpDev as a growth enabler for Cisco, and Dan was also the Senior VP and General Manager of the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:54 Dan Scheinman So I was at Cisco early, about 20 months after the public offering and stayed until it hit around forty billion in revenue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:38 Dan Scheinman The worst situation is, one time I was at Cisco and I got a call. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:05 Dan Scheinman Maybe it's less true now, but there are still groups or things that are harder to raise, and if you can stay focused on those things, you know, I used to get taken out every once in a while for the patronizing lunch, where someone would… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:03 Dan Scheinman Personally believe, and I actually, quite frankly, I know from my days at Cisco running M&A that it's the EQ that drives success.
- ▶ 20:32 Dan Scheinman Okay, so when I was at Cisco, I took over CorpDev in 2000, and let me just say that after a bubble burst, you have a lot less to do, and I had a brilliant analyst working for me, and I said, can we go back over our portfolio of deals and…
20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Before that, Steve was a project leader at IDEO, where he developed more than a dozen successful products for companies including Cisco,
- ▶ 12:22 Steve Vassallo And my case examples of this, you know, I did a lot of work with Cisco back when I was at IDO.
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