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20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Mike currently sits on the boards of Pride Guests, Cockroach Labs, and Wealthfront, as well as Blue Bottle Coffee,
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Peter himself sits on or has sat on the board of Twitter, previous guests Cockroach, Optimizely, New Relic, and Zendesk, just to name a few.
20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Now, Spencer is the founder and CEO at Cockroach Labs, the open source database for building global, scalable cloud services that survive disasters, and they have backing from some of the greatest of the world of VC, having raised from the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so without further ado, I'm delighted to hand over to Spencer Kimball, founder and CEO at Cockroach Labs.
- ▶ 6:21 Spencer Kimball I didn't really know how to put these things together, but I found that the VCs were typically a very intelligent audience, and everyone I talked to in that sort of initial round when I was raising money, this series, we called the Series… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:52 Harry Stebbings No, I, I do agree with you in terms of kind of the lowballing with the offers there and, and kind of the approach to negotiations, uh, with, with companies like cockroach where there's a lot of investor appetite for potentially not enough,…
- ▶ 11:09 Harry Stebbings And with you as a founder and ultimate decision maker of Cockroach, as we said, a highly heated startup in terms of investor appetite, what do you think VCs can do to maximize the chances of getting into the very best deals like Cockroach? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:46 Spencer Kimball She joined Cockroach Labs as a product manager, which is that sort of the direction she wanted to go in,
- ▶ 18:50 Harry Stebbings So talk to me, how does this work for you at Cockroach with the four-day workweek?
- ▶ 24:56 Spencer Kimball And I assumed, along with my, one of my co-founders, Peter, who was also a co-founder of Cockroach Labs, and, you know, both of us were at Google for 10 years, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:24 Harry Stebbings Again, a huge hand to Spencer for taking the time out to join us and share the incredible journey he's had with Cockroach, and so fantastic to hear about the man crush that Peter Fenton mentioned there in such high regard, and a brilliant…
20VC: Why Young VCs Must Have Cheque Writing Ability & Why Corporate VC Is The Best Training Ground For New VCs with Nagraj Kashyap @ Microsoft Ventures
- ▶ 26:19 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I look very forward to bringing you Friday's episode with Spencer Kimball at Cockroach Labs.