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Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:57 Harry Stebbings We saw Max Cazor leave CRV and start his own thing, Stryker.
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:45 Harry Stebbings Going back to Ventureland, CRV raised 750. 8 times in the scene
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:03 unnamed speaker Um, I think, you know, years ago, someone sent, an old VC actually, one of the founders of Charles River said, you know, somebody else, he said, you always got to play the game by the current rules.
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:58 Elias Torres I care more about the relationship I have with the VC after, like, I love Pat, I love, you know, Izar from CRV, Fialco, Larry Bond from, from General Callas, those are my Jewish uncles, and like, you know what I mean?
Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:43 Harry Stebbings and then I also think, actually, the incentive mechanism within LPs is completely broken in the large part, which is like, actually, I'm never going to get fired for doing, you know, Redpoint or CRVs.
20VC: Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya, Gary Vee, Brad Gerstner and more on Their Relationship To Money, How It Has Changed with Time and Wealth, How They Bring Up Their Children To Engender the Same Values of Ambition and Hard Work?
- ▶ 18:37 Harry Stebbings Now I'm delighted to hand over to George Zachary at CRV.
20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings And CRV, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:45 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Sara at CRV, Alfred at Sequoia, and so many more.
- ▶ 18:45 Harry Stebbings I mean, everyone comments on your recruiting skills, and it was actually Sarr at CRV who said in particular, when we look at the war for talent that we have today, many well-funded, big-bound competitors, no need to name them, but
20VC: Intercom Founder, Eoghan McCabe on How To Deal with the Weight of Expectation, Having Your Identity Tied To Your Company, How To Be Your Authentic Self Even with Stakeholders & Why There Are No Rules
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings In the summer of twenty-twenty, he moved to the role of chairman of Intercom, and I do also want to say a huge thank you to Anna Khan at CRV, Abhijit at Zero Down, Kieran Lee at Intercom, and Mamuna Kleiner for providing some fantastic…
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
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and today we have a very special guest on the show, one that I've always looked up to given his incredible twenty-one-year career in the venture industry, so I'm very excited to welcome… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:52 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough from me, so now I'm very excited to hand over to George Zachary, General Partner at CRV. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:11 George Zachary At CRV, we have been very deliberate about doing this and it involves bringing in
20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings Now, Anna is a general partner at CRV, one of the preeminent firms of Silicon Valley, stretching over what is an incredible 18 funds. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:43 Harry Stebbings That is quite enough of these dreary tones there, so now I'm very excited to welcome Anna Kahn, general partner at CRV.
- ▶ 3:19 Harry Stebbings How did you make your way into the world of venture, and what did that entry point look like for you, and now being GP at CRV? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:39 Anna Khan One of the reasons I was really excited to join CRV is that they have this 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:53 Harry Stebbings I'm really interested because you said about kind of CRVs focus on the early stage and kind of the people, not necessarily the metrics and kind of still having that kind of venture as an art, which I love too. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:16 Harry Stebbings But tell me, how does the decision making differ when comparing CRV to Bessemer? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 33:16 David Sacks When I was the founder of Yammer, we had George Zachary from CRV and Jason Green from Emergence, and
20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings To date, Howie's raised over a hundred and seventy million dollars from some of the best in the business, including, check this out, Benchmark, Thrive, Code Two, Caffeinated, Founder Collective, CRV, and Freestyle, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings I'm thrilled to say that this exceptional founder let me, and I personally joined their Series A, led by Sara at CRV, announced earlier this week. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Imad has raised from some of the best in the business, including Andreessen Horowitz and CRV on the fun side, and then incredible individuals, including Elad Gill, Airtable's Howie Liu, Plaid's Zach Perret, Naval Ravikant, Justin… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:25 Harry Stebbings As we said before, I heard so many great things from Sarr at CRV, from Bill Clerico, from Zac Coelius, from Tomer at Gusto, but thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 14:37 Harry Stebbings So I guess my first question, and actually starts from CRV, is how did you pick this particular idea?
20VC: Why Raising A First Time Fund Is Like Raising A Seed Round, Why We Need New and Different Fund Models & Why Longevity Is The Most Rewarding Place To Invest with Laura Deming, Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund
- ▶ 27:09 Laura Deming We're super excited to be co-investing in them along with Pfizer Ventures and CRV, and we were just very excited about the potential for genetically distinct models of kind of the brains of patients going through right neurodegenerative…
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
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over a hundred and fifty four million dollars in VC funding from the likes of Thrive, GV, CRV, Fifth Wall, and Temasek, just to name a few.
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
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings General Catalyst, CRV, ATVC, Aaron Levy, and more incredible names.
20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings To date, Paul has raised over forty four million dollars in funding with Lola from the likes of CRV, Excel, General Catalyst, and GV, just to name a few.
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 17:54 Jonathan Abrams I mean, we have Andreessen Horwitz and CRV and Lowercase and SoftTech and Homebrew, and they're fantastic, fantastic investors, and of course, we brag about it, but the reality is almost everybody can brag about their investors because…
20VC: When Should CEOs Ask Their VC For Help, When Do Companies Really Need A Board & What The Series A Expansion Means For Startups with Max Gazor, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Max is a general partner at CRV, one of the nation's oldest and most successful VC firms, now on their 16th fund, and with a portfolio including the likes of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:17 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, and now I'm thrilled to hand over to Max Gazore, General Partner at CRV.
- ▶ 2:57 Max Gazor So when I graduated business school, I had an opportunity to spend some time with the folks at CRV out in Cambridge and kind of got to know them culturally and what the firm was about. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:37 Harry Stebbings I'd love to hear how that experience really informed how you evaluate and analyze startups today with your role at CRV.
- ▶ 9:17 Max Gazor Generally speaking, we allocate reserves at a very early stage for companies and having been in the business for a long time, CRV kind of looks at this as a long-term game. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:53 Harry Stebbings You've spoken about kind of CRV's illustrious history, 47 years, incredible, and investing out of the 16th fund. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:17 Harry Stebbings So fantastic to have Max on the show there, and I do really want to say what a pleasure it's been to feature CRV in the past with SAR and Max today. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures
- ▶ 22:04 Harry Stebbings I recently had Sarr from CRV on the show recently, and he recommended it to me as a must-read, and I read it, and completely agree with you in terms of kind of transformative, so very much agree on that one.
20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings And they have funding from the likes of General Catalyst, Andreessen, YC, and Charles River Ventures.
- ▶ 3:18 unnamed speaker Um, largely from, from Charles River Ventures.
- ▶ 13:48 unnamed speaker Yeah, actually, uh, DevDut at Charles River Ventures, who's, uh, one of, uh, Annie's partners, um, taught me a lot about this, and it basically, what it is, is you have to understand as your company grows, who are your foundational…
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 4:07 Ann Miura-Ko At Charles River Ventures, who ended up just hiring me to be an analyst for him, and my second day of work at Charles River Ventures was nine 11, and so the real great start. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:37 Harry Stebbings You said, you said about the second day of Charles River Ventures being nine 11, and terrible timing, obviously.
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
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Annie is a general partner at the renowned Charles River Ventures, who have invested in the likes of Twitter, Yammer, and Mailbox, just to name a few. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:26 Harry Stebbings However, enough from me, so it's now time to hand over the mic to the incredible Annie Kadavi at Charles River Ventures.
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 15:08 Jonathan Abrams So for example, George Zachary at CRV was one of the very first people to commit to investing in Nuzzle. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Arielle Zuckerberg @ Kleiner Perkins: A Review Of My First 6 Months in Venture
- ▶ 17:41 Arielle Zuckerberg oh, you should meet, like, Annie at Charles River Ventures, or you should meet Rebecca at Maveron.
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 12:22 Jason Calacanis I've got this list of people, George Zachary from CRV.