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- ▶ 33:27 Harry Stebbings I'll never forget having, uh, Jake Saperon from Emergence, who I like a lot. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25:42 Jason Calacanis You even have our friends at emergence.
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:57 Jason Calacanis The classic for me, when I started investing, I stole this from a slide someone did at emergence when I started, but for, for verticals, uh,
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:16 unnamed speaker I don't think of this every day, but I do think about me and Emergence II back in the day. 2 times in the scene
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:23 Jason Lemkin Like, for the old school, like Emergence just raised a billion. 3 times in the scene
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:25 Harry Stebbings I get you, but then I also think, oh, oh, oh, because I just had a GP on from Emergence, and he basically outlined the different fund returns they had, had they sold or not sold positions, and bluntly, they sold their Salesforce position…
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16 Harry Stebbings This was your first deal at Emergence, and I just wanted to start there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:54 Jake Saper We were one of the earliest investors in that company as well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:04 Harry Stebbings Maybe it's a five hundred million dollar business, which we say, like poo-pooing, it's not at all, it's amazing, but for a fund that's the size of emergence, it is not going to make a dent.
- ▶ 27:46 Jake Saper Yeah, well, it's important to understand that in the context of emergence and how we operate. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:56 Jake Saper And that culture of trust is what the founders build in emergence, and I think it's really special.
- ▶ 1:04:11 Harry Stebbings Um, and my question to you is, you've never lost a partner, which is nuts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:00 Harry Stebbings And you can't say emergence. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:33 Harry Stebbings How does the carry distribution look in the partnership? 6 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:09 David Frankel Jake Saper from Emergence on Regal. 3 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:34 Jason Lemkin You know, a four hundred million dollar fund can survive emergence, whatever too, which is like a 10 X fund could survive losing three million dollars on my investment.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:01 Jason Lemkin And it was a fun one for me because I co-led the seed, but then I brought in immersions and insight, and so almost the whole cap table I was able to kind of assemble, which is harder to do today, but it was fun then.
- ▶ 1:23:32 Jason Lemkin Um, even the guys at Emergence who I love, you know, they're, they had a gentle transition when they made some, they made so much money in Emergence. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:56 Rick Zullo I think they want 10 bagger funds, and they want trust, and I think the reality is, like, if they could be an emergence fund or a USP fund that has a 20 bagger, you know, the returns of those funds are amazing, and I'm very, very confident…
- ▶ 52:58 Rick Zullo And then you look at funds like emergence in us that I've had, you know, massive, massive funds.
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
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Backed by Emergence Capital, EchoSign was acquired by Adobe, and is Adobe Sign as we know it today.
20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Prior to their IPO in 2015, Aaron raised from some of the best in the business, including the main man Mark Cuban, Andreessen, Emergence, DST, Koto,
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- ▶ 22:01 Michael Eisenberg I was talking yesterday with one of the partners at Emergence and with one of our LPs who said, you know, there's like a handful of people left who are like generalists, but keep the small fund size.
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: The Most Successful Companies Are Not Where Employees Work The Most, How To Know When To Promote From Below Or Bring in External Candidates & Why It Is A Unique Advantage To Be Building A Company Outside A Tech Hub with Rick Nucci, Founder & CEO @ G
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Including Thrive, Emergence Capital, FirstMark, Slack, and Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:11 Harry Stebbings Rick, my word, I've heard so many good things, both from Jake at Emergence and Ryan at Thrive.
20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- ▶ 18:55 Harry Stebbings Be it your emergence capitals of the world, or do you think now we're really entering the one of thematic specialization being the superior strategy?
20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Jason has raised over eighty-four million dollars with Ironclad from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia, Excel, Greylock, Emergence, IA Ventures, Semo Shah's Haystack, and then obviously Ali Raugani, who led their…
20VC: Zoom From Series A to IPO, How VCs Can Provide CEOs with Additional Leverage and Why The Negative Effects of Signalling Are Very Real with Santi Subotovsky, General Partner @ Emergence Capital
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Now Santi, Santee is a general partner at Emergence Capital, one of the Valley's leading venture firms of the last decade, focusing on enterprise and SaaS applications. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:10 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so now I'm very excited to hand over to Santi Subotovsky, General Partner at Emergence Capital.
- ▶ 5:16 Santi Subotovsky And that actually gave me a lot of energy to prove people wrong, and I kept trying, and that's how I connected with Emergence, and when I connected with them, I told them, I'm not going to be in venture long term. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:27 Santi Subotovsky And that's when the relationship with the team here emerges made me realize that this was the 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:50 Harry Stebbings I'm super intrigued now, as you said, in nine years or so at Emergence, how have you seen yourself evolve as a board member as the time has progressed and as you've kind of seen the successes really come to fruition?
- ▶ 17:25 Harry Stebbings I do want to kind of move a layer up, though, in terms of moving slightly away from you into Emergence itself, one of the few very thematically focused funds with the enterprise slant. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:19 Harry Stebbings Portfolio concentration and construction today with emergence.
- ▶ 27:07 Santi Subotovsky One of them is at emergence, given that we're focused on early stage, we're going to write a check and we're going to focus on ownership.
- ▶ 29:50 Harry Stebbings But I do want to finish today, before we move into the quickfire, one kind of layer above emergence, even.
- ▶ 35:15 Santi Subotovsky So the biggest miss that I've had, uh, is when I first joined Emergence, uh, one of my good friends and classmates, Matthew Prince and Michelle, were getting started with Cloudflare, and I invited them to present here at Emergence, and I… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Clearbanc's Michele Romanow on Why 40% of VC $ Raised Today Goes To Google and Facebook, How To Create A Financing Mechanism For The Repeatable Parts Of Your Business & Why We Need To Stop Celebrating Fundraises
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings To fund these ambitious plans, they have backing from some of the best in the business, including Founders Fund, Santee at Emergent, Social Capital, Precursor Ventures, and Y Combinator, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings They've raised over forty-seven million dollars in VC funding from many friends and former guests on the show, including Albert Wenger at USV, Boris Wurz at Version One, Uncaught Capital, Felicis, and Emergence, just to name a few.
20VC: Why VCs Fundamentally Assess Founders The Wrong Way, Why VC Needs To Innovate On The Scouting Model & Why SAFE's and Convertible Notes Are The Future Of Investing with Elizabeth Yin, Founder & General Partner @ Hustle Fund
- ▶ 17:22 Harry Stebbings We had a recent guest, a simple legal who raised the ten million round by emergence, who would have maybe all failed this observation test in the early days, would they not?
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
- ▶ 14:34 Harry Stebbings You've got some pretty interesting LP profiles within your fund, uh, with the likes of social and emergence. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 27:08 Rebecca Lynn No, I think it's a 300 to four hundred million dollar fund, and the reason is, A, you know, when I look at the people I really respect and admire, the Sequoias and the Benchmarks, I mean, that's what they've proven out, and, and, and I've…
20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha
- ▶ 9:51 Scott Dorsey We're funded by Emergence Capital out of the Bay Area, Gordon Ritter, phenomenal cloud investor and friend and entrepreneur.
- ▶ 20:36 Scott Dorsey So with emergence in Hyde Park, they're amazing partners for us on the high alpha studio side.
20 VC 092: The Repeatable Playbook of SaaS with Ed Sim, Founding Partner @ BoldStart Ventures
20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
- ▶ 18:39 Ezra Galston You've interviewed a lot of my friends and you've, you know, you've impressed them, you know, Joe Floyd at Emergence, John Trias at Ludlow, Guy at Hyde Park, you know, like you've got all these people now who both know you and you've built…