Emmett Shear
12 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 21, 2020 by Emmett Shear · said 9 times in 6 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2020 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- 20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- 20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors
- 20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
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2019 1 mention in 1 episode
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Feb 21, 2020 bullish
Feb 21, 2020
Shear: Communities cannot be built directly, they must be grown like gardens
“The particular object level advice would be that you don't build communities, you grow them. Your communities are more like a garden than they are a building. And like a garden, it's important that you, there's things you can do to make the garden more likely …”
Feb 21, 2020
Feb 21, 2020
Shear: Twitch CEO role shifted to resource allocation around 400 employees
“And I think for me at Twitch, that happened somewhere around 400 people. It stopped being something where my main job was to figure out what we should do and where we should go and how to meet the customer needs and started being more about deciding where to a…”
Feb 21, 2020
Feb 21, 2020
Feb 21, 2020
Shear: Founders must separate core thesis persistence from tactical pivots
“I do generally believe you want to know the bedrock first principle things about the world that you have faith in. So a good example of this might be like Amazon believing that commerce is going to go online in the nineties. Amazon clearly had a belief shoppin…”
Feb 21, 2020
Shear: Kiko Calendar and Justin.tv never found sustainable product-market fit
“And we never achieved product market fit with Kiko Calendar. We did a little bit, certain brief moments. We had something that kind of was akin to product market fit with Justin TV, but then it turned out the hill wasn't very high, and the boulder didn't roll …”
Feb 21, 2020
Feb 21, 2020 positive
Twitch pitched around 40 VCs before raising post-pivot round with Bessemer
“The first VC round after the pivot was with Bessemer and we struggled to raise that round. We had to pitch a lot of VCs, but Bessemer is amazing, but like we probably pitched four EVCs in that round. It was a struggle. Nobody wanted to invest in Twitch at firs…”
Feb 21, 2020
Shear: Early startup CEOs must lead product or sales, not allocate resources
“So in the beginning, that's, I think that's absolutely not true. Like, I think that you're a six person startup. The best CEO is either an amazing salesperson or an amazing product leader. Or a brilliant engineer, and they, whatever it is that the company real…”
Feb 21, 2020