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20VC: A Framework For Approaching Risk and How It Affects Portfolio Construction | Lessons and Advice From Working with Dropbox's Drew Houston | Why Being A Learning Animal Is The Most Important Factor For Success with Ted Wang, Partner @ Cowboy Ventures
20VC: Top 3 Considerations When Evaluating Consumer Businesses Today | 700 Meetings, 70 LPs, 2 Years, What It Takes To Raise a First Time Fund| The Power of The Female Network In Action Today with Anu Duggal, Founding Partner @ Female Founders Fund
- ▶ 5:38 Anu Duggal They'd worked at large technology companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and had very relevant skill sets, had been part of these companies scaling, and were really looking to apply these skill sets to solve problems they faced
20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
- ▶ 14:53 Anand Sanwal Put aside your Facebook and Google, because most of us aren't building Facebook and Google, no matter what our pitch deck might say, right?
- ▶ 24:00 Anand Sanwal I have no idea why things are working there, but they seem to be, and, you know, I think part of the reason for that is us just being very open to who we hire, and sometimes by necessity, right, like, the most amazing engineer at Facebook…
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 10:16 Danny Rimer Obviously, Amazon, Facebook, Apple,
20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 9:01 Leo Polovets A thoughtful email or Twitter DM or Facebook message.
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 12:37 Ooshma Garg There might be flashes of light, but this is why diversification was so important, and when I was talking about our VP marketing, Robin, earlier, first thing she did is took our Facebook dependency down by 50% and started planting the…
20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- ▶ 25:44 Avidan Ross So we think that big companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft have built out fantastic engineering manager programs.
20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- ▶ 11:59 Ryan Caldbeck Even in industries where, if you look at Facebook, there was MySpace before that, or before Google, there's a couple other search engines.
20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund
- ▶ 8:37 Ron Bouganim So you've had, of course, the PayPal mafias of individuals that invested, you know, after PayPal, but there's been a number, you know, the Facebook mafia and Twitter and now Uber and others.
- ▶ 21:10 Ron Bouganim I think what's happened is there's a generation graduating school now in computer science programs and elsewhere that are saying, look, and many of our founders have, you know, multiple job offers from the usual suspects, right, Googles,…
- ▶ 24:50 Ron Bouganim I think it is fair to say that consumer products, you know, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, drive the higher valuations because in the consumer space, the distribution reach and adoption is more pervasive than
20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product
- ▶ 12:31 Phil Libin All you have to do is look at the average tenure of employees in these big companies, like the average number of months that someone is staying an employee at Google, at Facebook, at Amazon, at Apple is surprisingly short.
20VC: First Round's Phin Barnes on How The Best Founders Optimize for Learning Per Dollar Spent, What Makes A Truly Special Founder/VC Relationship and Why Pattern Recognition is Another Term For Intellectual Laziness
- ▶ 31:36 Phin Barnes For me, when I think about the next 10 years and the five to seven massive venture outcomes, right, so these are the Facebooks, the Ubers, the Airbnbs of the venture industry, my belief is that of those five to seven, somewhere between…
20VC: Learnings From Backing The Likes of Spotify and Airbnb, The World of Growth Investing Today and The Right Way For Investors To Think About Liquidity with Woody Marshall, General Partner @ TCV
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings In the form of Woody Marshall, general partner at TCV, one of the most successful growth funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Facebook, Airbnb, Spotify, and LinkedIn, just to name a few.
20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- ▶ 4:16 Rebecca Kaden And I got to school and thought I would join a startup, or really probably a company like Google or Facebook, or something where I could really learn the ins and outs of being in tech, since I was so new to it, and really, really knew…
- ▶ 6:38 Rebecca Kaden Is the combination of new technology, and then the right moment in mass consumer adoption, and so that's what got us Facebook, and that's what got us Google, and later on, that's what's got us Uber, and if you think about that, it's not… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:07 Rebecca Kaden They're forming Facebook groups.
20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network
- ▶ 7:09 Harry Stebbings Often we hear kind of the peace teal school of thought that you start in tiny markets, your Facebook's of the world, and you need to have that iterative approach to the huge vision.
20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @
- ▶ 20:20 David Frankel I think it's a very valid point you're making, and I think that, you know, ultimately you could say that all these startups are working for Facebook, Google, and, you know, the programmatic players. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 16:53 Barry Eggers So the next week I asked Jeremy again, if he could find the company and he was able to hunt Evan down on Facebook of all things and get a meeting.
20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team
- ▶ 1:18 Harry Stebbings To customize their sites, manage shipping and payments, and list products on the likes of Amazon and Facebook, and you can learn more at bigcommerce.com.
- ▶ 13:33 Philip Krim We were never overly reliant on just Facebook or just Google.
- ▶ 27:39 Harry Stebbings The platform allows companies of all sizes to customize their sites, manage shipping and payments, and list products on the likes of Amazon and Facebook, and you can learn more at BigCommerce.com.
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 18:04 Daniel Gross I'm not an actor, and I've actually, like, never been on the boardwalk, but I think it's probably a big deal, because I remember coming out here, doing things that now seem very small to me, like seeing the signs of Google and Facebook and…
20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings And as for Avichal, as well as Electric, he's a part-time partner at YC, and prior to YC, he was a Director of Product Management at Facebook, where he led the local product 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:29 Avichal Garg So I've spent most of my career as an entrepreneur and an angel investor, so I've been fortunate enough to work at Google and Facebook, started and sold two companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:48 Avichal Garg The really big winners were companies like YouTube and Twitter and Facebook, the people that did things natively to the platform.
20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal
- ▶ 4:50 Dylan Serota Meanwhile, all the big players were already doing this like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, but earlier stage companies weren't taking the strategy.
20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
- ▶ 11:03 Nick Brown And I also, to your earlier point on sort of Facebook and some of the paid channels, I think we're finding that tax are going up.
- ▶ 17:13 Nick Brown A bit of a push towards paid, just because, you know, the way in which, as all of us know, the way in which Facebook has set up its business, you get the best consumers or the easiest consumers to find first, and then harder, harder,… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- ▶ 10:25 Adam Goldberg That's Facebook.
- ▶ 17:28 Adam Goldberg You think about Facebook, you think about WeChat, they're perceived differently.
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- ▶ 12:34 Jason Stoffer 20 bucks to acquire a customer on Facebook, so I'm going to just start spending money on these paid channels, and what ends up happening is that the organic growth that got you there starts to fade away, so you lose the muscle memory you… 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 4:24 Fritz Lanman Like I led the deal team on the Facebook investment that we did way back when in 2007, uh, almost a quarter billion.
- ▶ 12:48 Fritz Lanman And I've tried to steal from them from Amazon and from, you know, what I saw, you know, Facebook and other companies and also my best startups and whether it's Ben Silverman's product thinking at Pinterest and try to figure out my own… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:23 Harry Stebbings Okay, so starting on the Facebook investment and the background with Microsoft leading several multi-billion M&A projects, I'd love to start with a question from Charlie Songhurst. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:02 Fritz Lanman For college students at Harvard, to just the Ivy Leagues, to all colleges, you know, we then started to see that the potential for crossover when they opened it up to high schools, and it seemed to be working just as well, and I think…
- ▶ 17:01 Harry Stebbings I'd love to hear, given kind of your excitement around the Facebook deal, and really some of the Stellar Angel investments that you've made kind of in the space, how would you respond to this suggestion from Elad on the end of this tech…
- ▶ 28:15 Fritz Lanman I'd say it's getting harder and harder in a world where everybody's employing the same AB optimization on Facebook, Instagram ads, Google ads,
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
- ▶ 18:33 Elad Gil Facebook has made a number of very smart acquisitions that they then helped really push distribution on.
- ▶ 20:36 Elad Gil I mean, nobody would have ever thought that Facebook or other companies could be worth half a trillion or more after just a decade in operation.
- ▶ 31:20 Elad Gil Facebook ultimately ended up doing the same thing where they were literally buying ads in Europe against individuals' names so that they could convert those people onto Facebook as a platform. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:39 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, navigating kind of market share successfully, obviously then exit becomes an option either M&A or IPO as both Google and Facebook obviously did.
- ▶ 35:28 Harry Stebbings A hunter recently tweeted about Mike and Kevin not getting enough credit for staying and leading Instagram at Facebook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX
- ▶ 17:52 Pete Flint Really, behind every great startup wave over the last several decades, it's been driven by that distribution, whether that's the internet and the web browser, whether that's ecosystem, whether that's Facebook or Google, and it's just not… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- ▶ 17:59 Harry Stebbings I think Facebook's moved to mobile back in the days of heavy desktop would be considered that kind of burn the boats decision, which was incredible and paid off.
20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Facebook, Salesforce, Snap, Box, MuleSoft, and Cloudera, just to name a few.
- ▶ 28:19 Max Motschwiller And Facebook, Google, Apple, and in some respects, Amazon, they, they are just so large and their user bases are so far reaching and engaged.
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
- ▶ 4:29 Amanda Bradford I reunited with him through Facebook, so I'm a big Facebook fangirl. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:42 Amanda Bradford Before you can kind of expect people to leap from their Googles and their Facebooks and their Dropboxes to join your team.
- ▶ 20:37 Amanda Bradford It was built on Facebook's parse, which is no longer allowed.
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 5:22 Glenn Solomon And you saw companies created like Yahoo and Google and Facebook more recently. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
- ▶ 32:01 Adrian Aoun We look at Facebook in the news recently, 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 6:49 Dan Scheinman So, let's say five or six years ago, you had healthy competition to buy tech and talent, particularly with Facebook, Google, even Yahoo at that time when Marissa came there.
20VC: Hims' Andrew Dudum on The Scaling Playbook of The Fastest Growing Mens Wellness Brand, How To Be Truly Innovative In Today's World of Online Marketing & Raising at a $200m Valuation within Year 1
- ▶ 4:43 Andrew Dudum And weighing and balancing that micro optimization with understanding the major players in the landscape with ever album, there's big changes happening with Facebook and Google and photo tagging and facial recognition.
- ▶ 5:45 Andrew Dudum So you have Facebook, you have Instagram, you have SEM, Google search, things like this. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
- ▶ 29:27 Andy McLoughlin And there are, if you look at the big teams inside Snap and Facebook who are building computer vision models to run inside their apps to do stuff like, you know, putting dog ears on, et cetera.
20VC: The Biggest Trend Of Our Lifetime Is The Decentralisation of Entrepreneurship Away From The Valley, The Biggest Lessons From Learnings The Craft of VC at Sequoia & The Benchmarks Required to Attract Growth Investors with Chris Olsen, Founding Partne
- ▶ 16:27 Chris Olsen They have more engineers than Facebook has, and the ability to harness that engineering talent in startups is something that is really powerful.
20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
- ▶ 18:04 Marco Zappacosta So creative services, think photographers, DJs are very digitally savvy and tend to have Facebook pages about themselves and talk about themselves on social media. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings And prior to Radius, Darian has enjoyed roles such as first external engineering hire at Facebook and working on the sell your item team at eBay.
- ▶ 4:19 Darian Shirazi And that was actually something that Mark at Facebook had, we had in common, is just that the best way to build something 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:54 Harry Stebbings But I do want to start, you mentioned Mark at Facebook there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:06 Harry Stebbings You mentioned their kind of arrow in a box, you mentioned the Udemy team, you mentioned market Facebook, you've seen this cohort of incredible leaders.
- ▶ 15:43 Darian Shirazi And that's just a very, very different type of investor and one that is not necessarily going to find the next Facebook or the next category defining company.
- ▶ 22:52 Darian Shirazi But, you know, there's also been a lot of things that one theme I'd say across all investments has really been network effects, and that's because I saw the power of that at Facebook.
- ▶ 24:52 Darian Shirazi Now, I will say also that on crypto, I think that there's a high probability that the company that will really succeed in crypto will be Facebook, and the reason is that for them to launch their own coin and for them to distribute that… 4 times in the scene
20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Dropbox, AppDynamics, the list really does go on of incredible companies.
20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square
- ▶ 5:43 James Loftus So if you're a no brainer for a company like Facebook, or if you're WhatsApp, I think Facebook's done quite a few deals where they came in and bought someone out just because they had so much success and they were so strong. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:21 James Loftus So you could go a year or two sometimes without seeing all the deals that a Google or Facebook or an Apple's done.
- ▶ 10:17 James Loftus There's been softening at the other end of the market from the Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon end.
- ▶ 11:17 James Loftus Corporate development teams across the Silicon Valley, including at Facebook and Google, are small compared to the opportunity set that they're evaluating.
20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- ▶ 12:56 Leah Busque If you look at any social media platform, Instagram, Snap, Facebook, there's full transparency between you and your friends, but even more than that, you and
- ▶ 32:14 Leah Busque So they plug into over 20 different social media platforms like Instagram and Snap and Facebook, Twitter, et cetera, and they do monitoring, utilizing natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, artificial intelligence, and…
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 14:38 Alex Taussig In the last year or so was inside of Google and Facebook. 7 times in the scene
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- ▶ 24:56 Leore Avidar Yesterday, I read that Facebook is going to verify ads with postcards, especially with the Russian meddling of the election. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- ▶ 8:53 Anu Hariharan It has a similar network effect as Facebook, because if you went on Facebook on your own without any friends, like, what are you going to do? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:20 Anu Hariharan So in the case of communication products like Facebook, WhatsApp, it was very clear, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:14 Harry Stebbings I think it was first pioneered by the likes of Facebook. 8 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Thrilled to welcome Steve Vassalo, general partner at Foundation Capital, where he sits or has sat on the boards of the likes of Pocket, acquired by Mozilla, Private Core, acquired by Facebook, Sunrun, Sentient Energy, and many more.
20VC: The Fundamentals Of Optimising The Fundraising Process, SAFE's vs Priced Equity Rounds & Why Hiring Is Really A Big Data Problem with Chris Hutchins, Founder @ Grove & Former Partner @ Google Ventures
- ▶ 9:28 Chris Hutchins If you go to someone and say, here is a specific blurb on why I want to talk to this person at this fund who I think you know, because I've done my LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter homework, and that goes a lot further.
20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
- ▶ 9:29 Harry Stebbings Platform shift itself, and one that Peter Fenton said on the show, with regards to the starvation of free and open distribution, how do you think about this in the kind of potentially fallow period for consumer, in the incumbency advantage…
- ▶ 12:43 Harry Stebbings Of the world who didn't have the paid distribution channels of your Facebooks and your Instagrams and all the likes that we have today, and comparing that to the structure of the organization that you have to build today, where paid and…
20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
- ▶ 7:46 Emilie Choi Flows to understand, for instance, that a startup is attracting a lot of high-quality engineers from Google and Facebook.
20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- ▶ 15:50 Kevin Thau Even a product like Facebook is one of the most impressive companies and products of all time. 2 times in the scene