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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 10:55 Rory O'Driscoll Oh my God, if I'm the venture guy who did this thing at a hundred million like Blackbird or a couple of them, I think Felicis was in early and Matrix was in super early.
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:46 unnamed speaker Kind of like how Felicis got going, but you know, any, any size, like 20%, one percent.
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:29 Brendan Foody And then four months later, we met Felices and we never like would make a slide deck or take investor meetings. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 1:02:20 Harry Stebbings Do you think like a first round, or a Floodgate, or a Uncork, or a boutique seed firm that stayed boutique, you know, Felicis I would actually put differently, because I think they cleverly scaled AUM into a multi-stage very efficiently,…
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:39 Harry Stebbings Took round at two billion dollars, only eight months ago, which is Felicis.
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:58 Brendan Foody He paid two 50, uh, as the valuation, uh, at our series B and, you know, uh, I'm sure the benchmark partnership thought that was insane at the time that at the series B, uh, when Felicis gave us the term sheet, we were at twenty million in…
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:04 Adarsh Hiremath Sandeep and Felices and, and the amazing team there, um, which made it a no-brainer.
- ▶ 39:22 Harry Stebbings Was this new fundraise the Felicis round? 4 times in the scene
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:07 Wesley Chan I didn't sink it at Felicis Ventures, who, you know, built one of the most amazing seed funds, helped them build that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:45 Wesley Chan And this is something I learned from my dear friend at Felicis, which is we like more shots on goal. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:05 Wesley Chan And it was, you know, an NGO that wasn't obvious when, you know, I, I, I, I, I, I led that deal at Felicis.
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings I mean, I, when we last spoke, I was actually young, Aydin, so, uh, sadly, some things have changed, but I do want to start, and for those that missed our first episode, how did you make your way into the world of venture, and talk to me… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 Harry Stebbings This is something that's changed a lot from 10 years ago when, you know, Felicis was started, well, Felicis was in 2008, so a little bit longer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:40 Aydin Senkut Uh, sorry, I didn't have something as creative as a boomer, but, uh, listen, I think what it comes down to is, um, I think just like in anything else, in order to, uh, there are many different ways, but one way you can deal is if the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:45 unnamed speaker I, I, I do want to ask that, you know, when you look at, um, I mean, bluntly, you know, the incredible time that you've had now building Felicis over the last 1314 years, what do you know now that you wish you'd known at the beginning?
- ▶ 26:20 unnamed speaker But if you don't have high, you know, uh, if you don't have growth mindset, I think it's going to be very tough to be successful at Felices or for me to work with that person. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:42 Aydin Senkut Like, I would say at least half the investments of Felice's either came back from the dead or we lost the deal in one round, did the next round.
- ▶ 45:01 Harry Stebbings If Felicis could do one thing better today, what would it be?
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 30:45 Harry Stebbings Question from Aiden at Felicis.
20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
- ▶ 24:03 Harry Stebbings On the flip side of the growth funds, like moving down, you know, we have the traditionally earlier stage funds, your Andreessen's and your Felicis's and your Sequoia's.
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 2:27 Harry Stebbings Emmett, my word, I've heard so many great things from PG at YC, from Mike Maples, the team at Felicis, so it really is such a pleasure to have you on the show, and thank you so much for joining me today.
20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- ▶ 16:11 Katie Stanton Katie Reister at Felicis and Jen Ka at Andreessen and Jeff Clavier on Quark.
- ▶ 18:42 Katie Stanton And that's where we saw lowercase and uncork and felices start to emerge.
20VC: Guild Education's Rachel Carlson on The Benefits of Scaling Startups Outside of Silicon Valley, Why Mission and Margin Are So Tightly Integrated & Why Mums Are The Most Under-Utilised Asset In The Economy
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings And to date, Rachel's raised over seventy-one million dollars in funding with Guild from some of the very best in venture, with the likes of Michael Deering at Harrison Metal, Wes Chan at Felicis, Byron Dieter at Bessemer, Eileen Lee at…
- ▶ 28:52 Rachel Carlson And now Felicis and others are supporting every founder to get an executive coach. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Before Quicksprout, Hitten was the co-founder and CEO of Kissmetrics, raising over nineteen million dollars in the process for the company, from the likes of our friends at True Ventures, Uncaught Capital, and Felicis Ventures, just to…
20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution
- ▶ 18:21 Harry Stebbings But I do want to ask, in terms of the decision-making process for you, I've had many takes on the show, from Felicis who favor unanimity, to others who can very much favor conviction-driven, partner-led deals.
20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Zach has raised over three hundred million with Plaid from some of the best in the business, including Mary Mika, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Spark, and Homebrew, just to name a few.
20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings I know I am excited too, and with that I'm thrilled to welcome our guest, Victoria Traeger, General Partner and Managing Director at Felicis Ventures, one of the leading venture firms of the last 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:57 Harry Stebbings Not at all, and nothing quite like an ego boost at the beginning, but I do want to start today with a little bit about you, so tell me, how did you make your way into the wonderful world of Venture and become the recently minted partner at… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:41 Harry Stebbings But I do want to start saying, you mentioned that obviously being there, the transition to the world of venture, now sitting on the other side of the table as a partner at Felicis, a question from Aydin himself, who asks, what are the most… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:48 Victoria Treyger In fact, we at Felicis, we focus on helping our companies with fundraise.
- ▶ 28:16 Victoria Treyger At Felicis, we are focused, particularly in this category, more on the seed stage, and many of these consumer businesses are actually fairly capital efficient and don't need a ton of money to get off the ground and really scale up, so I…
- ▶ 31:20 Harry Stebbings What made you choose Felicis as the fund you wanted to join? 5 times in the scene
20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings To date, Asaph has raised over a hundred and nine million dollars in funding for Hippo from some very dear friends of the show, in the form of Felicis Ventures, GGV, Fifth Wall, Zeeve Ventures, and Lennar, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:23 Harry Stebbings As I just told you, I've heard so many wonderful things from Brendan at Fifth Wall, Glenn at GGV, Victoria from Felicis.
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
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings So Keith Raboy, Reid Hoffman, Founder Collective, Felicis, Andreessen, and Thrive, just to name a few.
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings As I said, I feel like I know you well already, having heard so much from Micah at Founder Collective, Gary and Alexis at Initialize, and Sundeep at Felicis.
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
- ▶ 4:04 Harry Stebbings You founded EverAlbum and had mutual friend Aiden and Felicis on your board. 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: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Ashton Kutcher, Michael Jordan, and then previous guests Rick Marini and Felicis Ventures. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:58 Harry Stebbings Again, a huge thanks to Andy Rankin, Roy at Bloomberg Beta, Sundeep at Felicis, and Ray at Caffeinated.
20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Before Lux, Renata was a partner at Felicis Ventures, where she worked with some incredible companies, including the likes of Cruise Automation, Dollar Shave Club, Rigetti Computing, and Bonobos, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:36 Renata Quintini Terrific job as a personal investor, and he was going through that process of going institution and raising funds, and we were kind of finishing each other's sentences on, there's an opportunity here to build something different and…
- ▶ 7:02 Harry Stebbings I do, I do want to touch on that kind of merging of those two industries, though, to start with, and ask in terms of how you compare the two, being an LP with the role at Stanford Endowment, and then with the role at Felicis, and the…
- ▶ 9:51 Harry Stebbings When you look back now to that time and compare it to now, how has what it takes to be a successful emerging manager changed in your eyes, having seen that with Stanford and then seeing that now with the development of Felicis and now…
- ▶ 28:29 Renata Quintini I'm going to twist the question a little bit because I've, you know, the last public announced investment was at Felice's a while back
- ▶ 29:43 Harry Stebbings I also want to give a big hand to Aydin Senkud at Felicis for the intro today to Renata, without which this show would not have been possible.
20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings They've raised over a hundred and twenty million dollars in VC funding from very good friends of the show, including Aydin at Felicis, Jeremy at Bessemer, and Amish at Firstmark. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:07 Harry Stebbings So fantastic to have Harley on the show there, and incredible to hear his learnings from first-hand experiencing the incredible trajectory of Shopify from five million dollars to north of six hundred million dollars a year, and again, a…
20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings With the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, and First Round Capital.
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
- ▶ 13:55 Jason Lemkin Well, you know, Excel and Sequoia and Andreessen came back to market, so we're pretty good there, and we love Homebrew and Data Collective and Cowboy and all these small funds, and we're good there, and we love Felicis, and there's just no…
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings They've raised from some of our favorite seed investors, and all past guests, actually, of the show, including Felicis Ventures, SV Angel, and Initialize Capital.
20VC: Flexport's Ryan Petersen on Why Investor Relations Are Overrated, Why Boards Have To Be Rethought & Why MBAs Do Not Make Bad Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Now, Ryan is the founder and CEO of Flexport, the freight forwarder for the internet age, and Flexport recently raised a phenomenal sixty-five million dollar Series B from the likes of Founders Fund, First Round, Felicis, Bloomberg Beta,…
20VC: The 3 Things LPs Want To See From VCs & Why The Table Stakes For VCs Is Higher Than Ever with Judith Elsea, Co-Founder @ Weathergage Capital
- ▶ 12:25 Harry Stebbings Very much reminds me of Iden at Felicis, actually.
- ▶ 27:49 Judith Elsea You know, pick one that we, that we did this year, and that's been on my mind for a very specific reason recently, and that's Felicia's Ventures, and you mentioned them earlier. 7 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 0:07 Harry Stebbings But now for today's show, and having had his partner, Aiden, at Felicis on the show before, and having heard from everyone that he is one of the smartest chaps in the industry, I decided I had to have him on the show. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:23 Harry Stebbings However, enough from me, so now it's time to pass over to the main man, Wesley Chan, managing director at Felicis Ventures.
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings Now, I want to get the ball rolling today by, by finding out how you made your move from the world of Google to Felicis. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:00 Wesley Chan And also, you know, that sort of informed my move to, to join IDEN at Felicis.
- ▶ 14:39 Wesley Chan Uh, you know, one of the biggest investments, in fact, the largest check that Felicis, uh, has ever written was into a company in Australia called Canva.
- ▶ 25:44 Wesley Chan And that contrarian view is something that, you know, I respect, and that's what we do well at Felice. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 26:23 Harry Stebbings You can hit me up on harry at the 20 minute vc.com, and I look very forward to bringing you Wednesday's episode with Wesley Chan at Felicis Ventures.
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 20:57 Chris Douvos And I'm thinking of Felicis and SoftTech and others, you know, they've all done, done really well.
20VC: What LP's Want In VCs with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 20:00 Beezer Clarkson But I can tell you in April, the same trend has continued, and you've seen a number of familiar names coming back to market, like GGV, Menlo, Mayfield, Felicis, Union Square.
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings From a 179 countries, and have funding from our friends at Shasta, Felicis, and upcoming guests Blackbird Ventures and Airtree in Australia.
- ▶ 7:40 Harry Stebbings Shasta and Felices, uh, who we've both, both recently interviewed.
- ▶ 12:42 Melanie Perkins We have incredible investors from Silicon Valley, and a lot of people who haven't a lot of experience building huge companies before, like Wes Chan from Felices.
- ▶ 16:31 Melanie Perkins Wes from Felicis were absolutely incredible, and the experience that they had, and being very product driven was an instrumental part of our decision there.
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Founder and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:26 Harry Stebbings Mass expansion of the seed landscape now, and so what do you make of the plethora of funds out there, and how do you look to differentiate yourself and Felicis from, from the many others?
- ▶ 12:56 Harry Stebbings And I'm, I'm absolutely fascinated by one of the traits of Felicis there that you mentioned, and that's your kind of commitment to being stage agnostic.
- ▶ 22:57 Aydin Senkut Not only was it really helpful for us, and it made a big difference for the companies that ended up working with Wesley at Felicis, but it also sent a very strong signal to our founders that we are very, very intently listening to them,…
- ▶ 23:38 Aydin Senkut The most influential book on me and our strategy is Felices is Anti-Fragile by Nicholas Nassim Taleb.
- ▶ 28:59 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic chap, and so many takeaways there challenging the conventional wisdom of VC, and as I said at the beginning, Aydin really embodies the new and the future of VC, and I know many of his founders, and they all concur in…
20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank
- ▶ 19:43 Samir Kaji And then on the other side of the barbell, you have sort of a lot of the first-generation folks, like Felisa's Ventures, Floodgate, that have become bigger, um, and have been, and in a lot of ways, look and feel like full-stack VCs in…