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The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:29 Nico Laqua Probably first round capital was my, my first pitch. 2 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:20 Gokul Rajaram First round capital, I think, is one of the best seed firms. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:04 Gokul Rajaram First on Capital and Benchmark, where I've been, I've been on LP in both, and then Green Oaks. 2 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
- ▶ 1:00:54 Max Altman I want to build, I think, what like a first round capital looked like when I grew up. 3 times in the scene
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:21 Byron Deeter You know, I think that the, the first round folks, I think, um, uh, oh, this is horrible. 3 times in the scene
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:37 Mitchell Green Josh Koppelman at first round has continued to stay small.
- ▶ 1:21:24 Mitchell Green Like, we joke that's like, it's very funny that partners at Andreessen Horowitz, who we're friends with, or partners at Benchmark, or partners at, you know, First Round, have made the hierarchy of BS letter kind of famous.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:16 Shervin Pishevar I think it was, you know, lowercase, first-round capital, Menlo, um, obviously Benchmark.
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:04 David Frankel What first round used to do is, in the quadrant that they thought was, like, amazing, they would go to those founders and say, here are uncapped, literally uncapped checks. 2 times in the scene
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:29 Michael Eisenberg You know, Josh Koppelman refers around who we all know and admire.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Why did you leave first round? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:12 Phin Barnes You know, you could, you could become a managing partner at the firm. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:33 Phin Barnes Change the industry in some way with the review or dorm room fund or angel track.
- ▶ 6:27 Harry Stebbings Um, but I do have to ask, I think this is a really interesting one, which is if you could call yourself up when you were leaving Penn and just about to join the first round, and you could give yourself a piece of advice on entering the…
- ▶ 12:15 Harry Stebbings That's what you and the partnership did at first round. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:42 Harry Stebbings You mentioned some of the big wins there that the first round have had.
- ▶ 1:07:44 Phin Barnes And so when I left, uh, first round, I announced publicly I was ready to build again.
Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:33 Ilir Sela And so I go to his office at the time, uh, it was at first round capital, which by the way, I had no idea what first round capital was. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:29 Harry Stebbings Were you good at it, given you had no idea respectfully, you know, who first round were and really weren't from Silicon Valley casting at all? 2 times in the scene
Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:37 Jean-Denis Greze First round. 2 times in the scene
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:38:05 Harry Stebbings No one's like, oh, I went to Stanford, and I raised a seed round from first round, and that was my first salary.
Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Will Quist: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really “Venture Capital” | 20VC #924 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:43 Will Quist We're in the, I think we've learned, we've learned a lot and respect what Josh has built at first round a lot.
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:39 Henri Pierre-Jacques When he started first round, like he had taken a pump company public, had had a business acquired, like a one-person GPSEC is very different for him, right?
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:49 Harry Stebbings But my question to you is, you know, Josh at First Round said before on the show that he became more conservative when he moved to being a VC.
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 5:44 Harry Stebbings You know, when I had Josh on from First Round, he said that he actually became a lot more conservative when he raised institutional funds with First Round. 2 times in the scene
Mac the VC on the Journey from Homeless To Becoming A VC | Full Interview with Harry Stebbings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:14 Mac the VC Like if you talk to a lot of older school VCs, they tell you, especially as an emerging manager, like you need to become friends with folks at Sequoia or first round and see if they'll let you onto these cap tables. 2 times in the scene
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:43 Chris Sacca I need somebody like I needed someone at first round capital to be like,
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 58:01 Chris Sacca I need somebody like I needed someone at first round capital to be like,
20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital
- ▶ 40:13 Harry Stebbings So say Josh at first round, say at seed, and then Peter Fenton at benchmark, and like their value add is very different, and what you need from the A investor when they're thinking about scaling from 10 to 50 versus building products first.
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- ▶ 29:03 Harry Stebbings So like first round says, no, we have no attribution. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
- ▶ 33:36 Deven Parekh I think I listened to your, one of your episodes, maybe it was first round, talking about Roblox and how that was a ten-year fast journey.
20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings Today, we're focusing on none other than Roblox and First Round Capital's early investment in the company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:17 Harry Stebbings Thrilled ahead into our latest The Memo episode with Chris Freilich, board partner at First Round Capital.
- ▶ 7:28 Chris Fralic When we were all early users, we had an opportunity to invest at first round, and didn't, primarily, really only because the price was twenty million dollars.
- ▶ 8:38 Harry Stebbings Slow bake versus the fast bake in context with FRC here. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:50 Chris Fralic Very clearly for us in the case of First Round Capital II, when we made our last investment in that, I distinctly remember looking with our partners, looking back and saying, are there any really great companies in this fund? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:26 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, when you look at the bumps, you said before about kind of bumps in the road, like any company has, every company has bumps, what do you think was the most significant bump, where you were like, oh, shit, Josh and FRC team, fuck,…
- ▶ 18:50 Harry Stebbings You and FRC more, or hurt you more? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:53 Chris Fralic And then as an investor at first round for the last 15 years, I've deployed about a hundred million dollars in about 75 companies. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
- ▶ 3:06 Harry Stebbings I heard so many good things from Olivia on your team and Josh at First Round. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings First round, and then on the individual side, Max Levchin, Chris Saka, Ron Conway, and Naval Ravikant, to name a few.
20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
- ▶ 5:39 Harry Stebbings To Chris Freilich at first round before the show, and he asked, what did you learn from AIM at AOL that helped you at Facebook, do you think?
20VC: How To Scientifically Measure Product-Market Fit, How To Efficiently and Accurately Segment Users Into Cohorts, Why Investors Analysing CAC's at Pre-Seed Is Not Useful & How To Determine Between Customer Feedback to Accept vs Reject with Daniel Eric
- ▶ 4:32 Daniel Erickson On the first round blog.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings To date, Rahul has raised over fifty-four million dollars with Superhuman from some of the best in the business, including Andreessen Horace, First Round, Box Group, and then two of my favorites in Jeff Morris Jr. at Chapter One, and Eden…
20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings To date, Misha has raised over sixty-nine million dollars with Nova from some of the best in the business, including Kleiner Perkins, Index, First Round, Pair, and Core Innovation Capital, to name a few.
- ▶ 9:02 Misha Esipov With NICA, with First Round, we've been incredibly fortunate to have such a strong base of supporters, and there are strategic questions that will arise. 2 times in the scene
Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings In terms of the guests, one new and one existing, Todd Jackson and Finn Barnes at First Round Capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 Harry Stebbings First round capsule. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:50 Phin Barnes So many of your listeners may be familiar with Todd from his excellent product advice he's given on the first round review, his time founding a startup, and also headed up some product at some amazing companies and established himself as…
- ▶ 5:14 Todd Jackson And first round was our lead investor. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:08 Harry Stebbings Now, Finn, you have the chance to having smashed it quite frankly, as a partner at first round over the last five years or so, what advice would you give to Todd sitting around this fire Amaretto in hand? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:44 Harry Stebbings I want to ask in terms of how you think that impacts you as an investor, Todd, having raised for your own startup being covered in the last seven years or so, how do you think that informs maybe the founder experience and the type of…
- ▶ 17:04 Todd Jackson Angel investors, seed funds, all the big Sand Hill Road firms, and we actually met First Round and Josh Koppelman towards the very end of that process, so we had developed a good sense of what the other VCs were like, and immediately we… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:09 Harry Stebbings How do you think about the important qualities for first round when adding that new partner? 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:10 Harry Stebbings What do you know now that you wish someone had told you when you started with First Round many years ago? 5 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 18:15 Katie Stanton And nothing changed for a while, but then we had this boom in 2000, and we saw this second wave, a venture as a service, and we saw some great firms emerge, Andreessen, First Round, True Ventures, and we saw more of this service business,…
20VC: Khosla Ventures Founding Partner, Samir Kaul on Why Pro Rata Is A Cop Out, Why He Likes Technical Risk and Does Not Take Market Risk & How To Approach Time Allocation Across The Portfolio In Venture
- ▶ 6:29 Harry Stebbings When we discussed it with Josh at first round, he said the bust made him more conservative.
20VC: Inside The Acquisition Decision-Making Process at Cisco, How To Measure True Success in M&A Evaluation & Why By Not Speaking To Corp Dev Teams You Are Closing The Door On The Biggest Potential Accelerator To Your Business with Rob Salvagno, VP of Co
- ▶ 5:38 Harry Stebbings Josh at first round said seeing the bust made him more conservative.
20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- ▶ 11:49 Adam D'Augelli And often what's interesting about the market today is if you go back to oh seven, many of the groups we worked with back then, soft tech first round have grown fund size and now compete more directly with us.
20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 33:24 David Tisch I think what First Round has built is a magical 2 times in the scene
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 6:31 Harry Stebbings We had Josh at first round on the show, and he said that seeing the bus made him more conservative.
20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings However, to the show stay, and I've actually been quite a fanboy of this individual's content for quite a while now, and then when I had Josh Koppelman on the show from first round, he said that he was one of the board members he most…
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
- ▶ 14:29 Harry Stebbings Because when we had Josh Koppelman from first round on the show, he was really interesting.
20VC: True Ventures' Puneet Agarwal on Why EQ Is Going To Separate The Best Firms In Venture Over The Next Decade, The Negatives of Attribution in Venture & What Makes A Truly Efficient Venture Partnership
- ▶ 17:23 Puneet Agarwal We were, we started with a hundred sixty-five million dollar fund, and I think Mike Maples was around, first round was around, you know, some of the other funds were getting started.
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
- ▶ 13:17 Harry Stebbings Can I ask with such a team based approach, do you embrace attribution or do you actually take the first round approach, which is we don't need attribution in our fund?
- ▶ 14:54 Harry Stebbings We did mention first round though there, and I actually had Josh Koppelman on the show, and he said something that was so striking when it came to how he thinks about the first round team. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 6:00 Harry Stebbings Now, I asked Josh this one at first round, and he said that seeing the boom and bust made him more conservative as an investor.
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Justin has raised over seventy-five million dollars in funding from some of the best in the business for Atrium, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round, General Catalyst, Thrive, Initialized, and more.
20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- ▶ 28:22 Dayna Grayson I credit Josh Koppelman and First Round Capital for really starting that movement, and that's gone from 20 to 50 to a hundred million dollar size funds, and then we've also seen the advent of the larger funds, such as NEA, and I think what…
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 32:29 Jeff Richards You know, they have a very team-based approach at first round.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 31:31 Rahul Vohra We had first round capital lead our seed round.
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Anthony's raised over thirty eight million dollars in funding for Ubiquity Six from some of the very best in the business, including Finn at First Round, Mike Volpe at Index, and Mitch at Benchmark.
- ▶ 12:22 Anjney Midha So somebody like First Round, which has this ruthless focus on seed stage, that's all we do, seed stage entrepreneurs is who we back, we're partners with you that help you with your first five to 10 hires, this is your first 12 months…
- ▶ 16:37 Harry Stebbings You mentioned them in the form of benchmark index in first round. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:18 Anjney Midha Finn Barnes at First Round is probably my closest mentor, and the thing I've probably learned is just start and end with the people.
20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Now, Josh is founder and partner at First Round, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:58 Harry Stebbings But you've heard quite enough from me, so now I'm very, very honoured to welcome Josh Koppelman, founder and partner at First Round.
- ▶ 3:31 Harry Stebbings And what was the original founding story of First Round? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:56 Josh Kopelman And I think what I learned very quickly when we were starting first round is that this is an opportunity that lets me focus on the 20% where I might have some marginal value add and eliminate the 80% where I'm average to value destroying.
- ▶ 6:48 Josh Kopelman Just cautious of the investors in the first round partnership, and that's not necessarily a good thing.
- ▶ 7:53 Josh Kopelman Like, first round offered Twitter their first term sheet months before Union Square led their round. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:48 Harry Stebbings How do you think about reserve allocation today with first round?
- ▶ 24:17 Josh Kopelman Like first round, we pretty much tell founders when you get the first round, the second round comes free.
- ▶ 25:03 Josh Kopelman I met him when he was 18 years old, when he was a freshman at Penn, and was blown away by his maturity, his entrepreneurial instincts, and by his entrepreneurial experiences at such a young age that he became first round's first intern,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:41 Josh Kopelman So I think that we all know where we stand on our own personal journeys, what we're solving for, and it enables us to be really transparent about where we are on our journey at first round. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:32 unnamed speaker So on appearance, Josh, you've achieved the most incredible of heights in scaling first round. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:03 unnamed speaker Like inventing things, and whether it's our community, or our platform, or first-round review, or our products, or even the holiday video, like, I feel like I've designed a job that just works for me, and I can't see myself stopping for a…
- ▶ 39:07 Harry Stebbings His journey with First Round really has been such an inspiration to me.
20VC: The 3 Stages of Denial For Founders When Scaling, Why You Will Likely Be Unable To Hire Through Your Network & The Interview Question All Founders Must Ask with Olof Mathé, Founder & CEO @ Mixmax
- ▶ 31:50 Harry Stebbings I really do so appreciate all your support, and I cannot wait to bring you what I think is one of our best episodes ever with Josh Koppelman, founder of First Round Capital, on Monday.
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- ▶ 6:10 Harry Stebbings One of my favorite quotes you mentioned about holding Serena in your arms was Finn Barnes at first round, who said on the show, never before have you cared about something so much, but known so little about how to care for it, which I…
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
- ▶ 20:56 Leo Polovets I actually got this idea from Finn at first round where he started sending a survey to founders he met with to basically ask them what they thought of the meeting.
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
- ▶ 36:27 Ron Bouganim On the larger institutional investor side, I think the folks at First Round Capital have done a great job.
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
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm so thrilled to welcome Finn Barnes, partner at First Round Capital, one of the most prestigious and successful early stage fans of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Square, Warby Parker,…
- ▶ 3:10 Harry Stebbings It's the number one people management solution, but it's now time for one of the best shows I think we've ever done, so I'm thrilled to hand over to Finn Barnes, partner at First Round Capital.
- ▶ 3:54 Phin Barnes I was right out of business school, and what really happened, if I'm honest, is that absent any good ideas of my own as an entrepreneur, I decided the very best thing I could do, or the second best thing I could do, was to surround myself…
- ▶ 17:30 Phin Barnes And this is something that we spend a lot of time talking about at first round is not so much the supply of capital, but the velocity of that capital. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:01 Phin Barnes At first round, we talk a lot about the very best founders being able to optimize learning per dollar spent.
- ▶ 23:57 Harry Stebbings Before we touch on diversity in the quickfire round, I do have to ask, at first round, how do you think about reserve allocation? 2 times in the scene
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