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20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 51:24 Matthew Pohlson Rick Heitzman and first Mark was leading the round, but if they would have fallen out, it just would have made the rest of the round.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:38 Harry Stebbings Now, they did one, I think they did it with First Mark.
Shopify President, Harley Finkelstein on What is Being a Good Husband | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:24 Harry Stebbings I, I spoke to quite a few of our mutual friends before the show, and it was actually Amish at first, Mark, who mentioned your empathy being almost unlike any other that he works with in terms of the operators and how you apply it to the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:55 Harley Finkelstein In the same way that, you know, pre-IPO, um, through people like Jeremy at Bessemer and Amish at first mark, I started asking around, you know, who are some of the best public company leaders out there?
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.
20VC: Why Raising A Mega-Round Makes Your Life Harder Not Easier, Why Your Board Is Not Your Boss and Lessons on Successful Board Management & The Biggest Breakpoints in Company Scaling with Emmanuel Schalit, Founder & CEO @ Dashlane
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Emmanuel's raised over a hundred and ninety two million dollars in funding for Dashlane from some of the best in the business, including Jim Getz at Sequoia, Rick at Firstmark, Alex at Bessemer, and Habib at Rowe, just to name a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:33 Harry Stebbings As I said, I've heard so many great things, both from Rick at First Mark and from Alex at Bessemer.
- ▶ 21:30 Emmanuel Schalit Incredibly helpful because their firm and First Mark is certainly top of mind when it comes to this, do so much in terms of their community of entrepreneurs, particularly in New York, to, you know, create a community of CEOs, create a… 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
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings Rick is a founder and partner at First Mark Capital, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:38 Harry Stebbings But how did you make your way into the world of venture and come to found one of the best performing funds last decade in first mark, Rick?
- ▶ 16:00 unnamed speaker We've gone back and looked at this, and at first mark, we've been around for almost a dozen years, and we're incredibly data-driven, and we've gone back and looked at
- ▶ 33:28 unnamed speaker And those people often are able to tell the story of what it is, what's it like to work with Rickites, and what's it like to work with Firstmark, and therefore, they're able to do the heavy lifting for me, and regardless of if you've been…
- ▶ 38:07 Harry Stebbings What does the investment decision-making process look like for you at FirstMark, Rick? 3 times in the scene
20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Clark has raised over three hundred and fifty million dollars with InVision from some of the world's leading investors, including Iconic, Spark, Excel, Battery, Tiger, Firstmark, and even Atlassian. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:19 Harry Stebbings I do have to also, because speaking about the centrality of customer experience there, where we are in the crested of the wave, and the leadership that's been seen through your guidance of Envision, I do have to ask you, there's actually a…
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Dennis has raised over forty-four million in VC funding from the likes of FirstMark, IA Ventures, Lyra Hippo, DCM, and more fantastic names.
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 34:31 Jeff Fagnan Us and First Mark Capital out of New York.
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.
20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
- ▶ 7:20 Adam Leibsohn Um, I think some guys at first mark.
20VC: Why Great Founders Are Both Visionary & Stubborn, The Investment Mindset Shift From Angel To VC & How To React When The 'S*** Hits The Fan?' with Jesse Middleton, General Partner @ Flybridge Capital Partners
- ▶ 26:41 Jesse Middleton And I met Scott when he was a venture, uh, venture partner at first mark.
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And x.ai is now one of the best funded AI startups, having raised over thirty million dollars from our friends at Firstmark, and a big thanks to Matt Turt for making the intro, and the likes of DCM, Lira Hippo, Crunch Fund, SoftBank, and…
- ▶ 28:52 Harry Stebbings And again, I'd like to give a huge hand to Matt Turk at first mark for the intro to Dennis today, and to Dennis for giving up his time to reveal the incredible X.ai journey.
20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings So joining me on the show, we have Matt Turk, Managing Director at Firstmark Capital, where he invests across a broad range of early stage enterprise and consumer startups. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59 Harry Stebbings But now it's time for me to pass over the mic to the main man, Matt Turk, Managing Director at First Mark Capital.
- ▶ 2:25 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to start off with your story and how you came to be managing director at Matt Firstmark. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 Harry Stebbings What's the most challenging aspect of your role as managing director at Firstmark?