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Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:53 Vaibhav Sahgal They were 50 to 60 year old women in the Midwest or somewhere in America, and they were looking, they were looking to use this product because they thought it was Fitbit for their brain.
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:23 Aydin Senkut Shopify's A round and Fitbit's B round, whereas all my colleagues and peers like Josh
- ▶ 39:10 Aydin Senkut Like one of the biggest things that I learned from, for instance, um, a stock like Fitbit and a stock like Shopify in, you know, one of the things we mentioned in a recurring revenue, like you basically next year are guaranteed to make… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Whoop Founder, Will Ahmed on How CEOs Can Perform at their Highest Level, Why There is Value in Struggle Early On, Why Realism is Overrated in Startups and How To Create a Culture of Delegated Decision-Making
- ▶ 31:00 Will Ahmed So we didn't have the same drop-off rates that had plagued, say, Fitbit or Jawbone or some of these other earlier step counters. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings One of the leading venture firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Zynga, Fitbit, and Sangrid, to name a few.
20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm super excited to welcome Tony Schneider, partner at True Ventures, one of the Valley's leading early stage firms with a portfolio, including the likes of Peloton, HashiCorp, Fitbit, Automatic, and Trade.io to name a…
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
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings One of the West Coast's leading early stage funds with a portfolio, including the likes of Fitbit, Peloton, HashiCorp, Trade.io, Ring, Automatic, the makers of WordPress, and many more amazing companies.
20VC: Brad Feld on Why Market Size At Early Stage Is Not Helpful, His Biggest Learnings From The Boom & Bust of The Dot Com and How The Best VCs Work For Their CEOs
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings As one of the founders of Foundry Group, his firm have backed the likes of Zynga, SendGrid, Fitbit, and many more incredible companies.
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
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings But I couldn't be more excited today to be joined by one of True's rock stars in the form of Puneet Agawal, partner at True Ventures, and as a little context, True is one of the leading early stage VC funds of the last decade, with big…
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
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Backing, and I cannot believe I'm saying this, Dad, but an incredible two unicorns per year since founding, including Shopify, Opendoor, Flexport, Adyen, Twitch, Fitbit, and many more incredible companies.
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
- ▶ 4:07 Philip Krim This was also back in the, when the rise of Fitbits and Jawbones were really helping people track their sleep and understand their sleep at a much deeper level.
20VC: Why Founding Your First Company Is Like Learning Through A Thousand Paper Cuts, The 3 Core Phases to Product Adoption and Why Valuation Obsession Must Change In The Valley with Armon Dadgar, Founder & CTO @ Hashicorp
- ▶ 24:59 Armon Dadgar It's like the number of Fitbit for dogs and Uber for Ikea assembly is, you know, disheartening.
20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital
- ▶ 31:53 Peter Parker So for all the type two diabetics in the world who are pricking their finger to get a drop of blood to figure out what their glucose level is, these folks hope they will change all that to make it look like a Fitbit.
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?
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings They have the likes of Fitbit, SendGrid, Postmates, Front, Poshmark, Eventbrite, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Fitbit, Brightroll, and Peloton, just to name a few.
- ▶ 11:41 John Callaghan The strategy consistently puts us early in big markets, whether it's, you know, in MakerBot or Fitbit or WordPress or Peloton or, you know, all these names and things, but what really what
20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings The makers of WordPress, Fitbit, Blue Bottle Coffee, and recent unicorn Peloton.
20VC: The Fundamentals To Creating A Successful Venture Partnership & The Optimal Investment Decision Making Process with Ryan McIntyre, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Now, Ryan is a co-founder at Foundry Group, one of the leading VC funds of the last decade, with investments in the likes of Fitbit, SendGrid, and MakerBot, just to name a few.
20VC: How 50% Of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, How To Build A Relationship Of Trust With Your VC and How Entrepreneurs Can Detect VC BS with Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings Now, Jason is a co-founder at Foundry Group, one of the leading VC funds of the past decade, with investments in the likes of Fitbit, SendGrid, and MakerBot, just to name a few.
20VC: Maximising Engagement and Retention on Mobile & Why There Should Always Be Availability To A Free Product with Sean Brecker, CEO @ Headspace
- ▶ 6:15 Sean Brecker And when I first started doing it, I remember my mother-in-law had given me a Fitbit as a Christmas present, and the Fitbit was telling me that I was on average sleeping three hours and 45 minutes per night. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Hardware Is Actually Software Wrapped In Plastic & "Of Course Hardware Is Hard, Everything Is Hard" with Ben Einstein, Founder & General Partner @ Bolt VC
- ▶ 11:01 Harry Stebbings Is Fitbit, we could consider Fitbit, but software provided as well, isn't it? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:35 Harry Stebbings And we spoke there about consumer businesses, and we've spoken today about Fitbit and the kind of consumer hardware space.
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 18:42 Justin Kan People will like text me their screenshots of their, you know, Strava app or their Fitbit, say how much they worked out.
20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- ▶ 4:28 Josh Udashkin We had these power SKUs, uh, that really were selling 70%, uh, of the assortment, so we would make a couple of products, they would turn into bestsellers, and the bestsellers were really carrying the entire business, and then, you know,…
- ▶ 16:17 Josh Udashkin Information in our case about travel or fitness, if you're Fitbit or, you know, music recommendations, if you're Sonos, you really have this great opportunity to continue to engage long after the purchase, which is something that really… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 26:04 Wesley Chan You know, with Fitbit, when I didn't bet on Fitbit, everybody else was looking at connected devices or looking at hardware and going, you can't make money on hardware. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 3:56 Charles Hudson and then I think like many of the micro VC firms of that vintage, SoftTech's had a tremendous amount of success backing companies like Shippo and Fitbit and Poshmark and Postmates, and
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!
- ▶ 1:04 Harry Stebbings So let's go with Twitch, Fitbit, Shopify, Mint, Brightroll, Dropcam.
- ▶ 26:55 Aydin Senkut You know, James Park at Fitbit, who's, I think, one of the most resilient CEOs that I know, and then Toby Lutke at Shopify, and Peter Van Der Doze at Adyen.
20 VC 069: Jeff Clavier, King of Seed Funding @ SoftTech VC on Brad Feld, Fitbit and Standout Startups
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Jeff and his team have backed successful startups like Mint, acquired by Intuit, Brightroll, Milo, acquired by eBay, Bleacher Report, Fitbit, Eventbrite, Postmates, Vungle, and the list goes on.
- ▶ 3:29 Harry Stebbings And I'd like to say a massive congratulations for Fitbit. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:46 Jeff Clavier That's the fund that, um, invested in Fitbit. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 Jeff Clavier Um, on the back of my success with Fitbit, uh, we've done a number of connected devices, um, in
- ▶ 21:42 Jeff Clavier And, you know, I mentioned Fitbit sort of being very challenging to race for. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:38 Jeff Clavier You will have a device on your nightstand or your desk in the office that will automatically recharge your cell phone, your watch, your Fitbit, your, um, keyboard.
20 VC 066: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Seth Levine: 'VC Is Not A Scalable Business'
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings , he has made investments in the likes of Fitbit and
- ▶ 18:41 Harry Stebbings And then Elizabeth Krause, um, a friend of ours, uh, wanted to ask that with the recent success of Fitbit and seeing what it can return for your fund, is it difficult to stay motivated? 2 times in the scene
20 VC 065: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Brad Feld: Founders Should Be Obsessed, Passion Belongs In The Bedroom
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings Brad has made investments in the likes of Zynga, MakerBot, and Fitbit, just to name a few.
- ▶ 8:14 Harry Stebbings And then moving from this failure to, to incredible success recently that you've had, and I want to say congratulations for the success you've had with Fitbit, but I'm aware that on the first opportunity you didn't invest in them. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:44 Brad Feld Fitbit could be and could represent, uh, was, was obvious, uh, when I really engaged with him when I was, uh, present and in the moment. 2 times in the scene