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OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:38 Harry Stebbings It was also unfortunately at the same time that Forbes released their billionaires list of young billionaires, where the founders of McCall are on that list.
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:03 Jason Lemkin And I think by the end of this year, that, that train is going to be so far out of the station that, that these, these growth numbers will be jaw dropping because we will decide enterprises will the fortune 500 or global 2000 will decide…
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred start-up employers for twenty-twenty-four, Gitu's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
- ▶ 1:11:23 Harry Stebbings Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products, and a recipient of the twenty-twenty-four…
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf
- ▶ 1:19 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
- ▶ 54:05 Harry Stebbings Google, and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products, and a recipient of the twenty-twenty-four…
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, Gitu's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
- ▶ 1:13:56 Harry Stebbings Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, Gitu's best software awards for higher satisfaction products, and a recipient of the twenty-twenty-four…
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
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list
- ▶ 1:16:49 Harry Stebbings Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products, and a recipient of the twenty-twenty-four…
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 1:03 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
- ▶ 1:29:37 Harry Stebbings Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products, and a recipient of the twenty-twenty-four…
20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 1:10 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top-hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four.
- ▶ 1:14:04 Harry Stebbings Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products, and a recipient of the twenty-twenty-four…
20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky
- ▶ 1:12 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top-hundred startup employers for
- ▶ 59:34 Harry Stebbings Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products, and a recipient of the twenty-twenty-four…
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-II's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
- ▶ 56:50 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top-hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four.
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 1:28 Harry Stebbings Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, Gitu's best software awards for higher satisfaction products, and a recipient of the twenty-twenty-four…
- ▶ 1:07:44 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top-hundred startup employers for
20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
- ▶ 1:18:28 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-II's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred start-up employers for twenty-twenty-four, Gitu's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 1:09 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred start-up employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-II's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
- ▶ 1:13:24 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top-hundred startup employers for
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
- ▶ 2:33 Harry Stebbings Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products, and a recipient of the twenty-twenty-four…
- ▶ 1:24:11 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred start-up employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 1:15 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top-hundred startup employers for
- ▶ 1:12:38 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-II's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
- ▶ 2:18 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
- ▶ 1:07:54 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings The company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four.
- ▶ 49:45 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, G-Two's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 1:18 Harry Stebbings Google, and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, Gitu's best software awards for higher satisfaction products, and a recipient of the twenty-twenty-four…
- ▶ 1:01:09 Harry Stebbings Backed by top-tier investors and corporations like Google and Kleiner Perkins, the company is among Forbes' list of the top a hundred startup employers for twenty-twenty-four, Gitu's best software awards for higher satisfaction products,…
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:27 Harry Stebbings I think I said this to, um, the Forbes journalist, but I remember saying to him, like, Avi is just a fucking master at making money.
Sean Murray: Why Discovery Today is F***** & How to Scale Into Enterprise Effectively | E1107 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:06 Sean Murray Uh, according to Forbes women that in gender neutral job posts, right?
Zaria Parvez: How Duolingo Scaled to 8M TikTok Followers & How to Create Viral Content | E1105 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:19 Zaria Parvez And, and I'm not just saying that because I'm sitting in a Duolingo studio right now, like, the fact that I'm even sitting with you, the fact that I've been interviewed time and time again, the fact that, like, I got to be on Forbes, 30…
Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:59 Harry Stebbings You know, we've got links to TechCrunch, and to Forbes, and to whatever publication.
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:37 Kevin Systrom My point is, if you're 20 years old, and you're, like, working hard, you don't have to worry, like, are you gonna become director by three years from now, or are you gonna, like, be on the cover of Forbes, or, like, none of that stuff…
Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario: How I Turned Canned Water to a $700M Company | E968 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:04 Mike Cessario Way more people are commenting on it, because it's so funny, it actually gets a couple of the real people that don't typically comment, it's actually enough for them to be like, this is fucking amazing, um, which generates the algorithms…
- ▶ 56:13 Harry Stebbings I think that's what people misunderstand is the importance of the amplification on other outlets, which is like, as you said, Forbes write about the crazy thing you did, or BuzzFeed write about that, and it's more their reinforcement,…
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:44 William Hockey They aren't necessarily the ones that are going to be on the front cover of Fortune or the front cover of Forbes or the ones that are, you know, getting invited to the coolest parties.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:18 Rishi Sunak And I think when you look at all these measures, OECD, World Bank, Forbes,
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings As a result of his incredible investing success, Fabrice was named as the number one angel investor in the world by Forbes.
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings As a result of this incredible track record, Anton has been named to the Forbes Midas list of
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings As for Hans, he's been named to the Forbes Midas list nine consecutive years, from
- ▶ 3:29 Harry Stebbings We see the Midas list with you at the top of it, and I'd love to go back a little bit and go, how did you make your way into the world of venture, and how did you come to be a GP with GGV today?
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 0:04 Harry Stebbings Just last week, Forbes did an amazing piece on how Coinbase Ventures became one of the busiest crypto VCs without any full-time staff.
20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- ▶ 22:09 Nick Shalek Like when Forbes puts together the Midas list, they want to know what investments you've made.
20VC: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet, What Can Be Done To Drive Further Investment in UK Venture & A Breakdown of Morning Routines, Peloton Favourites and Managing Nerves
- ▶ 16:59 Rishi Sunak And I think when you look at all these measures, OECD, World Bank, Forbes, World Economic Forum, we consistently rank as one of the best places to come and do business anywhere in the world.
20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- ▶ 25:13 Byron Deeter I mean, I remember talking to him the night that he was on the cover of Forbes magazine, and just the whole discussion was, how can I be better? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:57 Byron Deeter Was the home run scenario 10 or 15 years ago, and so it's been tremendously empowering as we at Bessemer think about what does company support look like, and we raised a vehicle that we don't really publicize, but we call Century Fund…
- ▶ 38:42 Byron Deeter Just such a fun, tangible moment of kind of developer empowerment, and then I'll tell you the one which was almost a complete disaster, which was in slow motion in my mind, was Jeff upside down on Woodside Road on a bike, and it was the…
- ▶ 39:01 Byron Deeter It was part of the Cloud 100.
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Prior to Benchmark, Peter was a general partner at Excel Partners in San Francisco, and as a result of his incredible track, Peter's been on the Forbes Minus list more times than I've done podcast episodes.
20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings And as a result of his incredible investing success, Scott is among the most frequently named VCs to the Forbes Midas list.
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings As a result, in both 2016 and 2017, Joe was the youngest member of the Forbes a hundred Midas list, and prior to eight BC, Joe co-founded Palantir, one of the world's most impactful multi-billion dollar software companies.
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 10:56 Harry Stebbings We mentioned kind of the public journal of record there, and when we look at kind of the future of the media landscape more generally and more from a macro perspective, in my mind, I see the juggernauts continuing, be it your Forbes, your…
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Mike's also been on the Forbes Midas list since 2010, and was also named one of eight rising stars by Fortune magazine.
20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings They are currently listed as one of Forbes' most valuable franchises in sports, and if that wasn't enough,
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 9:20 Byron Deeter I think that the floodgates are about to burst wide open, and as we look at the private cloud landscape, we do the cloud 100 event every year with Forbes, and it'll be in the September issue this year from the cloud 100 list, but right now…
- ▶ 9:20 Byron Deeter I think that the floodgates are about to burst wide open, and as we look at the private cloud landscape, we do the cloud 100 event every year with Forbes, and it'll be in the September issue this year from the cloud 100 list, but right now… 2 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
- ▶ 4:42 Bill Gurley The team at Goldman at the time was quoted in every tech article I could read in the journal or Forbes or Fortune, and they were pontificating about valuation and investing around technology evolution.
20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
- ▶ 1:03 Harry Stebbings Due to his incredible investing success, Jeremy's been featured on the Forbes Midas list, well, what can I say, more times than I've done podcast episodes?
20VC: Why The Current VC Financing Mechanism For Consumer Brands Is Broken, Why The Infrastructure To Power Emerging Brands Is Broken and What The Re-Platforming of Retail Means For The Next Decade in Consumer with Adam Pritzker, Chairman & CEO @ Assemble
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Adam was featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30, Vanity Fair's The Next Establishment, and Inc.
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...
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings He's also been on the coveted Forbes Midas list for more than a decade, and in 2017, Danny was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE, for his services to business and charity, and the New York Times included him in…
20VC: Why Raising A First Time Fund Is Like Raising A Seed Round, Why We Need New and Different Fund Models & Why Longevity Is The Most Rewarding Place To Invest with Laura Deming, Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund
- ▶ 17:37 Laura Deming Spent the first couple months, like, you know, emailing the Forbes for a hundred billionaire list, because I thought that that was the best way.
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
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Woody joined TCV in 1995, and has since led investments in Spotify, Netflix, Airbnb, Peloton, Groupon, Dollar Shave Club, the list really does go on, and due to this phenomenal success, Woody's been named numerous times for the Midas list…
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
- ▶ 9:37 Armon Dadgar You either are focused on SMB, mid-market, global 2000, and I think that's a bit of a soul search. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:00 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, in terms of some of the clients, you mentioned the global 2000, is there a real element of kind of customer education to the benefits and features that cloud and full cloud scale operability offers?
- ▶ 18:15 Armon Dadgar We wanted the commercial focus to be the global 2000, and so once we said, okay,
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
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings And due to Marco's incredible success scaling Thumbtack to now helping millions of Americans daily, he's been recognized by Forbes as 30 Under 30, and Thumbtack was recently acknowledged as one of Glassdoor's best
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
- ▶ 14:06 Darian Shirazi It was going to be a new sort of wave for CRM, and if you think about, actually, I wrote an article about this five or six years ago now, which is the future of CRM will automatically recommend opportunities to you, and it was published in…
20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 15:12 Jason Pressman So that includes all sorts of things that are all enterprises needed, like in feature set, like a multi-level permissions and role-based permissions and logging in compliance for large global 2000 companies.
20VC: How Both Founders & GPs Should Construct Their Pitch, Why VCs Are Eternal Optimists & What Makes The Best Post-Investment VC/Founder Relationship with Brian Ascher, Partner @ Venrock
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Due to this exit rate, Brian's been named to the Forbes Midas list multiple times for the VCs who've backed the most profitable winners in the last four years.
20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 24:25 Josh Wolfe Maybe two years ago, we were in his board meeting, and the Forbes list had just come out, and I think it was for the 22nd or 23rd year in a row, Bill was the richest man in the world.
20VC: Why We Are Valuation & Ownership Insensitive, Why We Do Not Take Board Seats & The Effects Of The Series A Crunch with Topher Conway, Co-Managing Partner @ SV Angel
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings He's also been included in Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 in 2015, and prior to SV Angel, he worked at eCal.
20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings It's also not only us that appreciate Tim's skills, though, as he's also been named to top a hundred innovators on Forbes Midas list for two years running, and I also want to say a huge thank you to Rick Marini for the intro today, to Tim,…
20VC: Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on How It All Started With Paul Graham @ YC, The Biggest Surprises About Making The Move Into VC & Why Alexis Believes All The Best Investors Have Operating Experience
- ▶ 1:01 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, Alexis has also written a national best-selling book without their permission, and was named on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list two years in a row.
20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings And due to Rory's incredible investing career, which also includes investments in the likes of ExactTarget and Omniture, Rory's been recognized by Forbes Midas List, and always on power players in venture capital for his investments.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings As a result, Mike's been named on the Forbes Midas list since 2010, and was also named one of eight rising stars by Fortune Magazine, alongside the likes of Peter Thiel, Josh Koppelman, and Roloff Botha.
20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings As if being managing partner at a top venture fund is not enough, uh, so, but it's not just us who think he's awesome, uh, he was also named amongst Ernst & Young's 2013 entrepreneur of the year award, Forbes list of most powerful CEOs…
20VC: How To Win The Strategic Process Of Fundraising and Optimising Co-Founder Relationships and Break Ups with Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO @ The Muse
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Catherine is The Muse's CEO, named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Media, and inks 15 Women to Watch in Tech.
20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Due to this immense success, Carl's been featured on CNN, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and many more incredible publications, and Home Hero has raised funds from some of the world's best investors, including Chamath and Mamoon at Social…
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 0:52 Harry Stebbings And she's also been described as the most powerful woman in startups by Forbes.
20VC: The Best Determinant Of Product Market Fit & Why Prior Experience Is Not Required For Founder Success with Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 1:09 Harry Stebbings For the last six years, he's been recognized on the Forbes Midas list.
20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings And we're not the only ones who think she's awesome, as her outstanding achievements have also been recognized by the likes of Forbes, who've included Rebecca in their annual 30 Under 30 list.
20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- ▶ 1:07 Harry Stebbings And clearly, it's not just us who thinks Matt is an absolute rock star, as he's been recognized as an innovative force across technology, entertainment, and advertising, for which Fast Company named Matt one of the most creative people in…
20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
- ▶ 1:20 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, in 2011, Nick was named by Forbes as one of the elite eight to watch in venture capital.