Forerunner Ventures
also referred to as: forerunner
26 statements across 7 episodes · 11 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 17, 2017 by Kirsten Green · said 69 times in 19 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (47), Eurie Kim (7), Kirsten Green (6), Rachel Blumenthal (2), Rebecca Kaden (1), Nicole Quinn (1), Josh Browder (1), Jason Lemkin (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 23 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
- Kirsten Green: The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM | 20VC #912 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated
- 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
- Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 25 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
- 20VC: Why Fundraising Is Like Dating and How to Play The Game Successfully & How To Increase The Flexibility of Your Burn When Growth is Ambiguous with Rachel Blumenthal, Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome
- 20VC: Why Risk Is Misunderstood In Entrepreneurship, Why Acquisitions Are Cheap For Incumbents Today & 3 Strategies To Improve Diversity In Your Team with Henry Davis, President & COO @ Glossier
- 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
- 20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- 20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool & How To Use Humour When "S*** Hits The Fan" with Jesse Genet, Founder & CEO @ Lumi
- 20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- 20VC: How To Think About Founder-Category Fit, Why The Biggest Opportunities Are In Category Re-Architecture & What Can Be Done To Increase The Amount of Women In VC with Nadia Boujarwah, Founder & CEO @ Dia & Co
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade
- 20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Forerunner Ventures, oldest first
Jul 17, 2017 bullish
Jul 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017 negative
Forerunner avoids investing in commerce startups that compete primarily on price
“That's not one where as investors were particularly keen on, because I tend to feel like if you're saying, you know, we're the lowest price out there, if you're successful, you're going to build a competitive landscape where it ends up being a race to the bott…”
Jul 17, 2017 positive
Jul 17, 2017 positive
Jan 22, 2018 negative
Eurie Kim: Early-stage brands cannot survive without high gross margins
“Certain categories have structurally higher margins than others. Beauty is obviously one of them. And by vertically integrating their earlier stage teams have the ability to start investing in their businesses and marketing and customer service. Because they h…”
Jan 22, 2018 bullish
Jan 22, 2018
Eurie Kim: Top DTC Brands Achieve Product-Market Fit Within Two Years
“They actually reach clear product market fit, certainly with their consumers in terms of consumer love within their first year or two of business, you know, and it's typically really hard for a brand to start breaking out several years after being in business.”
Jan 22, 2018
Jan 22, 2018 bullish
Jan 22, 2018 positive
Jan 22, 2018
Eurie Kim: Forerunner allocates 60% to 65% of fund capital to reserves
“Yeah, so as a guideline, you know, we, we're similar to many of the other firms out there where we're earmarking reserves at about a two-to-one rate, so our initial investment is sort of 30% of our total dollars, and then 60% saved for reserves, or 35, 65.”
May 11, 2018 positive
Jul 13, 2018 positive
Blumenthal: Kirsten Green is a standout investor despite lacking operator background
“Where I have had the greatest success is is in one of my longest time investors being Kirsten Green from Forerunner in that Kirsten loves consumers. She loves retail. She intimately understands the consumer and understands the dynamic between consumers and dif…”
Aug 1, 2022
Green: Scaling VC firms requires managing ambitious talent's recognition needs
“The more people you have, the more you're kind of also serving for those ambitious people and their own needs to be recognized and to have successes and wins. And you just, It requires you to be, I think, thoughtful and deliberate around your org development a…”
Aug 1, 2022
Aug 1, 2022 negative
Green: Mimicking boardroom behavior diminishes performance and personal authority
“Every time I have tried to say people in the room behave like this, I'll get more respect if I behave that way, I mess it up. You know, because I'm overthinking it or I'm Getting nervous as my words are unfolding because they're not coming from a place of real…”
Aug 1, 2022
Green: Could not have founded Forerunner without her partner's career support
“And I just, if I hadn't had a partner that had stepped up that way and had known what it meant to me and the value of that, I could not have been a good mother and started something that had potential to be successful at the same time.”
Aug 1, 2022
Green: Effective hard feedback requires directness, respect, and restraint
“When I'm in a position of giving hard feedback, I'm trying to be really thoughtful in advance and plan my words relatively carefully. So for instance, the other day I had to send a note to give somebody some feedback, which also included like an answer to a qu…”
Aug 1, 2022
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Green: Investors must offer distinct expertise to win cap table spots
“The best ones have people who shine in different areas and compliment each other. And the way to do that is to stand for something is to be known for something, to have some way to contribute where people are like, oh, I would like Harry in the room with me be…”
Aug 1, 2022
Nov 17, 2023 neutral
Kim: Average Series A valuations hit $35M in both 2021 and 2023
“Meeting last week or two weeks ago, and essentially a valuations are at 35, which was the same as 21. And now we all know about the spikes and the 20 on a hundred and all of that, but like as an average, it was 24 in 2020 thirty five million bucks and 21 forty…”
Nov 17, 2023 positive
Kim: Forerunner Ventures invested in an auto body shop chain
“My partner invested in one that's a, it's an auto body shop, a chain of auto body shops. And you're like, how is that venture? Well, it's venture because a lot of the technology that goes into powering that can then start to create a digitally native franchise…”