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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 51:35 Jason Lemkin There was four runner and Menlo, right?
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:50 Josh Browder Like if you're a consumer company, getting Forerunner could be the king, king making thing.
Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:38 Davis Smith It's like I pitched a hundred investors to get our first investor, you know, Kirsten green at forerunner.
Roundtable #6 with Rebecca Kaden, Nicole Quinn, Eurie Kim, Harry Stebbings | E1083 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:51 Eurie Kim Uh, I'm a partner at Foreigner Ventures.
- ▶ 11:59 Eurie Kim Like we do at Forerunner, you know, we do seed all the way through to growth across our fund, and it's the same partners that are doing that work.
- ▶ 15:49 Eurie Kim But that is one thing that we feel is differentiated at Forerunner, where all of us are working on the same portfolio.
- ▶ 37:27 Nicole Quinn Harry, you know, my brother, Jamie Quinn, um, he is at a fun new view capital and he runs the part of the business that is, um, saying to funds like Forerunner, USV, Lightspeed, Hey, do you want to sell some of your older positions to us?
- ▶ 39:05 Eurie Kim I mean, I would say, you know, whereas we're all paid to be, you know, innovative thinkers, here at Forerunner, we're back to the basics.
Kirsten Green: The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM | 20VC #912 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07 Harry Stebbings How did you found For Honor?
- ▶ 19:04 Kirsten Green Um, you know, Forerunner is still a relatively small, tightly knit team.
- ▶ 21:29 Harry Stebbings And every consumer brand that I spoke to and consumer company wanted Forerunner. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:32 Kirsten Green And I would say in general, like, while, um, by nature, our culture at Forerunner is humble.
- ▶ 29:46 Kirsten Green I would love for Forerunner, I strive every day for Forerunner to be a place where people can do their best work and feel that they're acknowledged and appreciated for it, and that part of doing your best work is, is being able to, to have…
- ▶ 36:40 Kirsten Green Painting and photography and thinking about, like, the meaning of life and what I wanted to do, um, and then, you know, I, for a lot of reasons, the timing, it became clear that the timing was right for Forerunner, um, you know, around the…
- ▶ 38:58 Kirsten Green I'm mostly multitasking in the context of Forerunner.
- ▶ 44:42 Harry Stebbings What do you know now that you wish you'd known at the start of Forerunner? 6 times in the scene
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:02 Henri Pierre-Jacques Where we need that one diverse mind to be at Andreessen, to be at Forerunner, wherever it is, to speak and advocate for diverse founder.
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
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings To date, Eddie's raised over a hundred and forty one million dollars for Curated, from some of the best, including Capital G, Greylock, and Forerunner, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Founders Fund, DST, Forerunner, Lightspeed, and many more. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Hims raised over a hundred and fifty eight million dollars from some of the best, including Thrive, Forerunner, Founders Fund, IVP, Redpoint, and more.
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
- ▶ 15:48 Rebecca Kaden So an investment that we did, we led a series seed round alongside Forerunner at USV is a company called Shop Shops.
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
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Rachel's raised over nineteen million in VC funding from the likes of Kirsten Green at Forerunner, August Capital, General Catalyst, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Female Founders Fund, just to name a few.
- ▶ 20:53 Rachel Blumenthal Is in one of my longest time investors being Kirsten Green from Forerunner in that Kirsten loves consumers. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings That's raised over forty-five million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the business, including Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures, IVP, Redpoint, and SV Angel, just to name a few.
- ▶ 17:56 Andrew Dudum We were working with IVP, and as you mentioned, Josh Kushner at Thrive, Redpoint, Kirsten Green at Forerunner.
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
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Jesse's raised close to ten million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the business and old friends of the show, including Satya at Homebrew, Kirsten at Forerunner, the team at Spark Capital, Lowercase, and…
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
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to the wonderful Yuri at Forerunner for the intro to Leah today, without which this episode would not have been possible.
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
- ▶ 13:19 Harry Stebbings Uh, we had Kirsten Green on the show from Forerunner, and she said that Amazon does more to make a market opportunity than to crush it.
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
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Last year, Kirsten Green was announced as one of the most downloaded episodes of the year, and today I'm thrilled to release our episode with her partner, Yuri Kim, general partner at Forerunner Ventures, the early stage firm dedicated to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:35 Eurie Kim Institutionalizing her investing activities in the early stage commerce space and her vision for the future in that sector, I was super hooked and, you know, let her know that I wanted to stay in touch if she ended up raising the fund,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:02 Harry Stebbings But before we dive into the exciting trends that you're pursuing in consumer, every fund has to have a thesis and a construction model, and Michael Kim at Sendana asks, given consumer and e-commerce brands maybe don't attain the same…
- ▶ 7:35 Harry Stebbings I'd love to hear your thoughts on the required ownership to move the needle for a fun like Forerunner and how you think about that internally. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:58 Harry Stebbings Does Forerun actively think about whether a potential investment would be something an incumbent CPG or retailer would buy, or is that not a kind of mindset that's on the table?
- ▶ 28:03 Harry Stebbings A much loved and respected individual in the venture ecosystem, and if you'd like to see more from Yuri, you can on Twitter, at Yuri underscore Kim, and I do want to thank the whole Forerunner team for being so fantastic with me and the…
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
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised close to thirty-five million dollars in VC funding from some of the best in the business, including past guests on the show Kirsten Green at Forerunner, Index Ventures, IVP, and our friends at Thrive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:10 Harry Stebbings Huge thank you to Kirsten at Forerunner and Roseanne at IVP for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Henry.
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
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Forerunner Ventures, where she's raised over two hundred and fifty million dollars from leading investors, and has invested in more than 40 early stage companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:39 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so I'm now very honored to hand over to Kirsten Green, founding general partner at Forerun Adventures.
- ▶ 3:09 Harry Stebbings I'd love to get started, though, today, by discussing how you made your way into the world of venture and came to found the incredible institution that now is Forerunner. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:43 Harry Stebbings That's a fantastic reason, but I have to start today, then, with a question from a brilliant LP, Michael Kim at Sendana, who asked a bit of a nitty-gritty question about, obviously, e-commerce investing, where Forerunner is the prominent…
- ▶ 9:32 Harry Stebbings But if we were to move, say, from the nitty-gritty economic aspect of the fund to the specialization that's inherent within Forerunner, I've got a question from David Patman at Venrock. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:20 Kirsten Green So that's a nod to say that Forerunner went to market as a thematically dedicated investment fund as opposed to a stage-specific investment fund, and I think we're going to continue to kind of explore how that translates over to our fund…
- ▶ 26:19 Harry Stebbings I couldn't agree with you more, and I'm very excited for Package's future, uh, and Forerunners, uh, but as I said to you before the interview, I have never had so many people recommend one guest.
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
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Package recently raised a six million dollar Series A, led by the fantastic Kirsten Green at Forerunner and Google Ventures, or GV.