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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.