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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
- ▶ 27:04 Armon Dadgar 500 of the fortune 500, uh, partnering with us. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- ▶ 22:04 Jason Stoffer So I think you need to really look through, are you building something that's of deep need to the fortune 500 brands who are pounded on every analyst call asked about what's your digital strategy, or are you building something that can… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings Further with Affinity's alliances to connect with trusted people outside of your organization, so you can leverage their relationships to score coveted introductions or referrals, and that's why Fortune, 500 companies and hundreds of…
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?
- ▶ 1:20 Harry Stebbings Through patent-pending technology, Affinity is the only platform that analyzes your team's communication data and automatically creates the relationship graph you need to achieve your business priorities, and you can take it one step…
- ▶ 31:08 Harry Stebbings That's why Fortune, 500 companies and hundreds of top-tier VC firms already leverage Affinity to cultivate their most valuable relationships
20VC: The Biggest Trend Of Our Lifetime Is The Decentralisation of Entrepreneurship Away From The Valley, The Biggest Lessons From Learnings The Craft of VC at Sequoia & The Benchmarks Required to Attract Growth Investors with Chris Olsen, Founding Partne
- ▶ 12:31 Chris Olsen And it's on top of that has a 150 of the fortune, 500 companies here.
20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital
- ▶ 27:13 Steve Vassallo And we had led an investment back in our first fund, which was in a company called financial engines, which really pioneered some interesting retirement savings technology and paths to market for the fortune 1000.
20VC: Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz on The Lessons Learned Scaling Eventbrite to Unicorn Valuation & $3Bn in Gross Ticket Sales
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings Personally, though, Julia has won numerous awards, including Fortune's 40 Under 40, Inc's 35 Under 35, and Most Powerful Female Entrepreneurs by Fortune. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:50 Julia Hartz I love Adam Lashinsky from Fortune.
20VC: What Does It Take To Raise A Venture Fund Today, An Analysis of The Explosion of Seed Financing & Why IRR No Longer Takes Centre Stage with Samir Kaji, Senior Managing Director @ First Republic Bank
- ▶ 24:58 Samir Kaji Yeah, I, I'm, I'm a big fan of things like, you know, Fred Wilson, you know, Mark Suster, uh, and I also, you know, my daily reading is always the term sheet.
- ▶ 25:06 Samir Kaji It's fortune, and it's, uh, strictly BC.
20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital
- ▶ 22:48 Anthony Pompliano She's a reporter at a, at fortune.
20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 12:42 Leo Polovets But sometimes you might have, you know, sales cycles that are a year or two years because you're selling to banks or fortune 500 companies.
20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club
- ▶ 17:28 Alex Mittal Almost because we're in an AI summer, like, I absolutely think that every fortune 500 company has, like, consultants now figuring out how AI is going to potentially change their business.
- ▶ 27:01 Alex Mittal At Fortune, and, and you've got, uh, Mattermark Daily, and a whole slew of, of others.
20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, in 2014, Kevin was named to Fortune Magazine's prestigious 2 times in the scene
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 15:14 Josh Stein And so, Box today has about 66% of the Fortune 500 as our customers, uh, which would say, hey, we're, we're reasonably penetrated into those biggest enterprises.
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 1:21 Harry Stebbings Fortune, then that really is a must.
- ▶ 26:43 Harry Stebbings I have to say, when I read the article in Fortune, it was one of those moments where you, you really, in a lovely way, you really just hate you because you're the loveliest guy.
- ▶ 27:36 Harry Stebbings As I said, it was so fantastic to have him on, and you really must check out the article in Fortune on how Ryan juggles running a unicorn startup and juggling a family.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 3:50 Howard Lindzon 17 great years doing it i think four or five years ago when i started writing about how you know money is just being i would call it vanillized vanguard s&p makes sense the system's working money's flowing in to these vanguard simple…
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: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- ▶ 3:15 Karthik Sridharan One of the most interesting things he used to work on at Oliver Wyman was helping fortune 500 companies with their purchasing, helping them to improve how they found vendors, uh, managed purchasing, got quotes on big projects. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 27:22 Peter Pham Actually, the newsletter now, again, because I do, I raise money most of my days, uh, Dan Premack's fortune newsletter is awesome just because it
20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on Why "All Fund Size Models Are Wrong" and The Lifecycle of Current Venture Funds Is Inefficient?
- ▶ 19:47 Matt Ocko Final, final numbers, but we ask our companies, we measure our companies, not by net promoter score, as one of our colleagues, uh, likes to talk about, but by how much actual revenue they're making across how many durable fortune, 1000…
- ▶ 25:51 Matt Ocko They have almost a million discrete companies in a 140 countries worldwide, uh, from tiny companies in China up to a huge chunk of the fortune 100 addicted to their stuff.
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 24:33 David Cohen If you looked at their client list, it looks like the fortune 500.
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 4:27 Chris Douvos You'll, uh, watch Warren Buffett will buy the company and you'll be on the cover of Fortune magazine.
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!
- ▶ 6:32 Aydin Senkut Then I realized is that, hey, I, I represented Google, and I sold Google in 40 different countries, so what that really taught me is I can be in front of anyone, from a street beggar to a Fortune 50 CEO in any country, whose language I…
20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
- ▶ 15:24 Eric Hippeau A fortune 100 as a startup is way more difficult than to go start, you know, sell to a small business around the corner.
20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank
- ▶ 26:46 Samir Kaji Um, you know, I'm a big fan of pre-max blog, uh, on Fortune, you know, strictly VC.
20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
- ▶ 3:01 Patricia Nakache Um, in San Francisco, in Silicon Valley, and I served, um, a bunch of technology clients, and then in 1999, I left McKinsey, and I joined a startup briefly, um, but at the same time, I was actually writing freelance for Fortune Magazine. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
- ▶ 1:07 Harry Stebbings He was also a contributor to Wired, The New York Times, Fortune, Money, and many, many more publications, and one of BetaWorks' investments on the West Coast is the amazing Product Hunt, so you must check out Product Hunt's new podcast…
20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
- ▶ 7:29 Ezra Galston And while it may be slightly counterintuitive, what a lot of people don't realize is that a third of the entire Fortune 500 is right here in the Midwest. 2 times in the scene
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