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The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings David Frankl is one of the best from Founder Collective.
- ▶ 6:36 David Frankel There's, from smart entrepreneurs, there's almost this knowledge of, they may abandon me, and then having FC in my back pocket could be useful.
- ▶ 23:42 David Frankel But I think a few entrepreneurs have thought about that, and I think there's a little bit out in the zeitgeist going, FC is a great insurance policy.
- ▶ 40:59 David Frankel So, look at Fund Two. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:01 David Frankel Forget Fund 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:16 Harry Stebbings What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started Founder Collective?
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:05 Harry Stebbings I mean, I, I turned down sooner when David Frankl at Founder Collective introduced me at The Seed.
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:52 Gokul Rajaram Uh, Trade Desk where I'm on the board had two seed investors, uh, IA Ventures, Roger Ellenberg, who's absolutely a goat, and then, uh, Founder Collective, again, goat firm, both of them. 4 times in the scene
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:27 Zachary Bookman I don't know if you follow the Founder Collective guys at all, but, uh, David Frankl is like one of my biggest buddies. 3 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:09 David Frankel This was pre-founder collective saying, we have lost our money.
- ▶ 24:37 David Frankel Fund, our Fund Three is a 20 18 vintage. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:00 David Frankel So in our last fund, in fund five, we had one 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:16 David Frankel I was so lucky, and by the way, Lou, this was a pre-FC investment.
- ▶ 1:20:50 David Frankel I was in it with Bain Capital, pre-Founder Collective.
- ▶ 1:24:50 Harry Stebbings What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started Founder Collective?
- ▶ 1:27:03 David Frankel Take up the offer to start Founder Collective with Eric.
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:46 Harry Stebbings When, you know, I think it was Founder Collective that led the first round in Excel.
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from, especially the team at Founder Collective, but thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 3:43 Harry Stebbings Cause you obviously were at Founder Collective for three years and worked with the team there. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:00 Chris Dixon It's funny you bring it up because like with founder collective, this was always a question and like early seed fund, like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:27 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you on the, on the flip side of that, you mentioned kind of going back to the early days of founder collective there and their preference for no reserves. 2 times in the scene
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:28 Roger Ehrenberg And we, we worked on that deal with Founder Collective. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:49 Jason Lemkin And, you know, I, and I love, we, we briefly touched on that when we did the round table with founder collective.
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:14 Jason Lemkin Tell me 40, fifty million dollar fund and founder collective, a twenty billion dollar fund.
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:01 Harry Stebbings Founder Collective as well are very, very good.
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:11 Hunter Walk Like we work just as much with founder collective and box group and these folks who, you know, we've always been very close with.
- ▶ 34:52 Harry Stebbings It's not even like a founder collective, like we're staying disciplined.
20VC: Scaling to $122M ARR IPO with $6M in Net Burn, Olo. The Ultimate Journey of Capital Efficiency, What Worked, What Did Not Work and How Leaders Need To Reshape Thinking Around Resource and Attention Allocation
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Noa raised from some of the best in the business, including David Frankel at Founder Collective, Danny Meyer, Scott Schleifer at Tiger Global, all on the cap table.
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from David at Founder Collective, from, obviously, Scott at Tiger, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 25:29 Noah Glass In addition to founder and CEO of Olo, a founder partner at Founder Collective, and you've talked to David and sort of know about the philosophy that I know you share, Harry, around being scrappy and not taking on too much capital.
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings This guest has been there for me throughout my entire journey, and he's one of the wisest mentors and advisors I could have asked for, and so I'm thrilled to welcome David Frankel, co-founder and managing partner at Founder Collective, one… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings But that is quite enough from me, so now I'm very, very excited to hand over to the wonderful David Frankel, co-founder at Founder Collective.
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings It's amazing how far a posh British accent gets you, but I do want to start with a little bit of context, and then we're really going to dive in pretty fast, but you know, how did you make your way into the world of investing, and how did… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:19 Harry Stebbings Coming from that background, how did you decide to structure the decision-making that you have with Founder Collective?
- ▶ 12:15 David Frankel You know, in 2009, when Founder Collective got started, you know, I'd say there were very few competitors, very 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:52 David Frankel Harry, we could sound almost anachronistic because we've kept the fund size pretty much the same for the last 12 years now through FC one, two, three, four. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:40 David Frankel Some of our fund, we've got the amount of companies active in fund one still blow me away. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Whoop Founder, Will Ahmed on How CEOs Can Perform at their Highest Level, Why There is Value in Struggle Early On, Why Realism is Overrated in Startups and How To Create a Culture of Delegated Decision-Making
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Will has raised over four hundred million dollars for Whoop, with the last round valuing Whoop at 3.6 billion dollars, and with a cap table including the likes of SoftBank, Accomplice, Founder Collective, Foundry Group, IVP, and…
20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings To date, Howie's raised over a hundred and seventy million dollars from some of the best in the business, including, check this out, Benchmark, Thrive, Code Two, Caffeinated, Founder Collective, CRV, and Freestyle, to name a few.
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Focus purely on pre-seed, and prior to co-founding Afford, Gurav was a principal at Founder Collective, where he was directly involved with some incredible companies, including Cruise, acquired by General Motors for a billion dollars,…
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from the team at Founder Collective, but thank you so much for joining me today. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:23 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask you, you said about your time there with Founder Collective, my love for David, Eric, and Micah is very well known. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings So Keith Raboy, Reid Hoffman, Founder Collective, Felicis, Andreessen, and Thrive, just to name a few.
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings As I said, I feel like I know you well already, having heard so much from Micah at Founder Collective, Gary and Alexis at Initialize, and Sundeep at Felicis.
20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- ▶ 13:01 Harry Stebbings You know, I, I love you, and I think the world of you and Circle Up, but this next one made me interestingly irate, which is when I saw on Twitter, you tweeted, micro VC funds, and the element of them having small funds because they just…
20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings So with that in mind, I'm thrilled to welcome back David Frankel, managing partner at Founder Collective, one of the leading seed funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Uber, PillPack, Coupang,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:25 Harry Stebbings That's L-A-T-T-I-C-E dot com forward slash two zero VC, but that's quite enough from me, and so now I could not be more excited to welcome back David Frankel, managing partner at Founder Collective.
- ▶ 4:35 David Frankel That led to another 20, and before Founder Collective, I invested in about 29 US-based companies with differing outcomes, some of which are going very, very strong still, many of which we've been able to sell, but that was really FC zero,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:57 Harry Stebbings You mentioned that kind of V-one of Founder Collective. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:15 David Frankel Um, Elliot is a technologist who is drawn to medicine, so our massively unfair advantage was that, uh, Pahl Singh, who is a principal at Founder Collective, was a summer associate, and when she was, she was at Sloan at MIT, and when she…
- ▶ 22:19 David Frankel You know, the, we don't have a problem at Founder Collective with raising capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 Harry Stebbings What's the highlight of the Founder Collective journey so far?
20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Joe has raised over sixteen million dollars in funding for Joy Mode from friends of the show, including Homebrew, Slow Ventures, Founder Collective, Scott Belsky, Collaborative Fund, and Lowercase, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings To date, Jack has raised over one hundred and sixty million dollars in VC funding with SeatGeek, from the likes of John Lockhart at Excel, Founder Collective, TCV, and most recently a fifty seven million dollar series deal led by Glyn… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to David and Eric at Founder Collective, but thank you so much for joining me today, Jack.
- ▶ 4:04 Harry Stebbings Today, actually on you and on the theme of skills and hiring, really, and I was lucky enough to chat to both John at Excel and David at Founder Collective before the show, and they both mentioned a certain element to me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:36 Harry Stebbings How have you seen the process differ from, say, the very early stages with the founder collectives of this world to maybe the much later stages with the excels and the growth rounds that you've seen? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:01 Harry Stebbings Jack, as I said, I heard such great things from David at Founder Collective.
- ▶ 27:19 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic guest Jack was to have on the show, and a huge thanks to him for giving up the time today, and to John at Excel, and David and Micah at Founder Collective for the fantastic questions.
20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings From many friends of the show, including Tim at Redpoint, Patricia at Trinity, Eric at Founder Collective, and Ian at Goldman Sachs, just to name a few.
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
- ▶ 2:02 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Alfred at Sequoia and Mika at Founder Collective for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Nadia.
- ▶ 7:56 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Alfred and Mika at Founder Collective earlier in the show. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:27 Nadia Boujarwah I'd be interested to hear what Micah said changed his mind, but, you know, by the time that we had Founder Collective reemerged in conversations, the business was already doing millions of dollars in run rate revenue, and the leap of faith…
- ▶ 23:44 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic guest Nadia was to have on the show there, and again, a big thank you to Mika at Founder Collective, Rob Go at NextView, and Alfred Lin at Sequoia, all for the introductions.
20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
- ▶ 12:20 Harry Stebbings I, I recently had Mika Rosenblum on the show from, or Micah Rosenblum from Founder Collective, and he stated, uh, his annoyance that the requirement for startups now to be unicorns, and that 102 hundred million dollar exits were still a…
20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 7:12 Harry Stebbings Founder Collective and his model of not following on in investments because he thinks it misaligns the founders to the VCs. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Therefore, though, today I'm thrilled to welcome Micah Rosenblum, managing partner and founder collective, one of the leading seed funds in the world, with, check this out, investments in Uber, BuzzFeed, MakerBot, PillPack, Coupang, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:27 Harry Stebbings But now, it's time to dive into the show with the one and only Micah Rosenblum, managing partner and founder collective.
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings Well, that is immensely kind of you, but I do want to start today with a little about you and how you made your way from Hollywood agent to one of the leading VCs now with, with Founder Collective. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:54 Harry Stebbings To what extent do you, do you kind of develop that conviction thesis and stress test it within, within Founder Collective?
- ▶ 14:34 Micah Rosenbloom Because, you know, for example, we invested in Periscope, which sold to Twitter and they didn't take much money before they sold. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:59 Harry Stebbings What's your biggest challenge in your daily role now with Founder Collective?
- ▶ 25:50 Harry Stebbings And again, a huge hand to Micah for giving up his time today to appear on the show, and so thankful to Eric Paley and David Frankel at Founder Collective for the intro to Micah today, without which the episode would not have been possible.
20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Now, for those that don't know, B-Twelve is the startup that uses artificial intelligence to superpower their team of world-class creatives to create even more intelligent websites, and they have backing from the likes of Jim Breyer,…
20VC: The 3 Things LPs Want To See From VCs & Why The Table Stakes For VCs Is Higher Than Ever with Judith Elsea, Co-Founder @ Weathergage Capital
- ▶ 27:05 Judith Elsea So that's, I, I think that's really wonderful, but, but besides yours, I would say that, you know, I read and listen to many of them, but on the VC side, I would say, you know, I love the content produced by a, um, if you haven't read the…
20VC: Why Valuation Is A Stupid Concept, VC Is Ripe For Disruption & Not All LPs Are Made Equal with Michael Skok, Founding Partner @ Underscore VC
- ▶ 4:45 Harry Stebbings Uh, ever since having, uh, the chapters from Founder Collective on the show, uh, Eric and David, because they, they have alignment.
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Michael is the founder and managing partner of Sendana Capital, a fund of funds which invests in seed funds, and it seems we've stalked his portfolio with our previous VC guests, who include SoftTech, Freestyle, Founder Collective,…
20 VC 089: Eric Paley @ Founder Collective on Outliers, Inspirational Founders and Pro Rata
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Hello, and welcome to the 20 Minute VC and Session Two of our very special feature of Founder Collective, following from our incredible episode with David Frankel on Monday. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:47 Harry Stebbings Yeah, I'd love to hear then how you made, how you made the move from being acquired with them to then found a collective. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:47 Harry Stebbings And with this kind of really serious and genuine founder alignment that you have at Founder Collective, does it slightly irritate you to see so many VCs call themselves founder friendly?
20 VC 088: David Frankel @ Founder Collective: The Most Founder Friendly VC in Existence
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings It is, of course, Founder Collective, with investments in the likes of Uber, Chris Dixon's Hunch, About.me, MakerBot, and many, many more incredible companies. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to welcome the legend, David Frankel, managing partner at Founder Collective.
- ▶ 2:03 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to kick off today's show by discussing your route into venture and how you've come to be at the Founder Collective today. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:05 Harry Stebbings How do you at Founder Collective manage to do that then?
- ▶ 16:19 Harry Stebbings And then one of the companies that is in the FC portfolio is obviously Uber.
- ▶ 26:07 Harry Stebbings And stay tuned for part two of Founder Collective further this week when we are joined by fellow managing partner Eric Paley on Wednesday.