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Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:22 Mike Mignano I talked to my partner, Fred Wilson, got a shout out, Fred, one of the, one of the goats, and I asked him a question. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:15 Harry Stebbings You know why my job is just incredible is because I, yeah, I really am a student of this business, and by the way, you said shout out to Fred. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:00 Harry Stebbings If I were to ask you what are your biggest lessons now, having been in venture, in the same way that you asked Fred, what would you say they are?
- ▶ 1:05:23 Harry Stebbings What is your biggest lesson from working with Fred for the short time you have done? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:53 Harry Stebbings You work with Fred, who's obviously been around the block a few times.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:17 Paul Erlang We really liked Fred. 9 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:28 Gokul Rajaram I like Fred Wilson's strategy around selling, which is sell a third, hold a third and trade a third.
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:07 Martin Mignot You know, I, Fred Wilson's blog is the reason why I joined Venture, to be honest. 2 times in the scene
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:33 Taavet Hinrikus You know, there are some, some investors outside who are very vocal, you know, I think Fred Wilson has spoken a lot about taking some money off the table.
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:42 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, Fred Wilson, Flatiron was wildly unsuccessful in the dotcom crash, went on to do a new thing and killed it from day one, which is why it might also be a sensible bet.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:05 Harry Stebbings You're Fred Wilson's of the world, who is an incredible investor. 3 times in the scene
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:34 Cem Sertoglu Fred Wilson was the first person to tell me that I, he thought I might make a good 3 times in the scene
Zach Perret: Why ‘Founder Mode’ is the Most Dangerous Blog Post for Founders | E1215 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:07 Harry Stebbings I mean, Fred Wilson did this blog post on reserve utilization and the importance of reserves in early stage portfolios recently. 3 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:34 David Frankel So we were, we were the largest institutional pre-seed, and we co-led the seed with Fred.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:44 Harry Stebbings Don't know what Fred Wilson was before. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:57 Harry Stebbings But then Fred Wilson says, well, it loses where you build your reputation.
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:40 Chris Dixon It's like when they, when the entrepreneur meets with you, when you're in that, you know, if you're Fred Wilson doing, you know, consumer internet in 2005, you'll hear, you know, you heard the reason that, that Twitter picked him, you…
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:08 Roger Ehrenberg Fred, very selectively.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:45 unnamed speaker And, and yet you heard absolutely nothing from Fred Wilson on that day. 3 times in the scene
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:43 Albert Wenger Brad and I tried to raise a fund after the, you know, in the nuclear winter after the implosion of the dot-com bubble, uh, and then eventually Brad and Fred raised the fund, and, uh, they launched in 2004, and I joined in 2006.
- ▶ 49:12 Harry Stebbings Single biggest, biggest lesson from working with Fred.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:42 Semil Shah And so I think Fred has been on the record of just saying like, they just, you know, do a standard two and 20 on every fund.
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:24 Brian Armstrong These can be board members, you know, like Fred Wilson was an investor in our series A, and he's, he's still on our board to this very day. 6 times in the scene
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:37 Mo Koyfman Uh, you know, the other day, um, I was talking to one of my foremost mentors, Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures, and he literally was screaming at me on the phone 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:32 Harry Stebbings You've mentioned Fred Wilson there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:16 Mo Koyfman And Fred regularly, and the team at USB regularly, and they did it with us, and they did it with others, would split deals, like Fred split 5 times in the scene
Mike Chalfen: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | 20VC #904 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:29 Mike Chalfen Um, and actually a long time ago there was an ABC, a Fred Wilson blog about this, about selling Twitter on the way up.
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
- ▶ 16:31 David Frankel You've spoken to Brad, Fred, these incredible stalwarts.
20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 4:03 Roger Ehrenberg Terrific mentors of mine, like Fred Wilson, who started the ball rolling with some introductions, and I took it on as a full-time job, and, you know, in the next five years, seeded 40 companies, and sat on six boards, led six rounds, kind…
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 10:24 Michael Eisenberg You know, it follows right on Fred Wilson's blog
- ▶ 22:13 Michael Eisenberg Again, going back to Fred Wilson's blog posts where you have mediocre returns just because there aren't that many, you know, that hit escape velocity and you get to become the big ones.
20VC: Twilio's Jeff Lawson on What It Takes To Create a Tribe, How To Create Anti-Fragile Organisations Through Decentralised Decision-Making and Why Values Are Nice But Principles Are Better
- ▶ 15:08 Jeff Lawson And I remember I was talking to one of our investors, Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures, and Fred Wilson, his partner, and I was talking to them, and I was like, event that they were holding.
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 2:38 Harry Stebbings Heard so many great things from Greg at Upfront, Fred at USV, Howard Lindzen.
- ▶ 23:47 Mark Mullen Fred Wilson, for example.
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 39:37 Josh Silverman Well, I mean, Fred Wilson is the chairman of Etsy, and he's been an amazing partner for me.
20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
- ▶ 15:06 Harry Stebbings You know, as I said, spoke to Fred, and spoke to many people before the show, and they said, touch on the return to
20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings Before Reboot, Jerry was the co-founder of Flatiron, an early stage venture fund alongside Fred Wilson.
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 32:08 Harry Stebbings But then you also have the Fred Wilson's of the world that says, hey, your reputation are made on the failures.
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 14:41 Harry Stebbings Fred Wilson said, you know, you build wealth with great companies, and you build reputation with failed companies.
20VC: Brad Feld on Why Market Size At Early Stage Is Not Helpful, His Biggest Learnings From The Boom & Bust of The Dot Com and How The Best VCs Work For Their CEOs
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 29:19 Geoff Ralston Whether, uh, what Frederick said about market versus team, and I wish I knew how much I should pay attention to team versus anything else than as I do now.
20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- ▶ 9:38 Josh Kopelman Fred came in at 20 a few months later, and to make it even more painful, called me and said, you know, we're doing a round at 20, and I, I know I didn't take your term sheet of five, but if you want to put money in on this round, you can,…
20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 25:57 Leo Polovets And I guess maybe the last thing I'd say is there's a really great Fred Wilson quote where he talks about VCs making their money on their big winners, but the reputations on the companies that struggle.
20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
- ▶ 20:40 Harry Stebbings Obviously one big commentator on the space, Fred Wilson, stated that regulators must be careful to do no harm in this regard.
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 8:20 Jeff Fagnan You know, whether it's the Brad Feld, the Fred Wilson, the Jerry Colonna, the Brian and myself and what we're doing.
20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital
- ▶ 29:27 Peter Parker I don't know about frequently, but, you know, one that's kicking around in my head recently is, you know, back in September, Fred Wilson, in his blog, he quoted Brad Feld, who said that, you make money in winners, but you make friends in…
20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann
- ▶ 13:15 Harry Stebbings Jason Lemkin said to me before that if Fred Wilson and Bill Gurley had to hustle to get their best deals, how are you going to win?
20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- ▶ 11:38 Kevin Thau Fred Wilson and hearing their different approaches, and I think it comes down to you can either be a very thesis-driven venture capitalist like Fred, or you can be a very founder-driven venture capitalist like Bijan, and I think, you know,… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 14:13 Bing Gordon Fred Wilson is kind of the 4 times in the scene
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained
- ▶ 23:36 Semil Shah Yeah, this is going to be cliche, but I'll be wrestling with some issue, and I'll go back into the ABC catalog or a bookmark from Fred, and I almost feel like Fred is mentoring me through his blog. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- ▶ 22:34 Luis von Ahn You know, I really like Fred Wilson's blog.
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.
20VC: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun
- ▶ 13:41 Roger Dickey Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, you know, maybe it was Ron Conway.
20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
- ▶ 24:47 Kathleen Utecht I love Fred Wilson.
20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible
- ▶ 2:45 Andy Weissman This is kind of a weird question for me, because, you know, there's, there's one person that I know in the world that has explicitly stated that they always wanted to be in venture capital, and they kind of directed themselves into venture…
- ▶ 26:19 Harry Stebbings Obviously, can't be a USV, can't be Fred Wilson, which is fantastic, but what is your favorites?
20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- ▶ 22:13 Brian Armstrong I have a lot of, I do a lot of reading in that area, and I'm not sure, I mean, I do have some mentors, like, for example, Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures.
20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
- ▶ 20:09 Will Porteous You know, I read Fred Wilson religiously.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
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
- ▶ 17:01 Alex Mittal So Fred Wilson has a great, you know, I think it's 2002 predictions, and everyone's going to have an AI strategy.
20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- ▶ 29:15 Harry Stebbings And then Fred Wilson's consumer downturn, is it a fair assumption that it's an incumbency play now in the consumer market?
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
- ▶ 22:16 Roger Ehrenberg I would say probably Fred Wilson has been my, my greatest mentor. 6 times in the scene
20VC: The Radical Changes In Public Market Expectations, The Right Way To Assess Valuation & What It Means To Be A Disciplined & Diligent Investor with Randy Glein, Partner @ DFJ Growth
- ▶ 28:47 Randy Glein Friends of mine, Brad Feld and Fred Wilson, I've been reading their blogs religiously for more than a decade.
20VC: How 50% Of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, How To Build A Relationship Of Trust With Your VC and How Entrepreneurs Can Detect VC BS with Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 17:16 Harry Stebbings I had Howard Linzen on the show the other day, and he said his biggest lesson from, from speaking to Fred Wilson was the 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Brooklyn Bridge, Charlie worked at the prestigious first round capital with the likes of Josh Koppelman and Union Square Ventures with the likes of Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger.
- ▶ 3:36 Charlie O'Donnell That's the way I met, uh, the team at Union Square Ventures, Fred and Brad, when they were first launching their fund in 2004, which is getting on to be a longer time ago than I'm willing to admit.
20VC: Flexport's Ryan Petersen on Why Investor Relations Are Overrated, Why Boards Have To Be Rethought & Why MBAs Do Not Make Bad Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with your host, Harry Stebbings, and for all things visual and behind the scenes, you can follow me on Snapchat at hstebbings with two b's, or for longer form content that I've been describing as the birth child of…
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings Essentially, if Fred Wilson and Freakonomics were to have a love child, this blog would be the product.
20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings And for the blog, think of it as a cross between Fred Wilson and Freakonomics, bringing the fun, nerdy, and slightly naughty side to VC.
- ▶ 30:49 Harry Stebbings It's, uh, Fred Wilson meets Freakonomics, with a little hint of Sean Parker from time to time.
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 24:15 Harry Stebbings I, I always think back to Fred Wilson's blog on consumer downturn, and kind of the difficulties of building consumer businesses in today's kind of incumbent heavy environment.
- ▶ 29:19 Rick Marini I think Fred Wilson writes some awesome stuff.
20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Morgan, and before that, Jerry was a VC, having launched Flatiron Partners in 1996 with his partner Fred Wilson.
- ▶ 4:49 Jerry Colonna Eventually, in 96, the year you were born, um, Fred Wilson and I met through a mutual friend named Mark Pincus, best known, I guess, now for Zynga, and, um, we went into business and formed Flatiron Partners, and that's how I became a VC.
- ▶ 6:31 Jerry Colonna I went to Fred and I said, uh, in the spring of 2001, I said, I can't continue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:19 Jerry Colonna So, uh, I don't know if you caught Fred Wilson's blog post, uh, last week in which he spoke about caring and how, uh, after three decades in the venture business, uh, one of the things he's learned is that caring is one of the most… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:33 Jerry Colonna Fred and Brad every day, mostly because it's a way to stay connected to my friends.
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 11:44 Clinton Foy Are Fred Wilson and Brad Feld. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:26 Clinton Foy Uh, so I mentioned, uh, Fred Wilson and Brad Feld.
20VC: More $ Raised This Year Than The Past 15, War Chests Being Built & Decline In First Time Funds: So What The Heck Is Happening In Venture with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 23:13 Beezer Clarkson Fred Wilson wrote a blog recently called The Hard Raise, and it was just so great for so many levels, but one of the things it really brought home was that a hard raise can actually work out incredibly well, and he talked about how Union… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Adaptability Is Key To Fundraising, Why Supply Is Always The First Priority In Marketplaces & Why Sometimes You Have To Hire Fast & Fire Fast with Nav Athwal, Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares
- ▶ 25:41 Nav Athwal Bill's blog, but, uh, the two that I've kind of read since the beginning is, uh, AVC from, by Fred Wilson and both sides of the table by, uh, Mark Suster. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 6:30 Howard Lindzon So when I discovered Brad's blog, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, when I discovered their blog rules back in
- ▶ 15:03 Howard Lindzon I mean, uh, in 99, 2000, I'm sure Fred Wilson and Brad Feld and a lot of the VCs wish they understood the stock markets because they would have sold, because they could have sold.
- ▶ 17:07 Howard Lindzon Fred Wilson introduced me to Mark Pincus in 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:30 Howard Lindzon It would have been like, Hey, that one tip from Fred is like, you know, if I could turn back clock, I wouldn't have passed in 2007, 2008 was writing a lot of checks. 5 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 19:17 Harry Stebbings As you said, um, before, much like, uh, Fred Wilson did in unveiling the VC community 10 or so years ago.
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
- ▶ 23:48 Michael Skok You know, obviously, you've got people like Fred Wilson or, you know, many of the sort of founding fathers of industry who didn't have that chance, but the point is that if you've had the experience and you can help entrepreneurs and you…
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 24:05 Dave McClure Brad Feld and Fred Wilson have, uh, been sort of mentors and, you know, are small investors in our fund, and they've kind of been, you know, huge influences, I think.
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 22:53 Alex Bangash So on the one hand, I, I think some of the most authentic things that I've been seeing in the past decade, um, started with, with, with, uh, Fred Wilson.
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 3:47 Albert Wenger And so when Brad and Fred had started Union Square Ventures, uh, they started, uh, in two, three to fundraise and they launched the fund in two, four. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 9:03 Nabeel Hyatt So Fred Wilson, you know, and the guys over at Union Square publish all of their theses on their website, right?
- ▶ 23:36 Nabeel Hyatt I really love, and for a very long time, it won't be a surprise, but, um, Fred Wilson's blog. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital
- ▶ 22:12 Matt Turck You know, so starting, starting with the classics, you know, Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, Radfeld, and all those things, and I think that's, that's really, um, you know, part of, uh, what, what all of us should be reading on a, on a daily…
20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 14:41 Harry Stebbings Uh, and it, Fred Wilson said in the past how he always focuses on 90 day retention number.
- ▶ 28:23 Brian O'Malley That really tends to be what your focus on is, I think Fred Wilson said this as well, but, you know, your job as a founder, as a CEO, is to, you know, set the vision, hire the right people, and make sure you have enough money to operate.
20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next
- ▶ 9:43 Harry Stebbings And a lot of people, when they hear consumer software, think of Fred Wilson's post on the mobile downturn and how difficult it is for consumer mobile. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- ▶ 18:32 Rebecca Kaden I admire Fred Wilson and his ability to write so well and use that as a brand building tool and really connect with various markets and also institute focus.
- ▶ 22:51 unnamed speaker I love Fred Wilson's blog.
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