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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Fred Wilson comes up
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.
20VC FF 035: Why Crowdfunding Is Not Right For Tech Startups with Ryan Caldbeck @ CircleUp
- ▶ 22:18 Ryan Caldbeck The blogs that I like the most are AVC, it's Fred Wilson's blog,
Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage
- ▶ 6:02 Harry Stebbings Fred Wilson.
- ▶ 23:56 Martin Mignot I mean, there are quite a few, but I think the one that, that, that's kind of been shaping my, and probably a lot of people's, uh, investment thesis is, is obviously Fred Wilson. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?
- ▶ 29:37 Fred Destin So, you find that most VCs, like, Brad Feld, and Fred Wilson, and me, and a bunch of others, we all go like, hey, it was awesome to meet you, we're prioritizing other stuff.
- ▶ 36:10 Fred Destin Uh, when, I mean, I love Freddie and the boys at USV, you know, just that whole crew actually, uh, you know, Andy, Fred, and so forth, that just, just got the model right in terms of being good investors, but being incredibly 2 times in the scene
20 VC: Investing in Hardware and The Future of IOT with Kate Shillo, Director @ Galvanize Ventures
- ▶ 16:46 Harry Stebbings How do you respond to the likes of Fred Wilson, uh, stating consumer mobile is very difficult, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:22 Kate Shillo Probably CB Insights, uh, Benedict Evans, and, um, Fred's blog, Fred Wilson.
20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO
- ▶ 18:16 Harry Stebbings Um, so how do you respond then to, to Fred Wilson's post about the mobile downturn, downtown, sorry, and, and the difficulty in attaining and maintaining traction for mobile apps?
- ▶ 28:31 David Tisch Fred Wilson, I think, and, um, you know, he's the, he's the icon in New York. 2 times in the scene