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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Fred Wilson comes up
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.