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Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:07 Mitchell Green Uh, ByteDance today at five 50, which is, you know, where it's been reported that, like, General Atlantic is selling a bunch, and there's other people, and we've been offered higher than that, and so I think it's always like, what is the…
- ▶ 54:29 Mitchell Green I think GA probably, so I guess probably these people can.
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:39 Philipp Freise Which, uh, GA Associates had basically built up to a certain scale, and then they sold 50% to us.
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:14 Harry Stebbings So the one thing I do know is I know the general Atlantic team very well, who also were part of this round, and they also took part in the Sheehan round and landed at a hundred billion dollars.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:10 Harry Stebbings I spoke to him from General Atlantic.
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:52 unnamed speaker I'm not trying to flatter them, but, uh, uh, and my answer is honest, but I was really impressed by General Atlantic, and, uh, at the end of this process, we had, uh, five bidders, and I had a really big hope that General Atlantic would… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:23 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Jessie at GA before this.
- ▶ 1:05:59 Dmitry Gurski Uh, I'm very motivated by the story of, uh, founder of General Atlantic, Chuck Flynn. 3 times in the scene
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:56 Imran Khan That was in 2007, August of 2007, and General Atlantic, which is not public market, but, uh, Tiger came in.
20VC: Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley and Orlando Bravo on "Does Price Matter"; When to Pay Up vs When to Stay Disciplined, The Biggest Lessons on Price Discipline from 8 of the World's Best Investors
- ▶ 14:18 Harry Stebbings Let's stay in the world of later stage financing, and I want to move to one of the biggest, General Atlantic and their president, Martin Escobari.
- ▶ 15:17 Harry Stebbings If we move from one funding powerhouse in the form of General Atlantic to another in the form of Toma Bravo, I'd love to hear your thoughts, Orlando Bravo, on how you think about price today.
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:40 Harry Stebbings How did General Atlantic take that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:48 Harry Stebbings You then decide at some point specifically in 20, 22 to raise cash from GA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:12 Harry Stebbings And then GA paid 10 times that? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:34 unnamed speaker When our PokerStars investor, you know, the Sheinberg family, when they exited to GA, I said, I am going to block this transaction as hard as I can, unless 4 times in the scene
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:32 Marcelo Claure You know, I have a lot of respect for GA. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:25 Marcelo Claure Series B, Series C, GA, ourselves, QED, and a few others, and now we need, you know, the pre-IPO and the IPO rounds, but I'll tell you something, you're never gonna get there
20VC: What are the World's Tech Leaders Running From? Fear? Insecurity? Poverty? What Drives the Best with Orlando Bravo, Bill Ackman, Dara Khosrowshahi, Parker Conrad, Tobi Luttke, Brian Armstrong and more..
- ▶ 23:16 Harry Stebbings Now the final one, Martin Escobari at General Atlantic again on what he is running from.
Bill Ackman: SVB Collapse; Biden vs Trump; How I Lost $400M on Netflix; Bill's 10-Year Long | E991 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:24 Bill Ackman I had worked for a company called General Atlantic, uh, real estate, which was a real estate, uh, private equity subsidiary of the well-known, you know, kind of venture firm. 2 times in the scene
Jackie Reses & Kris Dickson: What Happened with SVB? Are VCs to Blame? | E988 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:39 Jackie Reses Well, there was one dynamic that I thought was very unusual, and I think part of the straw that broke the camel's back, and SVB went out and made an announcement that they were doing a five hundred million dollar capital raise with General…
Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings So now, co-president of GA, where did it start, and how did you make your way into the world of venture? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:50 Martin Escobari We have 42 years of data at General Atlanta, and we've done over 400 transactions.
- ▶ 15:23 Martin Escobari We've seen it enough times at GA that we build guardrails to protect ourselves from the, the siren songs of this fake bull market, uh, and, uh, and not do silly things like a lot of our competitors did.
- ▶ 18:12 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, what did you do within GA to prevent yourself falling victim to the same hype, excitement, and FOMO that everyone else 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:31 Harry Stebbings We're running rampage on growth and actually winning good deals often, but beating a lot of, I'm sure they didn't beat GA, but, you know, beating a lot of great growth players because of speed and price.
- ▶ 28:39 Martin Escobari The fair price, when you were competing against SoftBank and over the last three years, and you've talked to people who've become partners of GA over the last three, four years, which was crazy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:24 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, how does GA make decisions? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:27 Martin Escobari As a firm, we lose money two percent of the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:33 Martin Escobari David had worked at GA. 2 times in the scene
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:30 unnamed speaker I think even our, our, our growth investors at, you know, General Atlantic and T-Row, I think that what was, um,
- ▶ 16:27 Julio Vasconcellos And I remember, you know, very clearly, um, that, that GA, um, sent in a couple of analysts that they basically kind of lent us to come work with us for a couple of months.
- ▶ 48:45 Julio Vasconcellos And those are names like, you know, you know, General Atlantic, uh, Riverwood, you have some of the, the sovereigns like GIC and Temasek that have been here for a long time and they're not leaving.
dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich: The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | 20VC #926 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings I heard great, great things from Oran Zeve and from the team at, um, General Atlantic.
- ▶ 12:46 Sebastian Kanovich We were profitable, but some, an outside investor, General Atlantic in this case, came in and told us, guys, you have an amazing company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:30 Sebastian Kanovich And so when we were going public, uh, GA was very instrumental and other investors were very instrumental and saying, this is how your finance team will look.
- ▶ 30:06 Sebastian Kanovich EGA there played a very important role calling us and said, guys, there's a window for you.
Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:25 Harry Stebbings Um, you know, they're not doing growth capital, and then you've got, you know, General Atlantic, sure, but I mean, that's split between, you know, doing, you know, a billion in shine at a hundred billion in Asia, and, you know, doing… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Including Excel, General Atlantic, Capital G, IVP, and Warburg Pincus, to name a few.
20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
- ▶ 0:01 Harry Stebbings This is TwentyVC with me, Harry Stebbings, and there's some lovely synchronicity to the shows this week, as we had Anton Levy at General Atlantic on the show earlier this week, and Anton led the deal and sat on the board of this incredible… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:02 Anthony Casalena And then straightforward to, you know, you mentioned Anton, the general Atlantic investment, a little bit of primary, but only a lot of secondary again.
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings Anton is co-president, managing director, and global head of General Atlantic's technology sector. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:51 Harry Stebbings But it's now time of the show, and I'm so thrilled to welcome Anton Levy at General Atlantic Three, two, one, zero.. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:22 Anton Levy I've been lucky in many, many different ways across my life and career, but in particular, joining at the time I joined, which was in 1998, I still got to see the beginning almost pre the dot-com mania, and I got to see the old General… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:05 Anton Levy And so if you are a Sequoia, and you're a Doug Leone, and you can get access to the Series A at Airbnb, you know, Doug is probably saying, why are we letting General Atlantic into Airbnb, you know, to do the 355 hundred million dollar… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:10 Harry Stebbings Is that what you want to build with GA?
- ▶ 32:02 Harry Stebbings You know, you've built an incredible culture at GA, and many of your founders said it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:17 Anton Levy You know, I'd say my closest advisor, original principal, is at General Atlantic, and what he taught me, he said two things that when I mentioned to you, Harry, you're going to roll your eyes and say, that's the dumbest advice I've ever… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- ▶ 25:36 Marcelo Claure I used to like it a little more two years ago when we were the only show in town fighting GA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:16 Harry Stebbings As you said, two years ago, just you and GA.
20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures
- ▶ 10:00 Nicolas Szekasy Gradually, in 2006, seven, some funds like Tiger, GA,
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings David also sits on the board of Current, Greenlight, and WorkRise, and prior to Andreessen, David spent seven years growth investing at General Atlantic, where he invested in the likes of Airbnb, CrowdStrike, Opendoor, Slack, and Uber.
- ▶ 3:31 David George Eventually, I moved to San Francisco in 2008, where I started to, you know, first encounter the world of tech, and I joined General Atlantic about 10 years ago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:17 Harry Stebbings So do you have to touch on the GA time there? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:30 David George We turned it down based on price when I was at GA.
- ▶ 20:12 David George It used to, I remember when I started at GA, it would be like, okay, a company's raising money
- ▶ 23:14 David George And like I, the first time I did that, I still remember, I mean, it's not, it was not a single, single trigger puller model at GA,
20VC: Nubank CEO David Velez on Scaling Nubank to a $25BN Company, Why What Makes a Great Founder Does Not Make a Great CEO & The Responsibility Framework and How Leaders Can Use It To Drive Efficiency
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Before changing the world of LATAM Finance, David was a partner at Sequoia, where he was responsible for all LATAM investments, and prior to Sequoia, David was the co-founder of General Atlantic's South American investment program.
- ▶ 4:27 David Vélez I ended up doing that for two years, both working at Sequoia, helping them think through opportunities in Latin America and tech investing, which is what I had done before for General Atlantic, but always thinking about it on the other…
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 6:40 Joe Lonsdale General Atlantic is a great firm. 4 times in the scene
20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital
- ▶ 6:02 Sean Seton-Rogers Uh, gosh, uh, Carna raised money, uh, last year from Sequoia and General Atlantic, and BlaBlaCar raised from LeadEdge as well, and Funding Circle raised from Union Square.