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20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 43:21 Harry Stebbings And on top of that, you had Sequoia, you had Paradigm, you had GC, you had Katie Horne's new fund, you had Electric, you had all these billion dollar funds.
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 51:41 Avichal Garg Folks like Chris Dixon, and Marc Andreessen, and Josh Kushner, and Haymont over at General Catalyst, and Ray at Caffeinated.
20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings Prior to their IPO earlier this year, Will raised over 1.7 billion dollars for the company from some of the best in the business, including Excel, Index, General Catalyst, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:42 Harry Stebbings One is when I spoke to Fred beforehand, he mentioned you were raising, I think it was about two hundred and fifty million dollars from the bridge points and the general catalyst of the world. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- ▶ 3:46 Nick Shalek I'd been an investor earlier in my career at Yale investments and then had been part of a team focusing on incubations at general catalyst in Boston.
20VC: Ramp's Eric Glyman on Why You Should Never Take The Highest Price, Working With Venture Funds vs Crossover Funds and How To Determine What To Buy vs Build as a Founder Today?
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Prior to changing the game of spend management, Eric founded Paribus, the price tracking app that raised seed funding from General Catalyst and Greylock, and was ultimately acquired by Capital One in 2016.
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Prior to their 3.2 billion dollar acquisition by Twilio in 2020, Peter raised over two hundred and eighty three million dollars for Segment from Excel, Thrive, Meritech, GV, General Catalyst, and Kleiner Perkins, to name a few.
20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To date, Matan has raised over two hundred and fifty four million for Melio from the likes of Excel, Bessemer, Aleph, Cotu, and General Catalyst, to name a few.
20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Prior to, mm, Phil was a Managing Director at General Catalyst, and prior to his time in Venture, Phil most famously founded Evernote, where he led the business with phenomenal success as CEO for over eight years.
- ▶ 16:47 Phil Libin So I was a general catalyst and it's a, it's a really amazing team.
20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 0:07 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Quentin Clark, Managing Director at General Catalyst, one of the most prominent firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Stripe, Airbnb, Snap, Angeril, Deliveroo, and Kazoo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:36 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough from me, so now I'm very excited to hand over to Quentin Clark, Managing Director at General Catalyst.
- ▶ 2:52 Harry Stebbings As I said before, I'd heard so many great things from Joel Cutler, from Shashir, from Brent at Camus, from Hamant at GC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:06 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you make your way into the world of venture, and how did you come to be an MD at GC today? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:08 Harry Stebbings You know, obviously now on the other side of the table with GC, you know, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:40 unnamed speaker In terms of, you said that about kind of making the first few investments, what, seven or eight from GC now.
- ▶ 15:38 Quentin Clark I'm really lucky in that when I came in, I was already on a couple of boards for GC portfolio companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:20 Quentin Clark I'm new to this job, and I'm learning, and one of the things I like to do when I'm learning something new is surround myself with people who are good at those jobs and are willing to teach, and so I feel pretty good about how I'm kind of…
- ▶ 34:25 Harry Stebbings My word, I just loved having Quentin on the show there, and such an exciting time ahead for him with the GC team.
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 11:36 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Catherine Boyle at General Catalyst before the show.
20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings I'm so excited to welcome Catherine Boyle, partner at General Catalyst, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Stripe, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:22 Harry Stebbings But now it's time for the show, and I can't wait to introduce Catherine Boyle, partner at General Catalyst.
- ▶ 3:54 Harry Stebbings And how did you make your way into the world of venture and come to be a partner today at GC? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:42 Katherine Boyle It's interesting because I think the biggest takeaway for me from Founders Fund is also something that I really love about GC, and it's that they both believe as firms that there's no
- ▶ 23:12 Harry Stebbings You know, I had Joe from Loom on the show recently, which is a GC company that you did at Seed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:06 Harry Stebbings What's the hardest element of your role with general catalyst today?
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Palmer's raised over three hundred and eighty five million dollars with Andrill, from the likes of Founders Fund, Andreessen, Elad Gill, Spark, Lux, General Catalyst, and Eight VC, to name a few.
- ▶ 30:23 Palmer Luckey So since then we've been joined by a lot of other investors, you know, like General Catalyst and Lux and Andreessen Horowitz, Valor.
- ▶ 46:53 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I cannot wait to bring you an episode with Catherine Boyle, partner at General Catalyst,
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings To date, Shishir has raised over a hundred and forty million from some great names, including Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, NEA, and Homebrew, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:37 Harry Stebbings I've become the biggest fan of your writing over the last few weeks, I have to admit, but I've also heard many, many good things from Daniel at Spotify, and from Quentin at General Catalyst, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 49:53 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you a set of fantastic episodes next week with Catherine Boyle at General Catalyst and Palmer Luckey.
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
- ▶ 2:03 Harry Stebbings They've helped founders and early employees from companies like Stripe, Facebook, and Plaid, and partners at VC firms like Coastal and General Catalyst.
- ▶ 42:50 Harry Stebbings They've helped founders and early employees from companies like Stripe, Facebook, and Plaid, and partners at VC firms like Coastal and General Catalyst.
20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
- ▶ 2:16 Harry Stebbings Facebook and Plaid, and partners at VC firms like Coastal and General Catalyst, go to harnesswealth.com forward slash the 20 minute VC to sign up, plus 20 minute VC listeners can receive a hundred dollars off their first year fees when…
- ▶ 38:29 Harry Stebbings They've helped founders and early employees from companies like Stripe, Facebook, and Plaid, and partners at VC firms like Coaster and General Catalyst.
20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
- ▶ 2:21 Harry Stebbings Facebook and Plaid, and partners at VC firms like Coastal and General Catalyst, go to harnesswealth.com forward slash the 20 minute VC to sign up, plus 20 minute VC listeners can receive a hundred dollars off their first year fees when…
- ▶ 41:27 Harry Stebbings Harness helps tech employees and investors find the best solutions for their finances from navigating stock sales to receiving partnership K-ones, and they have the best advisors in the US, and they know this because they diligence them…
20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
- ▶ 27:40 Harry Stebbings Anyway, you know, you have General Catalyst in at the seed. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:11 Joe Thomas Yeah, I think that with our seed round being co-led by .9 and GC, Kristoff and .9 were incredibly gracious with, they originally put a term sheet on the table, it was exclusively to lead themselves, and after spending about a week on that… 7 times in the scene
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings Harness helps tech employees and investors find the best solutions for their finances, from navigating stock sales to receiving partnership K-ones, and they have the best advisors in the US, and they know this because they diligence them…
- ▶ 53:55 Harry Stebbings They've helped founders and early employees from companies like Stripe, Facebook, and Plaid, and partners at VC firms like Coastal Coaster and General Catalyst.
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
- ▶ 7:29 Sarah Kunst And when that is over, these 2018, 2019, and 20 20 funds, places like General Catalyst are still raising multi-billion dollar funds that they're announcing now.
20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings Mark Goldberg, Pejman at Pear, Iliar Kleiner, Bill Trenchard, and Hemant at GC for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 8:59 Misha Esipov My engagement with Index, with Kleiner, with General Catalyst, the
20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Several Sequoia partners, Hemond at GC, and Mamoon at Kleiner, to name a few.
- ▶ 3:19 Harry Stebbings I, I'm not sure I've ever quite heard so many great things from so many incredible people, from Peter Fenton to Emily Choi to Henry K at Brex to Henlon to GC, but I cannot thank you enough for joining me today, so I cannot wait for this…
20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To date, Toma and the team have raised over five hundred and twenty million dollars with Gusto from some of the industry's leading investors, including General Catalyst, Capital G, Clyde and Perkins, T-Row, Fidelity, and more, and then… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 Harry Stebbings I spoke to one of your fantastic investors before and him onto GC, and he said you have something called a values motivation alignment.
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 3:26 Harry Stebbings I mean, I feel like I know you so well, having heard so much from Kyle at GC, Alex at Clearbit, and so many more, so thank you so much for joining me today, Ash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Harry Stebbings So if that's kind of perfecting the accuracy around the AI model itself, in terms of the business model itself, I do want to touch on this, because before we dive into the really nitty gritty on business models, I spoke to Carl at General…
- ▶ 25:42 Harry Stebbings And it was Kyle at GC that said, you're a student of venture.
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 25:29 Harry Stebbings Speaking of that, Hemantin Asia, actually a general catalyst said, Harry, it's actually a third year transformational shift
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Justin has raised over seventy-five million dollars in funding from some of the best in the business for Atrium, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round, General Catalyst, Thrive, Initialized, and more.
20VC: Top 3 Considerations When Evaluating Consumer Businesses Today | 700 Meetings, 70 LPs, 2 Years, What It Takes To Raise a First Time Fund| The Power of The Female Network In Action Today with Anu Duggal, Founding Partner @ Female Founders Fund
- ▶ 17:51 Anu Duggal We do, you know, larger events that we co-host with funds like General Catalyst and Lightspeed.
20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings In its simplest words, Monzo is the bank of the future, allowing you to open a full UK bank account in minutes from your phone, and to date, Tom has raised over a hundred and ninety million dollars in VC funding for Monzo from the likes of…
- ▶ 23:36 Tom Blomfield It was led by General Catalyst, a guy called Adam Valkin, and Axel came in as a new investor alongside General Catalyst, a lady called Sonali de Riker. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:24 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a big thank you to Adam at GC, and Chia at Goodwater, for providing such fantastic questions.
20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund
- ▶ 36:48 Ron Bouganim But if you look at our portfolio, it's everyone from General Catalyst to Cowboy Ventures and all the rest.
20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings As for Phil, prior to AllTurtles, he was a managing director at General Catalyst.
- ▶ 3:50 Phil Libin Made the first serious startup in kind of 97, and sold it 20 minutes before the first dot-com crash, and then, uh, pulled the same team together for a second one, and then, uh, we all moved over to Evernote, uh, I was the co-founder and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:55 Harry Stebbings Likewise, a big hand to Nico Bonassos at GC for the fantastic questions and suggestions.
20VC: First Round's Phin Barnes on How The Best Founders Optimize for Learning Per Dollar Spent, What Makes A Truly Special Founder/VC Relationship and Why Pattern Recognition is Another Term For Intellectual Laziness
- ▶ 24:49 Harry Stebbings Taneja on from General Catalyst the other day, and he said that pro rata is a lazy mechanism for allowing you not to think about how much to put in.
20VC: Learnings From Backing The Likes of Spotify and Airbnb, The World of Growth Investing Today and The Right Way For Investors To Think About Liquidity with Woody Marshall, General Partner @ TCV
- ▶ 13:28 Harry Stebbings One trend that no one can deny is that with the likes of SoftBank, Sequoia, GC, Lightspeed, all announcing billion dollar funds in the last year.
20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
- ▶ 6:05 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, do you believe then, seeing that on both sides of the equation, the explosion of capital, do you believe that we maybe have an excess supply of capital today, or do you take the view of maybe Hemant and Asia at General Catalyst,…
20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn
- ▶ 8:35 Harry Stebbings Do you think that now we're in a stage where, again, that impending bust is coming with the likes of the SoftBank, Sequoia's new seven and a half billion fund, GC's new billion plus fund?
- ▶ 26:51 Barry Eggers I think it was probably Empira, which is a company that we invested in with the folks at General Catalyst, and we just did an A round with it.
20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings General Catalyst, CRV, ATVC, Aaron Levy, and more incredible names.
- ▶ 21:11 Elad Gil You know, General Catalyst has participated in big ways in companies like Stripe, and so I think some of these venture funds have really proven to themselves that the model works, and therefore they should continue to double down in very…
- ▶ 25:48 Harry Stebbings The other kind of dominant trend is the rise of mega funds from SoftBank to Sequoia to Lightspeed to General Catalyst, all billion dollar, or in SoftBank's case, multi-multi-billion dollar. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Fundraising Is Like Dating and How to Play The Game Successfully & How To Increase The Flexibility of Your Burn When Growth is Ambiguous with Rachel Blumenthal, Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Rachel's raised over nineteen million in VC funding from the likes of Kirsten Green at Forerunner, August Capital, General Catalyst, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Female Founders Fund, just to name a few.
20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- ▶ 22:54 Max Motschwiller I think on this growth or late stage world, the competition is coming bottoms up by these full stack venture firms, the likes of, you know, historically it was catalyst. 2 times in the scene
20VC: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on Why We Are In A Golden Age For VC, Why Pro-Rata Is A Lazy Posture and Why He Does Not Focus On Price
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings With more unicorns in his portfolio than I've done podcast episodes, I'm thrilled to welcome Henmont Taneja, Managing Director at General Catalyst, one of the world's leading venture firms for the last decade. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:31 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so I'm now thrilled to hand over to the man himself, Heymont Taneja, Managing Director at General Catalyst.
- ▶ 3:34 Hemant Taneja General Catalyst had just formed. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:42 Harry Stebbings So starting on the founder element, very much consider you're opening GC on the west coast a of founding experience. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:37 Hemant Taneja And I think if I look back at the successes, we've created a general catalyst. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:49 Harry Stebbings Well, as I said, I heard so many great things from four founders and multiple partners at GC, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 24:00 Harry Stebbings Just incredible to have him on the show there, and again, I want to say a huge thank you to him for giving up the time today to appear on the show, and a big hand to Nico Bonazzos at GC for making the introduction, without which this…
20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings To date, Paul has raised over forty four million dollars in funding with Lola from the likes of CRV, Excel, General Catalyst, and GV, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:14 Harry Stebbings You've raised from some of the true greats of the world of venture, from Mike at Sequoia, to Joel at GC, to GV, IVP. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:39 Paul English And when we, Steve Hafner, who was my co-founder at Kayak, when he and I started Kayak, really in the general catalyst office with Joel Cutler as our investor, and I do look at Joel as the third founder of Kayak, I didn't know at the time…
20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- ▶ 19:59 Trae Vassallo In fact, my husband, Steve, introduced the two of us a few years ago when they were at a basketball game together, and Neil had relayed to Steve that he was going to be leaving General Catalyst.
20VC: Why Strategic Investing Is Slow Motion M&A, Why Valuation Is The Hardest Element of M&A & What Determines Between Cash vs Stock Deals with Chad Richard, SVP of Business & Corporate Development @ Yelp
- ▶ 1:08 Harry Stebbings I'd also have to say a huge thank you to Nico Bonassos, the one and only at General Catalyst, for the intro to Chad today, without which this episode would not have been possible.
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Nico, General Catalyst, for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Chad.
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
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings Semmel's also a venture partner at GGV Capital, one of the leading multi-stage funds, and in the past, he's been a consultant to the likes of Kleiner Perkins, DFJ, General Catalyst, and more.
20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
- ▶ 14:49 Mario Schlosser I think we had a incredible moments in the very, very first pitch we ever did when Josh and I went up to a general catalyst, Joel Cutler, and we became the first kind of outside investor after a thrive and Josh put money in. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
- ▶ 26:16 Seth Bannon So, the co-investors on some of our last deals were Sequoia, Union Square Ventures, General Catalyst,
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
- ▶ 8:58 unnamed speaker Like I think my VC investors from my company, Color, Vinod Khosla, Joe Lonsdale, and Hemant from General Catalyst are all awesome.
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
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a big thank you to Nico Bonazos at General Catalyst for the intro to MZ today, without which this episode would not have been possible.
- ▶ 2:25 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Nico at General Catalyst for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, MZ.
- ▶ 8:42 Harry Stebbings Uh, Nico at General Catalyst is intrigued.
20VC: How Startups & VCs Can Build Relationships with Potential Corporate Acquirers? The Challenge Of Operating Both A B2B & B2C Business Model & Why Fundraising Is The One Element Founders Cannot Control with Gautam Gupta, Founder & CEO @ NatureBox
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings They've raised over fifty million dollars in VC funding from the likes of General Catalyst, Redpoint, Softbank, and many more incredible investors. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:05 Gautam Gupta I was really, really fortunate to join General Catalyst at the age of 18, if you can believe it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:14 Gautam Gupta But I, I had the good fortune of having great mentors across General Catalyst, Brad being, being one of them, but many other folks as well.
20VC: How To Test The Strength Of Co-Founder Relations, The Dangers Of Raising A Large Series A & Why The Biggest Challenge For Consumer Companies Is Finding The Second Big Hit with Rishi Garg, Partner @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 5:37 Rishi Garg And I was still kind of working part-time for Google, but I ended up becoming an entrepreneur in residence at General Catalyst Partners, which is another venture capitalist based right in Harvard Square, and these guys were being super… 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
- ▶ 28:19 Harry Stebbings I always love to hear your feedback, and I cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's episode with Phil Libin, partner at General Catalyst and founder at Evernote.
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
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings Having been highly recommended by pretty much everyone at General Catalyst, I'm thrilled to welcome Nitesh Banter, founder and CEO at 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:48 Nitesh Banta And I fortuitously met the folks at General Catalyst and just really resonated with the team. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:02 Nitesh Banta I think at GC, there's a really great cohort of associates and principals, and so we had a really great group of people to work with. 2 times in the scene