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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on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product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.