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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.