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Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Unscripted: Pricing is Crazy, Pre-Emptive Rounds are Normal, Pricing at 200x Revenue Multiple is Common, There is More Cash Than Ever. What Happens Next; Market Analysis with Ryan Denehy, Founder and CEO @ Electric
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings With Electric, Ryan has raised over one hundred and eighty eight million dollars for the company from the likes of GGV, Bessemer, Slack,
- ▶ 3:05 Ryan Denehy Yeah, raised ninety million, led by GGV, and you know, all of our other insiders came in and got the round done, and yeah, really excited about it.
- ▶ 4:18 Ryan Denehy Like Bessemer led our Series A, GGV led our Series B and our Series D, Greenspring led our Series C. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:33 Ryan Denehy And like Jeff Richards from GGB, he and I talk about this a lot.
- ▶ 31:16 Ryan Denehy Primary, GGV, Bessemer, O-one Advisors, all the sort of big, big folks on our cap table, like, I picked them out very carefully because of the value add.
20VC: The Rise of Quick Commerce and Why CPGs ARe Misaligned Being Powered By Ad Spend, The 5 Core Components Consumers Care About When Ordering Today & Why Amazon and Alibaba Will Not Be The Big Players in 10 Years with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings But to our episode today, and on Monday we had Hans at GGV on the show, and he mentioned their latest investment in Joker, and I'm thrilled to have Ralph Wenzel, founder and CEO at Joker, join me in the hot seat today. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:04 Harry Stebbings The guest today has more unicorns in his portfolio than I have done podcast episodes, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome, and welcome back to the hot seat, Hans Tung, managing partner at GGV Capital, one of the leading venture firms…
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings But that is quite enough for me, so now I'm so excited to hand over to Hans Tung at GGV Capital.
- ▶ 3:29 Harry Stebbings We see the Midas list with you at the top of it, and I'd love to go back a little bit and go, how did you make your way into the world of venture, and how did you come to be a GP with GGV today?
- ▶ 15:08 Hans Tung I remember joining GGV in 2013, having discussion with Glenn, Jeff, and then my other partners, Ji Xun and Jenny at that time. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:27 Harry Stebbings What's the most challenging element of your role with GGV today?
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 27:39 Harry Stebbings I totally agree with you, and that takes me to something that actually I loved, and it was Jeff at GGV told me about the two to three pages he used to write pre-board meeting.
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Austin has raised over a hundred and twenty nine million dollars from some of the best in the business, including Stripe, Bedrock, GV, Giga Fund, and GGV, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Pre-Product Market Fit Is About Systems Design Not Engineering, The Right Way For Leaders To Approach Wartime Leadership Today & A Guide To Recruitment Forward Planning with Ryan Denehy, Founder & CEO @ Electric
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Rich at GGV, the team at Bessemer, Primary, Bowery, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:34 Harry Stebbings Firstly, it was Jeff at GGV, then also from your co-founder Rudd, Brad at Primary, and Bob at Bessemer.
- ▶ 31:14 Ryan Denehy Jeff from GGV, he had two companies.
20VC: Lime CEO Brad Bao on How Lime Assess The Micro-Mobility Landscape and Competition Today, What It Takes To Launch and Win A New City & Why Lime Have Spent $0 on Marketing To Date
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over seven hundred and seventy-five million dollars in funding from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, GV, IVP, Uber, our friends at Fifth Wall, GGV, Atomico, and Bain Capital Ventures, just to name a few.
20VC: Softbank Managing Partner, Jeff Housenbold on How Softbank Approach Portfolio Construction, Their Optimal Investment Decision-Making Process and What Excites Softbank Most In Opportunities Today
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings I do also have to say a huge thank you to Tina at Brandless, Eric Wood, Opendoor, and Glenn Solomon at GGV for providing some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 4:16 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Glenn at GGB to Eric at Opendoor, so a huge thank you to you for joining me today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:19 Harry Stebbings But we mentioned some of the people that we know mutually beforehand, and one being Glenn from GGV.
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Austin has raised over forty-eight million dollars with Lambda, from a personal favourite of mine, Bedrock and Jeff Lewis, GGV with Jeff from Monday's episode, GV, Stripe, and Ashton Kutcher, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings Now, Jeff is a managing partner at GGV Capital. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:18 Harry Stebbings But intro's now done, and I cannot wait to welcome Jeff Richards, managing partner at GGV Capital.
- ▶ 3:47 Harry Stebbings So tell me, Jeff, it's a very, very strange and wonderful world in many ways, but how did you make your way into the world of venture and come to be a GP at GGV today? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:36 Harry Stebbings Now with GGV, I know that one element that you experience a lot is maybe the transition from founder to CEO, so I'd love to start on this.
- ▶ 22:25 Jeff Richards I remember, you know, GGB was an early investor in Alibaba Group, and back in 2003, the two hundred million dollar valuation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:14 Harry Stebbings Remaining on the reserve allocation question, obviously we've got four different GGV offices and multiple different partners.
- ▶ 35:23 Harry Stebbings He's been so kind to me, both in advice, support, and then coming on the show today, so it really does mean a lot, and a big thank you also to Dave Vassen at Brightwheel, and to Glenn Solomon at GTV.
20VC: How To Optimise Decision-Making Frameworks, How To Really Get The Most Out Of Your Board and When Your Brother Is Also Your Co-Founder; The Secret To Working with Family with Rob Sadow, Founder & CEO @ Scoop
- ▶ 33:05 Harry Stebbings As always, I cannot thank you enough for your support, and I can't wait to bring you a really, really special episode with Jeff Richards, general partner at GGV, live on Monday.
20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings To date, Asaph has raised over a hundred and nine million dollars in funding for Hippo from some very dear friends of the show, in the form of Felicis Ventures, GGV, Fifth Wall, Zeeve Ventures, and Lennar, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:23 Harry Stebbings As I just told you, I've heard so many wonderful things from Brendan at Fifth Wall, Glenn at GGV, Victoria from Felicis.
- ▶ 7:55 Harry Stebbings We mentioned some of the brilliant people you have behind you in GGV, fit
- ▶ 27:30 Harry Stebbings I love that, and that's a brilliant leader into our next question from Glenn Solomon at GGV.
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date with Brightwheel, Dave has raised over thirty-three million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the business, including Bessemer, GGV, Lowercase, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, our friends at ENIAC, and then the likes… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:27 Dave Vasen I can say without hesitation that our investors from ENIAC, from GGV, now Bessemer, have just added a ton of value, and, you know, they really dug in to help, so it was
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
- ▶ 15:39 Anu Duggal In this case, we led a two million dollar seed round with a fantastic group of female investors, including Robin Lee from GGB, Susan and Nisha from BBG Ventures, and Elizabeth and Pocket from Sogal Ventures. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Founding Your First Company Is Like Learning Through A Thousand Paper Cuts, The 3 Core Phases to Product Adoption and Why Valuation Obsession Must Change In The Valley with Armon Dadgar, Founder & CTO @ Hashicorp
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And to date, HashiCorp have raised over seventy-four million in BC funding from many friends of the show, including Scott Rainey at Redpoint, Glenn Solomon at GGV, Semel Shah, True Ventures, and Mayfield, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:54 Harry Stebbings Huge thanks to Glenn at GGV for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Armin.
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Well, I'm thrilled to say today we're joined by GGV general partner Glenn Solomon. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:29 Glenn Solomon In VC, right out of business school at a firm called Partec International, where I spent about eight years, and then joined GGV about 12 and a half years ago.
- ▶ 6:11 Glenn Solomon Xiaomi, Airbnb, Slack, I've got to plug a few GGB companies in there.
- ▶ 16:09 Harry Stebbings I do want to shift slightly though to a topic that you touched on earlier, which is the prominence of China to GGV's focus.
- ▶ 16:16 Harry Stebbings So I have to ask then, with Silicon Valley always being hailed as the center of all things tech, why is China so important to GGV's strategy? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 Glenn Solomon You know, at GGV, we have a lot of trust and respect for each other, and we are willing to compromise on a collective basis. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings However, to the show stay, and if you did not hear Monday's episode with Hans Tung, this week is GGV Capital Feature Week, one of the world's leading venture funds with a unique approach, partnering with the world's best entrepreneurs in… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:09 Harry Stebbings Well, thank you very much, but I'd love to get the ball rolling today by hearing your story and how you made your foray into the wonderful world of Venture with GGV. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings Yes, we are featuring GGV Capital this week, and I'm thrilled to say, joining me in the hot seat today, we have Hans Tung, managing partner at GGV. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings But you've heard quite enough from me, so without further ado, I'm thrilled to welcome Hans Tongue, managing partner at GGV Capital.
- ▶ 6:09 Hans Tung Well, in my last four years with GGV, I invested either lead or co-lead with my colleagues.
- ▶ 22:59 Harry Stebbings What a start that was to GGV Feature Week with Hans there, and I'd like to say a huge thank you to him for giving up the time today to be on the show. 2 times in the scene
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: What LP's Want In VCs with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 20:00 Beezer Clarkson But I can tell you in April, the same trend has continued, and you've seen a number of familiar names coming back to market, like GGV, Menlo, Mayfield, Felicis, Union Square.