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20VC: How To Upscale Management Teams Effectively, When Should The CEO Play The Role of "Lifeguard" & What Role Does The Board Play In The Team Upscaling with Matt Straz, Founder & CEO @ Namely
- ▶ 10:34 Matt Straz And I think Google subscribed to that approach, and I think they did it pretty well, so we've tried to do the same thing.
20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 5:57 James Currier You know, then you look at your next great success, Google, they were the eighth to market.
20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
- ▶ 6:45 Jake Flomenberg Um, with the, you know, with the amount of work that Google and Baidu and Facebook and now Apple and others pouring into algorithm development, and quite frankly, also open sourcing so much of that work, it's very, very hard for me to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:14 Jake Flomenberg And that's the original data, and that's great, and that can take you very far, and for instance, in the case of Google PageRank, it took them quite far in the early days.
- ▶ 13:41 Jake Flomenberg Just as Google takes the clicks on, you know, which URL you actually selected was the most interesting and feeds that back into their search algorithm results to the point where that's now a huge part of how they give you the most relevant… 5 times in the scene
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
- ▶ 4:33 Rich Wong And I think it's simply put all the innovations that we've all spent time on, whether it's broadband telecoms or mobile or the ability to do distribution over the internet, whether it's through search words like, you know, AdWords or
- ▶ 21:02 Rich Wong So whether that's cryptocurrency, or Google Glass, or whatever the hot category is of that year, of that couple of years, I think it's not good advice to quote-unquote have a play in X category.
20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings Their portfolio companies have enjoyed exits from the likes of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Cisco, Airbnb, and include companies like e-commerce, Pioneer, and Unicorn, Wish, and the world's leading airspace services platform, AirMap.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings Google, Amazon, Twitter, Square, Airbnb, just to name a few.
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 9:32 Alex Rampell If it's anything touching search, it's Google.
- ▶ 11:34 Alex Rampell One is made by Apple, who's rather mercurial, and one is made by Google, which is somewhat of an enemy.
- ▶ 13:44 Alex Rampell Because a real data network effect, like I'll give you an example here, why are Facebook and Google so good 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:08 Alex Rampell Like why is Google translate so good?
- ▶ 17:58 Alex Rampell So if you go to Google and you search life insurance, the click is 50 dollars or a hundred dollars. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:15 Alex Rampell Will they advertise on Google?
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings And starting from the beginning here, before YC, Paul was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created, check this out, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings He also developed the original prototype for Google AdSense, and even suggested the company's former motto, don't be evil.
- ▶ 3:22 Paul Buchheit In 99, and that startup turned out to be Google, which was good. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:03 Paul Buchheit And so again, early on at Google, working on Gmail, the way we actually approached this is we had this goal of getting a hundred happy users just within the company.
- ▶ 14:00 Paul Buchheit There is no simple task, but I can tell you one of the things that really stands out to me, having worked, I didn't mention earlier, after Google, I didn't go straight to YC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:36 Paul Buchheit And what I did was I had previously been working on Google Groups, which at the time was a Usenet search product.
20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend
- ▶ 12:34 Nicole Quinn I'm on our mobiles just as much as we can have it speaking to us through Google home or Alexa.
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
- ▶ 23:46 Harry Stebbings I do Google searches with something ABC, yeah.
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 14:15 Aaron VanDevender I think a lot of folks in the self-driving car space maybe just assumed that since Google had already done the work of getting all of the street view data, that they had this insurmountable advantage that, that no one would sort of be able… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:15 Aaron VanDevender I think a lot of folks in the self-driving car space maybe just assumed that since Google had already done the work of getting all of the street view data, that they had this insurmountable advantage that, that no one would sort of be able…
20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And prior to Duolingo, Lewis is known for inventing captures, being a MacArthur Fellow, or otherwise known as the Genius Grant, and selling two companies to Google in his twenties.
- ▶ 2:44 Luis von Ahn I had just sold my second company to Google.
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
- ▶ 11:35 Mario Schlosser Insure tech as a search term, if you look on Google, Google Trends didn't exist until, you know,
- ▶ 11:35 Mario Schlosser Insure tech as a search term, if you look on Google, Google Trends didn't exist until, you know,
20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- ▶ 17:51 Mike Volpi Obviously, we are enjoying right now one of the more vibrant times in terms of M&A activity and consolidation in the market, and there certainly are a number of very strong big tech companies that are out there, whether it's, you know,…
20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Five years later, Crashlytics was acquired again, this time by Google.
- ▶ 1:09 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Rally, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat combined their heads and their hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers, a complete platform for product teams.
- ▶ 27:01 Wayne Chang So after I hung up the phone, I had to Google.
- ▶ 31:23 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Raleigh, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat
20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Rally, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat combined their heads and their hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers, a complete platform for product teams.
- ▶ 25:30 John Callaghan Is there anyone at, you know, big company ABC that you want to talk to about AWS or, you know, Google cloud, you know, that kind of thing, right?
- ▶ 26:57 John Callaghan It might be called Google or Facebook or Peloton or whatever it is.
- ▶ 30:44 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Raleigh, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat
20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings One of America's most successful incubators, with an incredible three science portfolio companies exiting in 2016 alone, with the sales of Dollar Shave Club to Unilever, Hello Society, which was acquired by New York Times, and FameBit,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:46 Mike Jones How a Google, Facebook, Time Warner, Verizon will think about owning a company with a great technology stack that also has a tokenized system, and those tokens float within an exchange.
- ▶ 27:15 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Raleigh, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Rally, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat combined their heads and their hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers, a complete platform for product teams.
- ▶ 28:06 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Rally, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat combined their heads and their hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers, a complete platform for product teams.
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Rally, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat combined their heads and their hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers, a complete platform for product teams.
- ▶ 5:39 Daniel Gross It was called Greplin, G-R-E-P-L-I-N, which is a play on words for a Linux tool that engineers use a Unix tool called Grep, and the product was a search engine, but instead of searching the internet, like Google, it searched through all of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:38 Daniel Gross And so what I mean in particular is a product like Google photos is a consumer version of this, where you can literally open up an app, type in avionics and get photos that contain cockpits of airplanes.
- ▶ 11:43 Daniel Gross You're seeing this as well with far field experiences, be it with the Apple HomePod or Google's Home or the, or the Echo.
- ▶ 13:16 Daniel Gross And many different verticals inside Google and Apple and Facebook for incremental improvements, but nothing really breakthrough. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:11 Daniel Gross That is to say, I'm able to understand an Atari game with far fewer examples than whatever DeepMind can cook up, because I have an understanding of gravity, of, take Pong as an example, of what happens to an object when it collides with…
- ▶ 22:04 Daniel Gross An Oracle or a MySQL, that is to say, a company that empowers all the verticals, because I think the incumbents today, Google and Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, to some extent, are far less naive than the incumbents in Oracle's time, and so…
- ▶ 28:14 Daniel Gross When you unfortunately potentially have to terminate someone and it's this endless doc that's always behind reality, you know, things like set up the GitHub account, set up payroll, you know, set up the Google apps account, set up their…
- ▶ 29:25 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Raleigh, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat
20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Rally, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat combined their heads and their hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers, a complete platform for product teams.
- ▶ 25:14 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Rally, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat combined their heads and their hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers, a complete platform for product teams.
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 1:10 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Rally, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat combined their heads and their hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers, a complete platform for product teams.
- ▶ 10:09 Jason Calacanis That's okay, because they'll overpay some cases, and they'll underpay for Google, or Amazon, or Facebook, or Netflix, or Uber, or Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:19 Jason Calacanis It doesn't mean they're immune from it, but if you look at specifically Mark Zuckerberg, he disrupted Google, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Jason Calacanis He started building a huge advertising market, and he knows that Google was distracted building, you know, self-driving cars and balloons and all this other stuff, Google Glass, and he said, okay, I'm just going to focus relentlessly on…
- ▶ 13:52 Jason Calacanis Let them rise and fall in this alphabet structure, but Google is going to be the focus, and not letting Facebook overtake us is now Google's focus, right?
- ▶ 15:52 Jason Calacanis So what happens is if something like YouTube stumbles, like where they had their big legal case, a company like Google comes along and says, yeah, we'll buy it from you.
- ▶ 23:27 Jason Calacanis I mean, the idea that you could use and you could build off of the iPhone, off of Google Maps, off of payment systems, if those things weren't in place, there's no Uber.
- ▶ 35:56 Harry Stebbings It was founded when alumni from Raleigh, Google, Cisco, and Red Hat
20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common
- ▶ 26:20 Brad Hargreaves Even some of the best, most scalable businesses ever, specifically Google, have, you know, warehouses full of people in India that, you know, go through Google Images and make sure there's no porn in there or do customer service for Google…
- ▶ 26:20 Brad Hargreaves Even some of the best, most scalable businesses ever, specifically Google, have, you know, warehouses full of people in India that, you know, go through Google Images and make sure there's no porn in there or do customer service for Google…
- ▶ 26:20 Brad Hargreaves Even some of the best, most scalable businesses ever, specifically Google, have, you know, warehouses full of people in India that, you know, go through Google Images and make sure there's no porn in there or do customer service for Google…
20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 16:06 Renata Quintini I don't think that companies like Google came up with the Don't Be Evil or Facebook thinking about the, you know, move fast with stable infrastructure just to have cool sound bites.
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
- ▶ 15:35 Seth Bannon It seems to be increasingly difficult to compete with the Googles and the Facebooks and the Amazon on sort of pure SaaS place, right? 4 times in the scene
20VC: When Should CEOs Ask Their VC For Help, When Do Companies Really Need A Board & What The Series A Expansion Means For Startups with Max Gazor, General Partner @ CRV
20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
- ▶ 18:40 Will Porteous Before she went to Google. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why YC Is The Exact Opposite of Proprietary Deal Flow, Why Having No Follow On Dramatically Aligns Incentives & Why Founders Do Not Have To Be Passionate About Their Idea From The Start with Michael Ma, Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Prior to Liquid Two, Michael was the co-founder of TalkBin, a YC alum that later sold to Google, and he was also an investment team partner at First Round's Dorm Room Fund.
- ▶ 2:51 Harry Stebbings Well, I think it's the terrible nerdy British accent that does it, but I'd love to get started today by discussing your start in the world of tech, and how, with parents starting as immigrants with 300 dollars to you selling your company…
- ▶ 7:03 Michael Ma Talking about my other partner, Mike Miller, Harvard MBA, myself, who started his company, Google, and a Super Bowl champion, all in one fund.
- ▶ 16:36 Michael Ma I mean, the same thing has happened even in traditional software companies, because the Google, what used to be the Google's award that went IPO very early on,
20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
- ▶ 18:11 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, I had Jeremy Levine at Bessemer on the show, and he said with regards to kind of consumer go to market, he was an increasingly concerned and kind of viewed consumer less attractively from a VC perspective due to the…
- ▶ 18:58 Roseanne Wincek There isn't even Google yet for, for mobile, which is kind of crazy. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Radical Candor Is Crucial in Workplaces, Why 85% of Work Relationship Mistakes Happen and Why You Should Not Try and Be More Likeable with Kim Scott, Co-Founder @ Candor Inc
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings She's also been a member of the faculty at Apple University, developing the course Managing at Apple, and before that, she spent five years at Google on AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick online sales and operations.
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings She's also been a member of the faculty at Apple University, developing the course Managing at Apple, and before that, she spent five years at Google on AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick online sales and operations.
- ▶ 7:39 Kim Scott So this happened shortly after I had joined Google, and I had to give a presentation to Google's founders and the CEO, Eric Schmidt. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:55 Kim Scott Sheryl Sandberg was just a fantastic mentor and boss at Google.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings But to the show today, and we're heading to one of the world's leading VC funds with their portfolio, including the likes of Google, Amazon, Uber, Snapchat, Twitter.
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Package recently raised a six million dollar Series A, led by the fantastic Kirsten Green at Forerunner and Google Ventures, or GV.
- ▶ 11:00 Eric Feng I just can't imagine anyone sneaking up on Facebook or anyone sneaking up on Uber or sneaking up on Google these days. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:31 Harry Stebbings Would you agree with me in asserting that their strengths lie where their predecessors may not have done in the M&A environment where Facebook acquired, you know, your Instagrams and WhatsApps and Googles can buy anything from DeepMind to…
- ▶ 16:29 Eric Feng I think when Google first launched 15 years ago and really got to scale, they spent the next few years with their ad business model, kind of convincing all consumers never to pay for anything again. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 Eric Feng There's a lot of other great firms that are doing similar things, whether it's SignalFire or Goodwater, in terms of some of the newer firms that are relying a lot on great technology, or Google Ventures, that I'm pretty envious in terms of…
20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
- ▶ 15:32 Jeremy Levine And so, in the early days, the existing platforms that companies like Yelp or TripAdvisor built their businesses on were Google and search engines through search engine optimization and showing up in the index of another already really… 6 times in the scene
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?
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Before that, Elad spent three years at Google, where he started Google's mobile team, and was involved with three acquisitions, including Android. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:56 Elad Gil Obviously, the really big companies that emerged were a key set of internet-enabled services, so commerce companies like eBay and Amazon searched through Google, payments through PayPal, etc., and those, and those, and then media stuff…
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 7:16 Peter Fenton And of course, that was the year that Google got funded, and the rest of the industry, I think, recognized that we oftentimes, again, when we have greatest certainty about where the future will go, we tend to do the most damage in both… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:24 Peter Fenton Spiegel did at Snapchat, and this is well documented, but I don't want to talk out of school, was one of those great heroic acts, and I think Twitter did the same thing when Google approached them early in their life, Facebook with Yahoo,…
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Following such success in the field of operations, Kevin made the move into VC, becoming a general partner and advisor at Google Ventures.
- ▶ 3:55 Kevin Rose But it wasn't until I made the move to Google that
- ▶ 3:58 Kevin Rose Where I met Bill Maris over there that ran Google ventures that he kind of got me excited about the opportunity of becoming a full-time VC because I was already doing angel investing anyway.
- ▶ 5:12 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, how's your thought process transitioned from making those early stage, 10, 20, to then obviously, as you said, scaling up 50 K angel checks to now, and when you're at GV, when you were investing from an instant 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:53 Kevin Rose Certainly, Bill Maris over Google Ventures and Tony Conrad has been another one and helped me think through some of the issues around how to deal with certain issues around management of employees.
- ▶ 32:36 Kevin Rose And I have one other one, which I don't think I've publicly announced yet, but, uh, Laszlo Bach, who was basically ran human resources at Google for 10 years, 10 plus years. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings As for Chris, prior to Evernote, he spent over 10 years at Google, including roles as Managing Director of Google Canada and Global Business Operations at Google X. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings As for Chris, prior to Evernote, he spent over 10 years at Google, including roles as Managing Director of Google Canada and Global Business Operations at Google X.
- ▶ 2:41 Chris O'Neill For what was supposed to be just a few months before going to graduate school, and really fell in love with the Bay Area first and foremost, and then dabbled into technology first as a consultant, and then soon thereafter working at what…
- ▶ 3:07 Harry Stebbings It's not, it's not possible to escape, but I do want to touch on the 10 years that you spent at Google and ask you, what were the big takeaways from seeing the internal machinations and the real kind of hyper growth years of Google? 8 times in the scene
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