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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
- ▶ 11:52 Dave Vasen You know, not everyone is going to be successful at Brightwheel, just as they may not be a fit for Google or for Airbnb or for some other company.
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
- ▶ 5:38 Anu Duggal They'd worked at large technology companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and had very relevant skill sets, had been part of these companies scaling, and were really looking to apply these skill sets to solve problems they faced
20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
- ▶ 14:53 Anand Sanwal Put aside your Facebook and Google, because most of us aren't building Facebook and Google, no matter what our pitch deck might say, right?
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 10:19 Danny Rimer Google are all incredible companies that are not only behemoths in their area, but are actually innovating faster than startups, which is a new phenomenon that has happened over the last five, six years that wasn't true before that, and…
- ▶ 13:17 Danny Rimer I'll never forget that the first years of Google and keywords, you know, folks were thinking, my god, this is crazy what I'm supposed to spend on technology, buying software online or games, and that you could actually own the game keyword… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Raising A First Time Fund Is Like Raising A Seed Round, Why We Need New and Different Fund Models & Why Longevity Is The Most Rewarding Place To Invest with Laura Deming, Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund
- ▶ 4:29 Laura Deming Yeah, so on longevity front, I remember, you know, when I was a kid, and I first got interested in this subject, I went to my computer, and I think it was one of the first Google searches I must have done, um, called, like, aging science,…
- ▶ 8:32 Laura Deming They'll know they can start a company, go to Google, or any number of a variety of things.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- ▶ 29:04 Jeff Morris Jr. The other book is called Google by Ken Oletta, and a funny story is I actually optioned the film into TV rights to this book a long time ago, and the reason I love this book so much is that it shows the impact of Bill Campbell on Google,…
- ▶ 29:50 Jeff Morris Jr. We're now the number five top-grossing app of all time, and we finished number two in the Play Store and App Store behind Netflix last year in terms of top-grossing apps.
20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings And as for Leo, prior to joining the world of VC, he started his career as the second non-founding engineer at LinkedIn, and after two years at LinkedIn, Leo spent three years at Google, largely working on real-time payment fraud detection.
- ▶ 4:22 Leo Polovets And I also worked at Google in the middle, and I really enjoyed being a software engineer, and especially really enjoyed my time both at startups and at the smaller startup-y teams at Google. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- ▶ 8:31 Avidan Ross All the technology existed before, but because of the smartphone wars, the war between Apple and Samsung and Google and Nokia and Blackberry, a lot of the components that you find in a
- ▶ 25:44 Avidan Ross So we think that big companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft have built out fantastic engineering manager programs.
20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- ▶ 11:25 Harry Stebbings If one looks at the likes of the Collison brothers coming out of a small town in Ireland with no Stanford degrees behind them, no Google experience behind them, the pattern recognition from the data wouldn't suggest that they would create… 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 8:45 Ron Bouganim And so all of those individuals who were fortunate enough to, you know, make some money in those startups are then in turn going off and investing in, of course, can't forget Google.
- ▶ 21:10 Ron Bouganim I think what's happened is there's a generation graduating school now in computer science programs and elsewhere that are saying, look, and many of our founders have, you know, multiple job offers from the usual suspects, right, Googles,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:03 Ron Bouganim Sorry, Google.
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
- ▶ 8:40 Phil Libin They're just like self-serving good for Silicon Valley, and they're becoming less and less important because of a lot of platform work that, well, honestly, Silicon Valley companies have done because of Apple and Google and Amazon.
- ▶ 12:31 Phil Libin All you have to do is look at the average tenure of employees in these big companies, like the average number of months that someone is staying an employee at Google, at Facebook, at Amazon, at Apple is surprisingly short.
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 16:39 Harry Stebbings That kind of boom of the conversational UI, and we've seen that from Alexa to Google Home.
- ▶ 18:08 Dennis Mortensen Might finally fully democratize access to compute so even the least tech-savvy person can now figure out what the time is in Singapore without knowing how to boot up a browser and go to Google and search for it.
- ▶ 20:30 Dennis Mortensen I should do a monthly finance meeting come first Wednesday every month with JAWS, and I can easily kind of describe what I want, but trying to kind of do that in dropdowns in Google Calendar, not impossible.
- ▶ 23:38 Dennis Mortensen And you certainly kind of experience this, even just speaking to your Alexa or Google Assistant at home, where some things are, hey, just turning a little bit, uh, too cumbersome for something which is kind of rather simple.
20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
- ▶ 15:54 Patrick Morley In 2010, there was a market change when Google announced that they had been hacked.
20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- ▶ 4:16 Rebecca Kaden And I got to school and thought I would join a startup, or really probably a company like Google or Facebook, or something where I could really learn the ins and outs of being in tech, since I was so new to it, and really, really knew…
- ▶ 6:38 Rebecca Kaden Is the combination of new technology, and then the right moment in mass consumer adoption, and so that's what got us Facebook, and that's what got us Google, and later on, that's what's got us Uber, and if you think about that, it's not… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 Rebecca Kaden They've been, what fascinates me about Amazon actually is how much they've won, not because of structural product advantage, which is something that like a Google has, if you think about their ad platform, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:11 Rebecca Kaden They wind up going down a deep Google hole that's
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
- ▶ 5:07 Maynard Webb The amount of investment you used to and capital you used to have to have was amazing because you had to build all of your own infrastructure, and today you can go to Amazon or Google or Salesforce and get started in a much easier fashion.
20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings ty-three million dollars in funding from the likes of Kleiner Perkins, T. Rowe, G. V., Temasek, and more.
20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @
- ▶ 20:20 David Frankel I think it's a very valid point you're making, and I think that, you know, ultimately you could say that all these startups are working for Facebook, Google, and, you know, the programmatic players. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:16 David Frankel The founders are ex-Google AdWords.
- ▶ 29:19 David Frankel They ran a very successful, uh, small-medium business division for Google, and they left to start Adhawk, which was about simplifying online acquisition, specifically via, via Google, but now multi-platform. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 22:55 Howard Lerman And Google can take you to the part of the document, let's say you want to find where, uh, how many calories are in a Big Mac, you type in Big Mac calories, and the original Google search would find the best part of the document that had… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:46 Howard Lerman And the intelligent services of today, Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, Google Assistant, 4 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 0:07 Harry Stebbings But as we all know, I love doing the show, but it's even better when I can have great friends on the show, and that's very much the case today with a very special guest who's been a great friend to me, and with that in mind, I'm thrilled… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings Before Kleiner, Shabby founded and led the startup outreach program for Google Play, and I do also want to give a huge hand to previous guest and Shabby's current partner, MZ, for the intro to Shabby's
- ▶ 3:47 Harry Stebbings And maybe more interestingly, how does one come to found Google's new AI-focused early-stage venture fund? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:00 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi And my last two years, two and a half years at Google, I was on the Google Play team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:49 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi People were jailbreaking these things, and that's all of a sudden where the app store was created, and subsequently, uh, Android Marketplace and eventually Google Play, but I only mention this because, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:58 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi Because of the being on the forefront of some of these startups and then at Google on the Android and Google Play teams, I had a chance to meet some incredible founders very, very early on.
- ▶ 25:50 Harry Stebbings You've seen Google, you've seen Kleiner, and now you've kind of early stage fund with Google. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team
- ▶ 13:33 Philip Krim We were never overly reliant on just Facebook or just Google.
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 4:56 Daniel Gross And I started this organization called YCAI, which is kind of a vertical of the program dedicated to AI companies where we try to give machine learning specific benefits to companies to make it as easy to start a machine learning project,…
- ▶ 18:04 Daniel Gross I'm not an actor, and I've actually, like, never been on the boardwalk, but I think it's probably a big deal, because I remember coming out here, doing things that now seem very small to me, like seeing the signs of Google and Facebook and…
- ▶ 21:17 Daniel Gross You know, you can, like, it turns out that all the great, I don't believe this, but maybe the thesis is that all the great people can just climb their way by using Google to wherever they need to get in life.
20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings Before Facebook, Avichow worked on search and ads at Google, started and sold a few companies, and invested in startups including Optimizely, Boom, Color, Cruise, InstaWork, Case Text, and many more incredible businesses.
- ▶ 3:29 Avichal Garg So I've spent most of my career as an entrepreneur and an angel investor, so I've been fortunate enough to work at Google and Facebook, started and sold two companies.
20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal
- ▶ 4:50 Dylan Serota Meanwhile, all the big players were already doing this like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, but earlier stage companies weren't taking the strategy.
20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
- ▶ 7:18 Nick Brown And by paid channels, I mean mainly Facebook and mainly a little bit of Google.
20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- ▶ 10:26 Adam Goldberg To information, that's Google, and to purchases, that's Amazon.
20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- ▶ 10:42 Jason Stoffer Customers often search for it in Google, and even if you have the best product, it's hard to make that readily apparent in the consumer's minds.
- ▶ 16:19 Jason Stoffer And I think the fact that Facebook and Google have so much power from a distribution standpoint point us in the direction of disrupting old line industries with business models that are more people centric and just operationally harder…
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over a hundred and fifty four million dollars in VC funding from the likes of Thrive, GV, CRV, Fifth Wall, and Temasek, just to name a few.
- ▶ 14:07 Fritz Lanman We had done the early work that got Gates and Bomber focused on Google as a threat to the business, and at the time, back then, they were more focused on the enterprise side and on the threat that Linux kind of represented, and so we had… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:15 Fritz Lanman I'd say it's getting harder and harder in a world where everybody's employing the same AB optimization on Facebook, Instagram ads, Google ads,
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
- ▶ 0:52 Harry Stebbings Plus, he shares his own experiences from Google, growing from 1500 to 15,000.
- ▶ 4:07 Elad Gil It really happened organically where I started a company after I left Google and right around the same time, a bunch of other friends of mine were starting companies and I kind of fell into the entrepreneurial scene more deeply.
- ▶ 18:28 Elad Gil It could be Google distributing things like Chrome or Android or other things through their distribution might
- ▶ 18:28 Elad Gil It could be Google distributing things like Chrome or Android or other things through their distribution might
- ▶ 28:52 Elad Gil And really, if you look at the other most valuable companies in the world, be it Google or Apple or Microsoft, these actually tend to be companies with extremely high profit margins. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:39 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, navigating kind of market share successfully, obviously then exit becomes an option either M&A or IPO as both Google and Facebook obviously did.
- ▶ 35:42 Elad Gil So for example, John Henke stuck around Google for many years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:45 Elad Gil After getting acquired for Keyhole, and then he eventually ran, I think, all of Google Maps and local and other areas, and he had an enormous impact through doing that at Google.
- ▶ 37:58 unnamed speaker Right before Google went public, I remember going to an All Hands where I think it was Larry Page who said that 4 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX
- ▶ 17:52 Pete Flint Really, behind every great startup wave over the last several decades, it's been driven by that distribution, whether that's the internet and the web browser, whether that's ecosystem, whether that's Facebook or Google, and it's just not… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- ▶ 8:04 Joe Fernandez When I started the company, I'd literally never met anyone who worked at Google.
- ▶ 20:43 Joe Fernandez Yeah, he's amazing, and I love Bing, but like, he's on the board of Amazon at the same time, sitting across from Bezos, and then the next day, sitting across from me, and I, you know, feel super self-conscious about that, and really…
- ▶ 25:52 Joe Fernandez You didn't work at Google.
20VC: Why Most The Value In Crypto Will Accrue in Governance, When Institutional Capital Will Enter The Space and How To Think About Liquidity In Crypto with Joel Monegro, Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC
- ▶ 9:12 Joel Monegro If you think about these as layers, we got proprietary hardware that later became commoditized, and then we had proprietary software that later became commoditized, and the world we live in today is one of proprietary data, where the… 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 28:19 Max Motschwiller And Facebook, Google, Apple, and in some respects, Amazon, they, they are just so large and their user bases are so far reaching and engaged.
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding The League, Amanda spent time at Evernote as a product manager, as an investor with Sequoia Capital, and started her career in the strategic partnerships team at Google.
- ▶ 7:42 Amanda Bradford Before you can kind of expect people to leap from their Googles and their Facebooks and their Dropboxes to join your team.
- ▶ 22:26 Amanda Bradford I think the dating space doesn't always attract kind of the, the Google type engineers.
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.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 26:42 Paul English I have Google Calendar, which I use with my assistant to manage my schedule, and I color code all my appointments one of four colors.
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
- ▶ 7:43 Trae Vassallo And, you know, John had, you know, was on the board of Amazon and he had just done Google at this time and just this incredible, iconic investor and just wonderfully in
- ▶ 15:12 Trae Vassallo Yeah, well, so that company was a hardware company, and as you know, I've done a few hardware investments with Nest and Dropcam, and then Eero was my first 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:45 Trae Vassallo You know, she talks about company like Google, you know, we only ever think of Larry and Sergey, but there were incredibly important and influential women who helped lead that company in the early days and helped build out the business… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek
- ▶ 7:41 Jack Groetzinger Pioneered by Andy Grove, and then made popular by Google.
- ▶ 18:02 Jack Groetzinger Even more specifically, there haven't been that many really big liquidity events, you know, sort of Google-style companies.
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
- ▶ 5:22 Glenn Solomon And you saw companies created like Yahoo and Google and Facebook more recently.
20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings As a result of the incredible work at Ford, they were named to Time's Best Inventions of and before Ford, Adrian was the head of special projects for the CEO of Google slash Alphabet, and Adrian arrived at Google following the acquisition… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:15 Adrian Aoun What are the next Google, the next Apple, but let's go after the industries that are far less sexy.
- ▶ 22:29 Adrian Aoun Now, Wavy was a search company, and Marissa at the time ran search at Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:19 Adrian Aoun Now, when I think of scale in tech, I think of Google with three billion daily users, Facebook and Apple with almost two billion.
20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks
- ▶ 6:49 Dan Scheinman So, let's say five or six years ago, you had healthy competition to buy tech and talent, particularly with Facebook, Google, even Yahoo at that time when Marissa came there.
- ▶ 14:05 Dan Scheinman Maybe it's less true now, but there are still groups or things that are harder to raise, and if you can stay focused on those things, you know, I used to get taken out every once in a while for the patronizing lunch, where someone would…
20VC: Hims' Andrew Dudum on The Scaling Playbook of The Fastest Growing Mens Wellness Brand, How To Be Truly Innovative In Today's World of Online Marketing & Raising at a $200m Valuation within Year 1
- ▶ 3:20 Andrew Dudum So men would result to late night Google searches and incognito browser mode on their iPhone and find very, very scary stuff online and snake oil, and I think what HIMSS aims to do is educate men about the normalcy of these issues, the…
- ▶ 4:43 Andrew Dudum And weighing and balancing that micro optimization with understanding the major players in the landscape with ever album, there's big changes happening with Facebook and Google and photo tagging and facial recognition.
- ▶ 5:45 Andrew Dudum So you have Facebook, you have Instagram, you have SEM, Google search, things like this.
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool & How To Use Humour When "S*** Hits The Fan" with Jesse Genet, Founder & CEO @ Lumi
- ▶ 9:15 Jesse Genet I mean, I think that everyone is colored by their experiences, whether that experience is working at Google for 10 years, or that experience is running a bootstrapped company.
20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Thumbtack has raised over two hundred and seventy million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the industry, including Sequoia Capital, Capital G, Google's Growth Arm, Ali and Hattie Partovi, Scott and Siam Bannister,…
20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings And prior to that, was in the M&A team at Google.
- ▶ 3:08 James Loftus I was pulled to the West Coast by a job offer at Google, and I went to Google, and I was also a lawyer at Google, actually. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:21 Harry Stebbings Where would you stand on the thesis that companies are bought and not sold, having sat on both sides of the table, both with Andreessen and with Yahoo, Google, and now Square?
- ▶ 7:21 James Loftus So you could go a year or two sometimes without seeing all the deals that a Google or Facebook or an Apple's done.
- ▶ 10:17 James Loftus There's been softening at the other end of the market from the Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon end.
- ▶ 11:17 James Loftus Corporate development teams across the Silicon Valley, including at Facebook and Google, are small compared to the opportunity set that they're evaluating.
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