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20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 47:32 Michael Eisenberg Ann Mather went on from shopping.com to be, I think, the head of the audit committee at Google.
20VC: AppLovin's Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry's Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth
- ▶ 7:20 Adam Foroughi Most of the world probably is now appreciating advertising and understands that's what Facebook and Google are as well.
- ▶ 29:31 Adam Foroughi One single company like a Facebook, a Google, an app webinar, a Unity can't monetize their audience as well as the marketplace can. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:04 Adam Foroughi I mean, look, like, you always look up to the companies that have been there and grown to just astounding levels, and like I said earlier, Google and Facebook are the two most
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 8:05 Eugene Wei And they scribbled a little table of data with past launch failures at different temperatures, but the way it's presented and you can Google this and find this actual scribble table with some notes on the side.
20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun
- ▶ 10:35 Brian Singerman When we made the Endural investment, maybe one of my last tweets is talking about the Endural investment, and I had these people I went to college with, oh, I can't believe you're doing something in defense, and that's a terrible thing to…
20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
- ▶ 24:02 Harry Stebbings I speak to a lot of founders like, yup, we've got Google Analytics, we know how many people are on the site, we are so data-centric, yes. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:13 Elena Verna Now you go correctionalize it because by the way, we only did it on Chrome.
20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
- ▶ 8:31 George Kurtz Tiny little company with 25 slides, and you know, they want me to leave Microsoft, or Apple, or Google, which are all people that joined us, right?
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 3:56 Chris Sacca Yeah, the first check for me, I mean, I'd been doing deals on behalf of Google for a while. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:50 Chris Sacca But there were times back in Google, and so I'm talking, like, literally, oh, five, oh, six, where we had to decide what to do about China.
- ▶ 35:42 Chris Sacca Like, you know, Google taught me that when they would share confidential information, they would share the board deck with the entire company on Fridays.
- ▶ 40:39 Chris Sacca I remember at Google, Sundar and I were part of this group of 10 people who were tapped as like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:23 Chris Sacca Well, you know, back at Google, I worked on, we didn't call it climate then. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:38 Chris Sacca And I'm thinking of, like, old Google people who were, like, director of finance and maybe ready for a CFO level. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
- ▶ 6:01 Anthony Casalena I guess I'll buy some AdWords. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 9:34 Anton Levy Maybe I have a snowflake on my hands, or maybe I'll have a, you know, a Google, a two trillion dollar company on my hands.
- ▶ 14:11 Anton Levy And as you know, when you buy a public investment, you know, you buy Google, Google doesn't even know you buy their stock. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 4:58 Keith Rabois So we launched a prototype where we had a real model valuing homes and a website where people could in Google ads that we were trying to acquire, people trying to sell their homes, and we were testing it out.
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
- ▶ 12:29 Ralf Wenzel And we have developed our own iteration of a Google Maps type of tool, and like, I'm happy to show that at a different occasion.
- ▶ 34:36 Ralf Wenzel That got overtaken by Google because of being more customer centric, more user experience focused, and just more state of the art.
Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- ▶ 3:08 Casey Winters Drive demand like SEO, AdWords, affiliate marketing, email.
- ▶ 17:07 Casey Winters We're going to distribute our content to Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 Casey Winters Go nuts in trying to build, you know, usually their own process of understanding the business through, you know, certain dashboards or, you know, Google sheets or whatever.
- ▶ 31:10 Casey Winters So we had to basically do this open heart surgery on basically the core engagement loop to move away from a friend-based graph to a topical-based graph, and to move away from Facebook distribution to Google distribution. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:44 Casey Winters AdWords has had a little bit of change, especially on the mobile side, but
20VC: Getir Founder, Nazim Salur on The Future of Last Mile Convenience, Who Will Win? Lessons on Driver Acquisition and Efficiency, Zone Maturity and Time To Profitability and Scaling to 300 Cities in the US in 2022
- ▶ 11:13 Nazim Salur I mean, like Google is not the first in search, but they were the better one. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Welcome back to TwentyVC with me, Harry Stebbings, and today is likely one of the most excited and proud that I've been to release an episode, an incredible individual, and so I'm very honoured to welcome Doug Leone, global managing…
- ▶ 28:36 Doug Leone In engineering, well, Bill Korn used to run Google search.
- ▶ 37:03 Doug Leone So think of all the great companies that you love in the public market, whether it is Square, or whether it's Google, or whether it's ServiceNow.
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- ▶ 22:44 Marcelo Claure For some companies with an immense opportunity, think of Alibaba, think of Facebook, think of Google, think of Amazon, whatever, it was worth coming in at almost any price.
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 18:41 Emilie Choi They have Google Video or Instagram.
- ▶ 28:43 Emilie Choi And this was something that we modeled after Google.
- ▶ 32:53 Emilie Choi It would be like back in the day, Yahoo or Google having been exposed to Facebook, Instagram, like been able to seed investments in all these different interesting companies back in the day.
20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Prior to Andreessen, though, Angela was a product manager at Google, where she launched and grew Chrome for Android and Chrome for iOS into two of Google's most successful mobile products. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:51 Angela Strange We scaled that company, got bought by Google.
- ▶ 5:54 Angela Strange So I stayed, got to be on the founding team to build mobile Chrome for iOS and Android, scaled that up.
20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
- ▶ 25:41 Krista Quarles Oh my god, like, I think Google has studied this, where the number one
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- ▶ 16:13 David George You know, this is very well known and well covered in, you know, consumer land companies like Google and Facebook that have clear network effects.
20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
- ▶ 28:24 Nick Mehta And I was like, I don't know, uh, Sundar Pinchai, Google.
20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Duolingo, Gusto, UiPath, and Uncork, to name a few, and prior to Capital G, Leila was at Google as a managing director of emerging businesses, and held leadership roles within YouTube and Search, and this schedule was such a team effort, a…
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Duolingo, Gusto, UiPath, and Uncork, to name a few, and prior to Capital G, Leila was at Google as a managing director of emerging businesses, and held leadership roles within YouTube and Search, and this schedule was such a team effort, a…
- ▶ 2:54 Laela Sturdy So I was at Google for a long time, helped to start and scale a couple of different businesses at Google. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:41 Laela Sturdy We have an incredible structure at Capital G in that first, you know, important to note that we're an independent growth fund backed by Google and Alphabet. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:17 Laela Sturdy They're often, you know, whether they're at the big companies like the Googles and Facebooks of the world, or they're at many of the growth companies that we're talking about here that then earlier stage companies are trying to get them…
20VC: Ramp's Eric Glyman on Why You Should Never Take The Highest Price, Working With Venture Funds vs Crossover Funds and How To Determine What To Buy vs Build as a Founder Today?
- ▶ 18:59 Eric Glyman You're starting a company and you're like, we want to build Ford motors or like Tesla or Google, and we're going to raise two million dollars and go do that.
20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- ▶ 6:01 Byron Deeter Why wasn't Skype or Google Voice offering APIs and doing this?
- ▶ 32:43 Byron Deeter Literally they keep Google sheets of all the firms that have pinged them and the unsolicited term sheets that come in.
20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO
- ▶ 37:14 José Neves Before that, he sold his company to Google, so not just his incredible acumen and experience, but also the fact that he's been an entrepreneur, he's been one of us, so that always brings a different angle into the room.
20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
- ▶ 23:50 Ryan Smith It's okay, like, get that up, and for me, it's been my wife, it's also been my brother, who you said you spoke with, and you know, Jared's been as great of a mentor as, you know, I recruited him out of Google in 2008, I mean, he was early… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:50 Ryan Smith It's okay, like, get that up, and for me, it's been my wife, it's also been my brother, who you said you spoke with, and you know, Jared's been as great of a mentor as, you know, I recruited him out of Google in 2008, I mean, he was early…
20VC: MercadoLibre Founder Marcos Galperin on Optimising Decision-Making, Effective Resource Allocation, Growth vs Profitability, Fundraising Strategies and more on the Journey To Build a $72Bn Market Cap Company
- ▶ 24:31 Marcos Galperin So eBay was really in those days like Amazon plus Google.
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Prior to their 3.2 billion dollar acquisition by Twilio in 2020, Peter raised over two hundred and eighty three million dollars for Segment from Excel, Thrive, Meritech, GV, General Catalyst, and Kleiner Perkins, to name a few.
- ▶ 4:03 Peter Reinhardt He's like, well, you know, we wrote this little JavaScript library for our own use called analytics.js and it took data off of our website and sent it through to our analytics tool and Google analytics and a few others because we wanted to…
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- ▶ 3:08 Wade Foster Five, six people, and they were hiring a marketing intern, and I was like, well, I don't really know much about marketing, but, like, I'd read some stuff about AdWords, and, like, was like, well, this is actually kind of cool.
20VC: Nubank CEO David Velez on Scaling Nubank to a $25BN Company, Why What Makes a Great Founder Does Not Make a Great CEO & The Responsibility Framework and How Leaders Can Use It To Drive Efficiency
- ▶ 19:11 David Vélez And I think for us also philosophically, we always, since the beginning said, we'll focus on building the absolutely best product that we can have the best experience and trying to, instead of investing money in marketing and giving that…
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 2:11 Harry Stebbings Visit exodus.com for your free download, or search Exodus on the App Store or Play Store.
- ▶ 42:37 Harry Stebbings Visit exodus.com for your free download, or search Exodus on the App Store or Play Store.
20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
- ▶ 23:16 Simon Borrero It looks a lot more like Amazon than Google.
20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings The company was ultimately acquired by Google for a reported 3.2 billion dollars.
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To date, Vlad has raised over 5.6 billion dollars with Robin Hood, including a 2.4 billion dollar raise just this month, and some of their investors include the likes of Ribbit, Sequoia, Green Oaks, Index, IVP, Thrive, GV, and more…
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
- ▶ 19:02 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Google was pushing for a while, 20% of creative time.
20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- ▶ 10:34 Patrick Spence So I put that into place, you know, and use that lesson at Sonos when Amazon and Google and some of the other companies came out with smart speakers into our space with voice speakers.
- ▶ 28:40 Patrick Spence We're suing Google right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:42 Patrick Spence But at the same time, we still work with them on YouTube Music Service, on Google Assistant, and some of these other areas, and I think my Canadian-ness helps in some of those situations, just trying to make sure that we're maintaining a…
- ▶ 33:16 Harry Stebbings You've got an awkward relationship with the Zoom and Google, so I can just make it more awkward at the board.
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- ▶ 2:28 Harry Stebbings Visit exodus.com for your free download, or search Exodus on the App Store or Play Store.
- ▶ 39:03 Harry Stebbings Visit exodus.com for your free download, or search Exodus on the App Store or Play Store.
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- ▶ 3:31 Todd McKinnon You had collaboration apps like Gmail and Google apps for domains.
20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World
- ▶ 15:49 Assaf Wand You want people to grow a company in a certain speed in Google, in Uber, in Facebook, in whatever, and the big guys, in smaller guys, people that specialize just between fifty million dollars to one hundred and fifty million dollars, and…
20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
- ▶ 32:35 Harry Stebbings Are we unbundling G-Drive?
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- ▶ 31:57 Michael Eisenberg Bruce once told me, I think it's true, you need to make sure you manage your time well because you never know when the next Google walks into the lobby or gets on a Zoom or whatever it is today, the equivalent.
20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics
- ▶ 2:20 Harry Stebbings Free download or search Exodus on the App Store or the Play Store.
- ▶ 39:39 Harry Stebbings Visit exodus.io for your free download or search Exodus on the App Store or the Play Store.
20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
- ▶ 30:25 Phil Libin It's a brilliant company as, as does Microsoft, as does Google, as does Apple.
20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 15:54 Andrew Dudum And I think as a result, the public markets have really craved growth, efficiency, innovation, and it's just not there, which is why you see all of the money going towards Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, Google, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 41:08 Josh Silverman I mean, if you're a tiny independent shop, you're going to recount on Google or Facebook to drive all your traffic, and if you're downstream of Google and Facebook, they get all the economics, and you can't really survive.
20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 22:57 Bill Gurley I think one of the things that happens because of what Howard said about the success of whether it's Facebook or Google or Amazon, the winners in tech compound quite a bit.