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Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:39 Harry Stebbings So I literally, while we were recording final one, I think, but, and it may, it may not be one for a discussion or a continuation of what we discussed before about Manlo and their fund size, but Greylock announced that they have raised… 6 times in the scene
Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:55 Gili Raanan Greylock, Lightspeed, I probably, you know, that number of players is, is super small, and, and if you look at all amount of money that's flowing into the markets, uh, right now and for the past few years, no, I don't think it's going to…
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:03 Alex Rampell Um, if you look at that round, I think Greylock put twenty-five million into Facebook at a, um, actually, I think the round was maybe twenty-five million at 500. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:35 Alex Rampell I had spent so much time with the Greylock guys, as an example.
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:16 unnamed speaker I know, I know Greylock had the A and Kronos.
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:01 Harry Stebbings With respect then, why let Greylock lead the A?
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:48 Harry Stebbings And across the board, like when you speak to John Lilly, who led the A at Greylock, like he was like, he was clearly brilliant.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:27 unnamed speaker If they, and, and a random is happening and whatever, Sequoia, Andreessen, Greylock are all competing to get in.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:24 Mike Maples And so, one way to think about it is your follow-on dollars might be best thought of as a subset of where the best firms follow.
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:20 Harry Stebbings Cash had been in before, you know, Greylock were in already, Index were in already.
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:02 Harry Stebbings I had some on the show from Greylock and he said that actually that when you look at series B and C pricing today, combined with the revenue multiple compression that we're seeing with public markets pricing, actually series B and C will…
David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:08 Harry Stebbings Uh, you know, we had Sam from Greylock on the show, and he said that actually this vintage of Series B and C would not be positive cash returning to LPs.
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:52 Harry Stebbings I had some on from Greylock, and he was like, you know, series B and C, these vintages won't make money.
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:12 Saam Motamedi And so I think we at Greylock have taken the point of view of like, we're less excited about that as a space.
- ▶ 16:41 Saam Motamedi We talk about Salesforce, we talk about Workday, which started at Greylock ServiceNow.
- ▶ 29:07 Saam Motamedi And so for us, you know, we invest, you know, we're investing in our 17th fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:31 Saam Motamedi Harry, we make very few investments at Greylock.
- ▶ 34:03 Harry Stebbings All that does is prove the strength of a Greylock brand on getting subsequent rounds. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:46 Saam Motamedi I think for Greylock writ large, and then I'll give you a couple of concrete examples for, for myself personally, we are willing to invest behind great people and great markets when the traction data is not there, often when others would… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:53 Saam Motamedi Like it's one we debate every day at Greylock.
- ▶ 51:35 Saam Motamedi So we have known, we at Greylock have known Arvind Jain, the co-founder and CEO of Glean for a long time because we were, uh, the Series B investors of Rubrik at where he was one of the co-founders. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:11 Saam Motamedi And I've seen many people, including people who formerly worked at, you know, at Greylock and at other firms be oriented in that way. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:09 Harry Stebbings Which venture investor do you most respect and learn from outside Greylock?
- ▶ 1:02:45 Saam Motamedi And, you know, Greylock, Palo Alto Networks, and Workday are two largest historical outcomes.
- ▶ 1:04:47 Saam Motamedi I'm lucky to work with him at Upwind, and we at Greylock work with him on several companies, and I think he's a phenomenally smart investor and an incredibly impactful board member. 2 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:24 Reid Hoffman From a Greylock hat, from a inflection board hat, I have to talk to Satya from a Microsoft public board member hat, and I have to make sure that I'm, I'm playing each role effectively.
- ▶ 49:32 Reid Hoffman In each of these cases, like for example, if you look at, um, like one of, of Greylock's portfolio companies, Cresta, did a study of, of which people in the customer service, um, were most benefited by early AI, and it was the entry level…
Sarah Tavel: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised? | E1149 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27 Sarah Tavel I was at Greylock at the time and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:09 Harry Stebbings You've now been doing Venture for a long time between the first and obviously with Bessemer, then the second with Greylock and now Benchmark.
- ▶ 41:11 Sarah Tavel Like there's no, what I experienced when I was at Greylock and saw is like Greylock had, when I was there, the best internal recruiting team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:33 Sarah Tavel I can see, you know, what, well, Ethereum, I mean, I remember I was at Greylock.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:17 Kevin Ryan The other thing I would say, I had incredible investors at DoubleClick, uh, Bain and Greylock, for example, I had just remarkable partners.
- ▶ 50:52 Kevin Ryan Returns that let's say a benchmark and a Greylock have, and I'll, 90% of the rest of the, uh, industry.
Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:16 Peter Lacaillade B plus A minus funds that were, you know, been around for 20 years on Sand Hill Road, because I couldn't get into Sequoia, Excel, Greylock, and Benchmark. 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:18 Keith Rabois Anil from Greylock used to talk about that.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:27 Phin Barnes That was when Greylock hired my now co-founder, Dan Portillo, because he was the best recruiter in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:06:58 Phin Barnes And he stepped away from Greylock, you know, storied firm, and he started
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:04 Nikhil Basu Trivedi So I give the folks that did those rounds, I think, uh, John Lilliet Greylock and Danny Reimer at INDEX, if I'm not mistaken, I give them a ton of credit because they saw the specialness, I think, in Dillon and in that market opportunity. 2 times in the scene
Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings So why did you decide to leave Greylock first? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:27 Sarah Guo And so, like, there is, you know, I did recruiting at Greylock, too, but it's not, it's not a job, right?
- ▶ 49:49 Sarah Guo If you are a platform like a Greylock or Sequoia, like it's not a lot of raising happening. 2 times in the scene
Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:45 Mike Salguero Yeah, we, um, well, we went out to Greylock to, um, convince them to invest in custom made, which they said they would if we moved out to California and worked for the CEO that they were going to place into the business. 2 times in the scene
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:33 Harry Stebbings I have Mike Dubow on from Greylock recently, who was at growth at Stitch Fix, and he said that for the first growth hire, or first growth mindset, really kind of central person that you bring on with growth at the core, you want an analyst…
Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:46 Mike Duboe It was popularized there and I have to drop Greylock here for a moment because Kevin Kwok and Casey Winters, two of the people that kind of like, uh, made this concept and they were at Greylock at the time also working on Reforge. 2 times in the scene
Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:38 Miki Kuusi Um, A&T North, you know, formerly Greylock in Europe.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:01 Semil Shah Our job isn't to invest when, um, Excel lights, be Greylock investor.
20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity
- ▶ 24:39 Harry Stebbings Now I'm sad to be bringing this episode to a conclusion, but I'm very excited to welcome David Z at Greylock.
Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings This Greylock salary clearly isn't enough for Mike these days.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 29:48 Jason Lemkin We see these Greylocks and Andreessen's and others in Sequoia sort of adapting, but I don't know that this model exists, at least in the same way as when I started investing.
20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings To date, Eddie's raised over a hundred and forty one million dollars for Curated, from some of the best, including Capital G, Greylock, and Forerunner, to name a few.
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
- ▶ 5:49 Casey Winters So I became this growth advisor in residence at Greylock. 2 times in the scene
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?
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Prior to changing the game of spend management, Eric founded Paribus, the price tracking app that raised seed funding from General Catalyst and Greylock, and was ultimately acquired by Capital One in 2016.
20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings It's been an incredibly successful start to the year for this individual, with his investment in Roblox going public, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome David Zee, general partner at Greylock, where he's led some of the firm's most… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings But now I'm very, very excited to hand over to David Zee, general partner at Greylock. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:51 David Sze And so, you know, in Greylock, I actually was encouraged to look at enterprise software and ended up starting to look in security and systems management. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:14 Harry Stebbings But it really challenged the firm's investment strategy at the time on several different fronts. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:10 David Sze It is always in our favor when they do their checking on Greylock, when they do checking on our partners.
- ▶ 17:31 David Sze There's so many people, and I'm like, look, the reality is, at Greylock, if you do your work, you can get most deals through the partnership if you really believe in it, and the way we are.
- ▶ 19:59 David Sze And how do we keep what is Greylock successful for the next
- ▶ 23:02 Harry Stebbings You know, having seen it and, bluntly, done it so successfully multiple times at Greylock, what are your thoughts on what it takes to do generational transition successfully today? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:24 David Sze I'll harken back to another one of my now retired partners who asked me, how do you make decisions in my interview with Greylock when I was talking to them? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:33 David Sze We were fast friends, and that led to the investment in LinkedIn and me inviting him to come to Greylock, and it's been 20 plus years of just
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings To date, Linda has raised over fifty million dollars with Common Room, from the likes of Danny Reimer at Index, Sarah Grew at Greylock, Dylan Field at Figma, Dick Costolo, and of course, TwentyVC Fund.
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
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings Prior to their IPO in 2017, Todd raised over two hundred and twenty nine million dollars for the company, from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Coastal, and Floodgate, to name a
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
- ▶ 39:30 Nima Gamsari Yeah, you know, I've gotten to work with Jerry Chen from Greylock for like four or five years now, and I just really enjoy our, the way he's willing to get into the weeds in our business when I ask him to.
20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings To date, Dylan has raised over a hundred and thirty two million dollars in financing with Figma from some of the very best in the business, including Sequoia, Andreessen, Index, Greylock, Founders Fund, and Kleiner Perkins, just to name a…
20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings On the investing side, he's a partner at Greylock, one of the leading venture firms of the last two decades, with a portfolio including the likes of Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Figma, and many more incredible companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:42 Harry Stebbings But I'm so excited to dive in, and so now, without further ado, I'm handing over to Reid Hoffman, co-founder at LinkedIn and partner at Greylock.
- ▶ 14:46 Harry Stebbings In terms of, like, giving that feedback of, like, you know, where one's weakness is like, it comes from a place of trust and, like, safety almost, and I spoke to Mike on your team at Greylock, and he said, speak to read about trading up on…
- ▶ 23:04 Reid Hoffman Now, here's what's particularly entertaining with the David Z, because this was my very first venture investment, my very first investment at Greylock, and we were doing the debrief, and David turned to me and said, look, every venture… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:00 Harry Stebbings If you were to start Greylock again, what would you do differently?
- ▶ 40:58 Reid Hoffman Well, I've worked with a number of great board members, and obviously, you know, David Z is why I'm at Greylock, but I'll give a different answer, so it's not just a kind of Greylock answer. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings As for Sarah, prior to joining Benchmark, she was a general partner in another globally renowned firm, Greylock. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:56 Sarah Tavel And so I ended up going back to venture, joining Greylock as one of the GPs on the consumer team. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 39:34 Daniel Levine David Ruani at Greylock.
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.
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
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings Prior to co-founding SlashTalk, Ben was the co-founder and CEO at Houseparty, where he scaled the product to millions of users and raised over seventy million dollars in funding from the likes of Greylock, Sequoia, and Entree Capital, to…
- ▶ 18:15 Ben Rubin Within three months after raising fourteen million dollars from Greylock and other investors, we were like, guys, there's no broadcaster attention in the average person, in the 99% who are not celebs, media and news.
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
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings He was also a venture partner at Greylock Partners, and before that was CEO and co-founder of BladeLogic, which was acquired by BMC for nine hundred million dollars.
- ▶ 34:17 Dev Ittycheria Candidly, when I was at Greylock, there was a bias against investing in East Coast companies because there was a perception that the best companies were on the West Coast.
20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Jason has raised over eighty-four million dollars with Ironclad from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia, Excel, Greylock, Emergence, IA Ventures, Semo Shah's Haystack, and then obviously Ali Raugani, who led their…
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 9:28 Semil Shah What I would say is that if you and I start a company, Harry, and then a firm like Greylock gives us four million dollars,
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Okta, the independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time, and to date, Frederick's raised over four hundred and fifteen million dollars with Okta from some of the very…
- ▶ 23:54 Frederic Kerrest We ended up raising about two hundred thirty million dollars from Andreessen, Sequoia, Greylock. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings And to date, Dylan has raised over eighty-two million dollars in financing from some of the world's best investors, including Sequoia, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Index, and more.
20VC: Brex Founder Henrique Dubugras on Why Being Mission Driven Is Not The Only Way To Build A Massive Business, Why You Should Not Associate Fundraising with The Cash Needs of Your Business & Why You Don't Have To Follow Startup Theory When It Comes To
- ▶ 16:36 Henrique Dubugras See, and then Neil from Green Oaks and Sarah from DSC, they were like, you know, all the leads from the last rounds, and the reason we picked them was because, versus like a lot of other funds, were because they, they went above and beyond…
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings And prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a partner at Greylock Partners, where she led Greylock's investment in Sonder and another unannounced company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:32 Sarah Tavel Greylock as one of the general partners there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:33 Harry Stebbings I mean, we're going to dig into the board later, and I can't wait for that, but I do have to ask Sarah, you mentioned the element of being labeled the fixer, so to speak, at Pinterest, and so in terms of hyper-growth companies, and seeing…
- ▶ 30:33 Sarah Tavel So, Reid Hoffman, who I had the benefit and honor of working with at Greylock, has a saying where every strength has a corresponding weakness, and vice versa, and I find myself coming back to that, I think, every single day, because… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings To date, Heather's raised over twenty three million dollars in funding with Solve from some of the greatest in the world of venture, including Bill Gurley at Benchmark, Teresa Gow at Aspect, James Slavitt at Greylock, and Pete Flint at NFX.
- ▶ 20:48 Harry Stebbings I mean, Bill Gurley at Benchmark, James Slavitt at Greylock,
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 25:00 Jeff Fagnan And I had forgotten that Sam had spent time after Harvard Business School at Greylock before becoming an entrepreneur. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 8:26 Fritz Lanman And then the third was a company called Download, which pivoted into reverse, which was Greylock backed, which was picked up by Dropbox.
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
- ▶ 26:41 Dan Scheinman Let me just say that you could, if you walked into the great VCs, Andreessen, Sequoia, Greylock, those guys have a clear thesis on what they're doing, and they know exactly what they're doing, and I think to be a successful angel investor,…
20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings But to the show today, and an episode which really reminds me just what an honour and a privilege it is to do the show, so I'm very thrilled to welcome Jerry Chen, partner at Greylock, one of the world's most successful VC funds with prior… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:53 Jerry Chen It was after that long tour of duty that I reconnected with Daniel Bushry, who is one of my partners at Greylock and obviously 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:34 Harry Stebbings I'd love to hear how your board member skills and thinking has maybe developed over the time you've been at Greylock, and also having worked with the partnership and evolved as an investor and a board member itself. 3 times in the scene
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