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Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:57 Harry Stebbings Samuel said on the show the other day from Haystack,
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings I spoke to some, some, many mutual friends, um, which was great fun, and I want to start with the firm itself being Haystack, and Hunter Walk, obviously from Homebrew, he asked, how do you decide what each thumb size for Haystack will be? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:18 Harry Stebbings You know, one of the, one of the things that concerns me is the misalignment of incentives within the LP landscape, whereby they say, hey, we'll do Andreessen
- ▶ 1:17:02 Harry Stebbings Uh, what's been the single hardest moment of the Haystack journey, my friend?
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… 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings Samuel's also, alongside his role at Haystack, a venture partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and prior to founding Haystack, Samuel was on the operating side as an early advisor and employee at Concept.io, or Swell, acquired by Apple… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:28 Harry Stebbings Venture and come to be GP at Haystack and found Haystack and then also venture partner at Lightspeed.
- ▶ 21:42 Harry Stebbings We spoke about kind of paystacking the new fund there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:57 Harry Stebbings What's the single biggest challenge of your role with Haystack today, Samuel? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Harry Stebbings As I said at the beginning, just such a special member of our ecosystem, and I couldn't be more thrilled to see the continued success of Haystack.
20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates
- ▶ 25:04 Harry Stebbings I mean, we had Samuel Shah on the show from Haystack and Lightspeed, and he said that actually the best early stage managers of the next decade will be able to successfully navigate the secondary market with ease.
20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to friend of the show Semel Shah at Haystack for the intro to Hans today, without which this episode would not have been possible.
20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Now, Semmel is the founder of Haystack, an early-stage investment firm with a star-studded portfolio, including the likes of Instacart, DoorDash, Giphy, Opendoor, and Managed by Q, just to name a few.
- ▶ 2:23 Harry Stebbings Haystack.
- ▶ 26:34 Harry Stebbings Some very exciting times ahead for Haystack, and if you'd like to see more from Semil, you can follow him on Twitter, at Semil, or you can head over to his website, Haystack, to check out more of his incredible writing. 2 times in the scene