Henrique Dubugras
28 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2019 by Henrique Dubugras · said 117 times in 57 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
- 20VC Exclusive: Fast's Domm Holland on What Really Happened at Fast? Were they really Burning $10M per Month? Where did Bolt Succeed Where Fast Did Not? What is It Really Like To Have Stripe Invest in your Company?
- 20 Growth: Why Retention Defines Product Market Fit, What is Good Retention Levels Today, The Most Counterintuitive Elements of Product and Growth & Why So Many Startups Mess Up Hiring For Growth Teams with Brian Hale, Head of Consumer Product & Growth @
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 24 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
- 20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors
- 20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- 20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- 20VC: Why Venture Fund Life Cycles Do Not Align To Companies Today, Actionable Strategies To Separate Good From Great When Assessing and Hiring Multiple Candidates & Why We Need More Adventure in Venture Capital with Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO @ Boom Sup
- 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
- 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 55 mentions in 28 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- 20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
- 20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- 20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games
- 20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- 20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- 20VC: Inside The Mind of A Leading LP: How LPs Evaluate New Fund Managers on Everything from First Meeting to Portfolio Construction To Fees and Carry with Lisa Edgar, Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners
- 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
- 20 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 29 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: First Round's Phin Barnes on How The Best Founders Optimize for Learning Per Dollar Spent, What Makes A Truly Special Founder/VC Relationship and Why Pattern Recognition is Another Term For Intellectual Laziness
- 20VC: Learnings From Backing The Likes of Spotify and Airbnb, The World of Growth Investing Today and The Right Way For Investors To Think About Liquidity with Woody Marshall, General Partner @ TCV
- 20VC: A Framework For Approaching Risk and How It Affects Portfolio Construction | Lessons and Advice From Working with Dropbox's Drew Houston | Why Being A Learning Animal Is The Most Important Factor For Success with Ted Wang, Partner @ Cowboy Ventures
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- 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
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
Everything said about Henrique Dubugras, oldest first
Feb 15, 2019 negative
Henrique Dubugras says Silicon Valley's taboo against cash compensation is hypocritical
“I think there's this thing in Silicon Valley where compensation is kind of like this weird topic that people don't talk about because you need to be like mission driven. And if you're compensation driven, you're bad, right? You're evil because that's like bank…”
Feb 15, 2019
Brex co-founders knew each other for only weeks before starting their company
“You know, it's kind of lucky. I think a lot of the, you know, common advice is that, you know, don't work with someone that you haven't known. For a long time, and we knew each other for, you know, a couple of weeks before we started a company together, so I w…”
Feb 15, 2019 bullish
Feb 15, 2019 positive
Brex paid market or above-market cash compensation to attract early hires
“We were very non-restrictive in cash compensation. We didn't force people to take pay cuts to join us. So I think that's like a reality. A lot of startups is in the beginning. It's hard to get really good people or more experienced people because, you know, yo…”
Feb 15, 2019
Feb 15, 2019
Brex's longest venture fundraising round took only six days to close
“And then whenever, you know, we're all around the round that took us the most time to raise took six days because we already knew, you know, Everyone involved, and everyone already knew Brex, and you know, the decision was kind of made even before we went fund…”
Feb 15, 2019 negative
Feb 15, 2019 positive
Startups should cut office luxuries but never skimp on top employee compensation
“So for example, I think like you shouldn't save on employee comp. If there's good people and you want to hire them, like, and you have to raise everyone else's salary just to hire this person because, you know, they're more comp and you need to be fair to ever…”
Feb 15, 2019
Henrique Dubugras evaluates candidates on 'career delta' over total years of experience
“The way I think about it today is I think there's a few things, but I think the thing I most look at is career delta. So where did they, you know, start and where are they based on like, how much time are they working? You know, things like that. So if you kno…”
Feb 15, 2019
Apr 15, 2022 positive
Apr 15, 2022
Apr 15, 2022 negative
Dubugras stopped ADHD medication because it degraded his spontaneity and relationship-building
“Even though it was giving me some superpowers, I was becoming more focused and productive in some ways, it was taking away from other superpowers that I had. For example, spontaneity and building relationships and other things that I was good at... And I stopp…”
Apr 15, 2022 positive
Dubugras: Hiring a personal chef was his best personal health investment
“Having a chef, changed my life completely. I eat so healthy, and before COVID, I was, like, serving up, driving off. Delivery is, like, cold, and it's hard, and I think that now, I think my health increased a lot because of it, so I think it's the best investm…”
Apr 15, 2022 positive
Dubugras: Money is best used as fuel for personal and business growth
“And I think the best use of money is growth, both for the company and personally. I have no issue spending money to go to a trip to meet someone that I'm going to learn a ton from, right? Like, I have no issue hiring someone to teach me something that I'm very…”
Apr 15, 2022 negative
Apr 15, 2022
Dubugras: Core platform bets should be sequenced, not run in parallel
“If your bets need, like, core platform investment, right, like, you need the entire company to mobilize to make it happen, then I would say, like, hey, sequence it, like, choose one. It's not that you're never going to do this bet again, just, like, you need t…”
Apr 15, 2022 negative
Dubugras: Brex hired big-company executives who couldn't adapt to strategic shifts
“And I think we hired a bunch of people for a while that were just very good at scaling, getting something that's working and making it bigger. And we had so much change of recs and strategy and direction. A lot of people couldn't keep up with the change.”
Apr 15, 2022 positive
Brex split co-founder roles into internal management and external CEO duties
“Pedro and I, we kind of found our space. Split around external CEO and internal CEO. Pidra actually loves management, and he hates doing a lot of the external stuff that CEOs do, and I don't really like management, but I like a lot of the other jobs the CEO ha…”
Apr 15, 2022
Dubugras: Companies slow down by creating processes to prevent 1% edge cases
“99% of the people that weren't buying bottles of wine now have to do this process that slows them down in order to solve for the one percent of times that things go wrong, right? Get to this story that I just told and extrapolate to basically everything in the…”
Apr 15, 2022
Apr 15, 2022 positive
Apr 15, 2022
Apr 15, 2022
Dubugras: Expand product lines only when core offerings reach maturity
“If you're expanding to, it's the same customer that you're serving with a product that makes your current product better because that product exists. So you're gaining, not only you're selling this new product, but your old product is better because you have t…”
Apr 15, 2022 positive
Apr 15, 2022 neutral
Dubugras: Evaluate executive adaptability via zero-to-one track records, not interview questions
“Yeah, there's a bunch of questions, but I think smart executives, they know the answers to all of them. I think it's looking through the experiences, even if they're at a big company, how to take something off the ground. Or would they always hand it something…”
Apr 15, 2022
Apr 15, 2022
Dubugras: Smart people post-hoc rationalize decisions driven by intuition
“A lot of times, very smart people, this is the thing about smart people, they rationalize anything, but the reality is, like, intuition comes first, rationality comes second, so you want to do something first, because of whatever, like, you're feeling like it,…”