Henry Ward
19 statements across 6 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement May 23, 2016 by Manu Kumar · said 37 times in 13 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (22), Jana Messerschmidt (9), Manu Kumar (3), Sumit Gajri (2), Katie Stanton (1)
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 17 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- 20VC: Multi-Stage Funds Investing At Seed Are Option Value Investing, Why The Biggest Enemy For Venture Firms Is Group Think and How Running Companies Changes Your Investment Mentality with Manu Kumar, Founder @ K9 Ventures
- 20VC: Why You Never Want To Fight A Fair Fit For Distribution, Why No Great Company Is Built with 1 Product and When To Release Your Second & What Founders Can Do To Extract The Most From Their Cap Table with Shoaib Makani, Founder & CEO @ KeepTruckin
- 20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- 20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 18 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- 20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early
- 20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- 20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing
- 20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
- 20VC: Inside The Acquisition Decision-Making Process at Cisco, How To Measure True Success in M&A Evaluation & Why By Not Speaking To Corp Dev Teams You Are Closing The Door On The Biggest Potential Accelerator To Your Business with Rob Salvagno, VP of Co
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about Henry Ward, oldest first
May 23, 2016 positive
Kumar: I pitched Henry Ward on the original concept for eShares
“EShares is one of my portfolio companies. And in fact, it's a company that I co-founded. And in the case of that company I was talking with Henry Ward, who's, who's my co-founder in that company about his previous company that he was working on. And I just rea…”
Jan 6, 2017 negative
Jan 6, 2017 positive
Jan 6, 2017 positive
Management and investor alignment is stronger in private markets than public
“I think one of the reasons that private companies work well and are working better and better is that the alignment of management and investors is more highly aligned in the private world than they are in the public world.”
Jan 29, 2018 positive
Apr 12, 2019
Ward: Equity grows exponentially while payroll accumulates linearly, causing wealth inequality
“Payroll is a debt product. With bi-monthly coupons, equity is a capital product, and in any economy, whether it's GDP for the nation or the Silicon Valley economy, any economy that's growing, by definition, equity accumulates exponentially, but debt accumulate…”
Apr 12, 2019
Apr 12, 2019
Ward: Startup founders must accept constant fires and let non-critical issues burn
“Sometimes you just have to let things burn, and it was super powerful for me, because it left me off the hook of, I have to fix everything today, that I can let things burn, and understand that there's always going to be forest fires, and being patient, and ha…”
Apr 12, 2019
Ward: Founders are irreplaceable because they hold the company vision
“But in these mission oriented and vision oriented companies, The founder is the keeper of the mission, and so you can build all these functional pieces around the founder, but the one thing that's very hard to replace is the keeper of the vision, and so it's s…”
Apr 12, 2019 negative
Apr 12, 2019
Henry Ward: A late-stage CEO's job reduces to storytelling and executive hiring
“My job increasingly becomes very specialized. And it's really about two things. One is telling our story to candidates, employees, investors, press, and then two is recruiting executives and keeping the right executives in the right place.”
Apr 12, 2019
Henry Ward: Founders don't need a high decision batting average to succeed
“And that's been true of me is that I've been wrong more than I've been right. My superpower is I'm very quick to realize it and fix the mistake. So the damage is, I do a good job of damage control on my mistake, but when I am right, I may not have a high batti…”
Apr 12, 2019
Apr 12, 2019
Henry Ward: Seed stage needs rapid decisions; late stage requires precision
“When you're in the early seed stages, making decisions quickly, learning quickly, being active, and making decisions on the front lines with information that you have, and adjusting quickly is an asset. At the later stages, there are fewer decisions to make on…”
Apr 12, 2019 positive
Ward: VC fundraising should be structured as a compressed auction
“Fundraising in private markets and venture is an auction process. And so aggregating the auction into a short period of time is part of the strategy because you want to create an auction. You want to create competition. You don't want to drag this out and do t…”
Apr 12, 2019
Apr 12, 2019 positive
Ward: Asking prospective VC investors for pre-investment work tests their quality
“Founders are afraid to ask investors to do work. I think that because they'll turn them off, I would use that actually as a great litmus test to turn them off, because if they don't want to do any work to earn the right to invest, they're not a good investor.”
Sep 2, 2019 positive
Jan 17, 2020 neutral
Carta was not the first cap table management company
“And example, I'll use the Henry where he didn't start the first cap table company and nor was he actually building a cap table company from day one. And there, there'd been a dozen or so companies over the last two decades that had been started to go after thi…”