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Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
- ▶ 1:01:23 Harry Stebbings Like Hunter and Satyr at Homebrew, um, you know, have been incredibly successful as of you and decided not to raise more money from LPs.
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:25 Harry Stebbings I remember Satya and Hunter at Homebrew saying actually one of the joys of their partnerships was neither really needed the money honestly coming into it, and it actually meant they had a lot of mental and creative freedom around decision…
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:14 Jason Lemkin And I can't remember which, which of his, like, Decacorn Satya said from Homebrew that they did from raw inbound, but it was one of them, right?
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:50 Harry Stebbings We'll talk about kind of portfolio construction, kind of, um, slightly financial mechanics in some ways, but I do want to ask, I had Hunter and Satcher on from Homebrew, a fund in San Francisco, and they said the best partnerships are…
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:56 Sheel Mohnot So that's Homebrew and IA.
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:22 Satya Patel Um, the other thing I think was, uh, clarity around, um, what makes for a homebrew investment, right?
- ▶ 6:52 Hunter Walk It's you're taking money from homebrew.
- ▶ 9:36 Hunter Walk Like the people who invested in us were ones who were perfectly happy to believe that like homebrew is going to be greater than the sum of its parts. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:22 Hunter Walk Talking 30 minutes to each of our founders and some of our co-investors about Homebrew, about each of us, and, like, getting that data back, um, trying to become the best version of ourselves. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:34 Harry Stebbings Before we kind of discuss kind of looking forwards in the next generation of homebrew, I do have to ask you, a lot of partnerships, I think, break down because of financials, actually. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:03 Satya Patel Like, when Hunter and I started Homebrew again, we kind of talked about our long-term vision, and we always had this notion in our minds that maybe after 20 years, uh, we could become a family office and do things on our own, and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:40 Hunter Walk We are taking carry from, you know, the continued carry from years one through 10, homebrew one through three, and put, and that is funding years three through seven of homebrew forever.
- ▶ 36:56 Harry Stebbings Did you feel the pressure to deploy, honestly, when you had Homebrew?
- ▶ 46:49 Hunter Walk We're in business with them, you know, to the tune of several hundred billion dollars, you know, in homebrew funds one through three. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:38 Hunter Walk Homebrew was my first institutional venture experience.
- ▶ 1:05:36 Hunter Walk And I'm hoping that one of the success metrics for homebrew is the value created post public exit, right?
- ▶ 1:12:40 Hunter Walk And so the chance to, through my experience at, at Google and, you know, um, what we've been able to do at homebrew so far, my chance to get to a point of stability where I know I'll be okay. 4 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:09 Jason Lemkin And they're like, well, we love homebrew, but the fund size is too small. 4 times in the scene
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?
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: 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
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Blake has raised over a hundred and sixty-six million dollars in funding with Boom, from the likes of Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Ray Taunting at Caffeinated Capital, Homebrew, and a dear friend of mine in Josh Buckley, to name a…
20VC: Alexa Von Tobel on Raising NYC's Largest Ever Female Led Fund , Portfolio Construction, Compression of Fundraising Timelines, Reserves Management & Personal Branding in Venture
- ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Satya at Homebrew, Rebecca at USV, and Alexa's partner Lucy for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 3:05 Harry Stebbings I've heard many good things from Satya at Homebrew, from Rebecca at USV.
- ▶ 6:18 Harry Stebbings So starting from a question from one of our mutual friends, Satya at Homebrew, he said, what was your pitch to LPs and why do you think it works so well?
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
- ▶ 48:24 Sumit Gajri Fund, you know, there's a lot of great funds out there, you know, you guys at Stride, Manu Kamara K-Nine, they get Tima Homebrew, but there's a lot of great early stage funds that you can partner with.
20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Zach has raised over three hundred million with Plaid from some of the best in the business, including Mary Mika, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Spark, and Homebrew, just to name a few.
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 16:52 Harry Stebbings We had Hunter Walk from Homebrew on the show, and he said about the presence of dark deal flow, the deals kind of beneath the surface that the public doesn't see.
20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Joe has raised over sixteen million dollars in funding for Joy Mode from friends of the show, including Homebrew, Slow Ventures, Founder Collective, Scott Belsky, Collaborative Fund, and Lowercase, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 Harry Stebbings As I said, so many mutual friends, but a huge thanks to Satya and Hunter at Homebrew for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Joe.
- ▶ 7:07 Harry Stebbings I mean, a question from Satya Patel at Homebrew, he asked, given that experience, how did you fundraise differently with Joy Mode? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool & How To Use Humour When "S*** Hits The Fan" with Jesse Genet, Founder & CEO @ Lumi
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Jesse's raised close to ten million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the business and old friends of the show, including Satya at Homebrew, Kirsten at Forerunner, the team at Spark Capital, Lowercase, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:24 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things, both from Satya at Homebrew and Jonathan at Ludlow, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 10:09 Harry Stebbings The VCs behind you, I spoke to many of them before the show, Satya at Homebrew, Jordan at Ludlow.
20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- ▶ 10:56 David Waxman Yeah, I think, I can't quite remember, but I'm almost sure that the first round of Joy Mode was an equity round, and it was led by Homebrew, and I think all of my peers and me believe that
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
- ▶ 19:23 Semil Shah And so the, in order to play that fund well, you have to operate like a homebrew where you're doing five to eight deals per year and really, really focusing on ownership.
- ▶ 24:15 Semil Shah I think the way homebrew just builds relationships with
20VC: What Does It Take To Raise A Venture Fund Today, An Analysis of The Explosion of Seed Financing & Why IRR No Longer Takes Centre Stage with Samir Kaji, Senior Managing Director @ First Republic Bank
- ▶ 25:41 Samir Kaji I think Homebrew did an incredible job. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings And they have backing from some of the investing greats of the day, including Marc Andreessen, Naval Ravikant, Homebrew, Soft
- ▶ 17:54 Jonathan Abrams I mean, we have Andreessen Horwitz and CRV and Lowercase and SoftTech and Homebrew, and they're fantastic, fantastic investors, and of course, we brag about it, but the reality is almost everybody can brag about their investors because…
20VC: Homebrew's Hunter Walk on Why There Is No Series A Crunch, How To Package Portfolio Companies For The Next Round & Why The Bridge Round Is Not Always A Negative Sign?
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Now, Hunter is a founding partner at Homebrew, one of Silicon Valley's breakout seed funds of the last five years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:32 Hunter Walk Then I, you know, and this is really the origin story of homebrew itself. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:32 Hunter Walk And I think it's an important exception because it's an exception that in many cases we are building homebrew atop of.
- ▶ 15:48 Hunter Walk What's great about our model with homebrew, staying relatively small and concentrated at seed stages, we're ultimately judged by the investments we do, not the investments we don't do. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:01 Hunter Walk And so one of the reasons we're named homebrew is a nod back to the homebrew computer club of the late seventies and eighties. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:24 Harry Stebbings And what's the biggest challenge you have day to day with Homebrew Day? 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- ▶ 25:57 Harry Stebbings I cannot wait to bring you Monday's episode with Hunter Walk at Homebrew.
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 13:55 Jason Lemkin Well, you know, Excel and Sequoia and Andreessen came back to market, so we're pretty good there, and we love Homebrew and Data Collective and Cowboy and all these small funds, and we're good there, and we love Felicis, and there's just no…
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 9:39 Harry Stebbings In terms of kind of getting that edge and being that great investor, um, both Mark Andreessen and Satya Patel at Homebrew said before that having strong opinions loosely held is a characteristic of great
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 14:31 Harry Stebbings And kind of speaking of comparative moments there, and looking back in time, you've, you've worked with very much the old god of VC, with, you know, Kleiner and Benchmark and Battery backing Friendster, and then now with Nuzzle, it seems,… 4 times in the scene
Immediately's Branko Cerny on The Rise Of Bottoms Up Sales and The Importance of Branding For Enterprise SaaS Companies
- ▶ 28:31 Harry Stebbings I really do appreciate all your tweets and support, and I look so forward to bringing you next Monday's interview with Satya Patel at Homebrew.
Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
- ▶ 16:17 Harry Stebbings Uh, and, and kind of taking a step back now and talking about first round, uh, now these, this is the second, second part of the interview, and these are mostly from Satya at Homebrew.