Hunter Walk
19 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 3, 2017 by Hunter Walk · said 33 times in 20 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (16), Joe Fernandez (4), Ethan Kurzweil (4), John Fein (2), Sean Brecker (1), Mac the VC (1), Jonathan Abrams (1), Jason Lemkin (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mac the VC on the Journey from Homeless To Becoming A VC | Full Interview with Harry Stebbings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures
- 20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 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
- 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
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- 20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital
- 20VC: Explosion of First Time Funds, Only 1 Mega Fund Raised: What The Heck Happened in Q1 Venture Markets with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- 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
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- 20VC: Maximising Engagement and Retention on Mobile & Why There Should Always Be Availability To A Free Product with Sean Brecker, CEO @ Headspace
- 20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- 20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Hunter Walk, oldest first
Apr 3, 2017 neutral
Apr 3, 2017 negative
Apr 3, 2017 neutral
Hunter Walk: Most seed deal flow is dark and limited to few funds
“Because most of the, you know, at the seed stage, deal flow is more, I think, about what I'd call sort of dark deal flow. Deals that don't get seen outside of a handful of funds than necessarily 50 funds all fighting over and tracking the same company.”
Apr 3, 2017 positive
Hunter Walk: Founder-market fit is Homebrew's primary investment evaluation criterion
“I think if Satya and I had to make a decision about any one quality that was present or not present in terms of impacting a investment decision, it would probably be something around founder market Or the why, why are they building this company?”
Apr 3, 2017
Hunter Walk: Early-stage investors must back misunderstood companies
“So I'd say Lemkin is totally correct when you're playing in a space where the goalposts are well documented. But I think as an early stage investor, you also need to be willing to back companies that are going to be misunderstood for a long period of time and …”
Jan 31, 2023
Walk: Homebrew co-founders had millions saved before starting the fund
“I think, like, not that this is, you know, sort of unspoken, because I think we've both talked about this, but, like, we also started this later in our careers, right? Like, we were both in our, you know, mid-late thirties, and I think it's, like, we both We w…”
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023
Walk: Success does not solve unaddressed co-founder disagreements
“And I think a lot of those tensions are often what caused conflict either because they weren't discussed early enough or because there's disagreement from the get-go and you figure, you know, success will solve all things. And that's not true.”
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023
Walk: Homebrew never missed an outlier investment due to consensus rules
“We look back And we've struggled over 10 years to find an occasion where lack of, you know, if there was lack of consensus, it meant we didn't do the deal. And I don't think we have any, you know, quote unquote outliers that were, you know, false negatives bec…”
Jan 31, 2023
Walk: De-risked seed investing does not exist
“I don't think there's such a thing as like, De-risked seed. Like you should be betting on companies that in a success scenario can be wildly, wildly successful and worth a, you know, incredible amount of capital and want, you know, to own a percentage of those…”
Jan 31, 2023 bearish
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023 bearish
Jan 31, 2023 bullish
Walk: Venture slowdown will benefit early product-market fit startups
“And so in some ways, I think part of our portfolio that's really going to benefit from the slowdown Are the early product market fit, you know, companies that now have some capital in the bank, but don't have to, aren't getting the crossover investors, pitchin…”
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023
Walk: Homebrew uses external 360-degree feedback interviews with founders every two years
“We do three, six used to do every other year, like an externally led, 360 degree feedback real process with our founders and some of our co-investors. Not, you know, like a survey, you know, or an NPS score, but like, Talking 30 minutes to each of our founders…”
Jan 31, 2023 positive