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Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:52 Gokul Rajaram Uh, Trade Desk where I'm on the board had two seed investors, uh, IA Ventures, Roger Ellenberg, who's absolutely a goat, and then, uh, Founder Collective, again, goat firm, both of them.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:01 Harry Stebbings And Roger Ehrenberg from IA is one of the best investors from the last decade.
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:04 Harry Stebbings And I said this on Twitter, and Roger Ehrenberg at IA very much agreed with me, and so I think it fundamentally challenges as you reserves as a model entirely.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:29 Harry Stebbings They were always in the mid-tier, and actually it was Roger Ehrenberg at IA who said, that is exactly the same as me, and I see exactly that in our portfolios.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:32 Harry Stebbings At IA Ventures.
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:57 Michael Eisenberg I've spoken to a venture capitalist, Jesse Beirutti at IA Ventures.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:00 Jason Lemkin I mean, we did, we did a fun one together with, uh, IA Ventures, and others, I think they invested like four or five million in Datadog in the early days, right?
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:33 Roger Ehrenberg But if you, if you look at when I left IA, that was pretty much the peak.
- ▶ 10:12 Roger Ehrenberg And because of the small asset size and I would say IA is certainly one of the best examples.
- ▶ 36:25 Roger Ehrenberg You know, we at IA would work with our companies to plan probably
- ▶ 39:41 Roger Ehrenberg And we wanted to distribute something from fund two and to generate some recycling dollars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:01 Roger Ehrenberg From a very different situation in fund one, when we sold simple to BBVA, because that generated the liquidity that we then invested in the trade desk series B.
- ▶ 49:17 Harry Stebbings How much money did the trade desk make for IA? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:28 Roger Ehrenberg For IA,
- ▶ 57:44 Harry Stebbings Because IA has amazing bangers, Wise, Datadog, um, yeah, the trade desk, great founders come to you, LPs come to you, and success is this cyclical snowball down a hill?
- ▶ 1:05:00 Roger Ehrenberg It's going to be the same thing that I did, whatever, 1314 years ago at IA or
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:10 Harry Stebbings I'm like, when you look at like a Roger Ehrenberg at IA, the guy is fucking brilliant.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:21 unnamed speaker I'll say another that I think is less well-known, which is IA Ventures. 8 times in the scene
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:12 Jason Lemkin IA ventures, right? 2 times in the scene
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.
David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:26 Harry Stebbings I can say to founders, and everyone else can say to founders, your Frankels of the world, your IAs of the world, we love David, he's awesome, which I'm sure we all do, but he'll take a hundred K, like, let's push him down, like, we can get…
20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market
- ▶ 9:50 Harry Stebbings Now I'm so excited to hand over to one of my favorite thinkers in the venture business, Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures.
20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings So for those that do not know, Roger is a founding partner at IA Ventures, one of the most successful seed funds of the last decade, with four hundred and seventy-five million dollars across their four funds. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:03 Roger Ehrenberg Terrific mentors of mine, like Fred Wilson, who started the ball rolling with some introductions, and I took it on as a full-time job, and, you know, in the next five years, seeded 40 companies, and sat on six boards, led six rounds, kind…
- ▶ 14:00 Roger Ehrenberg I mean, and we have our own examples in the history of IA where we've done that, where, and probably our single best example of that is the trade desk.
- ▶ 20:27 Roger Ehrenberg Whether you call it the IA method or the RIP good time sequoia method, same idea.
- ▶ 38:55 Roger Ehrenberg It's absolutely an IA company where I was 4 times in the scene
20VC: Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel on The Scaling Journey to a $26Bn Market Cap, The Challenges in Moving From Single To Multi-Product Company & How To Scale Efficiently into $M+ Enterprise Deals
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Olivier raised over a hundred and forty seven million dollars for the company, from Index, Iconic, Meritech, IA Ventures, Amplify, and OpenView, to name a few.
20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
- ▶ 32:24 Zach Weinberg Maybe the person I know who's the best at this is probably like Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures, and he's a rational, logical thinker, but he's going to say, I don't know the answer to this, and I'm not confident in my answer.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 29:28 Mike Maples I don't know the exact numbers, but I think that IA Ventures and Roger Ehrenberg and his team
- ▶ 35:46 Mike Maples I'd say Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures.
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
- ▶ 18:36 David Tisch Whether that's Harrison Metal or an IA Ventures, it feels like they don't change their playbook.
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
- ▶ 3:11 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Jesse at IA, and so I do want to kick off, though, with a little bit about you.
- ▶ 24:43 Jason Boehmig Steve at Excel, Jesse at IA are just some of the people that I've been fortunate enough to run into.
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
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings Now, Jesse is a partner at IA Ventures, one of the top performing early stage funds of the last decade. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough from me, so now without further ado, I'm so excited to hand over to Jesse Bayrussi, general partner at IA Ventures.
- ▶ 3:40 Harry Stebbings And so tell me, how did you make your way into what we both know to be the wonderful world of venture and come to be a GP with IA today? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:54 Jesse Beyroutey And similarly, what perspective can you take with respect to, you know, we have a long history at IA Ventures with data assets.
- ▶ 15:49 Jesse Beyroutey One, two, three, each of the three of us at iVentures each year.
- ▶ 16:46 Harry Stebbings You said that you said that about the low cadence of checks that you guys write at IA. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:26 Harry Stebbings I'm really interested for you with IA, and especially in New York and the US market, how do you think about when's the right time to build ownership?
- ▶ 26:16 Jesse Beyroutey So I tried to respond to everything from early on with actually, I think the first company that I had the pleasure of working on at IA called TransferWise started doing this and we ended up doing it with a lot of our other portfolio…
- ▶ 33:15 Harry Stebbings Building with IA, and if you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Dennis has raised over forty-four million in VC funding from the likes of FirstMark, IA Ventures, Lyra Hippo, DCM, and more fantastic names.
- ▶ 25:43 Harry Stebbings I spoke to many of your investors before the show from David at DCM to Brad at IA.
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
- ▶ 11:19 Harry Stebbings Uh, I think it would be debate would be a nice way to put it between the likes of Michael Kim at Sandana, Roger Ehrenberg at IA, and then obviously Dave McClure and, um, Matt Lerner at 500.
20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings However, talking of a bonus, we have that for you today with this fantastic episode, so joining me in the hot seat, I'm thrilled to welcome Roger Ehrenberg, founder and managing partner at IA Ventures. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings However, enough from me, so I'm now delighted to hand over to Roger Ehrenberg, founder and managing partner at IA Ventures.
- ▶ 3:14 Roger Ehrenberg And that was really the genesis of high adventures.
- ▶ 3:34 Harry Stebbings And how does that take then affect your strategy with IA? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:43 Roger Ehrenberg IA will end up owning somewhere between 12 and 15% at exit.
- ▶ 17:46 Roger Ehrenberg Conversely, once you've, once you've proven the experiments and you've got a real company and you've got a company that is worthy, then having a lot of these services and helping with recruiting and, and corporate introductions and stuff… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:50 Roger Ehrenberg Especially, Harry, where we're investing in IA, which is so early, where there is such sparse data, that if we don't have a process, if we don't have founders that embrace experimentation, if we don't have a rigorous approach to data…
20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings And the company's raised a staggering hundred and twenty three million dollars in funding from some of the best investors in the world, including the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Techstars, IA Ventures, Access Industries, and Crunch Fund,…
- ▶ 19:14 Moisey Uretsky You know, in the seed round, it was relatively straightforward because IA Ventures was, uh, basically I met Brad
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 20:40 Chris Douvos And the funds that I did during that period, first round and floodgate, you know, IA out of New York and several others.
20 VC 089: Eric Paley @ Founder Collective on Outliers, Inspirational Founders and Pro Rata
- ▶ 26:01 Eric Paley I mean, I think there are a lot of really good people in this business, but, you know, we, uh, we think very highly of First Round and Lear Ventures and Floodgate, and here in Boston, I think very highly of NextView, and, um, Steve…