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Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:27 Harry Stebbings I saw your talk with Antoine, not Antoine, Larson, sorry, at Index, and you said about the U.S. banking license.
- ▶ 35:13 Harry Stebbings How do you think about winning when there's five others, and you've got Sequoia, and you've got Index, and you have all the pretty...
- ▶ 38:35 Nik Storonsky I mean, I've got, you know, fantastic investors, to be honest, like Matan from Index, you know, very smart.
Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:52 Guy Podjarny Uh, we really have the ability to build for the long run, uh, and to invest when we get the thing that is working, alongside just having really, really good partners, like I love Carlos, who now joined the round, and Index is a great…
Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many good things from Danny Reimer at INDEX for many years, so thank you so much for joining me today.
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:01 Cem Sertoglu I think if you look at those firms as kind of a one strategy, one investment portfolio, uh, I think you could come to that conclusion, but what I see it is at the core of their portfolios, if they are early stage investors, so I don't mean… 2 times in the scene
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:22 Mark Goldberg I mean, you know, when I joined, uh, index ventures almost a decade ago, um, you know, the pitch that I would give to founders when I didn't have a brand or a portfolio was I'm going to out hustle anybody else.
- ▶ 16:58 Mark Goldberg Yeah, so I think one of the lessons I learned from Index Ventures, and certainly two of my mentors, Mike Volpe, Ilya Fushman, was you want to be in the category winner, and when you need to pay up to be in a category winner, that's…
- ▶ 44:57 Mark Goldberg I mean, if you look at, you know, I was very fortunate to see some amazing companies from index from the early days, whether it was a Figma, whether it was a whiz, whether it was a data dog companies that, you know, have been able to build…
- ▶ 51:07 Mark Goldberg The person I learned the most from has been Mike Volpe, um, just a tremendous mentor to me at, at Index Ventures and, uh, somebody I continue to call regularly for advice as, as I'm kind of navigating kind of our, our new fund and next…
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:20 Harry Stebbings Cash had been in before, you know, Greylock were in already, Index were in already.
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:46 Harry Stebbings But I know a lot of people, I get, I love Index, they're great, but Index's seed fund is like five hundred million? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:26 Harry Stebbings Listen, I had Shardul on from Index the other day, and I asked him, uh, what's your biggest loss and what did you learn?
Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:50 Akshay Kothari Again, we didn't have the cash needs, but we needed an index and co-to stamp that, hey, I'm putting fifty million dollars in this company that is growing and that actually really helped us recruit and like break that.
- ▶ 36:06 Harry Stebbings We mentioned index.
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:44 Shardul Shah Like I've been with index for like 20 years, so I don't have actually a lot of experience with other 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:33 Shardul Shah Uh, but in my home at, at index, uh, it, it's about finding fund returners.
- ▶ 7:10 Shardul Shah Um, one of the areas I actually started in at index was biotech. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:16 Shardul Shah At Index, we, um, I was once asked to run like a tech offsite, and so I kind of threw the,
- ▶ 14:13 Shardul Shah So I think at Index, we've been really good at overthinking TAM and systematically underestimating the magnitude of our best companies.
- ▶ 23:18 Shardul Shah Um, I think when you have a culture like a, an index, uh, we invite agreeable disagreements, right?
- ▶ 31:52 Shardul Shah One sleeve is for index, one sleeve is for, sleeve is for a seed fund, and the third sleeve is for angels operators.
- ▶ 32:36 Harry Stebbings If you think about index, like, what do you need? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:01 Shardul Shah If I were, I would construct index in a completely different way, right?
- ▶ 39:14 Harry Stebbings Who is the best from your perspective outside of index? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:15 Shardul Shah And so we create some guardrails within index.
- ▶ 44:48 Harry Stebbings It's Insight, it's Sequoia, it's Index, like big, big pools of cash. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:53 Shardul Shah I see at index? 2 times in the scene
Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:32 Harry Stebbings You know, index have a separate seed fund in particular just for this asset class or for this sector.
- ▶ 20:03 Harry Stebbings Most of the seed funds that we actually have in market today are trying to compete with index and with founders fund and with Sequoia on the.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:03 Harry Stebbings When I spoke to Danny Reimer a couple of weeks ago, he said, the reason that index has been successful, I'm kind of bastardizing it, but you know, it's kind of my job, uh, uh, is that they've been very, very good at keeping the main thing,…
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:58 Harry Stebbings You know, I didn't, she just had Danny Ramon from, uh, index and he was saying about Ron the other day.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:44 Danny Rimer Um, two of the most pertinent ones, clearly one is what we've really adopted at Index from the beginning, which is, Danny, the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
- ▶ 7:18 Harry Stebbings Different investing partnerships have different approaches to decision making, and I'm just intrigued, given now the scope of the team, and many different personalities, how do you think about the most effective decision making that you've…
- ▶ 10:43 Danny Rimer Those are the, those are the four that we had real opportunity in some fashion or another to manufacture the opportunity for Index to be in the round, and, and we, we failed for different reasons. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:54 Danny Rimer I think it's, in, in the case of Index, it is, it is a story of discipline, and it's a story about manufacturing discipline in as many different ways as possible, and so for us, creating investment theses are a way of making sure that we…
- ▶ 16:46 Danny Rimer You know, that's probably been a big learning over the years, and I would like to think that index has learned from its mistakes.
- ▶ 23:24 Danny Rimer I'm trying to think of how do I make so many index backed companies worth tens of billions and possibly hundreds of billions.
- ▶ 30:36 Danny Rimer We really, everyone at Index, you know, there, we have very varied personalities, but we all really enjoy working with one another, and it's just relatively small crew that fits around a table, and we really enjoy that, and so the more…
- ▶ 32:13 Danny Rimer I grew up in Switzerland, and, and Index started in Switzerland.
- ▶ 34:25 Danny Rimer So, given how deliberate Index is, we obviously are going to spend a lot of time thinking of branding, and try and bring that to our, to our entrepreneurs.
- ▶ 36:39 Danny Rimer I think probably one of the things that Index is best at is the exiting part. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:31 Danny Rimer When I think about it, um, it was also a lesson for Index because, you know, we wanted to lead that round, and then, um, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:20 Danny Rimer Well, the bar, the bar is, the bar is the index bar.
- ▶ 53:11 Danny Rimer So we raised the growth fund, the first growth fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:15 Danny Rimer And part of the reason why at Index we love working in the US and in Europe is that, you know, those spikes
- ▶ 1:02:33 Danny Rimer You know, one of the ways that we talk about index is compassionate ass kickers.
- ▶ 1:06:21 Harry Stebbings Because people are like, who are these index guys from Europe? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:27 Danny Rimer I mean, we're seeing so many opportunities. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:31 Harry Stebbings Dude, you build Index, and you are on planes every week, I'm sure, most of your life actually for the last 20 years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:45 Danny Rimer I had decided to partner with KP because it was against Benchmark, and it was in the heyday of KP, and Kevin still won them over, but Martin, the CEO, was, you know, excited about Index enough and wanted to give us a shot that he gave us a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:08 Harry Stebbings What would be your biggest advice to me building a firm, having built Index to the incredible stage that it is?
- ▶ 1:22:11 Harry Stebbings Where is index in 10 years time in an ideal world? 6 times in the scene
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:18 Tom Blomfield He's gone to index who are very, very good angels.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:30 Harry Stebbings And of course, index does not call up Sequoia who've done the pre-seed or the seed and say, oh, are you going to do the A?
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:52 David Clark and so I, I think I'd like to try and democratize venture to some extent, and that works on multiple levels, so it's about giving, giving everyday investors the opportunity to invest in a Sequoia, or an Accel, or an Andreessen, or a…
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:39 Terrence Rohan I joined, um, Index Ventures, actually joined over in London and led and managed to see practice for them for seven years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:23 Terrence Rohan I mean, I, I started off, that was my job at, that was my first gig in 2010 at Index.
- ▶ 1:19:17 David Tisch Because again, I don't think Index wakes up and calls, uh, Benchmark. 3 times in the scene