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Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:23 unnamed speaker Very thematically in 2012, and I think initialized and why Combinator did the seed.
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:05 unnamed speaker Honestly, because my anchor is the same as Neo, is the same as Initialize, is the same as South Park Common.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 10:27 Max Altman We were able to put in a pretty good check, co-lead it with initialized Gary and Alexis, who also had a great fund that vintage.
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:25 unnamed speaker Because Gary Tan left initialized to run YC two years ago.
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:51 Harry Stebbings There's obviously initialized, there's seven, seven, six, and we have this unwavering success across different technology elements from operating to investing, and then it's like, you know what, I'm gonna start owning sports teams. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:43 Alexis Ohanian And so it was, it, from our vantage point, my thinking was, okay, this has been a slog to get done at Initialize.
- ▶ 1:13:38 Alexis Ohanian But, um, the GOAT one, that one we actually warehoused into Initialize.
- ▶ 1:21:30 Alexis Ohanian Less comfortable in that, and so I tolerated more, and four years ago, that shifted, and that was when I, that was when I resigned from the board of Reddit, that was when I started seven, seven, six, split up initialized, and it has been…
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:50 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Parker earlier when Gary Tannen initialized did ramp was an expensive ish seed round.
Ryan Akkina: How MIT Builds Their Venture Fund Portfolio & How MIT Approach Direct Investing | E1109 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:25 Ryan Akkina Um, and then, you know, there's some newer things as well that we've done in the past 10 or 15 years, like say, Green Oaks or Y Combinator initialized.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:09 Keith Rabois It was, you know, obviously controversial at the time, for the seed, and Gary Tan, initialized, also gave a term sheet.
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:52 Jason Lemkin Uh, but a plus plus plus getting Gary to run Y Combinator, you know, and leave initialize, leave, uh, you know, he rate, what did he raise a billion dollars and had a top 10 fund, right? 4 times in the scene
Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:32 Beezer Clarkson So I passed on the initialized fund one because we had just launched, yes, I know, I know. 2 times in the scene
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:54 Harry Stebbings The initialized is 500.
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:02 Jason Lemkin Like I have a lot, because of Alex Bengish, I have a lot of overlap with initialized, with atomic, with the, we have a lot of LP overlap.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:16 Semil Shah Like, if you think about an initialized in the last decade,
20VC: Rippling's Parker Conrad on Why The VC/Founder Marriage Analogy is Weird, Why The Notion of Focus, Focus, Focus is Overrated, Why Narrow Point Solutions Are Not Best in Class Products & The Rise of the "Compound Startup"
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Parker's raised over a hundred and ninety seven million dollars for Rippling from some of the best, including Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Initialized, Bedrock, Green Oaks, and Co.
20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Seven Seven Six, Alexis was the co-founder and managing partner at Initialize Capital, where he backed many a unicorn, including Rowe,
- ▶ 4:29 Alexis Ohanian We started initialized together, built that over the last seven, eight years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:35 Harry Stebbings In terms of initialized, what happened with initialized and why did you decide now is the time to leave and start the new firm? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 Harry Stebbings What worked for you with initialized that you've taken with you in forming seven, seven, six? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Inside The Mind of A Leading LP: How LPs Evaluate New Fund Managers on Everything from First Meeting to Portfolio Construction To Fees and Carry with Lisa Edgar, Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings Included in their stellar fund portfolio is the likes of Index, Initialize, True Ventures, Andreessen, and some of my favorites in Ed and Elliot at Boldstart, just to name a
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Justin has raised over seventy-five million dollars in funding from some of the best in the business for Atrium, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round, General Catalyst, Thrive, Initialized, and more.
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Cool has raised over fourteen million dollars in VC funding from some very dear friends of the show in the form of Gary and Alexis had initialized, James and Peter at NFX, Mike at Floodgate, Y Combinator, GV, and Naval Ravikant, just to…
- ▶ 10:44 Harry Stebbings I mean, speaking of the investors that did really get it and latch onto it, as I said earlier, I spoke to Gary and Alexis that initialized, and I actually, in my stalking, saw a tweet where you said about the foundational impact that… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Front's Mathilde Collin on Why Discipline Is More Important Than Vision, The Right Way To Approach Investor Updates and Director Reports & How To Effectively Structure 1-1s
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Mathilde's raised over seventy-nine million dollars in VC funding with Front from some of the best in the business, including Brian Schreier at Sequoia, Initialized, Uncork, Bold Start, and individuals including Andrew Chen, Elad…
20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
- ▶ 13:08 Jon Dishotsky Like I think Gary Tan from initialize actually had a tweet recently about this is like, if you're trying to value invest at the seed stage, it's kind of a silly exercise.
- ▶ 17:55 Jon Dishotsky And I actually have to give kudos to the initialized guys for taking down the notion of sort of hustle porn, as I would say.
20VC: One Question Founders Must Ask Themselves When Approaching Investor Selection, Why Series B Is One Of The Most Challenging Phases & What Makes For A Successful CEO Transition with Jeff Russakow, CEO @ Boosted
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised seventy-four million dollars in funding from the likes of Coastal Adventures, Inovia Capital, Andreessen Horace, and our friends from last episode with Gary Tan at Initialize Capital.
20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Now, Gary is the co-founder and managing partner at Initialize Capital, one of the leading West Coast early stage funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Coinbase, Instacart, Cruise, Flexport, and Opendoor, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:24 Harry Stebbings But enough of me, and so without further ado, I'm thrilled to welcome Gary Tan, co-founder and managing partner at Initialized Capital.
- ▶ 3:54 Harry Stebbings And for those that made the cardinal sin of not listening to our first episode, tell me, Gary, how did you make your way into what I know to be the wonderful world of venture and really come to found initialized?
- ▶ 7:47 Garry Tan Those are all things that people add initialized. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:10 Garry Tan And so that's sort of the really interesting shift that we've seen it initialized, where very early, when we first funded Brian Armstrong at Coinbase, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:44 Harry Stebbings Speaking of kind of success and applying maybe the pre and post product market fit to you and initialize Gary, I've wanted to ask this series of questions ever since our first interview, so I took the chance today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Harry Stebbings So now you have your product market fit shown with the returns and the latest fund from initialized, but things change with scale. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:40 Garry Tan And the vote trading and things like that that happen at other partnerships, I would be desperate to avoid at initialize.
- ▶ 30:08 Harry Stebbings As I said, he's been so kind and supportive to me since our first interview over two years ago, and it's been incredible to see the rise of initialized since.
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings To date, Ushma's raised over thirty million dollars in funding for Gobble from some of the best in the business, including Initialize Capital,
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings As I said, I feel like I know you well already, having heard so much from Micah at Founder Collective, Gary and Alexis at Initialize, and Sundeep at Felicis.
- ▶ 19:58 Ooshma Garg Gary Tan was a seed investor, and then kind of initialized, grew as Gobble grew, and then he co-led our Series B financing.
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings To date, Lobb has raised close to thirty million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the investing world, including Floodgate, Initialized, First Round, and most recently YC's Continuity Fund.
- ▶ 2:27 Harry Stebbings As I said, I heard so many great things from Alexis at Initialize to Ali at YC, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 6:33 Harry Stebbings And what an incredible rise in journey it's been, and we mentioned some of the backers there from Alexis that have initialized to Ali at YC, and I do want to start on that theme of fundraising, because we've spoken before, and you've said…
20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc
- ▶ 28:27 Harry Stebbings I so appreciate all that you do for me and for the show, and, uh, we look very forward to bringing you Wednesday's episode with Alina at Initialize Capital.
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
- ▶ 21:34 Harry Stebbings We just had Alexis Sohanian from initialized and read it on the show.
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings You might remember we had Alexis Ohanian and Gary Tan at Initialize Capital on the show a couple of weeks ago, and Alexis mentioned their most recent investment in a company called WorkRamp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:31 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Alexis that initialized for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Ted.
- ▶ 7:29 Ted Blosser Um, I know Gary Tan and Alexis Ohanian from our investors at Initialize, they've been very, very good in helping us build our brand.
- ▶ 9:04 Ted Blosser And so even just bringing up initialized again, a good example there is that we went to them because not because they were hardcore enterprise, uh, seed investors, but really because they understood consumer markets extremely well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:23 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to Gary and Alexis at Initialize Capital for the intro to TED today, without which the show would not have been possible.
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings They've raised from some of our favorite seed investors, and all past guests, actually, of the show, including Felicis Ventures, SV Angel, and Initialize Capital.
- ▶ 6:13 Harry Stebbings And a former guest on the show, Gary Tannen, initialized.
- ▶ 15:44 Harry Stebbings I'm intrigued now, having been both an investor with Alexis and Gary in the early days of Initialized, and a founder,
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 8:41 Harry Stebbings We recently had Gary Tan on the show from Initialized, and Gary said that if, if you're thesis driven, to a large extent, you'll miss it out on a lot of things in terms of drones or.
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 29:32 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all the support, and I cannot wait to bring you Monday's episode with Alexis Ohanian at Initialized.
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Now, if you haven't heard Monday's episode with Alexis Ohanian, that really is a must, because today we are joined by Alexis' co-founder at Initialized, Gary Tan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:40 Harry Stebbings However, it's now time for me to hand over the mic to the main man, Gary Tan, co-founder at Initialized Capital.
- ▶ 8:44 Harry Stebbings And now a more institutional seed investor with Initialized, and with, with new funds, you've just raised a new fund, so huge congratulations on that.
- ▶ 15:14 Harry Stebbings And you advised over 700 startups at YC, and have invested in more than a hundred since initialized.
- ▶ 17:44 Harry Stebbings I mean, you said about a large set there, because a hundred YC companies funded by initialized is, is a large amount.
- ▶ 24:07 Harry Stebbings But then let's do the vision for Initialized.
20VC: Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on How It All Started With Paul Graham @ YC, The Biggest Surprises About Making The Move Into VC & Why Alexis Believes All The Best Investors Have Operating Experience
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings And Initialize Capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:51 Harry Stebbings However, it's now time for me to shut up and to hand over to Alexis Ohanian, founder at Reddit and initialized capital.
- ▶ 3:18 Harry Stebbings But I'd love to start today with how you made the move from incredibly successful founder to VC with Initialize. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 Alexis Ohanian And so, you know, after we left Y Combinator and put attention to initialized, the thinking was, all right, well, what's the software we need to scale this business? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:43 Alexis Ohanian A specific example of this would be, I would love for Initialize to be famous for rejection emails. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:42 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say how excited I am to have Alexis' partner at Initialize Gary Tan on the show on Wednesday, so stay tuned for that, and a huge thanks to Alexis for giving up the time today to come on the show.
20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways
- ▶ 26:40 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all the support, and I cannot wait to bring you Monday's episode with Alexis Ohanian at Initialized.