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20Growth: The Biggest Growth Lessons from Leading Teams at Instagram & Instacart, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth Teams, How To Onboard Growth Reps Efficiently and The Relationship Between Growth and The Rest of the Org with Bangaly Kaba, H
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Prior to Pop Shop, Bengali led the product growth and consumer product orgs at Instacart, and before Instacart, was head of growth at Instagram, where he built and led the product team that helped grow Instagram from four hundred and forty… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:25 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you come to lead some of the most powerful growth orgs, and yes, I have had many coffees before this interview, how did you come to lead some of the most powerful growth orgs with the likes of Instacart and Instagram,
- ▶ 4:44 Harry Stebbings I do think that there's a lot of learnings when you sit and look back at, with hindsight, you know, the times with Facebook, the times with Instagram, with Instacart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:59 Harry Stebbings Like you said there with Instagram, it's that kind of account of demographics and detailing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:28 unnamed speaker And so the things that I learned at Instagram are very relevant still for, like, the work that I did for Stan and Jason and Discord, right?
- ▶ 19:16 unnamed speaker Like, you know, it's always one of these things where, you know, Instagram, we were the fastest growing app in the world when I was there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:21 unnamed speaker And like, you know, when I helped build the growth team and Instagram, we were engineers, data science, product managers, growth marketers is like full stack, basically product group, but the engineers were growth focused engineers.
- ▶ 24:19 unnamed speaker Like when we were at Instagram, I was there when we launched IGTV and like, you know, heard Kevin Systrom's thinking around like the future of video and the future of shopping. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:36 unnamed speaker So back in 20 seventeen-ish or so, there was a lot of, like, firestorm in the press and just, like, social media about, like, Instagram's feed and its feed ranking, and people were unhappy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:47 unnamed speaker I'd say one of the things that we actually nailed, which I'm pretty proud of, but it's probably actually a little bit controversial now is the kind of the concept of like leaning into multiple accounts at Instagram. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 15:56 Eugene Wei Same for Instagram. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 Eugene Wei Instagram, you look at Twitter, you look at Pinterest, you look at all these products, they all have singular feed, and it makes sense, right?
- ▶ 22:48 Eugene Wei Post a photo on Instagram, you will write a status update, and people will react to it.
20VC: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo on Why You Need Sponsors Not Mentors, Where Management Skills Align with Good Parenting & The First 100 Days as CEO at Instacart; The Challenges, The Surprises and The Next Chapter
- ▶ 7:21 Harry Stebbings I want to go back before we start on Instagram to the incredible journey with Facebook, you know, heard from JC, heard from Dan Rose.
- ▶ 28:07 Harry Stebbings Speaking of that external focus, before we move into the quickfire, you know, obviously, Instagram is a private company now. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Founder and chairman of Lowercase Capital, one of the best performing funds in the history of venture capital, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Stripe, Twitter, Instagram, Twilio, Docker, and many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 52:58 Chris Sacca I mean, I shouldn't take much credit for Instagram, because I kind of limped into that one, because I was like, photos? 4 times in the scene
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 33:35 Anton Levy And, you know, that's what comes across, I think, from entrepreneurs because in a LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok world where everybody's one degree of separation from someone else, all the best companies in the world can raise money…
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 18:28 Emilie Choi If you look back at the acquisition of Instagram, for example, or the acquisition of YouTube, if you look at the press around that time, it's crazy, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:53 Emilie Choi It would be like back in the day, Yahoo or Google having been exposed to Facebook, Instagram, like been able to seed investments in all these different interesting companies back in the day.
20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 32:21 Mark Mullen I'm off of Insta.
20VC: David Tisch on Why Ownership in Venture Does Not Matter, His Biggest Investing Misses and Hits and How His Investing Style Changed as a Result & 3 Core Reasons VCs Pass That Do Not Make Sense
- ▶ 35:27 Harry Stebbings You can email me, harry at the twentyminutevc.com, Instagram, hdebbings 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 27:03 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can, of course, on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
- ▶ 40:44 Harry Stebbings Likewise, it's always great to see you on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two Bs.
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- ▶ 37:48 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can, of course, on Instagram at hstebbings.com, or check out the site at thetwentyminutevc.com.
20VC: Nubank CEO David Velez on Scaling Nubank to a $25BN Company, Why What Makes a Great Founder Does Not Make a Great CEO & The Responsibility Framework and How Leaders Can Use It To Drive Efficiency
- ▶ 35:55 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can, of course, on Instagram at hdebbings.
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 17:45 Jeremy Levine One is the sort of, uh, the flavor du jour for Instagram.
- ▶ 27:25 Jeremy Levine And Facebook or Instagram, from its pretty early on in its inception, would start broadcasting a particular metric, which was DAU divided by MAUs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:06 Harry Stebbings You can do so here on Instagram, at hstebbings, 1996, with two Bs.
20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret
- ▶ 41:59 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us, you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
- ▶ 29:09 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, of course you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
- ▶ 47:14 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, of course you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
- ▶ 35:51 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
- ▶ 48:59 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
- ▶ 32:49 Harry Stebbings He's been insanely busy, obviously, over the last month, so for him to take the time out, it really does mean a lot to me, so Vlad, huge, huge thanks for that, and if you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram…
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
- ▶ 35:02 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- ▶ 34:52 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings.
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- ▶ 4:32 Jeremy Liew Instagram, Angry Birds, and Snapchat.
- ▶ 11:22 Jeremy Liew That's why young women are so often the carriers of social culture and the spreaders of social culture and pop culture, and I think that's been seen to be true, not just with Snapchat, but also with a number of other social media and…
- ▶ 13:22 Jeremy Liew In fact, it had become the number three most, most popular app in Norway at that time, so ahead of Instagram, ahead of Facebook, and so forth.
- ▶ 17:01 Jeremy Liew Facebook and Instagram had run the table like there were no more new opportunities in social anymore.
- ▶ 21:06 unnamed speaker You know, if you look at Snap, if you look at Vine, if you look at Facebook, if you look at Instagram, if you look at Tumblr, they were all started by people who were, you know, in their early twenties. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:31 Jeremy Liew It was adopted by Instagram because that's what Facebook had done. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:14 Harry Stebbings How does one think about the value of product vision when you can have teams at Facebook and Instagram copy you and spin up the same product in a day? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:32 Harry Stebbings You can do that on Instagram at hdebbings 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- ▶ 40:11 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World
- ▶ 42:39 Harry Stebbings Uh, if you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can, of course, on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings To date, Christian has raised over fifty-two million dollars for Pitch from some of the very best in the business, including Index with Sarah Cannon, who made the intro today, Thrive, Blue Yard, and then some amazing individuals, including…
- ▶ 34:16 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
- ▶ 32:26 Harry Stebbings But before we leave you today, if you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings.com.
20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
- ▶ 38:07 Harry Stebbings Also, if you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
- ▶ 27:33 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hstebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
- ▶ 37:52 Harry Stebbings I just loved interviewing Hubert there, and if you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings.
20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics
- ▶ 37:58 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Including Sequoia, Kevin and Julia Hartz, Tony Fidel, Instagram's Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and Brianne Kimmel, to name a few.
- ▶ 39:09 Harry Stebbings You can do so on Instagram at hstebbings.com.
20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 33:34 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes at the show, you can on Instagram at hstebbings.
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 42:44 Harry Stebbings Josh was incredible, so huge thanks to Josh, 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: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
- ▶ 40:44 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hstebbings 1996 with two b's.
20VC: Annie Duke on Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions, How To Evaluate Risk, The Theory of Sunk Cost in Venture & How to Optimise Both the Discussion and Quality of Investment Decisions
- ▶ 38:07 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996, with two B's.
20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
- ▶ 35:13 Harry Stebbings You can do so on Instagram, at hdebbings 1996 with two Bs.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 39:27 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's.