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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
- ▶ 24:36 Harry Stebbings Bezos, will you take a refund on these ones?
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
- ▶ 34:16 Emilie Choi We label whether or not this is going to be an existential decision, a la type one and type two decisions by Jeff Bezos.
20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have
- ▶ 13:31 Jeff Immelt I guarantee you that if Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Benioff ever did a review, a three 60, the people around them aren't saying they're really good listeners.
- ▶ 23:48 Jeff Immelt Look, you've got to say a lot about Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and some of those guys who have created immensely valuable companies, but done it on their terms, you know, particularly Jeff. 5 times in the scene
20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
- ▶ 29:25 Nick Mehta Every single day, there's those reinforcements of not being enough, no matter who you are, no matter how successful you are, unless you're Jeff Bezos. 2 times in the scene
20VC: MercadoLibre Founder Marcos Galperin on Optimising Decision-Making, Effective Resource Allocation, Growth vs Profitability, Fundraising Strategies and more on the Journey To Build a $72Bn Market Cap Company
- ▶ 7:32 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, in determining where you spend your time and resources, Jeff Bezos has often talked about the two-door versus one-way door in terms of decision making.
- ▶ 30:03 Marcos Galperin So I would say in our industry and in our era, I obviously look up to Bezos and to Elon Musk a lot, because of how they like to take risks, and how long-term oriented they are, and how much value they have created, and the amazing…
20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
- ▶ 24:14 Chris Fralic Like, I think there'll be pictures of Jeff Bezos when he was skinny and, you know, young and had hair, and then he's bulked up and walking around Sun Valley
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
- ▶ 18:18 Harry Stebbings Because we see, you know, great leaders today from Bezos to Musk who
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- ▶ 21:26 Wade Foster I think you're going to be the next Jeff Bezos or the next Bill Gates or whatever, and just like talks you into how awesome you are.
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- ▶ 7:20 Peter Fenton One of the variable I quote that I've used a lot recently is the Jeff Bezos comment, which is whenever there's a mistake or you do something and it's a failure, it's tuition.
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
- ▶ 22:14 Jason Fried I minimize it, like you and Bezos, who came up with that, or whoever else came up with it.
- ▶ 38:27 Jason Fried Jeff Bezos is a very clear thinker and explainer.
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
- ▶ 24:13 Simon Borrero But as Jeff Bezos says, it's not about balance.
- ▶ 26:14 Simon Borrero Well, in terms of business leaders, for sure, Jeff Bezos. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 41:12 Tony Fadell I haven't gone all the way, not, you know, Bezos or Elon or whatever else, but I can see it, and I've been hanging out around with people who have it at that level.
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- ▶ 12:25 Michael Eisenberg I think he got that maybe from Bezos.
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
- ▶ 7:02 Hubert Palan And that's the story of Jeff Bezos and, you know, one pizza team, just like, you know, be frugal.
20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
- ▶ 25:39 Stewart Butterfield Yeah, I mean, so that's a great question, and they're definitely very different things, and the parlance that's caught on in Slack, and I think probably elsewhere is borrowed from Jeff Bezos in the one-way doors and two-way doors, so...
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- ▶ 23:16 Roelof Botha And to steal a line from Bezos, you want to be competitor aware, but customer obsessed.
20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- ▶ 10:11 Harry Stebbings If you look at the early Mark Zuckerberg, the early Jeff Bezos, they weren't the charismatic founder that could sell Santa Arabs, so to speak, and just be wary of this.
20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- ▶ 4:41 Katherine Boyle It was before Jeff Bezos bought the paper, and I actually had an editor pull me aside and say, Catherine, you're young enough.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 11:22 Shishir Mehrotra My view, the number one quality of a good decision is a decision that sticks, and there's a now pretty famous saying from Amazon and Jeff Bezos is about one-way doors and two-way doors that I think is well-used, and so there's clearly a…
20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader's Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like
- ▶ 28:46 Jennifer Tejada I think that's a Jeff Bezos thing.
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 10:40 Sahil Lavingia The way that I think about risk is I really, I mean, Jeff Bezos, I think, is kind of famous for the sort of the regret minimization for
20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
- ▶ 13:21 Dev Ittycheria Actually, Jeff Bezos has spoken about this topic, and he describes two types of decisions.
20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
- ▶ 10:51 Joe Thomas Bezos is the one to popularize long-form writing in the modern workforce. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 35:43 Joe Lonsdale We did that with Jeff Bezos and then a few other really smart friends and people in the ecosystem.
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 25:00 Andrew Wilkinson You know, you held me back from doing that, and so as long as it's a two-way door, I will always let someone make a mistake, and I might register, like Bezos, what does he do?
20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit
- ▶ 15:59 Misha Esipov And so long as it's not, as Bezos would say, a tier one decision, as in one that cannot be reversed, one that's a company killer,
20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- ▶ 33:59 Jude Gomila Jeff Bezos is a major investor in Google.
20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader
- ▶ 11:58 Hiten Shah And I think like, this reminds me of Jeff Bezos's quote about, you know, focus on the things that don't change.
- ▶ 29:04 Hiten Shah I think Jeff Bezos really is a master of this by saying, focus on things that don't change.
- ▶ 46:10 Hiten Shah And so I believe that there's a focusing on Jeff Bezos.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 22:56 Byron Deeter I'm not nearly as technical as he is, and so just observing the product strategy discussions, and he's pulled in some of the Bezos Amazon message
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
- ▶ 6:51 Kulveer Taggar And then, you know, the more I learned about Jeff Bezos, a similar sort of idea came to mind.
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
- ▶ 24:31 unnamed speaker So, you know, Jeff Bezos tells a story of what if you're a major league batter, and every time you hit a home run right now, you score a run.
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 8:58 Fred Destin If you're sitting in the room with Jeff Bezos at Amazon and you're trying to get two hundred million dollars more out of your exit price, are you the kind of person who can do that?
- ▶ 10:10 Harry Stebbings You said there about the founders and being able to sit in a room with Jeff Bezos and negotiate for two hundred million more.
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- ▶ 26:49 Dave Vasen Yeah, so I applied the, I don't know if you heard about it, but the Jeff Bezos regret minimization framework to start the company. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- ▶ 5:51 Ryan Caldbeck To quote Jeff Bezos, your margin is my opportunity.
20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product
- ▶ 22:17 Phil Libin Like the very few people that I know, uh, Jeff Bezos or Hiroshi Mikitani who actually went from being
20VC: First Round's Phin Barnes on How The Best Founders Optimize for Learning Per Dollar Spent, What Makes A Truly Special Founder/VC Relationship and Why Pattern Recognition is Another Term For Intellectual Laziness
- ▶ 35:00 Phin Barnes And in many ways, I guess I could cop out and say Jeff Bezos and his, because he's articulated that the day one thesis, but I think that's very true.
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 32:04 unnamed speaker That's probably why I'll never be Jeff Bezos or someone, someone like that, you know, Bill Gates, who's literally cured a few diseases, you know, with his wife on their own.
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
- ▶ 20:43 Joe Fernandez Yeah, he's amazing, and I love Bing, but like, he's on the board of Amazon at the same time, sitting across from Bezos, and then the next day, sitting across from me, and I, you know, feel super self-conscious about that, and really…
20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Check this out, they have the likes of Y Combinator Continuity Fund, Greylock, Jeff Bezos, Mark Benioff, Drew Houston, Kevin Systrom, and leading angels Ali and Hadi Partovi.
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 24:52 Alex Taussig So, Bezos did an amazing job funding a good portion, and not all, but a good portion of those operations.
20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
- ▶ 22:56 Jake Flomenberg I think I'd have to be Jeff Bezos right now, and it just feels like his company is firing on so many cylinders in so many different directions. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 4:20 Bing Gordon And then I went to the Kleiner CEO conferences for several years where I met Jeff Bezos that led to me going on the board as an independent, but
- ▶ 8:17 Bing Gordon Jeff Bezos says there's a leadership principle in Amazon which is to be right a lot, and he says people who write a lot, who write a lot are good listeners and they're skeptical optimists.
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 12:53 Harry Stebbings I saw you said about Bezos doing more for America than I, was it Trump, the comparison?
20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
- ▶ 20:29 Will Porteous So, I was incredibly fortunate to have a close working relationship with Bill Campbell, the former chairman of Columbia University, chairman and CEO of Intuit, and someone who was Steve Jobs' coach, Jeff Bezos' coach, Sergey Brin, and…
20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- ▶ 28:33 John Borthwick I think that, I think I misunderstood him as a, his, um, his aspirations and intentions, you know, because I always saw him 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 22:06 Ted Blosser So I don't think it's just because I got a two echoes, uh, for Christmas, but I would say I would love to be Jeff Bezos and run Amazon. 4 times in the scene
20 VC 049: VC is Getting Younger with Spencer Lazar @ General Catalyst Partners
- ▶ 23:54 Spencer Lazar You know, the, the one that I enjoyed reading over the course of the past year, uh, was, um, the, uh, book, uh, the everything store, which is, uh, sort of a, I, I believe an unlicensed biography, um, and story of Jeff Bezos. 3 times in the scene
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