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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.