Jeremy Levine
14 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 26, 2017 by Jeremy Levine · said 49 times in 23 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (34), Sarah Tavel (6), Harley Finkelstein (5), Hans Tung (2), Kevin Hartz (1), Byron Deeter (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 3 mentions in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- 20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- 20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
- 20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 13 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- 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
- 20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- 20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- 20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend
- 20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
- 20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- 20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Jeremy Levine, oldest first
Jun 26, 2017 negative
Levine: Claims that operational VCs add superior value are bogus
“So I think this whole idea of VC being better or adding a lot of value to their operational experience, I think it's bogus. And I think it's sort of a, it's a new idea that's been perpetrated by folks who are competing as VCs who happen to have a lot of operat…”
Jun 26, 2017 bearish
Levine: Great consumer tech startups will drop to one every three years
“And so my prediction is that the quantity of great new consumer applications, consumer tech companies that will become household names, went from a couple a year to one every three years, which is depressing because it's a really fun place to invest.”
Jun 26, 2017
Levine: Put operational experts in independent board seats, not VC seats
“If you're a founder, you want to have phenomenal operational experience on your board, but you don't want to have it in the seat that's controlled by a VC because now you've made a contractual commitment to have someone on your board who for most of his or her…”
Jun 26, 2017 bullish
Levine: Direct-monetization consumer businesses will outperform ad-supported apps
“When you can get a consumer to open up his wallet, the consumer's worth so much more to you that you can afford to spend money on marketing. That's the category of business that's more likely to be interesting from a consumer standpoint. Tech perspective over …”
Jun 26, 2017
Levine requires immediate bad news alerts in exchange for unvarnished feedback
“I, when I invest in companies or as I'm about to invest in companies, I have sort of two golden rules that I will often discuss with an entrepreneur before we consummate a, an investment. The first one is I always say, You have one obligation to me if you take…”
Jun 26, 2017
Levine: Board members should counterbalance founders' emotional highs and lows
“For me, though, I think my own style has always been to sort of try to identify whether an entrepreneur with whom I'm working is currently on a high or a low, and I kind of try to take more or less the opposite, and so when things are going unbelievably well, …”
Jun 26, 2017
Levine: Operators try to overcome obstacles; great investors pivot away
“When an operator approaches a mountain in his path, his immediate thought is like, how do I scale it or tunnel through it or walk around it? But the presence of the mountain is an immediate challenge that an operator's mind starts spinning on how to solve that…”
Jun 26, 2017
Levine: Experienced VCs must exercise caution; words carry unearned weight
“Once you've been part of a few successful companies, your opinions tend to carry a little bit more weight, and so in some sense, you have to be more careful once you've been doing it for 10 or 15 years, because you might say something in passing based on sort …”
Oct 1, 2018 positive
Mar 24, 2021
Mar 24, 2021 negative
Levine: Publicizing Early VC Funding Rounds Hurts Long-Term Startup Prospects
“A lot of people, particularly around their early financings, like to go tell the world about it. It's validation. If nothing else, it's nice to have your mom read about you in TechCrunch. But the truth is, that does almost no value. It adds no value to your co…”
Mar 24, 2021
Levine: Bessemer Invested $9M in Pinterest's Series A at $40M Pre-Money
“The first step was a simple ten million dollar investment. It was a forty million dollar pre-money valuation, fifty million dollar post-money valuation. I think Bessemer was eight and a half or nine million of the 10 existing investors put up the balance.”
Mar 24, 2021 positive
Levine: Pinterest's $1M Seed Stock Buyback Was Its Best Capital Use
“The company actually bought back some of the stock from those very early investors. It wasn't a large amount, but it might've been another million dollars. And so it was probably the best use of capital the company ever could have come up with, given what that…”
Mar 24, 2021
Levine: Bessemer Kept Its 2011 Pinterest Investment Secret for Nine Months
“Our initial investment in Pinterest was maybe in March or April of 2011. You can't find anything on the internet about our involvement with the company for at least six or nine months. In fact, it was the subsequent financing That somehow got leaked to the pre…”