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Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:42 Jason Lemkin There's one thing that's new here, but the one thing that's old, like in this Carter thing, that the large funds, the largest funds, um, this was like the one and only board I was ever on with John Doerr.
Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:26 K.R. Shridhar So if you look at my 2001 PowerPoint presentation, which was the pitch to Kleiner Perkins, who was my first investor, John Doerr, the summary page puts out a data center, it puts out a bloom box, powering the data center, the waste heat…
- ▶ 5:47 Harry Stebbings You mentioned John Doar, an incredible individual.
- ▶ 1:00:48 Harry Stebbings Um, what was your biggest lesson from working with John Doerr?
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:21 Jerry Murdock Yeah, I don't want to build egos up, but Peter Fenton, uh, John Doerr early on, um, those guys were astounding at picking deals.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:02 Mitchell Green That is, like, very, um, in the, do you think guys like Don Valentin or Mike Moritz or John Doerr, they would be, like, putting guns to these founders' heads today and be like, you need to go public.
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:12 Mamoon Hamid You can hold on to your Google stock forever as, as John Doerr has done over the last 25 years.
Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:13 Harry Stebbings Um, my question to you is, I, I had John Daw on the show, and I actually spoke to him ahead of the show, and my question that he kind of posed is, he said, the sad truth is, although it's important to do, we're too late.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:24 Jason Lemkin I remember I, I was on a board with John Doerr when I started investing, and I asked him why he kept doing it, and, uh, the only thing I saw was he still had the sparkle in his eye, you know, back then.
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:55 unnamed speaker And even John Doerr, who was Jeff's lead venture capitalist, is always arguing for more for the entrepreneur, was trying to put the brakes on him, right?
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:11 Keith Rabois Yeah, there's that famous fighter jet thing from John Doerr about, like, you crashed a, you know, an F-fifteen, fifty million.
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:19 Jason Lemkin It's John Doerr's rule.
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:33 Vinod Khosla Calling John Doerr and saying, let's just do this.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:34 Emil Michael Google, um, John Doerr was, was the man. 2 times in the scene
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:53 Wesley Chan You know, some of them were on Google's board, Mike Moritz and John Doerr, Bill Campbell, Brooke Byers.
20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- ▶ 29:44 David Friedberg Someone told me, I don't know if it's true or not, that John Doerr maybe hasn't sold a single share of Google or Amazon yet. 2 times in the scene
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11 Chris Sacca I'd be in the room taking the notes when John Doerr was, uh, was receiving a pitch and stuff like that as his outside counsel.
- ▶ 47:08 Chris Sacca Dorr and Vinod and these guys who went into climate early, um, their vision was there and their passion was there, and I'm, and I deeply respect that they risked so much of their personal capital, but the unit economics weren't there yet.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 35:52 Bill Gurley It was highly competitive, but we didn't lay chase, and two of the most respected investors of our industry decided to make that call simultaneously with John Doerr and Mike Moritz, and when I think back on that or any of the other misses,…
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
- ▶ 4:14 Chris Sacca I'd be in the room taking the notes when John Doerr was receiving a pitch and stuff like that as his outside counsel.
- ▶ 43:54 Chris Sacca Bless Doerr and Vinod and these guys who went into climate early.
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
- ▶ 33:46 Shishir Mehrotra I mean, there's a, John Doerr wrote a book called Measure What Matters, all about OKRs and some of the techniques he picked up from Intel and brought to Google.
20VC: Biggest Lessons from Working with John Doerr, How Founders Can Have Discussions of Vulnerability with Their Board and Investors & Marrying Another Founder; The Pros, Cons and Ways To Make it Succeed with Alyson Friedensohn, Co-Founder & CEO @ Modern
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings From some of the very best in the business, including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, John Daw, Zero One Advisors, and Katrina Lake, to name a few.
- ▶ 20:24 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask you, because you mentioned kind of coaches earlier, and sometimes venture investors can be coaches, and I want to ask a couple of things around your investor base, but the first is obviously John Doerr invested, and with… 6 times in the scene
20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A*
- ▶ 10:10 Kevin Hartz We were in a world in the nineties where I think it was John Doerr that said six or seven quarters of increasing revenue growth, and the company goes
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 11:14 Steve Jurvetson We want to invest in missionaries, not mercenaries, the way John Doerr or somebody famously said.
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 0:46 Harry Stebbings In 1986, Vinod then joined his long-time friend John Doar, and became a general partner at Kleiner Perkins, or KPCB, where he helped incubate Juniper Networks, and helped transform the telecommunications business with Sorent
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 21:37 unnamed speaker I was a little bit on a board with John Doerr.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on The Strategy Behind The New $600m "Back To The Future" Fund, The Truth To Price Sensitivity at Series A & Why Venture Team Building Is Like Basketball Team Building
- ▶ 5:33 Mamoon Hamid And actually on my way there, actually in my application, I wrote about how I wanted to be like John Doerr, an electrical engineer who went to Harvard Business School and became a venture capitalist.
- ▶ 27:42 Mamoon Hamid This week at Client of Perkins, John Doerr was just got a lifetime achievement award, and I'd say John Doerr. 3 times in the scene
20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network
- ▶ 5:08 Harry Stebbings Before we dive into the incredible scaling that you've experienced, I do have to ask, you mentioned Kleiner there, one of the most famous venture institutions in the world, the home of John Doar, the home of Mary Meeker.
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 6:07 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi So my first year, I was pretty much tied to John Doerr by the hip and got to meet a lot of founders and companies and also helped with portfolio companies.
- ▶ 6:24 Harry Stebbings Because I had Trey from Defy on the show, and she mentioned her formative years in VC, also alongside John Doar, and she said that the biggest thing she learned from him was really to discover what type of board member you are. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:57 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi So I'll mention two, the main one being Measure What Matters by John Doerr. 3 times in the scene
20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- ▶ 6:37 Trae Vassallo And in my second year of business school, I saw John Doerr grabbing a newspaper and, and I had to bolster all of my courage because I was quite shy at the time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:28 Harry Stebbings Can I jump in and ask, well, you know, a lot of entrepreneurs dream would be to have John Doerr on their board. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:52 Trae Vassallo John Doar's style was very different from the node coastless style. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 4:54 Glenn Solomon That I heard actually at Stanford Business School back in 1996 by John Doerr, and he told the parable of computing paradigm shifts at that time. 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
- ▶ 3:22 Bing Gordon In 1982, I met John Doerr and Brooke Byers, and then also Don Valentine of Sequoia, who were the founding investors in electronic cars. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
- ▶ 6:35 Eric Feng So, um, uh, John Doerr, who is a great friend and mentor, and he was our board member at footboard, approached me in the summer of 2015 and said, hey, um, would you consider coming back?
- ▶ 9:00 Eric Feng The load was so tremendous that it actually took down the back end for a few weeks, and our board member John Doerr came by and actually answered customer support emails all night. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
- ▶ 5:18 Jeremy Levine Or, or John Doerr, another one of the same generation, sort of the same thing.
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 13:55 Paul Martino Actually, last year, uh, at our post-seed conference, we had, we had the honor of having John Doerr be one of our keynotes, and when I interviewed him, uh, and I'm a former Kleiner Perkins CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, um, Aggregate… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Tyler Willis on How To Be Innovative With Customer Acquisition and The Future Of Innovation
- ▶ 15:32 Tyler Willis John Doerr, I think, put it most colorfully, which said, you know, in order to be a good investor, you've got to crash a couple of fighter jets first. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Arielle Zuckerberg @ Kleiner Perkins: A Review Of My First 6 Months in Venture
- ▶ 17:03 Harry Stebbings John has done amazingly well in advocating, uh, diversity, hasn't he?
- ▶ 25:44 Arielle Zuckerberg This is probably, you probably get this answer a lot, but I'd probably say John Doerr. 2 times in the scene
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 28:23 Jason Calacanis Um, John Doerr was great. 2 times in the scene