Kirsten Green
14 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 17, 2017 by Kirsten Green · said 50 times in 18 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (38), Davis Smith (7), Rachel Blumenthal (3), Hunter Walk (1), Andrew Dudum (1)
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2023 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated
- 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why The Current VC Financing Mechanism For Consumer Brands Is Broken, Why The Infrastructure To Power Emerging Brands Is Broken and What The Re-Platforming of Retail Means For The Next Decade in Consumer with Adam Pritzker, Chairman & CEO @ Assemble
- 20VC: Why Consumer Brands Must Embrace Physical Retail To Avoid Inflated Online CACs, How To Alter Fund Strategy When Investing In Consumer Retail & Why The Era of The 1,000 Store Brand Is Over with Brendan Wallace, Founder and Managing Partner @ Fifth Wa
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 33 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
- 20VC: Why Risk Is Misunderstood In Entrepreneurship, Why Acquisitions Are Cheap For Incumbents Today & 3 Strategies To Improve Diversity In Your Team with Henry Davis, President & COO @ Glossier
- 20VC: Why Fundraising Is Like Dating and How to Play The Game Successfully & How To Increase The Flexibility of Your Burn When Growth is Ambiguous with Rachel Blumenthal, Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome
- 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: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
- 20VC: How To Think About Founder-Category Fit, Why The Biggest Opportunities Are In Category Re-Architecture & What Can Be Done To Increase The Amount of Women In VC with Nadia Boujarwah, Founder & CEO @ Dia & Co
- 20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- 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
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 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: 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
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Kirsten Green, oldest first
Jul 17, 2017 positive
Overhauling backend infrastructure is the biggest challenge for large-scale retailers
“In fact, would argue that the need to overhaul infrastructure at the retailers at scale is one of their biggest challenges. And from a business perspective, it's a big opportunity to be part of servicing some element of that back end of their business.”
Jul 13, 2018 positive
Blumenthal: Kirsten Green is a standout investor despite lacking operator background
“Where I have had the greatest success is is in one of my longest time investors being Kirsten Green from Forerunner in that Kirsten loves consumers. She loves retail. She intimately understands the consumer and understands the dynamic between consumers and dif…”
Aug 1, 2022
Green: Scaling VC firms requires managing ambitious talent's recognition needs
“The more people you have, the more you're kind of also serving for those ambitious people and their own needs to be recognized and to have successes and wins. And you just, It requires you to be, I think, thoughtful and deliberate around your org development a…”
Aug 1, 2022
Aug 1, 2022 negative
Green: Mimicking boardroom behavior diminishes performance and personal authority
“Every time I have tried to say people in the room behave like this, I'll get more respect if I behave that way, I mess it up. You know, because I'm overthinking it or I'm Getting nervous as my words are unfolding because they're not coming from a place of real…”
Aug 1, 2022
Green: Could not have founded Forerunner without her partner's career support
“And I just, if I hadn't had a partner that had stepped up that way and had known what it meant to me and the value of that, I could not have been a good mother and started something that had potential to be successful at the same time.”
Aug 1, 2022
Green: Effective hard feedback requires directness, respect, and restraint
“When I'm in a position of giving hard feedback, I'm trying to be really thoughtful in advance and plan my words relatively carefully. So for instance, the other day I had to send a note to give somebody some feedback, which also included like an answer to a qu…”
Aug 1, 2022 neutral
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Green: Investors must offer distinct expertise to win cap table spots
“The best ones have people who shine in different areas and compliment each other. And the way to do that is to stand for something is to be known for something, to have some way to contribute where people are like, oh, I would like Harry in the room with me be…”
Aug 1, 2022
Aug 1, 2022
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Smith: Every major Cotopaxi funding round was led by female investors
“Our first major investor, Kirsten Green, Our second major investor, Ellie Wheeler from Great Craft. Our third major investor, Brooke Harley. Our last investor with Bain Capital, Cecilia Chao. There's a trend. Women are leading rounds in our business.”