Mamoon Hamid
33 statements across 7 episodes · 14 bullish · 11 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Oct 31, 2016 by Mamoon Hamid · said 118 times in 40 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (71), Jason Lemkin (10), Rory O'Driscoll (7), Everett Randle (5), Pat Grady (3), Michael Eisenberg (3), Josh Stein (3), Eoghan McCabe (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 28 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- "Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 25 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 28 mentions in 7 episodes 4 per episode
- Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Geoff Lewis: Why I Put $200M into Rippling; Uncapped Notes; "Compound Startups" | 20VC #933 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 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
- 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
- 20VC: Intercom Founder, Eoghan McCabe on How To Deal with the Weight of Expectation, Having Your Identity Tied To Your Company, How To Be Your Authentic Self Even with Stakeholders & Why There Are No Rules
- 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
- 20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- 20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early
- 20VC: Why Startup Valuations Are Not As Overpriced As You Think, How To Determine Whether An Investor Is Truly Aligned To Your Mission and What 2 Traits Make The Truly Special Board Members with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- 20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 3 mentions in 1 episode
2016 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
- 20VC: The 3 Things LPs Want To See From VCs & Why The Table Stakes For VCs Is Higher Than Ever with Judith Elsea, Co-Founder @ Weathergage Capital
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Mamoon Hamid, oldest first
Oct 31, 2016 neutral
Oct 31, 2016
Social Capital Splits Fund Between Long-Gestation and Fast-Growth Bets
“What we have a very deliberate approach of sort of half of our investments are in those longer gestation cycle businesses, and the other half are in more predictable enterprise software and consumer businesses, where it's more apparent much faster that these b…”
Oct 31, 2016 positive
Hamid: VCs Return More by Holding Winners for Decades
“And in many cases, you don't even want to distribute in those eight years because think about how much you would have made if you would have stayed in, in, in Amazon or Facebook or Google over the course of time it probably would have been much better for thos…”
May 13, 2019 positive
Hamid: Startups should promote early internal leaders over hiring external executives
“And the same applies to some very passionate leaders you may have who may not have seen company go from a hundred to a billion in revenue, but they've been really great leaders along the way. And I've actually seen it myself where There's folks that you doubte…”
May 13, 2019
Hamid: Organizational scaling is the biggest operational challenge post-product-market fit
“I'd say the biggest challenges that companies hit are along the organizational building. The people side of it is scaling of early employees, early leaders, To people who can help hyperscale and double down on what's working. It typically, that is where things…”
Jul 8, 2024 positive
Grady: Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid is an exceptional deal picker
“Somebody who I really admire is Mamoon at Kleiner. I think Mamoon has an exceptional track record of investing in companies that are not at all obvious at the time. And I think about the series B in Figma, which is a round that we looked at and passed on. I th…”
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Hamid: Avoid founders who rely on top-down market mapping
“I don't like the, we looked at the landscape, and we discovered that this is a great place to build a business. Like, we did a whole market mapping exercise, And the TAM is going to be X billion dollars and, you know, we've got yeah, it is that sort of like th…”
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Hamid: Every major enterprise CIO is funding AI proofs of concept
“We're in this era of doing a bunch of proof of concepts. You're just trying out all this cool stuff that's come into existence in the last two years and seeing, what can I do with it? And every CIO at every large company is spending real money doing POCs.”
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Hamid shares entry valuations for Slack, Figma, and Rippling
“Probably Slack, I would say, you know, even at the 250 post that's, you know, with all the dilution over time and, If you take the twenty-seven billion or some other number that's a, obviously, a good, great multiple. Figma, you know, the initial investment wa…”
Oct 21, 2024
Oct 21, 2024 bearish
Hamid: AI middleware is overinvested and its value will be fleeting
“There's a lot of time being spent on a lot of the middle layer between the foundation models and the applications. And I think in the middle layers, middleware, things that allow you to use those models better, faster, cheaper and build applications on top. So…”
Oct 21, 2024 bullish
Oct 21, 2024 bullish
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Oct 21, 2024 bullish
Oct 21, 2024 bullish
Hamid: AI agents will replace human customer support within 10 years
“I think we will hopefully never talk to a customer support agent ever again. Like someone you call for the airlines, like, you know, help me my flight, I need to upgrade it, or I need to change my seat, or can you cancel it because I can't go? You know, the ba…”
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Oct 21, 2024
Hamid: 15-year hold on a 70x multiple deal yielded only 15% IRR
“There's one investment I remember doing early days of USVP, Where we did it at, I think, TenPost. And it was a three million dollar check for like 30% of the company. And that company, about a year and a half ago, the founder CEO, Steve Flagg, still a friend, …”
Oct 21, 2024 neutral
Hamid: Kleiner Perkins will not expand into a massive capital accumulator
“I don't think we want that at all. I think we love where we are today. We really do, and I don't try to, I'm not BSing you. You're a long time friend, and I believe in venture, early stage venture being a beautiful asset class, especially if you can follow the…”
Oct 21, 2024 bullish
Hamid: AI revenue will justify CapEx by expanding into global labor markets
“I think the revenue will be there for, because again, we're not just tackling software, linear software, as I call it. We're tackling Like labor, and labor shortages, and things that humans can do, but it's the worst part of their job, or we don't have enough …”
Oct 21, 2024
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Hamid: VCs lack neuroplasticity to switch between early and late stages
“I think generally speaking, though it's hard to have the neuroplasticity to one day think about you know, 10 years ahead and a new infrastructure company that's building on a new open source framework, and the next day think about, like, pre-IPO stage, you kno…”
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Oct 21, 2024 bullish
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Hamid: Early-stage VC firms should not use voting structures
“Yeah, I don't believe in voting structures for early stage venture capital. I think you have to have, allow every partner to put themselves on the line with their conviction that they've built up over a year sometimes weeks sometimes, but you have to give into…”
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Oct 21, 2024
May 5, 2025 positive
Feb 19, 2026 negative