Marco Zappacosta
5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2018 by Marco Zappacosta · said 13 times in 7 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- 20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
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2018 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
- 20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- 20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
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2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Marco Zappacosta, oldest first
Apr 20, 2018
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Apr 20, 2018 positive
Zappacosta advises founders to hold weekly check-ins with board members
“I would definitely encourage founders to have a weekly or every other week phone call. Ours is 30 minutes. We often use 10 to 20 minutes. Sometimes we use the whole thing. Rarely we skip it, but it does happen, and it's just someone I trust a lot, someone who …”
Apr 20, 2018
Zappacosta: Judging board decisions as right or wrong is a false framework
“I think starting from the premise of right and wrong is a false framework, because the truth is you don't know, and you will not know whether you're right or wrong for years, and so it's much more about the process around the decision-making, how well you can …”