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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
- ▶ 9:48 Harry Stebbings But then I had like Marco Thumbtack on the show who said that actually you can be a consultant coming out of Bain and do a SWOT analysis and come up with an idea that maybe doesn't have such founder market fit.
20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- ▶ 12:47 Harry Stebbings But then there's also incredibly successful founders like Marco Thumbtack who say that maybe isn't so prominent and you don't need to have like an idea to get started, so to speak.
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
- ▶ 4:34 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, I have Mark Thumbtack on the show recently, and he said that actually, you can take a very consultative approach to starting a company, come up with graphs, market maps, and really kind of isolate potential markets into exciting…
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
- ▶ 7:44 Harry Stebbings I actually have Marco from Thumbtack and Adrian Ayun on the show from Forward Research.
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
- ▶ 8:04 Harry Stebbings Speaking of that kind of idea creation process and kind of identifying that problem, we had Marco Thumbtack on the show recently who said that too much criticism is placed on founders who strategically think about the right company to… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:19 Harry Stebbings Totally out there question, but one that I spoke excessively with about Marco in terms of his building the brand with Thumbtack, and you're mentioning there of kind of going D to C almost with Ford.
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 20:56 Jason Calacanis Because if you ask somebody like Travis, why are you doing this, this being Uber, or what are you working on to Marco at Thumbtack, they're going to show a level of enthusiasm that
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 15:07 Jason Calacanis I did, I was the second investor in Thumbtack after Marco's parents, and then roll off, I brought him