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Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:25 Taavet Hinrikus You know, we got in the seed round, we got Max Levchin when we were raising money for Transferwise, as it was called before, Beforewise.
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:33 Dmitry Gurski It was started by Max Levchin.
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Max Levchin before. 6 times in the scene
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:50 Kevin Hartz I like to hear what hard obstacles they overcome, and so I got a little embarrassed when you asked me about my background, because I probably would have never given myself a check for, like, growing up in an easy, waspy, white,…
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:02 Tom Blomfield Max Levchin would come and tell us about the early days of Facebook, the early days of PayPal.
Larry Shurtz: How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Vertical Teams | E1151 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:29 Harry Stebbings Max Levchin from Affirm said on the show, when there's doubt, there's no doubt.
Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:56 Harry Stebbings I always remember Max Levchin telling me when there's doubt, there's no doubt.
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:15 Bastian Lehmann Patrick at Stripe, uh, Zach at Plate, uh, Max at Affirm.
Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:10 Joe Lonsdale I think Max rejected me the first time as a freshman. 3 times in the scene
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:36 Harry Stebbings Max Levchin told me that.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:26 Keith Rabois I remember when we were considering the first institutional investment in max elections company at a firm. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 24:25 Ali Partovi So at my first startup, LinkExchange, we had this brilliant contractor who was younger than us, so I was 25, Max Lefton was 22, and when we sold our company, he left to start PayPal. 4 times in the scene
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:06 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, one thing that I often think back to is Max Levchin, who said on the show once, um, when, when it comes to people, um, when in, when there's doubt, there's no doubt.
20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun
- ▶ 20:02 Brian Singerman Even back in the day, it wasn't the cheap price where we invested in a firm at, at the time, because Max Lepchin is one of the greatest entrepreneurs ever born, right?
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
- ▶ 32:48 Harry Stebbings Can I ask one thing that I often think back to is Max Levchin, who said on the show once, when it comes to people, when there's doubt, there's no doubt.
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 6:34 Keith Rabois I got a decent part of the website was coded by Max Levchin.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 39:05 Harry Stebbings If you have the doubt, Max Levchin said, when there's doubt, there's no doubt. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Unity Founder David Helgason on The Hypergrowth Early Days of Unity, Why Running A Company Is Like A Liberal Art, The Secret To A Successful CEO Transition and What Makes Roelof Botha Such A Special Board Member
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Thrive, DFJ, Silver Lake, and then incredible individuals like Max Levchin and VMware's Diane Green.
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings First round, and then on the individual side, Max Levchin, Chris Saka, Ron Conway, and Naval Ravikant, to name a few.
- ▶ 4:31 Sahil Lavingia Raised ten million bucks from Kleiner Perkins, Max Lefgen, Naval, Chris Saka, the wonder kind of story, college dropout, everything like that.
- ▶ 7:58 Sahil Lavingia So Max Levchin, I wanted him on the cap table so bad for Gumroad. 6 times in the scene
20VC: 3 Addictions Of Early-Stage Startup Founders, How Founders Should Strategically Think Through Unit Economics From Day 1 & Why Micromanagement Can Be Beneficial In The Early Days with Adena Hefets, Co-Founder @ Divvy Homes
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Divi, from some of the best in the business, including Andreessen Horowitz, Ray Tonsing at Caffeinated, Max Levchin, DFJ, and Threshold Ventures, to name a few.
- ▶ 16:44 unnamed speaker I call them my cheerleading squad, and Max and Nelly Lovechin, Ray Tonsing, Alex Rampell, the folks at GIC, Sovinet, and Jeremy Krantz.
- ▶ 29:04 unnamed speaker So it's interesting, because I would say we were incubated by Max Lovechin. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To date, Toma and the team have raised over five hundred and twenty million dollars with Gusto from some of the industry's leading investors, including General Catalyst, Capital G, Clyde and Perkins, T-Row, Fidelity, and more, and then…
20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings But to our episode today, and I'm thrilled to welcome to the hot seat today, Arif Jan Mohamed, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out,…
20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Max Levchin's Affirm, Cameo, Stitch Fix, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
- ▶ 4:34 Jonathan Hsu We ended up getting acquired by a company called Slide, which was Max Legend's social gaming company back in that era.
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 3:59 Kulveer Taggar A few months later, I got an email that they were looking for committee members, and I applied to join as a PR officer, not really knowing what PR was, and then my eyes were completely open to this whole world of entrepreneurship, and at…
20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings So Jeremy is a partner at Lightspeed, one of the leading firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Snapchat, MuleSoft, Max Levchin's Affirm, AppDynamics, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Brex Founder Henrique Dubugras on Why Being Mission Driven Is Not The Only Way To Build A Massive Business, Why You Should Not Associate Fundraising with The Cash Needs of Your Business & Why You Don't Have To Follow Startup Theory When It Comes To
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings ...to a 1.1 billion dollar valuation, having raised over a hundred and eighty million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the business, including Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Elad Gill, DST, Y Combinator, and IVP, just to name a…
20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings MuleSoft, Max Levchin's Affirm, AppDynamics, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings So Alex is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Snapchat, MuleSoft, Mattis Levchin's Affirm, The Honest Company, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, Alex also served as an advisor to the SV Angel Fund, and co-founded three other companies, TXN, Point, and Affirm, with Max Levchin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:59 Harry Stebbings I heard so many great things from both Max and Mark, so thank you so much for joining me today, Alex.
- ▶ 39:12 Harry Stebbings Alex, as I said, I heard so many great things from both Chris, Max, and Mark.
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
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Now, Nicole is a partner at Lightspeed, one of the world's leading venture funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Snapchat, Nest, Stitch Fix, AppDynamics, and Max Levchin's Affirm, just to name a few from their incredible portfolio.
20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings However, to our founder today, and I'm thrilled to welcome Sammy Inkonen, founder and CEO at Verta Health, the startup on a mission to reverse type two diabetes for a hundred million people by 2025, and they've raised over thirty five… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:38 Harry Stebbings I heard so many great things from Max Levchin, but thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 24:06 Harry Stebbings It really was such a pleasure, and I'm so excited to see the future ahead for Virta, and again, a big hand to Max Levchin for the intro today too, Sammy.
20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
- ▶ 29:26 Harry Stebbings As always, we so appreciate all your support, and cannot wait to bring you Friday's episode with Max Levchin, founder and CEO at Affirm.
20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 19:32 Dave McClure I think Peter and Max and Reid Hoffman and a bunch of others, it obviously had lots and lots of success, but the lessons that we probably learned at PayPal were probably learned in the trenches with a lot of other people on the team.