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Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:16 Cliff Weitzman Medium, Brex, Richard Branson, Gary Cohn, who led all of, um, Goldman, Charlie Songhurst was my very first investor.
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:39 Adam Fisher Even before the so-called judicial reform was announced, I, I could see it happening, and I, and I wrote about it on my Medium, um, blog.
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:21 Harry Stebbings Others, it's, you know, the ability to, you know, medium, it's the ability to write freely and beautiful editors, you name it.
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:18 Logan Bartlett Do blogs reside on someone's own sub stack or someone's own domain, or do they reside on the firm's website or the firm's medium or the firm sub stack?
20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Leading to his investments in Discord, Roblox, Medium, and more.
20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings If you listened to one of my favourite episodes from last year, Owen McCabe at Intercom, he said Biz Stone was one of the most influential people to his journey, and today I'm so thrilled to be joined by Biz, best known as the co-founder…
20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
- ▶ 26:24 Alex Mather I think if you look at what happened with Substack, to just take a second to look at that business, and it's a wonderful product, a wonderful founding team, and they're much more competitive with, say, Medium. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
- ▶ 6:43 Harry Stebbings But in terms of where you are today, you straddle this incredible position of being both LP and GP, and you wrote this fantastic article on Medium that I really loved, especially given the very challenging and quite scary and unprecedented…
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 28:18 Vinod Khosla It's on medium.com. 2 times in the scene
20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 15:40 David Tisch I read their Twitter feed, I read Medium, I watch YouTube, I listen to podcasts, specifically this podcast,
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
- ▶ 6:35 Jana Messerschmidt So in typical Silicon Valley fashion, we put up a blog post on Medium, and we announced that we're open for business, and the industry had just been incredibly welcoming.
20VC: Front's Mathilde Collin on Why Discipline Is More Important Than Vision, The Right Way To Approach Investor Updates and Director Reports & How To Effectively Structure 1-1s
- ▶ 12:49 Mathilde Collin So I'm actually going to publish a Medium post about this early next week, because when I think about
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings However, to our show stay, and I've actually wanted to have this guest on the show for a long time, having been a massive nerd fan of his S-One breakdowns on Medium.
- ▶ 28:52 Harry Stebbings Likewise, I've included the links to his Medium page on the show notes.
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
- ▶ 16:53 unnamed speaker So I've been heavily influenced by Ev Williams, obviously founder of blogger, Twitter medium.
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more about the exciting announcement, head over to the show notes or search Fred Destin Medium.
- ▶ 36:42 Harry Stebbings I have to say, that really was one of the most special shows I've ever recorded, and I cannot thank the team at Beko enough for all they did to make that happen, and if you'd like to see more from Fred, you can on Twitter at FDestat, and…
20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Prior to YC, Anu was an investment partner at Andreessen Horrors, where she worked actively with the management teams of portfolio companies, including Airbnb, Instacart, Medium, OfferUp, and Udacity, just to name a few.
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
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Slack, Oculus, Medium, Postmates, Cruise, the list goes on. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- ▶ 22:47 Brian Armstrong Actually, uh, Dan Romero put out a, uh, Medium post just in the last few weeks with a bunch of digital currency reading.
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 11:46 Kevin Rose I wrote a blog post on a medium here, I guess a year and a half, two years ago about just virtual reality being a fad.
20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify
- ▶ 25:31 Harley Finkelstein So, I mean, frankly, frankly, I think what's amazing about medium is that I'm able to sort of peruse all different types of categories.
20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings They have a fund, with prior investments including Tumblr, Medium, and Kickstarter.
20VC: Preparing For The Next Big Trend, Why Conversational Will Be The Next Big Thing & How Entrepreneurs Should View Market Size with Sarah Guo @ Greylock Partners
- ▶ 24:37 Harry Stebbings Very kind of Sarah today, and such a pleasure to have her on the show today, having learned so much from her deep dives and blog posts, which if you haven't checked out, you must check out on Medium.
20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome
- ▶ 21:46 Henry Ward Um, I think the stuff that I, uh, I do find stuff on medium that's interesting, the stuff, but, but sort of broadly what I find most interesting is what other CEOs write.
20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 25:39 Nitesh Banta I use Nuzzle, Twitter, Medium to find new articles.
20VC: How To Assess Founder Psychology, Why Talking About Financial Returns In The First Meeting Is Always Wrong & How To Allocate Time Amongst A VC Portfolio with Kara Nortman, Partner @ Upfront Ventures
- ▶ 29:40 Kara Nortman I mean, I'm deeply into Medium now and just reading a bunch of different folks on Medium. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Don't Have To Have Operational Experience To Be A Good VC, Why There Is No Optimal Stage To Invest & Why VCs Should Focus on Reputation Ahead of Cash On Cash Returns with Lyon Wong, General Partner @ Spectrum 28
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 26:32 Peter Pham What's medium?
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 24:36 James Wise Um, you know, write their medium and put it down there and say, look, uh, you know, we,
20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 11:38 Harry Stebbings I can't stand mobile payments, and I'm very outward in stating so on my Medium blog.
20VC: Why Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World Of Software with Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 30:03 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic deep dive that was on all things AI, and if you have not had a chance to read Siobhan's piece on Medium, then check it out by searching for Siobhan Zilis, and if you are loving the show, then you can follow me on Snapchat,…
20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper
- ▶ 16:20 Harry Stebbings So you used to be very active on your blog and now you've made the move to medium. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:07 Sarah Tavel I mean, so the thing that I have been spending a lot of time, um, looking at and thinking about lately is, is in, you know, marketplaces and transactional businesses, specifically around this idea that I actually wrote about in Medium,…
20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next
- ▶ 0:52 Harry Stebbings If that's not enough for Josh, he currently serves on the boards of Medium, Meerkat,
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 24:14 Christian Hernandez Medium as a whole, right?
20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content
20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC
- ▶ 8:31 Harry Stebbings I think in the Medium post you did about the stats of Boost, it said, 52 investments in the space.
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 24:16 James Cameron So, uh, you know, I think, um, I also, I've been spending a lot of time on Medium lately.
20 VC: How To Say No Fast and Efficiently and Why UX Must Always Be At The Core Of What You Do with Sitar Teli, Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings At the twentyminutevc.com, under the page The Two Minute Takeaway, or on our Medium page, under Harry Stebbings.
20 VC: The Ultimate Guide To Marketplaces with Boris Wertz, Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings You can find our first one from today's episode on the site at www.thetwentyminutevc.com under the page The Two Minute Takeaway, or on our Medium page under Harry Stebbings.
- ▶ 28:22 Harry Stebbings And you can find that on the site at www.thetwentyminutevc.com and on my Medium page simply by searching Harry Stebbings or Boris Wurtz.
20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings I'm also a huge fan of Eric's writing, which you can find on Medium by searching for Eric Verplu, or by clicking the links in the show notes.
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
- ▶ 19:36 Harry Stebbings I, I, I know Sherman's post on Medium was quite a controversial one depicting his experience.