StarZero All shows Try the podcast clipper →

Meritech Capital Partners

also referred to as: meritech · meritech capital

11 statements across 5 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jun 25, 2018 by Max Motschwiller · said 50 times in 26 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Harry Stebbings (24), Mark Goldberg (6), Max Motschwiller (3), Rory O'Driscoll (2), Mitchell Green (2), Matt Murphy (2), Logan Bartlett (2), Semil Shah (1)

tap a year for its mentions
0053105201820192020202120222023202420252026episodesmentions
035201820192020202120222023202420252026episodes it came up in
0052.5105201820192020202120222023202420252026episodesmentions per episode
2026 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2025 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2024 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2021 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2018 10 mentions in 1 episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Meritech Capital Partners, oldest first

Jun 25, 2018 neutral
Prediction Partly held up
Max Motschwiller: Meritech Fund VI targeting $600M and 25 portfolio companies
“So we're in the process of raising our sixth fund, it'll be about six hundred million, and our view is to have roughly 25 portfolio companies in that fund, so not hugely concentrated, but we think the right balance is”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 24:49 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Max Motschwiller: Meritech reserves only 20-25% of funds for follow-on rounds
“Explicitly, we keep 20 to 25% of our fund captive for reserves, and that is definitely smaller than the average early stage venture firm, and because of what I mentioned before, we're just coming in at later stages such that there are fewer subsequent rounds a…”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 25:25 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 bullish
Insight
Motschwiller: Current Out-Execution Correlates Highest With Future VC Returns
“The highest correlation to a business that will be a great return and will continue to execute is one that is out executing in the current state.”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 14:08 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 positive
Insight
Motschwiller: Growth VC success depends on knowing when to pay up
“Often the brilliance of a growth investor is knowing where to really stretch and pay up on price. And when I say picking, that is really the element that I think is hard and unique.”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 11:39 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 negative
Disclosure
Motschwiller: Career VCs face limitations advising CEOs on managing large organizations
“There are certainly elements that are missed, and I feel most disadvantaged from when an operator is going through specific challenges, and they're mostly around people, right, where I haven't managed large organizations before, and so fully understanding the …”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 8:28 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 positive
Insight
Motschwiller: Tracking Growth Startups Across Funding Rounds Builds Conviction
“One of the easiest ways to build conviction over time is to see the company in the round before. And as a later stage firm, oftentimes we'll see and look at an A round or B introduced. And it's very clearly around too early, but then they say, hey, our budget …”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 13:43 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 positive
Insight
Motschwiller: Executive recruitment and customer intros are VC's highest-leverage value-adds
“The two highest points of leverage that I find my entrepreneurs really love are, one, finding them great people, and that oftentimes means great Great executives as they're building out that team and scaling quickly and finding executives that can take them to…”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 19:55 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Dec 20, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
UiPath has raised over $977M in venture funding
“To date, UiPath has raised over nine hundred and seventy seven million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the world, including Sequoia, Excel, Meritech, IVP, Capital G, Kleiner, CoTo, and more.”
Harry Stebbings Dec 20, 2019 ▶ 0:38 20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
Oct 16, 2020
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: Spike Lipkin raised over $100M for Newfront
“To date, Spike has raised over a hundred million dollars with Newfront for Some of the best in the business, including Founders Fund, Meritech, and of course, the newly founded TwentyVC Fund.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 0:24 20VC: How To Determine The Risks To Take vs To Pass On, Should Founders Meet Investors When Not Raising & The Most Important Non-Obvious Role of the CEO with Spike Lipkin, Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Opinion
Green: ICONIQ Capital's LP returns are 'freaking amazing'
“Either Iconic or Meritech, like, the returns of Iconic are freaking amazing.”
Mitchell Green Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 1:12:31 Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 8, 2026 neutral
Insight
O'Driscoll: Late-stage VC has bifurcated into sub-$400M and mega-private tiers
“There really are two different late stage businesses now. It used to be late stage was, I remember Meritech would say, beyond 10 Million is late stage, and you'd think 10 to a hundred million was quote late stage. Now, late stage is 10 to four hundred million,…”
Rory O'Driscoll Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 1:09:49 Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,200 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.

Try the podcast clipper Learn more