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SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:06 unnamed speaker To clarify, I know you think the entire Midwest is the same, Harry, but I think it's Ontario teachers.
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:11 Josh Browder I think, um, they shouldn't do something stupid, like sell their company to, sell 50% of their company to a Midwest angel for like a hundred K like you see with some of these shark tank deals.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 3:50 Harry Stebbings You grew up in the Midwest, which for me is, like, a Brit. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:45 unnamed speaker Sweden, those two people from the Midwest and in the space of, you know, three short months, convert them into highly marketable properties in return for a mere seven percent.
Ben Fiechtner: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | E1185 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:58 Ben Fiechtner yeah, so there, and there's a bar now across the street from the stadium, there's a micro brew, like, beer that's sold throughout the Midwest.
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:39 Samir Vasavada We're like, we're so bored in the Midwest.
IAC CEO Joey Levin: Why Value Investing is BS; The Most Insane Element of SPACs | 20VC #982 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:55 Joey Levin That was the, the, I had read books about him and stories about him, and, uh, that was, he was from the Midwest, and he's a iconoclast in a lot of ways, and
Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:53 Vaibhav Sahgal They were 50 to 60 year old women in the Midwest or somewhere in America, and they were looking, they were looking to use this product because they thought it was Fitbit for their brain.
Mac the VC on the Journey from Homeless To Becoming A VC | Full Interview with Harry Stebbings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:48 Harry Stebbings Middle America.
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- ▶ 5:08 Marcelo Claure Well-known American company sitting in the Midwest.
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- ▶ 14:49 Wade Foster Our sort of Missouri Midwest roots. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret
- ▶ 10:34 Jason Fried Maybe it's a Midwestern upbringing. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
- ▶ 3:38 Joe Thomas They're the Midwest entrepreneurs, like running a golf course, or having a paper print shop, or even a local cable hunting television show.
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 45:18 Steve Jurvetson He started in the Midwest and eventually moved more into technology with Tesla and others.
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
- ▶ 10:11 Brandon Deer Like mechanical arms in the Midwest building some sort of car, something of that nature.
20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings This week from the Midwest, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome John Fine, founder and managing partner at Firebrand Ventures, one of the leading early stage funds in the Midwest, with a portfolio including the likes of Scalefactor,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:58 John Fein I got to pick my own project team, and sure enough, when I, and I'd never been to Kansas City before, never been to the Midwest, and so I walked into this building for the first time in 2005, and sure enough, it was a shell of a
- ▶ 8:36 Harry Stebbings And for you raising the first time fund in maybe a more financially conservative Midwest. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- ▶ 17:52 Immad Akhund Business banking includes someone doing construction in like the Midwest.
- ▶ 18:34 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask that you mentioned that the construction in the Midwest and prior knowledge on that.
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
- ▶ 4:20 Jana Messerschmidt So I grew up in a really small rural town in the Midwest.
20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics
- ▶ 16:56 Chetan Puttagunta I talk to startups that are trying to recruit, you know, the West coast of the United States, the Midwest, the East coast, you know, the Rocky mountain area, look at Europe, you look at India, the talent and recruiting continues to be…
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
- ▶ 7:41 Frederic Kerrest One of the first real industry venture capitalists actually did it out of the Midwest, but built a great organization over coming up on for 40 years.
20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- ▶ 3:39 Jason Stoffer I really prefer to stay in the background, and I also have a deep affinity for companies that target middle America versus companies that are focused on the one percent.
20VC: The Biggest Trend Of Our Lifetime Is The Decentralisation of Entrepreneurship Away From The Valley, The Biggest Lessons From Learnings The Craft of VC at Sequoia & The Benchmarks Required to Attract Growth Investors with Chris Olsen, Founding Partne
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings For those that don't know, Drive is the venture firm that believes the Midwest is the opportunity of our lifetime, with more entrepreneurs building billion-dollar companies in the Midwest than in the last 50 years combined.
- ▶ 2:46 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough from me, so I'm so excited to say, for the first time ever, we will be going to the Midwest, and I'm delighted to welcome Chris Olsen, founding partner at Drive Capital.
- ▶ 11:00 Chris Olsen The more customers here in the Midwest, there's more universities and engineering grads here in the Midwest. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:12 Chris Olsen And the raw ingredients of talent and engineers, and like we would show them these pockets of, of really smart people where you've got this giant knowledge-based economy that's emerged in the Midwest that people don't necessarily…
- ▶ 19:27 Chris Olsen So, you know, in the Midwest and everywhere else too, but specifically in the Midwest, if you want to raise less than three million dollars, there is a very robust pool here of angels and incubators that are willing to invest in those… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:55 Chris Olsen It's not just in the Midwest.
- ▶ 26:28 Harry Stebbings What an incredible guest to have on the show, and what can I say, I'm sold on the very exciting times ahead for the opportunities in the Midwest, and if you'd like to see more from Chris, you can follow him on Twitter, at Chris Olsen, CMH.
20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- ▶ 20:10 Luis von Ahn Drive Capitalist is started by a couple of people who used to be at Sequoia, who decided that they were going to invest in, you know, the Midwest. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital
- ▶ 9:44 Anthony Pompliano We want to find a diversification of um, founders, and so what we've found here is we've got portfolio companies, you know, 13 different cities, right Um,, kind of all over the coast across the Midwest as well.
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 3:22 Rebecca Lynn I started out in the Midwest. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha
- ▶ 4:14 Scott Dorsey And Kellogg did a remarkable job building curriculum and sending us out to Silicon Valley so we could really understand the richness of that tech ecosystem and figure out how to bring some of that magic back to the Midwest.
- ▶ 25:16 Scott Dorsey You've got a smaller pool of software executives in the Midwest. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Sprig's Gagan Biyani on The 3 Principles Of Fundraising and Building The World's Largest Restaurant
- ▶ 18:07 Gagan Biyani And so that is one of the key things that we talked about in Sprague is, you know, how the world might be different if people could, you know, families in the Midwest could press a button when they were hungry and feed their kids.
20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
- ▶ 7:26 Ezra Galston Untapped talent and resources in the Midwest. 3 times in the scene