Mike Vernal

5 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 26, 2019 by Mike Vernal · said 19 times in 10 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (5), Julia DeWahl (4), Roger Dickey (2), Pat Grady (2), Akshay Kothari (2), Sam Corcos (1), Roelof Botha (1), Max Altman (1)

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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode

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 Nov 21, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 26:55
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2024 2 mentions in 1 episode

Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2024 · 2 mentions · from 32:55
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode

Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 11, 2023 · 1 mention · from 42:45
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2022 1 mention in 1 episode

Geoff Lewis: Why I Put $200M into Rippling; Uncapped Notes; "Compound Startups" | 20VC #933 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 5, 2022 · 1 mention · from 41:33
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2021 1 mention in 1 episode

20VC: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo on Why You Need Sponsors Not Mentors, Where Management Skills Align with Good Parenting & The First 100 Days as CEO at Instacart; The Challenges, The Surprises and The Next Chapter Oct 18, 2021 · 1 mention · from 30:15
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2020 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode

20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor Jul 3, 2020 · 7 mentions · from 0:49
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success Oct 26, 2020 · 1 mention · from 32:24
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2019 1 mention in 1 episode

2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

20VC: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun Sep 29, 2017 · 2 mentions · from 11:41
20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software Mar 13, 2017 · 1 mention · from 5:29
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Aug 26, 2019 positive

Insight

Vernal: Top tech startups differentiate through extreme focus and execution clarity

“As I meet companies today, like the ones that I think are just really head and shoulders above the rest are typically the ones that are just amazing at focus, have incredible clarity of thought about what are we trying to accomplish? What are the steps we need…”

Mike Vernal Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 6:52 20VC: Sequoia's Mike Vernal on His Biggest Lessons From 8 Years of Hyper-Growth at Facebook, Why The Strength of Data Moats Is Over-Rated Today and The Challenge of "Overthinking Investments" In Venture

Aug 26, 2019

Disclosure

Vernal: Startups dismissed on first meeting never became major misses

“I have yet to meet a company once, think it wasn't interesting, and then have it actually be very interesting.”

Mike Vernal Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 9:29 20VC: Sequoia's Mike Vernal on His Biggest Lessons From 8 Years of Hyper-Growth at Facebook, Why The Strength of Data Moats Is Over-Rated Today and The Challenge of "Overthinking Investments" In Venture

Aug 26, 2019 positive

Insight

Vernal: Exceptional startup pitches explain the business in under five minutes

“They can come in and explain the entirety of their business in three to five minutes. And then the rest of the time is deep diving, poking on the margin to just understand sort of the fringes of the basic plan, then that's an exceptional pitch.”

Mike Vernal Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 7:57 20VC: Sequoia's Mike Vernal on His Biggest Lessons From 8 Years of Hyper-Growth at Facebook, Why The Strength of Data Moats Is Over-Rated Today and The Challenge of "Overthinking Investments" In Venture

Oct 26, 2020 positive

Disclosure

Mike Vernal Brought Facebook's 'Check-Ins' Practice to Sequoia Capital

“Our get-togethers as an investor team, we start off with something called check-ins, which is something that Mike Vernal brought to us. It was something that the team had done at Facebook”

Roelof Botha Oct 26, 2020 ▶ 32:24 20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success

Dec 11, 2023 positive

Assertion Supported

Corcos: Sequoia's Vernal and Andreessen's Jordan Read Every Pre-Meeting Document

“The people who were most engaged was Mike Vernal at Sequoia and Jeff Jordan and Andreessen. They read every document. Jeff actually even fixed some typos like deep in like a 50 page document.”

Sam Corcos Dec 11, 2023 ▶ 42:45 Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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