Mike Volpi
8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 18, 2017 by Mike Volpi · said 60 times in 17 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (11), George Sivulka (11), David Cahn (6), Reid Hoffman (5), Danny Rimer (4), Anjney Midha (4), Scott Dietzen (3), Mark Goldberg (3)
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 11 mentions in 1 episode
2024 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
2021 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- 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
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- 20VC: Index Ventures Partner, Mark Goldberg on The Questions Founders Must Ask A Multi-Stage Fund Before Taking Their Money At Seed, Why Most Angels Will Lose Their Money & Why We Will See Our First $100Bn Neo-Bank Shortly
- 20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- 20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about Mike Volpi, oldest first
Sep 18, 2017
Volpi: Great brands stem from exceptional customer experience, not marketing tactics
“Universally, the one common concept with anybody that's able to build a great brand is it starts with a fantastic experience for the customer. That's how the brand builds. It's not billboards and blogging and nice logos and all that stuff. It really is about d…”
Sep 18, 2017
Volpi: Establishing a Top Venture Firm in San Francisco Takes Ten Years
“We did not think that index ventures in San Francisco, Would become, you know, a trailblazing firm in a year. This was a ten-year effort for us, and even now, five years into it, almost six years into it, we're sort of midstream on that”
Sep 18, 2017 positive
Sep 18, 2017
Sep 18, 2017 bullish
Sep 18, 2017
Volpi: Early-stage entrepreneurship is about understanding human incentives, not analytics
“Entrepreneurship, especially at the early age, is less about, you know, analytics and numerics, and it's really about understanding human beings, their incentives, their motivations, and what makes them great.”
Sep 18, 2017 positive
Volpi: Index Ventures will build its brand through founder service, not blogging
“To index itself, our firm, what we're trying to do is to delight our customers in some sense. And, you know, our, a lot of our portfolio companies are the customers that we serve and by delighting them over time, we're going to build a brand. And it's less abo…”
Sep 18, 2017
Volpi: Transitioning to VC requires stepping back from being front-and-center
“Super important to understand that the people that are actually making the decisions that own the success or failure of a company are the ones that are on stage. And I think being able to make that transition and not feeling like you're the one that is front a…”