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ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 57:26 Aaron Katz Uh, I compare and contrast him to Mike Volpe, uh, who's also on my board. 3 times in the scene
The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park
- ▶ 45:40 Joon Sung Park Uh, our seed actually was led by Mike Volpe, who runs now his own firm, uh, and Shrodo, and along with, uh, Neil and Greenhoek's team, along with Patrick and who is their partner.
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:01 George Sivulka And that was, there's so many low points like that, and I think, you know, just kept on, on chewing through it, and, and yeah, raising money in the closet, I, I actually got on with, for, we raised a pre-seed from, from Peter Thiel, and,… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 George Sivulka Uh, and then two months later, uh, Mike actually hears about Hebbia from, uh, his daughter who's a Stanford student, uh, and I think I'd seen the product, was friends, and, uh, and then Mike actually comes in and is like, hey, this is… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:07 George Sivulka Uh, we, we ended up going from zero to a million dollars of revenue sometime in 2021 or 2022, and raise our series A also from, from Index, from Micon Index, which is thirty million bucks.
- ▶ 58:56 George Sivulka I think it's, it's somewhere between, you know, Peter talking to me about anything but the business and deeply academic things, and, and Mike taking me on a walk around the, the Woodside Horse Park, which is, which is pretty great.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:14 Mark Goldberg And my experience over almost a decade of doing this is that there are times, even the best founders who are running autonomously, where, and I actually, there's a concept that we, uh, one of my great mentors, Mike Volpe talks about magic…
- ▶ 16:58 Mark Goldberg Yeah, so I think one of the lessons I learned from Index Ventures, and certainly two of my mentors, Mike Volpe, Ilya Fushman, was you want to be in the category winner, and when you need to pay up to be in a category winner, that's…
David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:49 David Schneider I would say Mike Volpe, who's now, I think, in the process of retiring, um, from active, doing new boards, he brings an operator mentality with him.
Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:03 Aidan Gomez Mike Volpe and Jordan Jacobs. 3 times in the scene
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:40 David Cahn Mike Volpe. 6 times in the scene
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:01 Danny Rimer So Mike and I moved to San Francisco to open that office. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 3 Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Scaling, Management 101 on Trust Building, Morale Maintenance and Hiring & What We Can Learn About Parenting From Nature Programs with Scott Dietzen
- ▶ 7:01 Scott Dietzen And so having people like Anil Bousry and Frank Slootman and Mike Volpe and, of course, Mike Speiser and Satish Dharmaraj, a whole collection of your former interviewees on my board was incredibly helpful in de-risking Pure.
- ▶ 21:29 Scott Dietzen Anil was already on the board and Mike Volpe too. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 17:56 Emilie Choi Mike Volpe, who was famously that head of Corp Dev at Cisco during the heyday of Cisco M&A, he once said something to me, which I never forget. 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Prior to their IPO, they raised over four hundred and fifty million from the likes of Mike Volpe at Index, Satish at Redpoint, and eVentures to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from my Volpi and from John Sonos founder.
- ▶ 23:39 Patrick Spence and I think Mike Volpe as well, I think you said, okay, this is it like step up.
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
- ▶ 41:07 Reid Hoffman And actually, I think one of the things that I should do, just to show people objectivity, I think that one of the great board members that I've been working with is Michael Volpe, who's at Index. 5 times in the scene
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?
- ▶ 39:29 Daniel Levine I work with Mike Volpe from Index, led the series B in scale and joined the board, and I've really enjoyed working with him.
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
- ▶ 3:10 Harry Stebbings I've had so many good things from Mike Volpe and from the whole team at Index and Wasim at Pilot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:02 Mark Goldberg I've had a lot of board meetings with many of the other partners at Index, and probably the person who I learned the most from was watching Mike Bolpe, and I was fortunate enough to join him for a number of boards, but one of the things…
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
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings I'd also have to say a huge thank you to the one and only Mike Volpe at Index for providing some fantastic questions and suggestions today. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Anthony's raised over thirty eight million dollars in funding for Ubiquity Six from some of the very best in the business, including Finn at First Round, Mike Volpe at Index, and Mitch at Benchmark. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:08 Harry Stebbings I've heard many wonderful things from Mitch Lasky, from Finn Barnes, to Mike Volpe.
- ▶ 20:13 Anjney Midha And so when I was working with Mitch Lasky or Finn Barnes or Mike Volpe, you know, the thing that they bring is this incredible network, not because they're like, you know, Einstein's or, you know, I think sometimes venture capitalists get… 4 times in the scene
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 3:33 Harry Stebbings Mike, Shardul, Ari, Dylan at Figma, Eddie at Goat.
- ▶ 21:11 Danny Rimer So we had the partnership obviously came to this decision together and secretly we had hired Mike Volpe and made him suffer through being a startup CEO in a disaster. 2 times in the scene