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Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41:37 Severin Hacker That this is Naval Ravikant quote.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:00 Shervin Pishevar Um, and so I was in lowercase as a seed investor and Naval Ravikant had introduced me to, to, to, um, to Travis over email.
- ▶ 57:39 Shervin Pishevar There's a history of VCs who have done this type of thing, uh, and, and in Benchmark's case, they did it against Naval. 2 times in the scene
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli: The Funding Market Today; Last-Mile Delivery; Competing w/ Carta | E1005 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:44 Avlok Kohli Yeah, so the background is Naval, who's one of the founders of AngelList, had been an investor in all three of the companies I'd started. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 9:49 Avichal Garg And given the option between people who are just sort of dead weight on the token cap table, versus people who are really experts at this stuff, like, would I rather have Chris and Ali and Katie and Namath, right?
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 43:37 Harry Stebbings We're seeing the rise of operator funds, Angel List, Naval, obviously, with his unbundling of venture with, you know, corporate governance, financing, and vice.
20VC: Breaking News: Ankur Nagpal Raises $70M for Vibe Capital, What The Next Decade For Venture Will Look Like, Do VCs Actually Add Any Value & Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Take Them and When To Reject Them
- ▶ 2:45 Ankur Nagpal Jeff Fagnon, an accomplice, and Naval Rubikant, an angelist.
- ▶ 11:59 Harry Stebbings So what makes you, sorry, and this is, again, off schedule, what makes your relationship with Jeff, with Naval so special? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
- ▶ 4:21 Avlok Kohli And during that time, during the sabbatical, Naval, who'd been an investor in a bunch of my prior companies, asked me to consider stepping in as CEO to 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:03 Harry Stebbings What's the biggest takeaway from working with Naval? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 4:49 Cyan Banister And so I took a step back and decided I was going to go work at AngelList for a little while and help Naval with syndicates because I was leading my own syndicates. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings First round, and then on the individual side, Max Levchin, Chris Saka, Ron Conway, and Naval Ravikant, to name a few.
- ▶ 4:31 Sahil Lavingia Raised ten million bucks from Kleiner Perkins, Max Lefgen, Naval, Chris Saka, the wonder kind of story, college dropout, everything like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:21 Sahil Lavingia And when Naval told me about rolling funds, it really just opened the door for me because I could start very, very low. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:04 Sahil Lavingia Yeah, I mean, I think Naval had a really great tweet about this. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings But to the show today, and I've wanted to have this guest on the show for such a long time, he is one of Silicon Valley's leading operators turned investors, with Navarra Avocanted Angel List calling him one of the world's best product…
20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 33:43 Akshay Kothari I think the exact first one might have been Naval.
20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors
- ▶ 28:56 Matt Mochary I was introduced to Naval Ravikant of AngelList about two and a half years ago, and this is when I was sort of still in my Stanford days, and he met with me. 10 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- ▶ 8:24 Jude Gomila We ended up aligning ourselves with UniSquare Ventures and Naval Ravikant. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:36 Harry Stebbings He backed the likes of Josh at Gusto Benz and payroll and Henry at Carter very, very early without also being the brand name of maybe Naval at the time.
- ▶ 37:42 Harry Stebbings Sorry, I have to ask, when you said there about the unbundling, so to speak, and I had Naval on the show, and he spoke about the unbundling of capital into many different kind of separate states, including one being governance, one being… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 5:33 Ash Fontana Well, I mean, firstly, I just learned a lot about investing in startups from Naval. 2 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
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Imad has raised from some of the best in the business, including Andreessen Horowitz and CRV on the fun side, and then incredible individuals, including Elad Gill, Airtable's Howie Liu, Plaid's Zach Perret, Naval Ravikant, Justin…
20VC: Clearbit Founder Alex MacCaw on How To Successfully Negotiate with Investors, What Value-Add Do VCs Really Bring & Why You Should Only Have Operators on Your Board
- ▶ 24:55 Harry Stebbings Do you think we'll see the unbundling of VC into kind of segmented products like Naval Ravikant's maybe said before?
20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- ▶ 29:26 Brian Norgard I think I would call the infinitely brilliant Naval. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:13 Brian Norgard Spearhead is sort of the brainchild of Naval Ravikant and Jeff Bagman, and the idea is funding entrepreneurs. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Zoom From Series A to IPO, How VCs Can Provide CEOs with Additional Leverage and Why The Negative Effects of Signalling Are Very Real with Santi Subotovsky, General Partner @ Emergence Capital
- ▶ 31:32 Harry Stebbings So would you actually agree with Naval, who always says about the unbundling, so to speak, of the funding mechanism into funding itself in pure capital, guidance itself in terms of Santi's wisdom in scaling SaaS businesses, and then the…
20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
- ▶ 10:29 Harry Stebbings I think, obviously, with Angel, it's to Naval, and he said before, when it comes to kind of value, that we might see the 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Cool has raised over fourteen million dollars in VC funding from some very dear friends of the show in the form of Gary and Alexis had initialized, James and Peter at NFX, Mike at Floodgate, Y Combinator, GV, and Naval Ravikant, just to…
20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
- ▶ 4:55 Harry Stebbings I didn't expect to go off schedule this early, Gary, but we, we hear like Naval often unbundle VC into the different packages, be it advising, be it
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 17:57 Fred Destin You know, so AngelList, the original vision of AngelList, because Naval hates VCs, was why don't I separate the skill set here between people who are good at investing and people who would be good advisors, and I'll break it open through a…
20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product
- ▶ 17:25 Harry Stebbings And do you fundamentally agree with maybe Naval in stating that we'll see the unbundling into advice, capital, and maybe governance and infrastructure?
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 1:11 Harry Stebbings And I do also have to say a huge thank you to Naval Ravican for the intro to Daniel many moons ago now, but the start of a friendship, and I really do so appreciate that.
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 23:02 Jeff Fagnan We always have had really interesting flow from, you know, Naval, Nivy, other entrepreneurs that started here that went out there, and just at an ecosystem, we were getting flow.
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
- ▶ 6:03 Harry Stebbings So talking about the future of work, Naval Ravikant said on the show, on a long enough timescale, everyone will be working for themselves.
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings And they have backing from some of the investing greats of the day, including Marc Andreessen, Naval Ravikant, Homebrew, Soft
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a massive thank you to Naval Ravikant at AngelList for the intro to Daniel today, without which this episode would not have been possible.
- ▶ 2:27 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks both to Harj at Triple White and to Naval at AngelList for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Daniel.
- ▶ 28:51 Harry Stebbings Well, Daniel, uh, Hodge and Naval said it would be a fantastic episode.
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 29:35 Harry Stebbings I think Naval Ravikant mentioned that on the show is one of his favorites too.
20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund
20VC: AngelList's Parker Thompson on How He Evaluates Startup Founders & Why The Move To Series A Is Harder Than Ever?
- ▶ 26:38 Parker Thompson It'd be interesting getting Evolve's perspective on this.
20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Balaji is the founder and CEO at 21 & Co, the company that believes for Bitcoin to succeed, we need to build the full stack infrastructure for Bitcoin, from silicon to hardware, and they have backing from some of the best in the world,…
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 7:58 Harry Stebbings I, I, I heard, uh, Naval say before, and you, kind of, cite it from, uh, him, that the first 30 investments you make will likely not go to plan. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 7:23 Harry Stebbings I mean, I'm intrigued with regards to kind of putting money to work there, and in the early days of your angel investments and putting that money to work, Navar Ravikam once told me that 6 times in the scene
20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Thrive, Version One, Naval Ravikant, and many more incredible names.
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 24:20 Dave McClure Naval doesn't write quite as much as he used to, and, you know, really Nivi and Naval did a lot of work with Venture Hacks that I thought was very helpful, but that was probably more like five to 10 years ago before they did AngelList. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 10:35 Harry Stebbings And one thing Naval Ravikant's very keen on is opening up the earlier stages of fundraising with AngelList. 2 times in the scene
Immediately's Branko Cerny on The Rise Of Bottoms Up Sales and The Importance of Branding For Enterprise SaaS Companies
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings With the likes of Naval Ravikant at AngelList, Ryan Holmes at Hootsuite, Jonathan Abrams at Friendster and Nuzzle, and previous guests Kate Schillow at Galvanize, all on their cap table.
- ▶ 17:16 Harry Stebbings It seems we've had Dustin Dolganow, we've had, uh, Sami Akaji, um, Kate Shillow, but then we've also got Naval Ravikant, Ryan Holmes at Hootsuite, Jonathan Abrahams at Nuzzle.
20VC: Tyler Willis on How To Be Innovative With Customer Acquisition and The Future Of Innovation
- ▶ 21:00 Tyler Willis I like, uh, I really like Naval. 4 times in the scene
20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
- ▶ 17:35 Philipp Moehring In the announcement already, Naval talked pretty clearly that, about how
20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
- ▶ 25:53 Peter Rojas And, um, and I, you know, I give a lot of credit to Naval for, uh, you know, for, for really having so much vision there, uh, with that.
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 12:37 Jason Calacanis I, I have like a group of Angel, Naval, who I just love winning with those guys and gals.
- ▶ 20:23 Jason Calacanis Naval is a close friend.