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ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern Aug 31, 2026 · 10 mentions

Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:29 Harry Stebbings Where I was going with the student adventure style is, I think it actually goes something that Peter Fenton told me, which is use price as a litmus test for your conviction.

How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 27, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 17:58 Paul Erlang And I remember Peter Fenton was actually on his phone most of it. 4 times in the scene

Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 1, 2026 · 2 mentions

The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:05 Harry Stebbings Ah, but Peter Fantamon's told me, the best founders make you feel uncomfortable, and I think that's very true.
  • ▶ 53:21 Jerry Murdock Yeah, I don't want to build egos up, but Peter Fenton, uh, John Doerr early on, um, those guys were astounding at picking deals.

Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 23, 2026 · 1 mention

a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 10, 2025 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 1:10 Everett Randle I have actually been listening to 20 Minute VC since 2017, which ironically I think is the year that you had Peter on, uh, the first time, and it's just been so fun to watch the show and the platform that you've built grow this way. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:36 Harry Stebbings Um, when we look at benchmark over the years, you know, Fanton did Airtable Series C. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:16:37 Harry Stebbings I think Benchmark could invest in Elizabeth Holmes doing Theranos Take Two, and you'd still get LPs queuing out the door, thinking that Fenton has seen something that no one else has seen.
  • ▶ 1:20:46 Everett Randle Peter, Eric, and Chaitin, um, but beyond that, I think the firm itself, it's just one of these mythical seats that, that, that you dream about from the, the day that you enter the asset class. 4 times in the scene

Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 11, 2025 · 1 mention

Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings We had Victor leaving benchmark and now there's only three partners remaining with obviously Eric, with Chathan and with Peter Fenton.

Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:12:24 Harry Stebbings Like, in SF, I'm competing against Peter Fenton, Marc Andreessen, Vinor Kostler, Eli Gill, the Collisons, Daniel and Nat Friedman.

Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2025 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Peter, Chathan, Sarah, Bruce Dunleavy, I spoke to, um, Pat Grady, um, the Brex founders.
  • ▶ 52:20 unnamed speaker You know, I obviously know Fenton well, and he did Airtable, I think the C.
  • ▶ 1:00:01 Victor Lazarte It didn't go well, and then in that case, man, like one of the things that I learned, like after joining Benchmark, and like, so I work a lot with Peter, and like Peter sits on two of my boards, and I sit on two of his boards, and you… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:02:44 Harry Stebbings I asked Peter, what should I ask him? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:06:54 Victor Lazarte It's like, hey, the guy's so accomplished, like, he could praise from anyone, he could do whatever he wanted, but I think he valued, like, he valued the relationship with Peter and said, hey, like, I think it's gonna be valuable to, like,… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:08:16 Harry Stebbings Single biggest lesson from working with Peter Fenton. 8 times in the scene

Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:57 Mitchell Green Had that deal, been backed by Benchmark, like Vishra or Fett, Peter Fett, and one of those guys, backed a Benchmark, doing a minority deal based in Silicon Valley, it would have been five hundred million dollars.

Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:48 Adarsh Hiremath Before you knew it, Brendan was on a helicopter with, uh, Peter Fenton from, from Benchmark.

Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:57 Shervin Pishevar You know, dealing with the tragedy and trying to take care of his company, um, and Matt Kohler and Peter Fenton show up at his hotel room, surprise him, with a letter with five early investors, um, basically saying, you need to step down…

Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2024 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07:59 Bret Taylor So when we started the company, I just called Peter Fenton, who I've worked with twice before. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:09:38 Bret Taylor I'll skip Peter since we just spoke about him. 3 times in the scene

Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 25, 2024 · 26 mentions

  • ▶ 40:26 Eric Vishria The round, the round that Peter led in Twitter at that time was like technically a series C or series D.
  • ▶ 41:20 Harry Stebbings I heard you say once, when it came to Cerebrus, that Peter's role as your partner was to help enhance your instincts. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:29 Eric Vishria So what Peter did, you know, in the case of Cerebrus was, I remember it really distinctly, I met the company first on a Wednesday. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 55:49 Harry Stebbings You've got one takeaway from working with Gurley, Fanton, and Matt Kohler. 10 times in the scene

Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:21 Harry Stebbings I remember Peter Fenton saying the best, a combination of hyper competitive and hyper curious.

Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:54 Harry Stebbings When I think about Nick there in particular, with respect to him, I think of actually something Peter Fenton told me, which is like the best founders should make you feel a little bit uncomfortable.

Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:39 Harry Stebbings And, you know, Peter Fenton said before on the show that price is a mental trap or valuation is a mental trap.

Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2024 · 21 mentions

Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:26 Harry Stebbings Or they want the one investor, Peter Fenton, or you name it, Keith Raboy, who they've worked with before, knows amazing, and the rest just give me passive.

Sarah Tavel: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised? | E1149 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 6, 2024 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 1:16 Sarah Tavel How it started initially was actually, um, Peter Fenton reached out to me and we grabbed a coffee at site glass. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:20 Harry Stebbings You've worked with him now for a number of years. 12 times in the scene
  • ▶ 54:55 Harry Stebbings I remember Peter Fenton said on the show, use price as a litmus test for your own conviction.

Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 10, 2024 · 1 mention

Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 18, 2024 · 2 mentions

Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 6, 2024 · 7 mentions

Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 12, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 15:38 Keith Rabois Now, interestingly enough, the more important topic is what, you know, should you be, should you care, how much should you care, et cetera, and I still remember this episode you recorded with Peter Fenton, 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:08 Keith Rabois I really try to apply Peter Fenton's, you know, sort of adage now much more frequently.

Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 22, 2023 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 18:10 Jeff Seibert So we're lucky to work with Peter Fenton at benchmark his clairvoyance on like where the large opportunity is and just relentlessly pushing us to find that and adjust like on a dime is super impressive.
  • ▶ 18:28 Harry Stebbings I've got to admit, I've got a man crush on Peter. 6 times in the scene

Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2023 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 14:07 Scott Farquhar We had Peter Fenton over at Benchmark. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:37 Harry Stebbings I've had many guests on the show, including like Mars Grimshaw from benchmark, obviously where Peter Fenton is, who said that per seat pricing would, would not exist in a world of AI.
  • ▶ 39:43 Scott Farquhar I think about this a lot because I've got young children, and I remember actually once, um, Peter Fenton used the words about post-economic.

Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:16 Phin Barnes I don't know if it's Peter Fenton or somebody else kind of like you, you earn the right to make ten million dollars in ARR by making a million dollars in ARR.

Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 14:32 Harry Stebbings Did Fenton and Gurley give you any advice on joining?
  • ▶ 54:56 Miles Grimshaw Um, that said, I thought I had a lot of curiosity and then, uh, and then I really got to know my partner, Peter Fenton. 2 times in the scene

Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 21, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 17:07 Harry Stebbings Like, I remember Peter Fenton telling me the best people are hyper-compassive and hyper-curious.
  • ▶ 55:46 Semil Shah So I think it just takes one deal to completely change the trajectory of some of these funds.
  • ▶ 1:02:49 Harry Stebbings The other truth is I think there's a utility value to board members that resembles a barbell, which is like Fenton, Gurley at the A, um, you know, Alfred Lynn at the A, Roloff Botha at the A, amazing Pat Grady at the A, great, and then…

Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 7, 2022 · 2 mentions

Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 30, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:04 Keith Rabois It's kind of the Peter Fenton line in your 20 minute VC of valuation is always a trap, which I didn't totally understand when I listened to it, but I think I now rock it.

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 Dec 6, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:51 Michael Eisenberg Now, you know, one of my lessons, again, take away from my time at benchmark and working with Bill and Bruce and the team there and Peter.
  • ▶ 46:11 Michael Eisenberg And, you know, getting to sit around the table with Bill and Bruce and Peter and everyone there for all that time was, you know, the best lessons ever.

20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital Jul 12, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:13 Harry Stebbings So say Josh at first round, say at seed, and then Peter Fenton at benchmark, and like their value add is very different, and what you need from the A investor when they're thinking about scaling from 10 to 50 versus building products first.

20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function Apr 19, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:06 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask one more before the quickfire round, and it's just, I actually asked, roll off this at Sequoia and Peter at Benchmark, and it's like, you know, you mentioned Kingmakers there, and there is a certain category of investor,…

20VC: Nubank CEO David Velez on Scaling Nubank to a $25BN Company, Why What Makes a Great Founder Does Not Make a Great CEO & The Responsibility Framework and How Leaders Can Use It To Drive Efficiency Mar 26, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:25 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode this coming Monday with Peter Fenton at Benchmark.

20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind? Feb 8, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:31 Michael Eisenberg Then, you know, Bill Gurley and Alex Balkansky and Bruce came calling to join Benchmark Israel, which I did, did that for a while, and my agreement when Benchmark, as Peter Fenton has so famously said, decided to get out of the imperial…
  • ▶ 27:00 Michael Eisenberg My benchmark partner, Peter Fenton used to be firmly of the view.

20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands Sep 11, 2020 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 12:41 Harry Stebbings And I had Peter Fenton from Benchmark on the show, and he said something that's always stuck with me. 5 times in the scene

20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty Aug 21, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:01 Ben Rubin Basically, Peter Fenton was, hire who you need to hire, start hacking around, there is Benchmark credit card, and I trust you, and like, obviously, this sounds a little bit unfair, because it sounds super casual, but we had a plan of

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 Jun 15, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:10 Harry Stebbings In terms of kind of another core element that can kill startups is the customer acquisition element, and Peter Fenton actually said on the show, the biggest challenge today is there's no free and open distribution. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Lightspeed Partner, Merci Victoria Grace on The Future of Collaboration Tools, Bundling vs Unbundling, Synchronous vs Asynchronous & What It Means To Productise The S*** Out of Venture Jun 8, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:00 Harry Stebbings I remember speaking to Peter Fenton when I was very young, and I was like, should I be a founder or should I be a VC?

20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi May 18, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:46 Harry Stebbings Peter Fenton said he laughs when people say they look for big markets, but then the majority of others say you've got to have a huge town.

20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework May 11, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits May 1, 2020 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Wayne and Jeff have raised over thirty-two million dollars for Digits, from some of the best in the business, including Peter Fenton at Benchmark, and Jess Verrilli at GV, and then also the most incredible base of angels, with the…
  • ▶ 24:17 Harry Stebbings You did also choose Peter Fenton to work with from the first round with Benchmark. 7 times in the scene

20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools Apr 27, 2020 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 21:00 Harry Stebbings One person who's done that from the sidelines, but as a VC many times is Peter Hansen at Benchmark. 10 times in the scene

20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital Apr 6, 2020 · 4 mentions

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 Mar 9, 2020 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings On the VC side, Matt has worked with the likes of Peter Fenton at Benchmark,
  • ▶ 3:19 Harry Stebbings I, I'm not sure I've ever quite heard so many great things from so many incredible people, from Peter Fenton to Emily Choi to Henry K at Brex to Henlon to GC, but I cannot thank you enough for joining me today, so I cannot wait for this…
  • ▶ 11:33 Matt Mochary I mean, the master of this is Peter Fenton at Benchmark. 5 times in the scene

20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do Jan 27, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:21 Harry Stebbings In terms of the distribution element, we had Peter Fenton on the show, and he said, for the first time ever,

20VC: Khosla Ventures Founding Partner, Samir Kaul on Why Pro Rata Is A Cop Out, Why He Likes Technical Risk and Does Not Take Market Risk & How To Approach Time Allocation Across The Portfolio In Venture Jan 13, 2020 · 3 mentions

20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again Dec 2, 2019 · 1 mention

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 Aug 5, 2019 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 4:21 Chetan Puttagunta It was there that I joined a company called Elastic on the board, and that was where I met my fellow benchmark partner, Peter Fenton, and we've now been on that board for a little over five years and running, and it was an incredibly… 11 times in the scene

20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities Jun 24, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings They included the likes of Peter Fenton, Josh Koppelman, Brad Feld, and today's guest. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:31 Harry Stebbings I'm really interested at Peter Fenton, your wonderful partner said on the show, never turn down a deal based on valuation. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:28 unnamed speaker And I would say our biggest regrets, and this goes back to Peter's tenant about price, a lot of our biggest regrets are when we got too worried about price.

20VC: Softbank Managing Partner, Jeff Housenbold on How Softbank Approach Portfolio Construction, Their Optimal Investment Decision-Making Process and What Excites Softbank Most In Opportunities Today May 20, 2019 · 1 mention

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 May 3, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:21 Harry Stebbings Peter Fenton said on the show he always laughs when he hears investors look for big markets, and then Sarah Tavel said that she looks actually for these niches or insertion points into small markets that actually open up into much bigger…

20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs Apr 29, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:02 Harry Stebbings Peter Fenton said he always laughs when he hears investors look for big markets, so how did you think about this one, and maybe respond to that? 2 times in the scene

20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android Apr 15, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:16 Harry Stebbings Peter Fenton said to me on the show from Benchmark, Harry, no good deal ever in hindsight looks expensive. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage Mar 25, 2019 · 1 mention

20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital Mar 4, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:48 Jeff Richards But if you ask Lou, he took money from people that he knew and trusted in Peter Fenton and Dan Skolnick, and he did evaluations that worked for him, but also worked for them along the way, and I think he built a better company because of…

20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto Feb 4, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:39 Harry Stebbings Peter Fenton and Jeremy Levine of Basma both said we're in a consumer downturn, so that was a cheery episode.

20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture Jan 28, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings Peter Fenton and Bradfeld, I'm extremely honoured to have had the chance to have on in the past, and today is another name from that list, an episode that makes me realise just how much I love what I do, and I could not be more thrilled to…
  • ▶ 7:40 Harry Stebbings Peter Fenton said never turn down a deal based on valuation, Harry. 2 times in the scene

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 Jan 15, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 11:34 Harry Stebbings Immediately makes me think, I spoke to Peter Fenton the other day at Benchmark, and he said he always laughs when he hears investors say they look for big markets. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:34 Harry Stebbings Peter Fenton at Benchmark said on the show, never turn down a deal based on valuation, it's a mental trap. 3 times in the scene

20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals Jan 7, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:01 Harry Stebbings We had your partner, Peter Fenton, on the show, and he said that he laughs when he hears VCs say they look for big markets.
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