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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Peter Thiel comes up
20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
- ▶ 26:19 Alexis Ohanian Okay, Peter Thiel.
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
- ▶ 6:42 Roelof Botha When Peter was CEO, he promoted me into that role.
20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- ▶ 5:03 Katherine Boyle I was fortunate enough to get accepted and moved out to California, and I quickly became somewhat bored by the business school experience, so I just started reading as many books as I could about technology and Silicon Valley and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:06 Katherine Boyle It's a book that I really love by Ross Douthat called The Decadent Society, and it came out during quarantine, and it's really about stagnation, being a robust, affluent society with no meaning, and how you get out of that stagnation, and…
20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 17:40 Harry Stebbings It's just more competitive than ever, and I especially feel this as a younger partner, like, how do you think about going against the heavyweights of industry, your Marc Andreessen's, your Peter Thiel's, when they come out to play?
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 17:09 Steve Jurvetson So like Tesla, I remember famously Peter Thiel's are saying it's a bankrupt idea.
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 3:40 Joe Lonsdale I was at PayPal, and then I was at Peter Thiel's family office, and at the age of 19 or 20, was driving around to meet some of the companies he'd invested in. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:58 Joe Lonsdale So I did macro with Peter before I've gotten to know a lot of macro investors like Stan Druckenmiller and others who I really admire.
- ▶ 9:18 Joe Lonsdale So having founders around, being founders, whether we're talking about Vinod Khosla or Peter Thiel or Marc Andreessen or Reid Hoffman or the list goes on and on.
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
- ▶ 33:22 David Sacks Mamoon, and then Founders Fund, I had access to Peter Thiel and Luke Nozick, and we really had a great harmonious board at Yammer, and I don't know that I can single anybody out, but I would say that it was a great board and very easy to…
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
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings It's also one of the favorites of Daniel Eck at Spotify, Peter Thiel, and Reed Hastings at Netflix.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 49:02 unnamed speaker Yeah, the two pieces of literature that have had the biggest impact on how I think about company building and investing are Zero to One by Peter Thiel, which took away a lot of the conventional wisdom I'd accumulated for college in the… 3 times in the scene