Phin Barnes
27 statements across 4 episodes · 8 bullish · 10 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 15, 2018 by Phin Barnes · said 32 times in 7 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (22), Josh Kopelman (5), Anjney Midha (4), Leo Polovets (1)
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2019 24 mentions in 3 episodes 8 per 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
- 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: 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
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2018 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Should Let Everyone Rip Apart Their Business Idea, How To Construct Frameworks for Success & Why You Should Not Always Test Your MVP with Afton Vechery, Founder & CEO @ Modern Fertility
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- 20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Phin Barnes, oldest first
Oct 15, 2018 negative
Oct 15, 2018 negative
Oct 15, 2018 negative
Oct 15, 2018 bullish
Phin Barnes: Most Top Venture Outcomes Next Decade Will Have Diverse Founders
“For me, when I think about the next 10 years and the five to seven massive venture outcomes, right, so these are the Facebooks, the Ubers, the Airbnbs of the venture industry, my belief is that of those five to seven, somewhere between four and seven of them a…”
Oct 15, 2018 negative
Oct 15, 2018 positive
Phin Barnes: First Round Operates on the Sell Side of Venture
“I believe that we at first round are on the sell side of the equation, not the buy side. And so we build a product that founders decide whether they want to buy with their equity. And we set a price for that product and that price needs to be in line with the …”
Nov 12, 2018 positive
Polovets uses post-meeting surveys to gather founder feedback on pitch meetings
“I actually got this idea from Finn at first round where he started sending a survey to founders he met with to basically ask them what they thought of the meeting. So I've been doing that for the last year or two, and it's a really short survey.”
Feb 4, 2020 negative
Phin Barnes: Saying startup ideas don't matter drives me crazy
“I think recently when I hear people say ideas don't matter, it just drives me crazy. Like the idea is the most valuable thing you have when you start, and the best ones are the result of a tremendous amount of work and effort, experience, insight. They're uniq…”
Feb 4, 2020
First-year VC partner success is measured by influencing the partnership
“It's a hard question, because of course, it's a long-term game, and given we form our partnerships with founders at the earliest stages, a new partner, you certainly won't be able to measure returns for some time. So for me, it's really about being able to mov…”
Feb 4, 2020
New hires in learning mode miss early opportunities for impact
“So I think there can be a bias when you join a team, and especially it's exacerbated when you join a small, close-knit team, frankly, in a role that you've never held before. And the bias is to shift into a hundred percent learning mode. And when you do that, …”
Feb 4, 2020 positive
Oct 2, 2023 neutral
Oct 2, 2023 negative
Barnes: AND1's Expansion Into Lifestyle and Running Shoes Eroded Core Brand
“So at and one, we would talk about running shoes, trainers. We would talk about lifestyle shoes and clothing, kids licenses and so forth. And the focus on those things eroded the quality of the brand we had built in, in basketball and the core understanding of…”
Oct 2, 2023 negative
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Oct 2, 2023
Barnes: Junior VCs Should Focus on Daily Excellence Over Partner Targets
“Don't Set yourself a goal of, you know, being a partner in five years, because you probably have very little control over that, but be very intentional about the day-to-day work that you're doing and making sure that that is both excellent in terms of quality …”
Oct 2, 2023 bullish
Oct 2, 2023 positive
Oct 2, 2023
Barnes: My Biggest Founder Evaluation Mistake Was Ignoring Key Weaknesses
“And I think that my mistakes with founders have been missing the consequences of a weakness and see, and being overwhelmed with the strength of a spike. They won't even be able to apply that spike because They lack something else that will mitigate that, that …”
Oct 2, 2023 negative
Oct 2, 2023 negative
Barnes: Capital Efficiency Matters Far More Than Theoretical TAM for Early VCs
“I think for early stage investors, It matters much less that there's a billion dollar opportunity in a market. There's a TAM that, you know, you can back your way into that suggests that there's, you know, tens of billions to be captured and you can rationaliz…”
Oct 2, 2023 positive
Barnes: Warby Parker Succeeded on Supply Chain and D2C, Not Design
“The first time we met Warby Parker, Those guys didn't have design sense. You know, Dave dresses pretty well now, but he didn't then. And like, there was no like style person on that team, but the truth is that the glasses had to look good, but that wasn't the …”
Oct 2, 2023
Oct 2, 2023 positive