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Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:52 Gokul Rajaram All four of them, Larry, Mark, Jack, and Tony, and now Brian Armstrong, um, Bill and Ben at Pinterest.
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:50 Matt Fitzpatrick We took the old Pinterest space in San Francisco, um, London, Paris, Poland, DC, and just opening Austin, Texas now.
20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Sandy scaled products to over two hundred million users, and led growth teams at Descript, Meta, and Pinterest.
- ▶ 4:02 Harry Stebbings You've worked at Pinterest, you've worked at Meta slash Instagram, you've worked at Descript, what we use to edit and love. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:34 Sandy Diao During my time at Pinterest, we were trying to solve that onboarding problem that I was telling you about earlier, 2 times in the scene
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:49 Jason Lemkin Um, there's a lot of data from Instagram and Pinterest talking about how people purchase.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:25 Shervin Pishevar I had the opportunity to invest in Snapchat, um, in the seed round, and I had the opportunity to invest in, um, Pinterest in the seed round. 3 times in the scene
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:48 Mike Maples You're not as awake to the possibility of what Pinterest could be when you get pitched by Pinterest, right?
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:07 Zachary Bookman Your business is about finding the next Coinbase, or the next Uber, maybe the next Pinterest.
- ▶ 21:33 Zachary Bookman This'll be like, this company has revenue, but this is not going to be the next, uh, uh, Pinterest. 2 times in the scene
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:33 George Arison Because people are using Grindr for dating, yes, but they're also using Grindr for all these other social experiences that are more akin to a Pinterest or a Instagram than, uh, than a dating product.
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:16 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is we have Dropbox and Uber and Facebook and Pinterest.
Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:19 Raman Malik Dropbox, Dropbox, like with the referral program, Groupon and email, Pinterest and SEO, Duolingo, and just like a totally unhinged social media, right?
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:55 David Frankel The first thing that comes to mind is like Pinterest.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:10 Kevin Hartz You know, these types of seeds, like the seed of Airbnb, the seed of Pinterest, you know, at the time, even seed of, of PayPal, you know, were very non-obvious, and in the case of Airbnb, you know, it was the passion.
- ▶ 21:45 Kevin Hartz I love how Sequoia says, we're only as good as our next investment, and, you know, that's the mindset, is you just can't say, oh, back in Airbnb and Pinterest, and, uh, what is that?
- ▶ 41:19 Kevin Hartz Airbnb, Pinterest, um, Bitcoin.
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:30 Cameron Adams Like Pinterest, Instagram had come out.
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:42 Val Scholz Um, either you have user-generated content, when, let's say, uh, Pinterest, YouTube, uh, you can basically create content or topic clusters, where you basically create hierarchy of, like, how you create dynamic landing pages.
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:41 Mike Maples Pinterest, Airbnb,
- ▶ 31:48 Eric Paley I, I think that's a very dangerous model that makes you, you know, talk your way out of, like, what would you say was the market for Pinterest?
Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:21 Brian Balfour You know, like a Pinterest or, you know, HubSpot was very content driven with like their SEO, like all that kind of stuff.
Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:29 Adam Mosseri There were stories on Pinterest for a while.
Lauryn Isford: Product Growth Secrets from Facebook, Airtable, BlueBottle, Dropbox & Notion | E1037 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:05 Lauryn Isford You know, I always have admired the Pinterest growth organization from its earlier days through, and I actually don't know a whole lot about the specific stuff they've built on the inside. 2 times in the scene
Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:19 Harry Stebbings oh wow, you were at Pinterest and X before, and it gives us confidence.
Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:45 Mike Duboe I think you've had him on the pod and like, I remember at Pinterest, I mean, that would, that would switch over like quite a bit, um, between marketing and product.
- ▶ 18:49 Mike Duboe So for a business like Pinterest, uh, and there's a concept called growth loops that maybe we could talk about later, but like new users coming in,
- ▶ 36:07 Mike Duboe I referenced the content one from Pinterest early on.
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:35 Jeff Jordan You know, the Apple changes with the input, impact on Facebook, TikTok, and Pinterest, you know, and Snap coming as, as potential new channels. 2 times in the scene
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:01 Hila Qu Uh, Snapchat, Pinterest, those work, but those are hard to scale.
- ▶ 19:46 Harry Stebbings But as we said there about the testing of different channels, quite often your ICP, your ideal customer profile, will be different to how you anticipate, and actually a growth hire who's tested several different channels can find that…
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:34 Jeff Jordan Uh, impact on Facebook, TikTok and Pinterest, you know, and snap coming as new as potential new channels. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:53 Jeff Jordan With a lot of very good board members, um, you know, the, the, the team at, uh, Pinterest, the team at, uh, Airbnb, the team at Instacart are both, you know, have all gotten, you know, very, very high quality folks, and they're filled with…
20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings And we're joined by seven of the best growth leaders from the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest,
- ▶ 2:26 Harry Stebbings And we're kicking off today with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite, and prior to that, led the product team at Pinterest.
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30 Paul Davison Uh, eventually we sold highlights Pinterest 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:26 Harry Stebbings You founded Highlight, you sold it to Pinterest, you then worked at Benchmark, you had the experience in the network to hire those people, and you had the pedigree. 2 times in the scene
Cambly CEO Sameer Shariff: Why I Raised $60M and Didn't Touch a Dollar | 20VC #914 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:59 Sameer Shariff We hired the, the head of core product, um, out of Pinterest and, and lots of other great leaders onto the team.
Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:25 Luc Levesque So I worked with Pinterest, uh, Patreon, Twitter, and shared some of my, my growth playbook with them and kind of through that got connected with Mark at Facebook and, you know, met with Mark, had a, a, a 15 minute meeting that turned into…
- ▶ 36:54 Harry Stebbings It's so interesting you say that, because Bengali Kaba, uh, formerly of Instagram, who I, I know well, and then obviously Casey Winters, uh, formerly of Pinterest, who I'm sure you know, um, they both actually said that, like, past…
20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt
- ▶ 9:16 Darius Contractor And one of my favorite stories of a metric changing is from Pinterest and from Casey.
- ▶ 29:01 Harry Stebbings I was shouting to Grant, the founder of WhatNot, the other day, and he was saying how the people from Pinterest in particular are the best growth leaders. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Founding Legendary Entertainment and Creating Batman, The Hangover and 300, The Importance of Luck vs Skill in Success, How Relationships to Money Change & Why Velocity is the Most Important Factor in Company Building Success with Thomas Tull
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings As the founder, chairman, and CEO of Tullco LLC, he's made notable investments in the likes of Figs, Colossal, Il Makiage, Pinterest, Zoox, and Oculus Rift.
20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Instacart with the Growth Leaders Who Built Them; How Instagram Went from 440M to 1BN, How Twitter Changing Their Signup Flow was a Needlemover and How Removing Card Payment Requ
- ▶ 0:07 Harry Stebbings Now, normally we're on the investor side of the table, but today we turn to the operators, the team members who built these behemoth businesses, to unpack their biggest lessons from leading teams and products at companies like Facebook,…
- ▶ 3:04 Harry Stebbings Alrighty, so we're going to kick off with Casey Winters, CPO at Eventbrite, and he talks here about some of his biggest lessons from working on the hypergrowth journey with Pinterest. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Testing is Inefficient and Slows You Down, Why It is Impossible To Hire Good PMs so Stop Trying & 3 Key Signals The Best Engineers Present with Grant LaFontaine, Founder & CEO @ Whatnot
- ▶ 22:21 Grant LaFontaine Two out of three founders, OpenSea founder and Clubhouse founder all came from Pinterest, and a huge chunk of our team is actually now from Pinterest. 3 times in the scene
20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team, 3 Questions All Great Product Leaders Ask, How To Structure and Run Effective Product Reviews & Is Product More Art or Science?
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Scott's also an early advisor and incredible investor in companies like Pinterest, Uber, Sweetgreen, Carter, Flexport, Airtable.
- ▶ 4:20 Scott Belsky And I think I've, you know, over the years, whether it was working with the Pinterest team in the early days, or, you know, a number of other companies just cracking product experiences, first mile experiences, et cetera, I just, you know,…
20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Before changing the world of NFTs, Devin co-founded ClaimDog, which was acquired by Credit Karma, and before founding ClaimDog, Devin was also an engineer at Pinterest.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 17:54 Eugene Wei Instagram, you look at Twitter, you look at Pinterest, you look at all these products, they all have singular feed, and it makes sense, right?
20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu
- ▶ 12:35 Andy Johns So if I'm building another network-driven product, I'm going to look for the heads of growth at Pinterest and at Reddit and at Quora and at Twitter and at Facebook and at LinkedIn.
- ▶ 27:29 Harry Stebbings Challenge at Pinterest.
20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
- ▶ 30:11 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, on the experimentation front, when I spoke to Casey, he told me that one of his biggest challenges was actually at Pinterest,
Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Prior to Eventbrite, Casey spent close to three years at Pinterest, where he led the growth product team there. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:48 Harry Stebbings Not at all, but I always love to start with some context, and so talk to me about your entry into startups and how you came to lead some of the most powerful growth orgs really in the world with the likes of Pinterest, now with Eventbrite. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:08 Casey Winters So, and this was something we had to work on it at Pinterest, you know, when it was really like actually labeled the growth team for the first time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:21 Casey Winters You know, when I think about starting this at, you know, Grubhub and Pinterest, I spend so much of my time in the data, you know, writing SQL queries, trying to understand where does traffic come from? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:14 Casey Winters It reminds me of a story at Pinterest where, you know, we had a cross-functional team on growth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:27 Casey Winters I remember when I started, you know, on the growth team at Pinterest, basically what happened at Pinterest is a lot of our core loops stopped working. 8 times in the scene
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Prior investments from Velvet Sea Partners include Twitter, Square, SpaceX, Snap, Facebook, Pinterest, and many more incredible companies, and prior to becoming an investor,
20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings The last few, from DoorDash to Snap to Pinterest, have all been consumer, and so I thought we should mix it up today and enter the world of SaaS, and what better company to cover than the incredible Twilio journey, and who better to have…
- ▶ 11:59 Byron Deeter Cost was part of the justification, but I think it's on public record that Pinterest in our portfolio, certainly one of the largest AWS customers still uses them and certainly has this conscious trade off of, should I bring it in house or…
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings And today, I couldn't be more thrilled to welcome Jeremy Levine to discuss his ten million dollar Series A investment into Pinterest back in 2011. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:31 Harry Stebbings I know, it's been a long time since our first one, but we're going to unpack the original Pinterest memo that you wrote back in 2011, and I want to start with some history, with some context, so tell me, what was the first meeting? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:10 Harry Stebbings I do want to go back to the Pinterest deal itself, though, so that's like, just lay the foundation. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:51 Jeremy Levine And when we first invested, we and the founders tracked Pinterest progress against those two other companies. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:27 Jeremy Levine In order to use the product, you needed to be invited by another Pinterest user, and I think, honestly, the main reason that they did that was because if they let anyone sign up, the thing would have fallen over, and it would have gotten… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:31 Jeremy Levine He remains super humble, super focused on building Pinterest to be the business that he wants it to be, and so I actually think he's sort of stayed the same more than anything else. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:05 Harry Stebbings So I say a short statement around Pinterest, of course, and then you give me your immediate thoughts. 15 times in the scene
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- ▶ 11:22 Jeremy Liew That's why young women are so often the carriers of social culture and the spreaders of social culture and pop culture, and I think that's been seen to be true, not just with Snapchat, but also with a number of other social media and…
20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Biz also co-founded Jelly, a human-in-the-loop AI search service, which was acquired by Pinterest, and due to his many successes, Biz has also been recognized as one of Time's a hundred most influential people in the world, and I do want…
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Pre-Great Lock, Sarah was the first PM at Pinterest, where she led three acquisitions, launched Pinterest globally, and then was also responsible for closing their hundred million dollar Series C financing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:17 Sarah Tavel Well, so then what ended up happening is I spent six years at Bessemer, and the last investment that I made there was Pinterest at the Series A. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:41 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, though, because we were emailing before and talking about how I stalked you listening to every podcast episode you had done, and in one of the episodes, when you spoke about your time with Pinterest, you said one of your… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:02 Sarah Tavel I certainly remember when I was at Pinterest, and our Series B with Andreessen got announced, and the quality of the engineers and the team members that started to apply to Pinterest because of that new halo was this considerable step up,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:44 Sarah Tavel I always thought at Pinterest about this, and take even a more recent example that everybody will be familiar with, which is think about TikTok.
- ▶ 29:19 Sarah Tavel I mean, for Pinterest, I remember the company was four people when we invested, and we did it at 40 pre, which doesn't seem that crazy now. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 20:00 Shishir Mehrotra Maybe to give you some examples, one of the most fun ones I did was with Ben Silverman at Pinterest, where we went through thinking through what different ordering you could come up with for Pinterest. 4 times in the scene
20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A*
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Kevin is also one of the most successful early-stage investors in the business, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Airbnb, Uber, Pinterest, Trulia, and PayPal, just to name a few.
- ▶ 27:16 Kevin Hartz I've had the really great fortune of being a seed investor in companies such as Pinterest, a seed investor in companies like Airbnb.
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
- ▶ 3:16 Sahil Lavingia Yeah, so I got my start as an early employee at Pinterest. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:39 Harry Stebbings I'd love to hear, how did your time with Ben and Pinterest impact your operating mindset, do you think, when you look back now? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:19 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask as well, you know, you mentioned obviously Pinterest there, and I spoke to Manish before the show, and he told me about your leaving Pinterest without any of your stock vesting. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:49 Sahil Lavingia Pinterest and Slack and Square, and there's probably a dozen sort of ten billion dollar plus companies, Twilio, etc., and you need those if you're a billion dollar firm.
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 5:33 Andrew Wilkinson Also worked with a lot of startups really early on, Shopify, Tumblr, Coinbase, Pinterest.
20VC: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Someone who's been an incredible advisor to me over the years, member of the ecosystem, and just all around a wonderful person, and I'm so thrilled to welcome back to the show today, Alad Gil, one of Silicon Valley's most successful and…
- ▶ 3:40 Elad Gil So as an investor, I'm involved with companies like Airbnb, Airtable, Andrill, Coinbase, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Samsara, Stripe, Square, and others.
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Capital, one of the leading East Coast venture funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Airbnb, Pinterest, InVision, Shopify, and Discord, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:06 unnamed speaker I think Snap and Pinterest have kind of broken through that duopoly, and therefore there's some heterogeneous ways to acquire customers, but not as many as you'd hope.
- ▶ 30:44 Harry Stebbings All of them said Pinterest is a must ask. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 31:50 Semil Shah And so my intuition was a platform maturity of the iPhones, of the app store on iOS, of Facebook, of Google, of Snap and Pinterest kind of hit a ceiling where I felt the cost of acquiring these customers in the LTV, according to it, would…
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
- ▶ 30:37 Zach Coelius So I was at the beginning, literally at the very beginning of Airbnb, Dropbox, Uber, Meraki, I mean, Pinterest.
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
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings I'm thrilled to welcome back to the hot seat, Sam Lesson, founding partner at Slow Ventures, one of the leading early stage funds on the West Coast, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Robinhood, Gusto, Pinterest,…
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
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Alongside his role at Adobe, Scott is also a venture partner at one of the world's leading venture firms, Benchmark, and Scott also actively advises and invests in startups personally, having one of the most incredible angel portfolios,…
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings And before Greylock, Sarah was one of the first 35 employees at Pinterest, where she led the company's international expansion and aided in the closing of the Series C financing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:33 Sarah Tavel And the last investment that I worked on and helped lead was the series A in Pinterest, which was just a product that I loved. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 Harry Stebbings Now, Sarah, you know me, so many things for me to unpack there, and you mentioned your time at Pinterest, so let's start on that and the operating time, because we had Pat Grady at Sequoia on the show before, and he said that never has the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:26 Sarah Tavel And that is the bet that we will make time and time again, because, you know, when you think about many of the biggest unicorns that, that I think about now today, all of those companies look small in the beginning, you know, Airbnb,…
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings As for Fritz, prior to ClassPass, he was the founder and CEO at Livestar, a mobile recommendation startup that was acquired by Pinterest, and before that, he was a senior director in the corporate strategy group at Microsoft, where he led…
- ▶ 4:46 Fritz Lanman It was a seed investor in Square and Pinterest and Wish and a couple other great ones.
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