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every year 2020 anyone Harry Stebbings 136Jeremy Levine 21Casey Winters 16Sarah Tavel 15Sahil Lavingia 7Jeff Jordan 5Fritz Lanman 5Shishir Mehrotra 4Kevin Hartz 4Zachary Bookman 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Pinterest comes up
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.