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Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:36 Harry Stebbings Even your Robin Hoods as well, which were supposed to be 2 times in the scene
20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
- ▶ 38:18 Harry Stebbings Now I'm so excited to welcome our partner, Chena Pregada, former CPO Robinhood, and prior to Robinhood, a partner spent an incredible 12 years at Google as VP and GM for consumer shopping, and then also as the lead AR and visual search…
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:50 Wesley Chan And, you know, I was, I was able to write the first check in the, you know, companies like Robinhood or, or Platt or, or Gusto or Flexport.
- ▶ 15:23 Harry Stebbings And then there's what I call like market theft, which is like, um, almost Robin Hood-like.
Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:34 Sheel Mohnot The most valuable recently, Robinhood obviously has fallen in the public markets quite substantially, but I saw it very early on, and I thought, you know, what's the difference? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:34 Harry Stebbings How do you retain mental plasticity that actually, yeah, Simple had these issues, but actually Chime could be different, or yeah, free trade might have not unlocked this new market segment, but Robin, how do you retain mental plasticity?
Kyle Samani: Why Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Inflation | 20VC #909 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:52 Kyle Samani Um, and so our hope is, this is kind of like the ultimate manifestation of like Robin Hood, right?
20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Best vs the Worst | How Often Should They Be | Who Should Be Invited | Who Sets The Agenda | How to do Follow-Ups Post Product Reviews
- ▶ 13:35 Harry Stebbings Now, I want to bring one that's pretty special that actually went viral on TikTok with close to a million views, with the one and only Alpana Chanapragada, CPO Robinhood. 2 times in the scene
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:44 Henri Pierre-Jacques If you didn't get out before the bubble busted, if you were still in whatever company, you know, Affirm, Coinbase, Robinhood, and you hadn't actually liquidated it yet, like you just lost 70% of your value, right?
Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:50 Gary Vaynerchuk You have thirteen-year-olds, you know, on Robinhood and NFTs.
20VC: How Today's Market Changes How Companies Should Approach Burn and Runway, Are Financing Markets Closing? How To Know When To Pay Up vs Stay Price Disciplined & Why The Most Important Thing in Venture is Generating Positive Selection with Bill Cilluf
- ▶ 0:01 Harry Stebbings This is TwentyVC with me, Harry Stebbings, and back to the land of venture investing, following our 20 product with the amazing Aparna at Robinhood on Wednesday.
20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Today, I'm so thrilled to be joined by Aparna Chenapragada, Chief Product Officer at Robinhood, the company revolutionizing consumer finance with commission-free investing and tools to help you shape your financial future. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings And I do also want to say a huge thank you to Vlad at Robinhood for the intro today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:39 Harry Stebbings So, you know, we look at this incredible career working with some of the best product teams with the likes of Google, and obviously now with Robinhood. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:08 Aparna Chennapragada You know, obviously, the Google stage hiring process is different from, like, what I've been doing building the team in Robinhood. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:47 Aparna Chennapragada Oh, this is so timely, given that in Robinhood, obviously, we have both product leaders and product team members joining, and I completely agree with you, like, including my own experience generally, that's like an afterthought, or we… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:41 unnamed speaker And I've done that at Google, I do that at Robinhood, and I dedicate, like, a meaningful amount of my time, and I tell my product leaders to do the same. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:46 Harry Stebbings What's the biggest challenge of your role with Robinhood today? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 57:17 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I cannot wait to bring you a phenomenal episode with a partner, CPR Robin Hood, on Wednesday for our next 20 product.
20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings At IVP, Eric has led investments in the likes of Check This Out, Datadog, GitHub, Klarna, Robinhood, and UiPath.
- ▶ 14:51 Harry Stebbings Where you're at the 600 to a billion valuation, it's like, when your boxes of the world are valued at three, three and a half, you know, Robinhood's been at 10, like, 600 to a billion, that's a lot for a company that's doing five to 10 in…
20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 8:43 Roger Ehrenberg You can understand looking at your Robin Hood, or whatever, and being like, oh my god, I, you know, I just lost a 100,000 dollars, or whatever the number is, and lose your mind.
20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Welcome back to TwentyVC The Memo, the monthly episode where we sit down with leading investors to break down their investment memo and rationale behind leading a funding round for a breakout company, and what better company to focus on… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:55 Harry Stebbings But that's enough from me, so now I'm so excited to dive into the Robin Hood memo with Rick Yang and Scott Sandell at NEA Three, two, one, zero..
- ▶ 3:12 Harry Stebbings I've wanted to do this one ever since I interviewed you, Scott, and you told me about the incredible time you've had on the board with Robin Hood, but Rick, thank you so much for joining us today, and Scott, I'm so excited to finally make… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:54 Rick Yang But if you look at kind of the prior experience to Robinhood, they were actually in the high-frequency trading world, so they were highly technical too. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:34 Rick Yang And we saw a pretty straight line there with Robinhood. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:38 Rick Yang Sort of what Robin Hood was doing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:33 Rick Yang That was the bet that we were willing to take because we felt like this was a superior product and a superior positioning and brand of the company that had been crafted by this team and by these founders. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:37 Rick Yang From the company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 Harry Stebbings Can I ask Scott for you, when you look back, what do you think was some of the most surprising elements about their evolution? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:26 Scott Sandell And at the time, Robin Hood was worth two hundred and fifty billion or something like that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:19 Harry Stebbings When you saw Robinhood, obviously, you know, they do marketing now, and there is customer acquisition cost today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:41 Scott Sandell He has evolved in terms of his capabilities, but I think the man himself, he's very much the same as he was before, and he's served the company incredibly well that way. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:19 Rick Yang You know, Robin Hood, from the very beginning, struck a chord around this idea. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:21 Scott Sandell It's about freedom and giving people the freedom to do what they want, so I think the premise of this company is if you have a phone, you can be an investor, and we would encourage you to think about it, but it's up to you to decide… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:29 Harry Stebbings When you have such a kind of financial super app like Robinhood is today, you know, when we look at all the different adjacencies, obviously, with crypto, with the trading platform, with everything that you can do, as you said, with the… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:18 Harry Stebbings I do want to move into my favorite, which is the quick fire, and it's obviously centered around the Robin Hood journey. 8 times in the scene
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:24 Chris Sacca And so this is one of the reasons why I get so nervous about what I see in the Robin Hood phenomenon.
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
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings And he's also an active angel investor and advisor with companies such as Poshmark, Robinhood, Webflow, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Opendoor.
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 6:55 Chris Sacca And so this is one of the reasons why I get so nervous about what I see in the Robin Hood phenomenon.
20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
- ▶ 8:27 Angela Strange You use the Robin Hood example, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:08 Angela Strange And so being number five for a business, like being the number five Robin Hood in Brazil, and then expanding to Mexico to be the number six in Mexico,
20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings They are one of the most successful venture firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Robinhood, Coinbase, Revolut, Nubank, and more.
- ▶ 9:40 Nick Shalek But even with the right people, we just benefited enormously from climbing, like the wind being at our back in tech and fintech, and even more from getting to back entrepreneurs like Fred and Brian at Coinbase or Ken at Credit Karma or…
- ▶ 27:25 Harry Stebbings I mean, speaking of speed of deals, one final question for the quickfire, but you let a multi-billion dollar raise into Robinhood in what I think was about 24 hours. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:37 Nick Shalek Like, before Robin Hood, there was Schwab, and before Stripe, there was Visa.
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings Since joining in 2019, David has invested in the likes of Clubhouse, Coinbase, Databricks, Figma, Instacart, Robinhood, and TripActions, to name a
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm excited to welcome back Layla Sturdy, General Partner at Capital G, Alphabet's independent growth fund with investments in the likes of Stripe, UiPath, Looker, Robinhood, and Lyft, to name a few.
20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
- ▶ 26:22 Harry Stebbings I remember speaking to, you know, Glad at Robin Hood, and it's when you have big exits like you have done, your children are also brought up just by nature in different environments to those in which you work.
20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Scott also serves on the boards of rocket ships, including Robinhood, Cloudflare, Coursera, and Divi.
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
- ▶ 0:04 Harry Stebbings The world has been talking about little other than Robinhood and GameStop over the last month, and so I thought, who better to have back on the show than Vlad Tenev, founder and CEO at Robinhood? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:53 Harry Stebbings What was the aha moment with Robin Hood, and what was that kind of brief founding story? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:03 Harry Stebbings You know, a lot of people have suggested that Robin Hood are maybe the enabler and not the victim of the events of the last few weeks. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:11 Vlad Tenev You have some individuals that are shorting them because a lot of the retail platforms, not Robinhood, but other retail platforms allow shorting or allow, you know, other ways of going negative. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:38 Vlad Tenev Robinhood played this by the books, or as close to possible as to what the books are for something that's never happened. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:52 Vlad Tenev So we have to think about how Robinhood can be robust to it.
- ▶ 23:43 Vlad Tenev Robinhood is becoming much more 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:29 Harry Stebbings What does the next five years hold for you and for Robin Hood? 4 times in the scene
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
- ▶ 36:54 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode with Vlad at Robinhood on Thursday.
20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
- ▶ 4:52 Harry Stebbings I had recently Vlad Tenev from Robinhood on the show, and he spoke about kind of his growing up in Eastern Europe and how it impacted his mindset.
20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings We are back, and this is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and on Monday we feature an incredible billion-dollar founder in the form of Vlad at Robin Hood, and today we're joined by another incredible billion-dollar founder who's…
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings Yes, I'm so thrilled to welcome Vlad Tenev, co-founder and CEO at Robinhood, the company that provides commission-free investing, plus the tools you need to put your money in motion. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:33 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so without further ado, I'm so excited to hand over to Vlad Tenev, co-founder and CEO at Robin Hood.
- ▶ 2:58 Harry Stebbings So tell me, you know, we look at Robinhood today, and it's this incredible company, but it's all going to start somewhere.
- ▶ 8:44 Vlad Tenev And so I think when you kind of combine the appreciation for democracy and capitalism with innovation, you kind of get the recipe for Robin hood. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:04 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask though, Black, cause you mentioned that as starting Robin hood in 2000 and
- ▶ 13:14 Vlad Tenev Going through the various stages of Robin Hood and my life, the more I kind of recognize that the thing leadership is most responsible for, aside from maintaining high standards and a high quality bar, is the tempo of the company and the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:33 Vlad Tenev In the early days of Robin Hood, we had no traction, no business, you know, no experience building consumer products. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:01 Harry Stebbings Obviously, I, I'm an investor today, and I meet so many different companies that are pitching some small niche ancillary product to, to what kind of Robinhood could offer. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:21 Harry Stebbings When you think about kind of, you know, the first iteration, kind of the gamification on the consumer kind of product offering side that, you know, Robinhood has, how do you think about launching those ancillary products and when's the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Vlad Tenev They're one and three right now, so they're a little bit young to really understand what I do and what Robin Hood is. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:13 Vlad Tenev I would like them to remember Robinhood as one of the most challenging and rewarding times of their lives. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:19 Harry Stebbings There's such exciting times ahead for Robin Hood, and if you'd like to see more from Vlad, you can find him on Twitter, at VladTenev.
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
- ▶ 19:30 Sarah Tavel And so when you're underestimated, and I think there's so many examples of this, Robin Hood actually being the most recent example in my mind, you're able to elude competitors until it's too late, and you've won.
20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Now, for those that do not know, Capital G is Alphabet's independent growth fund, which invests in the likes of Stripe, UiPath, Looker, Robinhood, and Lyft, to name a few of their incredible companies.
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*
- ▶ 18:14 Kevin Hartz As we see now, this army of investors coming out of Robinhood, the millennial investor, it's not our goal to leave consumer retail investors holding the bag, but in fact, we want to grow value with them, and we want to grow value with the…
20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo
- ▶ 10:39 Clay Wilkes Tomorrow, I think JP Morgan is not going away, but Chime, Robin Hood, Varo, Current, these companies are going to be significant players in their own right, and the growth rates are phenomenal, and that will continue.
- ▶ 13:00 Clay Wilkes Robin hood or be the next time.
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
- ▶ 39:37 Mike Maples And so you can connect like your Robin hood or your TD Ameritrade accounts directly to the platform.
20VC: Index Ventures Partner, Mark Goldberg on The Questions Founders Must Ask A Multi-Stage Fund Before Taking Their Money At Seed, Why Most Angels Will Lose Their Money & Why We Will See Our First $100Bn Neo-Bank Shortly
- ▶ 26:30 Mark Goldberg I think in every geography right now, whether that's what Robin Hood and Chime are doing in the US or New Bank's doing in Brazil, you're going to see companies start with a specific product.
20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
- ▶ 2:14 Harry Stebbings Rather than ads and clickbait to drive revenue, they're focused solely on the data and research tools, and with over 30,000 users, after just a month and a half, and one user calling Atom the Robin Hood of Bloomberg, the sky is the limit,…
- ▶ 30:02 Harry Stebbings And one user calling Atom the Robin Hood of Bloomberg.
20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 2:16 Harry Stebbings And one user calling Atom the Robin Hood of Bloomberg.
- ▶ 32:30 Harry Stebbings And with over 30,000 users, after just a month and a half, and one user calling Atom the Robin Hood of Bloomberg, the sky is the limit, and you can check them out now at atom.finance with the invite code two zero VC.
20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader
- ▶ 2:20 Harry Stebbings And one user calling Atom the Robin Hood of Bloomberg.
- ▶ 48:37 Harry Stebbings Rather than ads and clickbait to drive revenue, they're focused solely on the data and research tools, and with over 30,000 users after just a month and a half, and one user calling Atom the Robin Hood of Bloomberg, the sky is the limit,…
20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- ▶ 4:16 Henry Ward Of course, now you can do it with Robinhood for free.
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: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- ▶ 6:55 Assaf Wand You're using Robinhood.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- ▶ 13:47 Jeff Morris Jr. If you're not accredited, you can go on Robinhood and start investing in the public markets.
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
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Sousa, I really should not say this, but are one of my favorite seed funds in the valley, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Flexport, Robinhood, LendUp, Cadium, Rigetti, the list really does go on.
- ▶ 9:14 Harry Stebbings You know, with Sousa, you're an investor in the likes of Flexport, Robinhood, LendUp.
- ▶ 11:46 Leo Polovets and I are building a company called Robin Hood, and we're offering commission-free stock trading, and we want everybody to have the ability to invest in the stock market, and we have 50,000 people on our waitlist, and we spent five years…
20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- ▶ 9:06 Rebecca Kaden Robin Hood,
20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings In addition, Olaf's also been an active angel, with a portfolio including the likes of Robin Hood, Ethereum, and Numeri, just to name a few.
20VC: Why Move Fast and Break Things Is Not Right, How To Instil Radical Candor In Your Organisation & What Founders Must Ask For From Their Investors with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- ▶ 22:01 Jason Brown Whereas if you look like at an app like Robinhood, or let's say Digit, or Tally, it's just very simple, and there's only one or two things that you can do, and the product designers and the engineers have spent the time
20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings They've made investments in the likes of previous guests, Robin Hood, Flexport, Andela, LendUp, and Cadium, just to name a few future unicorns from their Stellar portfolio.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Previous guest Robin Hood, Rent.com, which was acquired by eBay for four hundred and fifteen million dollars, and many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 15:55 Howard Lindzon Basically free with an app like Robin Hood and using StockTwits, which we created.