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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where SaaStr comes up
20VC: How To Upscale Management Teams Effectively, When Should The CEO Play The Role of "Lifeguard" & What Role Does The Board Play In The Team Upscaling with Matt Straz, Founder & CEO @ Namely
- ▶ 2:31 Harry Stebbings I'd love to kick off this day with, for those who maybe didn't hear our first episode on Sasta many months ago now, how you came to Found Namely and the founding story there.
20VC: Why VCs Fundamentally Assess Founders The Wrong Way, Why VC Needs To Innovate On The Scouting Model & Why SAFE's and Convertible Notes Are The Future Of Investing with Elizabeth Yin, Founder & General Partner @ Hustle Fund
- ▶ 11:19 Elizabeth Yin Saster is a platform, so pretty much any Sass founder would want to go to him for their post-seed round, or whatever you want to call it. 2 times in the scene
20VC: What Is Core To The Best Investor - Founder Relationships, The Biggest Risk For Founders In The Early Days & Why EQ Is The Most Important Trait For Managers with Jack Altman, Founder & CEO @ Lattice
- ▶ 23:04 Jack Altman I'm not saying this because I'm on the show, but it is absolutely faster.
- ▶ 24:03 Harry Stebbings And as you can tell, we absolutely loved having Jack on the show there, and if you'd like to see more from him, you can follow him on Twitter at Jaltma, J-A-L-T-M-A, or you can hear him on Sasta, where we deep dive on all things marketing…
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 3:15 Harry Stebbings And then I do two Sasta a week.
20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations
- ▶ 2:20 Harry Stebbings Huge thanks to Jason at SASTA, but thank you so much for joining me today, Chris.
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
- ▶ 16:21 Harry Stebbings One of my good friends, Jason Lemkin at Sasta,
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Then to be joined by Jason Lemkin, founder at Sasta. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Now with the seventy million dollar Sasta fund, Jason has paved the way for the new wave of VC in what I describe the platformification of VC.
- ▶ 2:35 Harry Stebbings How did you come to be founder of Sasta with the recent Sasta Fund? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:35 Harry Stebbings How did you come to be founder of Sasta with the recent Sasta Fund? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:03 Jason Lemkin We'll have 10,000 folks coming to the SaaS terranual this year.
- ▶ 4:26 Harry Stebbings And so, I mean, when you compare working with a previous fund and now to having your own fund with Sastra,
- ▶ 9:46 Harry Stebbings And, and you have a seventy million, uh, green ones, so to speak in the Sasta fund, uh, which I think would be considered a, a verging on the much larger micro VC, but a micro VC, let's label it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:28 Harry Stebbings What, to what extent does follow-on factor into your fund reserves with SASTA?
- ▶ 23:02 Harry Stebbings Um, you know, one thing that I constantly hear about you from Sasta founders is your ability to hire incredible VPs of sales, incredible VPNs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:27 Harry Stebbings So, so let's do, how do the blog and Sast Annual lend to your deal flow now? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:37 Jason Lemkin I've learned that the blog and the Saster community is all of my deal flow. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
- ▶ 29:04 Harry Stebbings As always, we so appreciate all your support, and I cannot wait to bring you next week's episode with Jason Lemkin as Sasta.
20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- ▶ 13:58 Harry Stebbings The likes of your, um, Jason Lemkin with Sasta, you know, one of the world's largest SaaS communities.
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 16:01 Harry Stebbings Uh, Jason Lemkin, uh, at Sasta, a good friend, uh, through Sasta podcast, uh, he always tells me that the best investors are those that know the 2 times in the scene
20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Welcome back to another week in the world of the 20 Minute VC with your host Harry Stebbings at hstebbings on Snapchat, and recording from San Francisco today, as we are just one day away from Sasta by the main man Jason Lemkin, but to the…
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Partner at DFJ, where his current board responsibilities include Box, Chartbeat, LaunchDarkly, LendKey, SugarCRM, and previous guests with me on Sasta, in the form of Periscope Data and TalkDesk.
- ▶ 11:29 Josh Stein Yeah, and so I, I talked to Jason a little about this at Saster last year.
- ▶ 23:21 Harry Stebbings I really do appreciate it, and I want to say again a huge thank you to Jason Lemkin at Sasta for the intro to Josh today, without which the show would not have been possible, and as always, you can add me on Snapchat at hstebbings with two…