SendGrid
6 statements across 4 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 23, 2015 by Sumeet Shah · said 53 times in 20 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (21), Scott Williamson (7), Ryan McIntyre (6), David Cohen (5), Jason Lemkin (3), Byron Deeter (3), Sumeet Shah (1), Ethan Kurzweil (1)
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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 13 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader's Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like
- 20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
- 20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
- 20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- 20VC: Brad Feld on Why Market Size At Early Stage Is Not Helpful, His Biggest Learnings From The Boom & Bust of The Dot Com and How The Best VCs Work For Their CEOs
- 20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 16 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- 20VC: The Fundamentals To Creating A Successful Venture Partnership & The Optimal Investment Decision Making Process with Ryan McIntyre, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- 20VC: How 50% Of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, How To Build A Relationship Of Trust With Your VC and How Entrepreneurs Can Detect VC BS with Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- 20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- 20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
2015 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about SendGrid, oldest first
Dec 23, 2015 bullish
Shah: Boulder, Colorado is a top emerging startup ecosystem
“Bigger thing also, I would say even, but just being about bullish on Sparrow, is that would be bullish on Boulder, Colorado. I mean, I was there a few weeks ago working with Techstars, working with Galvanize, working with Boomtown three accelerator programs ou…”
Feb 1, 2017 bullish
Feb 11, 2019 positive
Stebbings: David Cohen's portfolio companies have created over $80B in value
“To date, David has backed hundreds of startups, including the likes of, check this out, Uber, SendGrid, Twilio, ClassPass, PillPack, and many more. In total, these investments have gone on to create more than eighty billion dollars in value”
Feb 21, 2024 positive
Williamson: SendGrid and GitLab required opportunity canvases and Amazon-style strategy docs
“There are two that we used at SendGrid and GitLab that I think were essential. One was a one pager called an opportunity canvas, which asked PMs to outline sort of the concept they wanted to build. And the other one, it's like a two to six pager. I think Kevin…”
Feb 21, 2024 neutral
Feb 21, 2024
Williamson: SendGrid and GitLab used dual-track agile for product management
“PMs always have two tracks going. At least that's how we ran it in Sengri and GitLab. There's a validation track where you're doing your homework on the things you want to pump into engineering, and then you have a build track.”