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OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:53 Jason Lemkin He's like, I'm going to buy SendGrid.
- ▶ 1:16:31 Jason Lemkin I mean, literally I integrated the SendGrid API in 60 seconds.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:11 Jason Lemkin So in the old days by, you know, when you bought, when they bought segment and send grid and all these others, just breaking even was fine.
Scott Williamson: Hiring the Best Product People in Five Steps, Why the Best PMs are Writers | E1118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings Teams at GitLab, at SendGrid. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:24 Scott Williamson Uh, there are two that we used at SendGrid and GitLab that I think were essential.
- ▶ 21:11 Scott Williamson You say that a good example at SunGrid, we, we stayed pretty true to the mid market as our target ideal customer profile. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:37 Scott Williamson At least that's how we ran it in Sengri and GitLab.
- ▶ 29:22 Harry Stebbings So if you were at Sandgrid, just, is it like, um, you're a PM at Uber, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:04 Harry Stebbings And so if I'm joining send grid
- ▶ 46:43 Scott Williamson We, we had a VP of design at both Singer and GitLab.
- ▶ 49:24 Scott Williamson At SendGrid, we had a, a recommended split, and granted, this is when we were sort of a hundred million-ish, of 6030, 10, 60 on net new, 30 on iterative improvements, 10 on tech debt.
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
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings To name a few of the investments, Twilio, which we focus on today, Service Titan, HashiCorp, Canva, Intercom, DocuSign, SendGrid, the list goes on.
20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader's Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like
- ▶ 2:53 Harry Stebbings As I said, I heard so many great things from Ethan at Bessemer and from Samir at Zengrid.
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
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings One of the leading venture firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Zynga, Fitbit, and Sangrid, to name a few.
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
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings As one of the founders of Foundry Group, his firm have backed the likes of Zynga, SendGrid, Fitbit, and many more incredible companies.
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
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings Byron's investments include the likes of Twilio, Intercom, SendGrid, Gainsight, Box, DocuSign, and many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 15:10 Byron Deeter First of all, I'd say Samir has already, uh, merged the two in his mind because, uh, it's actually eight, but now, uh, with Twilio acquiring Stengrid, uh, working with both of them, uh, I guess you could say that, uh, we lost one.
- ▶ 22:15 Byron Deeter I mean, it's just, it's amazing how much perspective each of these executives brings to the board meeting, but I would say the, um, the Trulio and SendGrid process, both the experiences with those CEOs who had very different businesses,…
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
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Fun with a portfolio, including the likes of LinkedIn, Lime, SendGrid, Jet.com, and more incredible names.
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
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings To date, David has backed hundreds of startups, including the likes of, check this out, Uber, SendGrid, Twilio, ClassPass, PillPack, and many more.
- ▶ 10:36 David Cohen SendGrid probably an easy example is there in the news again, you know, with Twilio, but I served on that board for seven or eight years. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings They have the likes of Fitbit, SendGrid, Postmates, Front, Poshmark, Eventbrite, and many more incredible companies.
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
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Platforms, having made investments in the likes of Twitch, Periscope, and Dropcam on the consumer side, and Twilio, Intercom, and SendGrid on the developer platform side, just to name a few from his outstanding portfolio.
- ▶ 5:45 Harry Stebbings And speaking of taking companies all the way, as you suggested there, uh, you've worked with the likes of Twilio, taken all the way to IPO recently, and then also you've worked with SendGrid and Intercom, just to name a few.
- ▶ 9:47 unnamed speaker And so you take something like SendGrid, which just makes it much more easier to have an email communication. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:24 Harry Stebbings In terms of, kind of, uh, switching sides, I'm also very excited, because when assessing your portfolio, you've got the likes of SendGrid, Intercom, and Twilio, but then on the alternate spectrum, you've also got the likes of Periscope and…
- ▶ 20:20 Ethan Kurzweil You know, I had a number of opportunities to invest, and I think the reason we missed is we were very focused in those days, the developer platform, on selling a sort of API-like service to a technical buyer, you know, Twilio, SendGrid,…
20VC: The Fundamentals To Creating A Successful Venture Partnership & The Optimal Investment Decision Making Process with Ryan McIntyre, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Now, Ryan is a co-founder at Foundry Group, one of the leading VC funds of the last decade, with investments in the likes of Fitbit, SendGrid, and MakerBot, just to name a few.
- ▶ 19:44 Ryan McIntyre Tools and ecosystem, you know, API-driven, self-serve-driven, go-to-market approaches, you know, that are exemplified by sort of a lot of the investments I've made at, uh, at Foundry Group, be it SendGrid or Mapbox or Pantheon as, as, as…
- ▶ 28:19 Ryan McIntyre A really interesting scale right now is, you know, one of the early investments we did back in the 2007 fund, which is send grid. 5 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings Now, Jason is a co-founder at Foundry Group, one of the leading VC funds of the past decade, with investments in the likes of Fitbit, SendGrid, and MakerBot, just to name a few.
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Now, Dave really needs no introduction, but for those of you that have been living under a rock, Dave is the founding partner of 500 startups who've made over 1500 investments in the likes of Twilio, SendGrid, Intercom,
- ▶ 4:06 Harry Stebbings Uh, and he asks you, you've backed the likes of mint, twilio, send grid lift.
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 6:29 David Cohen And one thing that I really understood was the insight advantage we had at Techstars, you know, some of the early companies that came out of the Techstars ecosystem, you know, the Sendgrids and Spheroes, et cetera.
- ▶ 12:31 David Cohen Rather, when we have a digital ocean or a sun grid, right, emerging as they have out of the tech stars accelerators,
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
- ▶ 18:17 Byron Deeter Um, which is, you know, a, uh, one of the leaders in the, the API economy and SendGrid or Stripe or these businesses and,
- ▶ 20:18 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned some of the incredible investments there that Bessemer have made in SendGrid, in Box, in DocuSign, just, you know, picking some out of thin air there.
20 VC: Are Unicorns Necessary To Make Big Returns and The Series A Crunch with Sumeet Shah @ Brand Foundry Ventures
- ▶ 22:04 Sumeet Shah SendGrid started in Boulder.