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20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 20:53 Harry Stebbings My favorite is, I remember Shasta once did, do you remember Shasta? 3 times in the scene
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01 Nikhil Basu Trivedi Is actually a piece of advice one of my partners at Shasta gave me pretty early on, like probably in the first couple months, which is don't look at the title on your business card, which at the time was associate at Shasta Ventures.
- ▶ 4:31 Nikhil Basu Trivedi I mean, look, I think the Canva investment for us at Shasta was an exception on so many different dimensions.
- ▶ 32:40 Nikhil Basu Trivedi The ones that most stand out there are ones that didn't have that, where at Shasta, for example, we made a decision to invest in something that was pre-product, um, but that actually turned out to work.
- ▶ 1:05:32 Nikhil Basu Trivedi He led the seed round in Frame.io, where we did the Series A with, with them at Shasta, and so I got to work with Voss and, and founder Emery and, and the team there.
20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
- ▶ 9:42 Harry Stebbings I do have to also, speaking of Ray Lockie and Josh, Nikhil, who previously was at Shasta, wrote about the rise of solo capital.
20VC: Why Startup Valuations Are Not As Overpriced As You Think, How To Determine Whether An Investor Is Truly Aligned To Your Mission and What 2 Traits Make The Truly Special Board Members with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Jason has raised over ninety-two million dollars for Tally, from the likes of Mamouna at Kleiner, Angela at Andreessen, Nikhil at Shasta, and Eileen at Cowboy, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised thirteen million dollars from some dear friends of the show, including the likes of Sargur at CRV, Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins, Niv Drawer at Shrug, and Nikhil Basutravedi at Shasta.
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings As I said before, I've heard so many great things from Nicola Shasta, Eric Tornberg, Mamoun KP.
- ▶ 23:11 Harry Stebbings You did decide, obviously, to raise in the end from our friends Mamoun and then Nikhil, obviously, and Shasta, and then obviously with the Series A.
20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- ▶ 5:34 Harry Stebbings Firstly, and one from Sean Flynn at Shasta, in terms of how it kind of influences you today, how does your time in operations influence founders you choose to back, and why you choose to back them?
20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Jason is a managing director at Shasta Ventures, who've made investments in the likes of Nest, Dollar Shave Club, Smule, Class Dojo, and more, with 10 portfolio company investments being acquired under his belt. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:06 Jason Pressman I left there in end of 2004 and joined my firm Shasta right as the firm came together in January of 2005. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:28 Jason Pressman We have a great opportunity to meet extraordinary entrepreneurs doing amazing things, but we at Chasta invest in 10 companies a year as an entire firm. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings They've raised nearly twenty million dollars in funding from some of the leading names in early stage finance, including Shasta Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, and Blake Byers at GV, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:26 Harry Stebbings And in terms of kind of companies before that, I've been informed very wisely by, by Nikhil at Shasta and Sean at Shasta that this wasn't your first company with your co-founder Jasper.
- ▶ 9:50 Jason Brown Shasta, that A, have given us the money to be able to be disciplined, and B, really value that and support us in that journey.
- ▶ 16:56 Jason Brown And then Shasta Ventures, literally, I couldn't imagine a better, more fun group to work with. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- ▶ 16:54 Harry Stebbings No, I had Sean Flynn, an investor from Shasta Ventures on the show the other day, and he said, the minute you think you know everything, you become irrelevant.
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings And joining us for today's interview, I'm thrilled to welcome Sean Flynn, managing partner at Shasta Ventures. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Sean Flynn That, that to me is really the heart of what technology companies offer to the world, and so that led to my desire to want to be in the early stage ecosystem, and ultimately, uh, from that, joined Shasta, and I've been here for the last…
- ▶ 10:12 Sean Flynn You know, at the end of the day, the economics of a venture firm like Shasta requires that we deliver really big returns, uh, with, with some of the investments that we make because we invest when there's so much risk so early on, a lot of…
- ▶ 23:58 Harry Stebbings What do you look for in a partner at Shasta?
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings From a 179 countries, and have funding from our friends at Shasta, Felicis, and upcoming guests Blackbird Ventures and Airtree in Australia.
- ▶ 7:40 Harry Stebbings Shasta and Felices, uh, who we've both, both recently interviewed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:24 Harry Stebbings And then final quickfire question, and it's the future of Canva, uh, the future vision for Canva, consumer versus pro, and this one was another one from Todd, actually, at Shasta.
20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings Well, today, I'm delighted to be joined by Nikhil Basutravedi, investor at Shasta, where he focuses on consumer, mobile, and SaaS. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:04 Nikhil Basu Trivedi Lived in New York for a bit and worked at a venture capital firm there before moving back to the Bay Area, to San Francisco and to Shasta three and a half years ago.
- ▶ 6:12 Nikhil Basu Trivedi I focus more on the consumer side at Shasta, and we do a mixture of consumer enterprise and connected hardware investing, and I think across, across those areas, there's a few categories that will lead to trillions of dollars of shift in…
- ▶ 12:18 unnamed speaker And it's something that we're, we're actively thinking about at Shasta because, you know, I do think that we'll see, uh, companies with, uh,
- ▶ 23:02 Nikhil Basu Trivedi Apart from that, you know, I, I've relied on my partners at Shasta and the folks that I used to work with at Insight Venture Partners really helped my judgment over time to push me on my
20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital
- ▶ 30:28 Harry Stebbings With Nikhil at Shasta on the rise of big data as an enabler for the autonomous vehicle industry.