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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Slack comes up
20VC: Why Raising A Mega-Round Makes Your Life Harder Not Easier, Why Your Board Is Not Your Boss and Lessons on Successful Board Management & The Biggest Breakpoints in Company Scaling with Emmanuel Schalit, Founder & CEO @ Dashlane
- ▶ 17:26 Emmanuel Schalit Companies like us and many others, like, you know, the Zooms and the Slacks of the world, we are pure play software players, which means we have super high gross margins, which means being profitable is not the fundamental challenge.
20VC: Why Speed Is The Biggest Differentiator a Founder Can Have, How To Hire Seasoned Tier 1 Talent To An Early Stage Startup & How To Start, Scale and Manage Remote Teams with Domm Holland, Founder & CEO @ Fast
- ▶ 22:34 Dom Holland You know, a lot of engineers that I've managed in person that, you know, prefer to chat over Slack and stuff like that too. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 24:54 Vlad Magdalin Like, making introductions to, like, really key companies, you know, like Slack and Atlassian and all Dropbox and getting us set up with mentors.
- ▶ 35:11 Vlad Magdalin The other thing I would change is that goes along with the same theme of distribute Silicon Valley into like a more worldwide phenomenon, because now with things like zoom and slack and so many of the tools that we have for collaborating…
20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings ...of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Facebook, GitHub, Slack, Lyft, Coinbase, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise
- ▶ 9:35 Arif Jan Mohamed You see companies that have executed on their plans, companies like Zoom, which is in the 20 to twenty-five billion dollar market cap, companies like Slack, companies like Palo Alto Networks, Splunk.
- ▶ 13:16 Arif Jan Mohamed The most interesting one being Slack, which pivoted from a gaming company to almost an enterprise messaging company.
20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- ▶ 16:31 Brianne Kimmel You see CEOs like Stuart from Slack, Eric from Zoom, Vlad from Webflow, and these great places to work, they don't happen by coincidence.
20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics
- ▶ 9:28 Harry Stebbings I'm really interested by one of the points you said that you said about who's using the product and often in the world of slack and bottoms up adoption, the person who's using it is the one who actually submits the credit card, but often…
20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot
- ▶ 3:29 Wasim Daher We started a company called Zulip, which was a group chat tool for businesses, kind of like a Slack-like product at the time. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Gitlab Founder, Sid Sijbrandji on Lessons From Scaling from 400 to 1,000 People in 1 Year, Why You Have To Have A Low Level Of Shame On The Product You Release & The Secret To Making Remote Work So Effectively At Scale
- ▶ 6:52 Sid Sijbrandij So we work to using Zoom and Slack and Google Docs and a whole lot of GitLab to collaborate across more than 50 countries.
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
- ▶ 9:57 Byron Deeter And as you look ahead, companies like Slack, which is rumored to be doing a direct listing, you look at Stripe, which certainly could go public anytime they want, and hopefully will be soon.
20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
- ▶ 16:34 Jonathan Hsu I just want to think back to Slack and Carter, two companies that we've worked with, you know, in the last couple of years, you know, both of them didn't really start investing in this
20VC: a16z's Scott Kupor on The Biggest Learnings From Scaling a16z from $300m to $7Bn AUM, The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching VCs & Why VC Is Simply A Customer Service Business
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings As a little background on Scott, he's a managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world's most renowned venture funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Facebook, Airbnb, GitHub, Lyft, Coinbase, Slack, and many more…
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
- ▶ 38:24 Sarah Smith Slack are really table stakes now, but I think products like Bonusly, if you haven't heard of that, they enable peer-to-peer bonuses actually on top of Slack, which really creates camaraderie across a diverse team that's in remote… 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Henry's raised over a hundred and forty seven million in funding from some of the very best in the business, including USV, Spark, K-Nine Ventures, and Meritech, and then also leading founders, including Flexport's Ryan Peterson,…
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings The likes of Slack, Postmates, Oculus, Cruise, Twitter, the list really does go on.
- ▶ 7:14 Alex Clayton That has led to some investments in companies like Slack and Trello.
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings With a portfolio, including the likes of Alibaba, Slack, Square, Xiaomi, Peloton, Opendoor, just to name a few.
20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Frank is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world's most prestigious venture firms, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Airbnb, Coinbase, GitHub, Lyft, Slack, and many more incredible companies.