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20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
- ▶ 18:13 Dylan Field We're trying things like Donut, which is a Slack app you can use to basically pair people across the team randomly, and that way you're making these connections across team.
20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings In just 13 months, Johnny's raised over a hundred and seventy four million dollars for Hopin, from the likes of Excel, IVP, Slack, North Zone, Co-Two, Salesforce, and of course, TwentyVC fund disclaimer.
- ▶ 3:28 Johnny Boufarhat I was part of Slack communities. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:44 Johnny Boufarhat It becomes super clear who it is because they get connected via Slack, and we do a few other things to make it really clear.
- ▶ 9:56 Johnny Boufarhat How even that they interact with Slack?
- ▶ 23:00 Johnny Boufarhat So you're talking about Salesforce, Slack, talking about all these sort of things.
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
- ▶ 19:41 Vlad Tenev right before going to bed or on Slack right before going to bed, even though it's, it's very, very tempting. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, trusted by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, and companies who leverage the Lattice platform see…
- ▶ 31:56 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, trusted by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, and companies who leverage the Lattice platform see…
20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Stuart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, the leading channel-based messaging platform used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:45 Harry Stebbings You know, we look at the incredible behemoth that is Slack Day, but it all has to start somewhere. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, you know, I spoke to one of your investors in particular, and he talked to me about a time when you walked around a pot pre his investing in you and Slack, and he said Stuart wanted to be one of the world's first… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:39 Harry Stebbings It's hard to imagine slack would be what it is today when you started tiny spec. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:30 Stewart Butterfield What is Slack? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:31 Harry Stebbings The question to you is, like, when you think about your leadership style, it's like, did you ever have moments of self-doubt and questioning one's ability that one could run in the organization as well as Slack is run today? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 Harry Stebbings I also spoke to Josh Trishnan before the show, and he said even when everything was going as well as it was with Slack and is with Slack, Stuart would always start the board meeting with everything that wasn't going well, which is unusual…
- ▶ 25:39 Stewart Butterfield Yeah, I mean, so that's a great question, and they're definitely very different things, and the parlance that's caught on in Slack, and I think probably elsewhere is borrowed from Jeff Bezos in the one-way doors and two-way doors, so...
- ▶ 35:46 Harry Stebbings Tell me, if you were to start Slack again, what would you do differently? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:37 Harry Stebbings Tell me, the next five years for you and for Slack. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:50 Stewart Butterfield You know, right now, I'm especially excited about what we internally call huddles, which is an always-on form of audio communication platform.
- ▶ 40:14 Stewart Butterfield The two things that I think are most different than the past would be Slack Connect, which is increasingly just a driver of the business in a very dramatic way. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and my word, what a broad-ranging discussion we have in store for you today, and so diving right in, I'm thrilled to welcome Daniel Levine, partner at Excel, one of the leading venture…
- ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…
- ▶ 9:47 Daniel Levine So even when I'm not working at a company, like, how would I think about a Slack, or a Scale, or a Mux, or a ReadMe, or in the context of what would be going on in a place like Dropbox?
- ▶ 20:05 Daniel Levine Dropbox, Slack, Zoom, Stripe are examples of companies.
- ▶ 29:35 Daniel Levine Even at Excel, our first investment in Slack was a seed.
- ▶ 43:59 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode with Stuart Butterfield, founder and CEO at Slack on Monday.
20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
- ▶ 1:10 Harry Stebbings Trusted by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, and companies who leverage the Lattice platform see improvements across a broad spectrum from retention, engagement, and productivity, Lattice is the only solution that…
- ▶ 34:28 Harry Stebbings ...to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams trusted by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates.
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- ▶ 1:21 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
- ▶ 39:05 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brex, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
- ▶ 51:04 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
- ▶ 45:44 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
20VC: Arlan Hamilton: "We Have Come For Cake, Not The Crumbs", Arlan's Plan To Return $1Bn in 10 Years, Why Arlan Plans To Giveaway or Invest 90% of Her Wealth & What The LP Class Can Do To Ensure More Under-Represented Managers Get Funded
- ▶ 1:27 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
- ▶ 34:57 Harry Stebbings Up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three X on eligible Apple products, and seven X points on tools like Zoom and Slack.
20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- ▶ 45:00 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 49:14 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…
20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands
- ▶ 1:41 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…
- ▶ 34:10 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…
20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings But I'm very, very excited to welcome Angela Strange, General Partner at Andreessen Horrors, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Facebook, GitHub, Slack, Airbnb, Asana, and more…
20VC: Biggest Lessons from Working with John Doerr, How Founders Can Have Discussions of Vulnerability with Their Board and Investors & Marrying Another Founder; The Pros, Cons and Ways To Make it Succeed with Alyson Friedensohn, Co-Founder & CEO @ Modern
- ▶ 1:28 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products, if you've been listening to 20 VC before, you've probably heard of Brex, the first corporate card for startups with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
- ▶ 34:25 Harry Stebbings Up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three X on eligible Apple products, so helpful for me with the rate I go through AirPods, and seven X points on tools like Zoom and Slack, and Brex has helped…
20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader's Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like
- ▶ 1:22 Harry Stebbings Brex, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three X on eligible Apple products, so helpful for me with the rate I go…
- ▶ 42:51 Harry Stebbings Brex, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three X on eligible Apple products, so helpful for me with the rate I go…
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 1:25 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products, if you've been listening to 20 VC before, you've probably heard of Brex, the first corporate card for startups with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
- ▶ 31:49 Sahil Lavingia Pinterest and Slack and Square, and there's probably a dozen sort of ten billion dollar plus companies, Twilio, etc., and you need those if you're a billion dollar firm.
- ▶ 37:33 Sahil Lavingia Slack screenshots will get posted on the verge.
- ▶ 43:35 Harry Stebbings ...points on tools like Zoom and Slack, and Brex has helped thousands of companies scale faster to reach their full potential as a result.
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
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products, if you've been listening to TwentyVC before, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
- ▶ 41:07 Harry Stebbings So helpful for me with the rate I go through AirPods, and seven X points on tools like Zoom and Slack, and Brex has helped thousands of companies scale faster to reach their full potential as a result.
20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
- ▶ 1:24 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products, if you've been listening to TwentyVC before, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
- ▶ 8:58 Joe Thomas Slack messages, looms, documents.
- ▶ 42:31 Harry Stebbings Brex, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three X on eligible Apple products, so helpful for me with the rate I go…
20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings Social's portfolio includes the likes of Slack, Yammer, Front, Intercom, and Carter, to name a few incredible companies.
- ▶ 26:25 Chamath Palihapitiya On top of that, the ability for directors to get D&O insurance via direct listing is next to impossible, and I went through this at Slack, so I can tell you firsthand.
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor
- ▶ 13:51 Julia DeWahl We used Asana templates at one point, email workflows, Slack bot, Zapier, you name it.
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 5:39 Andrew Wilkinson We designed Slack.
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Now, Kraft is one of Silicon Valley's leading early stage funds, with David's portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Facebook, Tesla, SpaceX, Palantir, Affirm, Airbnb, Slack, and Bird, to name a few.
20VC: Lightspeed Partner, Merci Victoria Grace on The Future of Collaboration Tools, Bundling vs Unbundling, Synchronous vs Asynchronous & What It Means To Productise The S*** Out of Venture
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings As for Mercy, prior to entering the world of venture, Mercy spent three years at Slack, including as head of growth, where she grew the team to over 50 people and drove DAUs from 500 K to five million people in under two years.
- ▶ 3:47 Merci Victoria Grace And I went on to have a great career as a game designer and then a product manager at a bunch of early stage companies before joining Slack early on in the first days of work of 2015. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:19 Merci Victoria Grace Then I create a channel in Slack that is, you know, company XYZ series A. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:02 Harry Stebbings When you look at like, especially maybe you and Jana at Lightspeed, you know, you have this incredible operational network spawning from, you know, Slack and then Jana at Twitter and Netflix. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 Harry Stebbings But I do want to ask, because, you know, you've seen the likes of Slack skyrocket like, you know, no company has done before in the collaboration tool space in many respects, and then there's always companies that fail.
- ▶ 20:58 Merci Victoria Grace We were huge beneficiaries at Slack of
- ▶ 23:00 Merci Victoria Grace And so this sort of, you know, blends into another thing that I've talked with a lot of founders about, but you need to be good at Twitter and people like Connor at Rome and people like Rahul at Superhuman, of course, Stuart at Slack are…
- ▶ 28:32 Merci Victoria Grace TBD, whether the unit economics of that work past that stage, but I believe in human touch and companies like Slack and superhuman are not only really active on Twitter and things like that, but have highly engaged high quality customer… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:46 Harry Stebbings We said about scaling Slack from 50 K to five million DAUs.
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 20:08 Sarah Kunst And that's obviously a public company, but there's private market analogs to Zoom and Slack and social media tools, and I call it socializing distance tools, things so you can hang out with people remotely and feel closer to them.
20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
20VC: Upfront's Mark Suster on COVID Redefining What A Great Company Looks Like and What Valuations Look Like, Why Pay-To-Play Is Back On The Table & Why We Will See The Death of Party Rounds
- ▶ 3:38 Mark Suster But you also have companies like Slack and companies like Procore in the construction space where I started, and it's become quite a big deal.
20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings First, Sarah Cannon, partner at Index Ventures, where she works with some truly groundbreaking companies including Notion, Slack,
- ▶ 5:47 Sarah Cannon And I was very fortunate to be a board observer at Slack at the time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:22 Sarah Cannon I think the same is happening for Adobe and for Atlassian, and I think what we're seeing is kind of next-generation, best-in-class products in each category, so Slack taking on Teams, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:11 Akshay Kothari And it turns out that, I think, as Sarah mentioned, like, Slack and Zoom are fantastic for
- ▶ 29:52 Sarah Cannon And we certainly looked at that and notion is growing very quickly and had engagement similar to Slack. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
- ▶ 23:19 Jean-Charles Samoulian Then I have slots in my agenda during the week, some slots that are dedicated to hiring, some slots that are dedicated to contributing to topics that come from the team, some that are in my calendar to check notification, email, Slack.
20VC: Multi-Stage Funds Investing At Seed Are Option Value Investing, Why The Biggest Enemy For Venture Firms Is Group Think and How Running Companies Changes Your Investment Mentality with Manu Kumar, Founder @ K9 Ventures
- ▶ 24:45 Manu Kumar As a solo GP, I never really understood Slack. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit
- ▶ 13:13 Misha Esipov I can no longer keep up with everything that's happening in Slack.
20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note
- ▶ 7:51 Tony Schneider Email or Slack.
20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con
- ▶ 20:13 Tomer London The other thing is about comments, and you know, we have like a Slack channel in Gusto, it's open to everyone, where literally every single NPS comment has been read by many, many people in our Gusto team, and especially
20VC: The Most Successful Companies Are Not Where Employees Work The Most, How To Know When To Promote From Below Or Bring in External Candidates & Why It Is A Unique Advantage To Be Building A Company Outside A Tech Hub with Rick Nucci, Founder & CEO @ G
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Including Thrive, Emergence Capital, FirstMark, Slack, and Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:44 Rick Nucci And I think over time have recognized the intentionality when you feel burned out of turning off Slack, turning off your email, you know, getting yourself off your screens and consuming yourself with something.