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20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales
- ▶ 13:22 Kyle Parrish You're catching up on emails, getting dopamine hits, checking slack, whatever it may be.
- ▶ 35:20 Kyle Parrish I think one that I have a lot of respect for is Slack. 5 times in the scene
20VC: AppLovin's Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry's Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth
- ▶ 12:11 Adam Foroughi We, one, Slack as an efficiency tool has been just insanely popular for our company, and HipChat came before it, and as you put it into asynchronous chat and real-time dialogue, you start not needing meeting, and I sort of go, look, if you…
20VC Unscripted: Pricing is Crazy, Pre-Emptive Rounds are Normal, Pricing at 200x Revenue Multiple is Common, There is More Cash Than Ever. What Happens Next; Market Analysis with Ryan Denehy, Founder and CEO @ Electric
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings With Electric, Ryan has raised over one hundred and eighty eight million dollars for the company from the likes of GGV, Bessemer, Slack,
20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
- ▶ 29:04 Elena Verna I learned from Fareed, who was director of growth at Slack, that premortems are far more effective than postmortems.
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 1:10:00 Chris Sacca I mean, I never want to run a huge org, and so there'll be a breaking point at which when the slack gets unmanageable, you know, we're single digit number of people right now.
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings Anton has led General Atlantic's investments in the likes of Alibaba, CrowdStrike, Facebook, Slack, and Snapchat, and co-led investments in Adyen and ByteDance.
- ▶ 2:33 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub, and so if you're looking for an easier way to run your startup remotely, or just a better way to manage your HR and IT, visit rippling.com…
- ▶ 44:57 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps, like Slack and GitHub, and so if you're looking for an easier way to run your startup remotely, or just a better way to manage your HR and IT, visit rippling.com…
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 2:39 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub,
- ▶ 38:24 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub, and so if you're looking for an easier way to run your startup remotely, or just a better way to manage your HR and IT, visit rippling.com…
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
- ▶ 2:13 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub
- ▶ 49:05 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub,
20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To
- ▶ 29:58 Sameer Gandhi But if you're George or someone like that, or Stuart at Slack or Ryan Smith at Qualtrics, you know, or
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
- ▶ 2:23 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub.
- ▶ 38:18 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub.
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 1:49 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack,
- ▶ 44:52 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub.
20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings And I thought that would be no better than a friend of TwentyVCs in the form of Angela Strange, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Facebook,…
20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures
- ▶ 1:59 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub.
- ▶ 36:54 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub.
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all their apps like Slack and GitHub.
- ▶ 45:09 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all their apps like Slack and GitHub.
20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
- ▶ 10:06 Krista Quarles Companies tend to break at 50 people, because it's like, you used to be able to just get everybody in the room, and like shout at them, or put them in a Slack channel, and tell them what to do, and you knew every single person, and you…
20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- ▶ 1:40 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all their apps like Slack and GitHub.
- ▶ 36:15 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all their apps like Slack and GitHub.
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings David also sits on the board of Current, Greenlight, and WorkRise, and prior to Andreessen, David spent seven years growth investing at General Atlantic, where he invested in the likes of Airbnb, CrowdStrike, Opendoor, Slack, and Uber.
- ▶ 1:44 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all their apps, like Slack,
- ▶ 3:45 David George Airbnb, Opendoor, Slack, and then some others that are a little bit lesser known, but really awesome companies like Benavity and Seismic.
- ▶ 32:35 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all their apps like Slack and GitHub.
20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital
- ▶ 1:47 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all their apps like Slack and GitHub.
- ▶ 43:32 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all their apps like Slack and GitHub.
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 32:30 Mark Mullen So this is text, email, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Signal, the phone, my family, my in-laws.
20VC: Rippling's Parker Conrad on Why The VC/Founder Marriage Analogy is Weird, Why The Notion of Focus, Focus, Focus is Overrated, Why Narrow Point Solutions Are Not Best in Class Products & The Rise of the "Compound Startup"
- ▶ 13:34 Parker Conrad And so they can think about pricing for Microsoft Teams very differently than Slack could, and they can afford to deploy sales and marketing resources on the basis of like a much larger portfolio of products than Slack could afford to do… 5 times in the scene
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- ▶ 9:33 Wade Foster And then anything that sort of falls below that line goes back into Slack as an asynchronous discussion after the meeting. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:55 Wade Foster Then a lot of the more just, like, tactical nitty-gritty, like, day-to-day work just happens inside of Slack. 3 times in the scene
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- ▶ 6:01 Linda Lian Still has today, including our developer Slack, our Reddit engagement, our Stack Overflow engagement, open sourcing product roadmaps on GitHub.
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 1:14 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub, so you can even ship them their work laptop with all the software and
- ▶ 41:40 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all of their apps, like Slack and GitHub, so you can even ship them their work laptop with all the software and
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub, so you can even ship them their work laptop with all the software and security they need.
- ▶ 38:06 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payrolls, benefits, and all of their apps, like Slack and GitHub, so you can even ship them their work laptop with all the software and
20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
- ▶ 4:35 Hubert Palan And we have, you know, Zendesk, Disney, Slack, but also traditional companies like Swarovski, Cartier, Sherwin-Williams, McLaren, you know, people that are undergoing digital transformations, and we keep working on it.
- ▶ 8:32 Hubert Palan From game to Slack, right?
- ▶ 16:32 Hubert Palan You know, now acquire Slack, right?
- ▶ 18:55 Harry Stebbings Salesforce requiring Slack is a great recent example, but, like, you know, it's one of many.
20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 24:40 Andrew Dudum I mean, we're all slacking.
20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Biz is also an investor in the likes of Slack, Square, Intercom, Beyond Meat, and Blue Bottle Coffee, to name a few.
- ▶ 24:45 Harry Stebbings You know, I think not many people know, but like investing in Nest, Square, Slack, Intercom.