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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Snapchat comes up
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.
- ▶ 35:39 Anton Levy It's companies you did that made incredible returns, but you had the option if you could go back in time to say fully back up the bus in the winters, or Snapchat, or any of these early stage investments that, you know, had really worked.
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
- ▶ 32:18 Mark Mullen But in the last two years, I've gotten off of Snap.
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
- ▶ 22:59 Harry Stebbings Like, for you, you know, I had Jeremy from Lightspeed on the show discussing Snap recently, and he said when they became number one in Norway, it was a clear inflection point in terms of the spread of Snap and it being a monster in the… 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Today, I'm so happy to welcome Jeremy Liu, partner at Lightspeed, and the lead for Snapchat's seed round,
- ▶ 4:05 Jeremy Liew We first heard about Snapchat because one of my partners, Barry Eggers, is a very involved dad, and he noticed that his daughter had started taking weird selfies of herself. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:33 Jeremy Liew But when we met, uh, Snapchat, one of the things that really caught our attention was that 75% of the user base were young women in high school and college, and that is definitely right in the middle of that early adopter base that, uh,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:21 Jeremy Liew Back in the early days, the only way that you could really kind of friend somebody through Snapchat was in person, because they had to open up their profile page, and you had to form that friendship by literally kind of taking, using the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:24 Jeremy Liew So when we met them in, you know, March, April of, uh, 2012, they had about 90,000 daily active users off of a base of 180,000 installs. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:06 Jeremy Liew I think it really does depend on the specifics, but you know, if you looked at something that was comparable to Snapchat, so messaging and social media, and social networking in particular, and I draw the distinction between social media… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:06 unnamed speaker You know, if you look at Snap, if you look at Vine, if you look at Facebook, if you look at Instagram, if you look at Tumblr, they were all started by people who were, you know, in their early twenties. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:44 Jeremy Liew And so one of the, I think, things that was so special about Evan, and that I think has continued to contribute to the success of the company, has been that he's always been able to do that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:02 Jeremy Liew And a good example of how he did that was stories. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:42 Jeremy Liew So you can look at stories, for instance, on Snapchat, and they're used quite differently than stories on Instagram. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:29 Harry Stebbings Tell me, what's the most challenging moment of the Snap journey for you? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:51 Jeremy Liew From the very beginning, from, I think, maybe a couple of months in, was thinking about the, you know, the breakthroughs that had been happening in computer vision and the implications for what that could build, and he had been working on,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:18 Harry Stebbings I mean, I just so love doing that, and it's such a joy to have Jeremy on the show there to hear some of the incredible early chapters with Snapchat.
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- ▶ 41:40 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible The Memo episode on Wednesday with Jeremy Liu on his seed investment in Snapchat.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings High yield bonds, and convertible securities, and joining Howard, who better to have than the one and only Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes…