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Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:52 unnamed speaker And, you know, you're seeing now, you know, Sparks going to do amazing and very deservedly.
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:26 unnamed speaker The Series C where Spark brilliantly led the round and Menlo did it.
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:42 unnamed speaker I mean, look, I give all credit to, for example, Spark, the, Yasmin there at Spark, who broke all the rules and said four billion for a pre-revenue company on Entropic, that's paid off. 2 times in the scene
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:14 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, you know, fair credit to the, you know, the smart folks who looked at Entropic in May of 23 at Spark, Capital, and Menlo and said,
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:40 unnamed speaker I mean, the first venture round at OpenAI was twenty-three billion pre with Thrive, and the first venture round at Entropic was four billion pre with Spark and Menlo, you know, right?
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:02 David Cahn Uh, the founder is the CEO of, former CEO of Oculus, uh, and it's Roloff, Marc Andreessen, and I, and Santo, who's the founder of Spark on the board.
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:12 Johannes Reck If you have a Sequoia Capital or an Index or a Spark Capital on your cap table, the reality is that your next round will be so much easier.
- ▶ 15:38 Johannes Reck And, uh, ultimately there was a, uh, partner called Alex Finkelstein at spark capital.
- ▶ 27:11 Johannes Reck Series B was, uh, co-led by Spark Capital and Highland Europe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:17 Johannes Reck It was very easy because Highland, um, actually co-invested with Spark and, you know, those guys actually really liked each other. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:44 Harry Stebbings You mentioned US VCs coming in, Spark in particular, you're suddenly able to hire great, great people. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:28 Johannes Reck So TalkSpark Capital, our Series A lead, you know, the deal after Get Your Guide was Oculus Rift, right?
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:01 Harry Stebbings Many people have said to me on the show before, like Nabil at Spark, who's a co-investor with you in, in Anthropic, the age of spreadsheet investing, it used to work for the last decade of enterprise
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:01 Harry Stebbings I had Nabil from Spark on the show, who has made some great investments recently in your granolas, but also your anthropics of the world.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:29 Harry Stebbings Nabeel at Spark said the same.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:59 Harry Stebbings I had Nabil on from Spark recently, and he said that bluntly, this form of spreadsheet investing respectfully, and I hope you don't mind me calling it spreadsheet investing.
- ▶ 5:33 Mitchell Green In terms of the AI response, and so like we find the companies, 70% of what the stuff we invest in, the guys at Spark have never looked at, they've never heard of.
- ▶ 14:57 Mitchell Green No, I meant the guy from Spark.
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:38 Nabeel Hyatt Spark was started in the early web two point O era, like right at that age, uh, in the same cohort as USV and benchmark two point O that the beginning of the girly era and a handful of other firms that I think all treated mobile really… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:19 Harry Stebbings I would argue actually they're in the same vein as Spark actually, which is kind of sitting in the middle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:15 Nabeel Hyatt Yeah, it's really hard, because people call this an apprenticeship business, but I think in many ways, especially the way that Spark does our job, it's more of a process of self-actualization.
- ▶ 20:19 Harry Stebbings Do you think sparks went down? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:13 Nabeel Hyatt There's many other situations, especially for the deals that we do at Spark, which are often creating a new market that didn't exist before.
- ▶ 31:37 Nabeel Hyatt I said they're not spark businesses.
- ▶ 37:23 Nabeel Hyatt You know, Chris from Granola is a prior Spark founder, and so he was one of the first people I met after I joined Spark, um, because I was supposed to go sprinkle growth fairy dust on him in New York and talk about growth marketing, growth… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:29 Nabeel Hyatt Uh, this actually is a framework that came in the mobile revolution for us at Spark and then reapplied. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:15 Nabeel Hyatt And I give so much credit to Bijan, uh, who was the person who really recruited me into Spark, who just kind of would always reflect back to me.
Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:20 Mo Koyfman and I joined an upstart venture capital firm out of Boston called Spark Capital. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:34 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, you know, you spent a lot of your early, more formative years investing at Spark. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:09 Mo Koyfman Yeah, it's a really interesting point, and it harkens back to your question around, uh, the lessons I learned from Spark.
- ▶ 57:04 Mo Koyfman I spent eight years, um, um, at Spark, and then I started Shine, um, and I took some time, uh, in between Spark and, in between, uh, uh, Spark and Shine. 3 times in the scene
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?
- ▶ 7:59 Harry Stebbings I want to start on you as a person, though, Biz, because I spoke to, as I said, many of our friends before, and it was actually Bijan at Spa, who said something that was really interesting to me.
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Palmer's raised over three hundred and eighty five million dollars with Andrill, from the likes of Founders Fund, Andreessen, Elad Gill, Spark, Lux, General Catalyst, and Eight VC, to name a few.
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Substack, Chris was the co-founder and CTO at Kik, letting users connect with friends, groups, and the world around them, and the company raised over two hundred and twenty million dollars in funding from Spark, Tencent,…
20VC: TravelPerk's Avi Meir on Why 2021 Will Be A Record Year For Business Travel, The 3 Priorities For All Founders During COVID, What VCs Can Do To Really Support Their Founders In A Recession
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings From the likes of DST, Spark Capital, Felix Capital, and Hardcore, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- ▶ 7:36 Katie Stanton Because one of my good friends and mentors and former board member Bijan Sabat at Spark Capital approached me with this incredible opportunity to become a scout.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings All things fundraising and M&A, among other things, and Carter has raised over four hundred and eighty-five million dollars from the likes of Andreessen, USV, Thrive, Spark, K-Nine, Lightspeed, and Meritech, just to name a few.
20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over a hundred and twenty-three million dollars in financing from some of the very best in the business, including Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Thrive, Spark, CoToo, and then also some of the world's leading…
20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Clark has raised over three hundred and fifty million dollars with InVision from some of the world's leading investors, including Iconic, Spark, Excel, Battery, Tiger, Firstmark, and even Atlassian.
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings Clark, I've been so looking forward to this for a long time, so I've heard many great things from Megan at Spark, Vass at Excel, Matt at Iconic, so thank you so much for joining me today, Clark.
20VC: Cameo's Steven Galanis on Why You Must Fall In Love With Your Mission Not Your Product, How To Extract As Much Value From Your Investor Base As Possible & Should You Really Hire For 6 Months Ahead of What You Need?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Stephen has raised over sixty five million dollars in VC funding for Cameo from some of the very best in the business, including Bedrock, Nicole Quinn at Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, and Spark Capital, just to name a few.
20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Zach has raised over three hundred million with Plaid from some of the best in the business, including Mary Mika, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Spark, and Homebrew, just to name a few.
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,…
- ▶ 12:20 Harry Stebbings I spoke to one of your board members in the form of Andrew at Spark, and he specifically honed in on your decision-making process, and he asked, how do you make decisions differently now to when you were founder and CEO in the very, very…
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
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings But I'm thrilled to welcome with that Alex Clayton, partner at Spark Capitals Growth 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:29 Harry Stebbings But enough of these dulcet British tones, and now I'm delighted to hand over to Alex Clayton, partner at Spark Capital's Growth Fund.
- ▶ 4:12 Harry Stebbings So how did you come to be at Spark today, Alex? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:43 Harry Stebbings From Alex Finkelstein, your partner at Spark, how does your tennis career help you as an investor? 3 times in the scene
20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk
- ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to Antoine at Felix, Alex at Spark, and Tom at DST for the fantastic questions and suggestions today.
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 8:50 Jeff Fagnan I had a gentleman named Babak Nivey, who I'm sure we'll talk about later as a founder of AngelList, and Alex Finkelstein, who's now a general partner at Spark.
20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital
- ▶ 1:15 Harry Stebbings And I'd also have to say a huge thank you to Peter's wonderful son, Andrew Parker, at Spark Capital for the intro today.
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool & How To Use Humour When "S*** Hits The Fan" with Jesse Genet, Founder & CEO @ Lumi
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Jesse's raised close to ten million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the business and old friends of the show, including Satya at Homebrew, Kirsten at Forerunner, the team at Spark Capital, Lowercase, and…
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
- ▶ 4:57 Leah Busque And then I was lucky enough to get introduced to Chris Howard, who founded Fuel Capital four years ago by a mutual friend, Megan Quinn, who runs the growth team at Spark, and she was the matchmaker, and she just knew that Chris and I would…
20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings And that is where we are starting today, and I'm thrilled to welcome Kevin Thor, general partner at Spark Capital, one of the best performing funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Twitter, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough from me, so I'm now so delighted to head into our first episode of 2018 with Kevin Thor, general partner at Spark Capital.
- ▶ 3:09 Harry Stebbings Well, thank you very much, but I'd love to kick off today with a little on you and how you made your way into Vention, came to be a GP at the Fantastic Spark. 5 times in the scene
20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club
- ▶ 20:47 Alex Mittal Stephen Lake and his team, Aaron Grant and the others there with the backing of Spark Capital, which backed Oculus.
20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings They're backed by the leading investors and past guests, including Union Square Ventures, SV Angel, Spark Capital, Semil Shah, Manu Kumar, Tim Draper, and Kamal Ravikant, just to name a few.
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 6:45 Alex Bangash So Foundry, First, um, um, Union Square, Spark, um,
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings What a week it has been here on the 20 Minute VC, and a huge hand to Bijan and Nabil at Spark Capital for giving us such a brilliant Spark week.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Welcome back to the 20 Minute VC with your host, Harry Stebbings at hstebbings on Snapchat, and following Bijan's episode on Monday, we return to feature the fantastic Spark Capital, and joining us today from Spark, I'm delighted to… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45 Harry Stebbings But now it's time to jump into the interview, so I'm thrilled to welcome Nabil Hyatt, venture partner at Spark Capital.
- ▶ 2:53 Nabeel Hyatt And then right around the Zynga IPO, uh, my now partner at Spark, uh, Bijan came and kind of had a similar conversation.
- ▶ 4:56 Harry Stebbings And I'm really intrigued then to merge your operations in your VC life and to ask what were the biggest lessons that you can apply from your time as an extremely successful founder and CEO that you can apply to being a VC at Spark?
- ▶ 9:11 Nabeel Hyatt I, I tend and actually Spark in general tends to not be thesis based because I, you know, and a perfect example is Oculus.
- ▶ 13:09 Nabeel Hyatt They get to team and product and business model after that, and we've just never been that kind of firm. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:33 Harry Stebbings As always, we're so grateful for all your support, and we cannot wait to release our latest episode on Friday with Sparks Investment in Super Pedestrian.
20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings And prior to NextView, Rob was at Spark Capital, where he focused on early web and consumer mobile investments. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 22:04 Brian O'Malley This company cruise just got bought by, um, GM and that was, you know, that was a really great investment that the, that spark guys led.
20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?
- ▶ 36:40 Fred Destin I think Bijan Sabat at Spark is a great example of somebody who's got a lot of soft skills, very respectful founders.
20 VC 092: The Repeatable Playbook of SaaS with Ed Sim, Founding Partner @ BoldStart Ventures
20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
- ▶ 22:45 Peter Rojas Like Mo Kaufman from spark and Bijan Sabat from spark. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing
- ▶ 11:19 Fabrice Grinda We work with the end capital in Europe, and those would be the ones we spend, that we share the most deals with, but the reality is, you know, everyone from Accel, to Benchmark, to Matrix, to Venrock, et cetera, to Spark, or VCs that we…