Spike Lipkin

8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 16, 2020 by Harry Stebbings · said 6 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Oct 16, 2020
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: Spike Lipkin raised over $100M for Newfront
“To date, Spike has raised over a hundred million dollars with Newfront for Some of the best in the business, including Founders Fund, Meritech, and of course, the newly founded TwentyVC Fund.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 0:24 20VC: How To Determine The Risks To Take vs To Pass On, Should Founders Meet Investors When Not Raising & The Most Important Non-Obvious Role of the CEO with Spike Lipkin, Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance
Oct 16, 2020 bullish
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Spike Lipkin predicts the next tech era will be defined by services
“If the last phase of technology was characterized by companies selling technology, I think the next phase will be characterized by technology companies selling services.”
Spike Lipkin Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 20:45 20VC: How To Determine The Risks To Take vs To Pass On, Should Founders Meet Investors When Not Raising & The Most Important Non-Obvious Role of the CEO with Spike Lipkin, Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance
Oct 16, 2020
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Spike Lipkin: Newfront's last three funding rounds were preemptive insider-led rounds
“We've been lucky that our last three funding rounds have been preemptive, and mostly it's been insiders wanting to lead subsequent rounds”
Spike Lipkin Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 15:42 20VC: How To Determine The Risks To Take vs To Pass On, Should Founders Meet Investors When Not Raising & The Most Important Non-Obvious Role of the CEO with Spike Lipkin, Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance
Oct 16, 2020
Disclosure
Newfront mapped executive energy levels to divide leadership responsibilities
“We did this exercise early on where a lot of the execs on my team wrote down a list of things that gave them energy, and that they loved doing, and felt like they were very good at, and things that took energy from them, and they Didn't enjoy doing and didn't …”
Spike Lipkin Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 7:00 20VC: How To Determine The Risks To Take vs To Pass On, Should Founders Meet Investors When Not Raising & The Most Important Non-Obvious Role of the CEO with Spike Lipkin, Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance
Oct 16, 2020
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: Spike Lipkin helped scale Opendoor to a $5B+ enterprise value
“Prior to founding Newfront, Spike was one of the first employees at Opendoor, where he helped grow the team from five people to an enterprise value of over five billion dollars today.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 0:34 20VC: How To Determine The Risks To Take vs To Pass On, Should Founders Meet Investors When Not Raising & The Most Important Non-Obvious Role of the CEO with Spike Lipkin, Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance
Oct 16, 2020
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Spike Lipkin: Newfront met weekly with Kevin Hartz for years during scaling
“We were lucky enough to work with Kevin Hartz and met with him once a week for a number of years to think through some of the common challenges of scaling.”
Spike Lipkin Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 16:36 20VC: How To Determine The Risks To Take vs To Pass On, Should Founders Meet Investors When Not Raising & The Most Important Non-Obvious Role of the CEO with Spike Lipkin, Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance
Oct 16, 2020
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Newfront CEO Spike Lipkin met with only one external investor in 2019
“Last year in 2019, I think I met with one investor who's not on our cap table right now.”
Spike Lipkin Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 16:04 20VC: How To Determine The Risks To Take vs To Pass On, Should Founders Meet Investors When Not Raising & The Most Important Non-Obvious Role of the CEO with Spike Lipkin, Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance
Oct 16, 2020 positive
Insight
Lipkin: Tech-Enabled Service Startups Can Achieve Differentiated Margins in Huge Markets
“In our experience, if you leverage technology to provide a differentiated client experience, you often can also leverage technology to provide differentiated margins. So I think it may not be the world of 99% gross margins that Google experience, but it will b…”
Spike Lipkin Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 21:03 20VC: How To Determine The Risks To Take vs To Pass On, Should Founders Meet Investors When Not Raising & The Most Important Non-Obvious Role of the CEO with Spike Lipkin, Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance
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