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Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:33 Jason Calacanis At three million AR because everyone else wants to do it, Harry, and you beat the, and you're, you're patting yourself on the back for beating out Sequoia and Excel and, and, and Stride and all those guys.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:55 Harry Stebbings Like, when I first started Stride.
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:05 Harry Stebbings I remember with our first fund with Stride,
Rob Lacher: How I Scaled to $600M AUM; Hiring Tips for VCs; Venture Capital in Europe vs USA | E999 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:07 Harry Stebbings Like, I think I learned about myself from leaving Stride with Fred, which is like, actually he was fantastic at so many things that it meant that I didn't have to do them.
- ▶ 17:59 Harry Stebbings I remember being with Fred at Stride
Ophelia Brown: How We Raised $432M in a Pandemic; What's New in European Venture Capital | E990 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:24 Harry Stebbings It was funny when, you know, when I was working with Fred at Stride, I always had the Fred test.
20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings But I'd also want to say again a huge thank you to Luciana at Sequoia, Fred Destin at Stride, Adam Balkin at General Catalyst, and Neil Mater at Green Oaks.
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
- ▶ 31:20 Alexis Ohanian Thank you, brother, and likewise, I hope to see you on a few, a few more cap tables going forward with Stride.
20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
- ▶ 20:19 Ravi Gupta And so in that world, I think that I would tell you that I think it's important that people know that you need to do an excellent job for TwentyVC, and you need to do an excellent job for Stride, and that those are the priorities for you,…
20VC: Are VCs Still "Open For Business", How VCs Attitude To Risk Has Changed & The 2 Most Valuable Assets To Founders Today with Fred Destin, Founding Partner @ Stride VC
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings For those that don't know Fred, Fred and I co-founded Stride together, and Stride is one of Europe's newest and largest early-stage seed firms. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28 Harry Stebbings And funny one for me to ask, but how did you come to co-found Stride?
- ▶ 6:52 Harry Stebbings If we dive into the investor mindset now, and Stride is the only fund in Europe that's been explicit in saying that we're on a pause.
20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
- ▶ 7:05 Harry Stebbings Now, when I review kind of our fundraise for Stride, I think there are kind of key areas where I look back and go, yep, we did really well, and then I look back and think, ugh, we could have done better there, and I would definitely change…
20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- ▶ 26:45 Harry Stebbings And I guess very specifically, you know, my partner and I founded Stride, which is a seed fund.
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
- ▶ 48:24 Sumit Gajri Fund, you know, there's a lot of great funds out there, you know, you guys at Stride, Manu Kamara K-Nine, they get Tima Homebrew, but there's a lot of great early stage funds that you can partner with.
20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- ▶ 4:31 Harry Stebbings Like, as a new firm ourselves in stride, kind of everything's always on fire in the way that you don't have an IR team, you don't have a marketing team, you don't have associates, analysts necessarily, everything baked out.
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 11:21 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, I'm very much a fan of the artisanal view of venture and it really being that more craft-based partnership is exactly kind of how we think about it at Stride.
20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot
- ▶ 1:09 Harry Stebbings If so, WeGift have recently raised a Series A round, and slight disclaimer, the firm I co-founded, Stride, led the round, and WeGift are looking for amazing product managers to revolutionize the way businesses are able to
- ▶ 30:49 Harry Stebbings If so, WeGift have recently raised a Series A round, and slight disclaimer, the firm I co-founded, Stride, led the round, and WeGift are looking for amazing product managers to revolutionize the way businesses are able to
20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing
- ▶ 1:06 Harry Stebbings They've worked with breakthrough companies such as WeTransfer, PipeDrive, Mixcloud, Unbabble, Signal, and Kalo, and when we set up Stride.vc, they were the first call we made to help us get our story straight, and what makes Multiple…
- ▶ 16:50 Harry Stebbings We're very much aligned to you with Stride.
- ▶ 33:43 Harry Stebbings They've worked with breakthrough companies such as WeTransfer, PipeDrive, Mixcloud, Unbabble, Signal, and Kalo, and when we set up stride.vc, they were the first call we made to help us get our story straight, and what makes multiple…
20VC: Zoom From Series A to IPO, How VCs Can Provide CEOs with Additional Leverage and Why The Negative Effects of Signalling Are Very Real with Santi Subotovsky, General Partner @ Emergence Capital
- ▶ 1:20 Harry Stebbings They've worked with breakthrough companies such as WeTransfer, PipeDrive, Mixcloud, Unbabble, Signal, and Kalo, and when we set up stride.vc, they were the first call we made to help us get our story straight, and what makes multiple…
- ▶ 23:35 Harry Stebbings We very much have the same with Stride, so totally aligned on that.
- ▶ 24:51 Harry Stebbings Again, I think you should be pitching LPs for Stride as well, because they're totally aligned on that.
- ▶ 38:53 Harry Stebbings They've worked with breakthrough companies such as WeTransfer, PipeDrive, Mixcloud, Unbabble, Signal, and Kalo, and when we set up Stride.vc, they were the first call we made to help us get our story straight, and what makes Multiple…
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 5:48 Harry Stebbings For me, especially, say, with Stride, me and Fred are always very cognizant of market timing and potentially having to carry companies.
- ▶ 30:59 Harry Stebbings And when we set up stride.vc, they were the first call we made to help us get our story straight, and what makes multiple really special is their empathy for and experience of the entrepreneurial journey.
20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution
- ▶ 1:07 Harry Stebbings They've worked with breakthrough companies such as WeTransfer, PipeDrive, Mixcloud, Unbabble, Signal, and Kalo, and when we set up Stride.vc, they were the first call we made to help us get our story straight, and what makes Multiple…
- ▶ 35:27 Harry Stebbings They've worked with breakthrough companies such as WeTransfer, PipeDrive, Mixcloud, Unbabble, Signal, and Kalo, and when we set up Stride.vc, they were the first call we made to help us get our story straight, And what makes Multiple…
20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
- ▶ 17:00 Harry Stebbings Firstly, I wouldn't, and Stride wouldn't, but the majority of venture firms would, because then you can show healthy mock-ups to LPs from turning funds and raise another fund on the market.
20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings You are listening to the 20 Minute VC and Founders Friday with me, Harry Stebbings, and it'd be great to see you on Instagram at hstebbings, 1996 with two b's, where I'm trying to be more active in taking you behind the scenes of all…
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
- ▶ 13:43 Harry Stebbings My partner actually at the Fun Stride, Fred, says, actually, when you're a leader, decisions are about batting average, and it doesn't matter if you're wrong occasionally, but you've got to be right more times than you're wrong.
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 18:59 Harry Stebbings My partner Fred at Stride says that we as VCs have to create an environment where people, especially founders, feel confident coming to us with anything and everything.
20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- ▶ 17:17 Harry Stebbings Now, this is just where I love doing the show because I ruthlessly use it for my own self-improvement, but I have to ask, I just gained my first institutional board seat with Stride.
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings As you know, last year, Fred Destat and I founded Stride VC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:54 Harry Stebbings You're at Excel, one of the leading funds in the world, and you left to start Stride.
- ▶ 36:42 Harry Stebbings I have to say, that really was one of the most special shows I've ever recorded, and I cannot thank the team at Beko enough for all they did to make that happen, and if you'd like to see more from Fred, you can on Twitter at FDestat, and…
20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
- ▶ 24:27 Harry Stebbings Now, absolutely, and I love that element of a nicely, a slight kind of collective of misfits, and I think me and Fred very much say the same with Stride.