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"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:33 Miles Clements Um, I would say it's not coincidental that Max and Alex were also trained at Summit Partners.

Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 7, 2026 · 1 mention

Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:10 Mitchell Green And all that Insight was doing was replicating what Summit and TA did, which was hire 22 to 24 year old knuckleheads, which my now partner Brian and I were, and pound the phones calling companies all day long.

Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 51:09 Fabien Pinckaers It was Summit Partners, one of our earlier investors, uh, who sold to Sequoia Capital, BlackRock, Mubadala, and, um,
  • ▶ 52:41 Fabien Pinckaers Um, no, it was the Summit Partners, mostly, where, uh, it was also a secondary.

Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 8, 2024 · 1 mention

Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:28 Andrew Bialecki No, the first big round for us was, um, with summit partners and then Excel, uh, the year after, but we raised that million and a half.

Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings | E1071 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:59 Jason Lemkin I think Summit did the one before, and not like 40%, but they did okay, right? 2 times in the scene

Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 23, 2023 · 3 mentions

20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia Mar 21, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:55 Harry Stebbings As we said, you know, you started at Summit, and it's been incredible.
  • ▶ 39:16 Harry Stebbings But what do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started in venture, you know, over a decade ago at Summit?

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 Jul 1, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Prior to Sequoia, Pat spent three years at Summit Partners, and I do also want to say a huge thank you both to Frederick at Okta and to Dan Shineman for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
  • ▶ 3:53 Pat Grady We're in Wyoming, which was a coal mining town, which is a unconventional place to spawn a budding venture capitalist, but I went from there to Boston College, where I studied initially physics and finance, and from there to Summit… 2 times in the scene

20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital Jun 25, 2018 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings And before joining KP, Max worked for three years at Summit Partners, and was actively involved across Summit's technology portfolio.
  • ▶ 3:50 Max Motschwiller And the only person who gave me a job out of undergrad in 2008 was a firm called Summit Partners. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:09 Harry Stebbings Summit and Kleiner, two phenomenally renowned and respected institutions. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:09 Max Motschwiller Every year, every week, every day, because it's really how you spend your time, and so when I first started in the industry at Summit, I had very little background and very little data on being able to pattern match what made a great…

20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan Sep 6, 2017 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Prior to True, John founded three of his own companies, the first being in 1986 with Mountain Bike Outfitters Inc., but following several years founding companies, John made his move into VC with Summit Partners, and then enjoyed roles…
  • ▶ 3:55 John Callaghan And so in 1991, I joined what was then a very young and small firm called Summit Partners and learned the industry from some of truly the best. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:35 Harry Stebbings Grow and develop as a board member over the many years in VC since your first board, maybe with summit, it might've been, I'm guessing here, and how you've seen yourself develop in the inflection points in your growth as a board member.
  • ▶ 28:26 Harry Stebbings What do you know now that you wish you'd known at the beginning of your time in VC if you go back to the time starting at Summit?

20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software Mar 13, 2017 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Prior to Sequoia, Pat spent three years with the team at Summit Partners, and I'd also like to say a huge thanks to Sarah Guo for making the intro to Pat today, without which the episode would not have been possible.
  • ▶ 2:57 Pat Grady Right out of school, I went to a place in Boston called Summit Partners, which does a little bit of private equity and a little bit of venture capital. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:20 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned your start there in VC with Summit, and you went obviously straight from university to Summit, but then I have to ask, in terms of a much debated topic in terms of the apprenticeship model of VC, what are your views on…

20 VC 095: How VCs Find Startups and How To Add Value Once Invested with David Teten @ ff Venture Capital Dec 9, 2015 · 1 mention

20 VC 094: Kanyi Maqubela @ Collaborative Fund on Rocketships, Feedback Loops and Turning Lemons Into Lemonade! Dec 7, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:43 Kanyi Maqubela She's in, she's in medical school, and so anytime she's free, I have to make myself free pretty much immediately, and so the intimate dinners with other VCs, and the events, and the summit series, and the conferences, and the stuff that…
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