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How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 48:44 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that, it's like, you know, being in TechCrunch used to matter. 2 times in the scene
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:01 Jason Lemkin Uh, the, the, the round on TechCrunch looked like a massive exit.
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:05 unnamed speaker I did around at 10 and then 14 and then 18 and 22 and 29 and TechCrunch runs it up each time.
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:48 Harry Stebbings When TechCrunch Europe shut down, and now Wired Europe shut down, I coalesced the best writers in Europe
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:26 Harry Stebbings Because I just find dropouts from Stanford or Harvard in particular, just see TechCrunch and see Twitter, or X, and, uh, go, I'm, I'm, I'm 25.
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 47:51 Luke Harries I think they're still evolving what their actual product is, but they found this, as you said, like channel fit, and to jump back to the counter positioning, they've done the really, the funky thing of they're like, okay, they've counter…
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 1:57 Harry Stebbings With features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios, you have to check them out.
- ▶ 1:17:55 Harry Stebbings With features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios, you have to check them out.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:26 Harry Stebbings For random tier two, tier three firm, if you were to do with participation, no, the tech crunches, the big brand.
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 2:34 Harry Stebbings And that's why companies like Mutiny, Pocus, and Aurum, and even public companies like Real, already trust TESI, with features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios,
- ▶ 1:12:19 Harry Stebbings With features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios, you have to check them out.
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:20 Jason Lemkin Okay.
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 2:08 Harry Stebbings And that's why companies like Mutiny, Pocus, and Aurum, and even public companies like Real, already trust TESI, with features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios,
- ▶ 57:59 Harry Stebbings With features in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, and Axios, you have to check them out.
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:04 Harry Stebbings I remember when I was first in TechCrunch, I was like, I'm gonna be, like, viral.
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:04 Byron Deeter I mean, you, in our industry, you just wake up and you read TechCrunch or listen to some of your podcasts and you're reminded how bad we are at this job because there's so many cool things happening that we've missed.
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:23 Edwin Chen The goal really is to tell all their friends that they raised ten million dollars, and they get a headline on that crunch.
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:51 Jason Lemkin TechCrunch said in 2021, we won't even cover companies at a billion, it has to be two billion and up to, to write a post, right?
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 48:53 Luke Harries I think they're still evolving what their actual product is, but they found this, as you said, like channel fit, and to jump back to the counter-positioning, they've done the really, the funky thing of they're like, okay, they've…
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:00 Eran Zinman I was afraid people are gonna write about me on, on TechCrunch or, uh, um, on a blog post.
- ▶ 42:03 Eran Zinman I remember that I used to log in to, you know, TechCrunch or read tech news, and every time I saw a competitor that I felt was competing with me, I felt this weird feeling in my stomach, and then I swore to myself, and I'm never gonna do…
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:04 Dan Fougere Or whatever you know about the company, you get, you have a hypothesis, you have some sort of, you can look on Crunchbase, you can look on TechCrunch, you can, like, do some research, um, get on GitHub, whatever you're gonna do to…
Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:25 Nilan Peiris Our first customers came from, ah, and the day we, we launched WISE was when the, the TechCrunch 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:28 Jason Lemkin Especially since we saw Ossoff's email to his team at Wiz and TechCrunch, so we can put the pieces together.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:35 Kevin Hartz He used to call me up for, the reason I have to, like, throw him under the bus a little bit with the Uber, Uber stuff, is he used to call me up, uh, at Eventbrite and scream at me, like, for, you know, he had a big rivalry with TechCrunch, 2 times in the scene
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:52 Samir Vasavada I get into Startup Battlefield, um, and to, you know, do the pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt, and they're, the night before the pitch, they're having a happy hour at Sequoia Capital's office, and I'm like, I don't really know if I'm going to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 Samir Vasavada Like, it didn't make sense in twenty-twenty-one for there to be a new unicorn every couple of days, you know, reading in TechCrunch.
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:30 Daniel Dines I think the science of things, the spring was just about to, I remember early days of tech crunch, so I started to, to be connected, actually, more with what happened in the Bay Area, from Romania than when I was in Seattle, when I was…
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:31:14 David Tisch On TechCrunch? 5 times in the scene
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:23 Adam Fisher That perhaps is not mainstream, perhaps is not, uh, and yet a headline in TechCrunch, but is also not going to be dismissed by other investors as not interested.
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:08 Jason Lemkin Like you could never, I could never open up a tech crunch or strictly VC and feel like an idiot for not hearing something because it's, it's you, if you want to see ever those one or two, I actually think it helps to see
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:19 Harry Stebbings I loved the tech grunge article where it's like Joe put a positive spin on it.
Harry debates Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: "Should startups target niche markets?" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:53 Matthew Prince Like, if you go and you watch the TechCrunch pitch,
- ▶ 22:59 Matthew Prince To, uh, TechCrunch Disrupt, you know, and, and we're, which was, uh, which was a few weeks ago. 2 times in the scene
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Matthew Prince If you go and you watch the TechCrunch pitch, there's a judge at the end of it, and he asked, what's your vision?
- ▶ 37:06 Matthew Prince Like, if you go and you watch the TechCrunch pitch,
- ▶ 51:08 Matthew Prince To, uh, TechCrunch Disrupt, you know, and, and we're, which was, uh, which was a few weeks ago. 2 times in the scene
Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:47 Gina Gotthilf Like, imagine, you've never heard of Harry Stemmings, but he was just invited by Harvard and TechCrunch to speak at blah, blah, blah, and, you know, he has no time, so I'd create a scarcity.
- ▶ 34:18 unnamed speaker Because, for example, if TechCrunch publishes something, or the New York Times publishes something, or The Economist, that can already be enough for you.
- ▶ 40:55 Harry Stebbings Like, if you are going for new investors ahead of a funding round, actually, maybe TechCrunch might be the right publication to go after. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:59 Harry Stebbings You know, we've got links to TechCrunch, and to Forbes, and to whatever publication. 3 times in the scene
Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:14 Mike Salguero We, we, you know, all tech crunch wrote about was like people raising money.
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:35 Kevin Systrom I'm saying, like, if you're in San Francisco, we can almost guarantee you're gonna enjoy reading about startups from TechCrunch.
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:22 Jason Lemkin I, other than what I read in tech crunch, I know nothing about my investment, nothing.
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried: We Banned Talking Politics and 1/3 of our Team Quit | 20VC #963 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:14 Harry Stebbings You see Twitter, you see TechCrunch.
Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19 Miki Kuusi And I ran into this group of people and I like, you know, uh, that we're talking about startups and tech crunch and Facebook and Twitter in 2009, when like in Europe, no one knew what any of those things were.
- ▶ 33:25 Harry Stebbings I don't ever see why you should not announce a round of funding, so argue with me back here, but the reason being, like, if someone reads a TechCrunch article and goes into Sweden because Volt is in Sweden, fuck me, they're not going to… 2 times in the scene
Will Quist: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really “Venture Capital” | 20VC #924 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:56 Will Quist Um, so the red herring was the tech crunch of the nineties, but it was a printed magazine. 2 times in the scene
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:24 Wesley Chan Like, you know, I'm actually from some companies you may have heard of that you read about in TechCrunch.
Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:51 Gary Vaynerchuk I started reading TechCrunch, um, and I was like,
Q-Commerce in Emerging Markets with the CEOs of Airlift, JOKR, & Zepto | 20VC #892 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 23:02 Harry Stebbings I do want to finish with one final question before the quickfire, and it's, you know, founders today, I think, idolize in so many ways the massive acquisition, the big exit, the big TechCrunch article.
20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings But to our show today, and what I love so much about this guest is for seven years he built this incredible business out of the spotlight, without Twitter profiles, out of TechCrunch, and turned it into one of the defining businesses of…
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
- ▶ 37:39 Jeremy Levine If nothing else, it's nice to have your mom read about you in TechCrunch.
20VC: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
- ▶ 8:51 Harry Stebbings It's not as fast as others and as fast as, you know, many tech crunch stories.
20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A*
- ▶ 14:19 Harry Stebbings And I was reading the TechCrunch piece that you guys did, which I really enjoyed.
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 26:04 Sahil Lavingia Like, TechCrunch wrote about it, and everyone knew about it in the industry, and it was just like, oh, this kid who raised a bunch of money and was maybe the next XYZ
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor
- ▶ 3:41 Julia DeWahl I first heard about Opendoor through a TechCrunch piece in the summer of 2014 and was really compelled by the idea.
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 4:24 Andrew Wilkinson I'd go on tech crunch and see that someone had done a raise and I'd call them up and I would say, Hey, can I help you with your marketing site?
- ▶ 11:13 Harry Stebbings And also, is it challenging because they're tech founders, and they see tech crunch, and they see hundreds of millions of dollars of valuation, and it's a very different thing if you're doing a social networking.
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 22:55 Sarah Kunst So all of a sudden, the idea of, I don't want to raise at a flat valuation or a little bit down or whatever, you're not raising your Blockbuster Series D that makes you a unicorn and gets you on the front page of TechCrunch.
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 27:04 Vinod Khosla This was in TechCrunch probably eight, 10 years ago.
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 6:20 Emmett Shear And so we listed it on eBay, and then we went and got TechCrunch to cover. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 5:48 Ashton Kutcher I met this woman, Sarah Ross, that was working for TechCrunch at the time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:57 Ashton Kutcher It was before tech crunch disrupt or any of this stuff.
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 22:30 Gaurav Jain And in fact, my co-founder, I'm a mature host on TechCrunch around, you know, five myths of pre-seed investing.
20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- ▶ 4:06 Immad Akhund And I just was like, kind of, I used to listen, read TechCrunch a lot.
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 4:09 Semil Shah Mike Errington and Eric Schoenfeld and MG were running TechCrunch, and they had their finger on the pulse of everything, and so people started inviting me to these platforms to write.
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
20VC: Buffer's Joel Gascoigne on The Moment The Founder Is No Longer The Boss, The Questions Founders Must Ask Their VCs and Why We Need A Spectrum of Different Financing Mechanisms Other Than VC
- ▶ 4:36 Joel Gascoigne I discovered TechCrunch around that time.
20VC: AOL Founder, Steve Case on Why The Best Venture Investments of The Next 10 Years Will Likely Not Be In The Valley, Why The CEO Must Be The Shock Absorber For Company Morale and Why Vision Without Execution is Hallucination
- ▶ 16:41 Steve Case I was speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in Silicon Valley a couple of months ago, and I don't know, there may be a 1015 hundred people in the audience.
20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- ▶ 14:32 Assaf Wand The importance of the specific investor is a lot more important than the specific fund, and I'm not saying I didn't have this bias, and I didn't err on that as well at several points in my life where I was blinded by the really, really…
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- ▶ 21:54 Dave Vasen If you scroll TechCrunch or Twitter, it's kind of all about the big wins, the funding acquisitions, a ton of IPOs, and personally, maybe it's my own experience, but I would just much rather read about the product launch that didn't work,…
20VC: Top 3 Considerations When Evaluating Consumer Businesses Today | 700 Meetings, 70 LPs, 2 Years, What It Takes To Raise a First Time Fund| The Power of The Female Network In Action Today with Anu Duggal, Founding Partner @ Female Founders Fund
- ▶ 18:21 Anu Duggal And, you know, since then we've seen Crunchbase, TechCrunch, and a host of other journalists in the tech industry really
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
- ▶ 17:19 Harry Stebbings I think Eric Paley wrote a brilliant piece on this in TechCrunch once, so absolutely aligned to that.
20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team
- ▶ 0:46 Harry Stebbings And due to his immense success, he's been profiled in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and been awarded a tech
20VC: Why Fundraising Is Like Dating and How to Play The Game Successfully & How To Increase The Flexibility of Your Burn When Growth is Ambiguous with Rachel Blumenthal, Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome
- ▶ 30:08 Rachel Blumenthal I'm reading TechCrunch and Business Insider, Fast Company Inc., New York Times.
20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
- ▶ 23:42 Harry Stebbings Often, it's PR that follows, and I always believe that founders place a little too much weight on the importance of maybe a TechCrunch article.
20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 12:24 Harry Stebbings How do you think about that, and what can be done to ensure maybe this culture of transparency without it massively affecting the startup, getting in tech crunch, and kind of ruining their chances of further fundraising?
20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify
- ▶ 18:45 David Barrett They probably don't care about TechCrunch.
20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings And if that wasn't enough, Semmel's also enjoyed an extensive career in media, having been a contributor for both TechCrunch and the Harvard Business Review.
20VC: Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz on The Lessons Learned Scaling Eventbrite to Unicorn Valuation & $3Bn in Gross Ticket Sales
- ▶ 13:37 Julia Hartz Kevin and I actually printed out the guest list for the first TechCrunch Disrupt, and we worked the door.
20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common
- ▶ 24:08 Brad Hargreaves Two handles I, I, I, I love to follow who are really, really thoughtful on this space are Stephen Smith, who tweets as at market urbanism, and that's market urbanism, and Kim Mai Cutler, who was formerly a writer at TechCrunch and has…
20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
- ▶ 25:57 Jeremy Levine It's always fun to read about yourself in TechCrunch or the New York Times, but
20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+
- ▶ 8:12 Pejman Nozad And, and imagine late nineties, it wasn't any tech crunch or Y comment or AngelList or people like you.
20VC: How Startups & VCs Can Build Relationships with Potential Corporate Acquirers? The Challenge Of Operating Both A B2B & B2C Business Model & Why Fundraising Is The One Element Founders Cannot Control with Gautam Gupta, Founder & CEO @ NatureBox
- ▶ 27:04 Gautam Gupta And so, you know, from a blog standpoint, all the big ones like Recode and TechCrunch, uh, and, and then, you know, frankly, you know, I try to, to find blogs and newsletters in spaces that I'm kind of interested in.
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 7:36 Ted Blosser They brought on Kim Mai Cutler onto their team from TechCrunch, and she's been extremely helpful in actually coaching us through how to build a great enterprise brand.
20VC: How To Test The Strength Of Co-Founder Relations, The Dangers Of Raising A Large Series A & Why The Biggest Challenge For Consumer Companies Is Finding The Second Big Hit with Rishi Garg, Partner @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 25:43 Rishi Garg I love, I love Strategery by Ben Thompson, which I quoted today in a post I just had on TechCrunch.
20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 25:26 Nitesh Banta TechCrunch and everything else just to stay on top of news.
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways
- ▶ 23:12 Peter Weimershausen TechCrunch, to keep up to date with technology, I think those cover it.
20VC: How To Assess Founder Psychology, Why Talking About Financial Returns In The First Meeting Is Always Wrong & How To Allocate Time Amongst A VC Portfolio with Kara Nortman, Partner @ Upfront Ventures
- ▶ 18:59 Kara Nortman and they're not celebrated in tech crunch and recode as often, or they're celebrated once they've come
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 29:25 Rick Marini And of course, I'm always reading, you know, TechCrunch every day, and Mattermark has a great newsletter.
20VC: The 3 Things LPs Want To See From VCs & Why The Table Stakes For VCs Is Higher Than Ever with Judith Elsea, Co-Founder @ Weathergage Capital
- ▶ 27:23 Judith Elsea Does a great job, and I'd say on the professional media side, you know, it's the usual, but Recode, it's Panda, it's Dan Primack, it's Connie, it's TechCrunch.
20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
- ▶ 7:03 Adam Leibsohn And it wound me up on the front page of tech crunch. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 2:57 Peter Pham And one day, uh, when YouTube sold to Google, I remember the moment I had tech crunch up on my laptop.
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 23:08 Michael Kim Every day I read, uh, TechCrunch, Recode, Pando, and actually I listen to your, uh, your podcasts.
20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- ▶ 17:37 Josh Udashkin It wasn't announced, and I guess that's where being a lawyer is actually quite convenient, so I didn't file any of the securities regulatory, uh, forms, so it never gets picked up by all of the tech crunch and all of these things, and for…
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 27:06 Chris Douvos I just love Dan Primack every morning and Connie, uh, now at TechCrunch, uh, you know, strictly VC.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
- ▶ 24:20 Byron Deeter Um, I'm a sports fan, so I, I love Bleacher Report just because of the citizen journalism aspect of it and the like, um, but I, I probably hit most frequently TechCrunch, and it's, um, it's a, it's a slap in the face in many ways, um,…
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