TechCrunch, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where TechCrunch comes up
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.