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Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:46 Harry Stebbings Like, I think True Ventures' seed fund was seven hundred million.
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:47 Adam Besvinick In fact, I've had general catalyst, true ventures, tribe, lower carbon that have come in after me after I've said yes and have not altered the terms of those rounds.
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: The $1BN Amazon Acquisition; How Richard Branson Invested | 20VC #984 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:10 Jamie Siminoff Like, even when we raised our A round, I remember I kept calling True Ventures, because it was like, the money's supposed to come in, and I'm like, hey, uh, you know, just wondering, like, when the wire's coming in, just, I got a plan for,…
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:52 Semil Shah Um, and he was like, I thought it was great. 2 times in the scene
20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm super excited to welcome Tony Schneider, partner at True Ventures, one of the Valley's leading early stage firms with a portfolio, including the likes of Peloton, HashiCorp, Fitbit, Automatic, and Trade.io to name a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:26 Harry Stebbings I would love to get the ball rolling today with a little bit on you, and this is a wonderful but a very weird world adventure, so how did you make your way in, and how did you come to be a partner today at True? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:44 Tony Schneider All of those topics, those are topics that I'm drawn to today when I'm investing, and there are topics that I bring into the mix at True across the portfolio, but most important 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:38 Harry Stebbings And it's having done it now, as you said, for many years at True, have you seen yourself change and evolve as a venture investor in terms of mindset, in terms of approach?
- ▶ 24:11 Tony Schneider I mean, if you look at the True Ventures portfolio, we had three very big exits over the last two years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:43 Harry Stebbings What is the single biggest challenge of your role with True today? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- ▶ 18:15 Katie Stanton And nothing changed for a while, but then we had this boom in 2000, and we saw this second wave, a venture as a service, and we saw some great firms emerge, Andreessen, First Round, True Ventures, and we saw more of this service business,…
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
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings They've led investments in the likes of Ring, HashiCorp, Namely, Splice, and many more, and I think just a ton of credit deserves to be paid to this person, and a little bit more limelight, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Adam… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings But that is quite enough from me, so now I can't wait to get into this killer episode with Adam Dalkeli, partner at True Ventures.
- ▶ 3:29 Harry Stebbings And so how did you make your way into the world of venture and come to be a partner at True today? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:07 Harry Stebbings So obviously it makes me incredibly happy to hear, but how do you think about portfolio construction today with True? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:19 Harry Stebbings I imagine that many in the true portfolio, but with the ownership being where it is, as you said, 20 and above, does that mean the days of kind of co-leads is really over today, do you think?
- ▶ 15:29 Adam D'Augelli And so at True, decisions are driven by an individual protagonist on the investment team, often with support of one or more others on the team, but are often made in a non-consensus way. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:36 Adam D'Augelli At that point, the board is less about kind of structured quarterly reporting and more, you have access to whoever you were working closely, most closely with the true, plus the entire team, our investment team, plus the founder network as…
- ▶ 24:11 Adam D'Augelli Great founders doing ambitious things introduced to us by an existing founder in the true portfolio, raising our type of money at our type of price.
- ▶ 26:04 Harry Stebbings Well, what was the single biggest challenge of your role with true today? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Inside The Mind of A Leading LP: How LPs Evaluate New Fund Managers on Everything from First Meeting to Portfolio Construction To Fees and Carry with Lisa Edgar, Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings Included in their stellar fund portfolio is the likes of Index, Initialize, True Ventures, Andreessen, and some of my favorites in Ed and Elliot at Boldstart, just to name a
20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures
- ▶ 30:58 Harry Stebbings Puneet at True Ventures said on the show last week, he said, um, the best firms of the next decade will be separated by EQ.
20VC: True Ventures' Puneet Agarwal on Why EQ Is Going To Separate The Best Firms In Venture Over The Next Decade, The Negatives of Attribution in Venture & What Makes A Truly Efficient Venture Partnership
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings But to the show today, and my respect for Phil Black and John Callaghan in all that they've built with True is well known. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:46 Harry Stebbings Well, I'm so excited, so I want to kick off, though, with a little bit about you, and it's a very wonderful world being venture, but how did you make your way into this world and really come to be a GP at True today? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:57 Puneet Agarwal And I think the other thing I would say too, is I think structurally as a firm, True has made it so that we can bring safety into the boardroom. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:09 Puneet Agarwal We play super early at true, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:55 Puneet Agarwal So there's a lot of leverage points for us because any founder who hooks into the true network, there's, you know, 140 active companies, 270 plus founder CEOs just today, and it's hyperconnected. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:41 Harry Stebbings I'm really interested in the decision making at True. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:32 Puneet Agarwal And that's what I think true wants to be called.
- ▶ 31:35 Puneet Agarwal The other thing is, we've put a shingle up on top of True and said, we're fine with investing in any company anywhere.
- ▶ 34:25 Harry Stebbings Tell me, what's the single biggest challenge of your role with True today? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:20 Harry Stebbings I couldn't be more aligned with his people-centricity and the way that True really think about partnerships.
20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Before Quicksprout, Hitten was the co-founder and CEO of Kissmetrics, raising over nineteen million dollars in the process for the company, from the likes of our friends at True Ventures, Uncaught Capital, and Felicis Ventures, just to…
20VC: Why Founding Your First Company Is Like Learning Through A Thousand Paper Cuts, The 3 Core Phases to Product Adoption and Why Valuation Obsession Must Change In The Valley with Armon Dadgar, Founder & CTO @ Hashicorp
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And to date, HashiCorp have raised over seventy-four million in BC funding from many friends of the show, including Scott Rainey at Redpoint, Glenn Solomon at GGV, Semel Shah, True Ventures, and Mayfield, just to name a few.
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
- ▶ 26:01 Harry Stebbings We had Kevin at TrueVentures.
20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
- ▶ 26:12 Andy McLoughlin They raised a seed round from Red Points and True.
20VC: How To Upscale Management Teams Effectively, When Should The CEO Play The Role of "Lifeguard" & What Role Does The Board Play In The Team Upscaling with Matt Straz, Founder & CEO @ Namely
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Since founding Namely, Matt has grown the company to over a thousand clients, a 150,000 users, and has raised over a hundred and fifty seven million dollars from the likes of Sequoia Capital, True Ventures, Matrix, and Bullpen, just to…
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
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings We are back on the 20 Minute VC with your host Harry Stebbings at H Stebbings with two Bs on Snapchat for part two of this very special feature of True Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's leading early stage franchises, and if you haven't… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07 Harry Stebbings But enough of the nerdy British accent, so I will now hand over to the wonderful John Callaghan, co-founder at True Ventures.
- ▶ 4:05 John Callaghan Hired me and my co-founder at True, Phil Black, who I think you, you know, uh, well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 John Callaghan We started true and we actually named the firm true because we thought that entrepreneurs deserved a better, more aligned partner in their cap table and better, more aligned partner on their board. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:18 John Callaghan Precious resource, which I do, and, and we as a firm believe that, then their time, the founder's time, is worth way more than all of the capital we have at True. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:05 John Callaghan And so authentic communication is absolutely critical to how we've done everything at true. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:21 John Callaghan I mean, you've got to be so far ahead in this industry, and I, we just constantly think about that at true, is how can we be out in those very, very uncomfortable 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:23 Harry Stebbings And I have to say, that really was one of my favorite episodes to record, and you can follow John on Twitter at jcalseven, a huge thanks to him and the incredible team at True for all they've done for me, and we'd also love it if you…
20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
- ▶ 16:48 Harry Stebbings I had Jeremy Levine at, um, Bessemer on the show the other day, and I had Kevin Rose on the show at True the other day, and both offered opposing ideas about, uh, consumer.
20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Now, Tony is a partner at True Ventures, one of the leading early stage funds on the West Coast, with a portfolio including the likes of Automatic, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so I'm now delighted to hand over to the wonderfully charismatic Tony Conrad, partner at True Ventures.
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings How have you seen the investment thesis and approach change from making those initial investments back in those early days to today, 2017 with true?
- ▶ 9:52 Tony Conrad I founded a company called Sphere previously, and I'm also a partner at TrueVentures, so there are two roles that are very symbiotic, but, you know, very different, and the demands are very different.
- ▶ 12:10 Tony Conrad One thing that's kind of consistent across all of my partners at True is that we really look to our networks to help identify the interesting entrepreneurs and the interesting opportunities for us.
- ▶ 15:17 Tony Conrad It's a bit self-serving in that our goal at True is always to be the anchor and to have the largest
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings For those that don't know, Kevin is a venture partner at True Ventures, one of the leading early stage funds on the West Coast, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:29 Kevin Rose Actually, a big part of the reason why I was attracted to True as a firm, you know, everyone believes that you can do your best work, and you're most creative when you don't have that pressure that's hanging over you, that pressure of…
- ▶ 31:52 Harry Stebbings It could be one warehousing or not, probably not warehousing and true because I doubt it would be public, but your most recent publicly announced investment and why you said yes.
- ▶ 33:04 Harry Stebbings And again, a huge thank you to Kevin for giving up his time today to come on the show, and a big hand to both Phil Black and Tony Conrad at True for making the introductions today to Kevin, without which this episode would not have been… 2 times in the scene
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 4:39 Michael Kim Foundry, true.
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 20:49 Chris Douvos They did true.
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 11:53 Hussein Kanji There were some great, big established venture funds, but there weren't very many newer next generation funds, which if you look in California or in the U S right, you have first round capital, you have true ventures, you have floodgate,…
20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings Brian is probably one of the youngest people ever to raise VC funding, receiving investment from the likes of Hummer Wimblad, previous guest at Transmedia Capital, Chris Redlitz, who was episode 26, and True Ventures, and many, many more.
- ▶ 6:38 Brian Wong And, uh, the, the, the, my main VCs are True Ventures, um, Hummer Winblad, Relay Ventures. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:32 Brian Wong And that's when true was kind of there.
- ▶ 17:29 Harry Stebbings So, in terms of how have that altered from the True Ventures style seed fund, like, what was surprising to you? 2 times in the scene
20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
- ▶ 22:49 Peter Rojas I got to work with Tony Conrad and John Callahan from true ventures.
20 VC 065: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Brad Feld: Founders Should Be Obsessed, Passion Belongs In The Bedroom
- ▶ 8:58 Brad Feld Uh, two, two other investors who I'm good friends with, Jeff Clavier at SoftTech and John Callahan at True, and, and they both encouraged me to spend time with James and take a meeting, and, uh, I did, but I didn't do it in a way that was… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:10 Brad Feld Uh, uh, True Ventures, uh, we've done a bunch of investments and have very close friendships there.
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 20:30 Jason Calacanis Tony Conrad from True, I love him.