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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