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Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:02 Mike Maples Twitch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:25 Mike Maples Um, Twitch got close, but not quite there.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:15 Harry Stebbings Yeah, like sometimes it's just a batshit crazy idea of just in TV, which turns into Twitch.
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:50 Erik Allebest And then after that was Twitch
- ▶ 32:35 Erik Allebest And as soon as, I mean, we were doing live streaming back when it was justin.tv long before it was Twitch. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:47 Erik Allebest So one was with the kind of Twitch creator streamer influencer.
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:31 Chris Paik I, you know, the first board I ever sat on was Twitch.
- ▶ 43:24 Harry Stebbings It was one of your great investments. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:19 Chris Paik I'm, I would say like probably the company that I was able to be involved with that is the most publicly well-known is probably Twitch. 4 times in the scene
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:54 Harry Stebbings Uh, actually data shows that, you know, very often ideas like justin.tv, which turned into Twitch.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:12 Harry Stebbings I was analyzing the portfolio that I have the other day, and it was like, I looked at the seeds, and I looked at those that haven't really worked, and all of those that haven't really worked have often been head of product at Twitter, head…
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:57 Drew Houston And eventually, I talked to enough of my friends, or my, or my friend Kyle Vogt, who started, who ended up starting the company Twitch, and then started Cruise, the self-driving car company.
Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:31 Kayvon Beykpour They pivoted into more specialized use cases like, like Twitch.
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:20 Fabrice Grinda And, and we have the ability to do that even, and think of the jobs of today, like the influencers, the Twitch streamers, the, the, the, the, the, the social media managers.
- ▶ 57:53 Fabrice Grinda It was kind of the same reason, I, I think I passed on Twitch a two million pre.
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 39:53 Fabrice Grinda And think of the jobs of today, like the influencers, the Twitch streamers, the social media managers.
- ▶ 47:47 Fabrice Grinda I think I passed on Twitch a two million pre.
20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings and so I'm thrilled to welcome back to the hot seat Anne Muraco, co-founding partner at Floodgate, one of the leading early stage firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Twitter, Twitch, Lyft, Okta, Outreach, and…
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Twitch CEO Emmett Shear and Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:24 Harry Stebbings Speaking of some of the pre-existing trend, again, I spoke to another of your investors, Emmett, at Twitch
20VC: It's Time To Talk About Drinking; How To Stop, The Impact It Has, How Life Changes Post-Alcohol and The Biggest Misconceptions on Drinking with Ryan Petersen, Founder @ Flexport, Justin Kan, Founder @ Twitch, Matteo Franceschetti, Founder @ Eight
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Justin Kahn, founder and CEO at Twitch and Atrium.
- ▶ 12:21 Harry Stebbings When you think about kind of maybe the insecurities that it masked kind of growing up, and then also with Justin TV and Twitch taking off at a young age, as you said, kind of with the college friends that you had doing it, did it mask…
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings And our guest today is that, a dear friend and mentor, an OG of OG in the world of seed investing, and so with that I'm thrilled to welcome back to the hot seat today Mike Maples, founder and partner at Floodgate, one of the leading early…
- ▶ 9:22 Mike Maples So when we invested in Justin TV, which eventually became Twitch, if you had evaluated Justin TV as if it were a company, you would have thought it was stupid.
20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Emmett at Twitch for the intro, and Zach at Plaid, Emily at Coinbase, Alex at Clearbit, and Henrika at Brex for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
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
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings I've been lucky enough to have his co-founder, Justin Kahn, on the show before, and so with that, and totally giving it away there, I could not be more excited to welcome Emmett Scheer, co-founder and CEO at Twitch, the world's leading… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:13 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so now I'm very excited to hand over to Twitch CEO and co-founder Emmett Shearer.
- ▶ 2:41 Harry Stebbings How did you make your way into the world of startups, and how did you become CEO at Twitch today?
- ▶ 8:38 Harry Stebbings To think about that as kind of the origins of Twitch now and today and where Twitch is, it's pretty incredible, and it's also funny because you said that about the importance of it really for you in just starting, and I always say kind of…
- ▶ 14:30 Emmett Shear And if you centralize a function, you centralize engineering, you centralize product, you centralize customer support, you get people who can really learn from each other, you get mastery, and that organization develops a sense of esprit…
- ▶ 24:04 Emmett Shear And I think for me at Twitch, that happened somewhere around 400 people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:58 unnamed speaker Biggest single piece of advice for anyone looking to build strong communities, Twitches is incredible. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:31 unnamed speaker Like we've lit up karaoke, so you can do karaoke through Twitch Sings.
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
- ▶ 38:08 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode on Friday with Emmett Shear, founder and CEO at Twitch.
20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
- ▶ 6:12 Steve Huffman There was Justin and Emmett, who were the founders of the time Kiko, but then Justin TV and ultimately Twitch.
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
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over a hundred and twenty-three million dollars in financing from some of the very best in the business, including Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Thrive, Spark, CoToo, and then also some of the world's leading…
20VC: HitRecord's Joseph Gordon-Levitt on How Show Business Prepared Him For Life As An Entrepreneur, What Founders Should Look For Most In Their Investor Base & Why The Current Ad Model of Social Is Harming The World's Creative Spirit
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings To date, Joe's raised funding from some of my personal favorites, in the form of Alex at Javelin, Masterclass founder David Rogier, Twitch founder Kevin Lin, and Crosslink Capital, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:06 Joseph Gordon-Levitt David Roger, who you mentioned, the co-founder of Masterclass, Kevin Lin, the co-founder of Twitch, Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube, all came in and put in some money into our Series A.
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings Before that, Justin was the co-founder at Twitch, the world's leading video platform and community for gamers, which was acquired by Amazon for nine hundred and seventy million dollars, reportedly.
- ▶ 4:22 Justin Kan And then from there, we eventually pivoted that after a couple of years into Twitch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:53 Justin Kan When I was in my first section of my entrepreneurial career, you know, building Justin TV and Twitch, I remember that every summer I would want to quit and go get a job or do something else.
- ▶ 11:26 Justin Kan You know, I'm the kind of person who, after we sold Twitch, I remember that year I'd sold all these companies, and I wasn't doing anything, and I was just sitting at home, and after six weeks of playing Hearthstone, I was like,
- ▶ 14:51 Justin Kan So, you know, when we sold Twitch,
- ▶ 28:25 Harry Stebbings Listen, I spoke to your co-founder at Twitch, Kevin, before the show, and he said, investing, starting startups, advising founders, ranch life, family soon.
20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Backing, and I cannot believe I'm saying this, Dad, but an incredible two unicorns per year since founding, including Shopify, Opendoor, Flexport, Adyen, Twitch, Fitbit, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 29:58 Leo Polovets And if you do well in the practice interviews, then you get a chance to go on site and interview at companies like Lyft and Twitch and many others.
20VC: What Is Core To The Best Investor - Founder Relationships, The Biggest Risk For Founders In The Early Days & Why EQ Is The Most Important Trait For Managers with Jack Altman, Founder & CEO @ Lattice
- ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings And expense, and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by seven percent, but also reducing the all-important churn rate, and that's why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their…
- ▶ 25:26 Harry Stebbings And that's why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform, and you can check them out now on Recurly.com.
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings Class subscription management platform providing rapid time to value without requiring massive integration effort and expense, and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by seven percent, but also reducing the all-important…
- ▶ 27:56 Harry Stebbings But also reducing the all-important churn rate, and that's why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform, and you can check them out now on Recurly.com.
20VC: YC's Ali Rowghani on Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull and Jack Dorsey & The 3 Traits All Truly Successful Leaders Share
- ▶ 1:59 Harry Stebbings And they have the ability to not only increase revenue by seven percent, but also reducing the all-important churn rate, and that's why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription…
20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend
- ▶ 1:52 Harry Stebbings Class subscription management platform providing rapid time to value without requiring massive integration effort and expense, and They have the ability to not only increase revenue by seven percent, but also reducing the all-important…
- ▶ 26:49 Harry Stebbings The number one performance management solution for growing companies, and speaking of number one there, you must check out Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly's enterprise-class subscription management…
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
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings Class subscription management platform providing rapid time to value without requiring massive integration effort and expense, and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by seven percent, but also reducing the all-important…
20VC: Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz on The Lessons Learned Scaling Eventbrite to Unicorn Valuation & $3Bn in Gross Ticket Sales
- ▶ 2:12 Harry Stebbings And that's why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform, and you can check them out now on Recurly.com.
- ▶ 27:46 Harry Stebbings Send, but also reducing the all-important churn rate, and that's why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform, and you can check them out now on Recurly.com.
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 2:20 Harry Stebbings And that's why thousands of customers, from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive, trust Recurly as their subscription management platform, and you can check them out now on Recurly.com.
- ▶ 31:42 Harry Stebbings The number one performance management solution for growing companies, And speaking of number one there, you must check out Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly's enterprise-class subscription management platform…
20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- ▶ 1:49 Harry Stebbings And expense, and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by seven percent, but also reducing the all-important churn rate, and that's why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their…
- ▶ 25:12 Harry Stebbings But also reducing the all-important churn rate, And that's why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform, and you can check them out now on Recurly.com.
20VC: What Does It Take To Raise A Venture Fund Today, An Analysis of The Explosion of Seed Financing & Why IRR No Longer Takes Centre Stage with Samir Kaji, Senior Managing Director @ First Republic Bank
- ▶ 1:52 Harry Stebbings And speaking of number one there, you must check out Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly's enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time to value without requiring massive integration…
- ▶ 28:30 Harry Stebbings The number one performance management solution for growing companies, and speaking of number one there, you must check out Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly's enterprise-class subscription management…
20VC: Michael Dearing on 5 Key Principles He Uses To Assess Startup Founders, Why Benevolent Dictatorship Is A Beautiful Thing & Why Markets Are Better Capital Allocators Than CEOs
- ▶ 27:01 Harry Stebbings And expense, and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by seven percent, but also reducing the all-important churn rate, and that's why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their…
20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Platforms, having made investments in the likes of Twitch, Periscope, and Dropcam on the consumer side, and Twilio, Intercom, and SendGrid on the developer platform side, just to name a few from his outstanding portfolio.
- ▶ 10:49 Ethan Kurzweil It's a great quote as it relates to venture capital, actually, because a lot of people do look for the exact repetition of history, and they'll look for the pattern recognition of this type of founder, this type of company, and just…
- ▶ 13:36 Harry Stebbings Twitch on the more consumer facing side. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:08 Harry Stebbings But we've spoken today also, uh, we mentioned obviously Twitch and Periscope there, and we've spoken earlier about your
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 16:49 Clinton Foy You know, you have distribution like Twitch, you have YouTube, you have Facebook Live, you also have the distribution of traditional cable broadcasts, you have ESPN and Fox and Turner all getting into esports distribution and broadcast and…
- ▶ 19:07 Clinton Foy They're not watching the content, they're not watching sports on TV, they're watching it through streaming platforms like Twitch or through YouTube, Facebook Live even, and they're watching it on mobile devices, they're watching it on…
- ▶ 23:16 Clinton Foy Um, the Foxes and the ESPNs and the Turners and the Twitches. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Twitch, Weebly, Chegg, Bizarre Voice, Okta, and Demandforce, just to name a few incredible companies.
- ▶ 8:37 Mike Maples Um, another example, twitch.tv started out as justin.tv and literally I, I, 3 times in the scene
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings And prior to YC, Justin was the founder of Twitch.tv, the world's leading video platform and community for gamers, which was ultimately acquired by Amazon for nine hundred and seventy million dollars.
- ▶ 6:28 Justin Kan Instagram had just come out, and one was called Twitch. 4 times in the scene
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings So joining me today is Anne Muraco, co-founder at Floodgate, one of the Valley's leading early stage venture funds, with Twitter, Twitch, Weebly, and many more, all in their immense portfolio.
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 1:04 Harry Stebbings So let's go with Twitch, Fitbit, Shopify, Mint, Brightroll, Dropcam.
20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next
- ▶ 23:31 Josh Elman Things like Twitch and esports are making gaming go from sort of a niche hobby thing to actually something that the world even views as mainstream now, even though it's much more mainstream than people would have you believe.
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
- ▶ 25:14 Doug Scott And the other one that's going is, I think quite a few people have seen this in the UK, is Chew.tv, which is ironically Twitch for DJs.
20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO
- ▶ 1:34 Chris Dark Um, not like now when we've got Twitch that just got bought for a billion dollars and people winning five million pound prizes or five million dollar prizes in gaming, we were
- ▶ 18:40 Chris Dark Yeah, for me, it was like, for that, it was never going to be a big business, because at the top, well, actually, Twitch now got sold for a billion, we wanted, in effect, we were that for 10 years ago. 2 times in the scene