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20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- ▶ 16:00 Olaf Carlson Wee So however you were extracting revenue from the network, whether this was advertising or paid subscriptions, particularly advertising in these traditional network effect companies like Twitter and Facebook, the other option is kind of a…
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
- ▶ 17:45 Rich Wong Twitter, uh, as opposed to just continuing to build technology, selling to Orange or Singular or Nextel or AT&T, the customers of that time.
- ▶ 24:34 Harry Stebbings What a very special guest Rich was to have on the show, and again, a huge thanks to him for giving up the time to appear on the show, and if you'd like to see more from Rich, you can find him on Twitter, at rwong.
20VC: Overcoming The Engineer Boys Club, Disrupting The "Pink Aisle" & Why VCs Are Missing A Trick Not Investing In The CPG Space with Debbie Sterling, Founder & CEO @ Goldieblox
- ▶ 28:03 Harry Stebbings And you can find out more about Debbie on Twitter, at Debbie Blocks, B-L-O-X.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 23:08 Harry Stebbings Now, I do want to say a huge thank you to Bing for giving up the time today to appear on the show, and if you'd like to see more from him, you can on Twitter, at Bing Fish.
20VC: YC's Ali Rowghani on Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull and Jack Dorsey & The 3 Traits All Truly Successful Leaders Share
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings And prior to investing with YC, Ali spent four years at Twitter, starting as CFO before becoming COO. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:03 Ali Rowghani The first was Pixar, the animation studio, and the second was at Twitter. 8 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 2:52 Semil Shah I was working at startups and also writing on my blog and had been using Twitter for
- ▶ 26:34 Harry Stebbings Some very exciting times ahead for Haystack, and if you'd like to see more from Semil, you can follow him on Twitter, at Semil, or you can head over to his website, Haystack, to check out more of his incredible writing.
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
- ▶ 27:39 Harry Stebbings And if you'd like to see more from us, then you can follow Samir on Twitter, at Samir Kauji, or you can follow me on Snapchat, at hdebbings with two b's, to see all things behind the scenes at the 20 Minute VC.
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
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings With his founding of Harrison Metal in 2006, he's backed the likes of Twitter, Mopub, Birch
20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible
- ▶ 5:39 Andy Weissman One was an investment part, and our process had to do about a theory about social networking and social media, and that led us, on the investment side, to make investments into things like Tumblr and Kickstarter and the Twitter ecosystem,…
20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings His last as a co-founder being Crashlytics, acquired by Twitter in a nine-figure acquisition, its largest acquisition at the time.
- ▶ 6:51 Wayne Chang And so we looked around based on the recruiters that we were working with, and we found one, her name is Katie, that just meshed really well with the team, had really great positive energy, and she went on to lead a huge part of Twitter's…
- ▶ 27:47 Wayne Chang I like reading Slashdot, and I like opening up Twitter, and that allows me to get a pretty wide range of exposure to different news.
- ▶ 31:00 Harry Stebbings He's provided so much support and advice to me in my journey, so a big thank you to him, and you can follow him on Twitter at Wayne.
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
- ▶ 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: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 3:27 Jonathan Abrams I was overwhelmed and overloaded with content and with social sharing, and I, I really didn't have time to keep up and, and click on every single link that my friends were sharing on Facebook and Twitter.
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 29:03 Harry Stebbings And I have to say, it really was so much fun to have Daniel on the show today, and a huge hand to him for giving up the time today to be on the 20 Minute VC, and if you'd like to follow him on Twitter, you can, at Daniel Gross, with two…
20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 29:25 Harry Stebbings Such a special guest, and I want to say a huge thank you to Renata for giving up her time today to appear on the show, and you can find her on Twitter at rquintini.
20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
- ▶ 30:06 Harry Stebbings And if you'd like to follow him on Twitter, you can, at Seth Bannon, B-A-N-N-O-N.
20VC: When Should CEOs Ask Their VC For Help, When Do Companies Really Need A Board & What The Series A Expansion Means For Startups with Max Gazor, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Twitter, Yammer, Zendesk, and ClassPass, just to name a few.
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
- ▶ 24:33 Harry Stebbings And if you'd like to follow us on Twitter, you can follow Will on Twitter at Porteous, P-O-R-T-E-O-U-S, or you can follow me on Snapchat at H-Debbings with two Bs. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
- ▶ 28:04 Harry Stebbings And if you couldn't tell, we so enjoyed having Roseanne on the show there, and you can follow her on Twitter at I'mTheMusic.
20VC: Why Radical Candor Is Crucial in Workplaces, Why 85% of Work Relationship Mistakes Happen and Why You Should Not Try and Be More Likeable with Kim Scott, Co-Founder @ Candor Inc
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and several other Silicon Valley companies.
- ▶ 27:06 Harry Stebbings And if you'd like to see more from us, then you can follow Kim on Twitter at Kim Ball Scott.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings But to the show today, and we're heading to one of the world's leading VC funds with their portfolio, including the likes of Google, Amazon, Uber, Snapchat, Twitter.
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
- ▶ 24:14 Ethan Kurzweil Because it curates all of your Twitter and Facebook friends, what they're saying, and ranks the news according to who's tweeting about it, basically.
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, eBay, WeWork, Yelp, and many more revolutionary companies of the last decade. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:24 Peter Fenton Spiegel did at Snapchat, and this is well documented, but I don't want to talk out of school, was one of those great heroic acts, and I think Twitter did the same thing when Google approached them early in their life, Facebook with Yahoo,…
- ▶ 31:53 Harry Stebbings I know I have so many notes from that interview, but I want to say a huge thank you to Peter for taking the time out of his incredibly busy diary for the interview today, and I want to say again a big thank you to Jonathan Abrams at Nuzzle…
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 3:19 Kevin Rose And so as our site was growing along with many of the others, like the Facebooks and Twitters of the world and in a handful of others, we just got to know all the other founders at various events and things like that.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Now, MZ is a partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of the world's most prestigious venture funds, with prior investments in the likes of Google, Amazon, Twitter, Square, and Airbnb, just to name a few.
20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 27:00 Harry Stebbings So fascinating to hear, such a different perspective, and I'd like to give a huge hand to Josh for giving up the time today to appear on the show, and again, a big thank you to Renato Quintini for making the introduction, and if you'd like…
20VC: Inside Google's Growth Fund & The 3 Criteria They Look For With Potential Investments with Laela Sturdy, General Partner @ CapitalG
- ▶ 23:25 Laela Sturdy I saw it on Twitter and signed up this morning.
20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 23:26 Harry Stebbings And if you'd like to see more from us, then you can follow me on Snapchat at hstebbings with two b's, or you can follow Leo on Twitter at lpolovets.
20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings As one of the key individuals in the Valley, he's invested in over a hundred startups, including the likes of Twitter, Postmates, Uber, Yammer, and Thumbtack, just to name a few of his incredible portfolio companies.
20VC: Homebrew's Hunter Walk on Why There Is No Series A Crunch, How To Package Portfolio Companies For The Next Round & Why The Bridge Round Is Not Always A Negative Sign?
- ▶ 3:41 Hunter Walk Just a little bit of serendipity of him leaving the product leadership role at Twitter in the second half of 2012, at a point at which I'd been thinking about, uh, potentially leaving Google and YouTube after nine years there.
20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
- ▶ 27:47 Harry Stebbings I also want to say huge thanks to Maha at Canaan Partners and Gotham at Naturebox for the intro today, without which the show would not have been possible, and if you loved the show today and would like to see more from me, then you can…
20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 26:30 Harry Stebbings My word, I have to say, as a venture nerd, that really was just a dream interview with me, digging into all things VC and investing there, and a huge thanks to Roger for giving up the time today to appear on the show, and a big hand to…
20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund
- ▶ 26:19 Harry Stebbings You can also follow Ben on Twitter at Blumenfeld, and you can also read some academic
20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings Now, I never get political, but I do think Pejman's current pinned tweet says a lot.
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 14:34 Micah Rosenbloom Because, you know, for example, we invested in Periscope, which sold to Twitter and they didn't take much money before they sold. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:55 Micah Rosenbloom Well, so, you know, next time I'll send you a Facebook message, and then you can get me back on iMessage, and I'll Slack you from there, and then you can, and then I can tweet you.
20VC: Why We Are Valuation & Ownership Insensitive, Why We Do Not Take Board Seats & The Effects Of The Series A Crunch with Topher Conway, Co-Managing Partner @ SV Angel
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Facebook, Airbnb, Twitter, Dropbox, the list goes on of incredible companies.
- ▶ 4:10 Topher Conway And so I was interviewing at Twitter and Facebook and companies like that.
20VC: The Radical Changes In Public Market Expectations, The Right Way To Assess Valuation & What It Means To Be A Disciplined & Diligent Investor with Randy Glein, Partner @ DFJ Growth
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Randy's investments include the likes of Twitter, Tumblr, SpaceX, and Tesla, just to name a few.
- ▶ 28:38 Randy Glein I'd say, you know, for me, most of my news comes from Twitter, and, uh, when I want something a little more edgy, I go to Reddit.
20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Now, Jules is a general partner at Insight Venture Partners, where he's made investments in the likes of Slack, Zendesk, Twitter, Zenefits, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 18:16 unnamed speaker Elad Gil, who's sort of former VP of Twitter, now the founder and CEO of Color Genomics.
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
- ▶ 7:32 Rishi Garg I, I love Square, and I'd probably still be there today, except that a dear friend and a world-class executive named Ali Roghani, uh, who was a COO of Twitter, asked me to join him at Twitter as the first VP of corporate development and… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:54 Rishi Garg Foundation of Twitter Cortex, which is our deep learning practice.
- ▶ 10:01 Harry Stebbings So, I do have to ask them, with that kind of very swift transition you made from, from Twitter's corp dev and the learnings from that, what were the big learnings then that you took from, from the incredible success you had at both 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:01 Harry Stebbings But then social media, obviously you spent time at Twitter. 2 times in the scene
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings I'm also immensely excited for this week on the show, as we feature one of the most prominent funds of the last decade, with investments in the likes of Skype, Tesla, Twitter, AngelList.