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20VC: A Framework For Approaching Risk and How It Affects Portfolio Construction | Lessons and Advice From Working with Dropbox's Drew Houston | Why Being A Learning Animal Is The Most Important Factor For Success with Ted Wang, Partner @ Cowboy Ventures
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings As for Ted, prior to VC, Ted spent over 20 years as a leading Silicon Valley lawyer, and a partner with Fennec & West for the last 10 years, where he worked with some of the most notable companies of our time, including Facebook, Dropbox,…
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- ▶ 21:54 Dave Vasen If you scroll TechCrunch or Twitter, it's kind of all about the big wins, the funding acquisitions, a ton of IPOs, and personally, maybe it's my own experience, but I would just much rather read about the product launch that didn't work,…
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 16:33 Danny Rimer How can you start predicting what the level of dedication will be, the number of likes, the number of tweets that you're going to generate as a result of the launch that you have?
- ▶ 38:30 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from him, you can follow him on Twitter, at Danny Reimer.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings And I'm also probably his biggest fanboy on Twitter, and you must check him out at JMJ. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:25 Harry Stebbings But I'm now very excited to welcome my all-time favourite on Twitter, Mr.
- ▶ 3:40 Harry Stebbings Jeff, I have to say, I am probably one of the biggest fans of your Twitter feed, so thank you so much for joining me today. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:45 Harry Stebbings I just cannot wait for round two, and if you'd like to see more from Jeff, which clearly is a must, then you can find him on Twitter, at JMJ.
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
- ▶ 9:01 Leo Polovets A thoughtful email or Twitter DM or Facebook message.
20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings Well, you know how you can be notified when a certain individual tweets on Twitter? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:01 Harry Stebbings You know, I, I love you, and I think the world of you and Circle Up, but this next one made me interestingly irate, which is when I saw on Twitter, you tweeted, micro VC funds, and the element of them having small funds because they just…
- ▶ 32:11 Harry Stebbings Now, if you only do one thing after listening to that episode with Ryan, go and follow him on Twitter.
20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund
- ▶ 8:37 unnamed speaker So you've had, of course, the PayPal mafias of individuals that invested, you know, after PayPal, but there's been a number, you know, the Facebook mafia and Twitter and now Uber and others.
20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins
- ▶ 42:38 Harry Stebbings I mean, what an incredible episode there with Linda, and I think she broke the land speed record for speaking without breathing there, and if you'd like to see more from Linda, you can by following her on Twitter at LJXIE.
20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Should Let Everyone Rip Apart Their Business Idea, How To Construct Frameworks for Success & Why You Should Not Always Test Your MVP with Afton Vechery, Founder & CEO @ Modern Fertility
- ▶ 29:30 Harry Stebbings Again, you can follow her on Twitter, at Aftoon, and I do want to say a huge thank you again to Rebecca Caden at USV, and Finn Barnes at First Round, for the intro to Afton today.
20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Rebecca is a general partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Twitter, Twilio, Zynga, SoundCloud, Tumblr, Lending Club, and many more… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm thrilled to welcome back Sarah Tavill, general partner at Benchmark, one of the world's leading VC funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, eBay, WeWork, Yelp,
20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @
- ▶ 24:14 Harry Stebbings And it's, I tweeted last night that the best founders have kind of this mental plasticity to switch between a mindset of kind of frugality and then also knowing exactly the right time to kind of pour fuel on the fire and step on the gas,…
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 32:48 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from Howard, you can find him on Twitter, at Howard.
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 29:41 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from Shabby, you can find him on Twitter, at ShabbyR.
20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn
- ▶ 27:39 Harry Stebbings But if you'd like to see more from Barry, which you must, then you can follow him on Twitter, at Barry Eggers.
20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
- ▶ 8:48 Avichal Garg The really big winners were companies like YouTube and Twitter and Facebook, the people that did things natively to the platform.
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
- ▶ 22:28 Harry Stebbings One thing that's very striking to me in terms of listening to you speak is how concise you are, to be honest, and naturally, I've stalked you for the past 48 hours, and I saw in one of your tweets that you really wanted to improve your own…
- ▶ 27:52 Harry Stebbings So a huge thank you to Armin for being so patient with me, and you can find him on Twitter at Armin.
20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- ▶ 26:37 Harry Stebbings You can find him on Twitter at Adam W.
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- ▶ 28:55 Harry Stebbings It really does mean so much, and if you'd like to see more from Jason, you can on Twitter, at Jay Stoffer.
20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
- ▶ 13:31 Elad Gil So for example, when I was at Twitter, one of the teams that reported to me was the M&A team or corporate development, you know, the team that buys other companies or does certain strategic partnerships. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:50 Elad Gil When I sold my last startup, or my second to last startup to Twitter, we sold in part because we were really excited about Twitter, and we thought we could have a lot of impact there, and I thought my team would be really happy there. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Why Fundraising Is Like Dating and How to Play The Game Successfully & How To Increase The Flexibility of Your Burn When Growth is Ambiguous with Rachel Blumenthal, Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome
- ▶ 29:57 Rachel Blumenthal So anything on my iPhone is what I read, whether it is news links in Twitter, or sort of the deliveries of the best publications that come into my inbox every morning.
20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- ▶ 18:46 Joe Fernandez Occupy Clout was trending on Twitter, and this was during the Occupy Wall Street movement.
- ▶ 28:42 Harry Stebbings I have to say, I really did love that interview with Joe, and a huge hand to him for being so open and transparent with me there, and if you'd like to see more from Joe, you can on Twitter, at Joe Fernandez.
20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- ▶ 30:07 Harry Stebbings And I do also want to take the opportunity to say, since having both Steve and Trey on the show, they've both been so kind and supportive to me, so I want to say a huge thank you to them for that, and to Trey for giving up her time today…
20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek
- ▶ 15:17 Jack Groetzinger For us, for example, the channel that was our very biggest driver back in 2013, Twitter, mobile acquisition has become probably number 10 on the list right now.
20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings It'd be fantastic to hear your thoughts, and I'm on at hstebbings, 1996, with two b's, but to the show today, and rarely do I actively hustle on Twitter for a guest these days, but being such an admirer of our guest today, I for sure did…
- ▶ 2:18 Harry Stebbings I saw your tweet, and I was so excited that I had to ask you to come on the show, so thank you so much for joining me today.
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?
- ▶ 13:05 Andy McLoughlin Edith is an ultramarathon runner, and if you follow her on Twitter, you'll see her posting photos most mornings of doing kind of crazy, twenty-five-mile runs before most people are even awake.
20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
- ▶ 25:50 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from him, you can follow him on Twitter at MLZ, that's at MLZ.
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 30:55 Harry Stebbings Such a fun episode, and if you'd like to see more from Darian, which I highly recommend, then you can find him on Twitter, at Darian three one four.
20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
- ▶ 28:52 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic guest, and I want to say a huge thank you to Jerry for all that he's done for me in the show, and if you'd like to see more from him, you can follow him on Twitter, at Jerry Chen, and as I said at the beginning, you must…
20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy
- ▶ 28:00 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Dan for giving up his time today to appear on the show, and if you'd like to see more from Dan, which you must, then you can follow him on Twitter, at Daniel Lewis.
20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- ▶ 32:14 Leah Busque So they plug into over 20 different social media platforms like Instagram and Snap and Facebook, Twitter, et cetera, and they do monitoring, utilizing natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, artificial intelligence, and… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Virtually All Companies Hire The Wrong Way, Why EdTech Is The Most Brutal Market & How To Scale Your Sales Team for Engineering Founders with Mike Sliagadze, Founder & CEO @ Top Hat
- ▶ 24:54 Harry Stebbings I so enjoyed that interview with Mike, and if you'd like to see more from Mike, you can find him on Twitter, at Mike Silagazzi.
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 29:14 Harry Stebbings I'm coming to SF soon, so I look forward to tweeting you a photo of me reading it, but then a question from Nicole. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:05 Harry Stebbings He really has been so kind, both for me and the show, and you must check out his newsletter, Drinking from the Far Hose, and you can also find him on Twitter, at A Towsy.
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- ▶ 27:56 Harry Stebbings Well, I have to say, and I really shouldn't say this, but I think that was one of my favorite founder episodes ever, and if you'd like to see more from Leo and the incredible work that he's doing at Lob, you can on Twitter by following him…
20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- ▶ 31:28 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from Anu, then you can find her on Twitter, at Anu Hariharan.
20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
- ▶ 25:21 Harry Stebbings I mean, what an incredible journey, and I want to say a huge thank you to Mariam for giving up her time today to be on the show, and if you'd like to see more from Mariam, which you should, then you can find her on Twitter at MNafisi,…
20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital
- ▶ 28:18 Harry Stebbings I really do so appreciate that, and if you'd like to see more from Steve, then you can find him on Twitter, at Vassalo, double S, double L.
20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
- ▶ 28:56 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from Neil, which I highly recommend, you can find him on Twitter, at NCYoung.
20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
- ▶ 28:03 Harry Stebbings A much loved and respected individual in the venture ecosystem, and if you'd like to see more from Yuri, you can on Twitter, at Yuri underscore Kim, and I do want to thank the whole Forerunner team for being so fantastic with me and the…
20VC: Why Risk Is Misunderstood In Entrepreneurship, Why Acquisitions Are Cheap For Incumbents Today & 3 Strategies To Improve Diversity In Your Team with Henry Davis, President & COO @ Glossier
- ▶ 34:01 Harry Stebbings I'm very pleased to say we're having breakfast next week, by the way, and you can see more from Henry on Twitter, at henryshandle. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 28:25 Harry Stebbings I'm beyond excited to see her progress and break boundaries in 2018 in venture, and you can follow her on Twitter, at Crystal Huang, and we would love to have you behind the scenes at the 20 Minute VC on Snapchat at hdebbings with two b's.
20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings And that is where we are starting today, and I'm thrilled to welcome Kevin Thor, general partner at Spark Capital, one of the best performing funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Twitter, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:15 Kevin Thau And then after that, I working at Twitter in 2008 till late 2013, I also spent a lot of time with the Spark
- ▶ 4:38 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask though, Kevin, you mentioned your time at Twitter there, and a few stats. 6 times in the scene