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20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- ▶ 31:36 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from John, which is a must, you can find him on Twitter, at Jay Vrionis.
20VC: Why Startup Valuations Are Not As Overpriced As You Think, How To Determine Whether An Investor Is Truly Aligned To Your Mission and What 2 Traits Make The Truly Special Board Members with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- ▶ 27:41 Harry Stebbings Jason is too kind, and he's building such a special company with Tally, and if you'd like to see more from him and behind the scenes at Tally, you can find him on Twitter at sf underscore jcb, that's at sf underscore jcb, and it would also…
20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games
- ▶ 25:51 Josh Buckley Advice of something that I've heard through Twitter or something else.
20VC: Why Speed Is The Biggest Differentiator a Founder Can Have, How To Hire Seasoned Tier 1 Talent To An Early Stage Startup & How To Start, Scale and Manage Remote Teams with Domm Holland, Founder & CEO @ Fast
- ▶ 28:32 Dom Holland Like I find that, uh, you know, Twitter, I find these tools absolutely incredible and allowing me to operate very, very quickly.
- ▶ 32:14 Dom Holland I think Twitter is such an incredible tool at being exposed to a lot of this new tech, new tools, amazing people. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:53 Harry Stebbings I could chat to Dom for hours, and it was so good to spend time with him in person last week in San Francisco, and if you'd like to see more from Dom, you can find him on Twitter, at D-O-M-M.
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 41:48 Harry Stebbings Such a fantastic guy, and if you'd like to see more from him, you can find him on Twitter, at Rick Heitzman.
20VC: Why Pre-Product Market Fit Is About Systems Design Not Engineering, The Right Way For Leaders To Approach Wartime Leadership Today & A Guide To Recruitment Forward Planning with Ryan Denehy, Founder & CEO @ Electric
- ▶ 15:11 Harry Stebbings And I totally love that in terms of the honesty, and in terms of when the shit hits the fan, I, I actually tweeted the other day the importance of having essentially a safe space where you can be entitled
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Plus, I'm also a massive fanboy of his Twitter, at CallMeVlad.
- ▶ 38:11 Harry Stebbings As I said before, though, I'm a huge fan of Vlad's Twitter.
20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building
- ▶ 29:44 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from him, you can find him on Twitter, at bhorrors.
20VC: Guild Education's Rachel Carlson on The Benefits of Scaling Startups Outside of Silicon Valley, Why Mission and Margin Are So Tightly Integrated & Why Mums Are The Most Under-Utilised Asset In The Economy
- ▶ 28:08 Harry Stebbings And then are there any other elements where through the Twittersphere and through talking to founders, often people feel they do, but actually they maybe don't.
20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
- ▶ 33:03 Harry Stebbings Listen, Matt, as I said to you before, and I've been such a fan of your tweets for a very, very long time, it was such a pleasure to have you on the show today, and I can't wait to do a second episode, actually, on FinTech, which we did…
- ▶ 33:24 Harry Stebbings I do want to say Matt's been so helpful and kind to me behind the scenes, so huge thank you to him for that, and if you'd like to see more from Matt, which is a must, you can find him on Twitter, at Matt C.
20VC: Clearbit Founder Alex MacCaw on How To Successfully Negotiate with Investors, What Value-Add Do VCs Really Bring & Why You Should Only Have Operators on Your Board
- ▶ 3:18 Alex MacCaw And I initially worked as an engineer at Twitter and Stripe.
- ▶ 9:06 Alex MacCaw He was, like, CEO of Twitter.
20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- ▶ 32:46 Harry Stebbings I mean, what a fantastic guest to have on the show, and if you'd like to see more from Ilya, which is a must, you can find him on Twitter at Ilyasu, that's Ilyasu.
20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings And in addition to Hashtag Angels, Jana spent six years at Twitter as VP of Global Business Development and Platform, where she led the 100 and fifty-person organization responsible for 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:07 Harry Stebbings So tell me, from engineering to business, from Netflix to Twitter to hashtag angels, what was the moment that you realized venture was 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:43 Harry Stebbings But I do have to dive on one specific element that I spoke to Jeremy about before the show, actually, because he said about the time at Netflix and Twitter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:53 Jana Messerschmidt But in the early days of Twitter, we worked closely with a bunch of partners to get Twitter content integrated into whether it was websites, search results, or displayed on air and broadcast programming.
20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings One of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, Stitch Fix, eBay, and many, many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 28:39 Harry Stebbings As I said at the beginning, such a wonderful player in this ecosystem, and if you'd like to see more from Chathan, then you can find him on Twitter, at Chathan P, that's at Chathan P.
20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot
- ▶ 30:31 Harry Stebbings I mean, just such a special guest, and if you'd like to see more from Wasim, then you can find him on Twitter, at Wasim.
20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings If you go to my Twitter, you'll see that I follow barely anyone.
- ▶ 19:51 Brian Norgard You have to keep going, and you have to believe that the product will, over time, improve, and sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and we've seen, you know, the evolution of some of these products, like a Twitter or an Instagram.
- ▶ 32:18 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from Brian, you can find him on Twitter, at Brian Norgard.
20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing
- ▶ 28:29 Jesse Beyroutey Twitter, everything that I find I would be mindlessly opening and fall into some sort of trap on the internet with. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Harry Stebbings Likewise, if you'd like to see more from Jesse, which is a must, you can find him on Twitter at Beiruti.
20VC: Gitlab Founder, Sid Sijbrandji on Lessons From Scaling from 400 to 1,000 People in 1 Year, Why You Have To Have A Low Level Of Shame On The Product You Release & The Secret To Making Remote Work So Effectively At Scale
- ▶ 4:55 Sid Sijbrandij At the same time, Dimitri tweeted out to the whole world, I want to work on GitLab full-time.
- ▶ 23:07 Harry Stebbings What a phenomenal guest to have on the show, and I couldn't be more excited about the future for GitLab, and how he's building the company, and if you'd like to see more from Sid, you can find him on Twitter at S-Y-T-S-E-S, that's Sitsus.
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
- ▶ 20:33 Joseph Gordon-Levitt The business model of Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, all these companies is based on an attention economy.
- ▶ 29:57 Joseph Gordon-Levitt And today's dominant platforms, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, they don't really offer a path for folks like that.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 30:28 Harry Stebbings I told you, he's just such an awesome guy, and if you'd like to see more from Byron, you can find him on Twitter at bdita.
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Now, Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, Stitch Fix, eBay, and many, many more incredible companies.
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
- ▶ 32:34 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from him, you can find him on Twitter, at Justin Kahn.
20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
- ▶ 29:46 Harry Stebbings And I have to say, Zach really is a truly special founder, and I couldn't be more excited to see that Plaid have now expanded to the UK, and so Plaid is now available in the UK for our developer ecosystem, and if you'd like to see more…
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 10:44 Harry Stebbings I mean, speaking of the investors that did really get it and latch onto it, as I said earlier, I spoke to Gary and Alexis that initialized, and I actually, in my stalking, saw a tweet where you said about the foundational impact that…
- ▶ 29:50 Harry Stebbings And as I said at the beginning, I could not be more excited for the chapters ahead with Zeus, and if you'd like to see more from Kool, you can on Twitter at Kool.
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 32:10 Harry Stebbings And if you'd like to see more from Jeff, you can find him on Twitter, at GRalston.
20VC: Front's Mathilde Collin on Why Discipline Is More Important Than Vision, The Right Way To Approach Investor Updates and Director Reports & How To Effectively Structure 1-1s
- ▶ 9:19 Harry Stebbings There's a lot of conflicting advice I always see on Twitter.
- ▶ 30:47 Harry Stebbings I told you, a thought leader for the next generation of CEOs, and if you'd like to see more from Mathilde, you can find her on Twitter at Colin Mathilde.
20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
- ▶ 27:55 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from John, you can find him on Twitter, at John Deschotsky.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on The Strategy Behind The New $600m "Back To The Future" Fund, The Truth To Price Sensitivity at Series A & Why Venture Team Building Is Like Basketball Team Building
- ▶ 30:39 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from Mamoon, you can find him on Twitter, at Mamoon Ha.
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 32:52 Harry Stebbings I mean, what a hero, and I look very forward to running our first six-minute mile together, and if you'd like to see more from Frederick, you can find him on Twitter at fkerest.
20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- ▶ 41:51 Harry Stebbings Sarah, as I said at the beginning, I've so enjoyed our Twitter interactions for a long, long time.
20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
- ▶ 21:25 Jeremy Liew She, she previously was VP of business development and ran the platform business at Twitter. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- ▶ 32:44 Harry Stebbings Likewise, if you'd like to see more from Dylan, you can find him on Twitter at Zoink.
20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- ▶ 39:52 Harry Stebbings It's such a pleasure to have Dana on the show there, and if you'd like to see more from Dana, which is a must, then you can find her on Twitter, at Dana Grayson.
20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings Blog platform, Posterous, acquired by Twitter in 2012.
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings The likes of Slack, Postmates, Oculus, Cruise, Twitter, the list really does go on.
20VC: Why The Current VC Financing Mechanism For Consumer Brands Is Broken, Why The Infrastructure To Power Emerging Brands Is Broken and What The Re-Platforming of Retail Means For The Next Decade in Consumer with Adam Pritzker, Chairman & CEO @ Assemble
- ▶ 26:59 Harry Stebbings Super excited to see the next few years for Assemble Brands, and if you'd like to see more from Adam, then you can find him on Twitter, at Adam Pritzker.
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
- ▶ 15:36 unnamed speaker He was talking to somebody, and he's told this story about how they said, you know, if you were the Twitter guys, you could just walk in here and walk out with a check, but you're not the Twitter guys, so you have to do X, Y, Z, and you… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 39:30 Harry Stebbings Likewise, you can find Rahul on Twitter at Rahul Vora.
20VC: AOL Founder, Steve Case on Why The Best Venture Investments of The Next 10 Years Will Likely Not Be In The Valley, Why The CEO Must Be The Shock Absorber For Company Morale and Why Vision Without Execution is Hallucination
- ▶ 28:24 Harry Stebbings I have to admit, mine's slightly blown by having Steve on the show there, and if you'd like to see more from Steve, you can follow him on Twitter, at Steve Case.
20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
- ▶ 28:48 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from David, you can find him on Twitter, at David Cohen.
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 24:50 Anjney Midha And then the question becomes for the industry, for the vertical, in our case, AR, what is the right way to, to build an operating plan that somebody who's at a really great position at a place like Tesla or Facebook or Twitter, where many…
- ▶ 30:53 Harry Stebbings I have to say, I really did just love recording that episode, and if you'd like to see more from Anjini, you can on Twitter, at Anjini Midher.
20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
- ▶ 29:57 Harry Stebbings Twitters. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Build Meaningful Relationships With Your Investors, 4 Key Elements CEOs Must Focus On In Scale Mode & How Top Optimise Leadership Team Dynamics with Joel Flory, Founder & CEO @ VSCO
- ▶ 28:58 Harry Stebbings Such a fantastic entrepreneur, and if you'd like to see more from Joel, you can find him on Twitter, at Joel D.
20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk
- ▶ 27:11 Harry Stebbings You can find Avi on Twitter at Avi Mir, A-V-I-M-E-I-R.