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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Twitter comes up
20VC: AppLovin's Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry's Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth
- ▶ 30:32 Adam Foroughi So when Mopub became available, it really was Twitter and us deciding that we could do more with that platform for those partners for the market than they could on a product that they're not investing in. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Contentful Memo: Point Nine's Christoph Janz on The Cold Email That Led to a Unicorn Investment, How To Approach Market Sizing and Timing & The Pros and Cons of Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Do Them vs When Not To?
- ▶ 2:52 Harry Stebbings Check out my Twitter.
- ▶ 30:45 Harry Stebbings Check out my Twitter.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 14:11 Eugene Wei If you think about Twitter and its decision to, you know, not just show you tweets from people you follow, but also tweets from those people follow, it's creating sort of this public space where certain people are brought into direct… 4 times in the scene
20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings He has worked in some of the leading growth orgs at companies like Twitter, Quora, and more recently at Wealthfront as head of growth and president.
- ▶ 3:01 Harry Stebbings I mean, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Wealthfront.
- ▶ 10:28 Andy Johns So for example, if I'm trying to build the next Quora, the next Twitter, and I'm trying to build that early flywheel of people coming into the platform and creating content, it's really helpful to have somebody who is capable of building… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun
- ▶ 2:49 Harry Stebbings Check out my Twitter.
- ▶ 5:36 Brian Singerman So that's exactly what I do with myself, and I don't know how to, you know, I'm not on Twitter.
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Founder and chairman of Lowercase Capital, one of the best performing funds in the history of venture capital, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Stripe, Twitter, Instagram, Twilio, Docker, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 3:24 Harry Stebbings As I said, I've wanted to do this one for so long, and I actually put it out on Twitter, like, what show must I do for the memo?
20VC: Has Price Discipline Disappeared? Is it Possible to Build Ownership Over Time? Why Venture Is Less Collaborative Now Than Ever? How fast Do Breakout Companies Become Obvious? How To Construct an Optimised and Repeatable Investment Decision-Making Pr
- ▶ 0:01 Harry Stebbings This is TwentyVC, and today we're joined by likely one of my favorite content creators on Twitter.
20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures
- ▶ 0:07 Harry Stebbings My love and excitement for the LATAM ecosystem is very well documented on Twitter, and so the answer was clear.
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: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Prior investments from Velvet Sea Partners include Twitter, Square, SpaceX, Snap, Facebook, Pinterest, and many more incredible companies, and prior to becoming an investor,
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- ▶ 24:56 Harry Stebbings I have quite a contrarian stance on this, which I'm going to get a ton of hate for on Twitter, but it's like, I don't think the best founders need help with hiring.
20VC: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet, What Can Be Done To Drive Further Investment in UK Venture & A Breakdown of Morning Routines, Peloton Favourites and Managing Nerves
- ▶ 20:32 Harry Stebbings It was a lot of questions that came in on Twitter about.
20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition
- ▶ 36:36 Harry Stebbings If you'd like to see more from Tony, you can find him on Twitter at T underscore XU.
20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO
- ▶ 37:10 José Neves He's also the part of Twitter and IAC, and he's the CEO of First Tips.
20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Devin Parrack, Managing Director at Insight Partners, where Devin himself has made more than 90 investments, including in the likes of, check this out, Twitter, Alibaba, JD.com,
20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
- ▶ 7:18 Chris Fralic Yeah, I think we might have been fortunate back in those days to have made a really poor investment decision, missed one of our biggest of all time, with Twitter.
20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings But to our show today, and what I love so much about this guest is for seven years he built this incredible business out of the spotlight, without Twitter profiles, out of TechCrunch, and turned it into one of the defining businesses of…
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Now, Peter is a general partner at Benchmark, one of the great venture firms of the last three decades, with a portfolio including the likes of Snap, Twitter, eBay, New Relics,
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 20:39 Jeremy Levine The world had watched Twitter go through so many fails and keeping its product up all the time, and I expected they might run into some of the same problems, but the product itself, like, it worked.
20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret
- ▶ 13:06 Jason Fried I'm a little bit tired of making these kinds of decisions or whatever, and so I just like, you know, Twitter's that place where you can throw an idea that's in your head and make it more concrete, whether or not it was the right thing to…
- ▶ 37:32 Harry Stebbings Again, I've got your tweets in my head.
20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings And then I saw their CEO, Patrick Spence, like a tweet of mine one night Friday evening, I think it was, and I had to ask him to come on the show.
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- ▶ 15:59 Harry Stebbings One thing that you've put on Twitter, actually quite a few times is people's ability to hire the best beneath them and the teams that they build being kind of an embodiment of like their quality.
20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings If you listened to one of my favourite episodes from last year, Owen McCabe at Intercom, he said Biz Stone was one of the most influential people to his journey, and today I'm so thrilled to be joined by Biz, best known as the co-founder…
- ▶ 2:22 Harry Stebbings Twitter and Odeo and kind of that early day moment.
- ▶ 14:19 Biz Stone I mean, I remember distinctly in the early days when, when Jack was CEO of Twitter the first time, I finally just got frustrated and said, I was upset that the site was down yet again. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:04 Harry Stebbings My word, it was so great to have Biz on the show there, and I aspire to be as calm and serene as Biz is, and if you'd like to see more from Biz, you can find him on Twitter, at Biz.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings High yield bonds, and convertible securities, and joining Howard, who better to have than the one and only Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes…