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20VC: Why Raising A Mega-Round Makes Your Life Harder Not Easier, Why Your Board Is Not Your Boss and Lessons on Successful Board Management & The Biggest Breakpoints in Company Scaling with Emmanuel Schalit, Founder & CEO @ Dashlane
- ▶ 1:49 Harry Stebbings Inspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many…
- ▶ 36:51 Harry Stebbings Well, Point is an aspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on…
20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 1:49 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
- ▶ 38:05 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex Travel, and two X on SaaS software.
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
- ▶ 1:52 Harry Stebbings Inspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many…
- ▶ 28:51 Harry Stebbings Well, Point is an aspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft.
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
- ▶ 1:33 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
- ▶ 24:44 Josh Buckley These were some of my most successful outcomes, and I also look at companies like Airbnb, Uber, etc.
- ▶ 33:12 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex Travel, and two X on SaaS software.
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 2:02 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex Travel, and two X on SaaS software.
- ▶ 6:02 Ash Fontana And at AngelList, we found companies like Ubers, Imogen, and Opendoor before anyone else, or before many others.
- ▶ 39:02 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
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
- ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings Inspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many…
- ▶ 36:15 Harry Stebbings Like, three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many more.
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
- ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
- ▶ 7:54 Harry Stebbings In your Ubers, Instacarts of the world, where actually they poured fuel on the fire way before, and you have to project unit econ quite a few years ahead before you really see that upside. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:08 unnamed speaker Suggest an Uber to pick you up.
- ▶ 32:12 unnamed speaker So I think this is the same thing at Uber and a number of other companies.
- ▶ 42:48 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
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
- ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings Inspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on Spotify, and many…
- ▶ 35:25 Harry Stebbings Well, Point is an aspirational mobile bank that features the only debit card that enables card members to earn points when shopping at popular brands they already love, like three X points on Uber and Lyft, four X at Starbucks, seven X on…
20VC: Inside The Mind of A Leading LP: How LPs Evaluate New Fund Managers on Everything from First Meeting to Portfolio Construction To Fees and Carry with Lisa Edgar, Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners
- ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
- ▶ 31:35 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
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
- ▶ 29:06 Vlad Magdalin I mean, you see the stuff that we work, you see like Travis having to leave Uber.
20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- ▶ 26:15 Brianne Kimmel So I think they're bringing the same sort of best practices and methodologies that they had at companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Uber, you see really great consumer product builders who
20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 1:18 Harry Stebbings ...to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:22 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 1:12 Harry Stebbings So they built Brax, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:10 Matt Harris Whether it be the rules of the taxi and limousine commission that Uber broke, or more problematically, the rules of the SEC that Lending Club broke.
- ▶ 33:58 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- ▶ 16:04 Immad Akhund There's transport, and, like, Uber does transport.
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:39 Semil Shah And this is when the iPhone came out and Uber came out and we didn't really know how big the iPhone would be at that time.
- ▶ 7:55 Semil Shah And that is in no particular order a brand, a brand to recruit against to say, okay, I'm leaving Uber now.
- ▶ 40:24 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:20 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber and Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 9:43 Alex Wang So we work with folks like OpenAI and Waymo and Uber and Lyft and all these folks.
- ▶ 19:10 Alex Wang I mean, if you think about some of these classic examples over time, like think about Uber versus Lyft, that's just been, or Uber versus all their competitors, honestly, that's been a total dogfight in every single geography, and it's like… 2 times in the scene
20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 11:27 Clark Valberg And I'm voting for Amazon or Walmart, Uber or Lyft.
20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader
- ▶ 43:43 Hiten Shah I definitely have an Uber story where I could have invested at one point because Ryan Graves and I, we were having tea at Samovar right before I think he joined the company when right he was going to, and he was telling me about it. 2 times in the scene
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.
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
- ▶ 8:50 Brian Norgard Some passion to go tell a friend, like, you gotta try Uber, or you gotta get on Tinder, this is so interesting, or look at this app called Instagram, you know, these beautiful filters.
- ▶ 13:56 Brian Norgard For example, I was in a debate on Twitter about Uber and someone said, well, Uber is a new behavior.
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
- ▶ 1:53 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber, Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
- ▶ 34:31 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber, Lyft,
20VC: Zoom From Series A to IPO, How VCs Can Provide CEOs with Additional Leverage and Why The Negative Effects of Signalling Are Very Real with Santi Subotovsky, General Partner @ Emergence Capital
- ▶ 2:07 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber, Lyft,
- ▶ 39:40 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber, Lyft,
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
- ▶ 2:06 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber, Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
- ▶ 31:40 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber, Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
- ▶ 15:17 Harry Stebbings Can I ask a real question for me that fascinates and intrigues me is Uber and Tesla and the kind of merging towards each other's markets that I think we'll see over the coming years. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings So they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber, Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
- ▶ 36:15 Harry Stebbings With no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like seven X points on Uber, Lyft, four X on Brex travel, and two X on SaaS software.
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:37 Bill Gurley Was Uber, where this NYU professor had done an analysis and said, this company should only be worth five billion. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lime CEO Brad Bao on How Lime Assess The Micro-Mobility Landscape and Competition Today, What It Takes To Launch and Win A New City & Why Lime Have Spent $0 on Marketing To Date
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over seven hundred and seventy-five million dollars in funding from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, GV, IVP, Uber, our friends at Fifth Wall, GGV, Atomico, and Bain Capital Ventures, just to name a few.
- ▶ 26:26 Harry Stebbings Tell me, the Lyft and the Uber IPOs, is that a positive or a negative for Lyme? 2 times in the scene
20VC: a16z's Scott Kupor on The Biggest Learnings From Scaling a16z from $300m to $7Bn AUM, The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching VCs & Why VC Is Simply A Customer Service Business
- ▶ 11:32 Scott Kupor At the time, Lyft and Uber were raising kind of their first couple rounds of financing.
20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
- ▶ 30:37 Zach Coelius So I was at the beginning, literally at the very beginning of Airbnb, Dropbox, Uber, Meraki, I mean, Pinterest. 4 times in the scene
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"
- ▶ 10:43 Geoff Ralston Because Uber went public this morning. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Softbank Managing Partner, Jeff Housenbold on How Softbank Approach Portfolio Construction, Their Optimal Investment Decision-Making Process and What Excites Softbank Most In Opportunities Today
- ▶ 12:02 Harry Stebbings We've seen a variety of different SoftBank deals from Uber on the high end to WAG on the slightly smaller end.
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
- ▶ 12:47 Sarah Smith And then also we have that rise of Airbnb, WeWork, Uber, even eBay, I would say has taught us that we're
20VC: Why Startup Founders Have One Core Job, How To Reduce Risk & Increase Probability In Your Startup & Why You Should Not Send A Pitch Deck Pre-Investor Meeting with David Rogier, Founder & CEO @ Masterclass
- ▶ 19:47 David Rogier If the traction you're seeing is like Uber, then fine.
20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Four decades, with a portfolio including the likes of Opendoor, Jet.com, Uber, Workday, Plaid, Box, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 22:48 Jeff Richards And so when you get it right, whether it's an Uber or a Facebook or an Alibaba or a Tencent or a JD, when you get it right, they run and they wildly exceed your expectations.
20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware
- ▶ 16:18 Frank Chen So we've already seen the massive growth of companies like Lyft and Uber. 6 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings To date, David has backed hundreds of startups, including the likes of, check this out, Uber, SendGrid, Twilio, ClassPass, PillPack, and many more.
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
- ▶ 24:28 Sam Lessin It's like, it's because of Uber. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:07 Harry Stebbings And to be fair, I've never actually thought about the precedent set by Uber and by Lyft, so no, I think that's a brilliant point.
20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings One of the world's leading seed funds, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Uber, Warby Parker, Flatiron Health, Square, Hotel Tonight, Goat, and more incredible companies.
20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Uber, Periscope, Warby Parker, Carter, Flexport, and many more.
- ▶ 21:24 Scott Belsky I mean, I remember the funny kind of Uber story that I have is that in the early days of Behance, and we're talking now like 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:42 Harry Stebbings I'm so pleased you mentioned Uber there, because it's such a nice segue into what I titled Scott Belsky Ask Me Anything, which is basically me being so intrigued and curious 2 times in the scene