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20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
- ▶ 4:58 Vlad Tenev Uber had recently
- ▶ 5:00 Vlad Tenev Started Black Car Service in San Francisco.
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and wow, I'm so excited for the show today, joined by a master of marketplaces, one of my favourite writers in the venture space also, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Sarah…
- ▶ 18:09 Sarah Tavel You had DoorDash in particular that was able to raise an incredible amount of capital, and they were competing against Grubhub and Uber Eats, both of whom were at that point public companies, and then were being evaluated by a completely…
- ▶ 22:04 Sarah Tavel Like the growth loops are just a classic referral, like having a driver of Uber refer another person to Uber in order to become a driver.
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 40:30 Daniel Levine It's kind of a very, very popular project that's been adopted by huge companies like Cisco, Uber, Cloudflare, Century, Mux, Instana, Segment, Tencent, ByteDance, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings And before entering the world of Alphabet and Capital G, Derek spent a decade investing in companies like Uber, Airbnb, Lynda.com, and CAA, at investment firms including TPG, Hellman & Friedman, and GIC.
- ▶ 5:38 Derek Zanutto And one of the very first investments we did was an investment into Uber's series D round. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
- ▶ 18:54 Zach Weinberg I mean, if you looked at just to use the classic example, I guess, of Uber and you said, all right, well, let me like add up all the taxi dollars here. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Her portfolio includes the likes of, check this out, SpaceX, Uber, a
- ▶ 16:39 Cyan Banister And so let's look at Travis from Uber, for example. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:09 Harry Stebbings In London, it's Uber all the way, but in SF, it's Lyft.
- ▶ 45:05 Cyan Banister Well, that'd be Uber by far. 17 times in the scene
20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
- ▶ 17:17 unnamed speaker Like, that's kind of what Uber did. 3 times in the scene
20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A*
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Kevin is also one of the most successful early-stage investors in the business, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Airbnb, Uber, Pinterest, Trulia, and PayPal, just to name a few.
- ▶ 19:54 Kevin Hartz He's shown in the Airbnbs and Ubers and many other investments he's made over the years that he's a very effective steward of capital, and for the fact that he's now out in the open markets trading his SPAC vehicle or his SPAC vehicle is…
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 31:44 Sahil Lavingia Like if you look at the sort of the last 10 years, you look at Uber and Palantir maybe, and
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 35:53 Joe Lonsdale Obviously, people involved helped run Uber in Europe and just really talented people
20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi
- ▶ 34:17 Hamilton Helmer So for example, if you ask that question of Uber and you asked it of Netflix, you get completely different answers. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 21:57 Sarah Kunst And so if you are a fund manager, and you're thinking the people I normally go to for SPVs are executives, you know, at places like Uber and Lyft, and now they're in a world of herd of their own, and their stock price is down, and they…
- ▶ 30:39 Sarah Kunst Like, if you want to see something really sad, I am happy to show you my tax returns, and then you're going to be, like, giving me 20 bucks for my Uber home, like, not asking me for a GP commit. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 11:49 Mike Maples So before the iPhone three GS, you could have had the idea for Lyft and Uber.
20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
- ▶ 17:18 Mark Cuban I think if you take some of the companies, Twitter, or almost any of them, Uber in particular, Lyft, and you move those to Kansas City, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New York, they would have been so much more successful, so much more
- ▶ 26:29 unnamed speaker I hear you met Travis and Uber at Seed. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- ▶ 2:27 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.
- ▶ 36:19 Harry Stebbings Brex founders Henrique and Pedro built a payments business in Brazil, but kept getting rejected for a corporate card in the States, so they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like…
20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
- ▶ 14:16 Howie Liu And is your success really then more about beating your competition and to the point of even like sometimes trying to undercut them directly, as you see with the ride sharing wars between Lyft and Uber and the other international players,…
- ▶ 19:55 Howie Liu I think he does a great job of really tearing down a lot of the contemporary platforms from Apple to Shopify to Microsoft to even companies like Uber, Amazon, et cetera, that are maybe more like partly aggregators, partly platforms.
- ▶ 21:50 Howie Liu But, you know, he's experienced like open source SaaS platform companies, consumer companies, obviously, you know, companies like Uber and Snap with really interesting network effects or marketplace effects, also like true platforms.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- ▶ 2:26 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.
- ▶ 41:36 Harry Stebbings Brex founders Henrique and Pedro built a payments business in Brazil, but kept getting rejected for a corporate card in the States, so they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like…
20VC: Upfront's Mark Suster on COVID Redefining What A Great Company Looks Like and What Valuations Look Like, Why Pay-To-Play Is Back On The Table & Why We Will See The Death of Party Rounds
- ▶ 34:13 Mark Suster The obvious example, Harry, is Uber, where having lived in London and seen the taxi lobby and how strong the taxi lobby was in London, that clouded my vision for what was possible.
20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 2:30 Harry Stebbings Brex founders Henrique and Pedro built a payments business in Brazil, but kept getting rejected for a corporate card in the States, so they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like…
- ▶ 37:35 Harry Stebbings Brex founders Henrique and Pedro built a payments business in Brazil, but kept getting rejected for a corporate card in the States, so they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like…
20VC: Basecamp Founder David Heinemeier Hansson on Why It Is The Biggest BS To Chase Being A Unicorn, His Relationship to Wealth and Status and Why Now More Than Ever It Is A Myth Entrepreneurs Have To Raise VC
- ▶ 29:09 David Heinemeier Hansson Like you're going to have the perspective that like, oh no, actually Uber and DoorDash and, and whatever, these are doing amazing things for humanity because that is what you must think.
20VC: Why Venture Fund Life Cycles Do Not Align To Companies Today, Actionable Strategies To Separate Good From Great When Assessing and Hiring Multiple Candidates & Why We Need More Adventure in Venture Capital with Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO @ Boom Sup
- ▶ 2:29 Harry Stebbings Brex founders Henrique and Pedro built a payments business in Brazil, but kept getting rejected for a corporate card in the States, so they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like…
- ▶ 31:18 Harry Stebbings Brex founders Henrique and Pedro built a payments business in Brazil, but kept getting rejected for a corporate card in the States, so they built Brex, with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like…
20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
- ▶ 2:21 Harry Stebbings The fastest company to reach unicorn status in history, Brex founders Henrique and Pedro built a payments business in Brazil, but kept getting rejected for a corporate card in the States, so they built Brex with no personal liability, up…
- ▶ 37:30 Harry Stebbings Brex founders Henrique and Pedro built a payments business in Brazil, but kept getting rejected for a corporate card in the States, so they built Brex with no personal liability, up to 20 times higher card limits, and huge rewards like…
20VC: How To Solve The Chicken and Egg Problem in Marketplaces? How Important Is Differentiated Supply? How To Prevent Leakage? How to Create Marketplace Defensibility and more with Alyssa Ravasio, Founder & CEO @ Hipcamp
- ▶ 12:52 Alyssa Ravasio So this is kind of like an Uber or a Lyft, where, for example, here in the Bay Area, we have a lot of people who love and use the platform, and they tend to camp
- ▶ 22:24 Alyssa Ravasio He just has that operational experience from Uber, and it's fun to like get him in there and have him actually provide feedback on landing pages.
- ▶ 26:22 Alyssa Ravasio He was an engineer at Uber, and he heard that another friend of mine, Catherine Krug, had committed some investment, which she ironically did
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 12:06 Gaurav Jain Uber raised a million dollar round in twenty-ten.
- ▶ 16:00 Gaurav Jain I mean, when Uber was getting started, if you put in a billion dollars into a day one, like you would warp the market, you would mess the company.
- ▶ 29:38 Gaurav Jain Uber, of course, you've seen the first deck, right, talks about the TAM being 4.2 billion dollars. 2 times in the scene