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Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Today, I'm thrilled to welcome Mike Mignano, who is the newest general partner at USV to the show.
- ▶ 5:19 Harry Stebbings It's tough over at Lightspeed, and you made the move to the extremely well-funded USV. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:53 Mike Mignano So many applications, so much software, ah, that you're not really gonna be able to make a bet unless you know what you're looking for, and I think that's what USV has always been great at, knowing what they're looking for and placing the…
- ▶ 10:34 Mike Mignano You have to be willing to take a stand and take a position and say, you know, I, I just put out a, a post yesterday about, uh, the Rebel Alliance and saying, hey, at USV, we're really interested in the Rebel Alliance.
- ▶ 28:54 Harry Stebbings Would you say it's unfair of me to say that USV missed the model game? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:34 Mike Mignano USV a few years ago, uh, invested in a great company called Radiant, which is building small nuclear reactors that literally come off of a factory line.
- ▶ 32:31 Mike Mignano That's actually something we talk about at USV all the time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:02 Mike Mignano And so, you know, USV invested in a bridge, I think, in 2018, right, eight years ago now.
- ▶ 37:16 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, do you see different deals at USV to the types you saw at Lightspeed? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:43 Mike Mignano USV has always had small funds. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:49 Mike Mignano For us, for USV at the later stages, if we don't think that there's a gigantic outcome, it probably doesn't make sense for us to bet.
- ▶ 48:42 Mike Mignano Just to bring it back to the USV strategy, I think for us, again, if we're investing a little bit later stage, we need to really believe that it's a market winner, and the multiple can be very, very, very high, and in that case, I think we…
- ▶ 1:02:33 Mike Mignano Just announced, uh, Series A a few weeks ago from, from USV.
- ▶ 1:09:35 Mike Mignano What do you, you know, what do you want to do at USV?
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:10 Harry Stebbings Which has got their new round on my index and USV, and their new product is PURPS, which obviously allows you to do much simpler, you know, up or down on stock prices for consumers.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:47 Harry Stebbings As we move forward, uh, very exciting announcement on index and USV doing the series B two of the best investors in the game. 5 times in the scene
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:37 Harry Stebbings But I, I had a GP from USV on the show earlier, and I said, 2 times in the scene
The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:20 Shiv Rao So with USV and Andy, I, I stalked Union Square Ventures for years ahead of the first meeting that I had with them and with him. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:32 Shiv Rao I remember when we first pitched USV for that seed round, one of our slides had a doctor on one side, a patient on the other,
- ▶ 55:57 Harry Stebbings Does USV not just guarantee your next round? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:05 Shiv Rao I remember in his S-one, he, he's from Pittsburgh as well, and, um, also Union Square Ventures funded, and I'm sure that had something to do with USV being more comfortable with me, because I certainly didn't have a track record. 2 times in the scene
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:32 Cliff Weitzman What I would do is I would join Union Square Ventures.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:18 unnamed speaker So, I mean, Coinbase, I think Andreessen did either the B or the C union squared the DA.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 1:00:59 Max Altman I want to have something where 10 or 15 years from now we are maybe a quiet luxury brand, a la like a Thrive or a USV, where everyone's like, hey, they are the premier early stage brand
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:18 Harry Stebbings Walmart versus Chanel, and the boutiques are your benchmarks, your USVs, your specific products, and I think when you see this splintering of leadership between Alfred, Lynn, and Early,
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:01 Martin Mignot I, you know, historically, I've always, um, I've always admired USB. 3 times in the scene
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:24 Miles Dieffenbach I think, you know, Union Square broadly, and we're not an investor there, we wish we were, but I think they've perennially been the best at selling, and they've got a very strict protocol that they run through, you know, from years eight…
- ▶ 1:23:30 Miles Dieffenbach We want to be a union square. 2 times in the scene
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings I had Lewis on six or seven years ago, and I've heard so many great things before this show from, I mean, Bing, from KP, Brad now, but from USV, many others.
- ▶ 1:22:20 Severin Hacker Uh, Union Square Ventures. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:31 unnamed speaker Because, because so much signaling, you know, like, Series A was the hardest, but because Unisquare invested, it's like, every later, every other investor, like, okay, what does Unisquare do? 2 times in the scene
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:23 Jake Saper Um, so like Maviron is great and the consumer side of things, um, USV, a ton of respect for, they tend to be like deeply focused, obviously crypto and other things. 2 times in the scene
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:38 Nabeel Hyatt Spark was started in the early web two point O era, like right at that age, uh, in the same cohort as USV and benchmark two point O that the beginning of the girly era and a handful of other firms that I think all treated mobile really…
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:54 Cem Sertoglu I also have a lot of respect for, uh, USV and, uh, and Benchmark in how they've kept their discipline around, you know, what they think they do better than anyone else, and I think the, the results show.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:17 Mark Goldberg Inspired by funds like Benchmark, like USV, we think that there is this kind of personal relationship at the early stage that we're going to try to reconstitute the fund around.
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:51 Harry Stebbings When we look at the venture landscape, you have like, in my mind, boutiques, USV benchmark boutique,
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:33 Harry Stebbings I think it's, like, dominated by, like, Chanel and Walmart, and so Chanel is, you know, benchmark and US fee, constrained fund sizes, very specific ICP, and then you have Walmart, which is walls of cash.
Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:01 Harry Stebbings Like Benchmark, like USV, Ribbit are large, but I would still say they're artisans of their craft and fintech.
- ▶ 47:27 Nicholas Chirls If they hadn't take money from Andreessen Horowitz and USV. 2 times in the scene
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:34 Harry Stebbings Asset gatherers, not disparaging me, but just raising huge funds and boutiques, which is your specialist providers, like a benchmark, a USV, even a Ribbit, which although large, but like is very fintech focused and absolutely owns their…
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:27 Kevin Ryan In the early stage business that Union Square Ventures does, that we do of, you know, the first check-in, um, that's not a commodity business.
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:54 Chris Dixon And that can, that can work, you know, if you get the Google, like, you know, that or whatever, some massive success, um, heat seeking can work, but it's a different game than truffle hunting, which is, you know, kind of the classic one I…
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:03 Roger Ehrenberg Really well is USB. 2 times in the scene
Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:41 Harry Stebbings I think it was Rebecca Caden at Union Square Ventures who said that recently.
Roundtable #6 with Rebecca Kaden, Nicole Quinn, Eurie Kim, Harry Stebbings | E1083 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11 Rebecca Kaden I'm a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, New York based early stage venture fund portfolio is increasingly global.
- ▶ 7:05 Rebecca Kaden In many of the best examples that I studied from USP's history, it was very much not the case, and so I think a lot about where can I develop strong perspective that may not be the hottest thing of the moment.
- ▶ 37:27 Nicole Quinn Harry, you know, my brother, Jamie Quinn, um, he is at a fun new view capital and he runs the part of the business that is, um, saying to funds like Forerunner, USV, Lightspeed, Hey, do you want to sell some of your older positions to us?
Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:05 Beezer Clarkson It was like capital calls versus distributions, and I don't know how they knew this, but Union Square had the first and the third spot. 2 times in the scene
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:14 unnamed speaker I think USV doesn't get the credit that it deserves. 6 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:56 Rick Zullo I think they want 10 bagger funds, and they want trust, and I think the reality is, like, if they could be an emergence fund or a USP fund that has a 20 bagger, you know, the returns of those funds are amazing, and I'm very, very confident…
Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:29 Nico Wittenborn And if you look at USV, their first fund just wrapped after 18 years, right?
- ▶ 35:48 Nico Wittenborn For example, um, I, I, I love USV. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:32 Nico Wittenborn USV, I think. 2 times in the scene
David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:23 David Tisch I think USV is also world-class and they have, you know, an amazing ability to select, uh, unique quality companies and have been long-term partners for almost every investment they've ever invested in to see them through the tough times… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:20 David Tisch USV is the opposite of a tourist. 2 times in the scene
Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:43 Harry Stebbings Um, my, my question to you is that everyone says we will see this wave of down rounds, down rounds, down rounds, and then I saw this tweet from Alba Wenger at USV, and he said he's only seen two down rounds in his career.
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings For those that missed our first episode, which to be fair, Albert said four or five years ago, how did you make your way into the world of venture and come to be at USV in a short two to three minutes, my friend? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:28 Albert Wenger Look at Union Square Ventures, we have continued to invest in companies that are essentially paving the way towards a new way of learning.
- ▶ 19:24 Harry Stebbings Like, talk to me about the internal discussion around a new product being a climate fund, because what I love about USV, and I'm sorry, I didn't mean to just talk, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:20 Harry Stebbings I'm a portfolio founder in USV's portfolio.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:32 Semil Shah what USV does of like try to learn. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:43 Harry Stebbings It makes you feel a certain way, and you either opt in or opt out, and that is your USV, it's your benchmark, it's even your ribbit in terms of the specificity of the product.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:03 Harry Stebbings Do USV do the same?
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:51 Mo Koyfman And while both can certainly work and there are certain, and there are notable exceptions here, like union square ventures, for instance, which works very well as a partnership structure, the more durable firms in my experience often have…
- ▶ 15:37 Mo Koyfman Uh, you know, the other day, um, I was talking to one of my foremost mentors, Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures, and he literally was screaming at me on the phone
- ▶ 16:33 Harry Stebbings You've mentioned USV. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:16 Mo Koyfman And Fred regularly, and the team at USB regularly, and they did it with us, and they did it with others, would split deals, like Fred split 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:59 Mo Koyfman Um, you know, Spark and USV and all these firms didn't exist, um, before the last cycle.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 24:47 Bill Gurley I remember when USV sold Zynga privately at like
20VC: Twilio's Jeff Lawson on What It Takes To Create a Tribe, How To Create Anti-Fragile Organisations Through Decentralised Decision-Making and Why Values Are Nice But Principles Are Better
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Jeff raised funding from some of the best, including Bessemer, Union Square Ventures, Redpoint, Salesforce, and Founders Fund, to name a few.
- ▶ 15:08 Jeff Lawson And I remember I was talking to one of our investors, Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures, and Fred Wilson, his partner, and I was talking to them, and I was like, event that they were holding.
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 2:38 Harry Stebbings Heard so many great things from Greg at Upfront, Fred at USV, Howard Lindzen.
20VC: David Tisch on Why Ownership in Venture Does Not Matter, His Biggest Investing Misses and Hits and How His Investing Style Changed as a Result & 3 Core Reasons VCs Pass That Do Not Make Sense
- ▶ 16:47 David Tisch Union Square, like if you go back in time and look at some of their earliest investments, they're magical.
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings And prior to their IPO, Etsy raised funding from some of the best in the business, including Danny Reimer at Index, Albert Wenger at USV, and Jim Breyer at Excel, to name a
20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Prior to their IPO, Mongo raised from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia, US
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Now, Julia is one of the rising stars of the Silicon Valley angel investor community, with a portfolio including the likes of Linear, Sequoia-backed, Modern Fertility, backed by USV, and Primer, backed by Founders Fund.
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Substack, Chris was the co-founder and CTO at Kik, letting users connect with friends, groups, and the world around them, and the company raised over two hundred and twenty million dollars in funding from Spark, Tencent,…
20VC: How Founders Should Think Through Distribution and Customer Acquisition Today, The Challenges of the Digital Advertising Duopoly Currently & How To Structure Company Post Mortems Effectively with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder & CEO @ DuckDuckGo
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Over the last 12 years, Gabe has scaled DuckDuckGo to doing over 1.6 billion searches every month, a team of 83 fully remote full-time employees, and also raising funding from some of the best in the business, USV, and also, most…
- ▶ 2:15 Harry Stebbings Gabe, my word, I've heard so many great things from Brad at USV, from Rick at Guru.
20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- ▶ 7:17 Jude Gomila So with, with Hazep, we had raised money from Union Square Ventures, who 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:17 Jude Gomila So for example, Union Square Ventures, you know, they were in seed, and they moved up to the A.
20VC: Alexa Von Tobel on Raising NYC's Largest Ever Female Led Fund , Portfolio Construction, Compression of Fundraising Timelines, Reserves Management & Personal Branding in Venture
- ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Satya at Homebrew, Rebecca at USV, and Alexa's partner Lucy for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 3:05 Harry Stebbings I've heard many good things from Satya at Homebrew, from Rebecca at USV.
- ▶ 20:51 Harry Stebbings I do want to touch on a different element that you said there, and you said about kind of differentiator and capital not being a differentiator anymore, and I spoke to our mutual friend Rebecca at USV before the show, and she said, you…
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings All things fundraising and M&A, among other things, and Carter has raised over four hundred and eighty-five million dollars from the likes of Andreessen, USV, Thrive, Spark, K-Nine, Lightspeed, and Meritech, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:12 Sumit Gajri If you look at Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Union Square Ventures, and Benchmark, they've all built funds which deploy diverse fund structures and portfolio construction, and they're extremely successful, and if my fund could be as good…
20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- ▶ 25:16 Adam D'Augelli And I'll paraphrase our co-investor, Andy Weissman from USV, uh, the market size for creativity is much bigger than people think.
- ▶ 28:46 Adam D'Augelli Andy Weissman at USB, who's my favorite example of having a small syndicate of aligned co-investors and how that can help make a company more successful.
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
- ▶ 13:08 Immad Akhund It felt like a comparison, but one thing that really helped me was we were funded by Union Square Ventures, and the average founder at Union Square Ventures is older, and more than half of them already had kids, so getting outside San… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Henry's raised over a hundred and forty seven million in funding from some of the very best in the business, including USV, Spark, K-Nine Ventures, and Meritech, and then also leading founders, including Flexport's Ryan Peterson,…
20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings But to our guest today, and I've wanted to have this guest on the show for a long, long time, and so when Rebecca Caden at USV suggested it, I was super excited to make it happen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:29 Harry Stebbings I have to say a huge thank you to Rebecca Caden at USV for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Dana.
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
- ▶ 7:53 Josh Kopelman Like, first round offered Twitter their first term sheet months before Union Square led their round.
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 18:58 Fred Destin And then, you know, the boutiques continue to operate well, so you'll see USV and Foundry and Benchmark continue to operate extremely well.
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?
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Ryan has raised over fifty million dollars in funding with Circle Up from some friends and prior guests of the show, including USV, Collaborative Fund, and Canaan Partners, just to name a few.
- ▶ 14:05 Ryan Caldbeck Union Square Ventures, Benchmark, or some other exceptions to what I said.
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
- ▶ 38:30 Harry Stebbings One from Albert Wenger at USV.
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
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings But to the show today, and if you listened to our episode on Monday with Rebecca Caden at USV, you'll remember she discussed her most recent investment being in modern fertility. 3 times in the scene
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