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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
- ▶ 3:20 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many wonderful things, both from Rebecca at USV and Finn at First Round, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 29:30 Harry Stebbings Again, you can follow her on Twitter, at Aftoon, and I do want to say a huge thank you again to Rebecca Caden at USV, and Finn Barnes at First Round, for the intro to Afton today.
20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Rebecca is a general partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Twitter, Twilio, Zynga, SoundCloud, Tumblr, Lending Club, and many more… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:10 Harry Stebbings That's quite enough of me, and so to the main event, and I'm very, very excited to welcome back Rebecca Caden, general partner at USV. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:43 Rebecca Kaden In consumer, where there's a fair amount of opportunity, and that's really where I've been, you know, increasingly focused and where USV is increasingly focused, and that's this opportunity to kind of use technology to reinvent old…
- ▶ 9:00 Rebecca Kaden USV as an investment in Stash, we're very excited about, that does that, and is growing really quickly, but you're seeing that across the board, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:24 Rebecca Kaden We speak a lot at USV about a kill zone, about where startups are advantaged or where they're not, and we think about a Facebook, Google, Amazon kill zone, and the belief that if you're an early company going up against these giants,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:01 Harry Stebbings And before we move into kind of USV and the crypto salon, I do have to ask one final question.
- ▶ 19:36 Harry Stebbings Fascinating perspective, but I do have to touch on the element that we mentioned there, being the move to USV. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:04 Harry Stebbings Biggest challenge and then surprise on the move to USV? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:10 Harry Stebbings So many exciting years ahead of her with USV, and a huge thanks to her for giving up the time today to appear on the show.
20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
- ▶ 11:40 Harry Stebbings Rebecca Caden at USV Now stated that there's a lot of skepticism around physical product companies being venture businesses these days with Amazon scale, fragmentation of market, etc.
20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- ▶ 3:01 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Rebecca at USV for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Jason.
20VC: Why Most The Value In Crypto Will Accrue in Governance, When Institutional Capital Will Enter The Space and How To Think About Liquidity In Crypto with Joel Monegro, Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Placeholder, Joel spent three years at Union Square Ventures, developing the firm's blockchain investment thesis and portfolio. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:51 Harry Stebbings Huge thanks to Albert at USV for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Joel. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:05 Harry Stebbings No, absolutely, and I mean, what exciting times ahead for Placeholder, but I did chat to Albert, your former colleague at USV, before the show, and he asked two questions.
- ▶ 15:53 Joel Monegro So we take the approach of just developing an investment thesis and following it very much in the same way that USB has built its business, but there are other ways in which you can approach this market which we can touch on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:58 Joel Monegro This was actually a recommendation from my early days at USB.
20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann
- ▶ 5:56 Jerry Neumann So if you make a hundred investments in companies that were led by Sequoia and benchmark and union square ventures, yes, that's a great strategy.
- ▶ 17:13 Jerry Neumann If you look at the best performing venture funds in history, at least seed stage, like things like USV, you will find that they started investing in a market where the market price was below the indicated discounted price.
20VC: Why Virtually All Companies Hire The Wrong Way, Why EdTech Is The Most Brutal Market & How To Scale Your Sales Team for Engineering Founders with Mike Sliagadze, Founder & CEO @ Top Hat
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings They've raised over forty-seven million dollars in VC funding from many friends and former guests on the show, including Albert Wenger at USV, Boris Wurz at Version One, Uncaught Capital, Felicis, and Emergence, just to name a few.
20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Polychain now has over two hundred million under management, with backing from the likes of Sequoia, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, and USV, just to name a couple of names from their stellar investor base.
- ▶ 2:13 Harry Stebbings Olaf, it's such a pleasure to have you on the show today, having heard so many great things from the team at USV and Brian at Coinbase, but thank you so much for joining me today, Olaf.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 14:02 Bing Gordon So Mike Maples is great, and then I love the Union Square Ventures team. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:14 Harry Stebbings You mentioned the brilliant team at USV.
20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings So joining us today, we have Louis von Ahn, founder and CEO at Duolingo, the leading language learning platform with over a hundred million users, and they have backing from some of the best in the investing world, including the likes of…
- ▶ 22:43 Luis von Ahn I really, Union Square is one of our investors, and I really love those guys.
20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Now, Andy is a partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the world's leading VC firms, with investments in Twitter, Twilio, Zynga, Soundcloud, Tumblr, Lending Club, and many more incredible companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07 Harry Stebbings But enough of my dulcet British tone, so I'm now thrilled to hand over to Andy Weissman, partner at Union Square Ventures.
- ▶ 3:06 Andy Weissman and then stumbled my way into starting a company about a decade ago, and that company was called Betaworks, and as a New York company, we wanted what we thought the best and smartest and most empathetic venture investors in New York to… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:18 Andy Weissman So I would say the USV process is a collaborative consensus process, and so a person that would rely more on individual process probably wouldn't enjoy themselves here,
- ▶ 8:18 Andy Weissman I had about five years ago, soon after I joined USV, I lost a deal, and some point within the year after losing the deal, I realized it was a mistake.
- ▶ 14:22 Harry Stebbings I'm really intrigued to hear how you think about recycling cash in the fund at USV, and how you look to maintain LP happiness in doing so.
- ▶ 21:57 Harry Stebbings Is that the reason for USV's thesis currently? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:19 Harry Stebbings Obviously, can't be a USV, can't be Fred Wilson, which is fantastic, but what is your favorites?
20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc
- ▶ 15:34 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Andy at USV who asked me to specifically refer to
20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
- ▶ 26:16 Seth Bannon So, the co-investors on some of our last deals were Sequoia, Union Square Ventures, General Catalyst,
20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings They have backing from some of the biggest and best in VC, having raised over a hundred million dollars from the likes of Andreessen Horace, USV, DFJ, and many more incredible investors.
- ▶ 15:14 Harry Stebbings Albert Wenger at USV asks, how does the rise of blockchain disrupt the VC industry in your eyes?
- ▶ 22:13 Brian Armstrong I have a lot of, I do a lot of reading in that area, and I'm not sure, I mean, I do have some mentors, like, for example, Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
- ▶ 18:14 Harry Stebbings So I have to ask, as a new investor, and I'd love your advice here then, investing to, to me in our space is always about being ahead of the curve, whether it's USV being ahead of the curve in their network effects thesis, one point O to…
20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings They're backed by the leading investors and past guests, including Union Square Ventures, SV Angel, Spark Capital, Semil Shah, Manu Kumar, Tim Draper, and Kamal Ravikant, just to name a few.
20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Brooklyn Bridge, Charlie worked at the prestigious first round capital with the likes of Josh Koppelman and Union Square Ventures with the likes of Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger.
- ▶ 3:36 Charlie O'Donnell That's the way I met, uh, the team at Union Square Ventures, Fred and Brad, when they were first launching their fund in 2004, which is getting on to be a longer time ago than I'm willing to admit. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on How It All Started With Paul Graham @ YC, The Biggest Surprises About Making The Move Into VC & Why Alexis Believes All The Best Investors Have Operating Experience
- ▶ 18:43 Alexis Ohanian Hey, I think union square ventures ended up leading that deal.
20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings The world's leading three D printing marketplace and community, and Shapeways have raised funds from some of the world's leading investors, including the likes of USV, Andreessen Horace, and Index Ventures, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:50 Harry Stebbings Huge thanks to Albert at USV for the intro, but really appreciate you taking the time out to join me today, so thank you so much for that.
- ▶ 17:08 Peter Weimershausen Now, luckily, Philips held up to their end of the share, because when, a few years later, we spun out and became an independent company with backing from Index Ventures and Union Square, we built a structure, we set up a deal that made…
- ▶ 17:47 Harry Stebbings And as you said that you raised from USV and index that will be met through Albert at USV and then moved 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:33 Harry Stebbings I want to say a huge thanks to Peter for giving up his time today to be on the show, and so incredible to hear his journey with Shapeways, and again, so grateful to Albert at USV for the intro to Peter today, without which the episode…
20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC
- ▶ 12:39 Jerry Colonna This is a guy who, with his partners, created, you know, Union Square Ventures, 2004, possibly one of the best performing venture funds in history.
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 12:18 Clinton Foy We've had a chance to get to know him socially and just to understand what he does, both at Union Square Ventures and with his blog at ABC and just supporting the community, supporting other investors, I think is something that's really…
20VC: More $ Raised This Year Than The Past 15, War Chests Being Built & Decline In First Time Funds: So What The Heck Is Happening In Venture with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 23:13 Beezer Clarkson Fred Wilson wrote a blog recently called The Hard Raise, and it was just so great for so many levels, but one of the things it really brought home was that a hard raise can actually work out incredibly well, and he talked about how Union…
20VC: Why Adaptability Is Key To Fundraising, Why Supply Is Always The First Priority In Marketplaces & Why Sometimes You Have To Hire Fast & Fire Fast with Nav Athwal, Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings For that, and they've also raised funding from some of the world's best investors, including the one and only Union Square Ventures, General Catalyst, and Menlo Ventures.
- ▶ 18:49 Harry Stebbings Cause you've raised from, as we said earlier, Nico, a general catalyst, but also USV and Menlo.
- ▶ 25:51 Nav Athwal And I love Fred Wilson, obviously, because he's part of the USB family, but he, he has a, uh, a new post every day, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 14:49 Harry Stebbings And we, we have Albert Wenger from USV on the show actually discussing installation and deployment phases.
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 6:45 Alex Bangash So Foundry, First, um, um, Union Square, Spark, um,
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings It is, of course, Union Square Ventures in New York, with investments in the likes of Twitter, Twilio, Zynga, Lending Club, SoundCloud, and a recent interview of ours, actually, CircleUp, just to name a few. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings But without further ado, I'm delighted to hand over to Albert Wenger, partner at Union Square Ventures.
- ▶ 2:18 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to get the ball rolling today by discussing how you made your way into the world of VC and became a partner at USV. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Albert Wenger And so when Brad and Fred had started Union Square Ventures, uh, they started, uh, in two, three to fundraise and they launched the fund in two, four. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:51 Harry Stebbings And I want to dive straight into it today and start by discussing a framework that you very much focus on at USV. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:40 Harry Stebbings And I, I know at USV you focus very much on network effects, but before you've spoken about limiting the network effect that are provided to winning companies, what do you mean by this?
- ▶ 24:14 Albert Wenger I have learned a ton, um, from my partners here at Unisquiet Ventures about how to be an investor, how to think about investments, um, and I've grown a lot, um, through their guidance, so, um, I, I would say they've been my biggest mentors.
- ▶ 26:09 Harry Stebbings Absolute Vodka, HTC, just to name a few incredible companies that work with DesignCrowd, and DesignCrowd really are the leaders of the industry, and that really is a must recommendation, so check them out on designcrowd.com forward slash…
20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
- ▶ 29:09 Harry Stebbings With our feature of the legendary Union Square Ventures, and the release of the episode with Albert Wenger on Monday.
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 4:36 Michael Kim By 2005, you know, you had groups like Union Square,
20VC: What LP's Want In VCs with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 20:00 Beezer Clarkson But I can tell you in April, the same trend has continued, and you've seen a number of familiar names coming back to market, like GGV, Menlo, Mayfield, Felicis, Union Square.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 9:03 Nabeel Hyatt So Fred Wilson, you know, and the guys over at Union Square publish all of their theses on their website, right?
20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- ▶ 18:45 Rebecca Kaden I think one of the things I admire about Union Square and Benchmark is they've kept the fund sizes small and focused and
20VC FF 035: Why Crowdfunding Is Not Right For Tech Startups with Ryan Caldbeck @ CircleUp
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings They've raised funding from some of the best, including Union Square Ventures,
- ▶ 11:18 Ryan Caldbeck Or Union Square Ventures, or all of the other VC firms, or they tried to go to the incubator groups, or the angel groups that are offline, et cetera, and they were passed over.
- ▶ 15:19 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned that the funding process for you and raising from USV, Maveron, Canaan Partners, and that naturally gets very excited all as, all as past guests of the show.
Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage
- ▶ 24:10 Martin Mignot And he's right, and he's been right on a lot of things, but also, obviously, because he's been so, so good at teaching and sharing his insights, communicating and building his brand, both his personal brand and USV's brand, um, and being…
20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?
- ▶ 36:10 Fred Destin Uh, when, I mean, I love Freddie and the boys at USV, you know, just that whole crew actually, uh, you know, Andy, Fred, and so forth, that just, just got the model right in terms of being good investors, but being incredibly
20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
- ▶ 10:08 Philipp Moehring This has been going on for, for years, and you've seen, uh, folks like Union Square funding, um, funding SoundCloud here in Berlin.
20 VC 094: Kanyi Maqubela @ Collaborative Fund on Rocketships, Feedback Loops and Turning Lemons Into Lemonade!
- ▶ 26:54 Kanyi Maqubela Uh, I admire Union Square Ventures hugely. 4 times in the scene
20 VC 092: The Repeatable Playbook of SaaS with Ed Sim, Founding Partner @ BoldStart Ventures
20 VC 071: Pre-Seed Investing, Why Now Is The Best Time with Nicholas Chirls @ Notation Capital
- ▶ 5:50 Nicholas Chirls Uh, has been a mentor to us, who's a, who's a partner at Union Square Ventures.
20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital
- ▶ 6:02 Sean Seton-Rogers Uh, gosh, uh, Carna raised money, uh, last year from Sequoia and General Atlantic, and BlaBlaCar raised from LeadEdge as well, and Funding Circle raised from Union Square.
20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Jonathan joins us today from the investment team at the incredible Union Square Ventures in New York, but he has lived for the last few years in Tel Aviv.
- ▶ 1:35 Harry Stebbings How did that lead to your current status as VC at Union Square? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 Harry Stebbings So now you've worked with the team for 10 months, and you've worked, obviously, you know, Union Square, legends of the industry. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:40 Harry Stebbings And USV, arguably one of the most successful VC funds around, with obviously investments in the likes of Twitter, Zynga, Kickstarter. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:30 Harry Stebbings If you go to New York and you need funding, it's USV, and it seems because of his blog. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:52 Jonathan Libov Uh, FiftyApp was something that my friend and I were talking about before I joined USB, and I worked on it quite a bit on the summer before I, before I joined here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:17 Harry Stebbings And as an, as an analyst at USV, are you looking specifically at the sports sector, or are you looking, uh, multi-sector? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:52 Harry Stebbings So can you tell us about a recent investment that you and USV have made, and why you said yes? 2 times in the scene
20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings And before that, he worked at Union Square Ventures with the likes of Fred Wilson. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:19 Harry Stebbings Um, so Charlie, you're the founder of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and you've worked at top VC firms, Union Square Ventures, First Round, but how did you make your start in the venture industry?
- ▶ 11:02 Charlie O'Donnell And so, you know, I wasn't new to venture, and I had gotten great experience by working for two of the best funds out there, Union Square and First Round.
- ▶ 13:31 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned Union Square and First Round. 4 times in the scene
20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO
- ▶ 20:48 Chris Dark You can, as a VC, you can, you can have, some have very strong, one of our investors is Union Square Ventures, right? 3 times in the scene
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