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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.