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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