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Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:23 Jason Lemkin Um, and Jody Bonsal with Unusual Ventures.
20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings And if that wasn't enough, Andy's also currently a venture partner at Unusual Ventures, where he focuses on consumer, social, and network-driven startups.
- ▶ 34:27 Harry Stebbings You've invested now for a number of years, both as an angel and then obviously advising unusual.
20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome John Freonis, founder and managing partner at Unusual Ventures, the firm that is redefining seed investing and raising the bar for what entrepreneurs 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:49 Harry Stebbings So now without further ado, I couldn't be more excited to welcome John Vrionis at Unusual Ventures.
- ▶ 3:19 Harry Stebbings So, 20 years almost in the industry, but how did you make your way into the world of venture, and how did you come to found unusual today? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:57 Harry Stebbings I do want to, before we dive into unusual, I do want to talk about just the time at Lightspeed.
- ▶ 7:36 Harry Stebbings It's been an incredible journey seeing Lightspeed Scale, but I do want to move now to Unusual, and the firm that you founded, incredibly exciting times, but I want to start on the name, really, because when we chatted before, you said to…
- ▶ 11:01 John Vrionis So we had to go and do a little extra work, a lot of work in some cases, to convince them these off-the-beaten-path LPs to come work with Unusual, because we wanted to open the asset class and the best of it to schools and hospitals and…
- ▶ 11:51 John Vrionis So, you know, when we did unusual, you own all of that, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:49 John Vrionis Yeah, so when Jody and I first started Unusual, he was a year into building Harness, right, his second company.
- ▶ 24:38 John Vrionis One of the things that's like a tenant of unusual is we are founders first, right, and I think that the nuance is
- ▶ 27:24 John Vrionis So it's an amazing journey, and I give it to everyone when they join Unusual, both books, and I say, hey, look, this should sum up for you 4 times in the scene