Wayne Chang
12 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 8, 2017 by Wayne Chang · said 36 times in 16 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2021 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- 20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret
- 20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
- 20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
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2020 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
- 20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
- 20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A*
- 20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?
- 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
- 20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
- 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
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2019 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- 20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
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2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square
- 20VC: The Fundamentals Of Optimising The Fundraising Process, SAFE's vs Priced Equity Rounds & Why Hiring Is Really A Big Data Problem with Chris Hutchins, Founder @ Grove & Former Partner @ Google Ventures
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Wayne Chang, oldest first
Sep 8, 2017
Sep 8, 2017
Wayne Chang: Time is the primary enemy of founders and startups
“My favorite thing I believe in is the enemy Of founders and startups is time. And so what does that mean? That means every day that goes by, you're becoming old news. Every day that goes by, your burn rate just goes up. No matter what happens, if you accomplis…”
Sep 8, 2017 bullish
Sep 8, 2017
Sep 8, 2017 negative
Sep 8, 2017 negative
Taking pitch meetings with outbound VC associates is a waste of time
“If it's an associate reaching out saying they want to talk and learn more about it, when I hear that, what I'm hearing is they're just trying to pump as much information out of you and then put into a database somewhere and send it to the partners. And those t…”
May 1, 2020 positive
Minimizing User Cognitive Load Often Requires Maximalist Software Design
“When I do the product experiences at Digit and different flows and different things to think about, I'm building product experiences that try to give the users the best experience with the least amount of thinking, the lowest cognitive load. So these result in…”
May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020
Startups Should Only Announce News When Prepared to Capture Press Spikes
“So we always advise companies to only do announcements when there's a rational reason for the company to, like, harness the resulting attention of the press. So if you're announcing something just to announce, just so you can see your name in the news, or in t…”
May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 negative
Back-to-Back Zoom Meetings Destroy Remote Creative Time, Says Wayne Chang
“It's really important that everyone doesn't have just zoom meetings just blocked out throughout the day. That's the worst way to work. That means you're basically replacing The best of remote, which is your ability to form around the objectives, with the worst…”
May 1, 2020 positive
Digits Raised Over $32M From Benchmark, GV, and Angel Founders
“To date, Wayne and Jeff have raised over thirty-two million dollars for Digits, from some of the best in the business, including Peter Fenton at Benchmark, and Jess Verrilli at GV, and then also the most incredible base of angels, with the founders from Box, G…”