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Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:32 Jason Calacanis There's a version of this where it's like, well, wealth front, but what we really want, which is you talk with your agent, you say, this is exactly what I want.
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:44 Jason Lemkin Well, we're going to say, when I pointed out in the notes, I thought the contrast to Wealthfront was, here's one that wasn't good enough for the markets. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:58 Rory O'Driscoll And I can't explain it better right now, but I don't believe all the people in something like, well, you know, a solid outcome company like a well-formed or even an equipment share are, you know, mediocre and not trying.
- ▶ 1:08:08 Rory O'Driscoll You know, just like if you, if I believe, I mean, if I have the courage of my convictions, I should go away, look at the Wealth Fund numbers, and say, I believe it's cheap at one point, I should buy. 2 times in the scene
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:54 Jason Lemkin Um, because like Wealthfront's trying to go public, right? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:00 unnamed speaker Because it takes a long time to build, but when it does build, and Wealthfront is over that gap now, it's going to be there for the next 30 years in, frankly, a way that a lot of pure tech companies want. 2 times in the scene
Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:14 Barry McCarthy Was a founding partner at Benchmark and is on the faculty at Sanford B School and was the founder and chairman of Wealthfront.
20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more
- ▶ 19:45 Harry Stebbings He then went on to lead growth orgs at companies like Twitter, Cora, and most recently Wealthfront as head of growth and president.
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:25 Harry Stebbings and now Wellfront, and he said in terms of your LP letter, the first strategic positioning of your LP letter was rather jarring for your LPs.
20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Instacart with the Growth Leaders Who Built Them; How Instagram Went from 440M to 1BN, How Twitter Changing Their Signup Flow was a Needlemover and How Removing Card Payment Requ
- ▶ 10:56 Harry Stebbings Absolutely love some of those stories there from Japan to India, and now I want to dive into an incredible conversation we had with Andy Johns talking about some of his biggest lessons both from Facebook and from Wealthfront.
20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a
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
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings He has worked in some of the leading growth orgs at companies like Twitter, Quora, and more recently at Wealthfront as head of growth and president.
- ▶ 3:01 Harry Stebbings I mean, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Wealthfront.
- ▶ 7:49 Andy Johns Now, if I look at a business like Wealthfront, it's not network effects driven. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:06 Andy Johns If I'm building something like a wealth front where it isn't network driven and there isn't a community aspect to it,
- ▶ 14:45 Andy Johns So to give an example of this, in the early days of Wealthfront, we'd built a growth team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:35 Andy Johns So in my first six months at Wealthfront, all I did was build ad campaigns and track and measure them in spreadsheets. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:11 Andy Johns Output metric, for example, at something like Wealthfront would be assets under management.
- ▶ 28:37 Andy Johns And I worked with some engineers that wanted absolutely nothing to do with that because they wanted to be working on the core financial infrastructure for the flow of capital in and out of Wealthfront.
20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
- ▶ 16:18 Angela Strange So to use, like, an innovation distribution example in the U.S., right, take Wealthfront versus Schwab, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- ▶ 34:19 Nick Shalek Like we recently backed Adam Nash, who was a longtime, you know, friend and who was the CEO of Wealthfront in the past in his seed rounds.
20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- ▶ 3:59 Henry Ward And I started a company called Second Sight, which was an original version of Betterment or Wealthfront, but the bad version, I never got it off the ground.
20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- ▶ 6:54 Assaf Wand You're using Wealthfront.
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 8:11 Alex Rampell So, if you take the idea of the robo-advisor, these, you know, stock market pickers out there that, you know, Wealthfront invented, and there are a couple other companies in this space, like Betterment, like, who's going to win on that?
20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Mike currently sits on the boards of Pride Guests, Cockroach Labs, and Wealthfront, as well as Blue Bottle Coffee,
- ▶ 11:29 Harry Stebbings And Andy Ratcliffe at Wealthfront asks, with your dual experience of both the US and the UK venture markets, how do you compare the two, and what are your thoughts in terms of comparisons of both markets?
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
- ▶ 26:22 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I look very forward to bringing you Friday's episode with Wellfront founder, Andy Ratcliffe.
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 27:33 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate your support, and cannot wait to bring you Friday's episode with the legendary Andy Ratcliffe, CEO and founder at Wealthfront.
20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 7:43 Nitesh Banta And even more broadly, like Blue Apron was started by a former investor, Wealthfront, Bond Street.
20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings However, before we meet Moise, I'd like to thank my friends at Wealthfront for sponsoring today's podcast.
- ▶ 29:45 Harry Stebbings However, before we leave you today, I'd like to thank my friends at Wealthfront for sponsoring today's show. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings But before we meet Mike today, I'd like to thank my friends at Wealthfront for sponsoring today's podcast. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:12 Harry Stebbings However, before we leave you today, I'd like to thank my friends at Wealthfront for sponsoring today's podcast. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Now, you might remember a couple of weeks ago, we had Andy Ratcliffe, founder at Benchmark Capital and Wealthfront on the show, and I'm delighted to say joining us today, thanks to Andy's intro, we have Adam Nash, President and CEO at… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to get started today with a bit of background on you and how you came to be CEO and president at Wealthfront. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:08 Adam Nash The most rewarding part about being the CEO of Wealthfront is, you know, one of the things I love about Silicon Valley and the equity culture is, is companies are naturally built for everyone to think like an owner, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:14 Harry Stebbings Uh, and I want to discuss the scaling of Wealthfront, and, and as we said, Teams grown enormously over the last few years, and you've said before that there's all sorts of sub-specialities within the design role, and it's about getting the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:25 Adam Nash Obviously, at Wealthfront, we're huge believers in it in terms of the benefits it brings to investing, largely because there's a fundamental truth that has been documented for decades, which is that, on average, humans are terrible at… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:43 Harry Stebbings Biggest challenge in being CEO at Wealthfront? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:33 Harry Stebbings And I'd like to say a huge thank you to Adam for giving up his time today to be on the show, and to Andy Ratcliffe for introducing us to Adam, without which the introduction and the show would not have been possible, and so amazing to hear…
20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer
- ▶ 25:55 Harry Stebbings And from perfect starts to the end of today's show, and we so appreciate all your support, and cannot wait to bring you Friday's show with Adam Nash, CEO at Wealthfront.
20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings And in 2008, Andy co-founded Wealthfront, the online financial advisor and investment management solution, where he now serves as the executive chairman. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:00 Harry Stebbings I think Guy Kawasaki said it was the optimal route, but you took the, the other route, and you obviously started in VC, and now have moved to operations with Wealthfront.
- ▶ 7:58 Harry Stebbings And moving back to Wealthfront and the democratization of online investment management, what, you know, moving from benchmark to Wealthfront, two incredibly special institutions, but what was so special about Wealthfront then to you that… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:12 Andy Rachleff They introduced a service last year that's the equivalent to what we introduced in 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:56 Andy Rachleff It's amazing to me the number of blogs that are written about Benchmark or Wealthfront that just completely missed the point because they never called to ask.
- ▶ 22:15 Harry Stebbings Um, and then I want to discuss then finally the next five years for you and for Wealthfront and the roadmap ahead. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:21 Harry Stebbings So, so grateful to him for giving up the time today, and of course, you can get an extra 5000 dollars managed for free on Wealthfront if you sign up using www.wealthfront.com forward slash 20 minute VC.
20 VC FF 034: What Fintech Can Learn From Uber and The Shift From Financial Organisation To Financial Efficiency with Kelly Peeler, Founder & CEO @ NextGenVest
- ▶ 22:19 Kelly Peeler I'd say on the business side, um, Adam Nash at Wealthfront, um, said, you know, really smartly to build trust, to me, really smartly to build trust, um, not only into the dynamics of our product, but also really into the philosophy and the…
20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
- ▶ 21:37 Matt Lerner He runs growth at Wealthfront now. 2 times in the scene
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 17:58 Jason Calacanis The fact that they wouldn't personally, they didn't personally meet with us, and you sent us there, and you did Uber, Chartbeat, Thumbtack, Wealthfront, Raise.com, all these other companies that have done very well and are well-respected,…