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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:17:25 Rory O'Driscoll Background for people, Whatnot raised about half a billion at twenty billion in valuation, right? 6 times in the scene
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 1:09:28 Harry Stebbings Uh, what not raising at twenty billion dollars?
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:05 Laela Sturdy So, Whatnot, which is a, uh, investment that, um, I led a couple of years ago. 6 times in the scene
Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:28 Kevin Weil We've had, uh, we've got a number of companies that are doing really well, like, Whatnot, for example, is doing fantastically well, reimagining live commerce. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt
- ▶ 29:01 Harry Stebbings I was shouting to Grant, the founder of WhatNot, the other day, and he was saying how the people from Pinterest in particular are the best growth leaders.
20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Testing is Inefficient and Slows You Down, Why It is Impossible To Hire Good PMs so Stop Trying & 3 Key Signals The Best Engineers Present with Grant LaFontaine, Founder & CEO @ Whatnot
- ▶ 0:06 Harry Stebbings Oh, yes, we are joined by the one and only Grant LaFontaine, founder and CEO at WhatNot, the fastest-growing marketplace in the U.S., as I said, empowering people to make a living off their passion. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 Harry Stebbings So excited to hand over to the one and only Grant LaFontaine, founder and CEO at WhatNot.
- ▶ 3:42 Harry Stebbings I've been looking forward to this, but I did want to start, you know, we look at WhatNot today, and we look at the recent round and see the successes that you've had. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:39 Harry Stebbings You know, you spent time, obviously, at Google and Facebook pre-founding Whatnot. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:26 Grant LaFontaine Probably the most common one is like, walk me through the whatnot app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:11 Grant LaFontaine When you're coming from, let's just say a big tech company to whatnot, you kind of have to like, one of the biggest things that I see people having to do is they have to like shift their whole judgment model a little bit. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:16 Grant LaFontaine I have a document with all the bets that I want to make at whatnot, and it's very, very, very, very long. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:41 Grant LaFontaine I can tell you what's been hard at whatnot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:18 Grant LaFontaine It's been Clubhouse, OpenSea, and us. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:29 Grant LaFontaine By way of example, we just shipped a new browse experience on whatnot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:57 Grant LaFontaine The more in GMV, the more people are purchasing on whatnot, which is a huge indicator that they're getting value from the experience and the platform.
- ▶ 36:59 Harry Stebbings Next 10 years for you and for whatnot, if we do this in 2032, where are you then?
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings His portfolio includes the likes of Figma, SoRare, Clubhouse, Vanta, whatnot, and many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 42:10 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I cannot wait to bring you a fantastic episode on Friday with Grant, founder and CEO at Whatnot.
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- ▶ 44:24 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and we have some fantastic episodes coming on Wednesday with Lenny Rogicki, and on Friday with Grant, founder and CEO at Whatnot.