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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: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 33:26 Reid Hoffman So Paul Graham, who is a founder of Y Combinator, dropped me an email saying there's two Irish brothers, Patrick and John Collison, who are literally spectacular, and they're going to be reinventing banking, and that you should meet with…
20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to PG at YC and Gary Tan for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 4:24 Alexis Ohanian Uh, which led me to Gary as we were partners at Y Combinator together.
- ▶ 22:57 Alexis Ohanian And this was, I mean, when we got the call back for YC, we had been rejected the first time. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 3:44 Daniel Levine Right before I joined Excel the first time around in, I had founded a company called Chartio and went through Y Combinator, and candidly, I was a terrible, terrible founder for a variety of reasons. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:09 Daniel Levine And the second one that I think is really critical, and maybe it's something that, like, YC really drilled in, is, like, do you have an efficient initial insertion?
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 4:42 Cyan Banister And so at some point around the time that Y Combinator kind of really hit its stride, some of the valuations of companies were out of whack.
- ▶ 18:11 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask one thing, and I wanted to ask you when you mentioned earlier, but you mentioned kind of pricing being incredibly high coming out of YC and that time when you went to AngelList.
20VC: Arlan Hamilton: "We Have Come For Cake, Not The Crumbs", Arlan's Plan To Return $1Bn in 10 Years, Why Arlan Plans To Giveaway or Invest 90% of Her Wealth & What The LP Class Can Do To Ensure More Under-Represented Managers Get Funded
- ▶ 12:39 Arlan Hamilton Taking the best from Y Combinator and Techstars and others and infusing our own take on it.
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
20VC: Biggest Lessons from Working with John Doerr, How Founders Can Have Discussions of Vulnerability with Their Board and Investors & Marrying Another Founder; The Pros, Cons and Ways To Make it Succeed with Alyson Friedensohn, Co-Founder & CEO @ Modern
- ▶ 10:31 Alyson Friedensohn So we went through Y Combinator, the accelerator program, and typically when you're going through a Combinator, they're looking for strong technical founders. 2 times in the scene
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*
- ▶ 4:45 Kevin Hartz Of Y Cominator is a vehicle that's really been a benefit to the formation stage businesses on the financial side. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:24 Kevin Hartz Changed and radically grew in the nineties and 2000, just as why Commodore had an impact on formation stage businesses.
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 15:47 Sahil Lavingia So you're seeing a few of these deals that get super hot, and these YC companies that raise at these 15, twenty million dollar caps.
20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo
- ▶ 1:57 Harry Stebbings And check this out, they recently announced their 10 and a half million Series A, led by Valar Ventures, alongside Y Combinator and Kindred Ventures, and they're revolutionizing the way we spend.
- ▶ 29:10 Harry Stebbings Alongside Y Combinator and Kindred Ventures, and they're revolutionizing the way we spend, listeners to TwentyVC have the exclusive opportunity to join PointCard's invite-only launch out of beta in July.
20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
- ▶ 2:07 Harry Stebbings And check this out, they recently announced their 10 and a half million Series A, led by Valor Ventures, alongside Y Combinator and Kindred Ventures, and they're revolutionizing the way we
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
- ▶ 46:40 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think there are really great initiatives like Y Combinators, Startup School,
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
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Y Combinator and Emerson Collective, to name a few.
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 2:31 Harry Stebbings Instead of drawing up a credit line for rewards that aren't relevant, you can use point card and start getting a break on purchases with your favorite brands, and it's backed by the likes of Y Combinator and our dear friend from the show,…
- ▶ 38:19 Harry Stebbings Backed by the likes of Y Combinator and our dear friend from the show, Jeff Morris Jr., they're revolutionizing the way we spend, and listeners of TwentyVC have the exclusive opportunity to join Point's invite-only launch out of beta in…
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Is Overrated, The Downside of Thematic Investing, Making Quality Decisions In Uncertain Conditions & Why He Has No Reserves Allocation
- ▶ 2:17 Harry Stebbings Instead of drawing up a credit line for rewards that aren't relevant, you can use PointCard and start getting a break on purchases with your favorite brands, And it's backed by the likes of Y Combinator and our dear friend from the show…
- ▶ 37:55 Harry Stebbings Backed by the likes of Y Combinator and our dear friend from the show, Jeff Morris Jr., they're revolutionizing the way we spend, and listeners of TwentyVC have the exclusive opportunity to join Point's invite-only launch out of beta in…
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings To date, Chris has raised over seventeen million dollars in funding from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator,
- ▶ 7:04 Chris Best We came and did YC.
- ▶ 24:22 Chris Best I found the Y Combinator, going through Y Combinator, very valuable. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 3:28 Sarah Kunst And then I ended up working for a Y Combinator backed startup in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 9:36 Sarah Kunst So if you invested in a Y Combinator company post-demo day, three demo days ago, so it would have been about a year and a half ago, and you were paying fifteen million valuation on a company that just launched and only had a tiny bit of…
20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
- ▶ 3:48 Howie Liu Learned more about this new genre of web companies, and ultimately decided to start a company right after college, went through YC for that one called eTax, very briefly kind of experienced that entrepreneurship experience, and then…
- ▶ 4:39 Howie Liu We applied to Y Combinator with a demo that I think we built in weeks throughout YC. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- ▶ 26:15 Rahul Vohra In just the Y Combinator batch, I saw five different companies that had incorporated this into their product, and we have companies like Linear that have just recently raised from Sequoia that have done the same.
20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit
- ▶ 7:49 Misha Esipov We got into Pagemon's summer program, Y Combinator's summer program, and so through that, we got an incredible amount of visibility from a very early start that sort of put us on the map in the first place, and so that gave us an…
- ▶ 13:24 Misha Esipov Actually, the best ways I've seen this framed is actually from Ali Rogani at YC growth is as a CEO, your first chapter is all about steering the company to find product market fit.
- ▶ 22:39 Misha Esipov It would either be Pajmon and their summer program or YC summer program.
20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors
- ▶ 5:20 Matt Mochary They were students, and YC wouldn't even accept them into their class.
- ▶ 34:10 Matt Mochary And so YC has started to do this.
20VC: Index Ventures Partner, Mark Goldberg on The Questions Founders Must Ask A Multi-Stage Fund Before Taking Their Money At Seed, Why Most Angels Will Lose Their Money & Why We Will See Our First $100Bn Neo-Bank Shortly
- ▶ 10:25 Harry Stebbings And, you know, Paul Graham and YC have said certain things, and other people have said lots of other things.
20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con
- ▶ 8:31 Tomer London Yeah, so in Gasto, you know, we've been in a very fortunate situation ever since Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:33 Harry Stebbings Tell me, the biggest takeaway from your time at YC? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 2:27 Harry Stebbings Emmett, my word, I've heard so many great things from PG at YC, from Mike Maples, the team at Felicis, so it really is such a pleasure to have you on the show, and thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 3:21 Emmett Shear And then we heard about YC, and we applied for that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:11 unnamed speaker I guess most exemplified in its most abbreviated form by the YC Demo Day pitch of two minutes, hitting these very high point conceptual why this is going to be huge and why we're going to win ideas.
20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- ▶ 6:56 Jude Gomila That was my first proper break for me, and I rushed out to San Francisco, determined to get into Y Combinator in 2008, and got into YC, and that was the start of my real tech career, trying lots of other things, including, as you said,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:27 Jude Gomila We had just burnt through all our YC money.
- ▶ 44:12 Jude Gomila Now, I know YC have said this for a long time, but I was very market and product obsessed, and I still am.
20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- ▶ 25:57 Katie Stanton I actually noticed this at YC, and would love to dig into the data a bit, but what I found was that the female-led companies at YC that I met with were valued less than fifteen million. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Inside The Acquisition Decision-Making Process at Cisco, How To Measure True Success in M&A Evaluation & Why By Not Speaking To Corp Dev Teams You Are Closing The Door On The Biggest Potential Accelerator To Your Business with Rob Salvagno, VP of Co
- ▶ 13:24 Rob Salvagno You know, Paul has been wildly successful over at YC, and certainly, you know, I, I can't read a lot behind his statement, and a lot of what he's done, I think, has been focused on some of these wildly successful consumer startups.
20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games
- ▶ 5:38 Josh Buckley Got accepted into Y Combinator in 2009 when I was, I think, maybe 16. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:06 Josh Buckley We went through this period, which Y Combinator terms as the trough of sorrow, and it was a really, really hard time.
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Excel, Ron at Rainfall, Brienne at Work Life, Benjamin Ling, and Y Combinator, just to name a few.
- ▶ 6:26 Vlad Magdalin The convertible notes were starting to become a thing, so we had dreams of, like, raising, applying to YC, and then a bunch of stuff fell apart.
- ▶ 8:18 Harry Stebbings I do have to answer, you mentioned quite a few twists and turns, the failed trademarks, not getting into the first YC on application.
- ▶ 12:39 Vlad Magdalin You know, we went into VC meetings and even at YC, we sort of got the advice of like, just don't mention anything about kids or
- ▶ 15:29 Vlad Magdalin But for us, it was, you know, we were seeing, we're in this YC batch, and we're seeing all these companies sort of like on demo day, close around, or already had their round closed before demo day.
- ▶ 34:46 Harry Stebbings As you said, you've seen that from the very early days of YC, living on the West Coast, you've seen that the growth of the tech ecosystem.
20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings Steve also started his career at Y Combinator as one of their first alumni back in 2005. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:05 Steve Huffman Alexis and I were college roommates, and we were going to start a company together called My Mobile Menu, which was, it would allow people to order food from their cell phones, which seemed novel at the time, but it was really, I think, an… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:03 Harry Stebbings Alexis, and two about the early days with YC. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- ▶ 7:19 Brianne Kimmel So what I typically find is oftentimes, you know, there are companies that have gone through a program such as Y Combinator.
- ▶ 11:53 Brianne Kimmel I think that I'm an investor in a company called Tandem, which was in the last YC batch, which very quickly became the hottest company in the YC batch.
20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings But to the show today, and I'd heard so many good things about this founder from many of his investors, and this episode could not have come at a more perfect time with the announcement of their Series C, led by Ali Raugani at YC…
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Jason has raised over eighty-four million dollars with Ironclad from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia, Excel, Greylock, Emergence, IA Ventures, Semo Shah's Haystack, and then obviously Ali Raugani, who led their…
- ▶ 28:02 Jason Boehmig We recently did our series C round with Y Combinator continuity fund, and we've obviously known Y Combinator for years now at this point, but Ollie was so incredibly helpful with thoughtfully picking out some right customer intros and…
- ▶ 28:02 Jason Boehmig We recently did our series C round with Y Combinator continuity fund, and we've obviously known Y Combinator for years now at this point, but Ollie was so incredibly helpful with thoughtfully picking out some right customer intros and…
- ▶ 36:33 Harry Stebbings This really has been such a pleasure and a huge congrats once again on the very exciting YC news.
20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Mercury, Imad held numerous roles, including being a part-time partner at Y Combinator, and he also founded HeyZap, building developer tools for mobile game developers, ultimately acquired in 2060
- ▶ 13:08 Immad Akhund It felt like a comparison, but one thing that really helped me was we were funded by Union Square Ventures, and the average founder at Union Square Ventures is older, and more than half of them already had kids, so getting outside San… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Prior to Matrix, Ilya was a part-time investing partner at Y Combinator, and before that was head of developer products at Facebook.
- ▶ 9:01 Ilya Sukhar They can often move on in some ways in the same way that I think YC is a huge factor in people's early days and the founders credit it later on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:12 Ilya Sukhar Yeah, I think I kind of grew up as an entrepreneur in the YC ecosystem, and so Paul Graham's fundamental innovation and how he changed our entire world is he bet on folks that others weren't willing to, the kind of
20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
- ▶ 26:57 Harry Stebbings The biggest takeaway for you from the YC experience, Alex?
20VC: Gitlab Founder, Sid Sijbrandji on Lessons From Scaling from 400 to 1,000 People in 1 Year, Why You Have To Have A Low Level Of Shame On The Product You Release & The Secret To Making Remote Work So Effectively At Scale
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Sid has raised over a hundred and forty-five million dollars in funding for GitLab, from the likes of GV, August Capital, YC, Kostler, and Goldman Sachs, just to name a few.
20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Alice has raised over forty-seven million dollars in funding for Embark, from some of my favorites, in the form of Pat Grady at Sequoia, and the wonderful Matt Oko at Data Collective, also the likes of SV Angel and Y Combinator,…
- ▶ 4:25 Alex Rodrigues Maybe we should go do Y Combinator.
20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution
20VC: Cameo's Steven Galanis on Why You Must Fall In Love With Your Mission Not Your Product, How To Extract As Much Value From Your Investor Base As Possible & Should You Really Hire For 6 Months Ahead of What You Need?
- ▶ 1:37 Harry Stebbings That's why teams at Shopify, General Assembly, Y Combinator, and 5000 companies around the world are responding 54 minutes faster to emails using Front.
- ▶ 29:53 Harry Stebbings That's why teams at Shopify, General Assembly, Y Combinator, and 5000 companies around the world are responding 54 minutes faster to emails using Front.
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Atrium, Justin was a partner at Y Combinator, the globally renowned accelerator and the birthplace of some of today's largest startups.
- ▶ 3:54 Justin Kan And we got into Y Combinator because of that, which kind of set me off on my start career, kind of run through it really quickly, but eventually that company failed and we desperately sold it on eBay. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:15 Justin Kan Startup community for a long time, you know, had the YC connections and other investor relationships in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 9:34 Justin Kan And the time at YC was nice because YC is very stable as an organization. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:54 Harry Stebbings Can I pick up on one that was so interesting there, and you said about YC and the success and the brilliance around you there, and how it's very difficult to kind of fuck up, as you said. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:29 Justin Kan You know, I think I learned a lot from YC there, and I think we're kind of making progress on all those things.
20VC: Lime CEO Brad Bao on How Lime Assess The Micro-Mobility Landscape and Competition Today, What It Takes To Launch and Win A New City & Why Lime Have Spent $0 on Marketing To Date
- ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings That's why teams at Shopify, General Assembly, Y Combinator, and 5000 companies around the world are responding 54 minutes faster to emails,
- ▶ 31:08 Harry Stebbings That's why teams at Shopify, General Assembly, Y Combinator, and 5000 companies around the world are responding 54 minutes faster to emails using Front.
20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
- ▶ 1:32 Harry Stebbings That's why teams at Shopify, General Assembly, Y Combinator, and 5000 companies around the world are responding 54 minutes faster to emails using Front.
- ▶ 30:36 Harry Stebbings That's why teams at Shopify, General Assembly, Y Combinator, and 5000 companies around the world are responding 54 minutes faster to emails,
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings And if you remember on Monday, we had YC's new president, Jeff Ralston, on the show, and so I thought it'd be awesome to have an incredible YC founder on the show this week, in the form of Kulvir Taggar. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:20 Kulveer Taggar I mean, looking back, I think it was he who accepted Instacart into Y Combinator after the deadline had passed for applications, and similarly with Coinbase early on, I think this is public, but there was a moment where they were having a…
- ▶ 13:28 Kulveer Taggar You know, it feels like a painful part of my history when I look back, but in short, Y Combinator had this brief period where they were experimenting, funding teams without ideas. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:25 Harry Stebbings 84% of Y Combinator companies that use a messaging or live chat tool use Intercom.
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings But to our guest today, and last week there was some very exciting news from Y Combinator. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:40 Harry Stebbings ...of Y Combinator companies that use a messaging or live chat tool use Intercom. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:31 Harry Stebbings But then really come to be a partner of the globally renowned Y Combinator. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:12 Geoff Ralston Well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, because my weighting is far more on the team at the stage in which I choose companies for angel investments, in which YC chooses companies to fund.
- ▶ 11:56 Geoff Ralston I like to look back to what I call Paul Graham's original epiphany when he started Y Combinator in 2005. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:53 Harry Stebbings I guess my subsequent question is, I spoke to Daniel Gross, another phenomenal YC partner before the show, and in our episode, he discussed his journey to 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:35 Harry Stebbings In terms of that turning into reality, we see it every year with different YC companies where there's breakouts who achieve definite product market fit would be one. 4 times in the scene