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20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Now, as for Gary, prior to founding Initialized, Gary was a partner at Y Combinator, where he invested in and directly worked with over 700 companies in five years, from the earliest possible stage 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:09 Garry Tan And so another friend of mine from college and I decided to start a company in the blogging space, and by 2008, Y Combinator was kind of the place where anyone who was a great product person or an engineer, you knew, or you knew of friends… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:05 Garry Tan Through my five years at YC and through just angel and seed investing, it's clear that there are really, really smart people out there who can make incredible software. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:08 Harry Stebbings And you've met, you mentioned YC a lot in the interview. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:44 Harry Stebbings I mean, you said about a large set there, because a hundred YC companies funded by initialized is, is a large amount.
- ▶ 20:40 Garry Tan One thing that we learned at YC is that if you are mainly about the founders first, then a related aside, a lot of founders come to me and ask, well, what's the hot field? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:07 Garry Tan Everything that made YC great really came from Paul and Jessica. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on How It All Started With Paul Graham @ YC, The Biggest Surprises About Making The Move Into VC & Why Alexis Believes All The Best Investors Have Operating Experience
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings Alexis has also invested and advised over 200 tech startups, and was a partner at the world-famous Y Combinator.
- ▶ 3:35 Alexis Ohanian And he obviously suggested that Steve and I change our initial startup idea when we were applying to Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:07 Alexis Ohanian Gary, in fact, wrote just about all of the modern code that powers Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Flexport's Ryan Petersen on Why Investor Relations Are Overrated, Why Boards Have To Be Rethought & Why MBAs Do Not Make Bad Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Now, Ryan is the founder and CEO of Flexport, the freight forwarder for the internet age, and Flexport recently raised a phenomenal sixty-five million dollar Series B from the likes of Founders Fund, First Round, Felicis, Bloomberg Beta,…
- ▶ 8:38 Ryan Petersen He was running, he runs actually another startup called build zoom, which is a different way, another YC company actually.
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 20:23 Paul Martino What if we said, let's go look at not what the cool kids are in YC's graduating class, but let's go look at those companies that have great metrics from three classes ago that nobody's paying attention to.
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 29:22 Rick Marini Sam Altman, uh, from YC is awesome.
20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- ▶ 14:12 Justin Caldbeck Last YC batch that is trying to tackle this issue, but I think you're going to see more and more folks really go after this, this vision, because it really is a massive, truly ubiquitous vision.
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 10:35 Clinton Foy We're starting to see that happen with Y Combinator. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why Adaptability Is Key To Fundraising, Why Supply Is Always The First Priority In Marketplaces & Why Sometimes You Have To Hire Fast & Fire Fast with Nav Athwal, Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares
- ▶ 14:40 Nav Athwal You know, you have Y Combinator, you have Techstars, you have 500 startups.
20VC: The Secret To Building Pattern Recognition, Why MBA Does Not Always Equal Great Founder & What Are The Right Reasons To Start A Company With Hardi Meybaum, General Partner @ Matrix Partners
- ▶ 25:54 Hardi Meybaum It's a YC company that I, that I spoke to earlier, and I said yes because I would have used that product.
20VC: Why The Best CEO's Are The Best Capital Allocators, How You Can Build A Business In A Space You Are Not Passionate About & When Is The Right Time To Put The Pedal To The Metal with Josh Hannah, General Partner @ Matrix Ventures
- ▶ 22:36 Josh Hannah And I, uh, there are a lot of things I love about some of the incubators today, the Y Combinators of the world, but one element I don't like is this rejection of the notion that
20VC: How To Win The Strategic Process Of Fundraising and Optimising Co-Founder Relationships and Break Ups with Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO @ The Muse
- ▶ 24:14 Harry Stebbings Your biggest takeaway from YC, what was it for you? 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why Great Founders Are Both Visionary & Stubborn, The Investment Mindset Shift From Angel To VC & How To React When The 'S*** Hits The Fan?' with Jesse Middleton, General Partner @ Flybridge Capital Partners
- ▶ 27:42 Jesse Middleton And so it's a company called Squire, who is currently in Y Combinator about the demo in a couple of weeks.
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 5:18 Peter Pham We are not a Y Combinator, which I think is amazing and a gold standard, and
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 15:28 Dave McClure So, you know, people who get into either, you know, 500 or Y Combinator or Techstars or another top program, 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:14 Dave McClure There's a company that went through the Y carbonator program, uh, called hometown.
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings So joining me today is Justin Kahn, at Justin Kahn on Snapchat, and Justin is a partner at the world-renowned Y Combinator, the birthplace of the likes of Dropbox, Airbnb, Scribd, and Reddit, and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:11 Harry Stebbings Uh, and I want to start, though, today with a brief three-minute summary of your life, a very hard first question, and how you came to be a partner at YC. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:34 Harry Stebbings but there are a couple of things that jump out to me from there and and one of them most definitely is the interview process you mentioned in 2005 going pitching uh and talking about applications uh with your co-founder how have you seen… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:11 Harry Stebbings In terms of the angel investment philosophy that YC have for their partners, are you allowed to make angel investments on the side and very much carry out your own portfolio too? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:30 Harry Stebbings Uh, so I want to talk about batch sizes and scaling YC in terms of sheer number per batch. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:26 Justin Kan Or it could be Sequoia having a really great, or Y Combinator having a really great reputation and name. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:34 Justin Kan Given, like, when I, I remember seeing him, I was a part-time partner at Y Combinator, and he came for advice for me while he was in YC, and they had, like, only a few 5 times in the scene
20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings Amir Elagwizi, founder and CEO at YC-backed Cratejoy, the website builder and backend for subscription e-commerce stores. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:05 unnamed speaker We did that in late, um, then we did Y Combinator in the summer of, and after Demo Day at YC, we pivoted to Krayjoy in, and that's when I met Annie, um, and since then we've raised about ten million dollars 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 5:46 Alex Bangash So if you take, you know, if you take some of the best new funds that came in the last decade, say Founders Fund, First Round Capital, Lowercase Y Combinator, all of these firms
- ▶ 10:48 Alex Bangash I think in, you know, AngelList and others, so there is a structural advantage that platforms like AngelList and Y Combinator and, um, Entrepreneur First and others,
- ▶ 18:00 Alex Bangash Accelerators, where they take the YC model, and also post-accelerators.
20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
- ▶ 6:04 Harry Stebbings Uh, we, we often hear that with YC, that it just allows you to completely focus on what matters.
20VC: The Information's Jessica Lessin on The Future For Online Journalism & The Benefits Of A Subscription Based Business Model
- ▶ 7:40 Jessica Lessin Entrepreneurs who are just starting out on their first Y Combinator company, to executives in the management teams at the most highly valued public tech companies, to 10 out of 10 of the founders of the most highly valued U.S. private tech…
20VC: Fundraising Is Also Business Development with Nicolas Dessaigne, Co-Founder & CEO @ Algolia
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Having started life as an offline search engine for mobile, they transitioned to helping companies deliver an intuitive search as you type experience on the web and mobile, and they were part of YC's winter, 2014 batch, and recently raised…
- ▶ 12:48 Nicolas Dessaigne Later on, we actually joined Y Combinator after that first seed round. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:37 Nicolas Dessaigne Maybe getting into YC before would have helped a lot.
- ▶ 18:09 Harry Stebbings And you said there about the importance of YC there to your success. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Why Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World Of Software with Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 12:04 Aydin Senkut YC classes were only 10, 15 companies.
Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- ▶ 10:46 Matt Mazzeo I think one of the fantastic things about YC and what Paul and Sam have built is that they, ah, they expose entrepreneurs to more information than ever before.
20VC: Tyler Willis on How To Be Innovative With Customer Acquisition and The Future Of Innovation
- ▶ 21:15 Tyler Willis Um, uh, I have a lot of respect for Sam Altman, both as an individual investor and in the direction that he's taken Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
20VC FF 035: Why Crowdfunding Is Not Right For Tech Startups with Ryan Caldbeck @ CircleUp
- ▶ 3:30 Ryan Caldbeck So there's the Y combinators of the world.
Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage
- ▶ 20:12 Martin Mignot While Allegolia was kind of on the same, on the same space, you know, went straight away, you know, to YC and, and, and, and, and had, you know, set up an office in San Francisco and try to become from, from the get go, this kind of global…
20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO
- ▶ 23:12 Harry Stebbings I never, so the, I was about to say, because I heard it on YC with, uh, Aaron Harris, who was on the 20 Minute VC.
20VC FF 028: Where To Start Your Startup and Single Founder vs Co-Founder Model with Richard Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO @ HiringScreen
- ▶ 6:52 Richard Hanson I, I think in terms of, um, either startup communities, whether that be, I mean, online or the growth of accelerators across Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and other places around Asia, um, or Asian companies and participating in well-known…