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Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:49 Nabeel Hyatt I just, I came in six months after this job, and I'm like, and I, look, I was, I sold a company to Zynga beforehand.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings So over a 15 year period, you built the company before selling to Zynga.
- ▶ 12:28 Torsten Reil Helsing Speed is, is, um, something that I, I nicked from Zynga. 2 times in the scene
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:30 Akin Babayigit I learned about this game called Zynga's Farmville back at the time. 3 times in the scene
Rich Liu: Sales in 2023; How to Onboard, Manage and Scale Reps; PLG vs Enterprise Growth | E1023 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings So, how did you make your way into some of the most powerful growth walks with Bzinger and Reddit today? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:25 Harry Stebbings Um, uh, you said that Zynga was like a university. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:56 Vaibhav Sahgal Uh, we, we did this at, at Reddit when I joined, uh, you know, I was very cognizant of, we burned every channel we got, had, had Zynga, and I did not want to do that again.
- ▶ 31:23 Vaibhav Sahgal Uh, back at Zynga, we rarely changed it.
- ▶ 38:01 Vaibhav Sahgal When Mark came back to Zynga, uh, the, the second time, I was the general manager of works with friends.
- ▶ 45:18 Vaibhav Sahgal So when I was at Zynga, we did them weekly because it was just a weekly product cadence. 2 times in the scene
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:27 Mo Koyfman Um, he split, um, uh, Mark Pincus's company, um, Zynga. 2 times in the scene
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:15 Fabrice Grinda Um, so misses, uh, I think I told, um, Mark Pincus no to invest in Zynga at, like, 50 K out of one million pre.
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 47:18 Fabrice Grinda I think I told Mark Pincus no to invest in Zynga at, like, 50 K out of one million pre.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
- ▶ 24:47 Bill Gurley I remember when USV sold Zynga privately at like 2 times in the scene
20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
- ▶ 4:09 Krista Quarles Sitting on the sidelines, armchair quarterbacking, as we say in America, and I was like, I want to go play the game, and so the only way to do it here is to just go to a startup, and so I went to a small gaming company called Playdom, and…
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
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings One of the leading venture firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Zynga, Fitbit, and Sangrid, to name a few.
20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Before Venture, Lowe was an operator, enjoying exact roles at Zynga, Nike, and eBay, to name a few.
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
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Twitch CEO Emmett Shear and Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron, to name a few.
20VC: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs
- ▶ 1:34 Harry Stebbings Headspin began in April, 2015, when founders Manish and Breen both had painful first-hand experiences as lead engineers building mobile products at Amazon, Zynga, and Google, and so starting from a blank page, they both created a platform…
- ▶ 41:15 Harry Stebbings Headspin began in April, 2015, when founders Manish and Breen both had painful first-hand experiences as lead engineers building mobile products at Amazon, Zynga, and Google.
20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi
- ▶ 37:38 Harry Stebbings Headspin began in April, 2015, when founders Manish and Breen both had painful first-hand experiences as lead engineers building mobile products at Amazon, Zynga, and Google, and so starting from a blank page, they both created a platform…
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 1:40 Harry Stebbings Headspin began in April, 2015, when founders Manish and Breen both had painful first-hand experiences as lead engineers building mobile products at Amazon, Zynga, and Google.
- ▶ 41:31 Harry Stebbings Headspin began in April, 2015, when founders Manish and Breen both had painful first-hand experiences as lead engineers building mobile products at Amazon, Zynga, and Google.
20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
- ▶ 1:48 Harry Stebbings Headspin began in April, 2015, when founders Manish and Breen both had painful first-hand experiences as lead engineers building mobile products at Amazon, Zynga, and Google, and so starting from a blank page, they both created a platform…
- ▶ 29:28 Harry Stebbings Headspin began in April, 2015, when founders Manish and Breen both had painful first-hand experiences as lead engineers building mobile products at Amazon, Zynga, and Google, and so starting from a blank page, they both created a platform…
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
- ▶ 12:29 Josh Buckley When we launched our first game, it was around the time that Zynga had actually went through the IPO, late 20 11, and they essentially didn't do so well. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Brad Feld on Why Market Size At Early Stage Is Not Helpful, His Biggest Learnings From The Boom & Bust of The Dot Com and How The Best VCs Work For Their CEOs
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings As one of the founders of Foundry Group, his firm have backed the likes of Zynga, SendGrid, Fitbit, and many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 26:14 Brad Feld I think the first time I heard the phrase was from Mark Pincus when he was running Zynga and I was on the board of Zynga. 3 times in the scene
20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Rebecca is a general partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Twitter, Twilio, Zynga, SoundCloud, Tumblr, Lending Club, and many more…
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 18:01 Darian Shirazi I asked Mark Pincus about this when he was raising money for Zynga early on.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings At Kleiner, Bing has either worked with or invested in the likes of Spotify, Zynga, Amazon, Twitter, and Magic Leap, just to name a few, and Bing also serves on the boards of Zynga, Zazzle, and Network, and until March this year, Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:15 Bing Gordon Let's see, at, um, you know, at Zynga, there have been, I remember, multiple CO meetings, and then scale meetings.
- ▶ 14:19 Bing Gordon He was extremely helpful in the early days of Zynga, even though he was mostly dialed in.
20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify
- ▶ 27:29 Harry Stebbings As always, we so appreciate all your support, and cannot wait to bring you Monday's episode with the one and only Mark Pingas, founder of Zynga.
20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Now, Andy is a partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the world's leading VC firms, with investments in Twitter, Twilio, Zynga, Soundcloud, Tumblr, Lending Club, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings Foursquare and Zynga, just to name a few incredible companies.
20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+
- ▶ 27:20 Pejman Nozad A few years later, he managed to get PhD at MIT, and he was a superstar at Google and Zynga, and started a company that's gonna be the ultimate destination for short-form videos.
20VC: Preparing For The Next Big Trend, Why Conversational Will Be The Next Big Thing & How Entrepreneurs Should View Market Size with Sarah Guo @ Greylock Partners
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Sarah has also advised pre-IPO private technology companies, as well as public clients including Zynga, Netflix, and Nvidia, on strategic and financial issues.
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
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Classy and AirMap, just to name a few, and prior to forming Bullpen, he was an active angel investor and personally invested in the rounds of Zynga, TubeMogul, and Udemy, and before becoming an investor, Paul was the founder of four…
- ▶ 3:54 Paul Martino You were the first angel in companies like Zynga and Udemy and a couple of things that are really kicking butt.
20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC
- ▶ 4:49 Jerry Colonna Eventually, in 96, the year you were born, um, Fred Wilson and I met through a mutual friend named Mark Pincus, best known, I guess, now for Zynga, and, um, we went into business and formed Flatiron Partners, and that's how I became a VC.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 13:14 Mamoon Hamid You know, run by my partner, Ray, who came from Facebook, and, uh, on that team, you have Jonathan and Pink Cash, who are from Facebook and Instagram, and, and Andy was from Zynga.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 16:36 Harry Stebbings In terms of losing money, and this is a very hard one because you didn't lose money, but a little birdie told me about turning down Zynga.
- ▶ 21:38 Howard Lindzon I wouldn't have passed on Twitter and Zynga because evaluation, um, cause everything lined up.
20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A
20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on Why "All Fund Size Models Are Wrong" and The Lifecycle of Current Venture Funds Is Inefficient?
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Matt is the co-managing partner and co-founder at Data Collective, and he has over three decades of experience as a tech entrepreneur and VC, and has made investments in the likes of Facebook, Zynga, Uber, and AngelList, just to name a few.
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
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings And as for Amir, he previously founded Market Zero, a poker software company, which was acquired by Zynga, where he then spent time as game CTO.
- ▶ 2:48 unnamed speaker We sold that company to Zynga in 2011. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:28 Harry Stebbings And it's, what was the thought process behind the sale to Zynga? 2 times in the scene
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings It is, of course, Union Square Ventures in New York, with investments in the likes of Twitter, Twilio, Zynga, Lending Club, SoundCloud, and a recent interview of ours, actually, CircleUp, just to name a few.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Now, Bill was also previously co-founder and CEO of Conduit Labs, which was sold to Zynga in 2010, where he then became general manager up until their IPO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:31 Nabeel Hyatt Was on my fifth, uh, which I had sold into, uh, Zynga, and then was at Zynga through the IPO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:48 Nabeel Hyatt Uh, I think if you would have looked at my recent resume and successes and, and so on, and frankly, even me, you know, you would have looked at Zynga and the, and the previous three or four years and said, well, this person knows an awful…
20 VC 066: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Seth Levine: 'VC Is Not A Scalable Business'
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Add meld, which was acquired by Google, Zynga, and Nip, which was acquired by Twitter.
20 VC 065: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Brad Feld: Founders Should Be Obsessed, Passion Belongs In The Bedroom
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings Brad has made investments in the likes of Zynga, MakerBot, and Fitbit, just to name a few.
20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures
- ▶ 4:40 Harry Stebbings And USV, arguably one of the most successful VC funds around, with obviously investments in the likes of Twitter, Zynga, Kickstarter.
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 5:25 Jason Calacanis And when he showed it to me, I asked him if I could invest because I had passed on investing in Twitter and I passed on investing in Zingo, which are two of my very good friends.