Episodes
Eleven years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
96 episodes in 2018
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33m 20VC: A Framework For Approaching Risk and How It Affects Portfolio Construction | Lessons and Advice From Working with Dropbox's Drew Houston | Why Being A Learning Animal Is The Most Important Factor For Success with Ted Wang, Partner @ Cowboy Ventures
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Ted Wang, Partner at Cowboy Ventures, about his transition from legal practice to venture capital. Wang outlines frameworks fo…
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31m 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Dave Vasen, Founder and CEO of Brightwheel, discussing his journey building early education software, strategies for deli…
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28m 20VC: Top 3 Considerations When Evaluating Consumer Businesses Today | 700 Meetings, 70 LPs, 2 Years, What It Takes To Raise a First Time Fund| The Power of The Female Network In Action Today with Anu Duggal, Founding Partner @ Female Founders Fund
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Anu Duggal, Founding Partner at Female Founders Fund, to discuss her journey building a premier early-stage venture capit…
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34m 20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, CB Insights founder and CEO Anand Sanwal discusses why revenue-driven growth beats venture capital reliance, how to build an authentic B2B content brand,…
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40m 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
In this episode of 20VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer about his career journey, consumer brand strategies, venture firm culture, board dynamics, and ear…
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35m 20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
In this 500th UK milestone episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Tom Blomfield, Founder and CEO of Monzo, to discuss the key phases of scaling a fintech startup, build…
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30m 20VC: Why Raising A First Time Fund Is Like Raising A Seed Round, Why We Need New and Different Fund Models & Why Longevity Is The Most Rewarding Place To Invest with Laura Deming, Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Laura Deming, Founding Partner at the Longevity Fund, to discuss her trajectory as a teenage VC, the evolving science of …
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35m 20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Harry Stebbings speaks with Jeff Morris Jr., Director of Product and Revenue at Tinder and founder of Chapter One, about combining product management wit…
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34m 20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Leo Polovets, General Partner at Susa Ventures, to discuss early-stage venture capital mechanics, outbound cold pitch evaluati…
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32m 20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Gobble Founder and CEO Ooshma Garg discusses building a resilient meal kit company through capital efficiency, scientific marketing, and disciplined grow…
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34m 20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Avidan Ross, founding partner at Root Ventures, about investing in early-stage hard tech, the economic benefits of techno…
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34m 20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Ryan Caldbeck, founder and CEO of CircleUp, to discuss structural flaws in traditional venture capital, the power of data…
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45m 20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Ron Bouganim, founder of GovTechFund, to explore the evolution of seed investing, fund ownership strategies, and the mass…
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31m 20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product
In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, guest Phil Libin critiques traditional Silicon Valley startup structures, outlines his operational philosophy from Evernote to All Turtles, and share…
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45m 20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Scalar Capital co-founder Linda Xie to explore the evolution of cryptocurrency, comparing privacy coin technologies, dece…
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35m 20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
Host Harry Stebbings interviews Dennis Mortensen, founder and CEO of x.ai, exploring the realities of founding AI startups, the necessity of proprietary data moats, lessons on founder persev…
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41m 20VC: First Round's Phin Barnes on How The Best Founders Optimize for Learning Per Dollar Spent, What Makes A Truly Special Founder/VC Relationship and Why Pattern Recognition is Another Term For Intellectual Laziness
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Phin Barnes, Partner at First Round Capital, on coaching entrepreneurs, capital efficiency, market dynamics, and why rejecting…
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26m 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Patrick Morley, President and CEO of Carbon Black, about scaling venture-backed software startups into market-leading pub…
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31m 20VC: Learnings From Backing The Likes of Spotify and Airbnb, The World of Growth Investing Today and The Right Way For Investors To Think About Liquidity with Woody Marshall, General Partner @ TCV
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Woody Marshall, General Partner at TCV, to explore the evolution of growth equity, frameworks for evaluating long-term ma…
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31m 20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Should Let Everyone Rip Apart Their Business Idea, How To Construct Frameworks for Success & Why You Should Not Always Test Your MVP with Afton Vechery, Founder & CEO @ Modern Fertility
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Afton Vechery, co-founder and CEO of Modern Fertility, about her mission to democratize women's hormone testing. Vechery discu…
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31m 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
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Rebecca Kaden, General Partner at Union Square Ventures, about the evolving landscape of consumer investing, sustainable …
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33m 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews veteran tech executive and investor Maynard Webb, founder of Webb Investment Network and former eBay COO. Webb shares tac…
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36m 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Benchmark General Partner Sarah Tavel on her transition from operator to investor, evaluating market dynamics and valuati…
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31m 20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Amol Deshpande, founder and CEO of Farmers Business Network (FBN). Amol shares insights on transitioning from venture cap…
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33m 20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews David Frankel, Managing Partner at Founder Collective, about his transition from angel investor to institutional VC and t…
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35m 20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Howard Lerman, founder and CEO of Yext, about his entrepreneurial journey, the strategy behind taking Yext public, unique…
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32m 20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Shabih Rizvi, founding partner at Gradient Ventures, to explore key lessons learned working alongside John Doerr, effecti…
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29m 20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density
Density founder and CEO Andrew Farah joins Harry Stebbings on The 20 Minute VC to discuss scaling space analytics, hardware business models, investor storytelling, and strategies for employe…
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30m 20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Barry Eggers, founding partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, to explore the evolution of venture capital, strategies fo…
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29m 20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Casper co-founder and CEO Philip Krim about building a global sleep brand, navigating omni-channel retail, raising strate…
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33m 20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Daniel Gross, founder of Pioneer, to explore how gamified talent discovery, software-driven evaluation, and psychological…
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29m 20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv
In this episode of The 20VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Heather Fernandez, co-founder and CEO of Solv, exploring operational insights from scaling Trulia to acquisition, strategies for …
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31m 20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Avichal Garg, Managing Director at Electric Capital, about the fundamentals of cryptocurrency investing, value accrual ac…
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30m 20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Dylan Serota, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Terminal, about building successful remote technical teams, early-…
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38m 20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner at Accomplice, who discusses moving from committee-driven VC models to conviction-led inves…
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29m 20VC: Why Founding Your First Company Is Like Learning Through A Thousand Paper Cuts, The 3 Core Phases to Product Adoption and Why Valuation Obsession Must Change In The Valley with Armon Dadgar, Founder & CTO @ Hashicorp
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, about building open-source infrastructure tools, commercializing enterpris…
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33m 20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Nick Brown, Managing Partner at Imaginary, to explore modern brand building, the evolving direct-to-consumer landscape, a…
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28m 20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Lightspeed Venture Partners' Adam Goldberg discusses his background in mathematics and venture capital, his core investment thesis on founder learning ve…
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29m 20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, GOAT co-founder and CEO Eddy Lu details his transition from corporate finance to scaling the world's largest authenticated sneaker marketplace. He shares…
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30m 20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner at Maveron, to discuss early-stage consumer investing, building structural business moats…
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35m 20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Fritz Lanman, CEO of ClassPass, on his transition from Microsoft executive to prolific angel investor and entrepreneur. L…
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47m 20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews entrepreneur and investor Elad Gil about key lessons from his High Growth Handbook. Gil shares insights on scaling execut…
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35m 20VC: Why Fundraising Is Like Dating and How to Play The Game Successfully & How To Increase The Flexibility of Your Burn When Growth is Ambiguous with Rachel Blumenthal, Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Rachel Blumenthal, founder and CEO of Rockets of Awesome, to discuss strategic fundraising techniques, capital efficiency…
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36m 20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Pete Flint, managing partner at NFX and co-founder of Trulia and LastMinute.com, to explore lessons from multi-billion do…
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31m 20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, serial entrepreneur Joe Fernandez, founder and CEO of Joy Mode, shares foundational insights on avoiding valuation traps, managing investor and board dyn…
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28m 20VC: Why Most The Value In Crypto Will Accrue in Governance, When Institutional Capital Will Enter The Space and How To Think About Liquidity In Crypto with Joel Monegro, Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Joel Monegro, Founding Partner at Placeholder VC, about protocol value accrual, crypto fund mechanics, institutional adop…
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35m 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Max Motschwiller, Partner at Meritech Capital, discussing growth-stage venture investing, conviction building, fund sizing str…
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25m 20VC: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on Why We Are In A Golden Age For VC, Why Pro-Rata Is A Lazy Posture and Why He Does Not Focus On Price
General Catalyst Managing Director Hemant Taneja shares insights on the evolving venture capital landscape, detailing his macro investment thesis of 'unscaling,' his unconventional approach …
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28m 20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Amanda Bradford, Founder and CEO of The League, about her contrarian strategies for building and scaling a curated dating…
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34m 20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital
In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews veteran investor Peter Parker, Managing Partner at BioInnovation Capital, who shares key insights from his 32-year ca…
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37m 20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, serial entrepreneur Paul English shares actionable insights on startup innovation, recruitment strategies, venture capital, board management, and team le…
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31m 20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
Trae Vassallo, co-founder and managing director of defy.vc, joins host Harry Stebbings on The 20 Minute VC to discuss her journey from engineer and startup founder to venture investor. She d…
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29m 20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek
In this episode of The 20 VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews SeatGeek Founder and CEO Jack Groetzinger about building and scaling a premier ticketing platform. Groetzinger shares operationa…
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31m 20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner at GGV Capital, to explore two decades of venture capital history, portfolio management, b…
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37m 20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Adrian Aoun, founder and CEO of Forward, about building full-stack healthcare platforms, rethinking the Lean Startup meth…
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31m 20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews prominent Silicon Valley angel investor Dan Scheinman, who shares insights on the evolution of seed-stage investing, port…
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24m 20VC: 3 Questions Founders Must Stress Test VCs with, What Separates the Good From The Great VCs & Why 80% of VC Detract Value From Board Meetings with Seth Sternberg, Founder & CEO @ Honor
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Seth Sternberg, founder and CEO of Honor, about scaling a mission-driven eldercare startup. Seth shares key operational l…
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23m 20VC: Why Crypto Is The Biggest Disruptor To Hit VC In A Decade, The State of Crypto Today & Why Investing In Decentralized Platforms Requires A New Mental Model with Boris Wertz, Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Boris Wertz, Founding Partner at Version One Ventures, to explore how cryptocurrency and decentralized platforms are disr…
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28m 20VC: Hims' Andrew Dudum on The Scaling Playbook of The Fastest Growing Mens Wellness Brand, How To Be Truly Innovative In Today's World of Online Marketing & Raising at a $200m Valuation within Year 1
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings speaks with Andrew Dudum, co-founder and CEO of Hims and general partner at Atomic. Dudum shares insights on innovative direct-to-co…
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32m 20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Andy McLoughlin, Partner at Uncork Capital, about his transition from startup founder to VC, the firm's rebranding from S…
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28m 20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool & How To Use Humour When "S*** Hits The Fan" with Jesse Genet, Founder & CEO @ Lumi
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Jesse Genet, Founder and CEO of Lumi, about transforming physical supply chain packaging for e-commerce brands. Jesse sha…
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28m 20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews veteran angel investor Jerry Neumann about portfolio construction, startup board governance, valuation discipline, and fo…
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26m 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews James Reinhart, founder and CEO of ThredUp, discussing the journey of building the world's largest online consignment sto…
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28m 20VC: The Biggest Trend Of Our Lifetime Is The Decentralisation of Entrepreneurship Away From The Valley, The Biggest Lessons From Learnings The Craft of VC at Sequoia & The Benchmarks Required to Attract Growth Investors with Chris Olsen, Founding Partne
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Chris Olsen, founding partner of Drive Capital, about his transition from Sequoia Capital to launching a Midwest-focused …
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28m 20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Thumbtack co-founder and CEO Marco Zappacosta discusses the strategies behind building a massive local service marketplace, effective board governance, n…
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24m 20VC: How a16z Uses NPS To Create Better Founder Experiences, Why Intellectual Curiosity Is The Most Important Investor Trait & Creating A Fund To Last Through The Ages with Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner at Refactor Capital, to discuss lessons learned at Andreessen Horowitz, investor traits, …
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23m 20VC: Why You Have To Raise $100m+ If You Want To Go Big Today, The 5 Fundamentals To Starting and Scaling A Successful Marketplace & Why Female Founders Under-Promise and Over-Deliver with Paul Hsiao, Founding Partner @ Canvas Ventures
In this episode of The 20VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Paul Hsiao, Founding Partner at Canvas Ventures, to discuss the mechanics of building marketplace startups, venture capital fund …
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32m 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
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Darian Shirazi, Founder and CEO of Radius and early Facebook engineer. Shirazi shares key insights on startup risk-taking…
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31m 20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Greylock Partner Jerry Chen to explore key frameworks for assessing startup risk, enterprise product differentiation, and…
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24m 20VC: Tearing Up Term Sheets and Writing Your Own, Why Founders Must Do "VC Dating" Pre-Fundraise & The Benefits of Capital Constraints in The Early Days with Rachel Drori, Founder & CEO @ Daily Harvest
Daily Harvest founder and CEO Rachel Drori joins host Harry Stebbings on The 20 Minute VC to discuss her unconventional fundraising tactics, early capital efficiency, and managing startup cr…
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28m 20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead at Square, exploring the inner workings of tech M&A, founder exit strategies, an…
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29m 20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Convoy founder and CEO Daniel Lewis discusses building a tech-driven marketplace for the $800 billion freight industry. He shares insights on strategic i…
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35m 20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit and partner at Fuel Capital, to explore her transition from founder to investor, marke…
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26m 20VC: Why Virtually All Companies Hire The Wrong Way, Why EdTech Is The Most Brutal Market & How To Scale Your Sales Team for Engineering Founders with Mike Sliagadze, Founder & CEO @ Top Hat
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Top Hat Founder and CEO Mike Silagadze discusses overcoming EdTech market challenges through a bottom-up sales strategy, building high-performing teams u…
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34m 20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Alex Taussig, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, discussing venture capital apprenticeship, Silicon Valley risk ment…
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29m 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Leore Avidar, founder and CEO of Lob, about his journey from Wall Street to building an automated direct mail API. Avidar…
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33m 20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Anu Hariharan, Partner at YC Continuity Fund, to unpack the fundamentals of network effects, the optimal timing for estab…
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26m 20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Minted Founder and CEO Mariam Naficy joins host Harry Stebbings to discuss capital efficiency, navigating market downturns, and strategies for building a…
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29m 20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Steve Vassallo, General Partner at Foundation Capital, discussing the evolution of design in venture capital, strategies …
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26m 20VC: The Fundamentals Of Optimising The Fundraising Process, SAFE's vs Priced Equity Rounds & Why Hiring Is Really A Big Data Problem with Chris Hutchins, Founder @ Grove & Former Partner @ Google Ventures
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Chris Hutchins, founder and CEO of Grove and former Google Ventures partner, to explore actionable fundraising strategies…
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22m 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Being The First Investor in Snapchat, Why The Pessimism Around Consumer Is Wrong & Why Silicon Valley Is An Isolated Bubble and What Can Be Done To Change This
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, venture capitalist Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners discusses his career trajectory, consumer tech investing dynamics, board governance, and th…
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25m 20VC: How To Think About Founder-Category Fit, Why The Biggest Opportunities Are In Category Re-Architecture & What Can Be Done To Increase The Amount of Women In VC with Nadia Boujarwah, Founder & CEO @ Dia & Co
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Nadia Boujarwah, Founder and CEO of Dia & Co, discussing category re-architecture in plus-size fashion, early bootstrappi…
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23m 20VC: Dick Costolo on The Balance of Vision and Realism in Startups, The Biggest Challenge in Scaling Twitter & How To Optimise Decision Making Internally
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joins Harry Stebbings to discuss how his background in improv comedy shaped his approach to leadership, scaling global or…
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25m 20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Brian Garrett, Founding Partner and Managing Director at Crosscut Ventures. Brian discusses the growth of Crosscut in Southern…
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28m 20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Andy Pflaum, CEO of Astro, discussing his unique career path, practical advice for navigating startup operations, competi…
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24m 20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham @ USV, How CEO's Can Operationally Utilise Their Board & The Single Most Important Quality of A CEO with Andrew Parker, General Partner @ Spark Capital
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Andrew Parker, General Partner at Spark Capital, discussing his career trajectory, key learnings from Union Square Ventur…
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31m 20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Neil Young, founder and CEO of N3twork, on navigating platform shifts, evolving mobile game distribution, and managing bo…
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30m 20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Eurie Kim, General Partner at Forerunner Ventures, to explore early-stage consumer brand investing, portfolio construction, DN…
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22m 20VC: Why You Should Not Always Listen To Your Investors, The Pros and Cons of Strategic Investors & How To Approach Operational Efficiency with Scaling with Florian Leibert, Founder & CEO @ Mesosphere
Florian Leibert, Founder and CEO of Mesosphere, joins Harry Stebbings on The 20 Minute VC to discuss his transition from Twitter and Airbnb to building an enterprise infrastructure platform,…
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25m 20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC
In this episode of The 20 VC, Y Combinator President Sam Altman discusses leadership conviction, effective founder evaluation, and internal operational dynamics at YC. He also shares critica…
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30m 20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Emily Choi, Head of Corporate Development at LinkedIn, to explore the mechanics of tech M&A, long-term relationship build…
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35m 20VC: Why Risk Is Misunderstood In Entrepreneurship, Why Acquisitions Are Cheap For Incumbents Today & 3 Strategies To Improve Diversity In Your Team with Henry Davis, President & COO @ Glossier
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Henry Davis, President and COO of Glossier, discussing direct-to-consumer brand building, risk mitigation in entrepreneur…
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30m 20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Crystal Huang, Principal at GGV Capital, to explore the structural differences between US and Chinese enterprise tech…
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25m 20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Hans Tung, Managing Partner at GGV Capital, to explore cross-border venture capital investing between the US and Asia. Tu…
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22m 20VC: What Is The Right Drone Investing Strategy, The Catalyst That Will Take Drones to 100s of Millions & Will Amazon and Google Win The War of The Airspace with Ben Marcus, Founder & CEO @ Airmap
In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews AirMap Founder and CEO Ben Marcus to discuss drone investment strategies, airspace management platforms, big tech com…
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28m 20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
In this episode of The 20 Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Kevin Thau, General Partner at Spark Capital, exploring key lessons from Twitter's hyper-growth, the art of product roadm…
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