Michael Treskow

Partner, Eight Roads Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michael Treskow leads venture and growth-stage investments in technology companies across Europe and Israel, focusing primarily on scale-up businesses. Prior to joining Eight Roads in 2016, he was an investor at Accel Partners in London and Warburg Pincus.

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4.3 / 5 directness 4.6 · coherence 4.8 · precision 3.8 · compression 3.4

answered every one of 12 assessed questions directly

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How they sound: speaking style how? →

225 words/min while actually speaking · 64.3 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,708 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 3/10

pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10

setup questions received 70%

host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 3:43“And do you think it's important for VCs then to have the entrepreneurial experience? We often hear that, you know, VCs need to be founders, and what would you, how would you respon…” ▶ 8:11“So what size market attracts you? We often hear the billion dollar market, but for a firm like Axel with, you know, obviously huge funds, how big does the market have to be to make…” ▶ 19:46“And then what do you make of emergence? You know, the famous enterprise SaaS, uh, VC pivoting away from enterprise software. Do you think that signals a turning tide in VC investme…”

when Michael pushed back ▶ 3:55“Well, I, I hope that's not true, because I, I don't have a founder background, but I think that's, that's a very fair question.” ▶ 8:34“And, uh, just to preview, uh, I'm not going to be able to give you a specific number, unfortunately.”

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Insight

Treskow: Founder experience is helpful for VCs but not essential

“All else being equal, all incremental experience helps. And so if you can have somebody who has had prior entrepreneurial experience, all else being equal you'd like that, right? And the question is, is more around to what extent that's necessary, right? Becau…”

Michael Treskow Sep 21, 2015 ▶ 4:05 20 VC 073: Life Inside Accel Partners with Michael Treskow @ Accel

Opinion

Treskow: Emergence Capital is expanding into mobile enterprise, not leaving SaaS

“From what I saw is that they are embracing the role of mobile and distributed workforces. In, in the enterprise, which to me is actually supporting what I was just talking about in, in the sense that, you know, you're introducing more and more consumer-like el…”

Michael Treskow Sep 21, 2015 ▶ 20:02 20 VC 073: Life Inside Accel Partners with Michael Treskow @ Accel

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Treskow: Europe will maintain a multi-hub tech ecosystem rather than consolidating

“You know, I'm not sure there's going to be one or I, I'm not sure it's, there's necessarily for one to emerge. I think London is, is doing well. Berlin is showing a lot of energy, but you also have you know, Tel Aviv and you have Madrid and Barcelona and you h…”

Michael Treskow Sep 21, 2015 ▶ 21:04 20 VC 073: Life Inside Accel Partners with Michael Treskow @ Accel

Disclosure

Treskow: Accel avoids cleantech and biotech due to lack of expertise

“So, so we do not look, for example, at cleantech or biotech because, you know, I know nothing about that space.”

Michael Treskow Sep 21, 2015 ▶ 13:39 20 VC 073: Life Inside Accel Partners with Michael Treskow @ Accel

Insight

Treskow: Enterprise software is increasingly adopting consumer-grade user experiences

“There is no reason to believe that the way that they would like to interact with information and technology changes dramatically when they enter the office environment, right? And so you know, as I would like to consume information on my mobile phone outside t…”

Michael Treskow Sep 21, 2015 ▶ 18:53 20 VC 073: Life Inside Accel Partners with Michael Treskow @ Accel

Disclosure

Treskow: Accel invested early in Facebook despite an unquantifiable market size

“So, so Facebook is, is a great example. You know, when we invested early on, you know, what's, what's the size of Facebook's market, right?”

Michael Treskow Sep 21, 2015 ▶ 11:01 20 VC 073: Life Inside Accel Partners with Michael Treskow @ Accel

Disclosure

Treskow: Accel announces investment in Spanish mapping startup CartoDB

“Yeah, so, so we just announced an investment in CartuDB, which is a Spanish mapping data processing and visualization engine that we're super excited about.”

Michael Treskow Sep 21, 2015 ▶ 22:20 20 VC 073: Life Inside Accel Partners with Michael Treskow @ Accel

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
20 VC 073: Life Inside Accel Partners with Michael Treskow @ Accel	Sep 21, 2015	15m

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