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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Fred Destin comes up on 20VC
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 22:27 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, in terms of the board environment itself, my partner Fred always tells me, Harry, on a board, you have to create an environment of safety. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 5:48 Harry Stebbings For me, especially, say, with Stride, me and Fred are always very cognizant of market timing and potentially having to carry companies.
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
- ▶ 22:10 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, well, me and Fred, my partner, always talk about kind of acceptable versus unacceptable risk.
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 10:23 Harry Stebbings I mean, actually, it takes me to something that my partner Fred says the whole time, and he says that around pricing today, assets are priced as if risk is non-existent.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on The Strategy Behind The New $600m "Back To The Future" Fund, The Truth To Price Sensitivity at Series A & Why Venture Team Building Is Like Basketball Team Building
- ▶ 15:05 Harry Stebbings I think definitely for me and Fred now, it's always a case of kind of ownership on first check.
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 8:17 Harry Stebbings I do have to dive in on that because we often discuss the importance and why we place emphasis, me and my partner, Fred, that is market people product.
20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
- ▶ 10:33 Harry Stebbings I mean, I think it actually comes down to something that me and my partner, Fred, talk about a lot, which is acceptable versus unacceptable risk.
20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- ▶ 13:43 Harry Stebbings My partner actually at the Fun Stride, Fred, says, actually, when you're a leader, decisions are about batting average, and it doesn't matter if you're wrong occasionally, but you've got to be right more times than you're wrong. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 14:41 Harry Stebbings It's something me and my partner, Fred, talk about a lot.
20VC: How To Optimise Decision-Making Frameworks, How To Really Get The Most Out Of Your Board and When Your Brother Is Also Your Co-Founder; The Secret To Working with Family with Rob Sadow, Founder & CEO @ Scoop
- ▶ 9:14 Harry Stebbings Fred Destin is also a huge note when it comes to the decision making, and he said before that decisions are never perfect.
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 18:59 Harry Stebbings My partner Fred at Stride says that we as VCs have to create an environment where people, especially founders, feel confident coming to us with anything and everything.
20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates
- ▶ 15:09 Hunter Somerville And I like the tweet from your partner, Fred Destin, yesterday about how it took 10 years to really get a sense for track record and three more to really