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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Haystack comes up on 20VC, the MAD Podcast, the Neon Show, Capital Allocators, the Knowledge Project
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:15 Mike Mignano Uh, second answer, I would say tied for, you know, my favorite seed fund has gotta be Haystack. 3 times in the scene
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 58:36 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I remember talking to Semil Shah from Haystack when he was a solo GP.
GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 17:56 John Coogan Uh, I want to get your reaction to this, uh, post from Semel over at Haystack.
Why Top Global VCs Are Eyeing India | Boris Wertz | Version One Ventures | The Neon Show
- ▶ 4:09 Boris Wertz Yeah, so, so one of the first one I backed was, uh, Haystack, which is an early stage fund out of the US, uh, Simil Shah, um, that was about, about somewhere eight years ago.
- ▶ 6:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, I, I have you started like repeating across the funds in Haystack, like you came in Haystack one. 4 times in the scene
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 21:58 Magnus Grimeland So Index, for example, the entire LinkedIn database, we built a tool called Haystack. 2 times in the scene
From NLP Start-Up to Generative-AI Platform: Milos Rusic (deepset) Unpacks Product-Market Fit
- ▶ 5:07 Milos Rusic And this is how we came up with Haystack, because Haystack was, um, we understood that, look, there is somehow always a set of components you need, which is not just a model, but it's also like, for example, a database where you store 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:46 Matt Turck So we're going to start with Haystack, the open source, uh, project as described, uh, which is a very popular, um, open source project with, uh, 10, uh, .4000 stars for people who care about the things and a 186 contributors. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:21 Milos Rusic Um, of course, the OpenAI models, um, which are in particular, very well performing for, um, all generative use cases, uh, but we see, uh, the Hugging Face models, um, from the Hugging Face Hub, um, the full hub is supported, um, are still… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:16 Matt Turck So that's Haystack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:50 Milos Rusic And this is, you know, where it makes sense to also say, Hey, these things don't have to be open source because in the end, not everyone who wants to succeed with haste will require this, uh, um, but in the end, everything that you need to…
- ▶ 31:01 Milos Rusic Look, uh, even while being in consulting, um, even then afterwards, when we launched, uh, Haystack, um, we see, we see, um, we see strong adoption really like from, from enterprises, um, from large companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:42 Matt Turck I saw, um, Airbus for Haystack, uh, and then I saw, uh, months. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:13 Milos Rusic I'm also on Twitter, um, and, uh, Haystack is on GitHub.
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli: The Funding Market Today; Last-Mile Delivery; Competing w/ Carta | E1005 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:32 Avlok Kohli Seed stage specialist haystock, um, I would buy, and then short, also no comment on that one.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:57 Harry Stebbings Samuel said on the show the other day from Haystack,
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings I spoke to some, some, many mutual friends, um, which was great fun, and I want to start with the firm itself being Haystack, and Hunter Walk, obviously from Homebrew, he asked, how do you decide what each thumb size for Haystack will be? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:12 Semil Shah Um, but one of the things I'm, I'm really proud of with Haystack is if you look at, if you look at the activity, um, of all the deals over, over 10 years, I would say there's like a tight clustering between eight and fifteen million…
- ▶ 19:18 Semil Shah Like, you know, on paper, Haystack looks like I can't believe it, you know.
- ▶ 50:18 Harry Stebbings You know, one of the, one of the things that concerns me is the misalignment of incentives within the LP landscape, whereby they say, hey, we'll do Andreessen
- ▶ 1:17:02 Harry Stebbings Uh, what's been the single hardest moment of the Haystack journey, my friend?
#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 12:37 Sahil Lavingia I'd started to build a relatively strong network of people like Naval and Seth Goldstein from Turntable and, and Samil Shah from Haystack VC now.
20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Jason has raised over eighty-four million dollars with Ironclad from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia, Excel, Greylock, Emergence, IA Ventures, Semo Shah's Haystack, and then obviously Ali Raugani, who led their… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings Samuel's also, alongside his role at Haystack, a venture partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and prior to founding Haystack, Samuel was on the operating side as an early advisor and employee at Concept.io, or Swell, acquired by Apple… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:28 Harry Stebbings Venture and come to be GP at Haystack and found Haystack and then also venture partner at Lightspeed.
- ▶ 18:13 Semil Shah And as a timeline's compressed, it makes it harder for the Harry Stebbings and the Samil Shaws of Haystacks of the world to raise those funds. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:42 Harry Stebbings We spoke about kind of paystacking the new fund there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:57 Harry Stebbings What's the single biggest challenge of your role with Haystack today, Samuel? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Harry Stebbings As I said at the beginning, just such a special member of our ecosystem, and I couldn't be more thrilled to see the continued success of Haystack.
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
- ▶ 25:04 Harry Stebbings I mean, we had Samuel Shah on the show from Haystack and Lightspeed, and he said that actually the best early stage managers of the next decade will be able to successfully navigate the secondary market with ease.
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
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to friend of the show Semel Shah at Haystack for the intro to Hans today, without which this episode would not have been possible.
20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Now, Semmel is the founder of Haystack, an early-stage investment firm with a star-studded portfolio, including the likes of Instacart, DoorDash, Giphy, Opendoor, and Managed by Q, just to name a few.
- ▶ 2:23 Harry Stebbings Haystack.
- ▶ 26:34 Harry Stebbings Some very exciting times ahead for Haystack, and if you'd like to see more from Semil, you can follow him on Twitter, at Semil, or you can head over to his website, Haystack, to check out more of his incredible writing. 2 times in the scene