Pear VC
fund on 8 shows · 10 statements across 4 episodes · said 42 times in 16 episodes since 2017
20VC 31 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 3 
All-In 3 
Innovators & Investors 1 
My First Million 1 
the Neon Show 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 
Capital Allocators 1
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20VC 31the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 3All-In 3Capital Allocators 1My First Million 1Innovators & Investors 1the Neon Show 1A Product Market Fit Show 1
2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition
- Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
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2020 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit
- 20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 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
- 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
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 3 mentions in 1 episode
2017 22 mentions in 3 episodes 7 per episode
- 20VC: The Biggest Indicators Of Success In Founding Teams, How To Balance Both Vision and Operations & Taking Money From "The Man At The Rug Store" with Mar Hershenson, Founding Managing Partner @ Pear.vc
- 20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+
- 20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
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10 statements about Pear VC, every show
Hari: Pear VC and Boost VC provided $1M to launch Ego in 2023
“I had my first VC meeting ever with a VC named Paige Vaughn. He runs Pear VC in Palo Alto, and the meeting went super well, and they offered a half a million dollar check the next day, and a few Days after that, I met with Adam Draper from BoostVC, and they al…”
Hershenson: Pear VC portfolio companies are worth over $100 billion combined
“I've worked for the last decade with hundred plus startups. They're worth over a hundred billion dollars”
Hershenson: CEOs in Pear VC's top 10% portfolio are reading machines
“I have actually gone and looked at our top 10% of our portfolio, and there's one thing those CEOs have in common. They are reading machines.”
11 of 13 Pear Launchpad Companies Raised Top 2016 Seed Rounds
“So, you know, last year we had about 13 companies 11 of them ended up raising a seed round from great people. Accel, first round, Index, just really, really top name people. And the other two went back to school.”
Pear VC Evaluates Pre-Product Founders Solely on Obsession and Drive
“And the only thing we're judging is the human being, and the founder, and whether we think they are obsessed, hungry to achieve something.”
VC Platforms Are Intensive Service Operations Scaling via People, Not Software
“At the end of the day, to be honest, what we do is, you know, you can automate and replicate some of it, but it's a very intensive services business, right? It's people. Everybody's different. Founder has a problem, and they really need that human contact with…”
Only 1 in 100 Startup Pitches Generates Strong Investment Conviction
“You meet a hundred companies, and 95 of them, you know, it's a clear no, four of them, it's like, maybe, and one of them, you're like, oh my god, I gotta do it”
Active Seed Fund Involvement Typically Lasts 18 to 24 Months
“The nature of seed is such that they're around for 18 to 24 months, right? It could be less, it could be more, but on average, that's the number.”
Pear VC Invested in Nova Credit Before It Had a Product
“We invested before there was a product. There were students at Stanford and they were coming here to our lectures or talks, et cetera. Just an amazing team.”