Clark Valberg
Managing Partner, Tiferes Ventures. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Clark Valberg co-founded and served as CEO of InVision, a digital product design platform. Today, he leads early-stage venture firm Tiferes Ventures.
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2said about them ↓ Everything Clark Valberg said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Funding emerging macro trends generates better returns than forcing market change
“You're putting money to try to change a market, to change the world. Then I think that's going to ultimately be calories that are difficult to create a return on. If you are harvesting a change that's emerging and you know that that emerging change is somethin…”
Clark Valberg says remote companies should use in-person gatherings strictly for bonding
“We don't use in-person time to get work done. We use in-person time to get rallied around the vision and to connect as people, as humans, as a culture personally, and not for work, right?”
Information flow requires explicit systems, not just physical office proximity
“If you don't have deliberate systems to ensure that people are aligned to make sure that information is flowing to the right people at the right time and early and often, if you don't have deliberate systems that make that happen, it will not happen, especiall…”
Clark Valberg predicts digital product design will produce a public operating system
“I think that there'll be a public company that lives in the space of the operating system of digital product design. I see I have line of sight to the idea that it could be envisioned, but the humility to understand there's a lot of hard work to do between her…”
The shift to in-house design teams powered InVision's early growth
“The big change in the world, and I think that the tide that kind of lifted our ship was this transition from the intellectual and design and creative energy around digital product happening outside organizations to it starting to emerge and grow and develop in…”
Founders chasing established market waves will never achieve true market leadership
“If you go chasing a wave that already exists, that's already up there and cresting and moving a lot of water around, you'll never be able to get to the top.”
Multiple decabillion-dollar tech giants once lost $100 million in a single quarter
“There are many businesses that are worth Many decabillions that at some point lost a hundred million dollars in a quarter.”
Most organizational problems stem from just three core personal character flaws
“Most of the problems you have in your life are traced back to about three different character flaws that you have that are just being expressed in many different ways.”
Leadership requires finding your personal voice just like a writer
“Leadership is like writing. Every writer has to find their voice. You have to find your style that comes from you innately, that you're comfortable with, that removes the self-consciousness of your ability to express yourself creatively and fluidly.”
Work-life balance requires alternating between integration and strict separation modes
“So I think about, I think that it has to be very binary. There's two different modes. You have work-life integration, and you have work-life, let's call them separations. So I try to exercise both of them, because I think one or the other isn't enough.”
InVision began as an internal agency tool without commercial intent
“I ran an agency here in New York building digital products for other people, additional kind of digital agency, you know, early in the digital agency world, probably, but the problem we were looking to solve was the problem that we had in the company with no i…”
Clark Valberg keeps an 'Unformed Gut Feelings' section on his to-do list
“I have a section at the top of my to-do list called Unformed Gut Feelings. And I give myself permission to put things there that are not crystallized yet. They're not distilled. They're not synthesized. Maybe they're not even validated. They're just completely…”
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2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- 20VC: Clearbit Founder Alex MacCaw on How To Successfully Negotiate with Investors, What Value-Add Do VCs Really Bring & Why You Should Only Have Operators on Your Board
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| 20VCLEDGER | Managing Partner, Tiferes Ventures | 1 | 12 | 50% 1/2 | full record on 20VC → |