Victoria Treyger

Everything Victoria Treyger said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Opinion

VCs should act as personal friends supporting founders' whole lives

“In today's world, the reality is that your business and your personal lives blend completely into just one person, and so I do think that In your role as investor slash advisor, you are a friend to the founder, and your job is to support the entire person with…”

Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 9:54 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

20VC Insight

Startup board meetings should be capped at three to four hours

“I think that you want to limit the board meeting time itself Not the committee meetings, but the board to three to four hours. After that, I have not found the board meetings to be productive.”

Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 14:51 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

20VC Insight

Board meetings should focus on strategy, not performance metric updates

“The board meetings should not be used for performance dashboards. It is your role as a board member to work with the founders in advance to set up the metrics in dashboards that you want to track.”

Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 15:06 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

20VC Insight

Series B is the optimal stage to add independent board members

“B is the right stage, I have found, to bring in independent board members that have significant experience scaling, driving growth, and potentially key functional expertise in some of the areas that you want to build out, such as sales, partnership, risk, mark…”

Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 17:12 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

20VC Assertion Contradicted

Independent bookstores grew 10% annually for five consecutive years

“For the last five years, independent bookstores have been growing by about 10% year over year”

Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 24:07 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

20VC Disclosure

Felicis Ventures pledges 1% of committed capital to founder mental health

“To address this, Felicis launched something called the Founders Pledge, Founders Development Pledge, where we contribute one percent of our committed capital toward leadership coaching and mental health for the founding team.”

Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 33:23 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

20VC Assertion Partly supported

Kabbage grew revenue from $5M to hundreds of millions in six years

“And together we grew the company from its very beginning in 2012. It was just about four or five million into the hundreds of millions of dollars at the end of last year.”

Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 4:35 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Felicis Ventures tracks Net Promoter Scores for its portfolio founders

“One of the things we do at Felicis is we track NPS score with founders and something we pay a ton of attention to”

Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 6:13 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

20VC Prediction Partly held up

Global men's grooming market projected to reach $61 billion by 2020

“The men's grooming category alone has moved from becoming a sleeper to all of a sudden very rapid growth. It's Going from about globally, fifty billion in 2017 to sixty one billion by 20 20.”

Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 20:20 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

20VC Assertion Partly supported

Startup founders suffer anxiety and depression at twice the national rate

“Almost 18% of the U.S. Population today suffers from anxiety and depression, but the studies have shown that for founders, this number is about two times higher”

Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 32:52 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

The other half of the tape: Victoria Treyger's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 3 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 4

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Victoria's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Senior Venture Partner, Felicis	1	10	0% 0/4	full record on 20VC →