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▶ 37:46 Chris Sacca Sometimes you're not going to get the board seat, but it's because I've been on companies where I'm like, look, I have the closest relationship with the founder, but I want Rob Hayes from First Round Capital to have the board seat because…

▶ 24:29 Chris Douvos Beezer and I were both in their first institutional fund, and they promised that they would never be bigger than first round.
▶ 42:46 Ted Seides So they're not the tourists, but what Andreessen's done over the last decade, Sequoia with the one fund, some of these players that have really, as you mentioned earlier, Chris, the reason why you had to be bigger than first round was to…

▶ 11:47 Ali Hamed I spent a lot of time idolizing Benchmark and First Round and Sequoia and a lot of these amazing firms.

▶ 49:07 Fabrice Grinda We'll sit down with everyone at every stage, and I mean, Andreessen, Greylock, Vessemer, General Catalyst, Tiger, First Round, I mean, we'll really cover everything.

▶ 9:16 Chris Douvos I love the first round guys. 4 times in the scene
▶ 36:25 Chris Douvos That was one of the things that drew me to first round. 2 times in the scene

▶ 33:05 Henri-Pierre Jacques I think we definitely take more of a community fund approach, similar to first round or hippo versus a partner approach like the Sequoias of the world.
▶ 36:18 Henri-Pierre Jacques I think also part of that's really led to that is some of the people we had around us supporting, whether that's Josh Kalbman at first round and first round also does per round in all of their companies, or us talking to Ben Horowitz at…

▶ 4:43 Ted Seides Bill is a partner at First Round Capital, which focuses on seed stage investing in technology companies. 5 times in the scene
▶ 5:15 Ted Seides So I know you've known First Round for a long time, but would love to hear how you first came across them. 10 times in the scene
▶ 15:23 Bill Trenchard Josh is of course the founder of FirstRound.
▶ 23:38 Bill Trenchard And then starting in 2012, I went full time at first round.
▶ 26:29 Bill Trenchard For how I work with founders and provide them feedback today and how we work as a firm. 2 times in the scene
▶ 30:43 Chris Douvos So you joined FRC in 2012, which, I mean, it seems like yesterday, but what drew you there? 10 times in the scene
▶ 33:42 Chris Douvos So in the time you've been at First Round, how have you infected First Round and changed it, and how has First Round infected you? 3 times in the scene
▶ 42:59 Chris Douvos Let's pivot a little bit because First Round was founded on the idea that the firm could turn venture capital on its head. 3 times in the scene

▶ 46:58 Ali Hamed Like if first round capital told me that net to me, I'll get two X my capital and some other firm said, I'll give you four X net your capital. 5 times in the scene
▶ 54:02 Ali Hamed Really tiny checks into rounds that were being led by first round or led by
▶ 56:30 Ali Hamed You'd have first round in for two 50 K and soft tech in for a hundred K and someone else for 50 K and you had all these super angels.

▶ 36:20 Chris Douvos First round capital owns 10%.
▶ 40:06 Chris Douvos So First Round and True were some of the really, OATV, not long after that, guys like Maples, which is now Floodgate, and, and SoftTech, and, and Baseline.
▶ 59:15 Chris Douvos And so, kind of in, oh, five, oh, six, I was spending a lot of time with Josh Koppelman at first round, and he was articulating his vision for what he called the first round platform. 4 times in the scene

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