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20VC: Bryan Johnson on Why Humans Are No Longer Qualified to Manage Our Own Affairs, How Algorithms Will Run our Bodies and How to Process New Ideas and Challenge Conventional Beliefs

Mar 22, 2024 · 52:06

✨ Bryan Johnson questions human control, favoring algorithms for bodily management.

52:06

20Product: Why Process is Killing Your Product Team and How to Remove it | Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | Why the Best Companies Build Movements and Lessons from Shopify and Atlassian on How to Do It Right with Jean-Michel Lemieux

Mar 20, 2024 · 01:04:56

✨ Jean-Michel Lemieux argues process can hinder product teams.

Jean-Michel Lemieux

01:04:56

20VC: 19 Company Portfolio: 1 Decacorn, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions; One of the Best Seed Investors of All Time on How to Pick Generational Defining Founders, Why Nothing but the Founder Matters & Why the Best Investors are Never Happy w/ Gili Raanan

Mar 18, 2024 · 57:49

✨ Gili Raanan, a top seed investor, discusses picking generational founders.

57:49

20VC: Bending Spoons: The Most Untold Success Story in Startups: Lessons Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation... Bootstrapped with Luca Ferrari, Co-Founder and CEO @ Bending Spoons

Mar 15, 2024 · 53:23

✨ Luca Ferrari details Bending Spoons' bootstrapped growth to 500M downloads.

Luca Ferrari

53:23

20Growth: Top Five Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook and Data Science at Sequoia Capital, The Two Skills Required to do Analytics Well, The Three Types of Execs within Companies and When and How to Hire for Growth with Chandra Narayanan

Mar 13, 2024 · 01:15:04

✨ Chandra Narayanan shares analytics lessons from Facebook and Sequoia.

Chandra Narayanan

01:15:04

20VC: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security| Why the "Woke Mind Virus" is a "Post-Modern Religion" and Is it Too Late to Reverse | Why the Education System is Broken | Investing Lessons from Wish, Palantir and Lady Gaga | Joe Lonsda

Mar 11, 2024 · 58:19

✨ Joe Lonsdale discusses TikTok's national security implications.

58:19

20Sales: Outbound Sales is Dead Today, Why Demand Generation Will Move Back Under Marketing, "Wisdom" that Everyone Needs to Unlearn About Sales & Why You Should Never Hire Someone You Do Not Know in Your First Five Hires with Brendon Cassidy

Mar 8, 2024 · 42:29

✨ Brendon Cassidy argues outbound sales is dead; demand gen returns to marketing.

Brendon Cassidy

42:29

20VC: 27 Years of Investing Lessons on Picking Founders, Price Discipline, Reserves and Selling Positions | Can Seed Investors Compete with Multi-Stage Venture Firms | Why Returns Will Not Worsen Moving Forward with Peter Wagner, Founder @ Wing

Mar 6, 2024 · 55:52

✨ Peter Wagner shares 27 years of investing lessons.

Peter Wagner

55:52

20VC: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World: $1.55 Trn of Assets & Owning 1.5% of all Listed Companies with Nicolai Tangen, CEO @ Norges Bank Investment Management

Mar 4, 2024 · 45:34

✨ Nicolai Tangen manages the world's largest sovereign wealth fund ($1.55T).

Nicolai Tangen

45:34

20VC: Are IPO Windows Shut? Has Regulation Killed the M&A Market? M&A OG Frank Quattrone on Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN and Taking Amazon, Cisco and Netscape Public

Mar 1, 2024 · 58:07

✨ Frank Quattrone discusses the current state of IPO windows and M&A markets.

58:07

20VC: Startups Only Fail When Founders Stop Trying, Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life & Why Tieing Your Identity to Your Company is the Most Dangerous Thing and How to Avoid It with Sami Inkinen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Virta Health

Feb 28, 2024 · 01:01:30

✨ Sami Inkinen believes startups only fail when founders give up trying.

Sami Inkinen

01:01:30

20VC: What it Takes to be Top 1% in Private Equity | Why the Best Companies are Talent Systems | Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | Marriage, Fatherhood and Sports Team Owner, What it Takes to Do It All, with Justin Ishbia, Founder @ Sho

Feb 26, 2024 · 01:21:06

✨ Justin Ishbia outlines what it takes to be in the top 1% in private equity.

Justin Ishbia

01:21:06

20Product: The Five Step Process to Hiring the Best Product People, The Four Core Skills the Best PMs Need to Have, The Two Product Documents that Drive World Class Product Teams & Why the Best PMs are Writers with Scott Williamson, Former CPO @ Gitlab

Feb 21, 2024 · 55:52

✨ Scott Williamson details a five-step process for hiring top product talent.

Scott Williamson

55:52

20VC: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse, Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken, What is the Answer to Liquidity with No M&A or IPOs, When to Sell vs Hold Your Winners & Turning $5M into $250M with The Trade Desk | Roger Ehrenberg, Eberg Capital

Feb 19, 2024 · 01:11:04

✨ Roger Ehrenberg predicts VC returns will decline due to broken LP incentive structures.

The Trade Desk

01:11:04

20VC: From Selling 75% of Trade Republic for €600K to Raising $1.3BN at a $5.3BN Valuation, The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN From the Best in the World; Trade Republic CEO, Christian Hecker and Creandum General Partner Johan Brenner

Feb 16, 2024 · 56:57

✨ Christian Hecker shares Trade Republic's journey from a small sale to a $5.3BN valuation.

56:57

20Growth: How to Master Product-Led-Growth, The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprise, How to Assess "Bets" in Growth; Which to Take and Which to Not with Gonto, Interim CMO @ Vercel

Feb 14, 2024 · 01:10:42

✨ Gonto explains how to master Product-Led-Growth strategies for SaaS companies.

01:10:42

20VC: The Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces, Why Rule of 40 and EBITDA Optimisation is BS, How Founders & VCs Should Approach Market Sizing and Outcome Scenario Planning and Why Europe is Failing with Vinted CEO, Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig

Feb 12, 2024 · 01:13:42

✨ Thomas Plantenga provides a guide to scaling marketplace businesses effectively.

01:13:42

20VC: Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley and Orlando Bravo on "Does Price Matter"; When to Pay Up vs When to Stay Disciplined, The Biggest Lessons on Price Discipline from 8 of the World's Best Investors

Feb 9, 2024 · 28:24

✨ Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley, and Orlando Bravo debate 'Does Price Matter?'.

28:24

20VC: The Chess.com Memo: The Most Untold Story in Startups; Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with Zero Venture Funding | Erik Allebest, CEO @ Chess.com

Feb 7, 2024 · 01:11:58

✨ Erik Allebest details Chess.com's growth to $100M revenue and 150M members without VC.

Zero Venture Funding

01:11:58

20VC: The Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing Today; Why The Best Founders Don't Need You, Why Uncapped SAFEs Are Good, Why Reserves Are Bad, Why Signalling is BS, Why Price Doesn't Matter with David Tisch & Terrence Rohan

Feb 5, 2024 · 01:29:27

✨ Seed investing misconceptions: best founders don't need you.

David Tisch Terrence Rohan

01:29:27

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