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20VC: Top Three Lessons from Working with Jeff Bezos for 23 Years at Amazon, How the Best Leader Hire, Fire, Prioritise and Make Decisions & How to Be Responsible for 1M Employees and Be a Rockstar Husband and Father with Dave Clark @ Flexport

Jul 17, 2023 · 43:17

✨ Dave Clark shares 23 years of Amazon leadership lessons with Jeff Bezos.

43:17

20VC: Why Fund Sizes Should Be Smaller, Should Founders Also Have Their Own Funds, Is Emerging Markets Investing Gone, Is Fintech Investing Dead & Who Will Be The Winners and Losers in VC in the Next 10 Years with Sheel Mohnot, Co-Founder @ BTV

Jul 14, 2023 · 49:27

✨ Sheel Mohnot discusses optimal VC fund sizes and emerging market investing.

Sheel Mohnot

49:27

20Sales: Slack, Atlassian, Dropbox: Five of the Biggest Lessons on Starting, Scaling and Managing Sales Teams from 25 Years Leading the Best with Kevin Egan, Global Head of Enterprise Sales at Atlassian

Jul 12, 2023 · 36:58

✨ Kevin Egan shares 25 years of sales leadership at Slack, Atlassian, Dropbox.

Kevin Egan

36:58

20VC: Simon Sinek on Trust; How it is Gained and Lost | Why Millennials Avoid Conflict | How to Listen Effectively | What Makes The Best Feedback and How to Provide It | Why Humans Do Not Change & How To Find Out Who You Really Are

Jul 10, 2023 · 52:21

✨ Simon Sinek explores trust, its gain and loss, and millennial workplace dynamics.

52:21

20VC: Why Data Size Matters More Than Model Size, Why The Google Employee Was Wrong; OpenAI and Google Have the Advantage & Why Open Source is Not Going to Win with Douwe Kiela, Co-Founder @ Contextual AI

Jun 30, 2023 · 42:28

✨ Douwe Kiela argues data size is more critical than model size in AI.

Douwe Kiela

42:28

20VC: The Rent the Runway Memo: How Paid Marketing & Growth Hacking Ruined a Generation of Companies, When Will Rent the Runway Be Profitable & How Does it Compare to Other Fashion Co's and Why "I Wish I Ran My Startup Like a Public Company"

Jun 28, 2023 · 40:24

✨ Jennifer Hyman critiques paid marketing's impact on startups like Rent the Runway.

40:24

20VC: Eight Pieces of Startup Advice that are BS: Why You Do Not Have to Love Your Space, It Is Ok To Do It For The Money, Focus Is Not Everything, Speed Is Not The Most Important Thing with Akin Babayigit, Co-Founder @ Tripledot Studios

Jun 26, 2023 · 01:07:17

✨ Akin Babayigit debunks common startup advice, like 'focus is everything'.

Akin Babayigit

01:07:17

20VC: How to Raise a Venture Fund from Deck to First Meetings to Final Close, Why Venture is a Young Person's Game and Why Multi-Stage Funds Have Not Ruined Seed with Rob Go, Co-Founder @ Nextview

Jun 23, 2023 · 54:31

✨ Rob Go explains raising a venture fund from start to finish.

Rob Go

54:31

20Growth: How to Master PR and Comms, How to Get Your Startup Written About; Press Releases, Fundraising Announcements, Embargos etc & Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users with Gina Gotthilf, Co-Founder @ Latitud

Jun 21, 2023 · 55:28

✨ Gina Gotthilf shares PR and communication strategies for startups.

Gina Gotthilf

55:28

20VC: Why No Models Today Will Be Used in a Year, Why Open Will Always Beat Closed in AI, Why Proprietary Data is Less Important Than Ever And Why EU AI Regulation is a Disaster with Alex Lebrun, Founder & CEO @ Nabla

Jun 19, 2023 · 56:24

✨ Alex Lebrun discusses AI's future, predicting open models will surpass closed ones.

Alex Lebrun

56:24

20Product: Slack CPO Noah Weiss on How to Master Product-Led-Growth, The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Scaling Into Enterprise & What Needs to Change with your Product, Team and Processes when Scaling From PLG to Enterprise

Jun 16, 2023 · 51:32

✨ Noah Weiss shares Slack's product-led growth strategies and enterprise scaling challenges.

51:32

20VC: UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak on Investing More in AI Safety Research Than Any Other Country in the World, How AI Changes the Future of Education, His Top 5 Priorities as Prime Minister Today & How to Make the UK the Centre of AI

Jun 14, 2023 · 21:56

✨ UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak details AI safety investment and its future impact.

21:56

20VC: Larry Summers on How to Manage Inflation; Should We Increase Rates Even Higher, Why We Need To Change The US Tax System, Why Europe is a Museum, China is a Jail and Bitcoin is an Experiment & How a Trump Win Would Hurt the US Economy

Jun 12, 2023 · 40:20

✨ Larry Summers analyzes inflation, advocating for higher interest rates and tax system changes.

40:20

20VC: What are the World's Tech Leaders Running From? Fear? Insecurity? Poverty? What Drives the Best with Orlando Bravo, Bill Ackman, Dara Khosrowshahi, Parker Conrad, Tobi Luttke, Brian Armstrong and more..

Jun 9, 2023 · 28:28

✨ Tech leaders discuss motivations like fear, insecurity, and poverty driving their success.

Orlando Bravo

28:28

20Sales: PLG and Early Adopter Sales are Gone, How to do Sales Forecasting in 2023, Why You Cannot Do PLG and Enterprise from Day 1 at the Same Time and Which is Easier to Start, How to Onboard, Manage and Scale Reps with Rich Liu, CRO @ Everlaw

Jun 7, 2023 · 51:06

✨ Rich Liu explains the decline of PLG and early adopter sales models.

Rich Liu

51:06

20VC: The Largest Venture Backed D2C Consumer Exit; PillPack: $0-$300M Revenues in 5 Years & The Biggest Lessons Scaling the B2B Business to $300M in 2.5 Years with TJ Parker, Co-Founder @ PillPack

Jun 5, 2023 · 59:49

✨ TJ Parker recounts PillPack's journey from $0 to $300M in revenue, then acquisition by Amazon.

59:49

20VC: Who Wins the AI Race; Startups or Incumbents & Does Having Proprietary Data Really Matter For Startups Today?

Jun 2, 2023 · 24:02

✨ The episode debates whether startups or incumbents will win the AI race.

24:02

20VC: The On Running Memo: From Swiss Mountains to NASDAQ IPO: The Story of Three Friends Who Built a Sports Giant

May 31, 2023 · 44:38

✨ The founding story of On Running, from mountain experiments to a NASDAQ IPO, is shared.

44:38

20VC: Why Financial Models at Seed, $5M Seed Rounds & The Fear of Signalling Risk is all BS | Why Multi-Stage Firms Have Destroyed Seed & Who Wins and Who Loses in the Next 10 Years of Venture with Adam Besvinick, Founding Partner @ Looking Glass Capital

May 29, 2023 · 43:39

✨ Adam Besvinick argues that financial models and fear of signalling risk in seed rounds are overblown.

Adam Besvinick

43:39

20Product: How Linkedin Does Product Reviews, A Post-Mortem on Stories, Linkedin Messenger and Spam & Why the Data Advantage in AI is Diminishing with Tomer Cohen, CPO @ Linkedin

May 26, 2023 · 45:35

✨ LinkedIn's CPO Tomer Cohen discusses product reviews and post-mortems.

Tomer Cohen

45:35

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