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20VC: The Memo: Scaling to $600M Revenues with No Venture Funding, The Most In Detail Breakdown of Consumer Subscription Unit Economics & Why D2C and Consumer Subscription is Not a VC Backable Model with Mike Salguero, Founder @ ButcherBox

Apr 5, 2023 · 01:18:33

✨ ButcherBox achieved $600M revenue without venture capital, focusing on unit economics.

No Venture Funding

01:18:33

20VC: Shopify Founder Tobi Lütke on Why Micromanagement is Good | Why You Will Learn More From Studying World of Warcraft Guilds Than You Will Companies | Why Happiness is BS; Lessons on Marriage, Fatherhood & Decision-Making Quality

Apr 3, 2023 · 56:48

✨ Micromanagement can be beneficial for driving focus and results.

Decision-Making Quality

56:48

20VC: The Secret to Negotiating; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | Why Everything You Know About Hiring is Wrong; Domain Knowledge and Past Experience are Dangerous | The Next 10 Years for Fintech; Winners, Losers and Crypto with Jackie Reses, CEO @ Lea

Mar 31, 2023 · 57:50

✨ Negotiating $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba highlights strategic deal-making.

Jackie Reses

57:50

20Product: Nubank's CPO on Why Product is 90% Science and 10% Art, Why Execution is Overrated and Strategic Clarity is Under-Appreciated, Why You Should Never Fall in Love With Your Own Ideas & Nubank's Biggest Product Challenges Scaling to 80M Users

Mar 29, 2023 · 51:42

✨ Product development is primarily scientific, with execution being less critical.

Your Own Ideas

51:42

20VC: Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi on Why Uber Eats is Not Losing the Fight to Doordash | Uber's M&A Strategy; A Scorecard Analysis from Careem to Postmates & Skip | Why Uber's Investment in Scooters was a Mistake | Secret to Marriage, Parenting & High Per

Mar 27, 2023 · 45:27

✨ Uber Eats faces intense competition but is not conceding the market.

High Per Uber's M

45:27

20VC: Three Core Lessons for Founders From the SVB Crisis From Financial Agility (Banking) to Constructing Scenario Plans and Mastering Crisis Communications | How The Western World Has Not Been Responsible with its Money & Why The Fed Is Backing Itself I

Mar 24, 2023 · 49:24

✨ The SVB crisis underscores the need for financial agility and scenario planning.

49:24

20Sales: The 3 Profiles of a Sales Rep, How to Negotiate in a Sales Process, How to Sell to a CFO & How You Should Shift Sales Messaging in a Downturn with Frank Fillmann, CRO @ Salesforce Australia

Mar 22, 2023 · 52:56

✨ Sales reps can be categorized into three distinct profiles.

52:56

20VC: Bill Ackman on The Banking Crisis, What the Fed Should Do, The Three-Tiered Banking System, Why SVB is the Safest, Why Jamie Dimon Should Run For President & Investing Lessons; Losing $400M on Netflix and Making $2.8BN in COVID

Mar 20, 2023 · 53:54

✨ The banking crisis requires careful consideration of the Fed's role.

53:54

20VC: Why Growth Investors Ruined the Venture Market, Why Marketing in Venture Has No Substance, Why Follow-On Investing Can Damage Returns and The Mistakes VCs Made in the Last 18 Months with Ophelia Brown, Founder @ Blossom Capital

Mar 17, 2023 · 52:22

✨ Growth investors may have negatively impacted the venture market.

Ophelia Brown

52:22

20Growth: The Inside Story to Uber's Hypergrowth Scaling; What Worked, What Did Not? | Spending a $1BN Budget at Uber and Why China was the Wild West for Uber | Why You Do Not Need a Growth Team with Adam Grenier

Mar 15, 2023 · 54:45

✨ Adam Grenier shares Uber's hypergrowth strategies and challenges.

Adam Grenier

54:45

20VC: SVB: What Happened? What Happens Now? Will Depositors Have Deposits Guaranteed? How Long Will It Take? Will There Be a Buyer? Who is the Most Likely Buyer? What is the Best and Worst Outcome?

Mar 12, 2023 · 37:01

✨ Jackie Reses and Kris Dickson analyze the SVB collapse and its implications.

37:01

20VC: Why AI Will Lead to Thousands of Billionaires and Elon Musk's, Will TikTok Be Banned and How Facebook Should Be Investing in AI & Why Startups Have Become Too Soft; We Need a Spiritual Reform with Amjad Masad, Founder & CEO @ Replit

Mar 10, 2023 · 45:54

✨ Amjad Masad predicts AI will create thousands of billionaires.

CEO @ Replit

45:54

20Product: Shopify's VP Product on Why the Founder is Always the Head of Product, What Makes Truly Special Product Managers, Why The Majority of Product Managers Need to Change, Why Top-Down Decision-Making in Product is Good & How Shopify Will Be Bigger

Mar 8, 2023 · 50:08

✨ Shopify's VP Product discusses the founder's role in product development.

50:08

20VC: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on The Crucible Moments Scaling Facebook to 1BN Users, Turning Facebook Reels Into a Monetisation Engine, Competing Against TikTok and SNAP, Coming Out in the World of Tech; The Challenges and What Needs to Change

Mar 6, 2023 · 49:33

✨ Alex Schultz details scaling Facebook to 1 billion users.

49:33

20VC: Will LPs Pull Out of Existing Managers, How Will Fund Sizes Change Moving Forward, Is Now The Time to be Aggressive on Secondaries, What is the Discount on Secondaries Today, Who Will Win and Lose in the Next Five Years with Hunter Somerville, Partn

Mar 3, 2023 · 51:21

✨ Hunter Somerville discusses LP behavior and fund size changes.

Hunter Somerville

51:21

20VC: The Story of Ring: Scaling from an Idea in a Garage to Richard Branson Investing and a Reported $1BN Amazon Acquisition | Why Building a Brand is Like Making Great Wine | The Secret to Hiring Success; Hire Marathoners and more with Jamie Siminoff

Mar 1, 2023 · 57:30

✨ Jamie Siminoff recounts Ring's journey from garage to Amazon acquisition.

Jamie Siminoff

57:30

20VC: How Multi-Stage Funds Changed The Game For Seed Rounds, Why Signalling Risk is BS, The Three Most Important Variables for Founders When Raising Rounds & A Debate on Portfolio Construction: Does Ownership Matter with David Tisch

Feb 27, 2023 · 01:01:45

✨ David Tisch explains how multi-stage funds impact seed rounds.

David Tisch

01:01:45

20VC: Why Value Investing is BS, The Most Insane Elements of SPACs, Why Simplification is the Secret to High Margins & Why Good Values Should Make You Uncomfortable with Joey Levin, CEO @ IAC

Feb 24, 2023 · 37:23

✨ Joey Levin critiques value investing and SPACs.

Joey Levin

37:23

20VC: Instagram Founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger on Why Social Networks Should Be Less Social & The Next Wave of Social | Why San Francisco Will Return with a Vengeance and The Future For Remote Work | Let's Get Personal: Relationships to Money, Be

Feb 22, 2023 · 01:04:41

✨ Instagram founders discuss making social networks less social.

01:04:41

20Sales: What is Sales Engineering? When and How to Hire Them? How They Should Work With AE's? How to Measure Their Success? How They Change Close Rates and Sales Comp Plans with Zach Lawryk, Head of Solutions Consulting @ Rippling

Feb 20, 2023 · 34:08

✨ Sales Engineers are product experts who tie business value to sales.

Zach Lawryk

34:08

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