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20VC: Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya, Gary Vee, Brad Gerstner and more on Their Relationship To Money, How It Has Changed with Time and Wealth, How They Bring Up Their Children To Engender the Same Values of Ambition and Hard Work?

Oct 28, 2022 · 26:48

✨ Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Gary Vee discuss their relationship with money.

26:48

20Growth: Biggest Growth Lessons from Reddit and Zynga on Scaling to Millions of Users | Why, When and How To Hire Your First Growth Hires | The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make In Hiring, Onboarding and Integration for Growth Teams with Vaibhav Sahgal, VP

Oct 26, 2022 · 44:56

✨ Vaibhav Sahgal shares growth lessons from Reddit and Zynga's scaling.

Vaibhav Sahgal

44:56

20VC: Uber's Journey to Becoming the Most Valuable Private Tech Company in History, Raising $3BN From Saudi in Just 60 Days, Uber's $30BN Mistake in Food Delivery, Why Recent Uber M&A Will be the Worst in Tech & Mastering Negotiations and Deal-Making with

Oct 24, 2022 · 01:02:45

✨ Emil Michael details Uber's journey to becoming the most valuable private tech company.

01:02:45

20VC: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years, The Death of "So So" Venture Firms is Coming, The Rise of Blackstone of Venture Firms and What That Does To Venture Returns, How the World of LPs is Broken and more with Kyle Harrison

Oct 21, 2022 · 48:58

✨ Kyle Harrison predicts 75% of active investors will disappear soon.

Kyle Harrison

48:58

20 Sales: How To Structure The Interview Process for All Sales Reps, The Must-Ask Questions When Identifying Potential Sales Talent & The 3 Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Their First Reps with Lauren Schwartz, VP of Enterprise Sales @ Fivetran

Oct 19, 2022 · 48:25

✨ Lauren Schwartz explains how to structure sales rep interview processes.

Lauren Schwartz

48:25

20VC: Dropbox's Drew Houston on Leadership; Hiring, Firing, Breakpoints in Company Scaling, The Story of Nearly Getting Acquired by Steve Jobs and Apple, How Founders Should Think Through Potential Investors and Acquisitions

Oct 17, 2022 · 43:59

✨ Dropbox's Drew Houston discusses leadership, hiring, and firing.

43:59

20VC: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible, The Trade-Off Between Freedom and Raising Big From VCs & Why Our Jobs Are Not As Hard As We Think and How To Assess Talent and Potential As a Result with Tristan Handy, Founder & CEO @ dbt Labs

Oct 14, 2022 · 43:03

✨ Tristan Handy believes CEOs should make as few decisions as possible.

Tristan Handy

43:03

20 Product: Spotify's Gustav Söderström on Why Product is 100% Science and 0% Art, Why You Should Look at the Competition and then Do Something Completely Different & Why Talk is Cheap and Product Teams Should Do More of it; Structuring the Best Debate

Oct 12, 2022 · 01:08:16

✨ Product strategy balances science and art, looking at competition then innovating.

01:08:16

20VC: Altimeter's Brad Gerstner on Why Supercycles and the Powerlaw is the Most Important Thing In Investing, Why Portfolio Diversification is the Opposite of Risk Mitigation and The #1 Question Brad Asks All New Recruits

Oct 10, 2022 · 01:08:46

✨ Supercycles and power laws are crucial for understanding investing.

01:08:46

20VC: Kevin Weil on The Biggest Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram and Twitter | How Working With Kevin Systrom Impacted His Approach To Product | 3 Things Instagram Did To Make Stories So Successful and Why Investing Makes Operators Better at Thei

Oct 7, 2022 · 44:38

✨ Lessons from Instagram and Twitter highlight product leadership challenges.

44:38

20VC: The Rippling Memo: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on The Conviction Building Process to Write a $200M Check and Co-Lead Rippling's Series D | Why No Competitor Can Out Execute Rippling | Uncapped SAFE's Why You Should Never Do Them and Why Geoff Broke The Ru

Oct 5, 2022 · 48:20

✨ Building conviction for a $200M check requires deep process.

48:20

20VC: Rippling's Parker Conrad on The Four Main Benefits From Building a Compound Startup | Why There Should Never Be a Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | How Zenefits Gave Parker a Chip on the Shoulder and Why That is so Important?

Oct 3, 2022 · 45:04

✨ Compound startups offer four key benefits for growth.

45:04

20VC: Lessons from Alfred Lin and Ron Conway | Why the World Does Not Want Your Startup To Exist and How the Best Founders Fight It | How To Build Moats and Defensibility Against Large Incumbents with Tarek Mansour, Founder & CEO @ Kalshi

Sep 30, 2022 · 33:46

✨ The world often resists new startup ideas.

Tarek Mansour

33:46

20Growth: Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar on Why the Best Marketers Think Like VCs | Why the Best Companies Do Not Start with Product Marketing | New Channels; When To Do, How Much To Spend, How To Test, When To Stop

Sep 28, 2022 · 51:34

✨ Top marketers adopt a venture capitalist mindset.

Product Marketing

51:34

20VC: Clubhouse Founder Paul Davison on What Went Right and What Went Wrong | What Does Clubhouse Do Now To Regain Mindshare? | Why Clubhouse is not a Content Platform? | What is the Next Wave of Consumer Social and Does Web3 Play a Role? |

Sep 26, 2022 · 37:08

✨ Clubhouse faced challenges with user engagement and strategy.

37:08

20VC: Why Greed is the #1 Enemy of Venture Returns, Why Not Enough VCs Play to Win and Lessons from Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and Then Cratering with Julio Vasconcellos, Founder @ Atlantico

Sep 23, 2022 · 49:37

✨ Greed is a significant impediment to venture returns.

Julio Vasconcellos

49:37

20 Product: The No 1 Metric You Need To Look at When Building Product | Why the Best in Product Have No Domain Experience | Why You Should Not Hire From Incumbents & The Difference Between Good vs Great PMs with David Lieb, Visiting Group Partner @ Y Comb

Sep 21, 2022 · 57:43

✨ The primary metric for product success is crucial.

David Lieb

57:43

20VC: From Struggling to Raise Funding to IPOing at Close to $9BN Just Five Years Later; The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | How To Build Large Companies with Small Teams | The Biggest Hiring Lessons and Mistakes with Seba Kanovich, CEO @ dlocal

Sep 16, 2022 · 39:16

✨ dlocal IPO'd at nearly $9BN, focusing on emerging markets payments.

Small Teams

39:16

20 Sales: How To Interview Sales People; The Red Flags and What to Look For, How Sales Leaders Should Change Goals and Quotas in Harder Markets and What Reps Can Do To Ensure They Hit Their Numbers in These Markets with Eleanor Dorfman, Sales Leader @ Ret

Sep 14, 2022 · 37:44

✨ Eleanor Dorfman discusses effective sales interviewing and red flags.

Eleanor Dorfman

37:44

20VC: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really "Venture Capital" | The Five Core Levers Needed To Assess Risk and Price a Startup | The Future of Venture; Who Wins, Who Loses, What Happens to the Crossover Funds with Will Quist, Partner @ Slow Ventures

Sep 12, 2022 · 45:53

✨ Will Quist explains why most VC isn't true 'venture capital'.

Will Quist

45:53

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