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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

20VC News: Anchor Founder, Mike Mignano Joins Lightspeed as Partner: The Future of Social Media | Why Clubhouse Has a Challenging Model | Why TikTok Could be a $2TN Company | Why BeReal is Defensible | What Happens To OpenSea in a New World for NFTs

Sep 7, 2022 · 54:31

✨ Mike Mignano joins Lightspeed, discusses the future of social media.

54:31

20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale

Sep 2, 2022 · 39:07

✨ Arm CEO Rene Haas on balancing speed and quality in leadership.

39:07

20Product: Calendly CPO Annie Pearl on Why All PLG Companies Eventually Need to Embrace Enterprise, Why it is Easier to Scale into Enterprise than Visa Versa and the Calendly PLG Playbook; What Works and What Does Not?

Aug 31, 2022 · 45:20

✨ Annie Pearl on why PLG companies need to embrace enterprise.

45:20

20VC: Is Now Really the Best Time to Be Investing? WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? Why VCs Have Gotten Lazy Over the Last 2 Years? Investing Lessons from Hitting with Braze and Missing with Snowflake with Logan Bartlett, Managing Director @ Re

Aug 29, 2022 · 54:14

✨ Logan Bartlett questions current investment climate and VC laziness.

Logan Bartlett

54:14

20VC: Bumble's Whitney Wolfe Herd on How The Best Leaders Manage Intense Pressure, How To Think Through Risk vs Reward Frameworks & What it Truly Means to Listen so Your Teams Will Talk

Aug 26, 2022 · 39:11

✨ Whitney Wolfe Herd on managing intense pressure as a leader.

39:11

20VC: 10 Lessons on Scaling 20VC to 100M+ Downloads | How To Build an Audience and a Next-Generation Media Company

Aug 24, 2022 · 18:29

✨ 10 lessons on scaling 20VC to over 100M downloads.

18:29

20VC: Why Market Always Wins Over the Founder & Why I Do Not Do Market Sizing | Why it is not the Best Time to be Investing but it is the Best Time to Have a Fund & The Type of Deals to do Today | Why The Best Founders Have 100 Year Plans with Wes Chan, C

Aug 22, 2022 · 48:42

✨ Wes Chan believes market always wins over the founder.

Wes Chan

48:42

20 Sales: Three Reasons Why Sales People Fail | The Two Things That Matter When Hiring Sales Leaders | Why Revenue, Discounting and Price Do Not Matter in the Early Days with Jordan Van Horn, Revenue Leader @ Monte Carlo

Aug 17, 2022 · 54:15

✨ Salespeople fail due to lack of clear goals, poor process, and insufficient training.

Jordan Van Horn

54:15

20VC: Fintech OG Sheel Mohnot on Lessons from Investing in Flexport and ChipperCash and Missing Robinhood and Chime, Why Overly Large GP Commits are Dangerous, Biggest Mistakes Managers Make with Fund I and Emerging Markets; Which Survive?

Aug 15, 2022 · 43:24

✨ Sheel Mohnot shares investment lessons from Flexport, ChipperCash, and missed opportunities like Robinhood.

43:24

20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity

Aug 12, 2022 · 28:03

✨ Investing minds discuss when to pay a premium versus remaining disciplined on price.

28:03

20 Growth: Why You Need a Growth Hire Pre Product-Market-Fit? Why Every Company Will Be a Media Company and How To Do It | Communities; What Really Are They? How To Build Them? What Makes The Best? Why Do Many Not Work? | Kieran Flanagan, SVP Marketing @

Aug 10, 2022 · 54:33

✨ Growth hires are crucial pre-product-market-fit to drive early traction.

SVP Marketing @

54:33

20VC: Investing Lessons from Fred Wilson and Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | Why the Secret to Winning in Venture is Splitting Deals |Learnings From the Biggest Hits and Biggest Losses | Why Anyone That Always Does Their Pro-Rata is Wrong with Mo

Aug 8, 2022 · 48:33

✨ Fred Wilson discusses how small funds can outperform larger ones in venture capital.

48:33

20VC: Raising $60M and Not Touching a Dollar of It; The 3 Decisions That Led to a Cash-Flow Positive Business, Why Not Being Able To Fundraise in the Early Days Can Help Build Your Business & What are the First Things To Break in Scaling Orgs with Sameer

Aug 5, 2022 · 35:27

✨ Cambly raised $60M without touching capital by focusing on cash-flow positive operations.

35:27

20 Product: Shreyas Doshi on The Three Different Types of Product Leaders and How To Hire Them, The 6 Different Product Metrics You Need To Know and What Good is For Each of Them & Table Stakes Features vs Wow Features; What To Prioritise

Aug 3, 2022 · 46:08

✨ Shreyas Doshi outlines three types of product leaders and hiring strategies.

46:08

20VC: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM, What Truly is High Performance in Fund Management & Why Parenting and Relationships are an Enabler To Your Best Work

Aug 1, 2022 · 41:09

✨ Kirsten Green addresses challenges in scaling both teams and Assets Under Management (AUM).

41:09

20VC: Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on The Yahoo Turnaround Plan; What Needs To Happen | Leadership 101: The 4 Things To Look For When Hiring | Surviving a Crash; Biggest Advice on Cuts, Layoffs, Investor Communications

Jul 29, 2022 · 46:27

✨ Yahoo's CEO Jim Lanzone details the turnaround plan for the company.

Investor Communications

46:27

20VC: The Memo: What is a Sales Playbook? Does the Founder Need to Create It? Should the First Sales Hire Be a Leader or a Rep?

Jul 27, 2022 · 32:23

✨ A sales playbook is essential for early-stage companies to standardize processes.

32:23

20VC: Tony Fadell on The 3 Hats of Being a CEO, How the Best Leaders Inspire, How to Create Your Own Role within a Company, The Art of Parenting and Teaching Children Resiliency & New York Times' 36 Questions on Love!

Jul 25, 2022 · 45:00

✨ Tony Fadell shares insights on CEO leadership hats and inspiring teams.

45:00

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