The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch — Episodes, Guests & AI Summaries

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20VC: Why Market Matters So Much More Than Founding Team | Why Crypto Investing is Less Collaborative Than Ever | Why Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Inflation | Why Solana Will Beat Ethereum | The Network Effects You Need To Understand with Kyle Samani, C

Jul 22, 2022 · 40:57

✨ Kyle Samani emphasizes market importance over founding teams in crypto.

Kyle Samani

40:57

20 Sales: The Biggest Challenges Building Outbound Sales Teams and How To Overcome Them | How The Best Sales Reps Do Customer Discovery | 2 Elements Sales Teams Are Always Responsible For | Sam Taylor, VP Sales and Customer Success @ Loom

Jul 20, 2022 · 52:01

✨ Sam Taylor addresses challenges in building outbound sales teams.

52:01

20VC: Why Being First Does Not Matter, Why Defensibility on Day 1 Does Not Exist, Three Core Elements To Move into Enterprise Effectively and What Makes Truly Great Product Marketing Today with Des Traynor, Co-Founder @ Intercom

Jul 18, 2022 · 01:04:00

✨ Des Traynor argues that being first or having early defensibility isn't crucial.

Des Traynor

01:04:00

20VC: The Most Powerful Investor You Might Not Know | Why The Distinction Between Public vs Private is BS | The Misalignments Between GPs and their LPs | Portfolio Construction 101: Diversification, Capital Concentration, Loss Rates with Peter Singlehurst

Jul 15, 2022 · 45:26

✨ Peter Singlehurst discusses powerful, lesser-known investors and public vs. private distinctions.

Peter Singlehurst

45:26

20 Growth: Shopify's VP of Growth on Why Standalone Growth Teams Operate More Efficiently than Integrated Ones, Why You Should Hire as Senior Growth Leaders as Possible and The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Making Their First Growth Hires

Jul 13, 2022 · 43:02

✨ Luc Levesque explains why standalone growth teams are more efficient.

43:02

20VC: Matt Mullenweg on Relationships to Risk, Money and Insecurity as a Leader | Lessons from a Parent's Passing and the Pre-Grieving Process | What is High Performance in Leadership Today?

Jul 11, 2022 · 47:52

✨ Matt Mullenweg discusses leadership, risk, money, and insecurity.

47:52

20VC: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | Why Diversification is Overrated in Portfolio Construction | How to Think Through Sizing Investments, Market Sizing and Pricing in Today's Environment with Mike Chalfen @ Chalfen Ventures

Jul 8, 2022 · 57:10

✨ Mike Chalfen explains how to build anti-fragile venture portfolios.

57:10

20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Best vs the Worst | How Often Should They Be | Who Should Be Invited | Who Sets The Agenda | How to do Follow-Ups Post Product Reviews

Jul 6, 2022 · 34:48

✨ Scott Belsky offers a guide to effective product reviews.

34:48

20VC: Hiring 101; The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | Fundraising; What to Optimize for, How Profitability Changes Leverage When Raising | SMB to Enterprise; When to Move, What Changes and Dangers of Moving Too Early with Daniel Yan

Jul 1, 2022 · 39:46

✨ Daniel Yan discusses common founder mistakes in the hiring process.

Daniel Yan

39:46

20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market

Jun 29, 2022 · 26:32

✨ Investing lessons from past market downturns and how investor psychology evolves.

26:32

20VC: Accel's Sonali De Rycker on Building a Generational Defining Venture Firm; Hiring, Culture, Incentives | Investing; Biggest Mistakes, Biggest Lessons from Prior Crashes, Why Market Size is Dangerous to Focus On | Decision-Making; Type 1 vs Type 2 Ri

Jun 27, 2022 · 48:14

✨ Building a generational venture firm requires focus on hiring, culture, and incentives.

Investing; Biggest Mistakes

48:14

20VC: From Kitchen Table to $134M Fund II; Raising Your First Time Fund: Lessons from 400 LP Meetings, How To Find New LPs, What Materials to Use, How To Get LPs To Commit, The Challenges on Minimum Check Sizes and GP Commits and more with Henri Pierre-Ja

Jun 24, 2022 · 44:07

✨ Harlem Capital raised $134M for Fund II, focusing on diverse founders.

Henri Pierre

44:07

20 Sales: Why Founders Should Not Be The One To Create The Sales Playbook, How To Structure Each Interview in the Hiring Process For Sales Reps, How To Use an "Interview Panel" Effectively and more with Zhenya Loginov, CRO @ Miro

Jun 22, 2022 · 48:36

✨ Founders should delegate sales playbook creation to experienced CROs.

Zhenya Loginov

48:36

20VC: Gary Vaynerchuk on The Most Painful Lessons Learned but Why it was Good to Learn Them, Why You Have to Change the Timeframe You Have For Success, His Relationship to Money and How it Has Changed Over Time & His First 3 Angel Investments; Twitter, Fa

Jun 20, 2022 · 30:40

✨ Gary Vaynerchuk emphasizes learning from painful lessons and adjusting success timelines.

30:40

20VC: The Scaling Story of Soho House: Overcoming Dyslexia, Building a Global Brand, Scaling into The US, Retaining Exclusivity with Scale and The Journey to Going Public with Nick Jones, Founder & CEO @ Soho House

Jun 17, 2022 · 26:30

✨ Soho House scaled globally while maintaining exclusivity and overcoming dyslexia.

Nick Jones

26:30

20 Growth: Viral Loops; How To Create and Sustain Them, Why Interviews for Product and Growth Hires are BS and What To Do Instead, Mastering the Onboarding Process; Structuring the First 90 Days with Adam Fishman, Former Head of Growth @ Lyft

Jun 15, 2022 · 50:01

✨ Adam Fishman discusses creating and sustaining viral loops for growth.

Adam Fishman

50:01

20VC: Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah on The 3 Risks All Startups Face, Angel Investing Rules; No Founder Meetings and No Due Diligence, SMB vs Enterprise; Lessons on Pricing, Distribution and Why You Should Resist Going Enterprise

Jun 13, 2022 · 01:04:02

✨ HubSpot's Dharmesh Shah outlines three fundamental risks startups face.

01:04:02

20VC: Why and How Traditional Venture Firms Need to Innovate, Building Spreadsheets To Figure Out Relationships to Money, Ego and Identity Management with Success and The Biggest Lessons from Working with Mark Zuckerberg in the Early FB Days with Ruchi Sa

Jun 10, 2022 · 44:40

✨ Traditional venture firms must innovate to adapt to changing landscapes.

Ruchi Sa

44:40

20 Product: Twitter's Former Head of Product, Kayvon Beykpour on How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews, The Core Set of Questions to Ask All Potential Product Hires and When To Continue vs Quit on New Products

Jun 8, 2022 · 43:00

✨ Kayvon Beykpour details structuring effective product reviews and management.

43:00

20VC: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital, What Existing Incumbent Venture Firms Can Do To Survive, The Biggest Challenges Facing New DAOs Today and Whether Web3 Will Bring More or Less Income Inequality

Jun 6, 2022 · 47:08

✨ DAOs are poised to replace traditional venture capital firms.

47:08

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