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20VC: Why Financial Planning and Goals Do Not Work, The Decision to Ban Politics in the Workplace and Losing 1/3 of the Team Overnight & The One Question That Will Drive All Decision-Making for Leaders with Jason Fried, CEO @ 37Signals

Jan 6, 2023 · 43:27

✨ Jason Fried argues against traditional financial planning and goals.

Jason Fried

43:27

20VC Special: How To Fundraise Like a Pro: How to Size and Price a Round, How to Create FOMO and Urgency in a Fundraise, How to Structure Angel Allocations, The 7 Deadly Sins of Fundraising Decks, The 3 Signs a Potential Investor is Bad News

Dec 21, 2022 · 26:53

✨ Fundraising is a numbers game; focus on shots on goal.

26:53

20VC: Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy on Leadership Lessons Learned from Reed Hastings and Daniel Ek, What is Peloton's Competitive Advantage and Why Peloton is a Team and Not a Family

Dec 19, 2022 · 45:30

✨ Peloton CEO shares leadership lessons from Netflix and Spotify.

45:30

20VC: Leadership Lessons from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, The Early Days of TheFacebook Advising Mark Zuckerberg and Why Now is Not the Right Time For Startups to Stockpile Cash with Hadi Partovi, CEO @ Code.org

Dec 16, 2022 · 50:11

✨ Hadi Partovi shares leadership insights from Gates and Ballmer.

Hadi Partovi

50:11

20 Sales: Webflow's Maggie Hott on When to Start and How to Scale the Best Outbound Sales Team, Why Founders Should Not Hire a Head of Sales First, The Must Ask Questions When Hiring Sales Reps and How To Structure the Process

Dec 14, 2022 · 01:04:14

✨ Webflow's Maggie Hott on building and scaling outbound sales.

01:04:14

20VC: Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut on The Biggest Leadership Lessons Scaling to a $12Bn Acquisition and $1BN+ ARR, The Secret to Happiness, Being a Great Husband and Father & Why 2021 was the Right Time To Sell to Intuit

Dec 12, 2022 · 50:42

✨ Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut on scaling to a $12Bn acquisition.

50:42

20VC: The Story of Turning Around MTV, AOL and Time Warner | How To Be Effective When Making Hard Decisions | Tactics vs Strategy and Why Plans Are BS with Bob Pittman, CEO @ iHeartMedia

Dec 9, 2022 · 54:00

✨ Bob Pittman on turning around MTV, AOL, and Time Warner.

Bob Pittman

54:00

20 Product: Marty Cagan on The Four Questions of Great Product Management, Product Lessons from Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and eBay's Pierre Omidyar & The Difference Between Truly Great Product Teams and the Rest

Dec 7, 2022 · 57:39

✨ Marty Cagan on the four key questions of product management.

57:39

20VC: a16z's Martin Casado on How the Venture Model is Broken, Why VCs Should Be Running Wall St, Who Wins and Who Loses in the Next Generation of Venture & Investing Lessons from Marc Andreesen, Ben Horowitz and Chris Dixon

Dec 5, 2022 · 51:52

✨ Martin Casado believes the venture model is broken.

51:52

20VC: Plaid and Column Co-Founder, William Hockey on Why the Brands that Win in Fintech Will Not Be Financial Services Brands, What US Banking Can Learn from China & Why Companies Can Be Built Slower than People Think?

Dec 2, 2022 · 50:28

✨ William Hockey on fintech brands not being financial services brands.

50:28

20VC: Jason Lemkin on Why Founders Do Not Care About Their VCs Anymore, Why Zoom Made Us All Worse Investors, Why 80-90% IRR Should Have Been Warning Signs and the Algolia Journey From Seed to $2.25BN Valuation

Nov 30, 2022 · 59:36

✨ Jason Lemkin on founders' changing relationship with VCs.

59:36

20VC: Wolt CEO, Miki Kuusi on Leadership Lessons Scaling to a Reported $8.1BN Exit to Doordash, Building Teams not Families, The Difference Between Trust and Safety Within Companies, How To Use Compensation to Create Culture & Why You Should Not Be Lookin

Nov 28, 2022 · 01:04:24

✨ Miki Kuusi discusses scaling Wolt to an $8.1BN exit to DoorDash.

01:04:24

20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more

Nov 25, 2022 · 33:39

✨ Growth leaders discuss when to make the first growth hire (senior vs. junior).

33:39

20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with

Nov 23, 2022 · 39:26

✨ Jeffrey Katzenberg argues operating experience quickly becomes irrelevant for founders.

39:26

20VC: Semil Shah on The Biggest Mistakes VCs and LPs Made Over the Last 24 Months, Why LP Churn is Coming, Core Lessons on Scaling from $1M Haystack Fund I to Today and How To Find, Win and Manage LPs as an Emerging Manager

Nov 21, 2022 · 01:04:41

✨ Semil Shah shares LP mistakes and the coming LP churn.

01:04:41

20VC Rising Star: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | How To Know Pre-Investment Whether a VC Will Be Valuable and How to Get the Most Value Out of Them | Is There a Misalignment Between Founders and VCs with Oana Olteanu, Partner @ SignalFir

Nov 18, 2022 · 38:05

✨ Oana Olteanu advises founders on expecting more from VCs.

Oana Olteanu

38:05

20 Sales: The Ultimate Guide to Sales Onboarding for New Sales Reps and Sales Leaders, The Biggest Red Flags in the First 30 Days & What Can Be Done to Set Them Up for Success with Leaders from Figma, Dropbox, Miro and more.

Nov 16, 2022 · 30:48

✨ Oliver Jay and Jordan Van Horn detail sales onboarding best practices.

30:48

20VC: ARK Invest's Cathie Wood on Why ARK Has Not Had More Outflows Despite Performance, How the Global Tech Equities Market Will Go From $7Trn to $210Trn in 8-10 Years, The Future for Facebook and How Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey Could Create the Biggest Di

Nov 14, 2022 · 47:17

✨ Cathie Wood addresses ARK Invest's outflows and future market growth.

47:17

20VC: Why Market Size is Everything | Three Signs of a Bull Market and How To Remain Disciplined | Why Investing is a Young Person's Game | The Secret to Negotiation | Missing a $200M Opportunity in Nubank and more with Martín Escobari, Co-President @ Ge

Nov 11, 2022 · 46:05

✨ Martín Escobari highlights market size as a critical investment factor.

Co-President @ Ge Martin Escobari

46:05

20 Product: Hugo Barra on Lessons Building Hardware Products at Android, Xiaomi, Oculus, and Detect; Feature Kings vs. Budget Kings; 996 Work Culture in China; There Are No MVPs in Hardware; The 3.5-Hour Recruiting Interview

Nov 9, 2022 · 52:49

✨ Hugo Barra shares hardware product lessons from Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus.

52:49

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