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20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company

Feb 14, 2022 · 34:10

✨ Geoff Lewis discusses if VCs truly provide value.

34:10

20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup

Feb 11, 2022 · 34:45

✨ Founders cannot hedge their bets, according to Aaron Levie.

34:45

20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team, 3 Questions All Great Product Leaders Ask, How To Structure and Run Effective Product Reviews & Is Product More Art or Science?

Feb 9, 2022 · 45:10

✨ Scott Belsky on hiring product leaders and teams.

45:10

20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective

Feb 7, 2022 · 43:40

✨ David Frankel on building successful seed funds.

David Frankel

43:40

20VC: Mark Cuban on Reshaping the Pharmaceuticals Industry, How To Hire and Build Truly Great Teams and What Brand Really Means Today and How To Build One Successfully

Feb 4, 2022 · 30:58

✨ Mark Cuban discusses reshaping the pharmaceuticals industry.

30:58

20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital

Feb 2, 2022 · 46:30

✨ Building sales teams with a product-led-growth go-to-market strategy.

Dannie Herzberg

46:30

20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures

Jan 31, 2022 · 44:56

✨ Startup valuations, fund deployment, M&A, and IPO markets changing.

Roger Ehrenberg

44:56

20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a

Jan 28, 2022 · 31:46

✨ Early metrics showing Robinhood's breakout potential.

31:46

20VC: Sweetgreen Founder Jonathan Neman on Leadership Lessons from Managing Through COVID, The Importance of Failing Fast and Iterating & How the Best Leaders Bring Together Brand, Capital Allocation and Strategy

Jan 26, 2022 · 44:12

✨ Jonathan Neman on leadership lessons from managing through COVID.

44:12

20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards

Jan 24, 2022 · 41:13

✨ Anne Wojcicki discusses building trust in business and personal relationships.

41:13

20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo

Jan 21, 2022 · 40:26

✨ Ali Partovi shares a story of losing a $125M deal due to honesty.

Ali Partovi

40:26

20Growth: The Biggest Lie in Startup Growth and Marketing, Why You Do Not Need To Diversify Customer Acquisition Channels in the Early Days & When and How To Build Your Growth Team with Rob Schutz, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer @ Ro

Jan 19, 2022 · 39:38

✨ Rob Schutz debunks the biggest lies in startup growth and marketing.

Rob Schutz

39:38

20VC: Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on How To Narrow The Focus and Increase The Quality, Why Every CEO Should Feel Anxious, Why Performance Reviews are BS & How to Unleash the Best People in Your Business

Jan 17, 2022 · 35:00

✨ Frank Slootman emphasizes narrowing focus and increasing quality for CEOs.

35:00

20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!

Jan 14, 2022 · 35:33

✨ Devin Finzer details scaling OpenSea's GMV from $150M to $3BN.

35:33

20VC: The Memo: Never Before Revealed Metrics; A Full Breakdown of Unit Economics Behind JOKR, How Does Emerging Markets Compare to Developed Economies & The Biggest Misnomers on Quick Commerce with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR

Jan 12, 2022 · 44:18

✨ Ralf Wenzel reveals JOKR's unit economics and emerging market dynamics.

Ralf Wenzel

44:18

20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs

Jan 10, 2022 · 38:19

✨ Mark Carney discusses the survival of niche players in crypto.

38:19

20VC: Whoop Founder, Will Ahmed on How CEOs Can Perform at their Highest Level, Why There is Value in Struggle Early On, Why Realism is Overrated in Startups and How To Create a Culture of Delegated Decision-Making

Jan 5, 2022 · 41:38

✨ Will Ahmed explains how CEOs can achieve peak performance.

41:38

20Growth: The Biggest Growth Lessons from Leading Teams at Instagram & Instacart, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth Teams, How To Onboard Growth Reps Efficiently and The Relationship Between Growth and The Rest of the Org with Bangaly Kaba, H

Dec 16, 2021 · 38:33

✨ Bangaly Kaba shares growth lessons from Instagram and Instacart.

Bangaly Kaba

38:33

20VC: John Doerr on Buying 12% of Google for $12M, His Biggest Investing Lesson from 30 Years in Venture & The Climate Crisis: Why Governments are The Biggest Problem and Where the Biggest Opportunities Are in Climate Investing?

Dec 13, 2021 · 37:08

✨ John Doerr recounts buying 12% of Google for $12M.

37:08

20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales

Dec 8, 2021 · 37:16

✨ Hiring first sales reps and VP of Sales at Figma.

Kyle Parrish

37:16

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