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20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture

Dec 6, 2021 · 50:01

✨ Discussing signs of market busts and crash impacts.

50:01

20VC: AppLovin's Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry's Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth

Nov 29, 2021 · 43:39

✨ AppLovin's journey and potential venture capital miss.

Very Few Meetings

43:39

20VC: The Contentful Memo: Point Nine's Christoph Janz on The Cold Email That Led to a Unicorn Investment, How To Approach Market Sizing and Timing & The Pros and Cons of Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Do Them vs When Not To?

Nov 24, 2021 · 31:00

✨ The cold email that secured a unicorn investment.

31:00

20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse

Nov 22, 2021 · 46:16

✨ Exploring 'Status as a Service' and network growth dynamics.

46:16

20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu

Nov 17, 2021 · 41:09

✨ Growth lessons from early Facebook, Twitter, and Quora.

Andy Johns

41:09

20VC: Thrive Capital's Kareem Zaki on The One Rule That Drives Investment Decision-Making and Focus at Thrive, Why Every Large Institution Will Enter Venture Capital Over the Next Decade and How To Create a Firm Culture That Attracts The Best Young Talent

Nov 15, 2021 · 24:19

✨ Thrive Capital's singular rule for investment decisions.

24:19

20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun

Nov 11, 2021 · 28:26

✨ Palmer Luckey as a top innovator and Anduril's success.

Silicon Valley

28:26

20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev

Nov 8, 2021 · 39:31

✨ Building Accel into a prominent venture firm over 40 years.

39:31

20VC Unscripted: Pricing is Crazy, Pre-Emptive Rounds are Normal, Pricing at 200x Revenue Multiple is Common, There is More Cash Than Ever. What Happens Next; Market Analysis with Ryan Denehy, Founder and CEO @ Electric

Nov 4, 2021 · 35:05

✨ Current market conditions: high multiples and abundant cash.

Ryan Denehy

35:05

20VC: Mac the VC on the Journey from Homeless To Becoming A VC, What It Takes To Raise a Fund on Twitter, Why the Venture World is F***** Up and How Institutional LPs Need To Change

Nov 1, 2021 · 37:39

✨ Mac Conwell shares his journey from homelessness to founding RareBreed Ventures.

37:39

20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP

Oct 28, 2021 · 44:13

✨ Elena Verna outlines three key levers for successful growth models.

Elena Verna

44:13

20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats

Oct 25, 2021 · 40:35

✨ Will Shu discusses Deliveroo's IPO and the rise of quick commerce.

Uber Eats

40:35

20VC: Breaking News: Ankur Nagpal Raises $70M for Vibe Capital, What The Next Decade For Venture Will Look Like, Do VCs Actually Add Any Value & Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Take Them and When To Reject Them

Oct 20, 2021 · 36:58

✨ Ankur Nagpal announces his $70M solo GP fund, Vibe Capital.

36:58

20VC: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo on Why You Need Sponsors Not Mentors, Where Management Skills Align with Good Parenting & The First 100 Days as CEO at Instacart; The Challenges, The Surprises and The Next Chapter

Oct 18, 2021 · 37:23

✨ Fidji Simo emphasizes the importance of sponsors over mentors.

Good Parenting

37:23

20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?

Oct 14, 2021 · 32:30

✨ George Kurtz discusses scaling CrowdStrike to a $60 billion market cap.

32:30

20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb

Oct 11, 2021 · 01:16:00

✨ Chris Sacca returns to invest in climate solutions with Lowercarbon.

01:16:00

20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?

Oct 8, 2021 · 33:50

✨ Anthony Casalena details scaling Squarespace from a dorm room to public company.

33:50

20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic

Oct 5, 2021 · 45:26

✨ Anton Levy identifies the two largest shifts in today's investing market.

Anton Levy

45:26

20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor

Sep 30, 2021 · 36:56

✨ Keith Rabois discusses the origins of Opendoor with Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel

36:56

20VC: The Rise of Quick Commerce and Why CPGs ARe Misaligned Being Powered By Ad Spend, The 5 Core Components Consumers Care About When Ordering Today & Why Amazon and Alibaba Will Not Be The Big Players in 10 Years with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR

Sep 27, 2021 · 37:54

✨ JOKR's Ralf Wenzel discusses quick commerce and hyper-local delivery models.

Ralf Wenzel

37:54

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