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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

Harry Stebbings · Business · EN

This podcast features interviews with prominent venture capitalists and successful startup founders, discussing venture capital, startup funding, and the pitch process. It offers insights into the strategies and experiences of leaders in the tech and investment world.

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20VC: Getir Founder, Nazim Salur on The Future of Last Mile Convenience, Who Will Win? Lessons on Driver Acquisition and Efficiency, Zone Maturity and Time To Profitability and Scaling to 300 Cities in the US in 2022
Sep 16, 2021 · 42:53
✨ Getir Founder Nazim Salur discusses the future of last-mile convenience and rapid delivery.
42:53
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
Sep 14, 2021 · 49:28
✨ Sequoia's Doug Leone on scaling the firm and international expansion strategies.
49:28
20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To
Sep 2, 2021 · 36:56
✨ Accel's Sameer Gandhi on leading internal rounds for Crowdstrike and market sizing.
36:56
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
Aug 30, 2021 · 39:06
✨ Marcelo Claure discusses Softbank's rapid investment pace and LATAM growth.
Masa Son
39:06
20VC: Has Price Discipline Disappeared? Is it Possible to Build Ownership Over Time? Why Venture Is Less Collaborative Now Than Ever? How fast Do Breakout Companies Become Obvious? How To Construct an Optimised and Repeatable Investment Decision-Making Pr
Aug 26, 2021 · 54:45
✨ Frank Rotman questions the disappearance of price discipline in venture capital.
54:45
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
Aug 23, 2021 · 45:41
✨ Coinbase President Emilie Choi on building Coinbase Ventures with minimal staff.
45:41
20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
Aug 19, 2021 · 37:53
✨ a16z's Angela Strange on expanding beyond core markets and serving the unbanked.
37:53
20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures
Aug 16, 2021 · 37:42
✨ Kaszek Ventures scaled from $100M to $1BN, focusing on LATAM's growth.
Nicolas Szekasy
37:42
20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
Aug 12, 2021 · 41:22
✨ Seed investing is about developing secrets, not just backing companies.
41:22
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
Aug 2, 2021 · 46:10
✨ VC operational approach matters more than past successes.
46:10
20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
Jul 29, 2021 · 45:33
✨ CEOs make critical decisions on leadership and scaling.
Christa Quarles
45:33
20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
Jul 26, 2021 · 37:13
✨ Analyze ownership and price sensitivity carefully in investments.
37:13
20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have
Jul 22, 2021 · 32:09
✨ GE's Jeff Immelt shares leadership lessons from 16 years as CEO.
32:09
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
Jul 19, 2021 · 33:33
✨ a16z's growth fund focuses on portfolio construction and decision-making.
33:33
20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
Jul 15, 2021 · 45:47
✨ Acknowledge that not everyone is always succeeding; stop pretending.
Nick Mehta
45:47
20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital
Jul 12, 2021 · 44:31
✨ Assess human potential using 'The Resume Test' for hiring.
44:31
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
Jul 8, 2021 · 38:28
✨ Growth stage is complex with crossover, PE, and hedge fund involvement.
38:28
20VC: Twilio's Jeff Lawson on What It Takes To Create a Tribe, How To Create Anti-Fragile Organisations Through Decentralised Decision-Making and Why Values Are Nice But Principles Are Better
Jun 28, 2021 · 46:02
✨ Jeff Lawson discusses building a strong company culture and tribe.
46:02
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
Jun 24, 2021 · 41:27
✨ Mark Mullen shares insights on optimizing investment decisions under pressure.
Mark Mullen
41:27
20VC: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet, What Can Be Done To Drive Further Investment in UK Venture & A Breakdown of Morning Routines, Peloton Favourites and Managing Nerves
Jun 21, 2021 · 30:15
✨ Rishi Sunak discusses attracting talent and driving investment into the UK.
30:15

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