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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: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
Mar 29, 2021 · 34:31
✨ Benchmark's Peter Fenton on the single question defining early-stage venture.
34:31
20VC: Nubank CEO David Velez on Scaling Nubank to a $25BN Company, Why What Makes a Great Founder Does Not Make a Great CEO & The Responsibility Framework and How Leaders Can Use It To Drive Efficiency
Mar 26, 2021 · 37:33
✨ Nubank CEO David Velez scaled the company to $25BN.
37:33
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
Mar 24, 2021 · 43:43
✨ Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on user-generated content success and investor mistakes.
43:43
20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret
Mar 22, 2021 · 43:40
✨ Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on risk, vulnerability, and decision-making.
43:40
20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
Mar 18, 2021 · 30:46
✨ Rappi Founder Simón Borrero discusses growth vs. profitability and capital efficiency.
30:46
20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
Mar 15, 2021 · 48:58
✨ Tony Fadell, 'Father of the iPod,' discusses mentors and self-doubt.
48:58
20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
Mar 11, 2021 · 37:35
✨ NEA's Scott Sandell discusses SPACS and liquidity challenges.
37:35
20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
Mar 8, 2021 · 50:41
✨ Daniel Ek discusses Spotify's founding and growth to 345m users.
Shakil Khan
50:41
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
Mar 4, 2021 · 34:35
✨ Vlad Tenev shares lessons from managing Robinhood through crisis.
34:35
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
Mar 1, 2021 · 37:01
✨ Sebastian Siemiatkowski details scaling Klarna, Europe's most valuable tech company.
Mike Moritz
37:01
20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
Feb 26, 2021 · 36:50
✨ Patrick Spence shares lessons from building Blackberry and growing Sonos.
36:50
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
Feb 24, 2021 · 40:08
✨ Jeremy Liew outlines four key elements for evaluating consumer social products.
40:08
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
Feb 22, 2021 · 41:49
✨ Todd McKinnon discusses effective decision-making for leaders at Okta.
41:49
20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World
Feb 18, 2021 · 44:15
✨ Hippo, Blend, and States Title CEOs discuss the Bay Area's future.
44:15
20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
Feb 15, 2021 · 36:18
✨ Christian Reber discusses his relationship with risk and selling Wunderlist.
36:18
20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
Feb 11, 2021 · 34:02
✨ Matan Bar shares how Melio scaled to a $1.3Bn valuation in stealth.
Matan Bar
34:02
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
Feb 8, 2021 · 44:38
✨ Michael Eisenberg advocates for generalists over specialists in VC.
44:38
20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
Feb 4, 2021 · 39:43
✨ Focus on cost of capital over ownership for VCs.
39:43
20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
Feb 1, 2021 · 29:30
✨ Supercell's CEO defines being the 'least powerful CEO'.
29:30
20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
Jan 29, 2021 · 39:31
✨ Founder insight is often overrated in product development.
Hubert Palan
39:31

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