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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: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands
Sep 11, 2020 · 35:37
✨ Alex Tew discusses building viral products and the challenges of customer acquisition today.
35:37
20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
Sep 8, 2020 · 34:57
✨ Angela Strange explains why all companies are becoming fintech companies.
34:57
20VC: Biggest Lessons from Working with John Doerr, How Founders Can Have Discussions of Vulnerability with Their Board and Investors & Marrying Another Founder; The Pros, Cons and Ways To Make it Succeed with Alyson Friedensohn, Co-Founder & CEO @ Modern
Sep 4, 2020 · 35:42
✨ Alyson Friedensohn shares lessons from working with John Doerr and managing investor relations.
John Doerr
35:42
20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A*
Aug 31, 2020 · 37:45
✨ Kevin Hartz and Troy Steckenrider explain SPACs and their impact on the venture landscape.
37:45
20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader's Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like
Aug 28, 2020 · 44:12
✨ Jennifer Tejada discusses a leader's relationship with risk and decision-making with imperfect data.
Imperfect Data
44:12
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
Aug 24, 2020 · 44:46
✨ Sahil Lavingia explores the impact of rolling funds on the future of venture capital.
44:46
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
Aug 21, 2020 · 43:54
✨ Ben Rubin shares lessons from scaling Houseparty to millions of users.
Ben Rubin
43:54
20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
Aug 17, 2020 · 39:34
✨ Apurva Mehta discusses how entrepreneurs view firm brand at the seed stage.
Apurva Mehta
39:34
20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
Aug 14, 2020 · 42:19
✨ Anna Khan highlights the scarcity of true early-stage investing firms today.
Analysts When Raising
42:19
20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
Aug 10, 2020 · 42:50
✨ Dev Ittycheria discusses the necessity of inefficiency for effectiveness at MongoDB.
42:50
20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
Aug 7, 2020 · 43:52
✨ Loom's founder discusses multi-stage seed funding and VC selection strategies.
43:52
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
Aug 3, 2020 · 55:01
✨ Steve Jurvetson shares insights from 20 years of friendship with Elon Musk.
55:01
20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo
Jul 31, 2020 · 30:10
✨ The continued unbundling of the fintech industry is explored.
Clay Wilkes
30:10
20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
Jul 27, 2020 · 47:23
✨ Founders discuss personal experiences with depression and mental health.
47:23
20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?
Jul 20, 2020 · 38:03
✨ Steve Blank critiques the startup ecosystem as a potential Ponzi scheme.
38:03
20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020 · 52:25
✨ Chamath Palihapitiya critiques current IPO and direct listing processes.
52:25
20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
Jul 10, 2020 · 37:56
✨ The future of subscription-based media models is examined.
Alex Mather
37:56
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
Jul 7, 2020 · 38:45
✨ Fostering contrarian thinking within venture capital partnerships.
38:45
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor
Jul 3, 2020 · 34:54
✨ Key lessons learned from Opendoor's rapid scaling journey.
34:54
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Is Overrated, The Downside of Thematic Investing, Making Quality Decisions In Uncertain Conditions & Why He Has No Reserves Allocation
Jun 29, 2020 · 38:21
✨ Oren Zeev argues that diversification in venture is overrated.
38:21

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