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20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact

Sep 6, 2019 · 31:05

✨ Alex Wang shares strategies for hiring talent before a company is well-known.

31:05

20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners

Sep 2, 2019 · 43:03

✨ Jana Messerschmidt explains how founders can gain leverage in fundraising negotiations.

Jana Messerschmidt

43:03

20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship

Aug 30, 2019 · 33:36

✨ Clark Valberg likens true leadership to the art of writing and emphasizes self-awareness.

33:36

20VC: Sequoia's Mike Vernal on His Biggest Lessons From 8 Years of Hyper-Growth at Facebook, Why The Strength of Data Moats Is Over-Rated Today and The Challenge of "Overthinking Investments" In Venture

Aug 26, 2019 · 26:20

✨ Mike Vernal shares lessons from Facebook's hyper-growth and the challenges of overthinking investments.

26:20

20VC: Cruise's Daniel Kan on Lessons From Scaling The Team From 40 To 1,500 People, How Daniel Thinks About Continuous Learning & Self-Development and Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong

Aug 16, 2019 · 24:33

✨ Daniel Kan details scaling Cruise's team from 40 to 1,500 people.

24:33

20VC: True Ventures' Puneet Agarwal on Why EQ Is Going To Separate The Best Firms In Venture Over The Next Decade, The Negatives of Attribution in Venture & What Makes A Truly Efficient Venture Partnership

Aug 12, 2019 · 42:02

✨ Puneet Agarwal predicts EQ will differentiate top venture firms in the coming decade.

42:02

20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader

Aug 9, 2019 · 49:47

✨ Hiten Shah addresses depression, control, and burnout, emphasizing self-awareness for leaders.

49:47

20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics

Aug 5, 2019 · 31:19

✨ Chetan Puttagunta offers a crucial question for analyzing market size effectively.

31:19

20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot

Aug 2, 2019 · 31:52

✨ Waseem Daher argues that passion is overrated for starting companies.

Waseem Daher

31:52

20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It

Jul 26, 2019 · 34:45

✨ Brian Norgard shares Tinder product insights, including Tinder Gold and Superlike.

34:45

20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing

Jul 22, 2019 · 35:40

✨ Jesse Beyroutey explains game theory's impact on investor mindset.

35:40

20VC: Gitlab Founder, Sid Sijbrandji on Lessons From Scaling from 400 to 1,000 People in 1 Year, Why You Have To Have A Low Level Of Shame On The Product You Release & The Secret To Making Remote Work So Effectively At Scale

Jul 19, 2019 · 25:43

✨ Sid Sijbrandij details scaling Gitlab from 400 to 1,000 employees in a year.

25:43

20VC: Zoom From Series A to IPO, How VCs Can Provide CEOs with Additional Leverage and Why The Negative Effects of Signalling Are Very Real with Santi Subotovsky, General Partner @ Emergence Capital

Jul 15, 2019 · 40:50

✨ Santi Subotovsky discusses Zoom's journey from Series A to IPO.

Santi Subotovsky

40:50

20VC: HitRecord's Joseph Gordon-Levitt on How Show Business Prepared Him For Life As An Entrepreneur, What Founders Should Look For Most In Their Investor Base & Why The Current Ad Model of Social Is Harming The World's Creative Spirit

Jul 12, 2019 · 33:12

✨ Joseph Gordon-Levitt compares show business to entrepreneurship.

33:12

20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open

Jul 8, 2019 · 32:51

✨ Byron Deeter shares lessons from investing in 14 billion-dollar companies.

32:51

20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark

Jul 5, 2019 · 34:13

✨ Alex Rodrigues believes self-driving technology is still under-hyped.

Alex Rodrigues

34:13

20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution

Jul 1, 2019 · 37:24

✨ Pat Grady outlines Sequoia's current investment focus and decision-making process.

37:24

20VC: Cameo's Steven Galanis on Why You Must Fall In Love With Your Mission Not Your Product, How To Extract As Much Value From Your Investor Base As Possible & Should You Really Hire For 6 Months Ahead of What You Need?

Jun 28, 2019 · 32:02

✨ Steven Galanis stresses falling in love with the mission, not just the product.

32:02

20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities

Jun 24, 2019 · 34:51

✨ Bill Gurley highlights Benchmark's partnership criteria and capital abundance challenges.

34:51

20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup

Jun 21, 2019 · 34:48

✨ Justin Kan emphasizes normalizing vulnerability in startups.

34:48

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