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20VC: Phil Libin on Why The Concept of A Silicon Valley Style Startup Is Made To Benefit VCs, Why The Very Structure of Companies Is Outdated and Inefficient & What It Means To Build The Netflix of Product

Oct 26, 2018 · 31:23

✨ Silicon Valley startup model benefits VCs, not necessarily companies.

31:23

20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins

Oct 22, 2018 · 45:14

✨ Discusses the future of smart contracts and exchange models.

45:14

20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai

Oct 19, 2018 · 35:20

✨ Don't give up too quickly; own your data.

Dennis Mortensen

35:20

20VC: First Round's Phin Barnes on How The Best Founders Optimize for Learning Per Dollar Spent, What Makes A Truly Special Founder/VC Relationship and Why Pattern Recognition is Another Term For Intellectual Laziness

Oct 15, 2018 · 41:07

✨ Founders should optimize learning per dollar spent.

41:07

20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black

Oct 12, 2018 · 26:04

✨ Seven themes for building a company to IPO.

Patrick Morley

26:04

20VC: Learnings From Backing The Likes of Spotify and Airbnb, The World of Growth Investing Today and The Right Way For Investors To Think About Liquidity with Woody Marshall, General Partner @ TCV

Oct 8, 2018 · 31:04

✨ Learnings from backing Spotify and Airbnb.

Woody Marshall

31:04

20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Should Let Everyone Rip Apart Their Business Idea, How To Construct Frameworks for Success & Why You Should Not Always Test Your MVP with Afton Vechery, Founder & CEO @ Modern Fertility

Oct 5, 2018 · 31:55

✨ Entrepreneurs should embrace criticism of their ideas.

Afton Vechery

31:55

20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon

Oct 1, 2018 · 31:37

✨ Consumer investing returns are challenging at scale.

31:37

20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise

Sep 28, 2018 · 33:19

✨ Founders must make 'bet the company' decisions.

Maynard Webb

33:19

20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing

Sep 24, 2018 · 36:31

✨ Sarah Tavel discusses investing in markets adjacent to large ones.

36:31

20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network

Sep 21, 2018 · 31:41

✨ Amol Deshpande shares how to build credibility with stakeholders.

Amol Deshpande

31:41

20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @

Sep 17, 2018 · 33:06

✨ David Frankel shares scaling PillPack to its Amazon acquisition.

David Frankel

33:06

20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext

Sep 14, 2018 · 35:21

✨ Howard Lerman details Yext's $1Bn IPO process.

Howard Lerman

35:21

20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures

Sep 10, 2018 · 32:27

✨ Shabih Rizvi shares lessons from working with John Doerr.

Shabih Rizvi

32:27

20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density

Sep 7, 2018 · 29:33

✨ Andrew Farah discusses the mindset of top investors.

Andrew Farah

29:33

20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn

Sep 4, 2018 · 30:18

✨ Barry Eggers explains founding and scaling Lightspeed globally.

Barry Eggers

30:18

20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team

Aug 31, 2018 · 29:08

✨ Philip Krim advises on marketing channel diversification for Casper.

29:08

20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI

Aug 27, 2018 · 33:55

✨ Daniel Gross identifies commonalities in great people.

Daniel Gross

33:55

20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv

Aug 24, 2018 · 29:10

✨ Heather Fernandez shares scaling Trulia to its IPO.

Heather Fernandez

29:10

20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita

Aug 20, 2018 · 31:01

✨ Crypto's value will accrue in core infrastructure and novel applications.

31:01

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