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

20Sales: What I Learned Scaling Datadog from $60M to $1BN in ARR | How to do Outbound in 2024 | Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading with Dan Fougere

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

Dan Fougere is one of the most successful sales leaders of the last decade. Most recently, Dan was C...

20VC: Turning $16.5M into $2.1BN; Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History: UiPath | Why VC is Not Being Commoditised | Why Price Does Not Matter | Lessons on Loss Ratio, Selling and Signalling with Cem Sertoglu

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

Cem Sertoglu is one of the great venture investors of the last decade. Cem is famed for writing the ...

20VC Alain De Botton on Why Companies Are Not Families | Why Status is Making You Miserable | Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail | Why We Are Richer Yet More Anxious Than Ever & Why You Should Not Always "Be Yourself"

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

Alain De Botton is one of the greatest philosophers of our time. His work has had a profound impact ...

20Growth: Inside Perplexity's Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | Why Paid Acquisition is a Drug and Brand Marketing is BS | The Good, Bad and Ugly of A/B Tests and Why Micro-Optimisations are Under-Rated with Raman Malik

Fri, 15 Nov 2024

Raman Malik is the Head of Growth at Perplexity where he is responsible for growth marketing, onboar...

20VC: Bolt; The Most Insane Story in Startups | Turning a $5K Loan into an $8BN Company | Why Every VC Turned Down One of Europe's Biggest Winners | Competing with Uber & The Future of Micromobility and Self-Driving

Wed, 13 Nov 2024

Markus Villig is the Founder and CEO of Bolt, a global mobility platform with more than 200 million ...

20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

Matt Grimm is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Anduril Industries, an American defense ...

20VC: Sam Altman on The Trajectory of Model Capability Improvements: Will Scaling Laws Continue | Semi-Conductor Supply Chains | What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI and Where is Opportunity

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, one of the most important companies in history. OpenAI is on a miss...

20VC: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Founder Mode | Building 8x $100M Revenue Lines | Lessons from Raising $5BN and the Gamestop Saga | The Future of Artificial Intelligence, Wealth Management and Home Ownership

Fri, 01 Nov 2024

Vlad Tenev is a Co-Founder and CEO of Robinhood, the commission free stock trading and investing app...

20VC: Linear's Karri Saarinen How to be Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | How to Fundraise with Leverage | How to Select Investors and How to Give Them Homework in the Raise Process & Growth Lessons from Airbnb and Coinbase

Wed, 30 Oct 2024

Karri Saarinen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Linear. The company has raised from some of the best in ...

20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

Daniel Khachab is the co-founder and CEO of Choco. Today, Choco’s AI platform facilitates half of ...

20VC: The Truth About Multi-Stage Firms; Why Portfolio Services are for VCs not Founders | Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | Why Reserves are Bad for Founders & How Boutique Firms Will Win with Mark Goldberg @ Chemistry

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Mark Goldberg is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Chemistry, a $350M fund announced just yesterd...

20Sales: Biggest Lessons Scaling Slack from $6M to $1BN in ARR | How to Build a Customer Success Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | The Framework to Hire All Sales Reps: Take-Home Assignments, Hiring Panels and more with AJ Tennant @ Glean

Wed, 23 Oct 2024

AJ Tennant is the Vice President of Sales & Success at Glean, Glean has more than 20x'd its revenue ...

20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on Investing Lessons from Leading Rounds in Figma, Slack and Rippling | Lessons Building a Generational Defining Firm with Kleiner Perkins | AI: Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

Mamoon Hamid is a General Partner @ Kleiner Perkins and one of the greatest venture investors of our...

20Growth: Revolut's Chief Growth Officer on The Growth Playbook Revolut Used to Scale to $2.2BN in Revenue | How Revolut Launch and Grow Products | Why the Best PMs Don't Need A/B Tests & Why CAC is a BS Metric with Antoine Le Nel

Fri, 18 Oct 2024

Antoine Le Nel is the Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Revolut, one of the fastest growing fint...

20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

Zach Perret is the CEO and Co-Founder of Plaid, a technology platform reshaping financial services. ...

20VC: Investing Lessons from FC Seeding Uber, Airtable and Coupang | Why Pro Rata is the Original Sin in VC | Why Liquidity Has Died in 2024 | Why LPs are Pissed with VCs | The Hard Truth About Seed Fund Economics with David Frankel @ Founder Collective

Mon, 14 Oct 2024

David Frankel is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Founder Collective, one of the best seed fir...

20VC: Why Most AI Investments Will Do Worse than the S&P 500 | Why Early Stage VC is F******* | The Danger of Kamala Harris and Why Trump and Vance are Best | Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control with Eoghan McCabe @ Intercom

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

Eoghan McCabe is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Intercom, one of the largest private software companies in...

20VC: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta | How to Play AI in the Public Markets | China & Europe: Is the Future Bleak | The Opportunity for Crossover Funds with Jeff Wang, Managing Partner @ SCGE

Wed, 09 Oct 2024

Jeff Wang is the Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital Global Equities (SCGE), a public/private crosso...

20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

Eiso Kant is the Co-Founder and CTO of Poolside.ai, building next-generation AI for software enginee...

20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Fri, 04 Oct 2024

Maria Angelidou is a seasoned product leader, having spent close to a decade at Meta where she was ...

20VC: Bret Taylor: The AI Bubble and What Happens Now | How the Cost of Chips and Models Will Change in AI | Will Companies Build Their Own Software | Why Pre-Training is for Morons | Leaderships Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg

Wed, 02 Oct 2024

Bret Taylor is CEO and Co-Founder of Sierra, a conversational AI platform for businesses. Previousl...

20VC: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast: Behind the Scenes at One of the Fastest Growing Companies in History with Donald Tang, Executive Chairman @ SHEIN

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

Donald Tang is the Executive Chairman of SHEIN, with oversight of public affairs, business strategy...

20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

Jeetu Mahtani was an early member of the HubSpot team. Under his leadership and the sales organizat...

20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

Eric Vishria is a General Partner @ Benchmark Capital, one of the world's leading venture firms. At...

20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

Dmitry Gurski is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flo Health, the leading women's health app and the first...

20Growth: The 7 Core Levers to Win at Consumer Subscription: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Packaging, Notifications, Discounts, Paywalls | The Breakdown with Phil Carter

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

Phil Carter is one of the best growth leaders of the last decade helping world-class companies like...

20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

Wed, 18 Sep 2024

Akshay Kothari is Co-Founder at Notion, one of the fastest-growing companies of the last decade. Ak...

20VC: Index's Shardul Shah on Why Market Size is a Trap | Biggest Lessons on Pricing from Leading Rounds in Wiz & Datadog | Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | How Index Makes Decisions and Why Growth & Early are the Same Investing Style

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

Shardul Shah is a Partner at Index Ventures and one of the greatest cyber security investors of the...

20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

Fri, 13 Sep 2024

Mike Hudack is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sling, a peer-to-peer payments app whose vision is to simp...

20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

David Schneider is a General Partner @ Coatue and one of the great operators of the last 20 years. ...

20VC: Tinder Founder Sean Rad on Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | Leadership Lessons Scaling Tinder | The Future of Love, Dating and Social Media | The Secret to Your Relationship with Money and Marriage

Mon, 09 Sep 2024

Sean Rad is the Founder and former CEO of Tinder. Sean has made more romantic connections between h...

20VC: Why VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today | Why Most VCs are Bankers | Why Big VCs Ruin Startups | Why Incentives in VC are Broken | Why American Dynamism is a Tool for VCs to Raise Money with Nick Chirls, Asylum Ventures

Fri, 06 Sep 2024

Nick Chirls is the Founder of Asylum Ventures, a new venture firm dedicated to the creative act of ...

20VC: OpenAI's Newest Board Member, Zico Colter on The Biggest Bottlenecks to the Performance of Foundation Models | The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | How to Regulate an AI-Centric World

Wed, 04 Sep 2024

Zico Colter is a Professor and the Director of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon U...

20Growth: Uber's Expansion Playbook for Scaling from 10 Cities to $10BN in Revenue | How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers | How Uber Solved the Chicken and The Egg Problem in New Markets and What Uber Would Be Like with Travis Still There with Scott Gorlick

Fri, 30 Aug 2024

Scott Gorlick was employee #99 at Uber. Over 6 years, Scott built Uber in Atlanta and helped the co...

20VC: AI Scaling Myths: More Compute is not the Answer | The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today: Data, Algorithms and Compute | The Future of Models: Open vs Closed, Small vs Large with Arvind Narayanan, Professor of Computer Science @ Princeton

Wed, 28 Aug 2024

Arvind Narayanan is a professor of Computer Science at Princeton and the director of the Center for...

20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

Mon, 26 Aug 2024

Imran Khan is the OG of IPOs having taken some of the biggest companies public including Alibaba, S...

20Sales: How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine | Why You Have to Hire a CRO Pre-Product | Why Most Sales Reps Do Not Perform | Why Hiring Panels are BS in Interviews | Why Remote Sales Reps Do Not Care About Their Development with Chad Peets

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

Chad Peets is one of the greatest sales leaders and recruiters of the last 25 years. From 2018 to 2...

20VC: Five Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in Fundraising, Hiring and Selling with Aman Narang, CEO @ Toast

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

Aman Narang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Toast, one of the best-in-class vertical SaaS companies of ...

20VC: Chips, Models or Applications; Where is the Value in AI | Is Compute the Answer to All Model Performance Questions | Why Open AI Shelved AGI & Is There Any Value in Models with OpenAI Price Dumping with Aidan, Gomez, Co-Founder @ Cohere

Mon, 19 Aug 2024

Aidan Gomez is the Co-founder & CEO at Cohere, the leading AI platform for enterprise, having raise...

20VC: Capital G's Laela Sturdy on What Stripe, UiPath and Duolingo Taught Me About Company Building and Investing | How to Analyse Valuation, Market Timing, Sizing and Exiting | Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund

Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Laela Sturdy is Managing Partner of CapitalG, Alphabet’s $7 billion independent growth fund, wher...

20VC: Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg, Keith Rabois & Tobi Lütke | Why Remote is a Bad Idea for 90% of Companies | The Framework for How Shopify Builds Product Today | What Humans Get Wrong About Marriage and Kids with Kaz Nejatian, COO @ Shopify

Wed, 14 Aug 2024

Kaz Nejatian is Shopify’s VP of Product & Chief Operating Officer. Before Shopify, Kaz founded Ka...

20VC: Sequoia's Shaun Maguire: Will We See WW3 Shortly | Why DEI is a Cancer for Society | Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil | Why Trump is the Only Hope for Peace in the Middle East | Trump vs Harris: Who Wins & What Happens

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

Shaun Maguire is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. At Sequoia he led their investment into SpaceX, The ...

20VC: Why VC is Distorting a Generation of SaaS Companies & With $900M in ARR and a Market Cap of $2.6BN is Lightspeed the Most Misunderstood Public Company with Dax Dasilva, Founder & CEO @ Lightspeed

Fri, 09 Aug 2024

Dax Dasilva is the Founder & CEO Lightspeed Commerce, one of the most incredible stories in startup...

20VC: How a Angel City Makes $31M per Season | How Sports Teams Can and Should Be Better Businesses | Why Every Sports Team Will Look Like a Media Agency and Founding The Most Valuable Women's Sports Team with Alexis Ohanian

Wed, 07 Aug 2024

Alexis Ohanian is the Founder and General Partner of Seven Seven Six, an early-stage venture capita...

20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on AI's $600BN Question | Why the Data Centre is the Most Important Asset | Servers, Steel and Power: The Core Pillars Powering the Future of AI

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

David Cahn is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the great venture firms of the last 5 decades. Be...

20Sales: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | Moving from SMB to Enterprise: How and When | Verticalised Sales Teams: Why They are a Gamechanger and How to Build Them with Ben Fiechtner, CRO @ Clari

Fri, 02 Aug 2024

Ben Fiechtner is Chief Revenue Officer at Clari, where he drives global go-to market & revenue oper...

20VC: Is More Compute the Answer to Model Performance | Why OpenAI Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken & Analysing Their Race for AGI | What Companies, AI Labs and Startups Get Wrong About AI with Ethan Mollick

Wed, 31 Jul 2024

Ethan Mollick is the Co-Director of the Generative AI Lab at Wharton, which builds prototypes and c...

20VC: Twitter's Most Controversial VC Delian Asparouhov on Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | Why Western Europe Will Be Like the Third World | Why SaaS as an Industry Might Be Dead

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

Delian Asparouhov is a Partner at Founders Fund and Co-Founder and President of Varda Space Indust...

20Growth: How Transferwise Acquired Their First 5M Customers: The Two Types of Content All Companies Must Create, How to Crush Competition With Performance Marketing, What Growth Hacks Worked and Did Not with Nilan Peiris, CPO @ Wise

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

Nilan Peiris is Chief Product Officer at Wise, where he leads on growth across channels including p...

This Week in SaaS: Should Wiz Have Accepted Google's $23BN Acquisition Offer, Crowdstrike: WTF Happens From Here: The Bull and the Bear Case & $1BN into Legal Tech in a Day with Clio and Harvey with Jason Lemkin

Wed, 24 Jul 2024

Jason Lemkin is one of the OG SaaS investors with all of his first five investments turning into u...

20VC: How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet | Investing Lessons from Roelof Botha & Peter Thiel | Why VC is Less Collaborative Than Ever and Great Companies Are Being Destroyed by Too Much Cash with Kevin Hartz @ A*

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*, an early-stage venture capital firm. Prior ...

20Product: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? The Top 5 Product Lessons in Scaling to 185M Monthly Active Users with Canva Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cameron Adams

Fri, 19 Jul 2024

Cameron Adams is Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Canva where he is responsible for heading ...

20VC: Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi on What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | Brex vs Ramp: Who Wins and How Does it Play Out | Battling Founder Mental Health and The Importance of Secondaries for Founders

Wed, 17 Jul 2024

Pedro Franceschi is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Brex, the AI-powered spend platform with tens of thous...

20VC: Why We Are in a Bubble & Now is Frothier Than 2021 | Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | Why Seed Pricing is Rational & Large Seed Rounds Have Less Risk | Why Many AI Apps Have BS Revenue & Are Not Sustainable with Saam Motamedi @ Greylock

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

Saam Motamedi is a General Partner at Greylock, where he has led investments in Abnormal Security (...

20Sales: Biggest Lessons Scaling Hubspot from $0-$100M in ARR, The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise, How to do Channel Partnerships Right and How to Construct Sales Comp Plans Early On with Mark Roberge

Fri, 12 Jul 2024

Mark Roberge is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital and a Senior Lecturer at the ...

20VC: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier: How to Build a Dominant Vertical SaaS Business, How to Master Going Into Enterprise, When & How to Launch Second Products with Ara Mahdessian, Co-Founder @ServiceTitan

Wed, 10 Jul 2024

Ara Mahdessian is the Co-Founder and CEO @ ServiceTitan, one of the great vertical SaaS business of...

20VC: The Sequoia Investment Process | Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha & Alfred Lin | Sequoia's Framework for Analysing Founders | The True Benefit of Having Sequoia on a Cap Table & Sequoia's Biggest Threat with Pat Grady

Mon, 08 Jul 2024

Pat Grady is one of the most successful growth investors of the last decade. As the Head of Sequoia...

20VC: Turning a $15M Investment in Monday into $1.5BN in Cash | The Strategy Behind a 37x DPI $45M Fund | The Three Step Process to Selling Positions that has Netted Top Percentile Returns with Avi Eyal, Co-Founder @ Entrée Capital

Wed, 03 Jul 2024

Avi Eyal is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Entrée Capital, an early-stage VC fund with a portf...

20VC: LLMs Are Reaching a Stage of Diminishing Returns: What is the Next S Curve | The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | How AI Changes the Future of War & How Agents Will Reshape Society with Matt Clifford @ EF

Mon, 01 Jul 2024

Matt Clifford is the Co-Founder of Entrepreneur First (EF), the leading global talent investor and ...

20VC: Raising $126M Across 3 Rounds in Just 6 Months, Being the Youngest Founder of a Unicorn Company | But Everything Was Not as it Seemed: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires with Vise's Samir Vasavada

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

Samir Vasavada is the Co-Founder & CEO of Vise, a technology-powered asset manager. Samir and his c...

20VC: Klaviyo's Andrew Bialecki on Going Public in an IPO Winter, Is Klaviyo Under-Priced in Public Markets and Why, Why Every VC Turned Klaviyo Down in the Early Days & How Shopify's Partnership Changed the Game

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

Andrew Bialecki is the Co-Founder and CEO of Klaviyo, the platform that powers smarter digital relat...

20VC: Why Foundation Model Performance is Not Diminishing But Models Are Commoditising, Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space and Models Will Enter the Chip Space & The Right Business Model for AI Software with David Luan, Co-Founder @ Adept

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

David Luan is the CEO and Co-Founder at Adept, a company building AI agents for knowledge workers. ...

20Growth: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics and Strategies From the Revolut Product & Growth Playbook with Val Scholz, Former Head of Growth @ Revolut

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

Val Scholz is the former Head of Growth @ Revolut, where he led the company to their first 10M users...

20VC: Foundation Models are the Fastest Depreciating Asset in History, Lina Kahn is a Threat to American Capitalism, PE is Not Coming to Save the M&A Market & How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race with Michael Eisenberg

Wed, 19 Jun 2024

Michael Eisenberg is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Aleph, one of Israel's leading venture firm...

20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on Investing Lessons from Hits like Figma, Discord and Etsy to Missing Snapchat, Airbnb, Facebook & Spotify | Why Valuation is a Trap and Market Sizing, Signalling and Sector/Geo-Specific Funds are all Noise

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

Danny Rimer is a Partner @ Index Ventures and one of the most prominent VCs of the last two decades...

20Product: Loom CPO Janie Lee on Three Core Skills that Make the Best PMs, How to Find, Pick and Train the Best PM Talent and Lessons from OpenDoor and Rippling on Product Breadth, Pricing and Talent Density

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

Janie Lee is the Head of Product and the owner of the Self-Serve business at Loom. Janie previously...

20VC: Scale's Alex Wang on Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance, Why AI is the Greatest Military Asset Ever, Is China Really Two Years Behind the US in AI and Why the CCPs Industrial Approach is Better than Anyone Else's

Wed, 12 Jun 2024

Alex Wang is the Founder and CEO @ Scale.ai, the company that allows you to make the best models wi...

20VC: Reid Hoffman on Foundation Models: Who Wins & How Do Incumbents Respond | The Inflection AI Deal: How it Went Down | Why Trump is a Threat to Democracy | The Future of TikTok | Lessons from Sam Altman, Brian Chesky and the OpenAI Board

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

Reid Hoffman has been one of the most impactful people in technology over the last two decades. He ...

20Sales: How Rippling Built Their Sales Machine: How to Hire, Train and Manage the Best SDRs, What is the Right Comp Package for Sales Teams & The Playbook to Start and Scale Your SDR Team

Fri, 07 Jun 2024

Ashley Kelly is the VP of Global Sales Development at Rippling, the all-in-one platform for HR, IT, ...

20VC: Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas on Will Foundation Models Commoditise, Diminishing Returns in Model Performance, OpenAI vs Anthropic: Who Wins & Why the Next Breakthrough in Model Performance will be in Reasoning

Wed, 05 Jun 2024

Aravind Srinivas is the Co-Founder & CEO of Perplexity, the conversational "answer engine" that prov...

This Week in SaaS: PluralSight Goes to Zero, Salesforce and Mongo Hit Hard, The Next IPO Candidates and How Do We Solve the Problem of Liquidity in Venture Capital

Mon, 03 Jun 2024

Jason Lemkin is one of the OG SaaS investors with all of his first five investments turning into u...

20Growth: The Six Channels Startups Need to Dominate to Grow, Why the Best Growth Talent Never Comes from Marketing or Product, Who and How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI, Growth is More Science than Art with Matt Lerner

Fri, 31 May 2024

Matt Lerner is one of the OGs of growth having spent 11 years leading growth teams at PayPal. Post P...

20VC: Former Meta CTO, Schrep on Why Climate is a $10TRN Problem, Operating Lessons Scaling Products to Billions at Meta and Why the Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors

Wed, 29 May 2024

Mike Schroepfer (Schrep) is the Founder & Partner @ Gigascale Capital, a new kind of climate-focuse...

20VC: Why Seed is Systemically Broken | Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | Benchmarks for Churn, Retention and Growth Rates - Good vs Great | Why Last Vintage for Private Equity Will Suck with Jason Lemkin

Mon, 27 May 2024

Jason Lemkin is one of the OG SaaS investors with all of his first five investments turning into un...

20VC: OpenAI's Sam Altman, Mistral's Arthur Mensch and more discuss: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised | Which Startups Are Threatened vs Enabled by OpenAI | Is the Value in the Infrastructure or Application Layer?

Fri, 24 May 2024

Sam Altman is the CEO @ OpenAI, the company on a mission is to ensure that artificial general inte...

20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Predictions for the Next Wave of AI: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised | How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever | Startups vs Incumbents: Who Wins | App vs Infrastructure Layer: Where is the Value?

Wed, 22 May 2024

Aaron Levie is one of the OG founders of the last two decades as the Co-Founder and CEO of Box. Toda...

20VC: Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora on How to Create and Sustain Competitive Advantage and Defensibility | What Makes Masa Son a Genius Investor of Our Time | How the Best Leaders Communicate and Delegate

Mon, 20 May 2024

Nikesh Arora is the CEO @ Palo Alto Networks, the leading cybersecurity company in the world with a...

20Product: How Linktree, Webflow and Airbnb Used Rituals and Product Principals to Guide Product Roadmap, Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard and How to Use it & How to Run the Best "Product Jams" with JZ, CPO @ Linktree

Fri, 17 May 2024

Jiaona “JZ” Zhang is the Chief Product Officer at Linktree, the world’s leading link-in-bio p...

20VC: Fundraising Wisdom that is Total BS; Dilution, Meeting Associates, Taking the Highest Price, Always Be Raising | Why Second Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College with Dan Siroker, CEO @ Limitless

Wed, 15 May 2024

Dan Siroker is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Limitless, a personalized AI powered by what you’ve seen,...

20VC: Behind the Scenes at Y Combinator: The Interview Process | What the Best & Worst Do in the Program | Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | Why the Value is in Application Layer AI with Tom Blomfield

Mon, 13 May 2024

Tom Blomfield is a Group Partner at YC. Before YC, Tom founded two unicorns in the UK. He was co-fo...

20Sales: How to Build Vertical Sales Teams, Why No Customer Success is BS and Everyone Needs it, How to Hire, Train and Retain the First Reps and Lessons Scaling to $2.1BN Revenue and 1,300 People with Larry Schurtz, CRO @ Genesys

Fri, 10 May 2024

Larry Shurtz is the Chief Sales Officer at Genesys where he oversees the company’s global go-to-ma...

20VC: GV's Tom Hulme on Why Investing in Foundation Models is like Investing in "Power Stations", The Conventional Wisdom in VC that is BS & Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 255x on Robinhood and Making Billions on Uber

Wed, 08 May 2024

Tom Hulme is a Managing Partner of GV (Google Ventures), and leads the European team. Today, GV has...

20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Are Foundation Models Commoditising | Why Frontier Models Will Be Closed Source | Why the Value is in the Application Layer | The Future of AI is "Selling the Work" Not the Tools

Mon, 06 May 2024

Sarah Tavel is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the most successful and renowned venture firms...

20VC: The Memo: Keith Rabois and Ramp's Eric Glyman on Behind The Scenes at The Best Run Private Company on the Planet; The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency

Fri, 03 May 2024

Eric Glyman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ramp, America's fastest growing corporate card and finance ...

20VC: Mark Suster on The Biggest Fundraising Lessons for VCs, Why the Correction in Venture is Still to Come, Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path & The Woke Left and a Trump Administration; What Happens?

Wed, 01 May 2024

Mark Suster is a General Partner @ Upfront Ventures, one of LA's leading early-stage venture firms....

20VC: Mistral's Arthur Mensch: Are Foundation Models Commoditising | How Do We Solve the Problem of Compute | Is There Value in the Application Layer | Open vs Closed: Who Wins and Mistral's Position

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

Arthur Mensch is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mistral AI. Since its inception in May 2023, Mistral has ...

20Growth: Inside Dropbox, Salesforce & Heroku's Product-Led Growth Engine; What Works & What Doesn't | Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | Why PLG is a Business Model, Not a Go-To-Market Motion with Adam Gross, Former CEO @ Vimeo

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

Adam Gross is one of the masters of product-led growth (PLG). Most recently, Adam was Vimeo's interi...

20VC: Is Speed the Most Important Thing from 0-1 | Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | The Biggest Lessons Scaling Zip to $1.5BN Valuation with Rujul Zaparde, Co-Founder and CEO @ Zip

Wed, 24 Apr 2024

Rujul Zaparde is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zip, the world’s leading Intake-to-Pay solution, adopte...

20VC: UiPath: The 10 Year Bootstrapping Journey that Turned into a $10BN Public Company | From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man | Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more with Daniel Dines, Co-Founder @ UiPath

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

Daniel Dines is the Co-Founder @ UiPath, one of the most incredible journeys in startups. For 10 ye...

20VC: Three Core Lessons Scaling Freshworks to a $5.2BN Market Cap | Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | How India Can Compete Globally in Tech and AI with Girish Mathrubootham, Co-Founder @ Freshworks

Fri, 19 Apr 2024

Girish Mathrubootham is the founder and CEO of Freshworks, India’s first SaaS company to list on N...

20Product: Sequoia's Product-Market Fit Framework | Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product | Metrics 101, Good vs Great Product Strategy and more with Vickie Peng, Product Partner @ Sequoia Capital

Wed, 17 Apr 2024

Vickie Peng is a Product Partner at Sequoia and the co-creator of Arc, their company-building immers...

20VC: OpenAI's Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap on The Future of Foundation Models: Will They Be Commoditised | How to Solve the Problem of Compute | Open vs Closed: Which Dominates and Why | Which Companies and Verticals Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

Sam Altman is the CEO @ OpenAI, the company on a mission is to ensure that artificial general intel...

20Sales: The Biggest Sales Lessons Scaling Brex to $400M ARR, Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It & Why Demand Gen is the Bottleneck for all Startups and How to Solve it with Sam Blond, Former CRO @ Brex

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

Sam Blond is the former CRO at Brex, where he led the company from near $0-$400M in ARR and a $12.5...

20VC: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers, Are the Best Founders Insiders or Outsiders to a Problem, Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC & The Biggest Lessons Scaling MongoDB to $26BN Market Cap with Kevin Ryan, Founder @ AlleyCorp

Wed, 10 Apr 2024

Kevin Ryan is one of the leading serial entrepreneurs and investors in New York. Previously he co-fo...

20VC: Postmates Founder Basti Lehmann on How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN, Why Great VCs Add No Value and VC Value Add is BS Marketing & Why The Biggest Companies in History Will be Born Today and Replace Incumbents

Mon, 08 Apr 2024

Basti Lehmann is the co-founder and former CEO of Postmates, the on-demand delivery service that rai...

20VC: Oscar Health: How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap, "Why I Stood Aside as CEO" and The Rebound Journey to $5.8BN in Revenue with Mario Schlosser, Co-Founder @ Oscar Health

Fri, 05 Apr 2024

Mario Schlosser is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Oscar Health. The public company ...

20VC: Founders Fund's Trae Stephens on Why The Most Competitive Deals are the Worst, Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC, Why We are Making ZIRP Mistakes Again Today, Why Loss Ratio is BS and Upside Maximisation is Everything

Wed, 03 Apr 2024

Trae Stephens is a Partner at Founders Fund, one of the world's leading funds where he has worked w...

20VC: The Memo: The $23BN Company You Might Not Have Heard Of: Tradeweb, The Story of 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue and 50% EBITDA Margins

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

Billy Hult is Chief Executive Officer of Tradeweb Markets (Nasdaq: TW), as Billy puts it, they are ...

20VC: a16z's Chris Dixon on Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture, The Two Ways to Make Great Venture Investments and Find the Best Entrepreneurs & Why AI Will Strengthen the Position of the Incumbents Moving Forward

Wed, 27 Mar 2024

Chris Dixon is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the leading venture firms of the la...

20VC: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing | Why Exits Will Be Larger & Funds Sizes Bigger | Top Reasons to Turn Down Potential Fund Investments | Fees, Carry, Deployment Pace; What Do LPs Inspect When Fund Investing with David Clark, CIO @ Vencap

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

David Clark is the CIO of Vencap, one of the leading fund of funds in the venture landscape. David ...

20VC: Bryan Johnson on Why Humans Are No Longer Qualified to Manage Our Own Affairs, How Algorithms Will Run our Bodies and How to Process New Ideas and Challenge Conventional Beliefs

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

Bryan Johnson is the founder of Blueprint, the man is at war with death and is mastering longevity. ...

20Product: Why Process is Killing Your Product Team and How to Remove it | Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | Why the Best Companies Build Movements and Lessons from Shopify and Atlassian on How to Do It Right with Jean-Michel Lemieux

Wed, 20 Mar 2024

Jean-Michel Lemieux is one of the OGs of engineering and product having been the CTO at Shopify and ...

20VC: 19 Company Portfolio: 1 Decacorn, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions; One of the Best Seed Investors of All Time on How to Pick Generational Defining Founders, Why Nothing but the Founder Matters & Why the Best Investors are Never Happy w/ Gili Raanan

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Gili Raanan is the Founder of Cyberstarts and one of the most successful seed investors ever. In hi...

20VC: Bending Spoons: The Most Untold Success Story in Startups: Lessons Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation... Bootstrapped with Luca Ferrari, Co-Founder and CEO @ Bending Spoons

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Luca Ferrari is Co-Founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, one of the most incredible but untold success...

20Growth: Top Five Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook and Data Science at Sequoia Capital, The Two Skills Required to do Analytics Well, The Three Types of Execs within Companies and When and How to Hire for Growth with Chandra Narayanan

Wed, 13 Mar 2024

Chandra Narayanan is one of the growth and analytics OGs having spent 7 years at Facebook leading a...

20VC: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security| Why the "Woke Mind Virus" is a "Post-Modern Religion" and Is it Too Late to Reverse | Why the Education System is Broken | Investing Lessons from Wish, Palantir and Lady Gaga | Joe Lonsda

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

Joe Lonsdale is the Founder and Managing Partner at 8VC, an early-stage venture capital firm managi...

20Sales: Outbound Sales is Dead Today, Why Demand Generation Will Move Back Under Marketing, "Wisdom" that Everyone Needs to Unlearn About Sales & Why You Should Never Hire Someone You Do Not Know in Your First Five Hires with Brendon Cassidy

Fri, 08 Mar 2024

Brendon Cassidy is one of the OG of enterprise sales of the last decade, having advised the likes o...

20VC: 27 Years of Investing Lessons on Picking Founders, Price Discipline, Reserves and Selling Positions | Can Seed Investors Compete with Multi-Stage Venture Firms | Why Returns Will Not Worsen Moving Forward with Peter Wagner, Founder @ Wing

Wed, 06 Mar 2024

Peter Wagner is a Founding Partner of Wing. Peter has led investments in dozens of early-stage comp...

20VC: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World: $1.55 Trn of Assets & Owning 1.5% of all Listed Companies with Nicolai Tangen, CEO @ Norges Bank Investment Management

Mon, 04 Mar 2024

Nicolai Tangen is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, the largest sovereign wealth fund i...

20VC: Are IPO Windows Shut? Has Regulation Killed the M&A Market? M&A OG Frank Quattrone on Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN and Taking Amazon, Cisco and Netscape Public

Fri, 01 Mar 2024

Frank Quattrone is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Qatalyst and served as its CEO from the Fi...

20VC: Startups Only Fail When Founders Stop Trying, Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life & Why Tieing Your Identity to Your Company is the Most Dangerous Thing and How to Avoid It with Sami Inkinen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Virta Health

Wed, 28 Feb 2024

Sami Inkinen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Virta Health, the company reversing type 2 diabetes. Befo...

20VC: What it Takes to be Top 1% in Private Equity | Why the Best Companies are Talent Systems | Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | Marriage, Fatherhood and Sports Team Owner, What it Takes to Do It All, with Justin Ishbia, Founder @ Sho

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Justin is the Founder and Managing Partner of one of the nation’s best-performing private equity ...

20Product: The Five Step Process to Hiring the Best Product People, The Four Core Skills the Best PMs Need to Have, The Two Product Documents that Drive World Class Product Teams & Why the Best PMs are Writers with Scott Williamson, Former CPO @ Gitlab

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

Scott Williamson was most recently Chief Product Officer for GitLab, where he led a team of 65 in ...

20VC: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse, Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken, What is the Answer to Liquidity with No M&A or IPOs, When to Sell vs Hold Your Winners & Turning $5M into $250M with The Trade Desk | Roger Ehrenberg, Eberg Capital

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

Roger Ehrenberg is a legend of the venture industry as the Founder of IA Ventures, among the most s...

20VC: From Selling 75% of Trade Republic for €600K to Raising $1.3BN at a $5.3BN Valuation, The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN From the Best in the World; Trade Republic CEO, Christian Hecker and Creandum General Partner Johan Brenner

Fri, 16 Feb 2024

Christian Hecker is the Founder and CEO of Trade Republic, the company making it easy and inexpensi...

20Growth: How to Master Product-Led-Growth, The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprise, How to Assess "Bets" in Growth; Which to Take and Which to Not with Gonto, Interim CMO @ Vercel

Wed, 14 Feb 2024

Martin Gontovnikas, a.k.a Gonto, is a software engineer at heart who moved to the “dark side” t...

20VC: The Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces, Why Rule of 40 and EBITDA Optimisation is BS, How Founders & VCs Should Approach Market Sizing and Outcome Scenario Planning and Why Europe is Failing with Vinted CEO, Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

Thomas Plantenga is the CEO @ Vinted, one of the fastest-growing marketplaces in the world with a ...

20VC: Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley and Orlando Bravo on "Does Price Matter"; When to Pay Up vs When to Stay Disciplined, The Biggest Lessons on Price Discipline from 8 of the World's Best Investors

Fri, 09 Feb 2024

Doug Leone is the Global Managing Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s most renowned a...

20VC: The Chess.com Memo: The Most Untold Story in Startups; Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with Zero Venture Funding | Erik Allebest, CEO @ Chess.com

Wed, 07 Feb 2024

Erik Allebest is the CEO @ Chess.com, the #1 online chess service on the planet with more than 150+...

20VC: The Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing Today; Why The Best Founders Don't Need You, Why Uncapped SAFEs Are Good, Why Reserves Are Bad, Why Signalling is BS, Why Price Doesn't Matter with David Tisch & Terrence Rohan

Mon, 05 Feb 2024

David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, one of the leading seed-stage investment firms ...

20Product: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat", How to Hire the Best Product Talent and Why Case Studies in Interviews are not Helpful & How AI Impacts the Future of Product Design with Will Wu, CTO @ Match Group

Fri, 02 Feb 2024

Will Wu is the CTO @ Match Group, the owner and operator of the largest global portfolio of popular...

20VC: The Metrics That Matter in SaaS Today; Why CaC Payback is Flawed & CAC Ratio is Better, Why You Need to Hire Three Sales Reps at a Time, How to Forecast in 2024 & Biggest Mistakes Made Forecasting & How to Make Customer Success Sell More with Dave K

Wed, 31 Jan 2024

Dave Kellogg is one of the OGs of Saas. Among his many accomplishments, Dave was the CMO of Busines...

20VC: How MIT Selects Venture Managers to Invest in | The Three Categories of Check MIT Writes Into Funds | How MIT Builds Their Venture Fund Portfolio | How MIT Approach Direct Investing | Why Being an LP Has Never Been Harder with Ryan Akkina @ MIT

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

Ryan Akkina is a member of the Global Investment Team at the MIT Investment Management Company (MIT...

20VC: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? How do US Elections Impact Crypto Markets? How Did SBF and FTX Impact Crypto Long Term and more with Dave Ripley, CEO @ Kraken

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

Dave Ripley is the CEO @ Kraken, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, valued in 202...

20Sales: How to Scale Into Enterprise Effectively and the Biggest Mistakes Made When Making the Move From PLG to Enterprise, Why Discovery Today is F***** & The Biggest Lessons on How to Do Sales Team Compensation with Sean Murray, CRO @ Greenhouse

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

Sean Murray is the CRO @ Greenhouse which is the fourth company Sean has scaled successfully into t...

20VC: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets, The Biggest Delusion of Early Stage VC, Why AI Investing is like a Horserace and Why The Most Ambitious Companies Growing the Fastest are not the Best Investments with Adam Fisher, Partner @ Bessemer

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Adam Fisher is a Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners and one of the most successful investors in Is...

20VC: How Duolingo Scaled to 8M TikTok Followers, How to Create Viral Content, Why Most Companies Suck at Content Marketing and How to Change & Why You Should Not Work with Content Agencies with Zaria Parvez, Global Social Media Manager @ Duolingo

Fri, 19 Jan 2024

Zaria Parvez is Duolingo’s Senior Global Social Media Manager where she is famed for scaling Duol...

20VC: Palantir CTO on The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence, The Danger of Defence Spending at Historic Lows, How Elections and Wars Change Government Defence Buying & Why Budgets are Anti-Creative with Shyam Sankar

Wed, 17 Jan 2024

Shyam Sankar is Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Palantir Technologies in a...

20VC: Hubspot Co-Founder Brian Halligan on Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to a $28BN Market Cap | The Best Series A Investment in Venture History & What Makes Sequoia so Successful?

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

Brian Halligan is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairperson of HubSpot. Brian led the business as CE...

20VC Exclusive: Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

Keith Rabois is a Managing Director @ Khosla Ventures and one of the most respected venture investo...

20VC: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets in 2024, The Three Biggest Mistakes Made in Growth Investing, The Three Requirements Companies Need to Go Public in 2024 with Ed Sim and Jamin Ball

Wed, 10 Jan 2024

Jamin Ball is a Partner @ Altimeter Capital where he sits on the board of Airbyte, Clickhouse, dbt ...

20VC Crypto Roundtable: How Will US Elections Impact Crypto? Why Will Trump Lean Into Crypto in 2024? Should FTX Investors Have Known About SBF? Will Opensea Ever Be Worth $13BN Again? Will NFTs Come Back with Kyle Samani and Nick Tomaino

Mon, 08 Jan 2024

Nick Tomaino is the Founder and General Partner @ 1confirmation, one of the leading seed firms fuel...

20VC: Predictions for 2024: What Happens to Early Stage VC Funding, Do a Load of Venture Funds Die, What do LPs Do in 2024, Does Figma Kill the M&A Market, Will IPOs Comeback & What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups with Jason Lemkin @ SaaStr

Thu, 04 Jan 2024

Joining Harry in the hot seat today is Jason Lemkin, Founder @ SaaStr and one of the OG SaaS invest...

20VC: From a $1.1M Acquisition to $1.4BN in Revenues; The Meteoric Rise of Hoka Running with Deckers CEO, Dave Powers

Fri, 22 Dec 2023

Dave Powers serves as President and CEO of Deckers Brands, a global footwear and apparel company wh...

20VC Roundtable: Spotify, Adobe & Linkedin CPOs on How AI Changes The Future of Product, Why AI is Now the Product, How TikTok Changed Product, Why Cost is the Biggest Barrier to LLM Usage & Why Incumbents Can Adopt AI Faster Than Any Prior Innovation Cyc

Wed, 20 Dec 2023

Gustav Söderström is the Co-President, CPO & CTO at Spotify. Gustav has been instrumental in taki...

20VC: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers, Biggest Mistake Emerging Managers Make When Fundraising & Investing Lessons from Investing $1.5BN Per Year and Being Early Investors in Thrive, a16z and Founders Fund with Peter Lacaillade

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

Peter Lacaillade is a Managing Director @ SCS Financial Services where he leads its private investm...

20VC: Cotopaxi: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling $150M in Revenues and Challenging Patagonia, Fundraising Lessons from 100+ Rejections & What Founders Do Not Understand About VC with Davis Smith, Founder @ Cotopaxi

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

Davis Smith is the Founder and Chairman of Cotopaxi, an outdoor brand with a humanitarian mission. ...

20Sales: How to Close Sales When Selling to CFOs, How to Guarantee You Win Every Renewal, Core Questions All CFOs Ask Today When Buying, Why Revenue Operations is the Most Important Role in a Company with Steve Goldberg, CRO @ Salesloft

Wed, 13 Dec 2023

Steve Goldberg is the Chief Revenue Officer at Salesloft, the sales engagement platform that was ac...

20VC: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible, Should Founders Meet Associates, How to Get Intros to the Best VCs, How To Extract the Most Value From Your Investors, Why Post IPO Operators Are the Best Angels with Sam Corcos @ Levels

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

Sam Corcos is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Levels, the company helping you see how food affects your hea...

20VC: $18BN Market Cap and $1BN in ARR in 8 Years; Samsara | How to Find Product Market Fit Reliably | How to Create a Multi-Product Company | The Pros and Cons of Serial Entrepreneurship with Sanjit Biswas, Founder & CEO @ Samsara

Fri, 08 Dec 2023

Sanjit Biswas is the Founder and CEO @ Samsara, allowing businesses that depend on physical operati...

20VC: Ramp's Product Playbook: How To Hire Product Teams, How to Run Sprints, How to Increase Product Velocity, When and How to Go Multi-Product with Geoff Charles, VP Product @ Ramp

Wed, 06 Dec 2023

Geoff Charles is the VP of Product at Ramp, leading the product management, operations, and support...

20VC: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO; The 21-Year Epic Journey of Procore to an $8.6BN Company, Advice from Tobi at Shopify on Being a Great CEO & Why The Idea of "Becoming an Entrepreneur" is BS with Tooey Courtemanche

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

Tooey Courtemanche, Jr. is the Founder, CEO, President, and Chairman of the Board of Procore. He fo...

20VC: HelloFresh CEO on Why When You Raise VC You Only Have Two Options, Why Your IPO Price is Irrelevant, Why Timing is So Important in Going Public & Why D2C is Not Dead with Dominik Richter

Fri, 01 Dec 2023

Dominik Richter is the Founder & CEO @ HelloFresh, one of the largest direct-to-consumer businesses...

20Growth: The Golden Rule to $100M in ARR, Why CAC to LTV is BS Early On, Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder & How Ramp Does 200 Growth Experiments Per Quarter with Guillaume Cabane

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

Guillaume Cabane is a growth advisor to high-growth SaaS Startups, including Ramp, Spot, Airbyte, G...

20VC: Keith Rabois and Mike Shebat on Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic, Why First-Time Founders are Better Than Serial Entrepreneurs, Why Remote Work Does Not Work, Why the Best Founders Always Start in their Teens & Why Companies are Cults?

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

Keith Rabois is a General Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the world's best venture funds with a por...

20VC: AI's Biggest Questions: The Commoditisation of LLMs, Open vs Closed: Who Wins, Model Size vs Data Quality, Why Google are Vulnerable and Apple are the Dark Horse

Fri, 24 Nov 2023

Des Traynor is a Co-Founder of Intercom, and has built and led many teams within the company, incl...

20VC: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play, Why Apple Will Win in an AI World, Why Google is the Most Vulnerable Incumbent, Will LLMs Be Commoditised, Which Startups Are Thin vs Thick Wrappers on Top of LLMs with Jeff Seibert, Founder @ Digits

Wed, 22 Nov 2023

Jeff Seibert is the Founder & CEO @ Digits, building the future of AI-powered accounting. Digits ha...

20VC: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | What Makes Truly Great Leaders and How They Give Feedback | Do VCs Really Add Value; Lessons from Hard Fundraises with Matteo Franceschetti, Co-Founder @ Eight Sleep

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

Matteo Franceschetti is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Eight Sleep, a company dedicated to fueling human ...

20VC Will Seed Pricing Remain High | Where is the Funding Crunch? | Three Core Elements Required to Raise a Series B/C | Why AI is Like the Lottery Today | Why Now is the Best Time to be Investing in Crypto | Why Investors Do Not Want to Reprice Companies

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

Rebecca Kaden is a Managing Partner @ Union Square Ventures, one of the leading early-stage firms o...

20VC: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI, Are LLMs Being Commoditised, Where Does the Value Lie; Infrastructure or Application Layer, How Apple Could Win in a World of AI, How Amazon Could Threaten OpenAI and Why Google Struggle with Des Trayn

Wed, 15 Nov 2023

Des Traynor is a Co-Founder of Intercom, and has built and led many teams within the company, inclu...

20VC: Flexport's Ryan Petersen: Reflections on Leadership from 13 Years Leading Flexport, Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building, How Money Creates Inefficiencies in Scaling, The Future of Trade with China & Why Remote Work is so Cha

Mon, 13 Nov 2023

Ryan Petersen is Founder & CEO @ Flexport, a leader in global supply chain technology. In 2022, Fle...

20Sales: Five Lessons Scaling Snowflake to $1BN ARR, Why Customer Success is BS and Should Be Removed, Why All Sales Reps Should Do Eight Calls Per Week & Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think with Chris Degnan, CRO @ Snowflake

Fri, 10 Nov 2023

Chris Degnan serves as Snowflake’s Chief Revenue Officer and has been with the company since 2013...

20VC: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist, The Biggest Similarities and Differences Between the Best Founders and the Best Actors & The Future of Media; Legacy vs New, The Creator Economy, The Rise of TikTok and more with Danny Cohen

Wed, 08 Nov 2023

Danny Cohen is the President of Access Entertainment, a division of Len Blavatnik's Access Industri...

20VC: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap; Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off, What Allbirds Need to Do to Get Profitable, Why Growth has Slowed and The Bull Case for Allbirds Next Five Years with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds

Mon, 06 Nov 2023

Joey Zwillinger is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Allbirds, the company behind the world's most comfortable...

20VC Roundtable: Why Early Stage Founders Should Not be Investing, Why Great Founders Have Low EQ, How the Structure of VC Firms Will Change, Will Founder-Led Funds Compete with Sequoia & Is Investing a Team Sport?

Fri, 03 Nov 2023

Jack Altman is the Founder and CEO @ Lattice, the #1 people management platform, last valued at $3B...

20Product: Why You Should Not Go Into Product Management, Why the CEO is Always the CPO, How to Build the Best Product Teams & Why You Should Hire People Who Aren't In Product Already with Databricks SVP Product, David Meyer

Wed, 01 Nov 2023

David Meyer is the SVP Products at Databricks where he drives product strategy and execution. He pr...

20VC: Should Large Crypto Funds Give Money Back to LPs | What Will the Next Generation of Crypto Funds Look Like | What Should Happen with FTX; Who Should be Held to Account | The Future of NFTs & What Happens to Opensea w/ Nick Tomaino @ 1confirmation

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

Nick Tomaino is the Founder and General Partner @ 1confirmation, one of the leading seed firms fuel...

20VC: The Three Types of Seed Round Today, Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive, Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher, Why Boards at Pre-Seed Can Be Helpful & How Too Much Cash Too Soon Can Harm Companies with Ed Sim, Founder @ Boldstart

Fri, 27 Oct 2023

Ed Sim is one of the best seed round investors in venture as the Founder and Managing Partner @ Bol...

20Growth: Should Startups Hire Advisors? When is the Right Time? How Much Should They Be Paid? How Should Founders Approach the Hiring Process for Advisors? What Should They Expect From Them? What are the Biggest Mistakes Made and more with Ely Lerner

Wed, 25 Oct 2023

Ely Lerner is an EIR at Reforge and an advisor for startups transitioning from traction to hypergro...

20VC: Scaling to $50M ARR in 3 Years, Scaling to $20M ARR with Just $2M Invested; The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC's Most Capital Efficient Company with Matthieu Rouif, Co-Founder & CEO @ PhotoRoom

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

Matthieu Rouif is the Co-Founder and CEO @ PhotoRoom, one of the fastest-growing YC companies havin...

20VC: NEW FORMAT: Harry Stebbings on Why Seed Pricing is as High as Ever, Why Series A is the Best Place to Invest Today, Why Growth Founders Need to Reshape Expectations, Why M&A Windows Remain Shut and When Will IPO Windows Crack Open

Fri, 20 Oct 2023

Harry Stebbings is the Founder of 20VC, building the next great financial institution at the inters...

20VC: Are LPs Open For Business? What Does it Take to Raise a Fund Today? How Has What LPs Want to See in Fund Investments Changed? Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? Which Funds Will be Hit Hardest with Beezer Clarkson @ Sapphire Partners

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

Beezer Clarkson leads Sapphire Partners‘ investments in venture funds domestically and internatio...

20VC: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes, Why Founders Are Not Ambitious Enough Today, Why Having a Narrow Target Customer is Dangerous & The Three Possible Outcomes in Company Building with Matthew Prince, Co-Founder @ Cloudflare

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

Matthew Prince is the co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, on a mission is to help build a better Inte...

20VC: Israeli Resilience From Tech and Beyond with Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon

Thu, 12 Oct 2023

Michael Eisenberg spent 15 years as a General Partner @ Benchmark working alongside Bill and the B...

20VC Roundtable: Are IPOs Back? Is Growth Dead? What Does it Take to Raise a Growth Round Today? How Do VCs Solve The Liquidity Challenge? Will We See a Massive Resetting of Valuations? AI Hype Growth Rounds?

Wed, 11 Oct 2023

Deven Parekh is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, one of the leading investing franchises ...

20VC: Atlassian Co-Founder Scott Farquhar on The Biggest Lessons Scaling Atlassian to $50BN Market Cap; The Four Roles of the CEO, The Funding Round That Net Accel $6BN, The Regrets of Omission and Commission & The Honeymoon Cut Short

Mon, 09 Oct 2023

Scott Farquhar is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Atlassian. Scott co-founded the company with his univer...

20VC: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To, Why Being First Does Not Matter & Why Market Over Traction or Team is the Most Important Thing with Guillermo Rauch, Founder & CEO @ Vercel

Fri, 06 Oct 2023

Guillermo Rauch is the Founder and CEO @ Vercel, giving developers the frameworks, workflows, and i...

20Sales: Why the Founder Should Not Be the One to Create the Sales Playbook, Why You Should Hire a Sales Leader Before Sales Reps & Why You Should Not Hire Sales Leaders From Big Companies with Matt Rosenberg, CRO @ Grammarly

Wed, 04 Oct 2023

Matt Rosenberg is Grammarly’s Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Grammarly Business. He leads all ...

20VC: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help, The Most Important Signals to Assess When Meeting Founders & Why Kids Bring Less Happiness and More Joy with Phin Barnes @ TheGP

Mon, 02 Oct 2023

Phin Barnes is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of The General Partnership (TheGP), a venture ca...

20Product: Why Product Memes Are More Important Than a Product Roadmap, Why Writing is the Essential Skill for Product People, How AI Changes The Role of Product, Big Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Product Teams with Kevin Niparko, VP Product @ Twilio

Fri, 29 Sep 2023

Kevin Niparko is the VP of Product @ Twilio. Kevin joined Twilio through the acquisition of Segment...

20VC: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me"; We Have Lied to a Generation of Founders | The Hardest Truths About Being a Founder Revealed | Why AI Co-Pilot is BS, Seat Pricing is Over & User Interfaces are Stupid with Christian Lanng

Wed, 27 Sep 2023

Christian Lanng is the Founder and Former CEO @ Tradeshift, a company he took from garage to unicor...

20VC: Marc Benioff on The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge? Marc Benioff's Five Step Process to Priorities and Why Money Does Not Make You Happy & Work From Home vs In-Person; How to Manage in Changing Worlds

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

Marc Benioff is Chair, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud...

20VC: Are Foundation Models Becoming Commoditised? Do OpenAI and Anthropic of the World Have a Sustaining Moat? Why Smaller Models May Work Better? Why Incumbents with Data Power Win the AI War with Christian Kleinerman, SVP Product @ Snowflake

Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Christian Kleinerman is the SVP of Product @ Snowflake. Before Snowflake, Christian spent close to ...

20VC Roundtable: Is the VC Model Broken? The Biggest Disconnect Ever Between TVPI & DPI, Why Market Size is Dangerous, Why "Go Fast" is Terrible Advice, The Dangers of Raising Large Rounds at High Prices & Why Next Year Will See the Biggest Hiring Spree i

Wed, 20 Sep 2023

Eric Paley is the Managing Partner at Founder Collective, one of the world’s most successful se...

20VC: Benchmark General Partner, Miles Grimshaw on The Five Pillars of Venture Capital, Why Data Can Be a Trap When Early-Stage Investing, Investing Lessons from Missing Figma and Plaid & The New Business Model for AI & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strate

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

Miles Grimshaw is a General Partner @ Benchmark, widely considered one of the best venture capital ...

20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents

Fri, 15 Sep 2023

Richard Socher is the founder and CEO of You.com. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist...

20VC: The Dubsmash Memo: Scaling to 43M Users in 10 Days, Why TikTok Was a Competitor Like Never Seen Before, Good vs Great Consumer Products and What Every Consumer Product Needs & The Future of Consumer Social with Suchit Dash

Wed, 13 Sep 2023

Suchit Dash is the VP of Core Product Experience at Reddit, responsible for the surfaces that milli...

20VC: Lessons Building Nubank to the Largest Neobank in the World, How AI Changes The Future of Finance, Leadership Lessons from Sequoia's Doug Leone & What European and US Fintech Can Learn From LATAM with David Velez, Founder @ Nubank

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

David Velez is the Founder and CEO of Nubank, one of the largest and fastest-growing financial inst...

20Sales: Why Everyone is Responsible for Demand Generation, How to do Great Sales Discovery, How to Reduce Sales Cycles and Create Urgency and Deal Reviews; Good and Bad Reasons to Lose a Deal with Doug Adamic, CRO @ Brex

Fri, 08 Sep 2023

Doug Adamic is the CRO @ Brex and leads the company's revenue and growth strategy. Prior to Brex, D...

20VC: Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds & AUM is a Vanity Metric | Why 99% of Investments in AI Startups Will Go To Zero | Being a "Traction First" VC & Investing Lessons from Investing in Canva and Missing Figma with Nikhil Basu-Trivedi

Wed, 06 Sep 2023

Nikhil Basu Trivedi is Co-Founder & General Partner at Footwork, an early-stage focused venture fir...

20VC: The $3.1BN Meeting That Led to an Uber Acquisition, The Battle With Uber; How to Outcompete When You Have 10x Less Cash & The Marketing Campaigns That Led to Pakistan MDs Fleeing and Elon Musk Fanboying with Mudassir Sheikha, CEO @ Careem

Mon, 04 Sep 2023

Mudassir Sheikha is the CEO and Co-Founder of Careem. Over the last 11 years, Mudassir has scaled t...

20VC: Spending $2M to Train a Single AI Model: What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size | Hallucinations: Feature or Bug | Will Everyone Have an AI Friend in the Future & Raising $150M from a16z with Noam Shazeer, Co-Founder & CEO @ Character.ai

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

Noam Shazeer is the co-founder and CEO of Character.AI, a full-stack AI computing platform that giv...

20VC: Why AI Models are not a Moat, Where Does the Value in AI Accrue; Startups or Incumbents, What the World Has Got Wrong About AI, Why AI Needs a New Story and Who is the Right People to Tell it with Cris Valenzuela, Co-Founder & CEO @ Runway

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

Cris Valenzuela is the CEO and co-founder of Runway, the company that trains and builds generative ...

20Product: Enterprises are not Adopting AI Yet, When Will AI Break Into Enterprise, What are the Blockers, What Do Enterprises Need from AI & Why Services Companies Will Win in the Next 10 Years of AI Implementation with Howie Liu, Founder & CEO @ Airtabl

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

Howie Liu is the Founder and CEO @ Airtable, the fastest way to build apps for your business. To da...

20VC: NEW FORMAT: Mega Funds Will Come Back, Why Markups Have Corrupted VC, Why RIFs Should Always Be An Embarrassment To SaaS Founders and Why Pitching is BS and Fake with Jason Lemkin and Rick Zullo

Wed, 23 Aug 2023

Jason Lemkin is the Founder @ SaaStr one of the best-performing early-stage venture funds focused...

20VC: The Biggest Lies of Silicon Valley, Why Entrepreneurship is Not For Everyone, Why VCs are Out of Touch, Why Many Would Be Great Entrepreneurs Will Burn Out, Why You Should Let Your Children Suffer and Why You Will Choose The Wrong Partner with Nick

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

Nick Huber is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and content creator focused on real estate and smal...

20VC: Does Value Accrue to Incumbents or Startups in the AI Race, Why Model Size Matters More Than Data Size, Why Artificial General Intelligence is Far Away, Why Carpenters Will Be Paid More Than Software Engineers & Future of Jobs with Richard Socher

Fri, 18 Aug 2023

Richard Socher is the founder and CEO of You.com. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist ...

20Growth: Why Product-Market Fit is Not Enough, Revenue Does Not Create Usage, Metrics Must Be Before Strategy, Why it is Always Better to Concentrate than Diversify Marketing Channels and Secrets from Hubspot's Growth Engine with Brian Balfour @ Reforge

Wed, 16 Aug 2023

Brian Balfour is the Founder and CEO of Reforge. Previously, he was the VP of Growth @ HubSpot. Pri...

20VC: Scaling Wait But Why to 600,000 Subs; Behind the Scenes on The Research Process, How to Learn Entirely New Topics Fast, The Writing Process and Building Good Habits & The Distribution Process and the Business Behind the Blog with Tim Urban

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

Tim Urban is the writer/illustrator and co-founder of Wait But Why, a long-form, stick-figure-illus...

20VC Roundtable: NEW FORMAT: Why the Seed Investing Model is Broken, How to Make Money at Seed Moving Forward; Who Wins and Who Loses, Why Venture Value Add Platforms are BS and Failed and Why There Will be an IPO per Week in H2 2024

Fri, 11 Aug 2023

Sam Lessin is a Co-Founder and Partner @ Slow Ventures with a portfolio including the likes of Airt...

20VC: The Memo: The State of the VC Market: Why Seed Funds Can't Invest in "Hot Startups" Anymore, Why Series A & B is Terrible, Why the IPO Market Will Explode in 2024 & Why VC DD is BS & Every VC Has More Fraud in their Portfolio with Jason Lemkin

Wed, 09 Aug 2023

Jason Lemkin is the Founder @ SaaStr one of the best-performing early-stage venture funds focused o...

20VC: Vinod Khosla on How AI Impacts The Future of Healthcare, Education, Income Equality, Geo-Politics, Music and Climate Change

Mon, 07 Aug 2023

Vinod Khosla is the Founder of Khosla Ventures, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade...

20VC: Why "Hire Great People and Get Out of the Way" is Total BS, Why Your Upbringing Can Make You a Worse Leader & A Bentley, Two Nissan Cubes and Becoming One of Macedonia's Largest Employers; The Story of Slice with Ilir Sela

Fri, 04 Aug 2023

Ilir Sela is the Founder and CEO of Slice, the all-in-one ordering and marketing tech platform for ...

20Sales: Why The Founder Has To Be The One To Create The Sales Playbook, When To Hire Your First Rep, Why Junior is Better Than Senior, How to Manage Sales Rep Compensation, How To Onboard New Sales Reps and more with Lori Jimenez, CRO @ WorkRamp

Wed, 02 Aug 2023

Lori Jimenez is the Chief Revenue Officer at WorkRamp where she is responsible for sales, customer ...

20VC: Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta on Lessons from Investing $7.5BN at Softbank & Why Dumb Money has Gone, Why "LATAM is Under Construction" and the Next 10 Years Will Be the Best & Investing Lessons from Missing Nubank & OpenAI & Investing in FTX

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

Marcelo Claure is the Founder & CEO of Claure Group, a multi-billion-dollar global investment firm....

20VC: Four Criteria to Assess Great Founders, Why and How the Best Leaders Make the Wrong Decisions 40% of the Time, Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400 and Making $1BN of EBITDA with Stephane Kurgan, Venture Partner @ Index Ventures

Fri, 28 Jul 2023

Stephane Kurgan is widely considered one of the best operators in Europe. During his tenure as COO ...

20Growth: Biggest Growth Lessons from Instacart and Opendoor, Why 70% of Growth Experiments Should Fail and How to Fail Fast, How to Hire a Growth Team; Secrets and Tips & Why Operator Investors WIll be the Best Investors in 10 Years with Sri Batchu @ Ram

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

Sri Batchu currently leads Growth at Ramp. He previously led Growth Strategy and Operations at Inst...

20VC: Instagram CEO, Adam Mosseri on Threads: The Journey from 0-100M Users; What Worked, What Didn't and the Plans Ahead | Instagram: Biggest Mistakes, Successes, Misconceptions, TikTok Competition & The Future of Social Media; Interest Graph or Friend G

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

Adam Mosseri is the Head of Instagram, where he is responsible for overseeing the engineering, prod...

20VC: Why Hiring in Tech is Broken and Founders Need to be as Good at Firing as they are Hiring, Why Product Differentiation is Unsustainable & Why the Current Generation of Tech Employees are Entitled and What Needs to Change with Jean-Denis Greze @ Plai

Fri, 21 Jul 2023

Jean-Denis Greze is Chief Technology Officer at Plaid where oversees global product business units ...

20Product: The Secret to Successful Onboarding from Notion and Airtable, The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make in PLG Today& Why 90% of Onboarding Today is Done Poorly with Lauryn Isford, Head of Product Growth @ Notion

Wed, 19 Jul 2023

Lauryn Isford is the Head of Product Growth at Notion, managing Notion's product-led growth engine ...

20VC: Top Three Lessons from Working with Jeff Bezos for 23 Years at Amazon, How the Best Leader Hire, Fire, Prioritise and Make Decisions & How to Be Responsible for 1M Employees and Be a Rockstar Husband and Father with Dave Clark @ Flexport

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

Dave Clark is the CEO of Flexport, the global freight forwarder and logistics platform that has now...

20VC: Why Fund Sizes Should Be Smaller, Should Founders Also Have Their Own Funds, Is Emerging Markets Investing Gone, Is Fintech Investing Dead & Who Will Be The Winners and Losers in VC in the Next 10 Years with Sheel Mohnot, Co-Founder @ BTV

Fri, 14 Jul 2023

Sheel Mohnot is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $225M fund that lea...

20Sales: Slack, Atlassian, Dropbox: Five of the Biggest Lessons on Starting, Scaling and Managing Sales Teams from 25 Years Leading the Best with Kevin Egan, Global Head of Enterprise Sales at Atlassian

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

Kevin Egan is the Global Head of Enterprise Sales at Atlassian and brings more than 25 years of ent...

20VC: Simon Sinek on Trust; How it is Gained and Lost | Why Millennials Avoid Conflict | How to Listen Effectively | What Makes The Best Feedback and How to Provide It | Why Humans Do Not Change & How To Find Out Who You Really Are

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

Simon Sinek is an optimist and author, as we discuss in the show today. Simon is best known for his...

20VC: Why Data Size Matters More Than Model Size, Why The Google Employee Was Wrong; OpenAI and Google Have the Advantage & Why Open Source is Not Going to Win with Douwe Kiela, Co-Founder @ Contextual AI

Fri, 30 Jun 2023

Douwe Kiela is the CEO of Contextual AI, building the contextual language model to power the future...

20VC: The Rent the Runway Memo: How Paid Marketing & Growth Hacking Ruined a Generation of Companies, When Will Rent the Runway Be Profitable & How Does it Compare to Other Fashion Co's and Why "I Wish I Ran My Startup Like a Public Company"

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

Jennifer Hyman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rent the Runway, the world’s first and largest shared...

20VC: Eight Pieces of Startup Advice that are BS: Why You Do Not Have to Love Your Space, It Is Ok To Do It For The Money, Focus Is Not Everything, Speed Is Not The Most Important Thing with Akin Babayigit, Co-Founder @ Tripledot Studios

Mon, 26 Jun 2023

Akin Babayigit is a serial entrepreneur and an active angel investor. He is currently the Founder a...

20VC: How to Raise a Venture Fund from Deck to First Meetings to Final Close, Why Venture is a Young Person's Game and Why Multi-Stage Funds Have Not Ruined Seed with Rob Go, Co-Founder @ Nextview

Fri, 23 Jun 2023

Rob Go is a co-founder and Partner at NextView, one of the leading seed firms of the last decade wi...

20Growth: How to Master PR and Comms, How to Get Your Startup Written About; Press Releases, Fundraising Announcements, Embargos etc & Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users with Gina Gotthilf, Co-Founder @ Latitud

Wed, 21 Jun 2023

Gina Gotthilf is a Co-Founder and COO at Latitud, an a16z-backed platform supporting the next gener...

20VC: Why No Models Today Will Be Used in a Year, Why Open Will Always Beat Closed in AI, Why Proprietary Data is Less Important Than Ever And Why EU AI Regulation is a Disaster with Alex Lebrun, Founder & CEO @ Nabla

Mon, 19 Jun 2023

Alex Lebrun is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nabla, an AI assistant for doctors. Prior to Nabla, he led...

20Product: Slack CPO Noah Weiss on How to Master Product-Led-Growth, The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Scaling Into Enterprise & What Needs to Change with your Product, Team and Processes when Scaling From PLG to Enterprise

Fri, 16 Jun 2023

Noah Weiss is the Chief Product Officer of Slack, overseeing the product team’s strategy and deve...

20VC: UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak on Investing More in AI Safety Research Than Any Other Country in the World, How AI Changes the Future of Education, His Top 5 Priorities as Prime Minister Today & How to Make the UK the Centre of AI

Wed, 14 Jun 2023

Rishi Sunak is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was previously appointed Chancellor of ...

20VC: Larry Summers on How to Manage Inflation; Should We Increase Rates Even Higher, Why We Need To Change The US Tax System, Why Europe is a Museum, China is a Jail and Bitcoin is an Experiment & How a Trump Win Would Hurt the US Economy

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

Larry Summers is the Former Treasury Secretary and one of America's leading economists. In addition...

20VC: What are the World's Tech Leaders Running From? Fear? Insecurity? Poverty? What Drives the Best with Orlando Bravo, Bill Ackman, Dara Khosrowshahi, Parker Conrad, Tobi Luttke, Brian Armstrong and more..

Fri, 09 Jun 2023

Orlando Bravo is a Founder and Managing Partner of Thoma Bravo. He led Thoma Bravo’s early entry...

20Sales: PLG and Early Adopter Sales are Gone, How to do Sales Forecasting in 2023, Why You Cannot Do PLG and Enterprise from Day 1 at the Same Time and Which is Easier to Start, How to Onboard, Manage and Scale Reps with Rich Liu, CRO @ Everlaw

Wed, 07 Jun 2023

Rich Liu is the CRO @ Everlaw and a unicorn GTM exec having scaled five multi-billion dollar tech u...

20VC: The Largest Venture Backed D2C Consumer Exit; PillPack: $0-$300M Revenues in 5 Years & The Biggest Lessons Scaling the B2B Business to $300M in 2.5 Years with TJ Parker, Co-Founder @ PillPack

Mon, 05 Jun 2023

TJ Parker is the co-founder and former CEO of PillPack. TJ Raised over $100M in financing, grew the...

20VC: Who Wins the AI Race; Startups or Incumbents & Does Having Proprietary Data Really Matter For Startups Today?

Fri, 02 Jun 2023

One of the core questions in AI and investing today; who wins, startups or incumbents? Startups hav...

20VC: The On Running Memo: From Swiss Mountains to NASDAQ IPO: The Story of Three Friends Who Built a Sports Giant

Wed, 31 May 2023

David Alleman is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman @ On Running one of the fastest-growing global spor...

20VC: Why Financial Models at Seed, $5M Seed Rounds & The Fear of Signalling Risk is all BS | Why Multi-Stage Firms Have Destroyed Seed & Who Wins and Who Loses in the Next 10 Years of Venture with Adam Besvinick, Founding Partner @ Looking Glass Capital

Mon, 29 May 2023

Adam Besvinick is the Founder of Looking Glass Capital, a pre-seed-focused firm started in 2020. Be...

20Product: How Linkedin Does Product Reviews, A Post-Mortem on Stories, Linkedin Messenger and Spam & Why the Data Advantage in AI is Diminishing with Tomer Cohen, CPO @ Linkedin

Fri, 26 May 2023

Tomer Cohen is the CPO @ Linkedin. Since joining in 2012, Tomer has served in key leadership roles,...

20VC: Why Being First To Market Does Not Matter, Why You Do Not Have Defensibility on Day 1, How to Analyse Market Size and Present it to Investors, Vitamins vs Painkillers; Do Vitamins Survive Recessions and Good vs Great Messaging with Guy Podjarny @ Sn

Wed, 24 May 2023

Guy Podjarny is the Founder of Snyk, the leading Developer Security platform, helping developers se...

20VC: Why Your Fund Model Should Not Rely on $10BN+ Outcomes, Why the Large Funds Got Too Large, The Rise of Solo GP's; The Pros and Cons & Is Consumer Subscription Even a Good Sector to Invest in with Nico Wittenborn @ Adjacent

Mon, 22 May 2023

Nico Wittenborn is the Founder of Adjacent, one of the best early-stage firms created over the last...

20Growth: Three Growth Lessons Scaling Whatsapp from 0-100M, Why You Should Hire a Head of Growth Sooner Than You Think & The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth with Ryan Wiggins, Head of Growth @ Mercury

Fri, 19 May 2023

Ryan Wiggins is the VP of Growth and Analytics at Mercury where he oversees a Growth team and found...

20VC: Why the AI Bubble Will Be Bigger Than The Dot Com Bubble, Why AI Will Have a Bigger Impact Than COVID, Why No Models Used Today Will Be Used in a Year, Why All Models are Biased and How AI Kills Traditional Media with Emad Mostaque, Founder & CEO @

Wed, 17 May 2023

Emad Mostaque is the Co-Founder and CEO @ StabilityAI, the parent company of Stable Diffusion. Stab...

20VC: Yann LeCun on Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Dominate Humanity, Why No Economists Believe All Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI, Why the Size of Models Matters Less and Less & Why Open Models Beat Closed Models

Mon, 15 May 2023

Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Coura...

20VC: Why The Future of AI Is Open Not Closed, Why We Are Years Away From AI Being Autonomous, Why AI Founders Do Not Need to Move to the Valley & Why Founders Should Not Meet Investors in Between Rounds with Clem Delangue @ Hugging Face

Fri, 12 May 2023

Clem Delangue is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Hugging Face, the AI community building the future. To da...

20Sales: How to Scale a Career While Scaling a Family, Strategies and Specific Tools To Help Maintain Work-Life Balance, What Companies Can Do To Empower Parents To Be Their Best Selves & How to Prevent Parental Leave Being an Inhibitor To Your Career

Wed, 10 May 2023

Today's 20Sales is a special Mother's Day edition where we are joined by 6 of the best sales leader...

20VC: Why VC Subsidizes the Wrong Type of Business, Why Capital Gains Tax is Crazy, The Biggest Misalignments Between VCs, Founders and LPs, Why Business Model - Product Fit is as Important as Product-Market-Fit with Chris Paik @ Pace Capital

Mon, 08 May 2023

Chris Paik is a General Partner @ Pace Capital, an early-stage venture firm in NYC. Pace's first fu...

20VC: Alex Rodriguez (AROD) on Investing Lessons from Warren Buffet, How a Meeting with Magic Johnson Changed His Approach to Business and The Single Best and Worst Investment Decisions he has Made and Why AROD Is Not Buying More Real Estate

Fri, 05 May 2023

Alex Rodriguez is a businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of A-Rod Corp, a broad...

20VC: The OpenAI Memo: Why Invest? Is it too Late to Catch OpenAI? Are OpenAI's Models Truly Defensible? Does the Value in AI Accrue to Incumbemts or Startups - Application Layer/Infrastructure? What Happens with Regulation? with Vince Hankes @ Thrive

Wed, 03 May 2023

Vince Hankes is a Partner @ Thrive Capital where he has led the firm’s investments in OpenAI, Mel...

20VC: First Republic; Management Responsibility or Result of Contagion in the System, The Future of Regional Banks, Will Interest Rates Go Higher | Net Zero, Where Are We? The Best and the Worst Actors with Mark Carney, Former Governor of The Bank of Engl

Mon, 01 May 2023

Mark Carney is the Vice Chair and Head of Transition Investing @ Brookfield Asset Management, one o...

20VC: In AI Who Wins? Startups or Incumbents? What Happens to Wealth Inequality? Why Will $10BN+ Companies Only Have 10 People | Why Defensibility in Startups is BS & Speed is Everything? Why Large Groups Worsen Decision-Making with Sarah Guo

Fri, 28 Apr 2023

Sarah Guo is the Founding Partner @ Conviction Capital, a $100M first fund purpose-built to serve ...

20Product: Snap's VP Product on How Snap Hires 10x Product People, What Makes Evan Spiegel So Special at Product, Three Ways to Prioritise Product Ideas in Teams, The Future of AR, Why Snap Glasses Will be Huge and Snap Will Be Massive in Japan with Jack

Wed, 26 Apr 2023

Jack Brody is the VP Product @ Snap. Jack joined Snap in 2014 as a Product Designer, and ultimately...

20VC: WTF Is Going On In Venture Capital; Seed Round Pricing Will Remain High, Series B & C Has Gone Completely, Downrounds Are Coming | Why Defensibility is BS on Day 1, Why Market is More Important Than Founder & Why Being First To Market Doesn't Matter

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

Avlok Kohli is the CEO @ AngelList. Under his leadership, Avlok has taken AngelList from an SPV pro...

20VC: Who Wins in AI; Startup vs Incumbent, Infrastructure vs Application Layer, Bundled vs Unbundled Providers | From 150 LP Meetings to Closing $230M for Fund I; The Fundraising Process, What Worked, What Didn't and Lessons Learned with Tomasz Tunguz

Fri, 21 Apr 2023

Tomasz Tunguz is the Founder and General Partner @ Theory Ventures, just announced last week, Theor...

20Sales: Why You Should Never Hire a VP Sales First, How To Create Urgency in a Sales Process, How to Do Traditional Outbound 10x Better, Why Revenue Doesn't Matter with Your First Customers | Mark Goldberger, Head of Enterprise Sales @ Ramp

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

Mark Goldberger is Head of Enterprise Sales at Ramp, the fastest-growing corporate card and bill pa...

20VC: Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and so much more...

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

From college party promoter to managing global stars to CEO and investor. Scott “Scooter” Braun...

20VC: Biggest Challenge Facing Crypto Today & The Winners and Losers of the Next 10 Years | Why AI Will Lead to More Wealth Equality Than Inequality | Why The Current State of the US Feels Like the End of an Empire with David Marcus, CEO @ Lightspark

Fri, 14 Apr 2023

David Marcus is the co-founder and CEO of Lightspark, building infrastructure that extends the capab...

20Growth: How AI Will Change the Game For Content Creation and SEO, The Secret to Mastering SEO, When and How To Invest in SEO Most Effectively & The Best and Worst SEO Strategies with Joost De Valk, Founder @ Yoast

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

Joost De Valk is one of the OGs of SEO. As the Founder of Yoast, he scaled what was a side project ...

20VC: Why Signalling Risk is Real, What Founders Need to Know About Taking Multi-Stage Money vs Seed Fund Money, Lessons Scaling to $600M AUM, The Secret to Hiring in VC; Hire People with No VC Experience & How Venture Will Be Disrupted with Rob Lacher

Fri, 07 Apr 2023

Rob Lacher founded Visionaries Club in 2019, in just 3 years he has scaled the firm to $600M AUM an...

20VC: The Memo: Scaling to $600M Revenues with No Venture Funding, The Most In Detail Breakdown of Consumer Subscription Unit Economics & Why D2C and Consumer Subscription is Not a VC Backable Model with Mike Salguero, Founder @ ButcherBox

Wed, 05 Apr 2023

Mike Salguero is the Founder and CEO @ ButcherBox, the meat delivery subscription service that he h...

20VC: Shopify Founder Tobi Lütke on Why Micromanagement is Good | Why You Will Learn More From Studying World of Warcraft Guilds Than You Will Companies | Why Happiness is BS; Lessons on Marriage, Fatherhood & Decision-Making Quality

Mon, 03 Apr 2023

Tobi Lütke is the CEO and Co-Founder of Shopify, the powerhouse company allowing anyone to start a...

20VC: The Secret to Negotiating; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | Why Everything You Know About Hiring is Wrong; Domain Knowledge and Past Experience are Dangerous | The Next 10 Years for Fintech; Winners, Losers and Crypto with Jackie Reses, CEO @ Lea

Fri, 31 Mar 2023

Jackie Reses is the Chair and CEO of Lead Bank, a community bank in Kansas City. Previously, she ...

20Product: Nubank's CPO on Why Product is 90% Science and 10% Art, Why Execution is Overrated and Strategic Clarity is Under-Appreciated, Why You Should Never Fall in Love With Your Own Ideas & Nubank's Biggest Product Challenges Scaling to 80M Users

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

Jag Duggal is the CPO @ Nubank where he is responsible for product strategy and roadmap reporting t...

20VC: Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi on Why Uber Eats is Not Losing the Fight to Doordash | Uber's M&A Strategy; A Scorecard Analysis from Careem to Postmates & Skip | Why Uber's Investment in Scooters was a Mistake | Secret to Marriage, Parenting & High Per

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of Uber, where he has managed the company’s business in more than 70...

20VC: Three Core Lessons for Founders From the SVB Crisis From Financial Agility (Banking) to Constructing Scenario Plans and Mastering Crisis Communications | How The Western World Has Not Been Responsible with its Money & Why The Fed Is Backing Itself I

Fri, 24 Mar 2023

Mike Maples is one of the OGs of seed investing. As the Co-Founder of Floodgate, he has backed the ...

20Sales: The 3 Profiles of a Sales Rep, How to Negotiate in a Sales Process, How to Sell to a CFO & How You Should Shift Sales Messaging in a Downturn with Frank Fillmann, CRO @ Salesforce Australia

Wed, 22 Mar 2023

Frank Fillman is CRO/Country Leader Australia for Salesforce where he is responsible for responsibl...

20VC: Bill Ackman on The Banking Crisis, What the Fed Should Do, The Three-Tiered Banking System, Why SVB is the Safest, Why Jamie Dimon Should Run For President & Investing Lessons; Losing $400M on Netflix and Making $2.8BN in COVID

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

Bill Ackman is the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., an SEC-registered investment ad...

20VC: Why Growth Investors Ruined the Venture Market, Why Marketing in Venture Has No Substance, Why Follow-On Investing Can Damage Returns and The Mistakes VCs Made in the Last 18 Months with Ophelia Brown, Founder @ Blossom Capital

Fri, 17 Mar 2023

Ophelia Brown is the Founder of Blossom Capital, one of Europe's newest but leading early-stage ven...

20Growth: The Inside Story to Uber's Hypergrowth Scaling; What Worked, What Did Not? | Spending a $1BN Budget at Uber and Why China was the Wild West for Uber | Why You Do Not Need a Growth Team with Adam Grenier

Wed, 15 Mar 2023

Adam Grenier is an OG of the growth world. His first role in growth, was none other than Uber where...

20VC: SVB: What Happened? What Happens Now? Will Depositors Have Deposits Guaranteed? How Long Will It Take? Will There Be a Buyer? Who is the Most Likely Buyer? What is the Best and Worst Outcome?

Sun, 12 Mar 2023

Jackie Reses is the CEO of Lead Bank and previous Exec Chair of Square Financial Services and Head ...

20VC: Why AI Will Lead to Thousands of Billionaires and Elon Musk's, Will TikTok Be Banned and How Facebook Should Be Investing in AI & Why Startups Have Become Too Soft; We Need a Spiritual Reform with Amjad Masad, Founder & CEO @ Replit

Fri, 10 Mar 2023

Amjad Masad is the Founder and CEO @ Replit, whose mission is to bring the next billion software cr...

20Product: Shopify's VP Product on Why the Founder is Always the Head of Product, What Makes Truly Special Product Managers, Why The Majority of Product Managers Need to Change, Why Top-Down Decision-Making in Product is Good & How Shopify Will Be Bigger

Wed, 08 Mar 2023

Glen Coates is the VP of Product @ Shopify, leading the development of Shopify’s core commerce pl...

20VC: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on The Crucible Moments Scaling Facebook to 1BN Users, Turning Facebook Reels Into a Monetisation Engine, Competing Against TikTok and SNAP, Coming Out in the World of Tech; The Challenges and What Needs to Change

Mon, 06 Mar 2023

Alex Schultz is the Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Analytics for Meta (formerly Facebook), leadi...

20VC: Will LPs Pull Out of Existing Managers, How Will Fund Sizes Change Moving Forward, Is Now The Time to be Aggressive on Secondaries, What is the Discount on Secondaries Today, Who Will Win and Lose in the Next Five Years with Hunter Somerville, Partn

Fri, 03 Mar 2023

Hunter Somerville is a Partner @ Stepstone, one of the largest secondary buyers, fund investors and...

20VC: The Story of Ring: Scaling from an Idea in a Garage to Richard Branson Investing and a Reported $1BN Amazon Acquisition | Why Building a Brand is Like Making Great Wine | The Secret to Hiring Success; Hire Marathoners and more with Jamie Siminoff

Wed, 01 Mar 2023

Jamie Siminoff is the Founder and Chief Inventor @ Ring, with Ring Jamie, created the world’s fir...

20VC: How Multi-Stage Funds Changed The Game For Seed Rounds, Why Signalling Risk is BS, The Three Most Important Variables for Founders When Raising Rounds & A Debate on Portfolio Construction: Does Ownership Matter with David Tisch

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, one of the leading seed-stage investment firms o...

20VC: Why Value Investing is BS, The Most Insane Elements of SPACs, Why Simplification is the Secret to High Margins & Why Good Values Should Make You Uncomfortable with Joey Levin, CEO @ IAC

Fri, 24 Feb 2023

Joey Levin is the CEO of IAC where he has overseen the constant evolution of the company, including...

20VC: Instagram Founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger on Why Social Networks Should Be Less Social & The Next Wave of Social | Why San Francisco Will Return with a Vengeance and The Future For Remote Work | Let's Get Personal: Relationships to Money, Be

Wed, 22 Feb 2023

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are the co-founders of Instagram. Since its release in 2010, Instagr...

20Sales: What is Sales Engineering? When and How to Hire Them? How They Should Work With AE's? How to Measure Their Success? How They Change Close Rates and Sales Comp Plans with Zach Lawryk, Head of Solutions Consulting @ Rippling

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

Zach Lawryk is Head of Solutions Consulting @ Rippling, what is solutions consulting? They are the ...

20VC: Grammy Nominee Aloe Blacc on Working with Avicii on "Wake Me Up", The Art of Great Storytelling, Behind The Scenes on the Songwriting Process and Why Rules Are Just "Good Suggestions"

Fri, 17 Feb 2023

Aloe Blacc is a GRAMMY nominee and the voice behind such hits as Wake Me Up, The Man, SOS, I Need A...

20Growth: Top Five Growth Lessons Scaling Stitchfix to IPO, How to Master the Art of Paid Marketing, Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric & How To Use Payback Period as an Alternative to CAC/LTV with Mike Duboe, Partner @ Greylock

Wed, 15 Feb 2023

Mike Duboe is a Partner @ Greylock where he sits on the board of Builder, Inventa, Novi, Pepper, Po...

20VC: Why This Time Will Be Worse Than The Great Financial Crisis, Why Down-Rounds, Firesales and Shutdowns Will Happen & The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide; 7 Steps to Ensure Your Company Survives The Storm

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

Tom Loverro is a Partner @ IVP where he has led or was actively involved in investments in Amplitud...

20VC: Boston Celtics' Steve Pagliuca on The Future of Sports Team Ownership; What Happened with the Chelsea Acquisition | Why More Money is Pouring Into Sport Than Ever & Do These Assets Keep Increasing in Value

Fri, 10 Feb 2023

Steve Pagliuca is a Senior Advisor at Bain Capital, the firm he joined in 1982 and as a Managing Di...

20VC: Why Salesforce, SAP and Concur Will Die | Scaling 3x and Raising at a $9.2BN Valuation in COVID | How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry Forever | Never Before Revealed Margins on Travel and Expense Management with Ariel Cohen, Co-Founder & CEO

Wed, 08 Feb 2023

Ariel Cohen is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Navan (formerly TripActions), the #1 travel management supe...

20VC: Thoma Bravo's Orlando Bravo on Why Now is The New Normal, Why Every Company in the World is Worth its Future Cashflows, The Three Core Elements Thoma Bravo Need to See in Any Potential Deal & Orlando's Relationship to Risk, Wealth and Parenting

Mon, 06 Feb 2023

Orlando Bravo is a Founder and Managing Partner of Thoma Bravo. He led Thoma Bravo’s early entry ...

20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur

Fri, 03 Feb 2023

Annie Pearl is the CPO @ Calendly, the company that makes scheduling meetings simple and painless...

20VC: From $57M in ARR to $297M in Just 12 Months; Why Speed of Execution is the Most Important Factor to Success, Hiring 2,000 People in 3 Years Remotely & Secondaries; Why, When and How Much To Take Out with Alex Bouaziz, Co-Founder & CEO @ Deel

Wed, 01 Feb 2023

Alex Bouaziz is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Deel, the all-in-one platform made to simplify all things ...

20VC: Homebrew's Hunter Walk and Satya Patel on Why $100M is Not Enough To Execute a Seed Strategy Today | Why They Decided not to Raise New External Funds | Where Are We in the Cycle & What is Truly F***** | Why Founders Should Take Secondaries Earlier

Mon, 30 Jan 2023

Hunter Walk and Satya Patel are Co-Founders and Partners @ Homebrew, one of the leading seed funds ...

20VC: Canva Co-Founder, Cliff Obrecht on The Journey From 100 VC Rejections to a $40BN Company, Why Good Enough is Not Good Enough, The Secret to Hiring Non-Obvious Talent and Relationships to Money and Why They Are Giving Away Billions

Fri, 27 Jan 2023

Cliff Obrecht is the Co-Founder & COO @ Canva, the free-to-use online graphic design tool that make...

20Sales: Why You Should Not Do PLG and Enterprise Sales at the Same Time | How To Move Into Enterprise Sales Gradually | How To Make a Comp Plan For Sales Teams | Why Discounting is Good and Can Be Used with Stevie Case, CRO @ Vanta

Wed, 25 Jan 2023

Stevie Case is the CRO @ Vanta where she oversees Vanta’s go-to-market team to support the compan...

20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on What Elon Musk Should Do with Twitter | The State of Crypto Today; The Impact of SBF and Why Now is the Best Time To Invest in Crypto | Are We Too Late to Save The Climate and Why Civil Disobedience is Required | Will TikTok b

Mon, 23 Jan 2023

Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the most successful venture fi...

20VC: Turning Canned Water into a $700M Media and Health Company, What Makes Truly Great Brands, How Founders Can Build Their Brand From Day 1 Today & How to Create Viral Content with Little to No Budget with Mike Cessario, Founder and CEO @ Liquid Death

Fri, 20 Jan 2023

Mike Cessario is the Founder and CEO @ Liquid Death, the man hacking the healthy beverage market wi...

20Growth: When To Make Your First Growth Hire? How To Structure the Hiring Process for Growth? Five Core Things the Best Growth Hires Do in the First Week? What to Expect New Growth Hires to Achieve in the First 30 and 90 Days with Hila Qu, Growth Advisor

Wed, 18 Jan 2023

Hila Qu is one of the leading growth execs of the last decade. Hila helped scale Acorns from 1 mi...

20VC: a16z's Jeff Jordan on The Ultimate Guide to Investing in Marketplaces, Two Core Features to Look for in All Marketplace Investments, Why Fragmented Supply is so Important & Lessons from Airbnb, Pinterest and Instacart on What Makes the Best Cohorts

Mon, 16 Jan 2023

Jeff Jordan is a General Partner @ a16z where he serves on the boards of Airbnb, Incredible Health,...

20VC: WTF is Going On in VC? Are VCs Still Investing? How Has What VCs Want in Investments Changed? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? Why VCs That Invest in Public Markets Are Losers? Dec 2023; Will It Be Better Or Worse with Jason Lemkin

Fri, 13 Jan 2023

The question is: "are VCs still investing?". Today we are joined by Jason Lemkin; one of the OGs of...

20VC: The Memo: How to Raise a Venture Capital Fund (Part I) | The Core Lessons from Raising $400M Over The Last Four Years| The Biggest Mistakes VCs Make When Fundraising | How To Find and Build Relationships with New LPs

Wed, 11 Jan 2023

How To Raise a Venture Capital Fund Over the last 4 years, I have raised around $400M across diff...

20VC: From a $5,000 College Fund to a $10BN+ Public Company, How to Beat People Who Are Smarter Than You, Why Happier Teams Outperform and How Software Buying Patterns are Changing in 2023 with Henry Schuck, CEO @ ZoomInfo

Mon, 09 Jan 2023

Henry Schuck is the Founder and CEO @ ZoomInfo. From ZoomInfo's founding moment, putting $25,000 on...

20VC: Why Financial Planning and Goals Do Not Work, The Decision to Ban Politics in the Workplace and Losing 1/3 of the Team Overnight & The One Question That Will Drive All Decision-Making for Leaders with Jason Fried, CEO @ 37Signals

Fri, 06 Jan 2023

Jason Fried the Co-Founder and CEO at 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY. Over an incredible ...

20VC Special: How To Fundraise Like a Pro: How to Size and Price a Round, How to Create FOMO and Urgency in a Fundraise, How to Structure Angel Allocations, The 7 Deadly Sins of Fundraising Decks, The 3 Signs a Potential Investor is Bad News

Wed, 21 Dec 2022

20VC: Fundraising 101 Today we are going to walk through the process of raising a funding round for ...

20VC: Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy on Leadership Lessons Learned from Reed Hastings and Daniel Ek, What is Peloton's Competitive Advantage and Why Peloton is a Team and Not a Family

Mon, 19 Dec 2022

Barry McCarthy is Peloton’s CEO and President. McCarthy is a seasoned executive who served as CFO...

20VC: Leadership Lessons from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, The Early Days of TheFacebook Advising Mark Zuckerberg and Why Now is Not the Right Time For Startups to Stockpile Cash with Hadi Partovi, CEO @ Code.org

Fri, 16 Dec 2022

Hadi Partovi is a tech entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education nonprofit Code.org. Befo...

20 Sales: Webflow's Maggie Hott on When to Start and How to Scale the Best Outbound Sales Team, Why Founders Should Not Hire a Head of Sales First, The Must Ask Questions When Hiring Sales Reps and How To Structure the Process

Wed, 14 Dec 2022

Maggie Hott is the Director of Sales @ Webflow where she leads their Sales Dev, Account Executive, ...

20VC: Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut on The Biggest Leadership Lessons Scaling to a $12Bn Acquisition and $1BN+ ARR, The Secret to Happiness, Being a Great Husband and Father & Why 2021 was the Right Time To Sell to Intuit

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

Ben Chestnut is the Co-Founder of Mailchimp, the all-in-one marketing platform for small businesses...

20VC: The Story of Turning Around MTV, AOL and Time Warner | How To Be Effective When Making Hard Decisions | Tactics vs Strategy and Why Plans Are BS with Bob Pittman, CEO @ iHeartMedia

Fri, 09 Dec 2022

Bob Pittman is Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia, Inc., the number one audio company in America. Prio...

20 Product: Marty Cagan on The Four Questions of Great Product Management, Product Lessons from Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and eBay's Pierre Omidyar & The Difference Between Truly Great Product Teams and the Rest

Wed, 07 Dec 2022

Marty Cagan is one of the OGs of Product and Product Management as the Founder of Silicon Valley Pr...

20VC: a16z's Martin Casado on How the Venture Model is Broken, Why VCs Should Be Running Wall St, Who Wins and Who Loses in the Next Generation of Venture & Investing Lessons from Marc Andreesen, Ben Horowitz and Chris Dixon

Mon, 05 Dec 2022

Martin Casado is a General Partner @ a16z where he focuses on enterprise investing. At a16z, Martin...

20VC: Plaid and Column Co-Founder, William Hockey on Why the Brands that Win in Fintech Will Not Be Financial Services Brands, What US Banking Can Learn from China & Why Companies Can Be Built Slower than People Think?

Fri, 02 Dec 2022

Will Hockey is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO @ Column, the only nationally chartered bank built to enab...

20VC: Jason Lemkin on Why Founders Do Not Care About Their VCs Anymore, Why Zoom Made Us All Worse Investors, Why 80-90% IRR Should Have Been Warning Signs and the Algolia Journey From Seed to $2.25BN Valuation

Wed, 30 Nov 2022

Jason Lemkin is one of the OGs of SaaS of the last decade. As the Founder of SaaStr, he has inspire...

20VC: Wolt CEO, Miki Kuusi on Leadership Lessons Scaling to a Reported $8.1BN Exit to Doordash, Building Teams not Families, The Difference Between Trust and Safety Within Companies, How To Use Compensation to Create Culture & Why You Should Not Be Lookin

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

Miki Kuusi is the CEO of Wolt and Head of DoorDash International. In 2014 Miki founded Wolt with a ...

20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more

Fri, 25 Nov 2022

Casey Winters is the Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite. Prior to Eventbrite, Casey led the grow...

20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with

Wed, 23 Nov 2022

Jeffrey Katzenberg is an entertainment industry executive and entrepreneur, who throughout his care...

20VC: Semil Shah on The Biggest Mistakes VCs and LPs Made Over the Last 24 Months, Why LP Churn is Coming, Core Lessons on Scaling from $1M Haystack Fund I to Today and How To Find, Win and Manage LPs as an Emerging Manager

Mon, 21 Nov 2022

Semil Shah is the Founder of Haystack, one of the leading pre-seed and seed firms of the last decad...

20VC Rising Star: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | How To Know Pre-Investment Whether a VC Will Be Valuable and How to Get the Most Value Out of Them | Is There a Misalignment Between Founders and VCs with Oana Olteanu, Partner @ SignalFir

Fri, 18 Nov 2022

Oana Olteanu is a Partner @ SignalFire where she focuses on enterprise software at Seed, Series A a...

20 Sales: The Ultimate Guide to Sales Onboarding for New Sales Reps and Sales Leaders, The Biggest Red Flags in the First 30 Days & What Can Be Done to Set Them Up for Success with Leaders from Figma, Dropbox, Miro and more.

Wed, 16 Nov 2022

Oliver Jay (OJ) is one of the most successful sales leaders of the last decade. Most recently, OJ ...

20VC: ARK Invest's Cathie Wood on Why ARK Has Not Had More Outflows Despite Performance, How the Global Tech Equities Market Will Go From $7Trn to $210Trn in 8-10 Years, The Future for Facebook and How Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey Could Create the Biggest Di

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

Cathie Wood is the CEO & CIO @ ARK Invest, focusing solely on disruptive innovation, primarily in t...

20VC: Why Market Size is Everything | Three Signs of a Bull Market and How To Remain Disciplined | Why Investing is a Young Person's Game | The Secret to Negotiation | Missing a $200M Opportunity in Nubank and more with Martín Escobari, Co-President @ Ge

Fri, 11 Nov 2022

Martín Escobari is Co-President, Managing Director and Head of General Atlantic’s business in La...

20 Product: Hugo Barra on Lessons Building Hardware Products at Android, Xiaomi, Oculus, and Detect; Feature Kings vs. Budget Kings; 996 Work Culture in China; There Are No MVPs in Hardware; The 3.5-Hour Recruiting Interview

Wed, 09 Nov 2022

Hugo Barra is the OG of consumer hardware of the last decade. In Hugo's current position, he is the...

20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on Real vs Fake Emergencies, Coinbase's Failed NFT Launch, The Politicisation of Leadership, Why This Crypto Winter is Different From The Past & Brian's Development and Insecurities as a Leader

Mon, 07 Nov 2022

Brian Armstrong is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Coinbase, the easiest place to buy and sell cryptocurre...

20VC: Michael Mauboussin on Good vs Bad Investment Decision-Making Processes, How To Improve Your Process, How To Know When it Needs Improving and The Single Biggest Mistakes People Make In Their Decision-Making Process

Fri, 04 Nov 2022

Michael Mauboussin is Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global. Previously, he was Direct...

20VC: The GoPuff Memo: Why 10-15 Minute Delivery is an Unsustainable Model, The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024, Mistakes Made in Europe and What the Europe Plan Should Have Been and What Does Quick Commerce Look Like in 5 Years with Rafael Illisha

Wed, 02 Nov 2022

Raf Illishayev is the Co-Founder and CEO @ GoPuff, one of the market leaders delivering daily essen...

20VC: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on The Price Mismatch Between Public vs Private, Why Now Is Not The Best Time To Be Investing, Why Brian Never Thinks About Reserves and Believes in Cross-Fund Investing & Writing a $400M Check Into Anduril Across Rou

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

Brian Singerman is a Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the best-performing funds of the last two deca...

20VC: Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya, Gary Vee, Brad Gerstner and more on Their Relationship To Money, How It Has Changed with Time and Wealth, How They Bring Up Their Children To Engender the Same Values of Ambition and Hard Work?

Fri, 28 Oct 2022

Chris Sacca is the Founder and Chairman @ Lowercase Capital, one of the best performing funds in...

20Growth: Biggest Growth Lessons from Reddit and Zynga on Scaling to Millions of Users | Why, When and How To Hire Your First Growth Hires | The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make In Hiring, Onboarding and Integration for Growth Teams with Vaibhav Sahgal, VP

Wed, 26 Oct 2022

Vaibhav Sahgal is VP of Consumer Product @ Reddit where he has been for close to 5 years. Prior to ...

20VC: Uber's Journey to Becoming the Most Valuable Private Tech Company in History, Raising $3BN From Saudi in Just 60 Days, Uber's $30BN Mistake in Food Delivery, Why Recent Uber M&A Will be the Worst in Tech & Mastering Negotiations and Deal-Making with

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

Emil Michael is the Former Chief Business Officer at Uber and is commonly referred to as Travis Kal...

20VC: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years, The Death of "So So" Venture Firms is Coming, The Rise of Blackstone of Venture Firms and What That Does To Venture Returns, How the World of LPs is Broken and more with Kyle Harrison

Fri, 21 Oct 2022

Kyle Harrison is a General Partner @ Contrary and one of my favorite writers on the venture space w...

20 Sales: How To Structure The Interview Process for All Sales Reps, The Must-Ask Questions When Identifying Potential Sales Talent & The 3 Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Their First Reps with Lauren Schwartz, VP of Enterprise Sales @ Fivetran

Wed, 19 Oct 2022

Lauren Schwartz is Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Fivetran, the leading platform for modern ...

20VC: Dropbox's Drew Houston on Leadership; Hiring, Firing, Breakpoints in Company Scaling, The Story of Nearly Getting Acquired by Steve Jobs and Apple, How Founders Should Think Through Potential Investors and Acquisitions

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

Drew Houston is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Dropbox, for over 700 million users and +600,000 teams, Dr...

20VC: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible, The Trade-Off Between Freedom and Raising Big From VCs & Why Our Jobs Are Not As Hard As We Think and How To Assess Talent and Potential As a Result with Tristan Handy, Founder & CEO @ dbt Labs

Fri, 14 Oct 2022

Tristan Handy is the Founder and CEO @ dbt, a data transformation tool that enables data analysts an...

20 Product: Spotify's Gustav Söderström on Why Product is 100% Science and 0% Art, Why You Should Look at the Competition and then Do Something Completely Different & Why Talk is Cheap and Product Teams Should Do More of it; Structuring the Best Debate

Wed, 12 Oct 2022

Gustav Söderström is Spotify’s Chief Research & Development Officer. He has the CPO & CTO respon...

20VC: Altimeter's Brad Gerstner on Why Supercycles and the Powerlaw is the Most Important Thing In Investing, Why Portfolio Diversification is the Opposite of Risk Mitigation and The #1 Question Brad Asks All New Recruits

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

Brad Gerstner is the Founder and CEO of Altimeter, a life-cycle technology investment firm that man...

20VC: Kevin Weil on The Biggest Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram and Twitter | How Working With Kevin Systrom Impacted His Approach To Product | 3 Things Instagram Did To Make Stories So Successful and Why Investing Makes Operators Better at Thei

Fri, 07 Oct 2022

Kevin Weil is President of Product and Business @ Planet and Operator in Residence @ Scribble Ventu...

20VC: The Rippling Memo: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on The Conviction Building Process to Write a $200M Check and Co-Lead Rippling's Series D | Why No Competitor Can Out Execute Rippling | Uncapped SAFE's Why You Should Never Do Them and Why Geoff Broke The Ru

Wed, 05 Oct 2022

Geoff Lewis is a Founder and Managing Partner of Bedrock, one of the breakout and new venture firms...

20VC: Rippling's Parker Conrad on The Four Main Benefits From Building a Compound Startup | Why There Should Never Be a Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | How Zenefits Gave Parker a Chip on the Shoulder and Why That is so Important?

Mon, 03 Oct 2022

Parker Conrad is the Founder & CEO @ Rippling, the company that lets you easily manage your employe...

20VC: Lessons from Alfred Lin and Ron Conway | Why the World Does Not Want Your Startup To Exist and How the Best Founders Fight It | How To Build Moats and Defensibility Against Large Incumbents with Tarek Mansour, Founder & CEO @ Kalshi

Fri, 30 Sep 2022

Tarek Mansour is the Founder and CEO @ Kalshi, the first regulated exchange where you can trade dir...

20Growth: Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar on Why the Best Marketers Think Like VCs | Why the Best Companies Do Not Start with Product Marketing | New Channels; When To Do, How Much To Spend, How To Test, When To Stop

Wed, 28 Sep 2022

Kipp Bodnar is the Chief Marketing Officer of HubSpot, where he sets HubSpot’s global inbound mar...

20VC: Clubhouse Founder Paul Davison on What Went Right and What Went Wrong | What Does Clubhouse Do Now To Regain Mindshare? | Why Clubhouse is not a Content Platform? | What is the Next Wave of Consumer Social and Does Web3 Play a Role? |

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

Paul Davison is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Clubhouse, the startup that believes people are at the cen...

20VC: Why Greed is the #1 Enemy of Venture Returns, Why Not Enough VCs Play to Win and Lessons from Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and Then Cratering with Julio Vasconcellos, Founder @ Atlantico

Fri, 23 Sep 2022

Julio Vasconcellos is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Atlantico, one of the leading early-stage ...

20 Product: The No 1 Metric You Need To Look at When Building Product | Why the Best in Product Have No Domain Experience | Why You Should Not Hire From Incumbents & The Difference Between Good vs Great PMs with David Lieb, Visiting Group Partner @ Y Comb

Wed, 21 Sep 2022

David Lieb is one of the product OGs of the last decade. As the founder of Bump David pioneered how...

20VC: From Struggling to Raise Funding to IPOing at Close to $9BN Just Five Years Later; The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | How To Build Large Companies with Small Teams | The Biggest Hiring Lessons and Mistakes with Seba Kanovich, CEO @ dlocal

Fri, 16 Sep 2022

Seba Kanovich is the CEO @ dlocal, the #1 payments leader with a single solution focused on Latin A...

20 Sales: How To Interview Sales People; The Red Flags and What to Look For, How Sales Leaders Should Change Goals and Quotas in Harder Markets and What Reps Can Do To Ensure They Hit Their Numbers in These Markets with Eleanor Dorfman, Sales Leader @ Ret

Wed, 14 Sep 2022

Eleanor Dorfman is a Sales Leader @ Retool, the company that allows you to build internal tools, re...

20VC: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really "Venture Capital" | The Five Core Levers Needed To Assess Risk and Price a Startup | The Future of Venture; Who Wins, Who Loses, What Happens to the Crossover Funds with Will Quist, Partner @ Slow Ventures

Mon, 12 Sep 2022

Will Quist is a Partner @ Slow Ventures. Over the last decade, the team at Slow Ventures have inves...

20VC News: Anchor Founder, Mike Mignano Joins Lightspeed as Partner: The Future of Social Media | Why Clubhouse Has a Challenging Model | Why TikTok Could be a $2TN Company | Why BeReal is Defensible | What Happens To OpenSea in a New World for NFTs

Wed, 07 Sep 2022

Mike Mignano is a Partner @ Lightspeed, one of the most successful venture firms of the last decade...

20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale

Fri, 02 Sep 2022

Rene Haas is the CEO @ Arm. The technologies that Arm creates are used in over 230+ Bn devices with...

20Product: Calendly CPO Annie Pearl on Why All PLG Companies Eventually Need to Embrace Enterprise, Why it is Easier to Scale into Enterprise than Visa Versa and the Calendly PLG Playbook; What Works and What Does Not?

Wed, 31 Aug 2022

Annie Pearl is the CPO @ Calendly, the company that makes scheduling meetings simple and painless. ...

20VC: Is Now Really the Best Time to Be Investing? WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? Why VCs Have Gotten Lazy Over the Last 2 Years? Investing Lessons from Hitting with Braze and Missing with Snowflake with Logan Bartlett, Managing Director @ Re

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

Logan Bartlett is a Managing Director @ Redpoint, a firm with a portfolio including the likes of St...

20VC: Bumble's Whitney Wolfe Herd on How The Best Leaders Manage Intense Pressure, How To Think Through Risk vs Reward Frameworks & What it Truly Means to Listen so Your Teams Will Talk

Fri, 26 Aug 2022

Whitney Wolfe Herd is the Founder and CEO @ Bumble, changing the way people date, find friends, and...

20VC: 10 Lessons on Scaling 20VC to 100M+ Downloads | How To Build an Audience and a Next-Generation Media Company

Wed, 24 Aug 2022

Over the last 7 years, I have scaled 20VC to 100M+ downloads, and listeners in 117 countries, and a...

20VC: Why Market Always Wins Over the Founder & Why I Do Not Do Market Sizing | Why it is not the Best Time to be Investing but it is the Best Time to Have a Fund & The Type of Deals to do Today | Why The Best Founders Have 100 Year Plans with Wes Chan, C

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

Wes Chan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at FPV Ventures, a $450M early-stage fund, launched...

20 Sales: Three Reasons Why Sales People Fail | The Two Things That Matter When Hiring Sales Leaders | Why Revenue, Discounting and Price Do Not Matter in the Early Days with Jordan Van Horn, Revenue Leader @ Monte Carlo

Wed, 17 Aug 2022

Jordan Van Horn is a Revenue Leader @ Monte Carlo, the world's first data observability company. Pr...

20VC: Fintech OG Sheel Mohnot on Lessons from Investing in Flexport and ChipperCash and Missing Robinhood and Chime, Why Overly Large GP Commits are Dangerous, Biggest Mistakes Managers Make with Fund I and Emerging Markets; Which Survive?

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

Sheel Mohnot is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $225M fund that lea...

20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity

Fri, 12 Aug 2022

Marcelo Claure is an entrepreneur and investor who has founded and led some of the world’s most i...

20 Growth: Why You Need a Growth Hire Pre Product-Market-Fit? Why Every Company Will Be a Media Company and How To Do It | Communities; What Really Are They? How To Build Them? What Makes The Best? Why Do Many Not Work? | Kieran Flanagan, SVP Marketing @

Wed, 10 Aug 2022

Kieran Flanagan is SVP Marketing at HubSpot, where he has helped the business grow internationally,...

20VC: Investing Lessons from Fred Wilson and Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | Why the Secret to Winning in Venture is Splitting Deals |Learnings From the Biggest Hits and Biggest Losses | Why Anyone That Always Does Their Pro-Rata is Wrong with Mo

Mon, 08 Aug 2022

Mo Koyfman is the Founder and General Partner @ Shine Capital, who announced earlier this year Shin...

20VC: Raising $60M and Not Touching a Dollar of It; The 3 Decisions That Led to a Cash-Flow Positive Business, Why Not Being Able To Fundraise in the Early Days Can Help Build Your Business & What are the First Things To Break in Scaling Orgs with Sameer

Fri, 05 Aug 2022

Sameer Shariff is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Cambly, the company that allows you to become fluent fas...

20 Product: Shreyas Doshi on The Three Different Types of Product Leaders and How To Hire Them, The 6 Different Product Metrics You Need To Know and What Good is For Each of Them & Table Stakes Features vs Wow Features; What To Prioritise

Wed, 03 Aug 2022

Shreyas Doshi is an investor, advisor, and all-around product OG. Most recently Shreyas spent over ...

20VC: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM, What Truly is High Performance in Fund Management & Why Parenting and Relationships are an Enabler To Your Best Work

Mon, 01 Aug 2022

Kirsten Green is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Forerunner Ventures, one of the leading firms o...

20VC: Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on The Yahoo Turnaround Plan; What Needs To Happen | Leadership 101: The 4 Things To Look For When Hiring | Surviving a Crash; Biggest Advice on Cuts, Layoffs, Investor Communications

Fri, 29 Jul 2022

Jim Lanzone is the CEO @ Yahoo, a company that today reaches nearly 900 million people around the w...

20VC: The Memo: What is a Sales Playbook? Does the Founder Need to Create It? Should the First Sales Hire Be a Leader or a Rep?

Wed, 27 Jul 2022

Today we deconstruct the canonical question in early-stage sales. Does the founder need to create t...

20VC: Tony Fadell on The 3 Hats of Being a CEO, How the Best Leaders Inspire, How to Create Your Own Role within a Company, The Art of Parenting and Teaching Children Resiliency & New York Times' 36 Questions on Love!

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

Tony Fadell, often referred to as the father of the iPod is one of the leading product thinkers of ...

20VC: Why Market Matters So Much More Than Founding Team | Why Crypto Investing is Less Collaborative Than Ever | Why Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Inflation | Why Solana Will Beat Ethereum | The Network Effects You Need To Understand with Kyle Samani, C

Fri, 22 Jul 2022

Kyle Samani is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Multicoin Capital, one of the leading crypto n...

20 Sales: The Biggest Challenges Building Outbound Sales Teams and How To Overcome Them | How The Best Sales Reps Do Customer Discovery | 2 Elements Sales Teams Are Always Responsible For | Sam Taylor, VP Sales and Customer Success @ Loom

Wed, 20 Jul 2022

Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Customer Success @ Loom, an essential tool for hybrid and remote ...

20VC: Why Being First Does Not Matter, Why Defensibility on Day 1 Does Not Exist, Three Core Elements To Move into Enterprise Effectively and What Makes Truly Great Product Marketing Today with Des Traynor, Co-Founder @ Intercom

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

Des Traynor is a Co-founder and the Chief Strategy Officer of Intercom, the modern customer communi...

20VC: The Most Powerful Investor You Might Not Know | Why The Distinction Between Public vs Private is BS | The Misalignments Between GPs and their LPs | Portfolio Construction 101: Diversification, Capital Concentration, Loss Rates with Peter Singlehurst

Fri, 15 Jul 2022

Peter Singlehurst is the Head of Private Companies at Baillie Gifford. As of 31st March 2022, fund...

20 Growth: Shopify's VP of Growth on Why Standalone Growth Teams Operate More Efficiently than Integrated Ones, Why You Should Hire as Senior Growth Leaders as Possible and The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Making Their First Growth Hires

Wed, 13 Jul 2022

Luc Levesque is currently the VP of Growth at Shopify and also advises companies like Twitter, ...

20VC: Matt Mullenweg on Relationships to Risk, Money and Insecurity as a Leader | Lessons from a Parent's Passing and the Pre-Grieving Process | What is High Performance in Leadership Today?

Mon, 11 Jul 2022

Matt Mullenweg is the Founder of Automattic, the force behind WordPress, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpa...

20VC: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | Why Diversification is Overrated in Portfolio Construction | How to Think Through Sizing Investments, Market Sizing and Pricing in Today's Environment with Mike Chalfen @ Chalfen Ventures

Fri, 08 Jul 2022

Mike Chalfen is a solo GP with Chalfen Ventures and one of the most respected and successful early-...

20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Best vs the Worst | How Often Should They Be | Who Should Be Invited | Who Sets The Agenda | How to do Follow-Ups Post Product Reviews

Wed, 06 Jul 2022

Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, master of product reviews, author, investor, and currently serves...

20VC: Hiring 101; The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | Fundraising; What to Optimize for, How Profitability Changes Leverage When Raising | SMB to Enterprise; When to Move, What Changes and Dangers of Moving Too Early with Daniel Yan

Fri, 01 Jul 2022

Daniel Yanisse is the co-founder and CEO of Checkr, a leading HR technology company, currently valu...

20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market

Wed, 29 Jun 2022

Bill Gurley is a General Partner @ Benchmark Capital, Bill, is widely recognized as one of the gr...

20VC: Accel's Sonali De Rycker on Building a Generational Defining Venture Firm; Hiring, Culture, Incentives | Investing; Biggest Mistakes, Biggest Lessons from Prior Crashes, Why Market Size is Dangerous to Focus On | Decision-Making; Type 1 vs Type 2 Ri

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

Sonali De Rycker is a Partner @ Accel, one of the leading firms of the last 3 decades with a portfo...

20VC: From Kitchen Table to $134M Fund II; Raising Your First Time Fund: Lessons from 400 LP Meetings, How To Find New LPs, What Materials to Use, How To Get LPs To Commit, The Challenges on Minimum Check Sizes and GP Commits and more with Henri Pierre-Ja

Fri, 24 Jun 2022

Henri Pierre-Jacques is Managing Partner of Harlem Capital, on a mission to change the face of entr...

20 Sales: Why Founders Should Not Be The One To Create The Sales Playbook, How To Structure Each Interview in the Hiring Process For Sales Reps, How To Use an "Interview Panel" Effectively and more with Zhenya Loginov, CRO @ Miro

Wed, 22 Jun 2022

Zhenya Loginov is the CRO @ Miro, the leading visual collaboration platform that helps bring teams ...

20VC: Gary Vaynerchuk on The Most Painful Lessons Learned but Why it was Good to Learn Them, Why You Have to Change the Timeframe You Have For Success, His Relationship to Money and How it Has Changed Over Time & His First 3 Angel Investments; Twitter, Fa

Mon, 20 Jun 2022

Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur and serves as the Chairman of VaynerX, the CEO of Vayn...

20VC: The Scaling Story of Soho House: Overcoming Dyslexia, Building a Global Brand, Scaling into The US, Retaining Exclusivity with Scale and The Journey to Going Public with Nick Jones, Founder & CEO @ Soho House

Fri, 17 Jun 2022

Nick Jones is the Founder & CEO @ Soho House, it all started in 1995 when Nick opened the first loc...

20 Growth: Viral Loops; How To Create and Sustain Them, Why Interviews for Product and Growth Hires are BS and What To Do Instead, Mastering the Onboarding Process; Structuring the First 90 Days with Adam Fishman, Former Head of Growth @ Lyft

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

Adam Fishman is one of the leading growth practitioners of the last decade. Most recently, Adam was...

20VC: Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah on The 3 Risks All Startups Face, Angel Investing Rules; No Founder Meetings and No Due Diligence, SMB vs Enterprise; Lessons on Pricing, Distribution and Why You Should Resist Going Enterprise

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO @ Hubspot, a full CRM platform with marketing, sales, service, ...

20VC: Why and How Traditional Venture Firms Need to Innovate, Building Spreadsheets To Figure Out Relationships to Money, Ego and Identity Management with Success and The Biggest Lessons from Working with Mark Zuckerberg in the Early FB Days with Ruchi Sa

Fri, 10 Jun 2022

Ruchi Sanghvi is a Founder and Partner @ South Park Commons Fund, a home for the most talented tech...

20 Product: Twitter's Former Head of Product, Kayvon Beykpour on How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews, The Core Set of Questions to Ask All Potential Product Hires and When To Continue vs Quit on New Products

Wed, 08 Jun 2022

Kayvon Beykpour is one of the most prominent product leaders of the last decade. For the last 7 yea...

20VC: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital, What Existing Incumbent Venture Firms Can Do To Survive, The Biggest Challenges Facing New DAOs Today and Whether Web3 Will Bring More or Less Income Inequality

Mon, 06 Jun 2022

Ian Lee is the Co-Founder of Syndicate, a web3 startup that has raised over $28M from a16z, Klein...

20VC: The Most Revealing Breakdown of Unit Economics for Quick Commerce; AOVs, Retention, Delivery Costs and more, Why The Business Model is Different for Emerging Markets & Will This Be a Market of Consolidation or Many Players

Wed, 01 Jun 2022

Over the last 10 days, we have seen unprecedented levels of layoffs from some of the biggest quick ...

20VC: Keith Rabois on Why Buy Low, Sell High Does Not Work in Venture, Keith's Biggest Lessons from Prior Crashes, Why Today's Public Markets are not an Over-Reaction, Why Valuation is a Trap & Why Wokeness is a Function of Entitlement

Mon, 30 May 2022

Keith Rabois is a General Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the best performing funds of the last dec...

20VC: Scaling from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M, Why Seed May Be The Best priced Asset Class and Not Overpriced At All & The 3 Stages of Fund Scaling and What it Takes To Build a Firm with Aydin Senkut, Founder and Managing Partner @ Felicis

Fri, 27 May 2022

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and Managing Partner of Felicis. An original super angel turned multi-s...

20 Sales: How To Create and Execute a World-Class Sales Playbook, Why You Should Do Both PLG and Enterprise Sales at the Same Time, Three Non-Obvious Qualities the Best Sales Reps Have & The Four Steps To Sales Team Onboarding with Oliver Jay, Former CRO

Wed, 25 May 2022

Oliver Jay (OJ) is one of the most successful sales leaders of the last decade. Most recently, OJ s...

20VC: Oren Zeev on Raising 3 Funds and $1BN in 12 Months; Why Temporal Diversification is BS, Why Both LPs and GPs are Way Over-Diversified & Why Venture Partnerships are Sub-Optimal and Challenging

Mon, 23 May 2022

Oren Zeev is the Founding Partner @ Zeev Ventures and one of the OGs of solo capitalism. Oren has a...

20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an

Fri, 20 May 2022

Ian Siegel is the Founder and CEO @ ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace that use...

20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt

Wed, 18 May 2022

Darius Contractor is one of the pre-eminent growth leaders of the last decade. As a growth OG, he h...

20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst

Mon, 16 May 2022

David Fialkow is the Co-Founder and Managing Director @ General Catalyst, one of the leading ventur...

20 Product: iPhone Creator, Tony Fadell on Marketing Lessons Learned from Steve Jobs, What is Truly Great Product Marketing, How The Best Product Teams Do Post-Mortems and Product Reviews & Is Product Art or Science, Data or Gut?

Wed, 11 May 2022

Tony Fadell, often referred to as the father of the iPod is one of the leading product thinkers of ...

20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H

Mon, 09 May 2022

Fabrice Grinda is the Founding Partner @ FJ Labs, with over 700 investments, Fabrice has had over 2...

20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki

Fri, 06 May 2022

Jason Lemkin is the Founder and Managing Partner @ SaaStr, a social community of 500,000+ SaaS foun...

20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harley Finkelstein on What Great Fatherhood Really Means, Deena Shakir on How Kids Make You a Better Investor and Anne Wojcicki on How Children Change Your Approach to R

Wed, 04 May 2022

Chris Sacca is the Founder and Chairman @ Lowercase Capital, one of the best performing fun...

20VC: Scaling to $2BN AUM in 3 years, Fundraising Lessons and Tactics from 2,500 LP Meetings & What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time with Harley Miller, Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Left Lane Capital

Mon, 02 May 2022

Harley Miller is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Left Lane Capital, one of the fastest-growing g...

20VC: Scaling to $122M ARR IPO with $6M in Net Burn, Olo. The Ultimate Journey of Capital Efficiency, What Worked, What Did Not Work and How Leaders Need To Reshape Thinking Around Resource and Attention Allocation

Fri, 29 Apr 2022

Noah Glass is the Founder and CEO @ Olo, the interface between restaurants and the on-demand ...

20 Sales: Zoom's Head of North America Sales on When To Hire a Head of Sales, Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Before Sales Reps, The 3 Traits to Look for When Hiring Sales Reps & What Sales Leaders Can Do To Make Their Sales Team Feel Like They Are Wi

Wed, 27 Apr 2022

Mitch Tarica is Head of North America Sales at Zoom Video Communications. Before joining Zoom, Mitc...

20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed, Why Venture Has Never Been Less Collaborative, How Becoming a Parent Made Me a Better Investor and Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future of Diversity in Venture with Deena Sh

Mon, 25 Apr 2022

Deena Shakir is a Partner at Lux Capital, one of the leading firms investing in emerging science ...

20VC: How Today's Market Changes How Companies Should Approach Burn and Runway, Are Financing Markets Closing? How To Know When To Pay Up vs Stay Price Disciplined & Why The Most Important Thing in Venture is Generating Positive Selection with Bill Cilluf

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

Bill Cillufo is Partner and Head of International Investments at QED, one of the leading fintech ve...

20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada

Wed, 20 Apr 2022

Aparna Chennapragada is Chief Product Officer @ Robinhood, the company revolutionizing consumer fi...

20VC: Brex's Henrique Dubugras on Advice from Evan Spiegel and Eric Schmidt on CEOship, The Biggest Hiring Mistakes When Scaling, What Everyone Gets Wrong with Product Messaging and When is the Right Time to Launch Secondary Products

Fri, 15 Apr 2022

Henrique Dubugras is the Founder and CEO @ Brex, the company re-imagining financial systems so ever...

20VC Exclusive: Fast's Domm Holland on What Really Happened at Fast? Were they really Burning $10M per Month? Where did Bolt Succeed Where Fast Did Not? What is It Really Like To Have Stripe Invest in your Company?

Wed, 13 Apr 2022

Domm Holland is the Founder and CEO @ Fast. Last week Fast announced they would be shutting down ...

20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

Avichal Garg is Co-Founder & Partner @ Electric Capital, last month Electric announced they had rai...

20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP

Fri, 08 Apr 2022

Eric Liaw is a General Partner @ IVP, one of the leading later-stage venture capital and growth equ...

20 Growth: Why Retention Defines Product Market Fit, What is Good Retention Levels Today, The Most Counterintuitive Elements of Product and Growth & Why So Many Startups Mess Up Hiring For Growth Teams with Brian Hale, Head of Consumer Product & Growth @

Wed, 06 Apr 2022

Brian Hale is Vice President of Consumer Product & Growth @ Doordash. Before joining Doordash, Bria...

20VC: Founding Legendary Entertainment and Creating Batman, The Hangover and 300, The Importance of Luck vs Skill in Success, How Relationships to Money Change & Why Velocity is the Most Important Factor in Company Building Success with Thomas Tull

Mon, 04 Apr 2022

Thomas Tull is a leading entrepreneur and investor as the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Tulco, LLC. ...

20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated

Fri, 01 Apr 2022

Eduardo Vivas is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Curated, a network where product experts monetize their p...

20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

Wed, 30 Mar 2022

Olivia Nottebohm is the Chief Revenue Officer @ Notion where she leads the Sales, Marketing, Custom...

20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Two Biggest Learnings on Price, How to Manage and Train Young People in Venture, Why Business Classrooms Do Not Work and How to Assess the Two Commodities in Life; Money and Time with Jeff

Mon, 28 Mar 2022

Jeff Lieberman is the Managing Director @ Insight Partners, one of the leading investing franchises...

20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Instacart with the Growth Leaders Who Built Them; How Instagram Went from 440M to 1BN, How Twitter Changing Their Signup Flow was a Needlemover and How Removing Card Payment Requ

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

Casey Winters is the Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite where he leads the PM, product design, ...

20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Testing is Inefficient and Slows You Down, Why It is Impossible To Hire Good PMs so Stop Trying & 3 Key Signals The Best Engineers Present with Grant LaFontaine, Founder & CEO @ Whatnot

Wed, 23 Mar 2022

Grant LaFontaine is the Founder & CEO @ Whatnot, the fastest-growing marketplace in the US, empower...

20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia

Mon, 21 Mar 2022

Luciana Lixandru is a Partner @ Sequoia, one of the world’s most renowned and successful venture ...

20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful

Wed, 16 Mar 2022

Lenny Rachitsky is one of the OGs of product, having spent over 7 years at Airbnb as a product lead...

20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie

Mon, 14 Mar 2022

David Friedberg is Founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB), a holding company established t...

20VC: Gitlab CEO Sid Sijbrandij on Why You Are Not Allowed to Present in Meetings at Gitlab, Why it is a Pipedream We Will Go Back to Offices and What is the Future of Work & CEO Coaches; What Makes The Best, When To Have Them and When To Change Them

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder & CEO @ GitLab. GitLab’s single application helps organizations ...

20 Sales: The Stripe Sales Playbook; Who Should Create It, When Should it Be Done, Where Do Many Go Wrong | How To Identify 10x Sales Hires and How To Structure the Hiring Process in Sales with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Head of Americas Revenue & Growth @ St

Wed, 09 Mar 2022

Jeanne DeWitt Grosser is Head of Americas Revenue & Growth @ Stripe. In this role, Jeanne is respon...

20VC: Shopify President, Harley Finkelstein on What is Being a Good Husband, What is Being a Good Father & How to Embrace Vulnerability and Authenticity in Leadership and Marriage

Mon, 07 Mar 2022

Harley Finkelstein is the President of Shopify, the platform modern commerce is built on. Over the ...

20VC: 3 Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Scaling, Management 101 on Trust Building, Morale Maintenance and Hiring & What We Can Learn About Parenting From Nature Programs with Scott Dietzen

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

Scott Dietzen is Vice Chairman of the Board of Pure Storage and served as the Company’s CEO from ...

20VC Exclusive: Sahil Bloom on Raising his Debut Venture Fund (SRB Ventures), Why Traditional Venture Firms Are Going to Lose and How Sahil Built a Twitter Audience to 500K+ in 18 Months

Fri, 25 Feb 2022

Sahil Bloom is the Founding Partner @ SRB Ventures, a $10M fund that leverages the 500K followers S...

The Tiger Global Memo: From Sequoia Capital to Benchmark and Thrive: The World's Best on the Rise of Tiger Global

Wed, 23 Feb 2022

Tiger Global are one of the most discussed venture firms on the planet. With a deal cadence and capi...

20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference

Fri, 18 Feb 2022

Max Rhodes is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Faire, the online marketplace where retailers discover their...

20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons Starting Uber's Growth Team and Scaling Facebook's, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth and What Separates Good From Great in Growth Leaders with Ed Baker, Former VP of Growth @

Wed, 16 Feb 2022

Ed Baker is an angel investor and growth advisor to various startups including Lime, Zwift, Whoop, ...

20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

Geoff Lewis is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Bedrock, now with over $1BN in AUM, Bedrock inves...

20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup

Fri, 11 Feb 2022

Aaron Levie is the Founder and CEO @ Box, the company incorporating the best of secure content coll...

20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team, 3 Questions All Great Product Leaders Ask, How To Structure and Run Effective Product Reviews & Is Product More Art or Science?

Wed, 09 Feb 2022

Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, investor, and currently serves as Adobe’s Chief Product ...

20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective

Mon, 07 Feb 2022

David Frankel is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Founder Collective, one of the great seed firm...

20VC: Mark Cuban on Reshaping the Pharmaceuticals Industry, How To Hire and Build Truly Great Teams and What Brand Really Means Today and How To Build One Successfully

Fri, 04 Feb 2022

Mark Cuban is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Today we are fo...

20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital

Wed, 02 Feb 2022

Dannie Herzberg is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital and one of the great sales leaders of the last decad...

20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

Roger Ehrenberg is a Founding Partner @ IA Ventures, one of the most successful seed funds of the l...

20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a

Fri, 28 Jan 2022

Scott Sandell is the Managing General Partner of NEA, one of the leading firms of the last 3 deca...

20VC: Sweetgreen Founder Jonathan Neman on Leadership Lessons from Managing Through COVID, The Importance of Failing Fast and Iterating & How the Best Leaders Bring Together Brand, Capital Allocation and Strategy

Wed, 26 Jan 2022

Jonathan Neman is Co-Founder & CEO of Sweetgreen, the mission-driven restaurant brand that serves h...

20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

Anne Wojcicki is the Founder & CEO @ 23andme, offering DNA testing with the most comprehensive ance...

20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo

Fri, 21 Jan 2022

Ali Partovi is the CEO @ Neo, a mentorship community and communal VC fund that announced their new ...

20Growth: The Biggest Lie in Startup Growth and Marketing, Why You Do Not Need To Diversify Customer Acquisition Channels in the Early Days & When and How To Build Your Growth Team with Rob Schutz, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer @ Ro

Wed, 19 Jan 2022

Rob Schutz is Chief Growth Officer and Co-founder at Ro, the healthcare technology company building...

20VC: Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on How To Narrow The Focus and Increase The Quality, Why Every CEO Should Feel Anxious, Why Performance Reviews are BS & How to Unleash the Best People in Your Business

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

Frank Slootman currently serves as Chairman and CEO at Snowflake and has over 25 years of experienc...

20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!

Fri, 14 Jan 2022

Devin Finzer is the Founder & CEO @ Opensea, the world's first and largest NFT marketplace allowing...

20VC: The Memo: Never Before Revealed Metrics; A Full Breakdown of Unit Economics Behind JOKR, How Does Emerging Markets Compare to Developed Economies & The Biggest Misnomers on Quick Commerce with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR

Wed, 12 Jan 2022

Ralf Wenzel is the Founder & CEO @ JOKR, a global platform for instant retail delivery at a hyper...

20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

Mark Carney is Vice Chair of Brookfield Asset Management and Head of Transition Investing. Prior to...

20VC: Whoop Founder, Will Ahmed on How CEOs Can Perform at their Highest Level, Why There is Value in Struggle Early On, Why Realism is Overrated in Startups and How To Create a Culture of Delegated Decision-Making

Wed, 05 Jan 2022

Will Ahmed is the Founder and CEO @ Whoop, the company on a mission to unlock human performance wit...

20Growth: The Biggest Growth Lessons from Leading Teams at Instagram & Instacart, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth Teams, How To Onboard Growth Reps Efficiently and The Relationship Between Growth and The Rest of the Org with Bangaly Kaba, H

Thu, 16 Dec 2021

Bangaly Kaba is the Head of Platform Growth @ Popshop Live, a live streaming mobile marketplace tha...

20VC: John Doerr on Buying 12% of Google for $12M, His Biggest Investing Lesson from 30 Years in Venture & The Climate Crisis: Why Governments are The Biggest Problem and Where the Biggest Opportunities Are in Climate Investing?

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

John Doerr is an engineer, venture capitalist, the chairman of Kleiner Perkins, and the author of t...

20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales

Wed, 08 Dec 2021

Kyle Parrish is VP Sales @ Figma, the company that connects everyone in the design process so teams...

20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture

Mon, 06 Dec 2021

Bill Gurley is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade ...

20VC: AppLovin’s Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry’s Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth

Mon, 29 Nov 2021

Adam Foroughi is the Co-Founder and CEO @ AppLovin, the company that allows developers to market, m...

20VC: The Contentful Memo: Point Nine's Christoph Janz on The Cold Email That Led to a Unicorn Investment, How To Approach Market Sizing and Timing & The Pros and Cons of Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Do Them vs When Not To?

Wed, 24 Nov 2021

Christoph Janz is the Co-Founder and General Partner @ Point Nine, one of Europe's leading early-st...

20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse

Mon, 22 Nov 2021

Eugene Wei is one of my favorite thinkers, writers, and strategists in tech today. Having spent the...

20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu

Wed, 17 Nov 2021

Andy Johns is one of the pre-eminent growth leaders of the last decade. Andy's career started in gr...

20VC: Thrive Capital's Kareem Zaki on The One Rule That Drives Investment Decision-Making and Focus at Thrive, Why Every Large Institution Will Enter Venture Capital Over the Next Decade and How To Create a Firm Culture That Attracts The Best Young Talent

Mon, 15 Nov 2021

Kareem Zaki is a General Partner @ Thrive Capital, with a portfolio including Stripe, Instacart, In...

20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun

Thu, 11 Nov 2021

Brian Singerman is a General Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the most prominent venture firms of th...

20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev

Mon, 08 Nov 2021

Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz founded Accel in 1983. Under their leadership, they have built Acce...

20VC Unscripted: Pricing is Crazy, Pre-Emptive Rounds are Normal, Pricing at 200x Revenue Multiple is Common, There is More Cash Than Ever. What Happens Next; Market Analysis with Ryan Denehy, Founder and CEO @ Electric

Thu, 04 Nov 2021

Ryan Denehy is the Founder & CEO @ Electric, the company that provides a modern IT solution that's ...

20VC: Mac the VC on the Journey from Homeless To Becoming A VC, What It Takes To Raise a Fund on Twitter, Why the Venture World is F***** Up and How Institutional LPs Need To Change

Mon, 01 Nov 2021

McKeever "Mac" Conwell II is the founder and managing partner of RareBreed Ventures, a pre-seed ...

20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP

Thu, 28 Oct 2021

Elena Verna is a master when it comes to all things starting and scaling growth organizations. Prev...

20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats

Mon, 25 Oct 2021

Will Shu is the Founder & CEO @ Deliveroo, the company that provides your favorite restaurants and ...

20VC: Breaking News: Ankur Nagpal Raises $70M for Vibe Capital, What The Next Decade For Venture Will Look Like, Do VCs Actually Add Any Value & Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Take Them and When To Reject Them

Wed, 20 Oct 2021

Ankur Nagpal is the Founding Partner @ Vibe Capital, today announcing his new $70M solo GP fund and...

20VC: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo on Why You Need Sponsors Not Mentors, Where Management Skills Align with Good Parenting & The First 100 Days as CEO at Instacart; The Challenges, The Surprises and The Next Chapter

Mon, 18 Oct 2021

Fidji Simo is the CEO @ Instacart, the company that allows you to order whatever you want from loca...

20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?

Thu, 14 Oct 2021

George Kurtz is the CEO and co-founder of CrowdStrike, a leading provider of next-generation endpoi...

20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unfk The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb

Mon, 11 Oct 2021

Chris Sacca is the Founder and Chairman @ Lowercase Capital, one of the best performing funds in t...

20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?

Fri, 08 Oct 2021

Anthony Casalena is the Founder & CEO @ Squarespace, the company that allows you to create a websit...

20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic

Tue, 05 Oct 2021

Anton Levy is Co-President, Managing Director and Global Head of General Atlantic’s Technology se...

20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor

Thu, 30 Sep 2021

Keith Rabois is a General Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the most successful venture firms of the ...

20VC: The Rise of Quick Commerce and Why CPGs ARe Misaligned Being Powered By Ad Spend, The 5 Core Components Consumers Care About When Ordering Today & Why Amazon and Alibaba Will Not Be The Big Players in 10 Years with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR

Mon, 27 Sep 2021

Ralf Wenzel is the Founder & CEO @ JOKR, a global platform for instant retail delivery at a hyper-l...

Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit

Wed, 22 Sep 2021

Casey Winters is the Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite where he leads the PM, product design, res...

20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital

Mon, 20 Sep 2021

Hans Tung is a Managing Partner at GGV Capital, one of the leading venture firms of the last 2 deca...

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

Thu, 16 Sep 2021

Nazim Salur is the Founder & CEO of Getir, one of the leading rapid delivery service providers that...

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

Tue, 14 Sep 2021

Doug Leone is the Global Managing Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s most renowned and...

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

Thu, 02 Sep 2021

Sameer Gandhi is a Partner @ Accel, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade with a portf...

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

Mon, 30 Aug 2021

Marcelo Claure serves as CEO of SoftBank Group International and COO of SoftBank Group Corp., the w...

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

Thu, 26 Aug 2021

Frank Rotman is a founding partner of QED Investors, one of the leading fintech-focused venture fir...

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

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

Emilie Choi is the President and Chief Operating Officer @ Coinbase, the easiest place to buy and s...

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?

Thu, 19 Aug 2021

Angela Strange is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the leading venture firms of th...

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

Mon, 16 Aug 2021

Nicolas Szekasy is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Kaszek Ventures, the largest venture capita...

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

Thu, 12 Aug 2021

Ann Miura Ko is the Co-Founding Partner @ Floodgate, one of the leading early-stage firms of the la...

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

Mon, 02 Aug 2021

Mike Lazerow is a serial entrepreneur and now Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Velvet Sea Ventures...

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

Thu, 29 Jul 2021

Christa Quarles is the CEO @ Corel Corporation, building software solutions that simplify the task ...

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

Mon, 26 Jul 2021

Nick Shalek is a General Partner @ Ribbit Capital, specializing in fintech they are one of the most...

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

Thu, 22 Jul 2021

Jeff Immelt is a Venture Partner @ NEA serving on both the technology and healthcare investing team...

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

Mon, 19 Jul 2021

David George is a General Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz where he leads their growth investing pract...

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

Thu, 15 Jul 2021

Nick Mehta is the CEO @ Gainsight, the leader in all things customer success helping you put your c...

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

Mon, 12 Jul 2021

Marc Lore is a serial entrepreneur turned investor who’s started and sold four companies. Most re...

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

Thu, 08 Jul 2021

Laela Sturdy is a General Partner @ CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund with investments i...

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

Mon, 28 Jun 2021

Jeff Lawson is the Founder & CEO @ Twilio, the company that allows you to unite communications and ...

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

Thu, 24 Jun 2021

Mark Mullen is the Co-Founder of Bonfire Ventures, one of LA's leading early-stage funds, now on th...

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

Mon, 21 Jun 2021

Rishi Sunak was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 13 February 2020. He was previously Chief ...

20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets

Mon, 14 Jun 2021

Rafael Ilishayev is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ GoPuff, one of the market leaders delivering daily es...

20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond

Thu, 10 Jun 2021

Jay Simons is a General Partner @ Bond Capital, with their $1.25Bn debut growth fund in 2019 they m...

20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition

Mon, 07 Jun 2021

Tony Xu is the CEO and Co-founder of DoorDash, the company empowering merchants to grow their busin...

20VC: Ramp's Eric Glyman on Why You Should Never Take The Highest Price, Working With Venture Funds vs Crossover Funds and How To Determine What To Buy vs Build as a Founder Today?

Wed, 02 Jun 2021

Eric Glyman is the Founder and CEO @ Ramp, the only corporate card and spend management platform de...

20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage

Thu, 27 May 2021

Byron Deeter is a Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners and one of the world's leading investors in S...

20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors

Mon, 24 May 2021

Nigel Morris is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of QED Investors, one of the leading fintech-fo...

20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO

Thu, 20 May 2021

José Neves is the Founder, CEO & Chairman @ Farfetch, the #1 destination for high-end fashion off...

20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio

Mon, 17 May 2021

Deven Parekh is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, one of the leading investing franchises of...

20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result

Tue, 11 May 2021

Ryan Smith is the Founder and Executive Chairman @ Qualtrics, the leader in customer experience and...

20VC: MercadoLibre Founder Marcos Galperin on Optimising Decision-Making, Effective Resource Allocation, Growth vs Profitability, Fundraising Strategies and more on the Journey To Build a $72Bn Market Cap Company

Fri, 07 May 2021

Marcos Galperin is the Founder and CEO @ MercadoLibre, one of LATAM's most successful companies of ...

20VC: David Tisch on Why Ownership in Venture Does Not Matter, His Biggest Investing Misses and Hits and How His Investing Style Changed as a Result & 3 Core Reasons VCs Pass That Do Not Make Sense

Tue, 04 May 2021

David Tisch is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Box Group, one of the leading seed focused firms ...

20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania

Thu, 29 Apr 2021

Chris Fralic is a Board Partner @ First Round Capital, one of the leading seed-stage venture firms ...

20VC: Rippling’s Parker Conrad on Why The VC/Founder Marriage Analogy is Weird, Why The Notion of Focus, Focus, Focus is Overrated, Why Narrow Point Solutions Are Not Best in Class Products & The Rise of the “Compound Startup”

Mon, 26 Apr 2021

Parker Conrad is the Founder and CEO @ Rippling, the employee management platform allowing you to m...

20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making

Thu, 22 Apr 2021

Peter Reinhardt is the Founder and CEO @ Segment, the leading customer data platform with over 20,0...

20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function

Mon, 19 Apr 2021

David Sze is a General Partner @ Greylock where he has led some of the firms most notable investmen...

20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier

Thu, 15 Apr 2021

Wade Foster is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Zapier, the company that moves info between your web apps aut...

20VC: Revolut Founder Nikolay Storonsky on His Leadership Style and Relationship To Ambition, His Biggest Lessons From Scaling Revolut Globally; What Worked, What Did Not & Why Speed of Product Shipment is The Most Important Thing

Mon, 12 Apr 2021

Nikolay Storonsky is the Founder & CEO @ Revolut, one of the world's largest and fastest-growing fi...

20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are

Thu, 08 Apr 2021

Guillaume Pousaz is the Founder and CEO of Checkout.com, one of the world's leading global payments...

20VC: Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel on The Scaling Journey to a $26Bn Market Cap, The Challenges in Moving From Single To Multi-Product Company & How To Scale Efficiently into $M+ Enterprise Deals

Mon, 05 Apr 2021

Olivier Pomel is the Founder & CEO @ Datadog, the company building the next generation of tools for...

20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom

Thu, 01 Apr 2021

Linda Lian is the Co-Founder and CEO @ CommonRoom, the place where your organization and your commu...

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

Mon, 29 Mar 2021

Peter Fenton is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the great venture firms of the last 3 decades...

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

Fri, 26 Mar 2021

David Velez is the Founder & CEO @ Nubank, one of the fastest growing digital banks in the world wi...

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

Wed, 24 Mar 2021

Jeremy Levine is a Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the leading venture firms of the las...

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

Mon, 22 Mar 2021

Jason Fried is the Founder & CEO @ Basecamp, the project management and team communication tool tru...

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

Thu, 18 Mar 2021

Simón Borrero is the Founder & CEO @ Rappi, the startup that has become a cornerstone of the Latin...

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

Mon, 15 Mar 2021

Tony Fadell, often referred to as “the father of the iPod,” is currently Principal @ Future Sha...

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

Thu, 11 Mar 2021

Scott Sandell is the Managing General Partner of NEA, one of the leading firms of the last 3 decade...

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

Mon, 08 Mar 2021

Daniel Ek is the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the board of directors of Spotif...

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

Thu, 04 Mar 2021

Vlad Tenev is the Founder & CEO @ Robinhood, the company that provides commission-free investing, p...

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

Mon, 01 Mar 2021

Sebastian Siemiatkowski is the Founder and CEO @ Klarna, the company that makes online shopping sim...

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

Fri, 26 Feb 2021

Patrick Spence is the CEO @ Sonos, the sound experience company connecting millions of listeners ar...

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

Wed, 24 Feb 2021

Jeremy Liew is a Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading firms of the last decade...

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

Mon, 22 Feb 2021

Todd McKinnon is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Okta, the identity layer for the internet, providing one tr...

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

Thu, 18 Feb 2021

Assaf Wand is the Founder & CEO @ Hippo Insurance, with over $700M in funding Hippo are setting a n...

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

Mon, 15 Feb 2021

Christian Reber is the Founder & CEO of Pitch, the collaborative presentation software for modern t...

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

Thu, 11 Feb 2021

Matan Bar is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Melio, the company that provides the simplest way to pay vendor...

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?

Mon, 08 Feb 2021

Michael Eisenberg is a Co-Founder and Equal Partner @ Aleph, with over $550M under management and ...

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

Thu, 04 Feb 2021

Justin Fishner-Wolfson is founder and the managing partner of 137 Ventures, a growth-stage venture ...

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

Mon, 01 Feb 2021

Ilkka Paananen is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Supercell, the makers of some of the most wildly successfu...

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

Fri, 29 Jan 2021

Hubert Palan is the Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard, helping product managers understand what customer...

20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics

Wed, 27 Jan 2021

Alfred Lin is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world's most renowned and successful venture ...

20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom

Mon, 25 Jan 2021

Phil Libin is the Founder and CEO @ mmhmm, the app that allows you to level up your remote presenta...

20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability

Thu, 21 Jan 2021

Andrew Dudum is the Founder & CEO @ Hims & Hers, offering a modern approach to health and wellness...

20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure

Mon, 18 Jan 2021

Josh Silverman is the CEO @ Etsy, leading the company as it builds a platform that empowers creativ...

20VC: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market

Thu, 14 Jan 2021

Ali Ghodsi is the Founder & CEO @ Databricks, bringing together data engineering, science and anal...

20VC: Annie Duke on Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions, How To Evaluate Risk, The Theory of Sunk Cost in Venture & How to Optimise Both the Discussion and Quality of Investment Decisions

Mon, 11 Jan 2021

Annie Duke is a former professional poker player and the author of National Bestseller, "Thinking i...

20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?

Fri, 08 Jan 2021

Biz Stone is best known as the Co-Founder of Twitter and Medium. Biz is also an investor in the li...

20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?

Mon, 04 Jan 2021

Howard Marks is co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a leading investment fi...

20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst

Mon, 28 Dec 2020

Quentin Clark is a Managing Director @ General Catalyst, one of the most prominent firms of the las...

20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture

Mon, 21 Dec 2020

Avlok Kohli is the CEO of AngelList Venture which has facilitated the funding of over 5,000 startup...

20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th

Thu, 17 Dec 2020

David Hsu is the Founder & CEO @ Retool, the company that allows you to build internal tools, remar...

20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces

Mon, 14 Dec 2020

Dylan Field is the Founder & CEO @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test, and ship bette...

20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more

Thu, 10 Dec 2020

Johnny Boufarhat is the Founder & CEO @ Hopin, one of the fastest-growing companies on the planet, ...

20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset

Mon, 07 Dec 2020

Reid Hoffman is a Silicon Valley stalwart in the modern technology world. On the investing side, he...

20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader

Thu, 03 Dec 2020

Katrina Lake is the Founder & CEO @ Stitch Fix, a multi-billion dollar public company, which has br...

20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled

Mon, 30 Nov 2020

Vlad Tenev is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Robinhood, the company that provides commission-free investing...

20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk

Mon, 23 Nov 2020

Sarah Tavel is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade w...

20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021

Thu, 19 Nov 2020

Alexis Ohanian is the Founder @ Seven Seven Six, his new fund which just recently announced their f...

20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

Stewart Butterfield is the Founder & CEO @ Slack, the leading channel-based messaging platform, use...

20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?

Thu, 12 Nov 2020

Dan Levine is a Partner @ Accel, one of the world's leading venture firms with a portfolio includin...

20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital

Mon, 09 Nov 2020

Derek Zanutto is a General Partner @ CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund with investmen...

20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation

Fri, 06 Nov 2020

Zach Weinberg is a Co-Founder of Operator Partners, operators funding operators, with no outside LP...

20VC: The Implications of a Biden vs a Trump Administration on Venture and Startups, How The Rise of Rolling Funds, SPACs and Solo Capitalists Will Impact Venture & What We Can Do To Swing the Race Pendulum in VC with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Ligh

Mon, 02 Nov 2020

Barry Eggers is a Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners and currently Chair of the Nationa...

20VC: Unity Founder David Helgason on The Hypergrowth Early Days of Unity, Why Running A Company Is Like A Liberal Art, The Secret To A Successful CEO Transition and What Makes Roelof Botha Such A Special Board Member

Thu, 29 Oct 2020

David Helgason is the Founder @ Unity, the company that gives content creators the tools to create ...

20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success

Mon, 26 Oct 2020

Roleof Botha is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s leading venture firms with a por...

20VC: Intercom Founder, Eoghan McCabe on How To Deal with the Weight of Expectation, Having Your Identity Tied To Your Company, How To Be Your Authentic Self Even with Stakeholders & Why There Are No Rules

Thu, 22 Oct 2020

Eoghan McCabe is a technology entrepreneur. He's started a number of companies, the most notable of...

20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

Cyan Banister is one of the most successful and renowned early-stage investors of the last decade....

20VC: How To Determine The Risks To Take vs To Pass On, Should Founders Meet Investors When Not Raising & The Most Important Non-Obvious Role of the CEO with Spike Lipkin, Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance

Fri, 16 Oct 2020

Spike Lipkin is the Founder & CEO @ Newfront Insurance, the modern insurance brokerage empowering r...

20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity

Mon, 12 Oct 2020

George Zachary is a General Partner @ CRV, one of the nation's oldest and most successful early-sta...

20VC: CapitalG Founder David Lawee on Why People Overvalue Diversification in Venture, Why Investment Clubs Are More Successful Than Investment Partnerships & How Growth Funds Think About Portfolio Construction, Loss Ratio & Reserves

Thu, 08 Oct 2020

David Lawee founded CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund, in 2013, drawing on his experie...

20VC: Arlan Hamilton: "We Have Come For Cake, Not The Crumbs", Arlan's Plan To Return $1Bn in 10 Years, Why Arlan Plans To Giveaway or Invest 90% of Her Wealth & What The LP Class Can Do To Ensure More Under-Represented Managers Get Funded

Mon, 05 Oct 2020

Arlan Hamilton is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Backstage Capital, the seed fund that has pave...

20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S

Thu, 01 Oct 2020

Katherine Boyle is a Partner @ General Catalyst, one of the leading venture firms of the last decad...

20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach

Mon, 28 Sep 2020

Palmer Luckey is the Founder @ Anduril Industries, founded on the premise of radically transforming...

20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda

Fri, 25 Sep 2020

Shishir Mehrotra is the Founder & CEO @ Coda, the startup that brings all of your words and data in...

20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences

Mon, 21 Sep 2020

Alex Pall and Drew Taggart are the Founders of The Chainsmokers and Mantis. The Chainsmokers are on...

20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale

Fri, 18 Sep 2020

Austen Allred is the Founder & CEO @ Lambda School, the startup that remotely trains people to beco...

20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts

Mon, 14 Sep 2020

Ravi Gupta is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world's leading venture firms with a portfoli...

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

Fri, 11 Sep 2020

Alex Tew is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO @ Calm, the #1 App for Meditation and Sleep allowing you to f...

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

Tue, 08 Sep 2020

Angela Strange is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the leading venture firms of the...

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

Fri, 04 Sep 2020

Alyson Friedensohn is the Founder & CEO @ Modern Health, a one-stop solution for employee mental...

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*

Mon, 31 Aug 2020

Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder & Partner @ A*, a newly listed special acquisition company which raised $...

20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader’s Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like

Fri, 28 Aug 2020

Jennifer Tejada is the CEO @ PagerDuty, the company that provides a real-time operations platform e...

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

Mon, 24 Aug 2020

Sahil Lavingia is the Founder and CEO @ Gumroad, the company that helps creators do more of what th...

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

Fri, 21 Aug 2020

Ben Rubin is the Founder & CEO @ /talk, the anti-meeting tool for fast, decentralised conversations...

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

Mon, 17 Aug 2020

Apurva Mehta is the Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments, investing in early stage venture ca...

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

Fri, 14 Aug 2020

Anna Khan is a General Partner @ CRV, one of the pre-eminent firms of Silicon Valley stretching ove...

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

Mon, 10 Aug 2020

Dev Ittycheria is the President and CEO @ MongoDB, recognized as the world's most popular next-gene...

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

Fri, 07 Aug 2020

Joe Thomas is the Founder & CEO @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by makin...

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

Mon, 03 Aug 2020

Steve Jurvetson is the Co-Founder @ Future Ventures who announced their debut and flagship $200M Fu...

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

Fri, 31 Jul 2020

Clay Wilkes is the Founder & CEO @ Galileo, the API standard for card issuing and digital banking,...

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

Mon, 27 Jul 2020

Brad Feld is a Co-Founder and Managing Director @ Foundry Group, one of the most successful ventu...

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?

Mon, 20 Jul 2020

Steve Blank is one of the leading luminaries of Silicon Valley, credited with being foundational to...

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

Mon, 13 Jul 2020

Chamath Palihapitiya is Founder & CEO @ Social Capital, the organisation on a mission to transform ...

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

Fri, 10 Jul 2020

Alex Mather is the Founder & CEO @ The Athletic, the startup bringing you in-depth sports stories...

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

Tue, 07 Jul 2020

Joe Lonsdale is a General Partner @ 8VC and in the past has invested in many notable companies incl...

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

Fri, 03 Jul 2020

Julia DeWahl is one of the rising stars of the Silicon Valley angel investor community with a portf...

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

Mon, 29 Jun 2020

Oren Zeev is the Founding Partner @ Zeev Ventures, one of the best and most under the radar firms i...

20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your “Minimum Viable Fund Size” with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital

Fri, 26 Jun 2020

Lo Toney is the Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital, a very unique firm making both dir...

20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom

Mon, 22 Jun 2020

Andrew Wilkinson is the Managing Partner @ Tiny, a vehicle that buys, builds and invests in won...

20VC: Craft Ventures’ David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards

Mon, 15 Jun 2020

David Sacks is the Co-Founder @ Craft Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's leading early-stage funds ...

20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work

Fri, 12 Jun 2020

Chris Best is the Founder & CEO @ Substack, the company that makes it simple for a writer to star...

20VC: Lightspeed Partner, Merci Victoria Grace on The Future of Collaboration Tools, Bundling vs Unbundling, Synchronous vs Asynchronous & What It Means To Productise The S*** Out of Venture

Mon, 08 Jun 2020

Merci Victoria Grace is a Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the valley's leading v...

20VC: How To Scientifically Measure Product-Market Fit, How To Efficiently and Accurately Segment Users Into Cohorts, Why Investors Analysing CAC's at Pre-Seed Is Not Useful & How To Determine Between Customer Feedback to Accept vs Reject with Daniel Eric

Fri, 05 Jun 2020

Daniel Erickson is the Founder & CEO @ Viable Fit, the startup that allows you to find product-ma...

20VC: It’s Time To Talk About Drinking; How To Stop, The Impact It Has, How Life Changes Post-Alcohol and The Biggest Misconceptions on Drinking with Ryan Petersen, Founder @ Flexport, Justin Kan, Founder @ Twitch, Matteo Franceschetti, Founder @ Eight

Mon, 01 Jun 2020

Ryan Petersen is the Founder & CEO @ Flexport, the operating system for global trade with over...

20VC: TravelPerk’s Avi Meir on Why 2021 Will Be A Record Year For Business Travel, The 3 Priorities For All Founders During COVID, What VCs Can Do To Really Support Their Founders In A Recession

Fri, 29 May 2020

Avi Meir is the Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk, the travel management platform that combines the best ...

20VC: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs

Tue, 26 May 2020

Elad Gil is one of Silicon Valley's most successful and prominent angels of the last decade with a ...

20VC: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen on The Future of Business and Personal Travel & Layoffs; How To Do Them The Right Way & Maintain Company Culture and Morale

Fri, 22 May 2020

Ariel Cohen is the Founder & CEO @ TripActions, the company trusted by more than 4,000 companies ...

20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What “Brand As Power” Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi

Mon, 18 May 2020

Hamilton Helmer is the Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer @ Strategy Capital a long-only ...

20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion

Fri, 15 May 2020

Sarah Kunst is the Founder and Managing Director @ Cleo Capital with a portfolio including the like...

20VC: Floodgate’s Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework

Mon, 11 May 2020

Mike Maples is a Founder & Partner @ Floodgate, one of the leading early-stage firms of the la...

20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research

Fri, 08 May 2020

Conor White-Sullivan is the Founder & CEO @ Roam Research, the tool taking over our industry p...

20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood

Mon, 04 May 2020

Mark Cuban is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. His career b...

20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits

Fri, 01 May 2020

Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert are the co-founders @ Digits, the company that gives you a complete, r...

20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools

Mon, 27 Apr 2020

Howie Liu is the Founder & CEO @ Airtable, the all in one collaboration platform that has take...

20VC: Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers

Fri, 24 Apr 2020

Rahul Vohra is the Founder & CEO @ Superhuman, the startup that has rebuilt the inbox from the...

20VC: Upfront’s Mark Suster on COVID Redefining What A Great Company Looks Like and What Valuations Look Like, Why Pay-To-Play Is Back On The Table & Why We Will See The Death of Party Rounds

Mon, 20 Apr 2020

Mark Suster is the Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures, one of LA's leading and largest venture fi...

20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability

Fri, 17 Apr 2020

Sarah Cannon is a Partner @ Index Ventures, one of the world’s leading venture funds with a port...

20VC: Basecamp Founder David Heinemeier Hansson on Why It Is The Biggest BS To Chase Being A Unicorn, His Relationship to Wealth and Status and Why Now More Than Ever It Is A Myth Entrepreneurs Have To Raise VC

Tue, 14 Apr 2020

David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh) is the creator of Ruby on Rails, founder and CTO at Base...

20VC: Why Venture Fund Life Cycles Do Not Align To Companies Today, Actionable Strategies To Separate Good From Great When Assessing and Hiring Multiple Candidates & Why We Need More Adventure in Venture Capital with Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO @ Boom Sup

Fri, 10 Apr 2020

Blake Scholl is the Founder & CEO @ Boom Supersonic, the world's fastest commercial aeroplane,...

20VC: Are VCs Still “Open For Business”, How VCs Attitude To Risk Has Changed & The 2 Most Valuable Assets To Founders Today with Fred Destin, Founding Partner @ Stride VC

Wed, 08 Apr 2020

Fred Destin is a Founding Partner @ Stride.VC, one of Europe's newest and largest early-stage seed ...

20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital

Mon, 06 Apr 2020

Ravi Viswanathan is the Founder and Managing Partner @ NewView Capital, launched in 2018 with their...

20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan

Fri, 03 Apr 2020

Jean-Charles Samulian is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan, the startup revolutionising health insur...

20VC: Howard Marks on How COVID-19 Impacts Our Economy, Liquidity and National Debt, Why The Theory of Falling Knives and Market Bottoms is Wrong & Why The Best Investors Are Fundamentally Unemotional

Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Howard Marks is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, a leading investment...

20VC: How To Solve The Chicken and Egg Problem in Marketplaces? How Important Is Differentiated Supply? How To Prevent Leakage? How to Create Marketplace Defensibility and more with Alyssa Ravasio, Founder & CEO @ Hipcamp

Fri, 27 Mar 2020

Alyssa Ravasio is the Founder & CEO @ Hipcamp, the startup that allows you to book unique camping e...

20VC: Multi-Stage Funds Investing At Seed Are Option Value Investing, Why The Biggest Enemy For Venture Firms Is Group Think and How Running Companies Changes Your Investment Mentality with Manu Kumar, Founder @ K9 Ventures

Mon, 23 Mar 2020

Manu Kumar is the Founder @ K9 Ventures, one of the leading seed firms of the last decade with a po...

20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit

Fri, 20 Mar 2020

Misha Esipov is the Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit, the startup that allows you to use your internatio...

20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note

Mon, 16 Mar 2020

Toni Schneider is a Partner @ True Ventures, one of the valley's leading early-stage firms with a p...

20VC: 3 Addictions Of Early-Stage Startup Founders, How Founders Should Strategically Think Through Unit Economics From Day 1 & Why Micromanagement Can Be Beneficial In The Early Days with Adena Hefets, Co-Founder @ Divvy Homes

Fri, 13 Mar 2020

Adena Hefets is Co-Founder @ Divvy Homes, the startup that turns your monthly rent into a down paym...

20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors

Mon, 09 Mar 2020

Matt Mochary coaches some of the world's leading venture capitalists and founders helping them to b...

20VC: Why Most Founders Do Not Structure Their Fundraise Correctly, The Pros Of Having An MBA As A Startup Founder & How To Manage The Psychology Of Being CEO and Overcome Self Doubt with Iman Abuzeid, Founder & CEO @ Incredible Health

Fri, 06 Mar 2020

Iman Abuzeid is the Founder & CEO @ Incredible Health, the startup that connects hospitals with nurs...

20VC: Index Ventures Partner, Mark Goldberg on The Questions Founders Must Ask A Multi-Stage Fund Before Taking Their Money At Seed, Why Most Angels Will Lose Their Money & Why We Will See Our First $100Bn Neo-Bank Shortly

Mon, 02 Mar 2020

Mark Goldberg is a Partner @ Index Ventures, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade wit...

20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con

Fri, 28 Feb 2020

Tomer London is the Co-Founder @ Gusto, the people platform for small businesses providing one pla...

20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents

Mon, 24 Feb 2020

Vinod Khosla is the Founder @ Khosla Ventures, one of the valley’s most renowned firms of the l...

20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale

Fri, 21 Feb 2020

Emmett Shear is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Twitch, the world's leading live streaming platform for ga...

20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means

Mon, 17 Feb 2020

Ashton Kutcher is a Founder & General Partner @ Sound Ventures. Over the last 5 years, Ashton and...

20VC: How Founders Should Think Through Distribution and Customer Acquisition Today, The Challenges of the Digital Advertising Duopoly Currently & How To Structure Company Post Mortems Effectively with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder & CEO @ DuckDuckGo

Fri, 14 Feb 2020

Gabriel Weinberg is the Founder & CEO @ DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company that empowers you...

20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I

Tue, 11 Feb 2020

Jude Gomila is the Founder & CEO @ Golden, creating the world's first self-constructing knowledge...

20VC: Why You Never Want To Fight A Fair Fit For Distribution, Why No Great Company Is Built with 1 Product and When To Release Your Second & What Founders Can Do To Extract The Most From Their Cap Table with Shoaib Makani, Founder & CEO @ KeepTruckin

Fri, 07 Feb 2020

Shoaib Makani is the Co-Founder & CEO @ KeepTruckin, the modern fleet management platform buildin...

Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture

Tue, 04 Feb 2020

Todd Jackson is First Round Capital's newest Partner (announced today) having spent the last 2 yea...

20VC: Alexa Von Tobel on Raising NYC's Largest Ever Female Led Fund , Portfolio Construction, Compression of Fundraising Timelines, Reserves Management & Personal Branding in Venture

Fri, 31 Jan 2020

Alexa Von Tobel is the Founder & Managing Partner @ Inspired Capital, announced in 2019 as the lar...

20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do

Mon, 27 Jan 2020

Katie Stanton is the Founder and General Partner of Moxxie Ventures, investing in founders who mak...

20VC: The Most Successful Companies Are Not Where Employees Work The Most, How To Know When To Promote From Below Or Bring in External Candidates & Why It Is A Unique Advantage To Be Building A Company Outside A Tech Hub with Rick Nucci, Founder & CEO @ G

Fri, 24 Jan 2020

Rick Nucci is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Guru, the knowledge management platform that delivers everyth...

20VC: Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks on The Most Important Skill An Investor Can Have, The Right Way To Think About Price Sensitivity & Where Are We At Today; Take More Risk or Less?

Mon, 20 Jan 2020

Howard Marks is co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a leading investment fir...

20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta

Fri, 17 Jan 2020

Sumeet Gajri is the Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta, the startup that helps companies and investors...

20VC: Khosla Ventures Founding Partner, Samir Kaul on Why Pro Rata Is A Cop Out, Why He Likes Technical Risk and Does Not Take Market Risk & How To Approach Time Allocation Across The Portfolio In Venture

Mon, 13 Jan 2020

Samir Kaul is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, one of the valley's mos...

20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor

Fri, 10 Jan 2020

Kurt Rathmann is the Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor, the startup providing an automated bookkeeping s...

20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital

Mon, 06 Jan 2020

Gaurav Jain is Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital, one of the west coast's leading pre-...

20VC: Rahul Vohra @ Superhuman, The Most Downloaded Founder Episode of 2019

Fri, 03 Jan 2020

Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO @ Superhuman, the fastest email experience in the world. Fun f...

20VC: Inside The Acquisition Decision-Making Process at Cisco, How To Measure True Success in M&A Evaluation & Why By Not Speaking To Corp Dev Teams You Are Closing The Door On The Biggest Potential Accelerator To Your Business with Rob Salvagno, VP of Co

Mon, 30 Dec 2019

Rob Salvagno is VP of Corporate Development and Cisco Investments at Cisco, where he is responsib...

20VC: Most Downloaded Episode of 2019 with Bill Gurley, General Partner @ Benchmark Capital

Mon, 23 Dec 2019

Bill Gurley is a General Partner @ Benchmark Capital, one of the most successful funds of the last...

20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath

Fri, 20 Dec 2019

Brandon Deer is VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath, one of the world's fastest-growing companies ...

20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures

Mon, 16 Dec 2019

Adam D’Augelli is a Partner @ True Ventures, one of the West Coast’s leading early-stage fund...

20VC: Unusual Ventures’ John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best

Mon, 09 Dec 2019

John Vrionis is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Unusual Ventures, the firm that is redefining s...

20VC: Why Raising A Mega-Round Makes Your Life Harder Not Easier, Why Your Board Is Not Your Boss and Lessons on Successful Board Management & The Biggest Breakpoints in Company Scaling with Emmanuel Schalit, Founder & CEO @ Dashlane

Fri, 06 Dec 2019

Emmanuel Schalit is the Founder & CEO @ Dashlane, the company that provides your all-in-one intern...

20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again

Mon, 02 Dec 2019

David Tisch is the Founder & Managing Partner @ BoxGroup, one of the leading early-stage firms in ...

20VC: Why Startup Valuations Are Not As Overpriced As You Think, How To Determine Whether An Investor Is Truly Aligned To Your Mission and What 2 Traits Make The Truly Special Board Members with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally

Fri, 29 Nov 2019

Jason Brown is the Founder & CEO @ Tally, the startup that allows you to pay off your credit card ...

20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games

Mon, 25 Nov 2019

Josh Buckley manages a $50m early-stage fund and as an angel has built a portfolio that includes th...

20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today

Mon, 18 Nov 2019

Ash Fontana is a Managing Director @ Zetta Venture Partners, the fund that invests in AI-first com...

20VC: Why Speed Is The Biggest Differentiator a Founder Can Have, How To Hire Seasoned Tier 1 Talent To An Early Stage Startup & How To Start, Scale and Manage Remote Teams with Domm Holland, Founder & CEO @ Fast

Fri, 15 Nov 2019

Dom Holland is the Founder & CEO @ Fast, the world's fastest login and checkout with no more passw...

20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer

Mon, 11 Nov 2019

Rick Heitzmann is a Founder and Partner @ Firstmark Capital, one of the leading East Coast venture...

20VC: Why Pre-Product Market Fit Is About Systems Design Not Engineering, The Right Way For Leaders To Approach Wartime Leadership Today & A Guide To Recruitment Forward Planning with Ryan Denehy, Founder & CEO @ Electric

Fri, 08 Nov 2019

Ryan Denehy is the Founder & CEO @ Electric.ai, the company that provides a world-class IT solutio...

20VC: Inside The Mind of A Leading LP: How LPs Evaluate New Fund Managers on Everything from First Meeting to Portfolio Construction To Fees and Carry with Lisa Edgar, Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners

Mon, 04 Nov 2019

Lisa Edgar is a Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners, one of the leading venture fund of ...

20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing

Fri, 01 Nov 2019

Vlad Magdalin is the Founder & CEO @ Webflow, the startup that allows you to build better business...

20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building

Mon, 28 Oct 2019

Ben Horowitz is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the leading and mo...

20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively

Fri, 25 Oct 2019

Steve Huffman is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Reddit, home to thousands of communities, endless convers...

20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise

Mon, 21 Oct 2019

Arif Janmohamed is a Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading firms of the last d...

20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels

Fri, 18 Oct 2019

Roy Bahat is the Head of Bloomberg Beta, one of the leading early-stage funds in the valley and NY...

20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class

Mon, 14 Oct 2019

Brianne Kimmel is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Work Life Ventures, a very new firm focused o...

20VC: Guild Education's Rachel Carlson on The Benefits of Scaling Startups Outside of Silicon Valley, Why Mission and Margin Are So Tightly Integrated & Why Mums Are The Most Under-Utilised Asset In The Economy

Fri, 11 Oct 2019

Rachel Carlson is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Guild Education, the leader in education benefits offe...

20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures

Mon, 07 Oct 2019

John Fein is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures, one of the leading early-stage...

20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring

Fri, 04 Oct 2019

Jason Boehmig is the Founder & CEO @ Ironclad, the startup that provides powerful legal contractin...

20VC: Brad Feld on Why Market Size At Early Stage Is Not Helpful, His Biggest Learnings From The Boom & Bust of The Dot Com and How The Best VCs Work For Their CEOs

Mon, 30 Sep 2019

Brad Feld is Managing Director @ Foundry Group, one of the most successful venture firms of the la...

20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early

Fri, 27 Sep 2019

Julia Enthoven is the Founder & CEO @ Kapwing, the startup that provides a new, collaborative plat...

20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever

Mon, 23 Sep 2019

Matt Harris is a Partner @ Bain Capital Ventures, a leading US venture fund with a portfolio that...

20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time

Fri, 20 Sep 2019

Immad Akhund is the Founder & CEO @ Mercury, the startup that makes bank accounts that help tech c...

20VC: Haystack’s Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline

Mon, 16 Sep 2019

Semil Shah is the Founder & General Partner @ Haystack, one of the valley's leading seed funds of ...

20VC: Clearbit Founder Alex MacCaw on How To Successfully Negotiate with Investors, What Value-Add Do VCs Really Bring & Why You Should Only Have Operators on Your Board

Fri, 13 Sep 2019

Alex MacCaw is the Founder & CEO @ Clearbit, the marketing data engine for all of your customer in...

20VC: Matrix’s Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing

Mon, 09 Sep 2019

Ilya Sukhar is a General Partner @ Matrix Partners, the firm steeped in 40 years of history with o...

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

Fri, 06 Sep 2019

Alex Wang is the Founder & CEO @ Scale, the data platform for AI providing high-quality training a...

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

Mon, 02 Sep 2019

Jana Messerschmidt is an investor @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the best performing funds...

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

Fri, 30 Aug 2019

Clark Valberg is the Founder & CEO @ InVision, the digital product design platform powering the wo...

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

Mon, 26 Aug 2019

Mike Vernal is a General Partner @ Sequoia, one of the world’s leading and most renowned venture...

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

Fri, 16 Aug 2019

Daniel Kan is the Chief Product Officer @ Cruise, the company building cutting-edge hardware and ...

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

Mon, 12 Aug 2019

Puneet Agarwal is a Partner @ True Ventures, one of the leading early-stage VC funds of the last d...

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

Fri, 09 Aug 2019

Hiten Shah is the Co-Founder @ FYI, the startup that allows you to find your documents in 3 clicks...

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

Mon, 05 Aug 2019

Chetan Puttagunta is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last d...

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

Fri, 02 Aug 2019

Waseem Daher is the Founder and CEO @ Pilot, the startup that takes care of your bookkeeping from...

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

Fri, 26 Jul 2019

Brian Norgard is the Former Chief Product Officer at the top-grossing mobile app in the world, Tin...

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

Mon, 22 Jul 2019

Jesse Beyroutey is a General Partner @ IA Ventures, one of the top-performing early-stage funds of...

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

Fri, 19 Jul 2019

Sid Sijbrandij is the Founder & CEO @ Gitlab, a single application for the entire software devel...

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

Mon, 15 Jul 2019

Santi Subotovsky is a General Partner @ Emergence Capital, one of the valley's leading venture fir...

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

Fri, 12 Jul 2019

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the Founder @ HitRecord, the startup that allows you to be creative, toget...

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

Mon, 08 Jul 2019

Byron Deeter is a Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners where he has established himself as one of ...

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

Fri, 05 Jul 2019

Alex Rodrigues is the Founder & CEO @ Embark, the world's leading developer of self-driving truck...

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

Mon, 01 Jul 2019

Pat Grady is a Partner @ Sequoia, one of the world's leading and most renowned venture firms with ...

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?

Fri, 28 Jun 2019

Steven Galanis is the Founder & CEO @ Cameo, the startup that allows you to book personalised shou...

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

Mon, 24 Jun 2019

Bill Gurley is a General Partner @ Benchmark Capital, one of the most successful funds of the last...

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

Fri, 21 Jun 2019

Justin Kan is the Founder and CEO @ Atrium, the startup providing a full-service corporate law fir...

20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital

Mon, 17 Jun 2019

Jonathan Hsu is Co-Founder & General Partner @ Tribe Capital, one of Silicon Valley's newest funds...

20VC: Lime CEO Brad Bao on How Lime Assess The Micro-Mobility Landscape and Competition Today, What It Takes To Launch and Win A New City & Why Lime Have Spent $0 on Marketing To Date

Fri, 14 Jun 2019

Brad Bao is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Lime, the startup that provides distribution of shared scooters...

20VC: a16z's Scott Kupor on The Biggest Learnings From Scaling a16z from $300m to $7Bn AUM, The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching VCs & Why VC Is Simply A Customer Service Business

Mon, 10 Jun 2019

Scott Kupor is Managing Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world's most renowned venture fu...

20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves

Fri, 07 Jun 2019

Zach Perret is the Founder & CEO @ Plaid, the startup providing the easiest way for users to conn...

20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius

Mon, 03 Jun 2019

Zach Coelius is Managing Partner @ Coelius Capital and in his own words, "a pretty eclectic inves...

20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living

Fri, 31 May 2019

Kulveer Taggar is the Founder & CEO @ Zeus Living, the startup providing a home of your own for bu...

20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"

Mon, 27 May 2019

Geoff Ralston is President @ Y Combinator, the world's leading accelerator with a portfolio that i...

20VC: Front's Mathilde Collin on Why Discipline Is More Important Than Vision, The Right Way To Approach Investor Updates and Director Reports & How To Effectively Structure 1-1s

Fri, 24 May 2019

Mathilde Collin is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Front, reinventing the email inbox with new workflows a...

20VC: Softbank Managing Partner, Jeff Housenbold on How Softbank Approach Portfolio Construction, Their Optimal Investment Decision-Making Process and What Excites Softbank Most In Opportunities Today

Mon, 20 May 2019

Jeff Housenbold is a Managing Partner @ Softbank Vision Fund, the leading and most influential fir...

20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

Fri, 17 May 2019

Jon Dishotsky is the Founder & CEO @ Starcity, the startup on a mission to make cities more afford...

20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on The Strategy Behind The New $600m "Back To The Future" Fund, The Truth To Price Sensitivity at Series A & Why Venture Team Building Is Like Basketball Team Building

Mon, 13 May 2019

Mamoon Hamid is a Partner @ Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture firm...

20VC: Clearbanc's Michele Romanow on Why 40% of VC $ Raised Today Goes To Google and Facebook, How To Create A Financing Mechanism For The Repeatable Parts Of Your Business & Why We Need To Stop Celebrating Fundraises

Fri, 10 May 2019

Michele Romanow is the Founder & CEO @ Clearbanc, the startup that provides entrepreneurs capital ...

20VC: Why Consumer Brands Must Embrace Physical Retail To Avoid Inflated Online CACs, How To Alter Fund Strategy When Investing In Consumer Retail & Why The Era of The 1,000 Store Brand Is Over with Brendan Wallace, Founder and Managing Partner @ Fifth Wa

Mon, 06 May 2019

Brendan Wallace is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Fifth Wall, the fund with the core thesis...

20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check

Fri, 03 May 2019

Frederic Kerrest is the Founder & COO @ Okta, the independent and neutral platform that securely ...

20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs

Mon, 29 Apr 2019

Sarah Smith is a Partner @ Bain Capital Ventures, a leading US venture fund with a portfolio that ...

20VC: Why Startup Founders Have One Core Job, How To Reduce Risk & Increase Probability In Your Startup & Why You Should Not Send A Pitch Deck Pre-Investor Meeting with David Rogier, Founder & CEO @ Masterclass

Fri, 26 Apr 2019

David Rogier is the Founder & CEO @ Masterclass, the startup that brings you online classes taught...

20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing

Mon, 22 Apr 2019

Jeremy Liew is a Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading firms of the last deca...

20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years

Fri, 19 Apr 2019

Dylan Field is the Founder & CEO @ Figma, the startup that provides a better way to design, protot...

20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android

Mon, 15 Apr 2019

Dave Sobota is the Vice President of Corporate Development @ Instacart, the company that delivers ...

20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive

Fri, 12 Apr 2019

Henry Ward is the Founder & CEO @ Carta, the startup that helps private companies, public companie...

20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture

Mon, 08 Apr 2019

Dayna Grayson is a Partner @ NEA, one of the leading venture firms over the last 4 decades with a ...

20VC: One Question Founders Must Ask Themselves When Approaching Investor Selection, Why Series B Is One Of The Most Challenging Phases & What Makes For A Successful CEO Transition with Jeff Russakow, CEO @ Boosted

Fri, 05 Apr 2019

Jeff Russakow is the CEO @ Boosted, the startup producing vehicle grade electric skateboards rethi...

20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals

Mon, 01 Apr 2019

Garry Tan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Initialized Capital, one of the West Coast's le...

20VC: Buffer's Joel Gascoigne on The Moment The Founder Is No Longer The Boss, The Questions Founders Must Ask Their VCs and Why We Need A Spectrum of Different Financing Mechanisms Other Than VC

Fri, 29 Mar 2019

Joel Gascoigne is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Buffer, the social media management tool that makes it ea...

20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage

Mon, 25 Mar 2019

Alex Clayton is a Partner @ Spark Capital, one of the leading firms of the last decade with a port...

20VC: The Acceptable vs Unacceptable Risks To Take When Seed Investing, Why Loss Ratio Is Not A Consideration & Why Series A Is The Right Time To Establish A Board with Mike Hirshland, Co-Founder @ Resolute Ventures

Mon, 18 Mar 2019

Mike Hirshland is the Co-founder of Resolute Ventures, one of the leading pre-seed and seed stage ...

20VC: Why The Current VC Financing Mechanism For Consumer Brands Is Broken, Why The Infrastructure To Power Emerging Brands Is Broken and What The Re-Platforming of Retail Means For The Next Decade in Consumer with Adam Pritzker, Chairman & CEO @ Assemble

Fri, 15 Mar 2019

Adam Pritzker is the Chairman & CEO @ Assembled Brands, a holding company providing working capi...

20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

Mon, 11 Mar 2019

Victoria Treyger is a General Partner & Managing Director @ Felicis Ventures, one of the leading v...

20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor

Fri, 08 Mar 2019

Austen Allred is the Founder & CEO @ Lambda School, a 9 month, immersive program that gives you t...

20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital

Mon, 04 Mar 2019

Jeff Richards is Managing Partner @ GGV Capital, one of the leading venture firms of the last deca...

20VC: How To Optimise Decision-Making Frameworks, How To Really Get The Most Out Of Your Board and When Your Brother Is Also Your Co-Founder; The Secret To Working with Family with Rob Sadow, Founder & CEO @ Scoop

Fri, 01 Mar 2019

Rob Sadow is the Founder & CEO @ Scoop, the startup that dramatically improves your commute provid...

20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware

Mon, 25 Feb 2019

Frank Chen is a Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world's most prestigious venture firms w...

20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It

Fri, 22 Feb 2019

Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO @ Superhuman, the fastest email experience in the world. Fun f...

20VC: AOL Founder, Steve Case on Why The Best Venture Investments of The Next 10 Years Will Likely Not Be In The Valley, Why The CEO Must Be The Shock Absorber For Company Morale and Why Vision Without Execution is Hallucination

Mon, 18 Feb 2019

Steve Case is Chairman and CEO of Revolution with the mission being to establish themselves as t...

20VC: Brex Founder Henrique Dubugras on Why Being Mission Driven Is Not The Only Way To Build A Massive Business, Why You Should Not Associate Fundraising with The Cash Needs of Your Business & Why You Don't Have To Follow Startup Theory When It Comes To

Fri, 15 Feb 2019

Henrique Dubugas is the Founder & CEO @ Brex, the first corporate card for startups offering inst...

20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room

Mon, 11 Feb 2019

David Cohen is the Founder and co-CEO of Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneur...

20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6

Fri, 08 Feb 2019

Anjney Midha is the Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6, the startup that allows you to edit reality togethe...

20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto

Mon, 04 Feb 2019

Sam Lessin is a Founding Partner @ Slow Ventures, one of the leading early-stage funds on the Wes...

20VC: How To Build Meaningful Relationships With Your Investors, 4 Key Elements CEOs Must Focus On In Scale Mode & How Top Optimise Leadership Team Dynamics with Joel Flory, Founder & CEO @ VSCO

Fri, 01 Feb 2019

Joel Flory is the Founder & CEO @ VSCO, the startup that allows you to take your photography to th...

20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture

Mon, 28 Jan 2019

Josh Kopelman is Founder & Partner @ First Round, one of the world’s leading seed funds with a po...

20VC: The 3 Stages of Denial For Founders When Scaling, Why You Will Likely Be Unable To Hire Through Your Network & The Interview Question All Founders Must Ask with Olof Mathé, Founder & CEO @ Mixmax

Fri, 25 Jan 2019

Olof Mathé is the Founder & CEO @ Mixmax, the startup that provides powerful analytics, automatio...

20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates

Mon, 21 Jan 2019

Hunter Somerville is a Partner at Greenspring Associates, a leading venture firm and fund of funds...

20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo

Fri, 18 Jan 2019

Assaf Wand is the Founder & CEO @ Hippo, a new kind of insurance company that provides smart cover...

20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre

Tue, 15 Jan 2019

Fred Destin is a Founding Partner @ Stride.VC, one of Europe's newest seed funds with a portfolio ...

20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk

Fri, 11 Jan 2019

Avi Meir is the Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk, the startup that allows you to book, manage and report...

20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals

Mon, 07 Jan 2019

Scott Belsky is an executive, entrepreneur, author, and investor. He currently serves as Adobe's Ch...

20VC: Most Downloaded Founder Episode of 2018: Andrew Dudum, Founder & CEO @ Hims

Fri, 28 Dec 2018

Andrew Dudum is the Founder & CEO @ Hims, one of the fastest growing consumer brands of our time ...

20VC: A Framework For Approaching Risk and How It Affects Portfolio Construction | Lessons and Advice From Working with Dropbox's Drew Houston | Why Being A Learning Animal Is The Most Important Factor For Success with Ted Wang, Partner @ Cowboy Ventures

Mon, 17 Dec 2018

Ted Wang is a Partner @ Cowboy Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's leading early-stage funds with th...

20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel

Fri, 14 Dec 2018

Dave Vasen is the Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel, the child management software solution you need an...

20VC: Top 3 Considerations When Evaluating Consumer Businesses Today | 700 Meetings, 70 LPs, 2 Years, What It Takes To Raise a First Time Fund| The Power of The Female Network In Action Today with Anu Duggal, Founding Partner @ Female Founders Fund

Mon, 10 Dec 2018

Anu Duggal is the Founding Partner @ Female Founders Fund, a leading early-stage fund investing i...

20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams

Fri, 07 Dec 2018

Anand Sanwal is the Founder & CEO @ CB Insights, the tech market intelligence platform that ingest...

20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...

Mon, 03 Dec 2018

Danny Rimer is a Partner @ Index Ventures, one of the world's leading venture funds with a portfol...

20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence

Fri, 30 Nov 2018

Tom Blomfield is the Founder & CEO @ Monzo, in it's simplest words, the bank of the future allowin...

20VC: Why Raising A First Time Fund Is Like Raising A Seed Round, Why We Need New and Different Fund Models & Why Longevity Is The Most Rewarding Place To Invest with Laura Deming, Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund

Mon, 26 Nov 2018

Laura Deming is Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund, the first VC firm dedicated to funding hig...

20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One

Mon, 19 Nov 2018

Jeff Morris Jr is the Founder of Chapter One, an early stage seed fund investing in blockchain ass...

20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures

Mon, 12 Nov 2018

Leo Polovets is a General Partner @ Susa Ventures, one of the valley's leading early-stage seed fu...

20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble

Fri, 09 Nov 2018

Ooshma Garg is the Founder & CEO @ Gobble, the startup that allows you to cook a fresh homemade di...

20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R

Mon, 05 Nov 2018

Avidan Ross is the Founding Partner @ Root Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most exciting newer g...

20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?

Fri, 02 Nov 2018

Ryan Caldbeck is the Founder & CEO @ CircleUp, the startup creating a transparent and efficient ma...

20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund

Mon, 29 Oct 2018

Ron Bouganim is the Founding Partner @ Govtech Fund, the first-ever venture capital fund dedicate...

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

Fri, 26 Oct 2018

Phil Libin is the Co-Founder & CEO @ All Turtles, the startup that believes they have a better way...

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

Mon, 22 Oct 2018

Linda Xie is a Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Scalar Capital, one of the leading crypto asset fu...

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

Fri, 19 Oct 2018

Dennis Mortensen is the Founder & CEO @ X.ai, the startup that realises scheduling sucks and provi...

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

Mon, 15 Oct 2018

Phin Barnes is a Partner @ First Round Capital, one of the most prestigious and successful early-s...

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

Fri, 12 Oct 2018

Patrick Morley is the President and CEO @ Carbon Black, the company that combines unfiltered data ...

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

Mon, 08 Oct 2018

Woody Marshall is a General Partner @ TCV, one of the most successful growth funds of the last dec...

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

Fri, 05 Oct 2018

Afton Vechery is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Modern Fertility, the startup that guides you through your...

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

Mon, 01 Oct 2018

Rebecca Kaden is a General Partner @ Union Square Ventures, one of the most successful funds of th...

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

Fri, 28 Sep 2018

Maynard Webb is truly unique, he has worn 3 different hats and excelled in all of them. First, he ...

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

Mon, 24 Sep 2018

Sarah Tavel is a General Partner at Benchmark, one of the world’s leading VC funds with a portfo...

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

Fri, 21 Sep 2018

Amol Deshpande is the Co-Founder and CEO at Farmers Business Network, the farmer-to-farmer agronom...

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 @

Mon, 17 Sep 2018

David Frankel is Managing Partner @ Founder Collective, one of the leading seed funds of the last ...

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

Fri, 14 Sep 2018

Howard Lerman is the Founder & CEO @ Yext, the company that allows you to control your brand exper...

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

Mon, 10 Sep 2018

Shabih Rizvi is the Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures, Google’s new AI-focused venture fund,...

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

Fri, 07 Sep 2018

Andrew Farah is the Founder & CEO @ Density, the startup that measures real-time occupancy of eve...

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

Tue, 04 Sep 2018

Barry Eggers is a Founding Partner @ Lightspeed, one of the world’s leading venture funds with a...

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

Fri, 31 Aug 2018

Philip Krim is the Founder & CEO @ Casper, the global sleep company that launched in 2014 offeri...

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

Mon, 27 Aug 2018

Daniel Gross is the Founder @ Pioneer and the Head of AI @ Y Combinator. Taking them in turn, Pi...

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

Fri, 24 Aug 2018

Heather Fernandez is the Founder & CEO @ Solv, the startup that simplifies everyday healthcare by...

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

Mon, 20 Aug 2018

Avichal Garg is the Managing Partner @ Electric Capital, one of the leading crypto asset managemen...

20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal

Fri, 17 Aug 2018

Dylan Serota is the Founder & Chief Strategy Officer @ Terminal, the startup that helps you create...

20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice

Mon, 13 Aug 2018

Jeff Fagnan is Founding Partner @ Accomplice, one of the East Coast's leading early-stage funds wi...

20VC: Why Founding Your First Company Is Like Learning Through A Thousand Paper Cuts, The 3 Core Phases to Product Adoption and Why Valuation Obsession Must Change In The Valley with Armon Dadgar, Founder & CTO @ Hashicorp

Fri, 10 Aug 2018

Armon Dadgar is the Founder & CTO @ Hashicorp, the open-source software company that provides con...

20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary

Mon, 06 Aug 2018

Nick Brown is Managing Partner @ Imaginary, founded alongside Net-A-Porter founder, Natalie Massen...

20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess

Mon, 30 Jul 2018

Adam Goldberg is a Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the world's leading funds with a ...

20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown

Fri, 27 Jul 2018

Eddy Lu is the Co-Founder & CEO @ GOAT, the largest marketplace in the world for buying and sellin...

20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron

Mon, 23 Jul 2018

Jason Stoffer is Managing Partner @ Maveron, the consumer-only venture fund backing a new breed of...

20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive

Fri, 20 Jul 2018

Fritz Lanman is the CEO @ ClassPass, the startup that provides the most flexible fitness membershi...

20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs

Tue, 17 Jul 2018

Elad Gil is the Founder @ Color, the startup that shows you your genes can help you make better hea...

20VC: Why Fundraising Is Like Dating and How to Play The Game Successfully & How To Increase The Flexibility of Your Burn When Growth is Ambiguous with Rachel Blumenthal, Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome

Fri, 13 Jul 2018

Rachel Blumenthal is the Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome, the startup that is reinventing the w...

20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX

Mon, 09 Jul 2018

Pete Flint is a Managing Partner @ NFX, one of Silicon Valley's newest and most exciting funds wi...

20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode

Fri, 06 Jul 2018

Joe Fernandez is the Founder & CEO @ JoyMode, the startup that allows you to lend everything you n...

20VC: Why Most The Value In Crypto Will Accrue in Governance, When Institutional Capital Will Enter The Space and How To Think About Liquidity In Crypto with Joel Monegro, Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC

Mon, 02 Jul 2018

Joel Monegro is Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC, one of the new venture capital partnerships tha...

20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital

Mon, 25 Jun 2018

Max Motschwiller is a Partner with Meritech Capital, one of the West Coast's leading growth invest...

20VC: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on Why We Are In A Golden Age For VC, Why Pro-Rata Is A Lazy Posture and Why He Does Not Focus On Price

Mon, 18 Jun 2018

Hemant Taneja is Managing Director @ General Catalyst, one of the world's leading venture firms of...

20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League

Fri, 15 Jun 2018

Amanda Bradford is the Founder & CEO @ The League, the exclusive dating app that wants you to spen...

20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital

Mon, 11 Jun 2018

Peter Parker is the Managing Partner @ BioInnovation Capital, the $130m fund transforming life scie...

20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English

Fri, 08 Jun 2018

Paul English is the Co-Founder of both Lola and Kayak. Starting on Lola, the company brings jo...

20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc

Mon, 04 Jun 2018

Trae Vassallo is the Co-Founder and Managing Director @ Defy.VC, one of Silicon Valley's newest a...

20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek

Fri, 01 Jun 2018

Jack Groetzinger is the Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek, the world's largest ticket inventory on the web ...

20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital

Tue, 29 May 2018

Glenn Solomon is a Managing Partner @ GGV Capital, one of the world's leading venture funds with ...

20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward

Fri, 25 May 2018

Adrian Aoun is the Founder & CEO @ Forward, a health care system combining world-class doctors wi...

20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks

Mon, 21 May 2018

Dan Scheinman is one of the West Coast's leading angel investors with a portfolio including the ...

20VC: 3 Questions Founders Must Stress Test VCs with, What Separates the Good From The Great VCs & Why 80% of VC Detract Value From Board Meetings with Seth Sternberg, Founder & CEO @ Honor

Fri, 18 May 2018

Seth Sternberg is the Founder & CEO @ Honor, the startup that provides homecare your family will l...

20VC: Why Crypto Is The Biggest Disruptor To Hit VC In A Decade, The State of Crypto Today & Why Investing In Decentralized Platforms Requires A New Mental Model with Boris Wertz, Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures

Mon, 14 May 2018

Boris Wertz is the Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures, one of North America's leading early-s...

20VC: Hims' Andrew Dudum on The Scaling Playbook of The Fastest Growing Mens Wellness Brand, How To Be Truly Innovative In Today's World of Online Marketing & Raising at a $200m Valuation within Year 1

Fri, 11 May 2018

Andrew Dudum is Co-Founder & CEO @ Hims, the fastest growing men’s health and wellness brand tha...

20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?

Tue, 08 May 2018

Andy McLoughlin is Partner @ Uncork Capital, formerly SoftTech and one of the leading early-stage ...

20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool & How To Use Humour When "S*** Hits The Fan" with Jesse Genet, Founder & CEO @ Lumi

Fri, 04 May 2018

Jesse Genet is the Founder & CEO @ Lumi, the startup that is used by thousands of e-commerce compa...

20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann

Mon, 30 Apr 2018

Jerry Neumann is one of New York's leading angel investors with a portfolio including the likes of ...

20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

Fri, 27 Apr 2018

James Reinhart is the Founder & CEO @ ThredUp, the world's largest online thrift store, and consig...

20VC: The Biggest Trend Of Our Lifetime Is The Decentralisation of Entrepreneurship Away From The Valley, The Biggest Lessons From Learning The Craft of VC at Sequoia & The Benchmarks Required to Attract Growth Investors with Chris Olsen, Founding Partne

Mon, 23 Apr 2018

Chris Olsen is the Founding Partner @ Drive Capital, the venture firm that believes the Midwest is...

20VC: The Biggest Trend Of Our Lifetime Is The Decentralisation of Entrepreneurship Away From The Valley, The Biggest Lessons From Learnings The Craft of VC at Sequoia & The Benchmarks Required to Attract Growth Investors with Chris Olsen, Founding Partne

Mon, 23 Apr 2018

Chris Olsen is the Founding Partner @ Drive Capital, the venture firm that believes the Midwest is...

20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success

Fri, 20 Apr 2018

Marco Zappacosta is the Founder & CEO @ Thumbtack, the startup that allows you to find local profe...

20VC: How a16z Uses NPS To Create Better Founder Experiences, Why Intellectual Curiosity Is The Most Important Investor Trait & Creating A Fund To Last Through The Ages with Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital

Mon, 16 Apr 2018

Zal Bilimoria is Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital, one of Silicon Valley's newest entrants to t...

20VC: Why You Have To Raise $100m+ If You Want To Go Big Today, The 5 Fundamentals To Starting and Scaling A Successful Marketplace & Why Female Founders Under-Promise and Over-Deliver with Paul Hsiao, Founding Partner @ Canvas Ventures

Mon, 09 Apr 2018

Paul Hsiao is a Founding Partner @ Canvas Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's leading and newer ent...

20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius

Fri, 06 Apr 2018

Darian Shirazi is the Founder & CEO @ Radius, the startup that provides you with not just data but...

20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"

Mon, 02 Apr 2018

Jerry Chen is a Partner @ Greylock Partners, one of the world's most successful VC funds with prio...

20VC: Tearing Up Term Sheets and Writing Your Own, Why Founders Must Do "VC Dating" Pre-Fundraise & The Benefits of Capital Constraints in The Early Days with Rachel Drori, Founder & CEO @ Daily Harvest

Fri, 30 Mar 2018

Rachel Drori is the Founder & CEO @ Daily Harvest, the direct-to-consumer brand that delivers rea...

20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square

Mon, 26 Mar 2018

James Loftus is Corporate Development Lead @ Square where he has made multiple acquisitions and ...

20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy

Fri, 23 Mar 2018

Dan Lewis is the Founder & CEO @ Convoy, the startup that really is the future of freight with tru...

20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital

Mon, 19 Mar 2018

Leah Busque is a General Partner @ Fuel Capital, one of Silicon Valley's leading seed funds with...

20VC: Why Virtually All Companies Hire The Wrong Way, Why EdTech Is The Most Brutal Market & How To Scale Your Sales Team for Engineering Founders with Mike Sliagadze, Founder & CEO @ Top Hat

Fri, 16 Mar 2018

Mike Silagadze is the Founder & CEO @ Top Hat, the market leader in student engagement software, a...

20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow

Mon, 12 Mar 2018

Alex Taussig is a Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading firms of the last dec...

20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob

Fri, 09 Mar 2018

Leore Avidar is the Founder & CEO @ Lob, the startup that provides a powerful suite of API's to de...

20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund

Mon, 05 Mar 2018

Anu Hariharan is a Partner @ Y Combinator's Continuity Fund, the growth stage investing arm of Y C...

20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted

Fri, 02 Mar 2018

Mariam Naficy has pioneered consumer Internet models since 1998, when she co-founded the first onli...

20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital

Mon, 26 Feb 2018

Steve Vassallo is a General Partner @ Foundation Capital where he sits or has sat on the boards o...

20VC: The Fundamentals Of Optimising The Fundraising Process, SAFE's vs Priced Equity Rounds & Why Hiring Is Really A Big Data Problem with Chris Hutchins, Founder @ Grove & Former Partner @ Google Ventures

Fri, 23 Feb 2018

Chris Hutchins is the Founder & CEO @ Grove, the startup reinventing financial planning allowing y...

20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Being The First Investor in Snapchat, Why The Pessimism Around Consumer Is Wrong & Why Silicon Valley Is An Isolated Bubble and What Can Be Done To Change This

Mon, 19 Feb 2018

Jeremy Liew is a Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading firms of the last decad...

20VC: How To Think About Founder-Category Fit, Why The Biggest Opportunities Are In Category Re-Architecture & What Can Be Done To Increase The Amount of Women In VC with Nadia Boujarwah, Founder & CEO @ Dia & Co

Fri, 16 Feb 2018

Nadia Boujarwah is the Founder & CEO @ Dia & Co, the startup that provides premier plus size cloth...

20VC: Dick Costolo on The Balance of Vision and Realism in Startups, The Biggest Challenge in Scaling Twitter & How To Optimise Decision Making Internally

Mon, 12 Feb 2018

Dick Costolo is the Chief Executive and co-founder of Chorus, a startup that is reimagining the pa...

20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures

Mon, 05 Feb 2018

Brian Garrett is the Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures, one of LA's leading venture funds today...

20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro

Fri, 02 Feb 2018

Andy Pflaum is the Founder & CEO @ Astro, the startup that brings email, calendar, and an AI-powe...

20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham @ USV, How CEO's Can Operationally Utilise Their Board & The Single Most Important Quality of A CEO with Andrew Parker, General Partner @ Spark Capital

Mon, 29 Jan 2018

Andrew Parker is a General Partner @ Spark Capital, one of the best performing funds of the last d...

20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork

Fri, 26 Jan 2018

Neil Young is the Founder & CEO @ N3twork, the next generation mobile games maker and publisher wi...

20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures

Mon, 22 Jan 2018

Eurie Kim is a General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures, the early stage firm dedicated to investing ...

20VC: Why You Should Not Always Listen To Your Investors, The Pros and Cons of Strategic Investors & How To Approach Operational Efficiency with Scaling with Florian Leibert, Founder & CEO @ Mesosphere

Fri, 19 Jan 2018

Florian Leibert is the Founder & CEO @ Mesosphere, the most flexible platform for containerized, d...

20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC

Wed, 17 Jan 2018

Sam Altman is the president of Y Combinator, the world’s most successful accelerator with alumn...

20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk

Mon, 15 Jan 2018

Emilie Choi is Head of Corporate Development @ Linkedin where she has led 40+ acquisitions, acqui...

20VC: Why Risk Is Misunderstood In Entrepreneurship, Why Acquisitions Are Cheap For Incumbents Today & 3 Strategies To Improve Diversity In Your Team with Henry Davis, President & COO @ Glossier

Fri, 12 Jan 2018

Henry Davis is the President and COO @ Glossier, a New York brand that has taken the beauty world ...

20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital

Wed, 10 Jan 2018

Crystal Huang is a Principal @ GGV Capital, one of the world's leading venture firms partnering w...

20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital

Mon, 08 Jan 2018

Hans Tung is a Managing Partner @ GGV Capital, one of the world's leading venture firms partnering...

20VC: What Is The Right Drone Investing Strategy, The Catalyst That Will Take Drones to 100s of Millions & Will Amazon and Google Win The War of The Airspace with Ben Marcus, Founder & CEO @ Airmap

Fri, 05 Jan 2018

Ben Marcus is the Founder & CEO @ Airmap, the startups that provides everything one needs to unloc...

20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital

Wed, 03 Jan 2018

Kevin Thau is a General Partner @ Spark Capital, one of the best performing funds of the last deca...

20VC: Most Downloaded Founder Episode of 2017: Brian Armstrong, Founder & CEO @ Coinbase

Fri, 22 Dec 2017

Brian Armstrong is the Founder & CEO @ Coinbase, the startup that provides the world’s most popu...

20VC: 2nd Most Downloaded Episode of 2018: Kirsten Green, Founding Partner @ Forerunner Ventures

Wed, 20 Dec 2017

Kirsten Green is the Founding General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures, where she has raised over $25...

20VC: Most Downloaded Episode of 2017: Peter Fenton, General Partner @ Benchmark

Mon, 18 Dec 2017

Peter Fenton is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the world’s leading VC funds with a portfo...

20VC: How To Upscale Management Teams Effectively, When Should The CEO Play The Role of "Lifeguard" & What Role Does The Board Play In The Team Upscaling with Matt Straz, Founder & CEO @ Namely

Fri, 15 Dec 2017

Matt Straz is the Founder & CEO @ Namely, the leading HR platform for mid-sized companies. Since ...

20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX

Wed, 13 Dec 2017

James Currier is the Managing Partner @ NFX and one of Silicon Valley’s foremost experts in gr...

20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital

Mon, 11 Dec 2017

Olaf Carlson-Wee is the Founder & CEO @ Polychain Capital, one of the world's premier funds active...

20VC: AppDynamic's Jyoti Bansal on The Sale vs IPO Process with AppDynamics' $3.7Bn Exit & The 3 Simple Things VCs Look For When Investing In Startups

Fri, 08 Dec 2017

Jyoti Bansal is the former Founder & CEO of AppDynamics, backed to the tune of over $350m in VC fun...

20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel

Wed, 06 Dec 2017

Jake Flomenberg is a Partner @ Accel, one of the top performing venture funds of the last decade...

20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years

Mon, 04 Dec 2017

Rich Wong is a General Partner @ Accel, one of the world's leading venture funds with investments ...

20VC: Overcoming The Engineer Boys Club, Disrupting The "Pink Aisle" & Why VCs Are Missing A Trick Not Investing In The CPG Space with Debbie Sterling, Founder & CEO @ Goldieblox

Fri, 01 Dec 2017

Debbie Sterling is the Founder & CEO @ Goldieblox, an award‐winning toy company on a mission to...

20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures

Wed, 29 Nov 2017

David Waxman is the Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures, one of the leading new venture firms in...

20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide

Mon, 27 Nov 2017

Bing Gordon is a Partner and Chief Product Officer @ Kleiner Perkins, one of the world’s most pr...

20VC: Why Strategic Investing Is Slow Motion M&A, Why Valuation Is The Hardest Element of M&A & What Determines Between Cash vs Stock Deals with Chad Richard, SVP of Business & Corporate Development @ Yelp

Wed, 22 Nov 2017

Chad Richard is the Senior Vice President of Business & Corporate Development @ Yelp, where he lea...

20VC: Zynga's Mark Pincus on When To Ride Your Winners and Cut Your Losers, Why People With "Broken Resumes" Make The Best Hires & The 2 Biggest Lies Told In Silicon Valley By Founders and VCs

Mon, 20 Nov 2017

Mark Pincus is a serial entrepreneur and investor, best known for founding Zynga, the first compa...

20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify

Fri, 17 Nov 2017

David Barrett is the Founder & CEO @ Expensify, the startup relieving the world’s frustrations,...

20VC: Why VCs Fundamentally Assess Founders The Wrong Way, Why VC Needs To Innovate On The Scouting Model & Why SAFE's and Convertible Notes Are The Future Of Investing with Elizabeth Yin, Founder & General Partner @ Hustle Fund

Wed, 15 Nov 2017

Elizabeth Yin is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Hustle Fund, as they describe, the ventue ...

20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous

Mon, 13 Nov 2017

Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he leads the firms fintech investmen...

20VC: Why Self-Awareness Is The Most Important Characteristic For Founders, When Is The Right Time For A CEO To Hand Over The Reigns & What CEO's Can Learn About Company Culture From Teaching Middle School with Lloyd Tabb, Founder & Chairman @ Looker

Fri, 10 Nov 2017

Lloyd Tabb is the Founder & Chairman @ Looker, the startup leader pioneering the next generation ...

20VC: The Lean Startup's Eric Ries on The Missing Function of Entrepreneurship in Most Companies, Creating A New Accountability Paradigm & How To Structure Promotions and Compensation In The New Structure

Wed, 08 Nov 2017

Eric Ries is the author of International Bestseller, The Lean Startup, which changed the language ...

20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs

Mon, 06 Nov 2017

Oren Zeev is the Founding Partner @ Zeev Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most under the radar but...

20VC: What Is Core To The Best Investor - Founder Relationships, The Biggest Risk For Founders In The Early Days & Why EQ Is The Most Important Trait For Managers with Jack Altman, Founder & CEO @ Lattice

Fri, 03 Nov 2017

Jack Altman is the Founder & CEO of Lattice, actually our partners for this month on the show and ...

20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige

Wed, 01 Nov 2017

Paul Buchheit is a Partner @ Y Combinator, the world’s most successful accelerator with portfoli...

20VC: YC's Ali Rowghani on Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull and Jack Dorsey & The 3 Traits All Truly Successful Leaders Share

Mon, 30 Oct 2017

Ali Rowghani is a Partner @ Y Combinator, the world’s most successful accelerator with portfolio...

20VC: Why Decentralisation is Key For Digital Media Distribution, Why Gradual Decentralisation Is The Most Practical Approach and Why Incumbents Are The Biggest Barrier To The Rise of Crypto with Adi Sideman, Founder & CEO @ YouNow

Fri, 27 Oct 2017

Adi Sideman is the Founder & CEO @ YouNow. Since founding the company in 2011, Adi has grown YouNo...

20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend

Wed, 25 Oct 2017

Nicole Quinn is a Partner @ Lightspeed, one of the world's leading venture funds with a portfolio ...

20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained

Mon, 23 Oct 2017

Semil Shah is the founder of Haystack, an early stage investment firm now investing out of it’s...

20VC: Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz on The Lessons Learned Scaling Eventbrite to Unicorn Valuation & $3Bn in Gross Ticket Sales

Fri, 20 Oct 2017

Julia Hartz is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Eventbrite, the unicorn startup that is the world's largest ...

20VC: Lux Capital's Scientist-In-Residence on Why We Cannot Just Be Specialists Today, The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Thinking & Computational Creativity That Makes Man and Machine Partners with Sam Arbesman

Wed, 18 Oct 2017

Sam Arbesman is the Scientist-In-Residence @ Lux Capital, the fund that supports scientists and e...

20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender

Mon, 16 Oct 2017

Aaron VanDevender is the Chief Scientist at Founders Fund, one of the world's leading fund with in...

20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech

Fri, 13 Oct 2017

Luis Von Ahn is the Founder & CEO @ Duolingo, the leading language learning platform with over 100m...

20VC: What Does It Take To Raise A Venture Fund Today, An Analysis of The Explosion of Seed Financing & Why IRR No Longer Takes Centre Stage with Samir Kaji, Senior Managing Director @ First Republic Bank

Wed, 11 Oct 2017

Samir Kaji is what one might call, a master of all things seed stage and micro VC financing. Over h...

20VC: Michael Dearing on 5 Key Principles He Uses To Assess Startup Founders, Why Benevolent Dictatorship Is A Beautiful Thing & Why Markets Are Better Capital Allocators Than CEOs

Mon, 09 Oct 2017

Michael Dearing has established himself as an icon of early-stage venture over the last decade. Wit...

20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia

Fri, 06 Oct 2017

Sami Inkinen is the Founder & CEO @ Virta Health, the startup on a mission to reverse type 2 diabe...

20VC: Key Questions Entrepreneurs Must Ask in M&A's, Why Acquihires Come In 2 Different Categories & Why M&A Is Lumpy with Bram Sugarman, Director of Corporate Development @ Shopify

Wed, 04 Oct 2017

Bram Sugarman is the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at Shopify, the e-...

20VC: 3 Things Acquirers Look For In Startup M&A's, How To Price A Startup Acquisition & The Biggest Risk of M&A with Matt Switzer, SVP of Corporate Development @ Hootsuite

Mon, 02 Oct 2017

Matt Switzer is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development @ Hootsuite, the s...

20VC: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun

Fri, 29 Sep 2017

Roger Dickey is the Founder & CEO @ Gigster, the smart development service combining top develop...

20VC: Why VCs Have Forgotten Their Job To Invest In Entrepreneurs not Technologists, How To Know When Growth Creates Value and When It Destroys It & How To Bootstrap Learning Most People Acquire Over Decades with 8VC Founding Partner, Drew Oetting

Wed, 27 Sep 2017

Drew Oetting is a Founding Partner @ 8VC, one of Silicon Valley's youngest and most exciting new en...

20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Why Career VCs Have Advantages Most Under Appreciate, Why We Are In An Infrastructure Renaissance & What Makes The Best VC Partnership

Mon, 25 Sep 2017

Eric Vishria is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the world’s leading VC funds with a portfo...

20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar

Fri, 22 Sep 2017

Mario Schlosser is the Founder & CEO @ Oscar, the startup that makes health insurance easy. They h...

20VC: Why Core AI Is Largely A Bunch of Nifty Tricks, Why Consumer Electronics Is The Hardest Thing To Do In Venture & Why Silicon Valley Will Dominate The Future of Robotics with Jeremy Conrad, Partner @ Lemnos Labs

Wed, 20 Sep 2017

Jeremy Conrad is a Partner @ Lemnos Labs, the fund that believes in the earliest stages of buildin...

20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market

Mon, 18 Sep 2017

Mike Volpi is a General Partner @ Index Ventures, one of the world's leading venture funds with a ...

20VC: Litecoin Founder, Charlie Lee on Why ICO's Are The Biggest Threat To Crypto, Why Ethereum Will Run Into Huge Scalability Problems & How To Assess The Trade Off Between Decentralisation & Scale

Fri, 15 Sep 2017

Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin, which Ch...

20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital

Wed, 13 Sep 2017

Kathleen Utecht is a General Partner @ Core Innovation Capital, I would say one of the most under ...

20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible

Mon, 11 Sep 2017

Andy Weissman is a Partner @ Union Square Ventures, one of the world’s leading VC firms with inv...

20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor

Fri, 08 Sep 2017

Wayne Chang is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. His latest company, Crashlytics, was ac...

20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan

Wed, 06 Sep 2017

Jon Callaghan is a founder of True Ventures, one of the West Coast's leading early stage funds wit...

20VC: True Ventures Founder, Phil Black on 4 Major Risk Categories for Startups, Why The Funding Gap Is At The "Rational B" Round & Why VCs Must Start Small But Think Big

Mon, 04 Sep 2017

Phil Black is a founder of True Ventures, one of the West Coast's leading early stage funds with a...

20VC: What Is The Big Lie To Silicon Valley, Why Silicon Valley Is No Longer Optimised For Deep Tech Investing & Why AI Will Lead To More Business Model Innovation Than Technology Innovation with Tim Harris, Founder & CEO @ Swift Navigation

Fri, 01 Sep 2017

Tim Harris is the Founder & CEO @ Swift Navigation, the startup focused on building a world-class ...

20VC: Why AI Is More Artificial Than Intelligent, Why Engineering-centric Founders Are Able To Pivot Best & Why Startups Are Like Games with Alina Cohen, General Partner @ Initialized Capital

Wed, 30 Aug 2017

Alina Cohen is a General Partner @ Initialized Capital, one of Silicon Valleys leading early stage...

20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc

Mon, 28 Aug 2017

Mike Jones is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Science Inc, one of America's most successful incubators with...

20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"

Fri, 25 Aug 2017

Jonathan Abrams is the Founder and CEO @ Nuzzel, the startup that offers personalised news discove...

20VC: What Are The Big Questions Entrepreneurs & VCs Must Ask Corporate VCs, Why Corporate VCs Are Not Your Best Lead For Series A & Why The "You Have To Network Your Way To Us' Is Wrong with Allison Goldberg, Managing Director @ Time Warner Investments

Wed, 23 Aug 2017

Allison Goldberg is a Managing Director & Senior Vice President @ Time Warner Investments, focusi...

20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents

Mon, 21 Aug 2017

Daniel Gross is a Partner @ Y Combinator, the world's most successful accelerator with alumni tha...

20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds

Fri, 18 Aug 2017

Joseph Zwillinger is the Founder @ Allbirds, the startup that makes the world's most comfortable s...

20VC: How To Design Investment Decision Making That Allows For Outliers, Why Personal Voice Computing Is The Next Big Platform & The Challenges That Could Prevent It with David Beisel, Founding Partner @ NextView Ventures

Wed, 16 Aug 2017

David Beisel is a co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures, one of the East Coast's leading ear...

20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad

Mon, 14 Aug 2017

Jason Calacanis is arguably one of the world's greatest angel investors, as he says he has "got lu...

20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common

Fri, 11 Aug 2017

Brad Hargreaves is the Founder & CEO @ Common, the startup that provides shared housing for those ...

20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Wed, 09 Aug 2017

Renata Quintini is a Partner @ Lux Capital, one of the leaders in the rise of deep tech investing ...

20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years

Mon, 07 Aug 2017

Seth Bannon is a Founding Partner at Fifty Years, a San Francisco seed fund that backs entreprene...

20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry

Fri, 04 Aug 2017

Brian Armstrong is the Founder & CEO @ Coinbase, the startup that provides the world's most popula...

20VC: When Should CEOs Ask Their VC For Help, When Do Companies Really Need A Board & What The Series A Expansion Means For Startups with Max Gazor, General Partner @ CRV

Wed, 02 Aug 2017

Max Gazor is a General Partner @ CRV, one of the nation’s oldest and most successful VC firms n...

20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures

Mon, 31 Jul 2017

Will Porteous is the General Partner & COO @ RRE Ventures, one of New York's leading venture funds...

20VC: Construct Your Fundraising Process To Get 3 Term Sheets in 36 Hours, Why Slow and Steady Can Be Best For Startups & Why All Startups Must Know Their Zero Cash Day with Nathan Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ SimpleLegal

Fri, 28 Jul 2017

Nathan Wenzel is the Founder & CEO @ SimpleLegal, the startup that helps legal operations reduce l...

20VC: Why YC Is The Exact Opposite of Proprietary Deal Flow, Why Having No Follow On Dramatically Aligns Incentives & Why Founders Do Not Have To Be Passionate About Their Idea From The Start with Michael Ma, Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures

Wed, 26 Jul 2017

Michael Ma is a Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures, one of San Francisco's younger and more exci...

20VC: Investing $200m In Facebook, The 3 Stages of Founder Development & Why Creating A New User Behaviour Can Be Unit Economics Inefficient with Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST

Mon, 24 Jul 2017

Rahul Mehta is a Managing Partner @ DST, one of the world's leading late stage venture funds with...

20VC: The 2 Types of Sexism & How They Play Out In Tech, Why You Should Not Always Get Customers To Pay For Your Product Immediately & Why You Must Ask Operator VCs Different Questions To Non-Operator VCs with Jenna Brown, Founder & CEO, Shipamax

Fri, 21 Jul 2017

Jenna Brown is the Founder & CEO @ Shipamax, a data driven communications platform for brokers and...

20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures

Wed, 19 Jul 2017

Jason Pressman is a Managing Director @ Shasta Ventures who have made investments in the likes of...

20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade

Mon, 17 Jul 2017

Kirsten Green is the Founding General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures, where she has raised over $25...

20VC: Max Levchin on What Makes A Truly Great CEO, Why Self-Awareness Is The Most Important Trait For Entrepreneurs & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt

Fri, 14 Jul 2017

Max Levchin is the Founder & CEO @ Affirm, the company that aims to remake consumer finance from t...

20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP

Wed, 12 Jul 2017

Roseanne Wincek is an investor with IVP, one of the leaders in growth financing with a portfolio i...

20VC: Benchmark's Mitch Lasky on The Snapchat Journey From Series A to IPO, Why Small Is Beautiful In Venture Partnerships & Why Venture Is Very Much Like Hollywood

Mon, 10 Jul 2017

Mitch Lasky is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the world’s leading VC funds with a portfo...

20VC: Why Radical Candor Is Crucial in Workplaces, Why 85% of Work Relationship Mistakes Happen and Why You Should Not Try and Be More Likeable with Kim Scott, Co-Founder @ Candor Inc

Fri, 07 Jul 2017

Kim Scott is the Co-Founder @ Candor, the startup that allows you to become a better leader. Prio...

20VC: How To Get Back To 200 Tech IPOs Per Year, Why We Are In A 'Bulge" Not A Bubble & The Impending Flat & Down Rounds To Come with Barry Schuler, Partner @ DFJ Growth

Wed, 05 Jul 2017

Barry Schuler is a Partner @ DFJ Growth, the team that seeks out companies that have gone through ...

20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today

Mon, 03 Jul 2017

Eric Feng is a Partner @ Kleiner Perkins, one of the world's leading venture capital firms with pr...

20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and Not A Family & Why Extreme Cultures Are Easier For People To Understand with Ari Mir, Founder @ Clutter

Fri, 30 Jun 2017

Ari Mir is the Founder @ Clutter, the startup that provides simple, painless solutions to your sto...

20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again

Wed, 28 Jun 2017

Ethan Kurzweil is a Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the world leading venture funds wi...

20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment

Mon, 26 Jun 2017

Jeremy Levine is a Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the world's leading venture funds w...

20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact

Fri, 23 Jun 2017

Bart Lorang is the Founder & CEO @ FullContact, the leading contact platform for professionals, t...

20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?

Wed, 21 Jun 2017

Elad Gil is the Founder of Color Genomics, however, Elad is also one of the most prominent angel ...

20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member

Mon, 19 Jun 2017

Peter Fenton is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the world's leading VC funds with a portfoli...

20VC: Is Series B Really The Hardest To Raise? Should The Only Limiting Factor Post Series B Be Cash & When Is The Right Time To Move To The US with Nicolas Dessaigne, Founder & CEO @ Algolia

Fri, 16 Jun 2017

Nicolas Dessaigne is the Founder & CEO @ Algolia, the most reliable platform for building search i...

20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds

Wed, 14 Jun 2017

Tony Conrad is a Partner @ True Ventures, one of the leading early stage funds on the West Coast w...

20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?

Mon, 12 Jun 2017

Kevin Rose is a Venture Partner @ True Ventures, one of the leading early stage funds on the West ...

20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations

Fri, 09 Jun 2017

Chris O'Neill is the CEO @ Evernote, the productivity powerhouse allowing millions of users around t...

20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital

Wed, 07 Jun 2017

Anthony Pompliano is the General Partner @ Full Tilt Capital, the firm that wants to reinvent fri...

20VC: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on Why VC Is About Upside Maximisation Not Downside Minimisation, Why There Is No Right Way To Do Venture and Why They Do Not Have Monday Morning Partner Meetings At Founders Fund

Mon, 05 Jun 2017

Brian Singerman is a Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the world’s most prestigious and successful ...

20VC: Trivago Founder on Why Incumbents Have Lost Their Main Business Model, Why You Have To Destroy Everything Ego Related & Why Transparency Is The Key To Capital Flow

Fri, 02 Jun 2017

Rolf Schrömgens is the Co-Founder and Managing Director @ Trivago, the world's top hotel price comp...

20VC: How Both Founders & GPs Should Construct Their Pitch, Why VCs Are Eternal Optimists & What Makes The Best Post-Investment VC/Founder Relationship with Brian Ascher, Partner @ Venrock

Wed, 31 May 2017

Brian Ascher is a Partner @ Venrock, a leading fund with prior investments including Nest, Dollar Sh...

20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed

Mon, 29 May 2017

MZ Zaveri is a Partner @ Kleiner Perkins, one of the world's most prestigious venture funds with pri...

20VC: Tinder's Sean Rad on Why Humility Is The Key Trait For Founders To Have, Why Today's Incumbents Are Stronger Than Any Before Them & How Leaders Need To Scale With The Scaling Of Their Company

Fri, 26 May 2017

Sean Rad is the Founder & Chairman @ Tinder, the world's most popular app for connecting with new an...

20VC: The Biggest Indicators Of Success In Founding Teams, How To Balance Both Vision and Operations & Taking Money From "The Man At The Rug Store" with Mar Hershenson, Founding Managing Partner @ Pear.vc

Wed, 24 May 2017

Mar Hershenson is a Founding Managing Partner @ Pear.vc alongside Pejman Nozad. After earning a Ph...

20VC: Founders Fund's Kevin Hartz on Why Investing In Silicon Valley Is Broken & Why Fearlessness Is What Makes The Truly Great Investors

Mon, 22 May 2017

Kevin Hartz is a Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the world's most prestigious and successful VC fund...

20VC: The Future Business Model For Drones & Why Enterprise Drones Need To Be As Boring As Possible with Jonathan Downey, Founder & CEO @ Airware

Fri, 19 May 2017

Jonathan Downey is the Founder & CEO @ Airware, the startup that allows you to make better-informed ...

20VC: Why It Is Good Company Funding Has Been Down 6 Quarters In A Row, Why Unanimity Does Not Work In VC Decision-Making & Why It Is Dangerous To Be A Spreadsheet Investor with Scott Raney, Partner @ Redpoint Ventures

Wed, 17 May 2017

Scott Raney is a Partner @ Redpoint Ventures, one of the valley's leading multi-stage funds with ov...

20VC: Khosla's Keith Rabois on How To Create Sustainability Behind Growth, How To Assess The Potential Of Individuals & Teams & The Biggest Takeaways from LinkedIn, Paypal & Square

Mon, 15 May 2017

Keith Rabois is an investment partner at Khosla Ventures where he has led investments in Stripe, Th...

20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify

Fri, 12 May 2017

Harley Finkelstein is the COO @ Shopify, the e-commerce platform that has allowed a generation of pe...

20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital

Wed, 10 May 2017

Josh Wolfe is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Lux Capital, the fund that supports scientists a...

20VC: Harry Stebbings on The Biggest Takeaways From Interviewing The World's Best Investors, What Makes A Truly Great Interview & Some Big News... with Mattias Ljungman, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Atomico

Mon, 08 May 2017

Mattias Ljungman is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Atomico, one of Europe's leading VC funds whi...

20VC: Why We Are Still In The Very Early Days For Fintech, Why Your Company Has To Have An Opinionated Culture & Why The CEO Should Not Be The Sole Point Of Contact With The Board with Bill Clerico, Founder & CEO @ WePay

Fri, 05 May 2017

Bill Clerico is the Co-Founder & CEO @ WePay, the most complete payments solution for platforms. To ...

20VC: How LPs Can Add Strategic Value To Portfolio Companies & Why Real Estate Is On Every Whiteboard In Silicon Valley with Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder @ Fifth Wall

Wed, 03 May 2017

Brendan Wallace is a Co-Founder of Fifth Wall, the fund that specializes in technology for the buil...

20VC: Explosion of First Time Funds, Only 1 Mega Fund Raised: What The Heck Happened in Q1 Venture Markets with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures

Mon, 01 May 2017

Beezer Clarkson is Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures where she leads Sapphire’s investments i...

20VC: Why Move Fast and Break Things Is Not Right, How To Instil Radical Candor In Your Organisation & What Founders Must Ask For From Their Investors with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally

Fri, 28 Apr 2017

Jason Brown is the Founder & CEO @ Tally, the startup that is building a better credit card experien...

20VC: 2 Signs That A Company Is Ready For IPO, Why Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Management Teams Do Not Want To Go Public with Gene Frantz, General Partner @ CapitalG

Wed, 26 Apr 2017

Gene Frantz is a Partner of CapitalG, Alphabet’s growth investment fund which has investments in t...

20VC: Inside Google's Growth Fund & The 3 Criteria They Look For With Potential Investments with Laela Sturdy, General Partner @ CapitalG

Mon, 24 Apr 2017

Laela Sturdy is a Partner @ CapitalG, Alphabet's growth investment fund that have invested in the li...

20VC: Back To Back Female Led IPOs & Why It's Harder To Be A Female CEO Than A Male CEO with Leura Fine, Founder & CEO @ Laurel & Wolf

Fri, 21 Apr 2017

Leura Fine is the founder and CEO of leading online interior design service Laurel & Wolf. Driven b...

20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures

Wed, 19 Apr 2017

Leo Polovets is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Susa Ventures, one of the west coast's most excit...

20VC: Can Founders Really Trust Their VC & How To Navigate The Acquisition Process Successfully with Josh Felser, Co-Founder @ Freestyle.vc

Mon, 17 Apr 2017

Josh Felser is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Freestyle, one of SF's leading early stage seed f...

20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs

Fri, 14 Apr 2017

Spencer Kimball is the Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs, the open-source database for building global...

20VC: Why Young VCs Must Have Cheque Writing Ability & Why Corporate VC Is The Best Training Ground For New VCs with Nagraj Kashyap @ Microsoft Ventures

Wed, 12 Apr 2017

Nagraj Kashyap is the Head of Microsoft Ventures, the early stage investment arm of Microsoft. They ...

20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands

Mon, 10 Apr 2017

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList, where the world meets startups either to ...

20VC: How To Create FOMO For Investors, How To Manage VC Conversations & A Repeatable Process For Learning New Things with Anna Shedletsky, Founder & CEO @ Instrumental.ai

Fri, 07 Apr 2017

Anna Shedletsky is the Founder & CEO @ Instrumental, the startup that helps consumer electronics com...

20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures

Wed, 05 Apr 2017

Josh Breinlinger is a Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures where he has made investments in ...

20VC: Homebrew's Hunter Walk on Why There Is No Series A Crunch, How To Package Portfolio Companies For The Next Round & Why The Bridge Round Is Not Always A Negative Sign?

Mon, 03 Apr 2017

Hunter Walk is a founding partner @ Homebrew, one of Silicon Valley's breakout seed funds of the las...

20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat

Fri, 31 Mar 2017

Melody McCloskey is the Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat, the largest and fastest growing marketplace in th...

20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Y Combinator Startups & How YC Startups Should Choose The Right Investors with Jared Friedman, Partner @ YC

Wed, 29 Mar 2017

Jared Friedman is a Partner @ Y Combinator, the world's most successful accelerator with portfolio c...

20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV

Mon, 27 Mar 2017

Saar Gur is a General Partner @ CRV, one of the nation's oldest and most successful VC firms now on ...

20VC: How To Raise $200m In Any Economic Climate, Scale From Garage To Global In Record Time & The Biggest Startup You Have Not Heard About with Christian Lanng, Founder & CEO @ Tradeshift

Fri, 24 Mar 2017

Christian Lanng is the Founder & CEO @ Tradeshift, the startup with the vision to transform the way...

20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club

Wed, 22 Mar 2017

Alex Mittal is the Founder & CEO @ Funders Club, the company that uses software and networks to prov...

20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round

Mon, 20 Mar 2017

Jason Lemkin is the Founder @ SaaStr, now with the $70m SaaStr Fund, Jason has paved the way for the...

20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam

Fri, 17 Mar 2017

Kevin Chou is co-founder and CEO of Kabam, a world leader in mobile free-to-play games. At Kabam, Ke...

20VC: Sequoia Partner, Carl Eschenbach on Building and Scaling High Performace Teams and The Common Mistakes In Scaling A Go-To-Market Strategy

Wed, 15 Mar 2017

Carl Eschenbach is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world's leading funds with investments in...

20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software

Mon, 13 Mar 2017

Pat Grady is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world's leading funds with prior investments in...

20VC: Wealthfront and Benchmark's Andy Rachleff on Why Delight Is The Greatest Form Of Virality, Why Competition Does Not Matter & What The Future Holds For Automated Personal Finance

Fri, 10 Mar 2017

From 1995 until 2004 Andy Rachleff was a co-founder and General Partner of Benchmark Capital, who ha...

20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures

Wed, 08 Mar 2017

Lee Hower is a co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures, one of the East coast's leading early st...

20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year

Mon, 06 Mar 2017

John Borthwick is the Founder & CEO @ Betaworks, the New York-based startup platform combining 3 are...

20VC: Why Product Market Fit Is Like Porn, How The Entrance of Facebook and Google Into Enterprise Software Effects Traditional Enterprise Companies & The Future Pricing Model For The Enterprise with Dennis Mortensen, Founder @ X.ai

Fri, 03 Mar 2017

Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and Founder of X.ai, the artificial intelligence driven personal assist...

20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures

Wed, 01 Mar 2017

Roger Ehrenberg is the Founder and Managing Partner @ IA Ventures, one of New York’s leading early...

20VC: Benchmark's Scott Belsky on What Makes Truly The Best VCs? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on 'The First Mile' & The Key Ingredients To The Perfect Onboarding Process

Mon, 27 Feb 2017

Scott Belsky is a Venture Partner @ Benchmark, one of the world's leading VC funds. As an early-stag...

20VC: Raising $24m From The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Why EdTech Is So Misunderstood & Why The Future Of Work Is Decentralised with Andela's Jeremy Johnson

Fri, 24 Feb 2017

Jeremy Johnson is the Founder & CEO @ Andela, the startup that aims to bring a scientific approach t...

20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund

Wed, 22 Feb 2017

Ben Blumenfeld is the Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund, they invest in startups co-found...

20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+

Mon, 20 Feb 2017

Pejman Nozad is the Founding Managing Partner @ Pear.vc, one of the leading seed stage funds in the ...

20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective

Wed, 15 Feb 2017

Micah Rosenbloom is Managing Partner @ Founder Collective, one of the leading seed funds in the worl...

20VC: Why We Are Valuation & Ownership Insensitive, Why We Do Not Take Board Seats & The Effects Of The Series A Crunch with Topher Conway, Co-Managing Partner @ SV Angel

Mon, 13 Feb 2017

Topher Conway is a Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel, one of Silicon Valley's leading seed funds with ...

20VC: How Startups & VCs Can Build Relationships with Potential Corporate Acquirers? The Challenge Of Operating Both A B2B & B2C Business Model & Why Fundraising Is The One Element Founders Cannot Control with Gautam Gupta, Founder & CEO @ NatureBox

Fri, 10 Feb 2017

Gautam Gupta is the Founder & CEO at NatureBox, the startup that allows consumers to discover new & ...

20VC: The Radical Changes In Public Market Expectations, The Right Way To Assess Valuation & What It Means To Be A Disciplined & Diligent Investor with Randy Glein, Partner @ DFJ Growth

Wed, 08 Feb 2017

Randy Glein is a Co-Founder & Partner @ DFJ Growth where he looks to partner with entrepreneurs that...

20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP

Mon, 06 Feb 2017

Jules Maltz, is a General Partner @ Insight Venture Partners (IVP) where he has made investments in ...

20VC: Why I Do Not Regret Taking 'Peter Thiel Money', What Is The Difference Between Leadership & Management & What Conversations Are For The Founding Team Only with Tim Junio, Founder & CEO @ Qadium

Fri, 03 Feb 2017

Tim Junio is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Qadium, the startup that creates and organizes knowledge abou...

20VC: The Fundamentals To Creating A Successful Venture Partnership & The Optimal Investment Decision Making Process with Ryan McIntyre, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group

Wed, 01 Feb 2017

Ryan McIntyre is a Co-Founder @ Foundry Group, one of the leading VC funds of the last decade with i...

20VC: How 50% Of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, How To Build A Relationship Of Trust With Your VC and How Entrepreneurs Can Detect VC BS with Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group

Mon, 30 Jan 2017

Jason Mendelson is Co-Founder @ Foundry Group, one of the leading VC funds of the past decade with i...

20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp

Fri, 27 Jan 2017

Ted Blosser is the founder and CEO of WorkRamp, the startup that is transforming how the best compan...

20VC: Preparing For The Next Big Trend, Why Conversational Will Be The Next Big Thing & How Entrepreneurs Should View Market Size with Sarah Guo @ Greylock Partners

Wed, 25 Jan 2017

Sarah Guo is an investor @ Greylock Partners, which she joined in 2013. Prior to Greylock, Sarah was...

20VC: Greylock's John Lilly on How Greylock Continues To Invest In The Next Big Markets, The Importance Of Building Tribes & Why There will Be Another Boom In Mobile

Mon, 23 Jan 2017

John Lilly is a Partner at Greylock Partners, one of the world's leading venture funds of the past d...

20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte

Fri, 20 Jan 2017

Harj Taggar is the Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte, the startup that is changing the world of engineerin...

20VC: How To Test The Strength Of Co-Founder Relations, The Dangers Of Raising A Large Series A & Why The Biggest Challenge For Consumer Companies Is Finding The Second Big Hit with Rishi Garg, Partner @ Mayfield Fund

Wed, 18 Jan 2017

Rishi Garg is a General Partner @ Mayfield Fund, where he focuses on new media platforms, disruptive...

20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund

Mon, 16 Jan 2017

Tim Chang is a Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund and Tim was referred to me by many other VCs as 't...

20VC: Building An AI Company For The Long Term? How Humans & Machine Learning Can Work Together? What Applications Are The Conversational Interface Best Suited To with Maran Nelson, Founder & CEO @ Clara Labs

Fri, 13 Jan 2017

Maran Nelson is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Clara Labs, the truly human interface that uses conversationa...

20VC: Why You Should Not Invest From Patterns, Why No Good Business Was Built As An Analogy Of Another & Why The Rise Of The 'Celebrity Investor' Is Concerning with Emily Melton, Partner @ DFJ

Wed, 11 Jan 2017

Emily Melton is partner at DFJ, where she focuses on consumer and mobile technology, as well as heal...

20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before

Mon, 09 Jan 2017

Josh Stein is Partner @ DFJ where his current board responsibilities include Box (NYSE: BOX), Chartb...

20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome

Fri, 06 Jan 2017

Henry Ward is the Founder & CEO @ eShares, the No 1 cap table management platform providing equity m...

20VC: Evernote's Phil Libin on The Pros and Cons Of Moving To VC, The Future For Bots & Having Marc Benioff & Reid Hoffman As Mentors

Wed, 04 Jan 2017

Phil Libin is Managing Director @ General Catalyst and Founder and Executive Chairman @ Evernote. At...

20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

Mon, 02 Jan 2017

Charlie O’Donnell is the Founder and Sole Partner @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the first venture c...

20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12

Fri, 30 Dec 2016

Nitesh Banta is the Founder and CEO @ B12, the startup that uses AI to superpower their team of worl...

20VC: Using Valuation As A Litmus Test, Why Valuation Does Not Matter At Seed Stage & How Seed Funds Can Serve Founders Better with Kent Goldman, Founder @ Upside Partnership

Wed, 28 Dec 2016

Kent Goldman is the Founder of Upside Partnership, one of the leading seed-stage investment firms i...

20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud

Fri, 23 Dec 2016

David Politis is the Founder & CEO @ Bettercloud, the first ever unified SaaS management platform. B...

20VC: AngelList's Parker Thompson on How He Evaluates Startup Founders & Why The Move To Series A Is Harder Than Ever?

Wed, 21 Dec 2016

Parker Thompson is a Partner @ AngelList and creator of popular parody Twitter Account, Startup L Ja...

20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn

Mon, 19 Dec 2016

Rebecca Lynn is a Partner @ Canvas, where she focusses on Fintech, Digital Health, SaaS and mobile. ...

20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel

Fri, 16 Dec 2016

Ryan Smith is the Founder & CEO @ Qualtrics, an online survey company with 1,200 employees and a val...

20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?

Wed, 14 Dec 2016

Garry Tan is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Initialized Capital, one of Silicon Valleys leadin...

20VC: Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on How It All Started With Paul Graham @ YC, The Biggest Surprises About Making The Move Into VC & Why Alexis Believes All The Best Investors Have Operating Experience

Mon, 12 Dec 2016

Alexis Ohanian is co-founder of Reddit & Initialized Capital. After graduating from UVA in 2005, A...

20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways

Fri, 09 Dec 2016

Peter Weijmarshausen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Shapeways, the world’s leading 3D printing mark...

20VC: How To Assess Founder Psychology, Why Talking About Financial Returns In The First Meeting Is Always Wrong & How To Allocate Time Amongst A VC Portfolio with Kara Nortman, Partner @ Upfront Ventures

Wed, 07 Dec 2016

Kara Nortman is a Partner @ Upfront Ventures, one of LA's leading venture funds. Kara is also co-fou...

20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha

Mon, 05 Dec 2016

Scott Dorsey is the Managing Partner @ High Alpa, the startup studio that both builds and invests in...

20VC: Flexport's Ryan Petersen on Why Investor Relations Are Overrated, Why Boards Have To Be Rethought & Why MBAs Do Not Make Bad Entrepreneurs

Fri, 02 Dec 2016

Ryan Petersen is the Founder and CEO of Flexport, the freight forwarder for the internet age. Flexpo...

20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire

Wed, 30 Nov 2016

Chris Farmer is a General Partner @ SignalFire, as he describes, 'the most quantitative fund in the ...

20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners

Mon, 28 Nov 2016

Rory O’Driscoll is a founding member and Partner at Scale Venture Partners. An active investor for...

20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves

Fri, 25 Nov 2016

Balaji Srinivasan is the Founder & CEO @ 21.co, the company that believes for bitcoin to succeed we ...

20VC: Venture Capital Is One Hell Of A Drug, What VCs Expect From Founders Once They Have Raised & Why Customers Validate Your Business Not Venture Capital with Eric Paley, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective

Wed, 23 Nov 2016

Eric Paley is the Managing Partner at Founder Collective, one of the world’s most successful see...

20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on The Dark Side Of AI & What Happens When 3-4m People Become Unemployed Overnight

Mon, 21 Nov 2016

Matt Ocko is the Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder @ Data Collective and has over 3 decades of expe...

20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory

Fri, 18 Nov 2016

Ed Cooke is the Founder & CEO @ Memrise, the app that makes learning languages joyful and they have...

20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital

Wed, 16 Nov 2016

Paul Martino is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Bullpen Capital, the fund that finds overlooked c...

20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow

Mon, 14 Nov 2016

Rick Marini is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over 45 investments in early stage star...

20VC: VC / Founder Fit with 3 Things Founders & VCs Must Agree Pre-Investment & Why Having No Company Budgets Creates Internal Entrepreneurs with Jay Desai, Founder & CEO @ PatientPing

Fri, 11 Nov 2016

Jay Desai is Co-Founder and CEO of PatientPing, a company that connects health care providers acros...

20VC: Who Will Own The Data? Is There An Incumbency Advantage in AI? When Will Artificial Super Intelligence Come To The Forefront with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures

Wed, 09 Nov 2016

Rudina Seseri is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, Boston's own AI focussed fund. ...

20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy

Mon, 07 Nov 2016

Justin Caldbeck is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Binary Capital, one of Silicon Valley's lead...

20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC

Fri, 04 Nov 2016

Jerry Colonna is a Founder @ Reboot, the coaching company that helps some of the world's greatest en...

20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures

Wed, 02 Nov 2016

Clinton Foy is General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures, one of LA's leading VC funds. Prior to Crosscut,...

20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems

Mon, 31 Oct 2016

Mamoon Hamid is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Social Capital, a firm he co-founded in 2011 wi...

20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!

Fri, 28 Oct 2016

Ryan Holmes is the founder and CEO of Hootsuite. He started the company in 2008 and has helped grow ...

20VC: Why You Don't Have To Have Operational Experience To Be A Good VC, Why There Is No Optimal Stage To Invest & Why VCs Should Focus on Reputation Ahead of Cash On Cash Returns with Lyon Wong, General Partner @ Spectrum 28

Wed, 26 Oct 2016

Lyon Wong is the Founding General Partner @ Spectrum 28, a $170m Silicon Valley fund that invests i...

20VC: More $ Raised This Year Than The Past 15, War Chests Being Built & Decline In First Time Funds: So What The Heck Is Happening In Venture with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures

Mon, 24 Oct 2016

Beezer Clarkson is Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures where she leads Sapphire’s investments i...

20VC: Why Adaptability Is Key To Fundraising, Why Supply Is Always The First Priority In Marketplaces & Why Sometimes You Have To Hire Fast & Fire Fast with Nav Athwal, Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares

Fri, 21 Oct 2016

Nav Athwal is the Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares, a curated marketplace connecting real estate develop...

20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta

Wed, 19 Oct 2016

James Cham is a Partner @ Bloomberg Beta and one the pre-eminent thinkers in the machine learning sp...

20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage

Mon, 17 Oct 2016

Howard Lindzon is the Managing Partner @ Social Leverage, where he has made investments in the likes...

20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean

Fri, 14 Oct 2016

Moisey Uretsky is the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer @ Digital Ocean, the second largest and fa...

20VC: Why Many VCs Fail To Raise, Why LP Compensation Is A Massive Problem & Why Fund of Funds Will Become More Prominent with Lindel Eakman, Managing Director @ Foundry Group

Wed, 12 Oct 2016

Lindel Eakman is a Managing Director @ Foundry Group and is a nationally recognized leader in the LP...

20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'

Mon, 10 Oct 2016

Mike Maples is a Founding Partner @ Floodgate, one of the leading early-stage venture funds in the v...

20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek

Fri, 07 Oct 2016

Karthik Sridharan is the Founder & CEO @ Kinnek, the platform which empowers small business owners t...

20VC: The Secret To Building Pattern Recognition, Why MBA Does Not Always Equal Great Founder & What Are The Right Reasons To Start A Company With Hardi Meybaum, General Partner @ Matrix Partners

Wed, 05 Oct 2016

Hardi Meybaum is a General Partner @ Matrix Partners and similar to Josh Hardi is a natural born en...

20VC: Why The Best CEO's Are The Best Capital Allocators, How You Can Build A Business In A Space You Are Not Passionate About & When Is The Right Time To Put The Pedal To The Metal with Josh Hannah, General Partner @ Matrix Ventures

Mon, 03 Oct 2016

Josh Hannah is a General Partner @ Matrix Partners where he has led investments in the likes of Canv...

20VC: Why The Evolution of Digital Media Presents A Multi $Bn Opportunity with Brit Morin, Founder & CEO @ Brit + Co

Fri, 30 Sep 2016

Brit Morin is the Founder & CEO @ Brit + Co the online media and e-commerce platform that provides...

20VC: Dave Morin on Why Building A Fund Is Like A Company, Why Venture Is A Craft & The Journey To Establish Slow Ventures

Wed, 28 Sep 2016

Dave Morin is Founder & Partner at Slow Ventures, the leading valley venture fund with investments i...

20VC: The 3 Things LPs Want To See From VCs & Why The Table Stakes For VCs Is Higher Than Ever with Judith Elsea, Co-Founder @ Weathergage Capital

Mon, 26 Sep 2016

Judith Elsea is a Co-Founder @ Weathergage Capital, one of the world's leading fund of funds with ov...

20VC: Intercom's Eoghan McCabe on What Makes A Truly Great CEO & What Founders Should Look For In Their Investors

Fri, 23 Sep 2016

Eoghan McCabe is the CEO and co-founder of Intercom. The customer communications platform that has ...

20VC: Why Valuation Is A Stupid Concept, VC Is Ripe For Disruption & Not All LPs Are Made Equal with Michael Skok, Founding Partner @ Underscore VC

Wed, 21 Sep 2016

Michael Skok is a Founding Partner @ Underscore VC. Michael started his first software business as...

20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team

Mon, 19 Sep 2016

Ilya Fushman is a Partner at Index Ventures where he has made investments in the likes of Slack, Int...

20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts

Fri, 16 Sep 2016

Nick Weaver is the Founder & CEO @ Eero. The company that makes your wifi hyper fast, super simple a...

20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint

Wed, 14 Sep 2016

Ryan Sarver is a Partner @ Redpoint where he focuses on early stage consumer startups. He sits on ...

20VC: Redpoint's Tom Tunguz on Winning with Data: How To Gain A Competitive Advantage & Dominate Markets with Data and 5 Steps To Create A Data Driven Company

Mon, 12 Sep 2016

Tom Tunguz is a Partner @ Redpoint Ventures, where he has invested in the likes of Axial, Dremio, ...

20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine

Fri, 09 Sep 2016

Adam Leibsohn is the Founder and COO @ Giphy, the company that brings you joy and laughter through g...

20VC: What Is Wrong With The VC Industry, Why VC Is A Customer Service Game and Why Car Ownership Will Be A Thing Of The Past with Brett DeMarrais, Partner @ Ludlow Ventures

Wed, 07 Sep 2016

Brett DeMarrais is a Partner @ Ludlow Ventures, who have investments in the likes of ProductHunt, Sp...

20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A

Mon, 05 Sep 2016

Ben Lerer is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures and co-founder & CEO of Thrillist Media Gr...

20VC: How To Win The Strategic Process Of Fundraising and Optimising Co-Founder Relationships and Break Ups with Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO @ The Muse

Fri, 02 Sep 2016

Kathryn Minshew is the Founder & CEO @ The Muse, named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media and Inc.’...

20VC: Why Great Founders Are Both Visionary & Stubborn, The Investment Mindset Shift From Angel To VC & How To React When The 'S*** Hits The Fan?' with Jesse Middleton, General Partner @ Flybridge Capital Partners

Wed, 31 Aug 2016

Jesse Middleton is a General Partner @ Flybridge Capital Partners. Prior to joining Flybridge, Jesse...

20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested

Mon, 29 Aug 2016

Peter Pham is a Co-Founder at Science, the startup studio that helps incubate companies co-buildi...

20VC: Maximising Engagement and Retention on Mobile & Why There Should Always Be Availability To A Free Product with Sean Brecker, CEO @ Headspace

Fri, 26 Aug 2016

Sean Brecker is the CEO @ Headspace where he is the driving force behind all financial and commercia...

20VC: Why Raising A Fund Is Like Raising A $25m Seed Round with No Product & Why Not All LP Money Is Equal with Chad Byers, General Partner @ Susa Ventures

Wed, 24 Aug 2016

Chad Byers is a General Partner @ Susa Ventures and very exciting news, Susa last week announced th...

20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today

Mon, 22 Aug 2016

Greg Bettinelli is a Partner at Upfront Ventures where he specialises in businesses at the juncture...

20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero

Fri, 19 Aug 2016

Paul Berberian is the CEO of Orbotix, the company that created Sphero, the robotic ball controlled ...

20VC: Why Hardware Is Actually Software Wrapped In Plastic & "Of Course Hardware Is Hard, Everything Is Hard" with Ben Einstein, Founder & General Partner @ Bolt VC

Wed, 17 Aug 2016

Ben Einstein is Founder and General Partner @ Bolt, Bolt is a fund designed to address the unique ne...

20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing

Mon, 15 Aug 2016

Dave McClure is the founding partner of 500 Startups, who have made over 1500 investments in the lik...

20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing

Fri, 12 Aug 2016

Adam Nash is the President and CEO of Wealthfront, where he is on a mission to put the client firs...

20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer

Wed, 10 Aug 2016

David Pakman is a Partner at Venrock and the man behind Venrock’s leading of the Series A and B ro...

20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on Why "All Fund Size Models Are Wrong" and The Lifecycle of Current Venture Funds Is Inefficient?

Mon, 08 Aug 2016

Matt Ocko is the Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder @ Data Collective and has over 3 decades of expe...

20VC: Turning Down Apple & Getting Funded By Chamath @ Social Capital with Dhananja Jayalath, Co-Founder & CEO @ Athos

Fri, 05 Aug 2016

Dhananja Jayalath is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Athos, creating the new standard for fitness by changing...

20VC: From Seed To Series A: The Due Diligence, The Valuations, The Investment Decision Making Process with Steve Schlafman @ RRE Ventures

Wed, 03 Aug 2016

Steve Schlafman is an early stage investor @ RRE Ventures, where he specialises on marketplaces, mob...

20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?

Mon, 01 Aug 2016

Justin Kan is a Partner @ world renowned, Y Combinator. The birthplace of the likes of Airbnb, Reddi...

20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy

Fri, 29 Jul 2016

Amir Elaguizy is the Founder & CEO @ YC backed, Cratejoy, the website builder and backend for sub...

20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures

Wed, 27 Jul 2016

Sean Flynn is a Managing Partner @ Shasta Ventures where he invests in mobile-enabled consumer I...

20VC: Semil Shah on Why The Most Important Thing An Investor Can Do Is Attract Follow On & The Fundamentals of VC Branding

Mon, 25 Jul 2016

Semil Shah is the founder of Haystack, an early stage investment firm now investing out of it’s ...

20VC: Unity 3D's David Helgason on Building a $bn Business, Getting Funded By Sequoia and Powering The Pokemon Revolution

Fri, 22 Jul 2016

David Helgason is the Founder and Board Member @ Unity 3D. The company that recently announced a ne...

20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight

Wed, 20 Jul 2016

Alex Bangash is a Managing Director @ Rumson Group where he helps his clients invest in some of the...

20VC: Flybridge's Jeff Bussgang on Why It Is Not All About Unit Economics & Why VCs Are Big Data Decision Makers

Mon, 18 Jul 2016

Jeff Bussgang is a Co-Founder and General partner @ Flybridge Capital, where has made investments in...

20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero

Fri, 15 Jul 2016

Kyle Hill is the Co-Founder & CEO @ HomeHero, one of the largest providers of non-medical home ca...

20VC: USV's Brad Burnham on Co-Founding USV with Fred Wilson, What They Look For In Potential Partners & Whether We Are Entering a Period of Consolidation or Expansion

Wed, 13 Jul 2016

Brad Burnham is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Union Square Ventures. I feel Brad is far better...

20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase

Mon, 11 Jul 2016

Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the world's leading VC firms with inve...

20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels

Fri, 08 Jul 2016

Frank Mycroft is the Founder & CEO @ Booster Fuels, the on-demand fuel delivery service backed by ...

20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital

Wed, 06 Jul 2016

Michael Kim is the founder and Managing Partner of Cendana Capital, a fund of funds which invests ...

20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate

Mon, 04 Jul 2016

Ann Miura-Ko has been called "the most powerful woman in startups" by Forbes and is the Co-Founder ...

20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden

Fri, 01 Jul 2016

Josh Udashkin is the Founder and CEO @ Raden, essentially making the unsexy sexy with a design-fo...

20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster

Wed, 29 Jun 2016

Wesley Chan is a Manging Director @ Felicis Ventures where he has led investments in the likes of...

20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid

Mon, 27 Jun 2016

David Cohen is the founder and managing partner at Techstars, so a few amazing stats on techstars ...

20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence

Fri, 24 Jun 2016

Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and Founder of X.ai, the artificial intelligence driven personal ass...

20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV

Wed, 22 Jun 2016

Annie Kadavy is a General Partner @ Charles River Ventures. The prestigious VC fund that is now on...

20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World

Mon, 20 Jun 2016

From 1995 until 2004 Andy Rachleff was a co-founder and General Partner of Benchmark Capital, who ...

20VC: Raising $150m, Meeting Yuri Milner & Revolutionising Mobile Finance with Sasha Orloff @ LendUp

Fri, 17 Jun 2016

Sasha Orloff is the CEO and Co-founder of LendUp, a fintech startup offering online and mobile p...

20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA

Wed, 15 Jun 2016

Chris Douvos is Managing Director @ Venture Investment Associates (VIA) where he is a member of ...

20VC: What LP's Want In VCs with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures

Mon, 13 Jun 2016

Beezer Clarkson is Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures where she leads Sapphire’s investment...

20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva

Fri, 10 Jun 2016

Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO at Canva the disruptive online platform allowing anyone to create ...

20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve

Wed, 08 Jun 2016

Nabeel Hyatt is a venture partner at Spark Capital where he invests in entrepreneurs using that ...

20VC: Spark's Bijan Sabet on Investing in Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare & Why First Time Founders Are So Exciting

Mon, 06 Jun 2016

Bijan Sabet is General Partner @ Spark Capital where he primarily invests in digital canvases and...

20VC: inDinero's Jessica Mah on Why Angel Money Is Better Than Institutional Money and Boards Should Work For Founders

Fri, 03 Jun 2016

Jessica Mah is Founder and CEO of inDinero, which she started back in 2010 to help entrepreneurs ...

20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures

Wed, 01 Jun 2016

Nikhil Basu Trivedi is an early stage investor with Shasta Ventures, where he focuses on consumer...

20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital

Mon, 30 May 2016

Matt Turck is Managing Director of FirstMark Capital where he invests across a broad range of e...

20VC: The Information's Jessica Lessin on The Future For Online Journalism & The Benefits Of A Subscription Based Business Model

Fri, 27 May 2016

Jessica Lessin founder and Editor in Chief of The Information. Prior to The Information, she cover...

20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed

Wed, 25 May 2016

Sam Lessin is a Partner at Slow Ventures who have made investments in the likes of Facebook, Twit...

20VC: K9's Manu Kumar on His Approach To Risk, Valuation & Believing What Other People Don't

Mon, 23 May 2016

Manu Kumar founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage micro-VC fun...

20VC: Xero's Rod Drury on IPO on Day 1 To Hedge Fund to VC & Doing Startups Backward

Fri, 20 May 2016

Rod Drury is the Founder & CEO @ Xero, essentially beautiful accounting software for small busines...

20VC: How Startups Should React To Today's Funding Environment & Why Big Markets Are More Forgiving with Jenny Lefcourt, Partner @ Freestyle.vc

Wed, 18 May 2016

Jenny Lefcourt is a Partner @ Freestyle where she invests in early stage tech companies. Prior to...

20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup

Mon, 16 May 2016

Rob Go is a co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures, Next View are hands on, high conviction t...

20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay

Fri, 13 May 2016

Aaron Hirschhorn is the founder, CEO and “Top Dog" of DogVacay, the leading online and mobile p...

20VC: Why More People Should Be Entrepreneurs & How Do You Know When You Are Ready with Matt Clifford @ Entrepreneur First

Wed, 11 May 2016

Matt Clifford is co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First, Europe's leading pre-seed investment pr...

20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures

Mon, 09 May 2016

Charles Hudson is the Managing Partner with Precursor Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fi...

20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst

Fri, 06 May 2016

Chris Morton the Founder & CEO @ Lyst, the fashion aggregation and discovery app and universal ch...

20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market

Wed, 04 May 2016

Brian O’Malley is a Partner @ Accel Partners, where he spearheads Accel's work with next-generat...

20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight

Mon, 02 May 2016

Byron Deeter is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Prior to being a VC, Byron himself was a ...

20VC: Why It Is All Still About User Growth and How To Address Retention For A Consumer Social App with Mike Mignano, Co-Founder & CEO @ Anchor

Fri, 29 Apr 2016

Mike Mignano is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Anchor, the app that allows you to share and engage with yo...

20VC: Why Every Successful Company Pivots and Good Companies Get Funded in Good & Bad Markets with John Frankel, Founding Partner @ ff Venture Capital

Wed, 27 Apr 2016

John Frankel is the founding partner of ff Venture Capital and has been an early-stage investor...

20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like

Mon, 25 Apr 2016

James Wise is a partner at Balderton Capital, one of Europe's leading early stage venture funds wi...

20VC: Fundraising Is Also Business Development with Nicolas Dessaigne, Co-Founder & CEO @ Algolia

Fri, 22 Apr 2016

Nicolas Dessaigne is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Algolia. Algolia are a brilliant case study for the ...

20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures

Wed, 20 Apr 2016

Logan Bartlett is an investor @ Battery Ventures, where he focuses on growth investments for B2B ...

20VC: The Best Determinant Of Product Market Fit & Why Prior Experience Is Not Required For Founder Success with Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner @ Battery Ventures

Mon, 18 Apr 2016

Neeraj Agrawal is a general partner at Battery Ventures investing in SaaS and Internet companies ac...

20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure

Fri, 15 Apr 2016

Jonathan Abrams is the founder & CEO of the social news service Nuzzel. Jonathan is also co-foun...

20VC: Why Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World Of Software with Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta

Wed, 13 Apr 2016

Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, a new venture fund backed by Bloomberg L.P. Prior to Bloo...

20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!

Mon, 11 Apr 2016

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures. An original “super-angel”...

20VC: Sprig's Gagan Biyani on The 3 Principles Of Fundraising and Building The World's Largest Restaurant

Fri, 08 Apr 2016

Gagan Biyani is the CEO and Co-Founder @ Sprig, on a mission to build the world's largest restaura...

20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper

Wed, 06 Apr 2016

Sarah Tavel is a Partner at Greylock Partners. Prior to Greylock, Sarah was a product lead at Pin...

20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next

Mon, 04 Apr 2016

Josh Elman is a Partner at Greylock Partners, which he joined the team in 2011 and invests in entr...

20VC: RobinHood's Baiju Bhatt on The Importance Of Design in Fintech and Having A 10X Better Product

Fri, 01 Apr 2016

Baiju Bhatt is the Co-Founder and CEO at RobinHood, the wildly successful stock market trading app...

20VC: 'The Best Seed Investors Hunt' with Paige Craig @ Arena VC

Wed, 30 Mar 2016

Paige Craig is a Founder and General Partner of Arena Ventures. He is an experienced angel inve...

20VC: Homebrew's Satya Patel on The Key Components of Being A Great VC & The 3 Main Reasons Startups Fail At Seed

Mon, 28 Mar 2016

Satya Patel is a Partner @ Homebrew alongside Hunter Walk. Prior to Homebrew, Satya was VP Produ...

Immediately's Branko Cerny on The Rise Of Bottoms Up Sales and The Importance of Branding For Enterprise SaaS Companies

Fri, 25 Mar 2016

Branko Cerny is the Founder and CEO at Immediately, the mobile platform for modern sales professio...

20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market

Wed, 23 Mar 2016

Rebecca Kaden is a Partner at Maveron where she identifies emerging consumer-focused entrepreneu...

Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future

Mon, 21 Mar 2016

Rob Hayes is a partner at First Round Capital where he opened up the firm's San Francisco office....

Pre-YC Demo Day: Msg.ai's Puneet Mehta on The Rise of AI, The Potential For Messaging and Life As A Current YC Startup

Fri, 18 Mar 2016

Puneet Mehta, Founder @ Msg.ai, an artificial intelligence startup for conversational commerce and ...

20VC: The Three Fundamental Forces in Society with Ciaran O'Leary, Partner @ BlueYard

Wed, 16 Mar 2016

Ciaran O'Leary is the General Partner at one of Europe's newest funds, BlueYard. A $120m fund loca...

20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing

Mon, 14 Mar 2016

Matt Mazzeo is Managing Director at Lowercase Capital, alongside legendary angel investor, Chris S...

20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile

Fri, 11 Mar 2016

Niccolo De Masi is the CEO & Chairman @ Glu Mobile, one of the world’s hottest gaming companies ...

20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue

Wed, 09 Mar 2016

Christian Hernandez is the Co-Founder and Partner @ Whitestar Capital in London. Prior to co-foun...

20VC: Tom Tunguz on Why Now Is The Best Time To Be Investing and The Effect of Late Stage Valuations on Startups

Mon, 07 Mar 2016

Tom Tunguz is a Partner @ Redpoint Ventures, where he has invested in Axial, Dremio, Expensify, ...

20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise

Fri, 04 Mar 2016

Hiten Shah is one of the most prominent players in the data marketing industry having co-Founded bot...

20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures

Wed, 02 Mar 2016

Jim Scheinman is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Maven Ventures, a leading seed stage consumer ...

20VC: SoftTech VC's Andy McLoughlin on The Series A Crunch, Maximising Runway and Minimising Burn and For Startups

Mon, 29 Feb 2016

Andy McLoughlin is a Partner with SoftTech VC, where he primarily invests in B2B, SaaS, develop...

20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content

Fri, 26 Feb 2016

Gary Liu is the CEO @ Digg, the incredibly famous platform that allows users to find, read and sha...

20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

Wed, 24 Feb 2016

Adam Draper is a fourth generation venture capitalist and the Founder & CEO @ Boost VC, a speciali...

20VC: Tim Draper on Investing In Tesla, The Best Pitch He Has Ever Seen & The Evolution of Venture and Startups

Mon, 22 Feb 2016

Tim Draper is the founding partner of leading venture capital firms Draper Associates and DFJ. So...

20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming

Fri, 19 Feb 2016

Niccolo De Masi is the CEO & Chairman @ Glu Mobile, one of the world's hottest gaming companies wi...

20VC: Tyler Willis on How To Be Innovative With Customer Acquisition and The Future Of Innovation

Wed, 17 Feb 2016

Tyler Willis is probably one of the best angel investors around and has invested in seed stage com...

20VC: Arielle Zuckerberg @ Kleiner Perkins: A Review Of My First 6 Months in Venture

Mon, 15 Feb 2016

Arielle Zuckerberg, Partner @ Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. Arielle Zuckerberg joined KPCB in...

20VC FF 035: Why Crowdfunding Is Not Right For Tech Startups with Ryan Caldbeck @ CircleUp

Fri, 12 Feb 2016

Ryan Caldbeck is the Founder & CEO @ CircleUp, the online investing platform that allows you to in...

20VC: The First Online Venture Fund Built On AngelList with Dustin Dolginow @ Maiden Lane

Wed, 10 Feb 2016

Dustin Dolginow is the General Partner @ Maiden Lane, the first online venture fund which uses Ang...

20VC: Gil Penchina on Building The World's Largest AngelList Syndicate with Flight.vc

Mon, 08 Feb 2016

Gil Penchina is the Founder @ Flight.vc, a network of AngelList syndicates that covers a wide rang...

20 VC FF 034: What Fintech Can Learn From Uber and The Shift From Financial Organisation To Financial Efficiency with Kelly Peeler, Founder & CEO @ NextGenVest

Fri, 05 Feb 2016

Kelly Peeler is the Founder and CEO of NextGenVest, the College Money Mentor for every student, he...

20VC: The Evolution Of Mobile & The Importance Of Follow On Funding with Hadley Harris @ Eniac Ventures

Wed, 03 Feb 2016

Hadley Harris is the Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures, the first seed stage venture fund...

Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage

Mon, 01 Feb 2016

Martin Mignot is an early stage investor at Index Ventures where he specialises in SaaS, marketplac...

20 VC FF 032: Jeff Seibert on Lessons From Being Acquired By Twitter & Box and Now Leading Twitter's Consumer Product

Fri, 29 Jan 2016

Jeff Seibert is an experienced serial-entrepreneur and currently Senior Director of Product at Twit...

20VC: Lessons From Working with Chris Sacca, The Rise Of Mobile Commerce and Improving Push Notifications with Ellie Wheeler, Partner @ Greycroft Partners

Wed, 27 Jan 2016

Ellie Wheeler is a Partner at Greycroft Partners where she focuses on investment opportunities...

20VC: Bryan Johnson @ OS Fund & Braintree on Investing In The Operating Systems Of Life & Why VC Should All Be Open Source

Mon, 25 Jan 2016

Bryan Johnson is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of OS Fund and Braintree, the...

20 VC FF 031: James Beshara @ Tilt on Crowdfunding For A Mobile World, Finding The Perfect Co-Founder & Beer Pong!

Fri, 22 Jan 2016

James Beshara is the Co-Founder @ Tilt the micro-crowdfunding platform that allows you to receive...

20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software

Wed, 20 Jan 2016

James Cameron is an early stage investor at Accel where he focuses on enterprise software, secu...

20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?

Mon, 18 Jan 2016

Fred Destin is General Partner at Accel in London where he focuses on consumer and software inve...

20 VC FF 030: Gimlet Media's Matt Lieber on The Future of Podcasting and Life @ Gimlet

Fri, 15 Jan 2016

Matt Lieber is cofounder and President of Gimlet Media. In a previous life, Matt produced radio sh...

20 VC: Investing in Hardware and The Future of IOT with Kate Shillo, Director @ Galvanize Ventures

Wed, 13 Jan 2016

Kate Shillo is Director @ Galvanize Ventures, a prolific seed fund which acts as the the investme...

20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO

Mon, 11 Jan 2016

David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, one of New York most prolific seed investors with...

20 VC FF 029: VC vs Angel Funding & The Future of E-Commerce with Ivan Mazour, Founder @ Ometria

Fri, 08 Jan 2016

Ivan Mazour is a serial entrepreneur, investor and author. He is the CEO and Founder of Ometria ...

20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC

Wed, 06 Jan 2016

Philipp Moehring is Head of AngelList Europe and their first European hire, a role he has had sin...

20 VC: Morten Lund on Skype, Bankruptcy, Fintech and Why "Banks Are Full Of Lots Of Stupid People Doing Nothing"

Mon, 04 Jan 2016

Morten Lund, best know for his seed investment in Skype, he has also founded and co-invested in mo...

20VC FF 028: Where To Start Your Startup and Single Founder vs Co-Founder Model with Richard Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO @ HiringScreen

Fri, 01 Jan 2016

Richard Hanson is CEO and co-founder of HiringScreen, where rocket science meets recruitment. Foun...

20 VC: How To Say No Fast and Efficiently and Why UX Must Always Be At The Core Of What You Do with Sitar Teli, Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures

Wed, 30 Dec 2015

Sitar Teli is Managing Partner at Connect Ventures and has been a venture capitalist for eight...

20 VC: The Ultimate Guide To Marketplaces with Boris Wertz, Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures

Mon, 28 Dec 2015

Boris Wertz is one of the top tech early-stage investors in North America and the founding part...

20 VC: Are Unicorns Necessary To Make Big Returns and The Series A Crunch with Sumeet Shah @ Brand Foundry Ventures

Wed, 23 Dec 2015

Sumeet Shah is an investor @ Brand Foundry Ventures, who have investments in the likes of Warby Pa...

20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

Mon, 21 Dec 2015

Eric Hippeau is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures. He is the chairman of RebelMouse and...

20 VC FF 027: Risk, Incentive and Opportunity in Starting A Company with Daniel van Binsbergen, Founder @ Lexoo

Fri, 18 Dec 2015

Daniel van Binsbergen is CEO and co-founder of Lexoo, an online marketplace that connects business...

20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners

Wed, 16 Dec 2015

Matthew is an Investor at Forward Partners: a super-early stage London VC. Forward Partners invests...

20 VC 096: Developing The Idea Muscle and VCs Providing More Than Just Money with Dharmesh Raithatha, Partner @ Forward Partners

Mon, 14 Dec 2015

Dharmesh Raithatha is the Product Partner at Forward Partners. He works with idea stage investment...

20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt

Fri, 11 Dec 2015

Ryan Hoover is the Founder and CEO @ ProductHunt, winner of TechCrunch "Best New Startup 2014". P...

20 VC 095: How VCs Find Startups and How To Add Value Once Invested with David Teten @ ff Venture Capital

Wed, 09 Dec 2015

David Teten is a Partner at ff Venture Capital and is also Founder and Chairman of Harvard Busin...

20 VC 094: Kanyi Maqubela @ Collaborative Fund on Rocketships, Feedback Loops and Turning Lemons Into Lemonade!

Mon, 07 Dec 2015

Kanyi Maqubela is a Partner at Collaborative Fund, who have made investments in AngelList, CodeAca...

20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire

Fri, 04 Dec 2015

Erin Glenn is the CEO @ Quire where she aims to create a way for communities to invest and collab...

20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank

Wed, 02 Dec 2015

Samir Kaji is the Managing Director @ First Republic Bank, a leading private bank and wealth mana...

20 VC 092: The Repeatable Playbook of SaaS with Ed Sim, Founding Partner @ BoldStart Ventures

Mon, 30 Nov 2015

Ed Sim, Founding Partner @ Boldstart Ventures, Ed truly has had the most astonishing career in earl...

20 VC FF 024: Raising $33m in VC Funding with Nikos Moraitakis, Founder & CEO @ Workable

Fri, 27 Nov 2015

Nikos Moraitakis is the Founder & CEO @ Workable, one of Balderton Capital's latest additions to ...

20 VC 091: Daniel Waterhouse @ Balderton Capital on Investing Styles, Venture Landscapes and The Future of AI

Wed, 25 Nov 2015

Daniel Waterhouse is a General Partner @ Balderton Capital, which he joined in 2013 and he current...

20 VC 090: Balderton Capital's General Partner, Suranga Chandratillake on What It Takes To Be A Great CEO

Mon, 23 Nov 2015

Suranga Chandratillake is a General Partner @ Balderton Capital. He was previously an entrepreneur...

20 VC FF 022: Crowdfunding Is Here To Stay with Ayan Mitra, Founder & CEO @ Crowdbnk

Fri, 20 Nov 2015

Ayan Mitra is the Founder & CEO @ Crowdbnk, an investment crowdfunding platform that allows you to ...

20 VC 089: Eric Paley @ Founder Collective on Outliers, Inspirational Founders and Pro Rata

Wed, 18 Nov 2015

Eric Paley is the Managing Partner at Founder Collective, one of the world's most successful seed ...

20 VC 088: David Frankel @ Founder Collective: The Most Founder Friendly VC in Existence

Mon, 16 Nov 2015

David Frankel is the Managing Partner at Founder Collective, one of the world's most successful se...

20 VC FF 021: From TechCrunch to Founder to TechCrunch with the legend, Steve O'Hear

Fri, 13 Nov 2015

Steve O’Hear is best known as a technology journalist, currently at TechCrunch where he focuses...

20 VC 087: From The Investors Of Spotify, TrustPilot and Klarna with Jeppe Zink, General Partner @ Northzone

Wed, 11 Nov 2015

Jeppe Zink is the General Partner at Northzone, who have investments in the likes of Spotify, Bl...

20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures

Mon, 09 Nov 2015

Hussein Kanji really is a pedigree in the industry having started off his career with Microsoft, he...

20 VC FF 20: Shaking Up The Food Industry With Willie Biggart @ Spoonfed

Fri, 06 Nov 2015

Willie Biggart is the Chairman @ Spoonfed, a startup on the cusp of 2 extremely hot sectors, SaaS ...

20 VC 085: Mark Suster @ Upfront Ventures on Being A Super Entrepreneur Driven VC

Wed, 04 Nov 2015

Mark Suster is Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures which he joined in 2007, having previously wo...

20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum

Mon, 02 Nov 2015

Antoine Nussenbaum is a Principal and member of the founding team of Felix Capital. Prior to Feli...

20 VC FF 019: 500 Startups Week: Life As A 500 Startups Portfolio Company with Ashish Walia, Co-Founder @ LawTrades

Fri, 30 Oct 2015

Ashish Walia is the Co-Founder & COO at 500 Startups portfolio company, LawTrades. LawTrades aim...

20 VC 083: 500 Startups Week: New Funds, Startup Mentoring and Dave's Masterplan with Marvin Liao, Partner @ 500 Startups

Wed, 28 Oct 2015

Marvin is a Partner at 500 Startups, running the SF based accelerator program as well as investing...

20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London

Mon, 26 Oct 2015

Matt Lerner is a Distro Partner with 500 Startups, and runs their London office. He specializes in...

20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24

Fri, 23 Oct 2015

Joining us in the hotseat today is a young man who is insanely smart, he skipped 4 grades in school ...

20 VC 081: From YC to VC with Weston Gaddy @ Bain Capital Ventures

Wed, 21 Oct 2015

Weston Gaddy is a Senior Principal at Bain Capital Ventures where he focuses on investments in ea...

20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures

Mon, 19 Oct 2015

Patricia Nakache is General Partner at Trinity Ventures where she focuses on funding companies launc...

20 VC 017: BETAWORKS WEEK: Kuan Huang, Founder @ Poncho

Fri, 16 Oct 2015

For your chance to win a signed copy of Venture Deals by previous guest and legend, Brad Feld all yo...

20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

Wed, 14 Oct 2015

Peter Rojas is an entrepreneur-in-residence at betaworks focusing on early stage investments. Pri...

20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks

Mon, 12 Oct 2015

Matt Hartman is director of seed investments at betaworks. Prior to joining betaworks, he was co-...

FF 016: Chad Fowler, CTO @ Wunderlist, App Of The Year 2013

Fri, 09 Oct 2015

To win a signed copy of Venture Deals by Brad Feld, click the link below and like our Facebook page ...

20 VC 077: Part 2: Kamal Ravikant: The Future Of Venture Capital

Wed, 07 Oct 2015

For your chance to win a signed copy of Venture Deals by previous guest and legend, Brad Feld all yo...

20 VC 077: PART 1: Kamal Ravikant: 'I'm Not Your Traditional VC'

Mon, 05 Oct 2015

For your chance to win a signed copy of Venture Deals by previous guest and legend, Brad Feld all yo...

FF 015: Y COMBINATOR WEEK: Eric Glyman, Co-Founder & CEO @ Paribus

Fri, 02 Oct 2015

Eric Glyman, Co-Founder and CEO @ Paribus (Y Combinator S15), the service which scans your inbox f...

20 VC 076: Y COMBINATOR WEEK: Aaron Harris, Partner @ YC

Wed, 30 Sep 2015

Aaron Harris is a Partner at Y Combinator and also newly one of my favourite podcast hosts with h...

20 VC 075: Y COMBINATOR WEEK: Kirsty Nathoo, CFO @ Y Combinator

Mon, 28 Sep 2015

Kirsty Nathoo is the CFO of Y Combinator. As CFO, she holds the keys to the kingdom – literally....

FF 014: Making Great Founders, Idea Creation and The First 100 Days Of A Startup with Alice Bentinck, Co-Founder @ Entrepreneur First

Fri, 25 Sep 2015

Alice Bentinck is Co-Founder at Entrepreneurs First, the accelerator program that puts founders f...

20 VC 074: The Future of Healthcare with Bob Kocher, Partner @ Venrock

Wed, 23 Sep 2015

Bob Kocher is a Partner at Venrock and focuses on healthcare IT and services investments. He curr...

20 VC 073: Life Inside Accel Partners with Michael Treskow @ Accel

Mon, 21 Sep 2015

Michael Treskow is a VC @ Accel Partners, one of the world's most successful venture firms having ...

FF 013: 'Make Bets And Believe In What You Are Doing' with James Borow @ Shift & Brand Networks

Fri, 18 Sep 2015

James Borow is Chief Product Officer at Brand Networks which delivers social marketing and advert...

20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing

Wed, 16 Sep 2015

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors with over $300 ...

20 VC 071: Pre-Seed Investing, Why Now Is The Best Time with Nicholas Chirls @ Notation Capital

Mon, 14 Sep 2015

Nicholas Chirls is the Founder and Partner @ Notation Capital, one of New York's genuine pre-seed ...

20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital

Wed, 09 Sep 2015

Eric ver Ploeg has sat on both sides of the table as an entrepreneur and a VC. Eric started his car...

20 VC 069: Jeff Clavier, King of Seed Funding @ SoftTech VC on Brad Feld, Fitbit and Standout Startups

Mon, 07 Sep 2015

Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most established seed ...

FF 012: Acquired by Microsoft for $200m with Javier Soltero @ Microsoft

Sun, 06 Sep 2015

Javier Soltero is Corporate Vice President of Outlook @ Microsoft. This position arose due to Javi...

FF 011: 'The Savviest Investors Don't Ask What If' with Ben Nader, CEO & Founder @ Butterfleye

Fri, 04 Sep 2015

Ben Nader is Founder and CEO at Butterfleye, the most advanced wireless home monitoring system. In...

20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital

Wed, 02 Sep 2015

Sean Seton-Rogers is a founding Partner at PROfounders Capital, a venture capital fund for entrep...

20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado

Mon, 31 Aug 2015

Mattias launched Atomico in 2006 alongside Niklas Zennström. In that time, Mattias has been inv...

FF 010: Becoming Europe's Hottest Startup with Carl Waldekranz, Co-Founder and CEO @ Tictail

Fri, 28 Aug 2015

Carl Waldekranz is the CEO and co-founder of Tictail. With the vision of creating the worlds most u...

20 VC 066: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Seth Levine: 'VC Is Not A Scalable Business'

Wed, 26 Aug 2015

Seth Levine is one of the most successful VCs on the planet having Co-Founded Foundry Group, Seth ...

20 VC 065: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Brad Feld: Founders Should Be Obsessed, Passion Belongs In The Bedroom

Mon, 24 Aug 2015

Brad Feld is one of the world's leading VCs having Co-Founded Foundry Group, Brad has made investm...

FF 009: How To Leverage Your Connections To Grow Your Business with Sarah Schupp, Founder & CEO @ University Parent

Fri, 21 Aug 2015

Sarah Schupp is the CEO and founder of UniversityParent. UniversityParent is the #1 site for colle...

20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock

Wed, 19 Aug 2015

Nick Beim is a Partner @ Venrock where he focuses on internet, mobile, SaaS, big data and fintec...

20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures

Mon, 17 Aug 2015

Ezra Galston is a VC @ Chicago Ventures, where he focuses on consumer facing and marketing tech i...

FF 08: Pierre Valade, CEO @ Sunrise on Being Acquired By Microsoft for $100m and Building Beautiful Products

Fri, 14 Aug 2015

Pierre Valade is Co-Founder and CEO @ Sunrise, the beautiful calendar app, acquired by Microsoft f...

20 VC 062: Shaking Up London's VC Scene with Fede Pirzio-Biroli, Founder @ Playfair Capital

Wed, 12 Aug 2015

Fede Pirzio-Biroli is Founder @ Playfair Capital, a leading investor in seed level, technology bas...

20 VC 061: Roxanne Varza on Pitching A VC in 10 Minutes and Maximising Media Exposure For Your Startup

Mon, 10 Aug 2015

Roxanne Varza is currently the startup lead for Microsoft in France, running both Microsoft Ventur...

FF 007: Founding Europe's Largest Trading App with Nick Bortot, Founder @ Bux

Fri, 07 Aug 2015

Nick Bortot is the Founder & CEO at Bux, Europe's largest mobile trading platform with an incredibl...

20 VC 060: 12 Acquisitions, $1bn In Exits, Mike Jones, Former MySpace CEO on Life At Science Inc.

Wed, 05 Aug 2015

Mike Jones is the Founder and CEO at Science Inc. a disruptive media, marketing and commerce comp...

20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures

Mon, 03 Aug 2015

Arteen Arabshahi is a VC at Karlin Ventures, where he specialises in enterprise software, commerce...

FF 006: Acquired by Amazon, CEO @ Digg, EIR @ a16z and now Founder @ Pro.com with Matt Williams

Fri, 31 Jul 2015

Matt Williams is Founder and CEO of Pro.com. Prior to Pro.com, Matt served as entrepreneur-in-resid...

20 VC 058: 10 Key Traits To Be A Successful Founder with David Wu, General Partner @ Maveron

Wed, 29 Jul 2015

David Wu is a General Partner at Maveron, which he joined in 2012 to help identify new investments...

20 VC 057: The Investor Checklist with Nicolas Wittenborn, VC @ Point Nine Capital

Mon, 27 Jul 2015

Did you know: The name Point Nine Capital originates from the 0.9 version of a product that is early...

Founding WIRED 2014's Winner, with Mutaz Qubbaj, Founder @ Squirrel

Fri, 24 Jul 2015

Mutaz Qubbaj is Founder @ Squirrel, a financial wellbeing platform that allows employees to regai...

20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners

Wed, 22 Jul 2015

Quote of the Day: 'Invest in people who do what they say they are going to do and have done what the...

20 VC 055: VC Done Right with Jonathon Triest @ Ludlow Ventures

Mon, 20 Jul 2015

Quote of the Day: 'Advisors are the most crucial element to success for the young generation'. Jonat...

Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara

Fri, 17 Jul 2015

Will Sacks is Co-Founder and CEO at Kindara, the fertility awareness app that provides tools to un...

20 VC 055: David Pakman @ Venrock on The Future Of The Music Industry

Wed, 15 Jul 2015

Quote of the Day: 'A great entrepreneur has the ability to bend the world to their will'. David Pakm...

20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures

Mon, 13 Jul 2015

Quote of the Day: 'Keep an open mind from an early age'. Jonathan Libov, 20VC Jonathan Libov joined...

Founders Friday 003: 2m users, $2m Seed Round, 220,000 Instagram Followers with Phil Jacobson, Founder @ PumpUp

Fri, 10 Jul 2015

Phil Jacobson is Co-Founder At PumpUp, a community for healthy and active living, with over 2m user...

20 VC 052: How To Make The Leap From Seed To Series A with Ari Helgason @ Dawn Capital

Wed, 08 Jul 2015

Ari Helgason is a VC at Dawn Capital in London and a former entrepreneur with operational experie...

20 VC 051: The New Silicon Valley Style VC in London with Alessandra Sollberger @ Mosaic Ventures

Mon, 06 Jul 2015

Alessandra Sollberger is a VC at Mosaic Ventures, a new Silicon Valley style venture firm based in...

Founders Friday 002: Balderton's James Wise interviews 20VC Founder, Harry Stebbings

Fri, 03 Jul 2015

Today is a very special show as James Wise, Principal at Balderton Capital turns the tables on Ho...

20 VC 050: Starting, Building and Selling in SaaS with the King of SaaS, Jason Lemkin, Managing Director @ Storm Ventures

Wed, 01 Jul 2015

Jason Lemkin is Managing Director at Storm Ventures focussing on early stage SaaS and enterprise st...

20 VC 049: VC is Getting Younger with Spencer Lazar @ General Catalyst Partners

Mon, 29 Jun 2015

Spencer Lazar is a Principal at General Catalyst Partners, based in New York City. He focuses on e...

Founder's Friday 001: How to Create Great Company Culture with Anand Sanwal, Founder @ CB Insights

Fri, 26 Jun 2015

Anand Sanwal is the CEO and Co-Founder of CB Insights. Specifically, CB Insights tracks financing ...

20 VC 048: What Do VC's Really Add To Startups with Christian Claussen, Managing Partner @ Ventech

Wed, 24 Jun 2015

Quote of the Day: "Capital is a crappy differentiator". Dustin Dolginow Christian Claussen is a Man...

20 VC 047: 4 Ways Investors Find Great Startups with Rob Moffat, Principal @ Balderton Capital

Mon, 22 Jun 2015

Rob Moffat is Principal at Balderton Capital, one of London's leading VC firms. At Balderton Rob s...

20 VC 046: How VCs Evaluate Investment Opportunities with Alan Chiu, Partner @ XSeed Capital

Thu, 18 Jun 2015

Alan Chiu is a Partner at XSeed Capital, with a strong background in enterprise software and data ...

20 VC 045: From Idea to Pitch with Alan Jones, Founding Investor @ Startmate

Mon, 15 Jun 2015

Alan Jones is Chief Growth Hacker at Bluechilli, who have set the incredible goal of building 100 s...

20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott

Thu, 11 Jun 2015

Doug Scott has one of the largest AngelList syndicates, now with an incredible £396,000 in his. Do...

20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture

Mon, 08 Jun 2015

Charlie O'Donnell is the Founder and Sole Partner @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the first venture ca...

James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs

Thu, 04 Jun 2015

James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, investor, board member, and the writer of 11 books inc...

Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor

Mon, 01 Jun 2015

Jason Calacanis is arguably the world's greatest angel investor with over 60 investments including ...

20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive

Thu, 28 May 2015

Scott Taylor is the CEO @ miDrive, a startup focussed on reinventing the learner driving experience...

How to Pitch a Top VC with Simon Menashy @ MMC Ventures

Mon, 25 May 2015

Simon Menashy is Investment Director at MMC Ventures where he is responsible for leading new and f...

20 VC 038: How Make Connections with VCs and Maximise Employability with Angela Tran Kingyens @ Version One Ventures

Thu, 21 May 2015

Angela Tran Kingyens is an associate at Version One Ventures, where Angela manages the day to day ...

20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars

Mon, 18 May 2015

Tak Lo is Director at Techstars, helping entrepreneurs do more faster - on both sides of the Atlan...

20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners

Thu, 14 May 2015

Stephan von Perger is an Early Stage VC at Wellington Partners where his primary role is identifyi...

20 VC 035: The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Startups with Jay Acunzo, VP of Platform @ NextView Ventures

Mon, 11 May 2015

Jay Acunzo is NextView Ventures VP of Platform and runs the View from Seed blog. At NextView, he ...

20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg

Thu, 07 May 2015

Jon Staenberg is one of the most experienced venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest, having ma...

20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO

Mon, 04 May 2015

Quote of the Day: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not becaus...

20 VC 032: Inside Y Combinator with Nicolas Michaelsen, Founder @ AirHelp

Thu, 30 Apr 2015

In today's show I am joined by the immensely talented Nicolas Michaelsen, Founder & CMO at AirHelp...

20 VC 031: Investing in Gaming, Luxury Goods and Disruption with Maha Ibrahim, General Partner @ Canaan Partners

Mon, 27 Apr 2015

Maha Ibrahim is General Partner at Canaan Partners. Maha is renowned in the venture industry for h...

20 VC 030: VC Funds, Angels and IPOs with John Taylor, Head of Research @ NVCA

Thu, 23 Apr 2015

In today's show I am joined by John Taylor, a nationally recognised authority in the venture capita...

20 VC 029: The Potential Upside To A Technology Bubble with TechCrunch's Brandon Lipman

Mon, 20 Apr 2015

The debate over whether or not we are in a tech bubble is dominating the minds of many in the tech w...

20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare

Thu, 16 Apr 2015

Keith Teare is the Founder of Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs whose incubated startups includ...

20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech

Mon, 13 Apr 2015

Greg Rogers is Managing Director at Techstars, the world’s leading accelerator programme for earl...

20 VC 026: Chris Redlitz on The Importance of People, Pivoting and The Last Mile

Thu, 09 Apr 2015

Chris Redlitz is Managing Partner at Transmedia Capital, an early stage venture fund specializing i...

20 VC 025: Finding the Right VC and The Evolution of Summly with John Henderson of White Star Capital

Mon, 06 Apr 2015

John Henderson is Principal at White Star Capital, a VC firm helping exceptional entrepreneurs buil...

20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital

Thu, 02 Apr 2015

Marc Bernegger is Venture Partner at Orange Growth Capital, a Fintech investment firm with notable ...

20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton

Mon, 30 Mar 2015

Tom Britton is Co-Founder and CTO of Syndicate Room, an equity crowdfunding platform that allows it...

20 VC 022: Letting go of the life we planned and the Power of the Female Narrative with Matthew McCall

Thu, 26 Mar 2015

Matthew McCall is a Partner at Pritzker Group Venture Capital and was previously a Partner with D...

20 VC 021: Gender Equality, Startup Valuations and 'Friend Raising before Fund Raising with Sharon Wienbar

Thu, 19 Mar 2015

Sharon Wienbar invests in Mobile and Internet companies at Scale Venture Partners, where she sits o...

20 VC 020: Revolutionising Investing with Luke Lang, Co-Founder of Crowdcube

Mon, 16 Mar 2015

Luke Lang is Co-Founder and CMO of Crowdcube, the world's leading investment Crowdfunding platform....

20 VC 019: Funding the Future with James Wise of Balderton Capital

Thu, 12 Mar 2015

James Wise is Principal at Balderton Capital, one of Europe's most successful venture funds. At Bal...

20 VC 018: Seed Stage Investing with Stefan Glaenzer of Passion Capital

Mon, 09 Mar 2015

Stefan Glaenzer is Founding Partner at Passion Capital an early stage VC fund who have invested i...

20 VC 017: Nektarios Liolios of Startupbootcamp on Fintech, Pitching and London's Tech Scene

Thu, 05 Mar 2015

Nektarios Liolios is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Startupbootcamp Fintech, the leading innov...

20 VC 016: Y Combinator, Twitch.TV and Socialcam with Mike Seibel

Mon, 02 Mar 2015

Mike Seibel has enjoyed the most incredible career in the technology industry on both the Founder an...

20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu

Thu, 26 Feb 2015

Lisa is Vice President at Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), where she focuses on early to late stage i...

20 VC 014: Acquired by Salesforce turned VC with Kyle Lui

Mon, 23 Feb 2015

Kyle Lui is Principal at DCM Ventures where he helps entrepreneurs scale their companies and advise ...

20 VC 013: Frank Meehan Series A, Spark Labs and The Future of The Asian Tech Market

Fri, 20 Feb 2015

Frank is Co-Founder and General Partner at Spark Labs Global seed fund where he has invested in 40 c...

20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry

Wed, 18 Feb 2015

Clark Landry is Founder and Chairman at Shift, the leading social advertising network for brands. He...

20 VC 011: London's Early Stage Funding Scene with Thomas Jones

Mon, 09 Feb 2015

A very exciting day on the 11th episode of The Twenty Minute VC as we welcome our 1st London based g...

20 VC: Niko Bonatsos on Startup Valuations

Thu, 05 Feb 2015

It is a great pleasure to have Niko Bonatsos on today's episode of The Twenty Minute VC. Niko is Pr...

20 VC 009: Red Flags, Saas and becoming a VC with Joe Floyd

Mon, 02 Feb 2015

On today's show I am hugely excited to welcome Joe Floyd to the hotseat. Joe is Principal at Emergen...

20 VC 008: Startup 101 with Mark Peter Davis

Wed, 28 Jan 2015

Mark Peter Davis is a serial founder and investor. He is the founder of Interplay Ventures with in...

20 VC 007: The Evolution of Content and the Venture Capital Industry with Peter Csathy

Mon, 26 Jan 2015

I am hugely excited to welcome Peter Csathy for Session 7 of The Twenty Minute VC. Peter has had an ...

20 VC 006: Google Glass & Founding Teams

Thu, 22 Jan 2015

Ifty Ahmed, General Partner at Oak Investment Partners. Ifty started his career with Goldman Sachs a...

20 VC 005: Be The Best CEO with Kent Godfrey

Mon, 19 Jan 2015

In episode 5 of The Twenty Minute VC, we are joined by Kent Godfrey, General Partner at Pond Venture...

20 VC 004: David Hornik on the Magic of Stanford and Startups

Sun, 18 Jan 2015

Welcome to Session 4 of The Twenty Minute VC, on today's incredible show, I am hugely excited to pre...

20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber

Tue, 13 Jan 2015

On today's episode I am thrilled to welcome Bob Ghoorah, Managing Director at Columubus Nova Technol...

20 VC 002: How to become a VC with Kris Jones

Tue, 13 Jan 2015

In this session of The Twenty Minute VC, I'm so excited to have the opportunity to interview Kris Jo...

20 VC 001: Guy Kawasaki of Apple, Motorola and AllTop.com

Tue, 13 Jan 2015

Welcome to the 1st episode of The Twenty Minute VC, on today's show we have Guy Kawasaki, Guy is the...

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

20Sales: What I Learned Scaling Datadog from $60M to $1BN in ARR | How to do Outbound in 2024 | Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading with Dan Fougere

20VC: Turning $16.5M into $2.1BN; Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History: UiPath | Why VC is Not Being Commoditised | Why Price Does Not Matter | Lessons on Loss Ratio, Selling and Signalling with Cem Sertoglu

20VC Alain De Botton on Why Companies Are Not Families | Why Status is Making You Miserable | Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail | Why We Are Richer Yet More Anxious Than Ever & Why You Should Not Always "Be Yourself"

20Growth: Inside Perplexity's Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | Why Paid Acquisition is a Drug and Brand Marketing is BS | The Good, Bad and Ugly of A/B Tests and Why Micro-Optimisations are Under-Rated with Raman Malik

20VC: Bolt; The Most Insane Story in Startups | Turning a $5K Loan into an $8BN Company | Why Every VC Turned Down One of Europe's Biggest Winners | Competing with Uber & The Future of Micromobility and Self-Driving

20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

20VC: Sam Altman on The Trajectory of Model Capability Improvements: Will Scaling Laws Continue | Semi-Conductor Supply Chains | What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI and Where is Opportunity

20VC: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Founder Mode | Building 8x $100M Revenue Lines | Lessons from Raising $5BN and the Gamestop Saga | The Future of Artificial Intelligence, Wealth Management and Home Ownership

20VC: Linear's Karri Saarinen How to be Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | How to Fundraise with Leverage | How to Select Investors and How to Give Them Homework in the Raise Process & Growth Lessons from Airbnb and Coinbase

20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

20VC: The Truth About Multi-Stage Firms; Why Portfolio Services are for VCs not Founders | Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | Why Reserves are Bad for Founders & How Boutique Firms Will Win with Mark Goldberg @ Chemistry

20Sales: Biggest Lessons Scaling Slack from $6M to $1BN in ARR | How to Build a Customer Success Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | The Framework to Hire All Sales Reps: Take-Home Assignments, Hiring Panels and more with AJ Tennant @ Glean

20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on Investing Lessons from Leading Rounds in Figma, Slack and Rippling | Lessons Building a Generational Defining Firm with Kleiner Perkins | AI: Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws

20Growth: Revolut's Chief Growth Officer on The Growth Playbook Revolut Used to Scale to $2.2BN in Revenue | How Revolut Launch and Grow Products | Why the Best PMs Don't Need A/B Tests & Why CAC is a BS Metric with Antoine Le Nel

20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

20VC: Investing Lessons from FC Seeding Uber, Airtable and Coupang | Why Pro Rata is the Original Sin in VC | Why Liquidity Has Died in 2024 | Why LPs are Pissed with VCs | The Hard Truth About Seed Fund Economics with David Frankel @ Founder Collective

20VC: Why Most AI Investments Will Do Worse than the S&P 500 | Why Early Stage VC is F******* | The Danger of Kamala Harris and Why Trump and Vance are Best | Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control with Eoghan McCabe @ Intercom

20VC: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta | How to Play AI in the Public Markets | China & Europe: Is the Future Bleak | The Opportunity for Crossover Funds with Jeff Wang, Managing Partner @ SCGE

20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

20VC: Bret Taylor: The AI Bubble and What Happens Now | How the Cost of Chips and Models Will Change in AI | Will Companies Build Their Own Software | Why Pre-Training is for Morons | Leaderships Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg

20VC: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast: Behind the Scenes at One of the Fastest Growing Companies in History with Donald Tang, Executive Chairman @ SHEIN

20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

20Growth: The 7 Core Levers to Win at Consumer Subscription: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Packaging, Notifications, Discounts, Paywalls | The Breakdown with Phil Carter

20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

20VC: Index's Shardul Shah on Why Market Size is a Trap | Biggest Lessons on Pricing from Leading Rounds in Wiz & Datadog | Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | How Index Makes Decisions and Why Growth & Early are the Same Investing Style

20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

20VC: Tinder Founder Sean Rad on Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | Leadership Lessons Scaling Tinder | The Future of Love, Dating and Social Media | The Secret to Your Relationship with Money and Marriage

20VC: Why VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today | Why Most VCs are Bankers | Why Big VCs Ruin Startups | Why Incentives in VC are Broken | Why American Dynamism is a Tool for VCs to Raise Money with Nick Chirls, Asylum Ventures

20VC: OpenAI's Newest Board Member, Zico Colter on The Biggest Bottlenecks to the Performance of Foundation Models | The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | How to Regulate an AI-Centric World

20Growth: Uber's Expansion Playbook for Scaling from 10 Cities to $10BN in Revenue | How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers | How Uber Solved the Chicken and The Egg Problem in New Markets and What Uber Would Be Like with Travis Still There with Scott Gorlick

20VC: AI Scaling Myths: More Compute is not the Answer | The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today: Data, Algorithms and Compute | The Future of Models: Open vs Closed, Small vs Large with Arvind Narayanan, Professor of Computer Science @ Princeton

20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

20Sales: How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine | Why You Have to Hire a CRO Pre-Product | Why Most Sales Reps Do Not Perform | Why Hiring Panels are BS in Interviews | Why Remote Sales Reps Do Not Care About Their Development with Chad Peets

20VC: Five Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in Fundraising, Hiring and Selling with Aman Narang, CEO @ Toast

20VC: Chips, Models or Applications; Where is the Value in AI | Is Compute the Answer to All Model Performance Questions | Why Open AI Shelved AGI & Is There Any Value in Models with OpenAI Price Dumping with Aidan, Gomez, Co-Founder @ Cohere

20VC: Capital G's Laela Sturdy on What Stripe, UiPath and Duolingo Taught Me About Company Building and Investing | How to Analyse Valuation, Market Timing, Sizing and Exiting | Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund

20VC: Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg, Keith Rabois & Tobi Lütke | Why Remote is a Bad Idea for 90% of Companies | The Framework for How Shopify Builds Product Today | What Humans Get Wrong About Marriage and Kids with Kaz Nejatian, COO @ Shopify

20VC: Sequoia's Shaun Maguire: Will We See WW3 Shortly | Why DEI is a Cancer for Society | Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil | Why Trump is the Only Hope for Peace in the Middle East | Trump vs Harris: Who Wins & What Happens

20VC: Why VC is Distorting a Generation of SaaS Companies & With $900M in ARR and a Market Cap of $2.6BN is Lightspeed the Most Misunderstood Public Company with Dax Dasilva, Founder & CEO @ Lightspeed

20VC: How a Angel City Makes $31M per Season | How Sports Teams Can and Should Be Better Businesses | Why Every Sports Team Will Look Like a Media Agency and Founding The Most Valuable Women's Sports Team with Alexis Ohanian

20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on AI's $600BN Question | Why the Data Centre is the Most Important Asset | Servers, Steel and Power: The Core Pillars Powering the Future of AI

20Sales: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | Moving from SMB to Enterprise: How and When | Verticalised Sales Teams: Why They are a Gamechanger and How to Build Them with Ben Fiechtner, CRO @ Clari

20VC: Is More Compute the Answer to Model Performance | Why OpenAI Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken & Analysing Their Race for AGI | What Companies, AI Labs and Startups Get Wrong About AI with Ethan Mollick

20VC: Twitter's Most Controversial VC Delian Asparouhov on Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | Why Western Europe Will Be Like the Third World | Why SaaS as an Industry Might Be Dead

20Growth: How Transferwise Acquired Their First 5M Customers: The Two Types of Content All Companies Must Create, How to Crush Competition With Performance Marketing, What Growth Hacks Worked and Did Not with Nilan Peiris, CPO @ Wise

This Week in SaaS: Should Wiz Have Accepted Google's $23BN Acquisition Offer, Crowdstrike: WTF Happens From Here: The Bull and the Bear Case & $1BN into Legal Tech in a Day with Clio and Harvey with Jason Lemkin

20VC: How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet | Investing Lessons from Roelof Botha & Peter Thiel | Why VC is Less Collaborative Than Ever and Great Companies Are Being Destroyed by Too Much Cash with Kevin Hartz @ A*

20Product: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? The Top 5 Product Lessons in Scaling to 185M Monthly Active Users with Canva Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cameron Adams

20VC: Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi on What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | Brex vs Ramp: Who Wins and How Does it Play Out | Battling Founder Mental Health and The Importance of Secondaries for Founders

20VC: Why We Are in a Bubble & Now is Frothier Than 2021 | Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | Why Seed Pricing is Rational & Large Seed Rounds Have Less Risk | Why Many AI Apps Have BS Revenue & Are Not Sustainable with Saam Motamedi @ Greylock

20Sales: Biggest Lessons Scaling Hubspot from $0-$100M in ARR, The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise, How to do Channel Partnerships Right and How to Construct Sales Comp Plans Early On with Mark Roberge

20VC: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier: How to Build a Dominant Vertical SaaS Business, How to Master Going Into Enterprise, When & How to Launch Second Products with Ara Mahdessian, Co-Founder @ServiceTitan

20VC: The Sequoia Investment Process | Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha & Alfred Lin | Sequoia's Framework for Analysing Founders | The True Benefit of Having Sequoia on a Cap Table & Sequoia's Biggest Threat with Pat Grady

20VC: Turning a $15M Investment in Monday into $1.5BN in Cash | The Strategy Behind a 37x DPI $45M Fund | The Three Step Process to Selling Positions that has Netted Top Percentile Returns with Avi Eyal, Co-Founder @ Entrée Capital

20VC: LLMs Are Reaching a Stage of Diminishing Returns: What is the Next S Curve | The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | How AI Changes the Future of War & How Agents Will Reshape Society with Matt Clifford @ EF

20VC: Raising $126M Across 3 Rounds in Just 6 Months, Being the Youngest Founder of a Unicorn Company | But Everything Was Not as it Seemed: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires with Vise's Samir Vasavada

20VC: Klaviyo's Andrew Bialecki on Going Public in an IPO Winter, Is Klaviyo Under-Priced in Public Markets and Why, Why Every VC Turned Klaviyo Down in the Early Days & How Shopify's Partnership Changed the Game

20VC: Why Foundation Model Performance is Not Diminishing But Models Are Commoditising, Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space and Models Will Enter the Chip Space & The Right Business Model for AI Software with David Luan, Co-Founder @ Adept

20Growth: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics and Strategies From the Revolut Product & Growth Playbook with Val Scholz, Former Head of Growth @ Revolut

20VC: Foundation Models are the Fastest Depreciating Asset in History, Lina Kahn is a Threat to American Capitalism, PE is Not Coming to Save the M&A Market & How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race with Michael Eisenberg

20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on Investing Lessons from Hits like Figma, Discord and Etsy to Missing Snapchat, Airbnb, Facebook & Spotify | Why Valuation is a Trap and Market Sizing, Signalling and Sector/Geo-Specific Funds are all Noise

20Product: Loom CPO Janie Lee on Three Core Skills that Make the Best PMs, How to Find, Pick and Train the Best PM Talent and Lessons from OpenDoor and Rippling on Product Breadth, Pricing and Talent Density

20VC: Scale's Alex Wang on Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance, Why AI is the Greatest Military Asset Ever, Is China Really Two Years Behind the US in AI and Why the CCPs Industrial Approach is Better than Anyone Else's

20VC: Reid Hoffman on Foundation Models: Who Wins & How Do Incumbents Respond | The Inflection AI Deal: How it Went Down | Why Trump is a Threat to Democracy | The Future of TikTok | Lessons from Sam Altman, Brian Chesky and the OpenAI Board

20Sales: How Rippling Built Their Sales Machine: How to Hire, Train and Manage the Best SDRs, What is the Right Comp Package for Sales Teams & The Playbook to Start and Scale Your SDR Team

20VC: Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas on Will Foundation Models Commoditise, Diminishing Returns in Model Performance, OpenAI vs Anthropic: Who Wins & Why the Next Breakthrough in Model Performance will be in Reasoning

This Week in SaaS: PluralSight Goes to Zero, Salesforce and Mongo Hit Hard, The Next IPO Candidates and How Do We Solve the Problem of Liquidity in Venture Capital

20Growth: The Six Channels Startups Need to Dominate to Grow, Why the Best Growth Talent Never Comes from Marketing or Product, Who and How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI, Growth is More Science than Art with Matt Lerner

20VC: Former Meta CTO, Schrep on Why Climate is a $10TRN Problem, Operating Lessons Scaling Products to Billions at Meta and Why the Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors

20VC: Why Seed is Systemically Broken | Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | Benchmarks for Churn, Retention and Growth Rates - Good vs Great | Why Last Vintage for Private Equity Will Suck with Jason Lemkin

20VC: OpenAI's Sam Altman, Mistral's Arthur Mensch and more discuss: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised | Which Startups Are Threatened vs Enabled by OpenAI | Is the Value in the Infrastructure or Application Layer?

20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Predictions for the Next Wave of AI: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised | How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever | Startups vs Incumbents: Who Wins | App vs Infrastructure Layer: Where is the Value?

20VC: Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora on How to Create and Sustain Competitive Advantage and Defensibility | What Makes Masa Son a Genius Investor of Our Time | How the Best Leaders Communicate and Delegate

20Product: How Linktree, Webflow and Airbnb Used Rituals and Product Principals to Guide Product Roadmap, Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard and How to Use it & How to Run the Best "Product Jams" with JZ, CPO @ Linktree

20VC: Fundraising Wisdom that is Total BS; Dilution, Meeting Associates, Taking the Highest Price, Always Be Raising | Why Second Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College with Dan Siroker, CEO @ Limitless