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Mamoon Hamid

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
438 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

No, I don't. I don't think we want that at all. We love where we are today. We really do. And I don't try to not BSing you, your longtime friend. And I believe in venture, early stage venture being a beautiful asset class, especially if you can follow the power law and being the few companies that matter. And then you can invest in the very few companies that really matter out of your select fund.

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

No, I don't. I don't think we want that at all. We love where we are today. We really do. And I don't try to not BSing you, your longtime friend. And I believe in venture, early stage venture being a beautiful asset class, especially if you can follow the power law and being the few companies that matter. And then you can invest in the very few companies that really matter out of your select fund.

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

And then call it a day. I totally agree.

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

And then call it a day. I totally agree.

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

And then call it a day. I totally agree.

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

Venture is an easy job. It's glamorous. It's all of that except glamorous.

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

Venture is an easy job. It's glamorous. It's all of that except glamorous.

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

Venture is an easy job. It's glamorous. It's all of that except glamorous.

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

It has to be Aaron Levy when I first met him. Why? He brought along with him a wonderful person, Karen Page, because he thought he had to bring on an executive or bring an executive to the first meeting. It was just, he was like hyper nervous, I felt, coming to a VC firm office like in a coat and shirt.

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

It has to be Aaron Levy when I first met him. Why? He brought along with him a wonderful person, Karen Page, because he thought he had to bring on an executive or bring an executive to the first meeting. It was just, he was like hyper nervous, I felt, coming to a VC firm office like in a coat and shirt.

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

It has to be Aaron Levy when I first met him. Why? He brought along with him a wonderful person, Karen Page, because he thought he had to bring on an executive or bring an executive to the first meeting. It was just, he was like hyper nervous, I felt, coming to a VC firm office like in a coat and shirt.

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

But I could tell from that meeting that he had thought about the problem of cloud storage more than, and this is 2007, so like cloud storage was not a thing. more than anyone else. And so for me, it was like an instant I need to invest in this founder, like right away. But it was also just memorable from the other things that were going around.

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

But I could tell from that meeting that he had thought about the problem of cloud storage more than, and this is 2007, so like cloud storage was not a thing. more than anyone else. And so for me, it was like an instant I need to invest in this founder, like right away. But it was also just memorable from the other things that were going around.

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

But I could tell from that meeting that he had thought about the problem of cloud storage more than, and this is 2007, so like cloud storage was not a thing. more than anyone else. And so for me, it was like an instant I need to invest in this founder, like right away. But it was also just memorable from the other things that were going around.

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

A billion in revenue. A billion in revenue. Four and a half billion market cap. Yeah. Yeah, I think growth and profitability. So to my point, do we need to see the reflation for venture to be sustainable or not? I think just getting back to sort of normal historical levels would be good enough.

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

A billion in revenue. A billion in revenue. Four and a half billion market cap. Yeah. Yeah, I think growth and profitability. So to my point, do we need to see the reflation for venture to be sustainable or not? I think just getting back to sort of normal historical levels would be good enough.

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

A billion in revenue. A billion in revenue. Four and a half billion market cap. Yeah. Yeah, I think growth and profitability. So to my point, do we need to see the reflation for venture to be sustainable or not? I think just getting back to sort of normal historical levels would be good enough.

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

You know, one of my favorite investors is Matt Kohler from Benchmark, who I got to see yesterday. I wish he and I were on more boards together.

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

You know, one of my favorite investors is Matt Kohler from Benchmark, who I got to see yesterday. I wish he and I were on more boards together.

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

You know, one of my favorite investors is Matt Kohler from Benchmark, who I got to see yesterday. I wish he and I were on more boards together.