Mitchell Green

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1,004 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 24 Mar

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is BS | Why China Will Win the AI War | Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist and are Tourists | Why Stock-Based Comp is the Hidden Sin of the Valley with Mitchell Green, Lead Edge Capital · 7 Mar 2026 podcast

Seed fund.

We don't have much experience with them, but I think the founder fund guys have, like, the returns are totally nuts.

What's been the hardest decision you've made in your career?

The hardest decision has been to hire people that have the kind of same view on how to generate returns.

And so it's like you're a cohesive group.

Because yours isn't the sexy way.

It's not the sexy way.

Correct.

And so the hardest decision is actually the hardest decision was should we have in like 2017 and 18 and 16.

When everybody, when we were paying five to seven times revenues for software companies and Iconic came in and started paying 10 times and just like winning the best deals and prices, we're like, we know these are the best companies.

Should we do these deals?

We did not.

We were wrong.

What was the biggest miss and how did that change your mindset?

Oh, I mean, like, I mean, Procore, we were in it, tiny amount.

We did the deal with Bessemer, put a tiny amount of money in.

And like, we were in a position to lead the next round that I connected.

And then two rounds later, we sold to him.

Now, again, the decision to sell actually wasn't that big of a deal because it wasn't that big a position.

No, I mean, the stake was not actually investing.

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