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
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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?
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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?
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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"
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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..
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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?
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 @
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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?
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Glen Coates is the VP of Product @ Shopify, leading the development of Shopify’s core commerce pl...