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...
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
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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"
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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.
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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? |
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Logan Bartlett is a Managing Director @ Redpoint, a firm with a portfolio including the likes of St...