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
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 @
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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!
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 @
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 @
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?!
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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?
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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?
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kareem Zaki is a General Partner @ Thrive Capital, with a portfolio including Stripe, Instacart, In...