20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Singerman is a General Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the most prominent venture firms of th...
20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz founded Accel in 1983. Under their leadership, they have built Acce...
20VC Unscripted: Pricing is Crazy, Pre-Emptive Rounds are Normal, Pricing at 200x Revenue Multiple is Common, There is More Cash Than Ever. What Happens Next; Market Analysis with Ryan Denehy, Founder and CEO @ Electric
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Denehy is the Founder & CEO @ Electric, the company that provides a modern IT solution that's ...
20VC: Mac the VC on the Journey from Homeless To Becoming A VC, What It Takes To Raise a Fund on Twitter, Why the Venture World is F***** Up and How Institutional LPs Need To Change
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
McKeever "Mac" Conwell II is the founder and managing partner of RareBreed Ventures, a pre-seed ...
20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elena Verna is a master when it comes to all things starting and scaling growth organizations. Prev...
20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will Shu is the Founder & CEO @ Deliveroo, the company that provides your favorite restaurants and ...
20VC: Breaking News: Ankur Nagpal Raises $70M for Vibe Capital, What The Next Decade For Venture Will Look Like, Do VCs Actually Add Any Value & Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Take Them and When To Reject Them
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ankur Nagpal is the Founding Partner @ Vibe Capital, today announcing his new $70M solo GP fund and...
20VC: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo on Why You Need Sponsors Not Mentors, Where Management Skills Align with Good Parenting & The First 100 Days as CEO at Instacart; The Challenges, The Surprises and The Next Chapter
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fidji Simo is the CEO @ Instacart, the company that allows you to order whatever you want from loca...
20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
George Kurtz is the CEO and co-founder of CrowdStrike, a leading provider of next-generation endpoi...
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Sacca is the Founder and Chairman @ Lowercase Capital, one of the best performing funds in t...
20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Casalena is the Founder & CEO @ Squarespace, the company that allows you to create a websit...
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anton Levy is Co-President, Managing Director and Global Head of General Atlantic’s Technology se...
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Rabois is a General Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the most successful venture firms of the ...
20VC: The Rise of Quick Commerce and Why CPGs ARe Misaligned Being Powered By Ad Spend, The 5 Core Components Consumers Care About When Ordering Today & Why Amazon and Alibaba Will Not Be The Big Players in 10 Years with Ralf Wenzel, Founder & CEO @ JOKR
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ralf Wenzel is the Founder & CEO @ JOKR, a global platform for instant retail delivery at a hyper-l...
Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Casey Winters is the Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite where he leads the PM, product design, res...
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hans Tung is a Managing Partner at GGV Capital, one of the leading venture firms of the last 2 deca...
20VC: Getir Founder, Nazim Salur on The Future of Last Mile Convenience, Who Will Win? Lessons on Driver Acquisition and Efficiency, Zone Maturity and Time To Profitability and Scaling to 300 Cities in the US in 2022
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nazim Salur is the Founder & CEO of Getir, one of the leading rapid delivery service providers that...
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Leone is the Global Managing Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s most renowned and...
20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sameer Gandhi is a Partner @ Accel, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade with a portf...
20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marcelo Claure serves as CEO of SoftBank Group International and COO of SoftBank Group Corp., the w...
20VC: Has Price Discipline Disappeared? Is it Possible to Build Ownership Over Time? Why Venture Is Less Collaborative Now Than Ever? How fast Do Breakout Companies Become Obvious? How To Construct an Optimised and Repeatable Investment Decision-Making Pr
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Rotman is a founding partner of QED Investors, one of the leading fintech-focused venture fir...
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emilie Choi is the President and Chief Operating Officer @ Coinbase, the easiest place to buy and s...
20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Strange is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the leading venture firms of th...
20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nicolas Szekasy is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Kaszek Ventures, the largest venture capita...
20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Miura Ko is the Co-Founding Partner @ Floodgate, one of the leading early-stage firms of the la...
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Lazerow is a serial entrepreneur and now Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Velvet Sea Ventures...
20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christa Quarles is the CEO @ Corel Corporation, building software solutions that simplify the task ...
20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Shalek is a General Partner @ Ribbit Capital, specializing in fintech they are one of the most...
20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Immelt is a Venture Partner @ NEA serving on both the technology and healthcare investing team...
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David George is a General Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz where he leads their growth investing pract...
20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Mehta is the CEO @ Gainsight, the leader in all things customer success helping you put your c...
20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Lore is a serial entrepreneur turned investor who’s started and sold four companies. Most re...
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Laela Sturdy is a General Partner @ CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund with investments i...
20VC: Twilio's Jeff Lawson on What It Takes To Create a Tribe, How To Create Anti-Fragile Organisations Through Decentralised Decision-Making and Why Values Are Nice But Principles Are Better
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Lawson is the Founder & CEO @ Twilio, the company that allows you to unite communications and ...
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Mullen is the Co-Founder of Bonfire Ventures, one of LA's leading early-stage funds, now on th...
20VC: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet, What Can Be Done To Drive Further Investment in UK Venture & A Breakdown of Morning Routines, Peloton Favourites and Managing Nerves
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Sunak was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 13 February 2020. He was previously Chief ...
20VC: GoPuff's Rafael Ilishayev on How GoPuff Has Been EBITDA Profitable From Day 1; The Unit Economics Behind GoPuff, With Intense Competition What Happens To The Food Delivery Space & What It Takes To Launch, Grow and Maintain New Markets
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rafael Ilishayev is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ GoPuff, one of the market leaders delivering daily es...
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Simons is a General Partner @ Bond Capital, with their $1.25Bn debut growth fund in 2019 they m...
20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Xu is the CEO and Co-founder of DoorDash, the company empowering merchants to grow their busin...
20VC: Ramp's Eric Glyman on Why You Should Never Take The Highest Price, Working With Venture Funds vs Crossover Funds and How To Determine What To Buy vs Build as a Founder Today?
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Glyman is the Founder and CEO @ Ramp, the only corporate card and spend management platform de...
20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Byron Deeter is a Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners and one of the world's leading investors in S...
20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nigel Morris is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of QED Investors, one of the leading fintech-fo...
20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
José Neves is the Founder, CEO & Chairman @ Farfetch, the #1 destination for high-end fashion off...
20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Deven Parekh is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, one of the leading investing franchises of...
20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Smith is the Founder and Executive Chairman @ Qualtrics, the leader in customer experience and...
20VC: MercadoLibre Founder Marcos Galperin on Optimising Decision-Making, Effective Resource Allocation, Growth vs Profitability, Fundraising Strategies and more on the Journey To Build a $72Bn Market Cap Company
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marcos Galperin is the Founder and CEO @ MercadoLibre, one of LATAM's most successful companies of ...
20VC: David Tisch on Why Ownership in Venture Does Not Matter, His Biggest Investing Misses and Hits and How His Investing Style Changed as a Result & 3 Core Reasons VCs Pass That Do Not Make Sense
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Tisch is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Box Group, one of the leading seed focused firms ...
20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Fralic is a Board Partner @ First Round Capital, one of the leading seed-stage venture firms ...
20VC: Rippling’s Parker Conrad on Why The VC/Founder Marriage Analogy is Weird, Why The Notion of Focus, Focus, Focus is Overrated, Why Narrow Point Solutions Are Not Best in Class Products & The Rise of the “Compound Startup”
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Parker Conrad is the Founder and CEO @ Rippling, the employee management platform allowing you to m...
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Reinhardt is the Founder and CEO @ Segment, the leading customer data platform with over 20,0...
20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Sze is a General Partner @ Greylock where he has led some of the firms most notable investmen...
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wade Foster is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Zapier, the company that moves info between your web apps aut...
20VC: Revolut Founder Nikolay Storonsky on His Leadership Style and Relationship To Ambition, His Biggest Lessons From Scaling Revolut Globally; What Worked, What Did Not & Why Speed of Product Shipment is The Most Important Thing
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nikolay Storonsky is the Founder & CEO @ Revolut, one of the world's largest and fastest-growing fi...
20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guillaume Pousaz is the Founder and CEO of Checkout.com, one of the world's leading global payments...
20VC: Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel on The Scaling Journey to a $26Bn Market Cap, The Challenges in Moving From Single To Multi-Product Company & How To Scale Efficiently into $M+ Enterprise Deals
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Olivier Pomel is the Founder & CEO @ Datadog, the company building the next generation of tools for...
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Lian is the Co-Founder and CEO @ CommonRoom, the place where your organization and your commu...
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Fenton is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the great venture firms of the last 3 decades...
20VC: Nubank CEO David Velez on Scaling Nubank to a $25BN Company, Why What Makes a Great Founder Does Not Make a Great CEO & The Responsibility Framework and How Leaders Can Use It To Drive Efficiency
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Velez is the Founder & CEO @ Nubank, one of the fastest growing digital banks in the world wi...
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Levine is a Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the leading venture firms of the las...
20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Fried is the Founder & CEO @ Basecamp, the project management and team communication tool tru...
20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Simón Borrero is the Founder & CEO @ Rappi, the startup that has become a cornerstone of the Latin...
20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Fadell, often referred to as “the father of the iPod,” is currently Principal @ Future Sha...
20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Sandell is the Managing General Partner of NEA, one of the leading firms of the last 3 decade...
20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Ek is the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the board of directors of Spotif...
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vlad Tenev is the Founder & CEO @ Robinhood, the company that provides commission-free investing, p...
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Siemiatkowski is the Founder and CEO @ Klarna, the company that makes online shopping sim...
20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Spence is the CEO @ Sonos, the sound experience company connecting millions of listeners ar...
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Liew is a Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading firms of the last decade...
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Todd McKinnon is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Okta, the identity layer for the internet, providing one tr...
20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Assaf Wand is the Founder & CEO @ Hippo Insurance, with over $700M in funding Hippo are setting a n...
20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Reber is the Founder & CEO of Pitch, the collaborative presentation software for modern t...
20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matan Bar is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Melio, the company that provides the simplest way to pay vendor...
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Eisenberg is a Co-Founder and Equal Partner @ Aleph, with over $550M under management and ...
20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Fishner-Wolfson is founder and the managing partner of 137 Ventures, a growth-stage venture ...
20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ilkka Paananen is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Supercell, the makers of some of the most wildly successfu...
20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hubert Palan is the Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard, helping product managers understand what customer...
20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alfred Lin is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world's most renowned and successful venture ...
20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Libin is the Founder and CEO @ mmhmm, the app that allows you to level up your remote presenta...
20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Dudum is the Founder & CEO @ Hims & Hers, offering a modern approach to health and wellness...
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Silverman is the CEO @ Etsy, leading the company as it builds a platform that empowers creativ...
20VC: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Ghodsi is the Founder & CEO @ Databricks, bringing together data engineering, science and anal...
20VC: Annie Duke on Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions, How To Evaluate Risk, The Theory of Sunk Cost in Venture & How to Optimise Both the Discussion and Quality of Investment Decisions
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Duke is a former professional poker player and the author of National Bestseller, "Thinking i...
20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Biz Stone is best known as the Co-Founder of Twitter and Medium. Biz is also an investor in the li...
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Marks is co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a leading investment fi...
20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Quentin Clark is a Managing Director @ General Catalyst, one of the most prominent firms of the las...
20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Avlok Kohli is the CEO of AngelList Venture which has facilitated the funding of over 5,000 startup...
20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Hsu is the Founder & CEO @ Retool, the company that allows you to build internal tools, remar...
20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan Field is the Founder & CEO @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test, and ship bette...
20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Johnny Boufarhat is the Founder & CEO @ Hopin, one of the fastest-growing companies on the planet, ...
20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reid Hoffman is a Silicon Valley stalwart in the modern technology world. On the investing side, he...
20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Katrina Lake is the Founder & CEO @ Stitch Fix, a multi-billion dollar public company, which has br...
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vlad Tenev is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Robinhood, the company that provides commission-free investing...
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Tavel is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade w...
20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alexis Ohanian is the Founder @ Seven Seven Six, his new fund which just recently announced their f...
20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stewart Butterfield is the Founder & CEO @ Slack, the leading channel-based messaging platform, use...
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Levine is a Partner @ Accel, one of the world's leading venture firms with a portfolio includin...
20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Derek Zanutto is a General Partner @ CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund with investmen...
20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Weinberg is a Co-Founder of Operator Partners, operators funding operators, with no outside LP...
20VC: The Implications of a Biden vs a Trump Administration on Venture and Startups, How The Rise of Rolling Funds, SPACs and Solo Capitalists Will Impact Venture & What We Can Do To Swing the Race Pendulum in VC with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Ligh
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Eggers is a Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners and currently Chair of the Nationa...
20VC: Unity Founder David Helgason on The Hypergrowth Early Days of Unity, Why Running A Company Is Like A Liberal Art, The Secret To A Successful CEO Transition and What Makes Roelof Botha Such A Special Board Member
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Helgason is the Founder @ Unity, the company that gives content creators the tools to create ...