Episodes

Sept. 12, 2022

20VC: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really "Venture Capital" | Th…

is a Partner @ . Over the last decade, the team at Slow Ventures have invested in the earliest rounds of over 500 companies including Robinhood, NextDoor, Airtable, Solana and many more. As for Will, prior to Slow he spent over 8 years at Industry...

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Sept. 7, 2022

20VC News: Anchor Founder, Mike Mignano Joins Lightspeed as Partner: …

is a Partner @ , one of the most successful venture firms of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Snap, Affirm, Epic Games, Mulesoft and more. As for Mike, prior to venture, he was Head of Talk for Spotify where he led the podcast,...

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Sept. 2, 2022

20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and Th…

is the CEO @ Arm. The technologies that Arm creates are used in over 230+ Bn devices with everything from sensors to smartphones to servers. In 2016 Softbank made Arm it's largest ever acquisition with a reported price of $32Bn. As for Rene, he was...

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Aug. 31, 2022

20Product: Calendly CPO Annie Pearl on Why All PLG Companies Eventual…

is the CPO @ , the company that makes scheduling meetings simple and painless. The company now has over 10M users around the world and over 50,000 companies loving the product. As for Annie, before Calendly, Annie led Glassdoor's product vision and...

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Aug. 29, 2022

20VC: Is Now Really the Best Time to Be Investing? WTF is Happening a…

is a Managing Director @ , a firm with a portfolio including the likes of Stripe, Nubank, Twilio, Netflix, Snowflake and many more incredible names. As for Logan, at Redpoint he has led investments in the likes of Ramp, Monte Carlo, Cribl, Crossbeam...

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Aug. 26, 2022

20VC: Bumble's Whitney Wolfe Herd on How The Best Leaders Manage Inte…

is the Founder and CEO @ , changing the way people date, find friends, and the perception of meeting online, for the better. Women make the first move. Over an incredible 6 year journey, Whitney has scaled Bumble to a community of over 100 million...

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Aug. 24, 2022

20VC: 10 Lessons on Scaling 20VC to 100M+ Downloads | How To Build an…

Over the last 7 years, I have scaled to 100M+ downloads, and listeners in 117 countries, and all of this with a spend of less than $1,000. Here are 10 of my biggest lessons: Lesson 1: Persistence: This is a game of who can last the longest. ...

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Aug. 22, 2022

20VC: Why Market Always Wins Over the Founder & Why I Do Not Do Marke…

is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at , a $450M early-stage fund, launched earlier this year. Wes is an investor in five $10B+ "decacorns," his most notable being Canva where he is a member of the board of directors and led the Series A and C...

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Aug. 17, 2022

20 Sales: Three Reasons Why Sales People Fail | The Two Things That M…

is a Revenue Leader @ , the world's first data observability company. Prior to this role, Jordan spent an incredible 4 years in sales at Segment including as VP of Sales leading a sales team of 50+ Account Executives and leading the first...

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Aug. 15, 2022

20VC: Fintech OG Sheel Mohnot on Lessons from Investing in Flexport a…

is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $225M fund that leads rounds in pre-seed and seed-stage fintech companies globally. Sheel and Jake (his co-founder) invested for many years together...

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Aug. 12, 2022

20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Re…

is an entrepreneur and investor who has founded and led some of the world’s most iconic businesses. He is currently the Chairman & CEO of Claure Capital, a newly founded multi-billion-dollar global investment firm. Before this, Marcelo was COO @...

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Aug. 10, 2022

20 Growth: Why You Need a Growth Hire Pre Product-Market-Fit? Why Eve…

is SVP Marketing at HubSpot, where he has helped the business grow internationally, move to a product-led business, quadrupled its marketing demand, and built out its media team, including the acquisition of 'The Hustle.' He is also an advisor and...

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Aug. 8, 2022

20VC: Investing Lessons from Fred Wilson and Why Small Funds Outperfo…

is the Founder and General Partner @ Shine Capital, who announced earlier this year Shine II, a $200M early-stage fund, and Shine Opportunities I, a $100M vehicle. Prior to founding Shine, Mo was the Managing Member @ Moko Brands where he made angel...

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Aug. 5, 2022

20VC: Raising $60M and Not Touching a Dollar of It; The 3 Decisions T…

Sameer Shariff is the Co-Founder and CEO @ , the company that allows you to become fluent faster through one-on-one video chat lessons with native English tutors. To date, Sameer has raised over $60M with Cambly from the best including Jeremy Levine @...

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Aug. 3, 2022

20 Product: Shreyas Doshi on The Three Different Types of Product Lea…

is an investor, advisor, and all-around product OG. Most recently Shreyas spent over 5 years at Stripe where he was Stripe's first PM Manager and helped define and grow the Product Management function (from ~5 to more than 50 people). Before Stripe,...

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Aug. 1, 2022

20VC: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on The Biggest Challenges Scaling Bo…

is the Founder and Managing Partner @ , one of the leading firms of the last decade investing at the intersection of innovation and culture. As a founder, Kirsten has led efforts to raise over $2B+ from leading institutional investors and invest in...

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July 29, 2022

20VC: Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on The Yahoo Turnaround Plan; What Needs …

is the CEO @ Yahoo, a company that today reaches nearly 900 million people around the world and is the third largest property on the Internet. Prior to Yahoo, Tim was the CEO of Tinder, the world’s most popular app for meeting new people, downloaded...

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July 27, 2022

20VC: The Memo: What is a Sales Playbook? Does the Founder Need to Cr…

Today we deconstruct the canonical question in early-stage sales. Does the founder need to create the sales playbook? Then secondly, if not, should the first sales hires be reps or a sales leader? Today we are joined by 7 of the best sales leaders to...

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July 25, 2022

20VC: Tony Fadell on The 3 Hats of Being a CEO, How the Best Leaders …

, often referred to as the father of the iPod is one of the leading product thinkers of the last 30 years as one of the makers of some of the most revolutionary products in society from the iPhone and iPod to more recently founding Nest, creating the...

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July 22, 2022

20VC: Why Market Matters So Much More Than Founding Team | Why Crypto…

is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ , one of the leading crypto native funds of the last decade with positions in Solana, FTX, Fractal, and Helium to name a few. As for Kyle, before moving to the world of venture and crypto, he founded Pristine,...

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July 20, 2022

20 Sales: The Biggest Challenges Building Outbound Sales Teams and Ho…

is the VP of Sales and Customer Success @ , an essential tool for hybrid and remote teams allowing you to record quick videos of your screen and cam. At Loom Sam leads Revenue Org including: Direct Sales, Customer Success, Self-Serve Revenue...

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July 18, 2022

20VC: Why Being First Does Not Matter, Why Defensibility on Day 1 Doe…

is a Co-founder and the Chief Strategy Officer of , the modern customer communications platform that unifies every aspect of the customer journey. To date, Intercom has raised over $238M from some of the best including Index, ICONIQ, , GV, and...

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July 15, 2022

20VC: The Most Powerful Investor You Might Not Know | Why The Distinc…

is the Head of Private Companies at Baillie Gifford. As of 31st March 2022, funds under Baillie Gifford's management and advice totaled £277bn. The firm is owned and run by 51 of its senior executives who operate as a partnership, a structure that...

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July 13, 2022

20 Growth: Shopify's VP of Growth on Why Standalone Growth Teams Oper…

is currently the VP of Growth at  and also advises companies like , , and . At the age of 21,  founded , the world’s first travel blogging platform. 10 years later, TravelPod was acquired by ,...

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