Episodes

July 11, 2022

20VC: Matt Mullenweg on Relationships to Risk, Money and Insecurity a…

is the Founder of Automattic, the force behind WordPress, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Longreads, Simplenote, Pocket Casts, and more. What started as a simple open-source blogging platform, Matt has turned into one of the most significant internet...

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July 8, 2022

20VC: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | Why Divers…

is a solo GP with and one of the most respected and successful early-stage investors in Europe over the last two decades. Among Mike's incredible portfolio includes the likes of King.com (makers of Candy Crush), Houzz, Tipalti, Snyk, and Tray.io, to...

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July 6, 2022

20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Bes…

is an entrepreneur, master of product reviews, author, investor, and currently serves as Adobe’s Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud. , often referred to as the father of the iPod is one of the leading product...

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July 1, 2022

20VC: Hiring 101; The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Pr…

is the co-founder and CEO of , a leading HR technology company, currently valued at $5 billion. During the journey, Daniel has raised over $679M for Checkr from some of the best including , , Coatue, GV, and IVP to name a few. Prior to Checkr, Daniel...

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June 29, 2022

20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Less…

is a General Partner @ , Bill, is widely recognized as one of the greats of our time having worked with the likes of GrubHub, NextDoor, Uber, OpenTable, Stitch Fix, and Zillow.  is the Global Managing Partner @ , one of the...

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June 27, 2022

20VC: Accel's Sonali De Rycker on Building a Generational Defining Ve…

is a Partner @ , one of the leading firms of the last 3 decades with a portfolio that includes the likes of UiPath, Miro, Spotify, and many more incredible companies. As for Sonali, Sonali led Accel’s investments in Avito (acquired by Naspers),...

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June 24, 2022

20VC: From Kitchen Table to $134M Fund II; Raising Your First Time Fu…

is Managing Partner of , on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in 1,000 diverse founders over the next 20 years. From a kitchen table with his Co-Founder, Jarrid, Henri has scaled Harlem in just a few years to their latest...

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June 22, 2022

20 Sales: Why Founders Should Not Be The One To Create The Sales Play…

is the CRO @ , the leading visual collaboration platform that helps bring teams together and meaningfully improves the way people work. At Miro, I run the go-to-market team of 700+ people across 11 global offices. Prior to Miro, Zhenya was the COO @...

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June 20, 2022

20VC: Gary Vaynerchuk on The Most Painful Lessons Learned but Why it …

is a serial entrepreneur and serves as the Chairman of ,  the CEO of  and the Creator & CEO of . Now Gary is a content machine and documents his life as a CEO daily through his social media channels which have more than 34...

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June 17, 2022

20VC: The Scaling Story of Soho House: Overcoming Dyslexia, Building …

is the Founder & CEO @ , it all started in 1995 when Nick opened the first location above his restaurant, Cafe Boheme, a members’ club for the local artists and actors of London. Today, Soho House is a global brand, a private members club that...

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June 15, 2022

20 Growth: Viral Loops; How To Create and Sustain Them, Why Interview…

is one of the leading growth practitioners of the last decade. Most recently, Adam was the Chief Product and Growth Offer at Imperfect Foods, where Adam built a 40-person product and growth organization, responsible for 70% of overall company metrics...

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June 13, 2022

20VC: Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah on The 3 Risks All Startups Fa…

is the Founder and CTO @ , a full CRM platform with marketing, sales, service, and CMS software. Dharmesh started Hubspot in 2006 and today it is a publicly-traded company (NYSE: HUBS) with over 3,500+ people and a market capitalization of $16.9...

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June 10, 2022

20VC: Why and How Traditional Venture Firms Need to Innovate, Buildin…

is a Founder and Partner @ South Park Commons Fund, a home for the most talented technologists, builders, and domain experts figuring out what's next. Prior to SPC, Ruchi was the first female executive at Dropbox and served as their Vice President of...

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June 8, 2022

20 Product: Twitter's Former Head of Product, Kayvon Beykpour on How …

is one of the most prominent product leaders of the last decade. For the last 7 years, Kayvon has been at Twitter where he led all of the teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Research and Customer Service & Operations. Kayvon came to Twitter...

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June 6, 2022

20VC: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital, What Existing Incumbent …

is the Co-Founder of , a web3 startup that has raised over $28M from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, IDEO, and 300+ investors. Previously, Ian was Managing Partner of , a crypto venture fund backed by IDEO focused on web3, crypto, and...

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June 1, 2022

20VC: The Most Revealing Breakdown of Unit Economics for Quick Commer…

Over the last 10 days, we have seen unprecedented levels of layoffs from some of the biggest quick commerce providers in the world from Getir to GoPuff to Zapp and Gorillas. Today we dive into the world of quick commerce in emerging markets to uncover...

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May 30, 2022

20VC: Keith Rabois on Why Buy Low, Sell High Does Not Work in Venture…

is a General Partner @ , one of the best performing funds of the last decade with a portfolio including Facebook, Airbnb, SpaceX, Stripe, Anduril, the list goes on. As for Keith, he has led the first institutional investments in DoorDash, Affirm and...

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May 27, 2022

20VC: Scaling from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M, Why Seed May Be The Bes…

is the Founder and Managing Partner of . An original super angel turned multi-stage investor, he has been named on the Forbes Midas List for the past nine years (2014-2022). Felicis has been an incredible 16-year journey starting with a $4M Fund I...

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May 25, 2022

20 Sales: How To Create and Execute a World-Class Sales Playbook, Why…

Oliver Jay (OJ) is one of the most successful sales leaders of the last decade. Most recently, OJ spent 6 years at Asana where he was hired as the company's first revenue leader. As CRO, OJ was responsible for product-led and sales-led revenue and...

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May 23, 2022

20VC: Oren Zeev on Raising 3 Funds and $1BN in 12 Months; Why Tempora…

is the Founding Partner @ and one of the OGs of solo capitalism. Oren has an incredible portfolio including investments in Audible, Houzz, Chegg, Riverside, Tipalti, TripActions, and Firebolt to name a few. Oren is also very unlike any other VC firm,...

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May 20, 2022

20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, Wh…

is the Founder and CEO @ , a leading online employment marketplace that uses AI-driven matching technology to actively connect millions of businesses and job seekers to their next great opportunity. Since co-founding the company in 2010, more than...

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May 18, 2022

20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How…

is one of the pre-eminent growth leaders of the last decade. As a growth OG, he has been VP Growth @ Airtable, where he led the growth, engineering, and product teams. Before Airtable, Darius was Head of Product Growth @ Facebook Messenger and...

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May 16, 2022

20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm…

is the Co-Founder and Managing Director @ , one of the leading venture firms of the last decade with a portfolio including Stripe, Snap, Airbnb, Anduril, Canva and many more amazing names. Prior to founding General Catalyst with Joel Cutler, David was...

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May 11, 2022

20 Product: iPhone Creator, Tony Fadell on Marketing Lessons Learned …

, 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 game-changing products in society from the iPhone and iPod to more recently founding Nest, creating the...

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