Episodes

May 9, 2022

20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; Wh…

is the Founding Partner @ , with over 700 investments, Fabrice has had over 250 exits and built a portfolio including Alibaba, Coupang, Airbnb, Instacart, Flexport, and Delivery Hero, and many more. Prior to FJ Labs, Fabrice served as CEO for three...

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May 6, 2022

20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-…

is the Founder and Managing Partner @ , a social community of 500,000+ SaaS founders and a $100M venture fund. In the past, Jason has made investments in the likes of Algolia, Talkdesk, Pipedrive, and RevenueCat to name a few. Prior to SaaStr, Jason...

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May 4, 2022

20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of En…

is the Founder and Chairman @ , one of the  with a portfolio including Uber, Stripe, Twitter, Instagram, Twilio, Docker and many more. Why does Chris believe we have bred a generation of asshole kids? What is the right way...

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May 2, 2022

20VC: Scaling to $2BN AUM in 3 years, Fundraising Lessons and Tactics…

is the Founder and Managing Partner @ , one of the fastest-growing growth equity firms of the last five years. Just yesterday, Left Lane announced the closing of their new fund taking their AUM to over $2BN with an early portfolio including M1...

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April 29, 2022

20VC: Scaling to $122M ARR IPO with $6M in Net Burn, Olo. The Ultimat…

is the Founder and CEO @ Olo, the interface between restaurants and the on-demand world powering millions of orders per day. Olo is an incredible tale of capital efficiency, at IPO the company had a net burn of just...

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April 27, 2022

20 Sales: Zoom's Head of North America Sales on When To Hire a Head o…

is Head of North America Sales at Zoom Video Communications. Before joining Zoom, Mitch spent over 5 years at RingCentral including as Senior VP of Worldwide Sales and Customer Success. Finally, before RingCentral, Mitch was at Oracle for over 7 years...

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April 25, 2022

20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at S…

is a Partner at , one of the leading firms investing in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what is possible. Deena has led a number of investments including in Maven Clinic, Mos, Ramp, Alife and SteadyMD to...

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April 22, 2022

20VC: How Today's Market Changes How Companies Should Approach Burn a…

is Partner and Head of International Investments at , one of the leading fintech venture firms today with a portfolio including Nubank, Kavak, Klarna, Quinto Andar and Bitso to name a few. As for Bill, he has led investments in Nubank, Loft,...

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April 20, 2022

20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How …

is Chief Product Officer @ , the company revolutionizing consumer finance with commission-free investing, and tools to help shape your financial future. As for Aparna, prior to Robinhood, she spent an incredible 12 years at Google, most recently as VP...

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April 15, 2022

20VC: Brex's Henrique Dubugras on Advice from Evan Spiegel and Eric S…

is the Founder and CEO @ , the company re-imagining financial systems so every growing company can realize its full potential. To date, Henrique has raised over $1.1BN for Brex from some of the best including Ribbit, Greenoaks, DST, IVP, Caffeinated...

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April 13, 2022

20VC Exclusive: Fast's Domm Holland on What Really Happened at Fast? …

Domm Holland is the Founder and CEO @ Fast. Last week Fast announced they would be shutting down the company. In this exclusive 20VC episode we discuss: What really happened with Domm's towing business in Australia? What are the 1-2 biggest...

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April 11, 2022

20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outc…

is Co-Founder & Partner @ , last month Electric announced they had raised $1BN for their new fund making them one of the largest independent and crypto-native VC firms in the world. As for Avichal, prior to Electric, he was an investor in crypto...

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April 8, 2022

20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is…

is a General Partner @ , one of the leading later-stage venture capital and growth equity firms of the last decade with $8.7 billion of committed capital and a 40-year IRR of 43.1%. At IVP eric has led investments in Datadog, Github, Klarna, Robinhood...

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April 6, 2022

20 Growth: Why Retention Defines Product Market Fit, What is Good Ret…

Brian Hale is Vice President of Consumer Product & Growth @ Doordash. Before joining Doordash, Brian spent an incredible 10 years at Facebook, most recently as VP of Product Growth working across Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp and more. Prior to...

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April 4, 2022

20VC: Founding Legendary Entertainment and Creating Batman, The Hango…

Thomas Tull is a leading entrepreneur and investor as the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Tulco, LLC. he has made notable investments in the likes of FIGS, Colossal, IL MAKIAGE, Pinterest, Zoox and Oculus Rift. Previously, Tull was the founder, CEO and...

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April 1, 2022

20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startu…

is the Co-Founder and CEO @ , a network where product experts monetize their passion and help consumers make the perfect purchase. To date, Eddie has raised over $141M from some of the best including CapitalG, Greylock and Forerunner to name a few....

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March 30, 2022

20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operati…

is the Chief Revenue Officer @ where she leads the Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Customer Experience teams. Prior to Notion, Olivia was the COO @ Dropbox where she achieved the first 4 quarters of profitable growth. Before Dropbox Olivia...

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March 28, 2022

20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Tw…

is the Managing Director @ , one of the leading investing franchises of the last 25 years with their most recent flagship fund announced earlier this year being a staggering $20BN. As for Jeff, over the last 24 years at Insight, he has led investments...

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March 25, 2022

20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instag…

is the Chief Product Officer at  where he leads the PM, product design, research, and growth marketing teams. Prior to Eventbrite, Casey spent close to 3 years at Pinterest where he led the growth product team.  is one of the...

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March 23, 2022

20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Tes…

is the Founder & CEO @ , the fastest-growing marketplace in the US, empowering people to make a living off their passion. To date, Grant has raised over $225M for Whatnot from the likes of CapitalG, a16z, YC, Scribble Ventures and Wonder Ventures...

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March 21, 2022

20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 We…

is a Partner @ , one of the world’s most renowned and successful venture firms with Sequoia-backed companies accounting for more than 20% of NASDAQ's total value. As for Luciana, at Sequoia she has led investments in the likes of PennyLane, Xentral,...

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March 16, 2022

20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager…

is one of the OGs of product, having spent over 7 years at Airbnb as a product lead he left to start his newsletter, find it . This has scaled to thousands upon thousands of readers and is one of the most popular newsletters on Substack. Lenny is also...

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March 14, 2022

20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, T…

is Founder and CEO of  (TPB), a holding company established to solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production. Prior to founding The Production Board, David founded The Climate...

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March 11, 2022

20VC: Gitlab CEO Sid Sijbrandij on Why You Are Not Allowed to Present…

is the Co-founder & CEO @ . GitLab’s single application helps organizations deliver software faster and more efficiently while strengthening their security and compliance. Prior to their IPO last year, Sid raised funding from some of the best...

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