Episodes

March 9, 2022

20 Sales: The Stripe Sales Playbook; Who Should Create It, When Shoul…

is Head of Americas Revenue & Growth @ Stripe. In this role, Jeanne is responsible for all sales functions across the region including Sales Development, AEs, Solutions Architects, and many more. Jeanne also continues to spearhead Stripe's...

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March 7, 2022

20VC: Shopify President, Harley Finkelstein on What is Being a Good H…

is the President of Shopify, the platform modern commerce is built on. Over the last 12 years, Harley has partnered with Tobi to the tune of building Shopify's revenue to over $4.6BN in 2021 and the team to over 10,000 employees. On the side, Harley...

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Feb. 28, 2022

20VC: 3 Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Scaling, Management 101 o…

is Vice Chairman of the Board of Pure Storage and served as the Company’s CEO from 2010 to 2017. Under his leadership, Pure grew to thousands of employees and completed an IPO in 2015. Dietzen is a four-time successful entrepreneur with WebLogic,...

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Feb. 25, 2022

20VC Exclusive: Sahil Bloom on Raising his Debut Venture Fund (SRB Ve…

is the Founding Partner @ SRB Ventures, a $10M fund that leverages the 500K followers Sahil has amassed to invest at the intersection of venture and media. Previously, Sahil spent 7 years at a large investment fund managing >$3.5 billion in capital...

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Feb. 23, 2022

The Tiger Global Memo: From Sequoia Capital to Benchmark and Thrive: …

Tiger Global are one of the most discussed venture firms on the planet. With a deal cadence and capital deployment speed that is unmatched, they have made their mark on the venture landscape like no other over the last 24 months. Today we are joined...

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Feb. 18, 2022

20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, …

is the Co-Founder and CEO @ , the online marketplace where retailers discover their next bestsellers from independent brands across the globe. To date, Max has raised over $1.1BN with Faire from some of the best including Sequoia, Founders Fund, DST,...

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Feb. 16, 2022

20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons St…

is an angel investor and growth advisor to various startups including Lime, Zwift, Whoop, Crimson Education, GoPeer, and Playbook. Ed was the VP of Product and Growth at Uber from 2013-2017. Prior to Uber, Ed was the Head of International Growth at...

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Feb. 14, 2022

20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or …

is the Founder and Managing Partner @ , now with over $1BN in AUM, Bedrock invests in breakout technology companies that are incongruent with popular narratives. In the past, Geoff has backed some generational defining companies such as Wish, Lyft,...

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Feb. 11, 2022

20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The …

is the Founder and CEO @ , the company incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Prior to their IPO in 2015, Aaron raised from some of the best in the business...

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Feb. 9, 2022

20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team,…

is an entrepreneur, author, investor, and currently serves as Adobe’s Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud. Scott oversees all of product and engineering for Creative Cloud, as well as design for Adobe. In 2006, Scott...

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Feb. 7, 2022

20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Success…

is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ , one of the great seed firms of the last decade with a portfolio including Uber, Coupang, Airtable, Whoop and many more incredible companies. Previously, David was Co-Founder and CEO of Internet Solutions (IS),...

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Feb. 4, 2022

20VC: Mark Cuban on Reshaping the Pharmaceuticals Industry, How To Hi…

is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and owner of the . Today we are focused on Mark's latest entrepreneurial endeavor, starting , the online pharmacy taking out the middlemen, meaning no price games and huge drug savings. As mentioned, Mark...

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Feb. 2, 2022

20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, Wha…

is a Partner @ and one of the great sales leaders of the last decade. Prior to entering the world of venture, Dannie spent 4 years at Slack as their Head of Enterprise Sales, there Dannie built & scaled the self-serve / SMB, mid-market, and...

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Jan. 31, 2022

20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Mar…

is a Founding Partner @ , one of the most successful seed funds of the last decade with $475 million across their four funds. Previous investments include The Trade Desk, Datadog, Digital Ocean, Wise and Recorded Future. Most recently, Roger took a...

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Jan. 28, 2022

20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was…

is the Managing General Partner of , one of the leading firms of the last 3 decades with now close to $24Bn under management and a portfolio including Salesforce, Robinhood, Plaid, Databricks and more. As for Scott, since joining the firm...

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Jan. 26, 2022

20VC: Sweetgreen Founder Jonathan Neman on Leadership Lessons from Ma…

is Co-Founder & CEO of , the mission-driven restaurant brand that serves healthy food at scale. Alongside his co-founders, Jon has scaled Sweetgreen from one small restaurant to one of the US' leading food brands with over 5,000 employees, over...

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Jan. 24, 2022

20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business an…

is the Founder & CEO @ , offering DNA testing with the most comprehensive ancestry breakdown, personalized health insights, and more. To date, Anne has raised over $1BN for the company from the likes of Sequoia, GV, NEA and many more incredible...

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Jan. 21, 2022

20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A…

is the CEO @ , a mentorship community and communal VC fund that announced their new $150M fund last year on the back of early hits from Fund I including Vanta and Kalshi. As an angel, Ali has made personal investments in Dropbox, Uber, Airbnb,...

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Jan. 19, 2022

20Growth: The Biggest Lie in Startup Growth and Marketing, Why You Do…

is Chief Growth Officer and Co-founder at , the healthcare technology company building a patient-centric healthcare system. To date, Ro has raised over $870M with a last reported valuation of $5BN and under Rob’s growth leadership, Ro has become one...

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Jan. 17, 2022

20VC: Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on How To Narrow The Focus and Inc…

Frank Slootman currently serves as Chairman and CEO at and has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the enterprise software industry. Prior to Snowflake, Frank served as CEO and President of ServiceNow taking the company...

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Jan. 14, 2022

20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN…

is the Founder & CEO @ , the world's first and largest NFT marketplace allowing you to discover, collect, and sell extraordinary NFTs. To date, Devin has raised over $423M for the company with their last $300M round valuing Opensea at $13.3BN....

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Jan. 12, 2022

20VC: The Memo: Never Before Revealed Metrics; A Full Breakdown of Un…

is the Founder & CEO @ , a global platform for instant retail delivery at a hyper-local scale serving both the US and LATAM. Ralf has raised over $260M for the company, most recently valuing it at $1.2BN. Prior to JOKR, Ralf spent 7...

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Jan. 10, 2022

20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Onl…

is Vice Chair of and Head of Transition Investing. Prior to Brookfield, Mark served as the Governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, and prior to that as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 until 2013. Mark was also Chairman of the...

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Jan. 5, 2022

20VC: Whoop Founder, Will Ahmed on How CEOs Can Perform at their High…

is the Founder and CEO @ , the company on a mission to unlock human performance with their wearable device that is your digital fitness and health coach. To date, Will has raised over $400M for the company with the last round valuing Whoop at $3.6BN...

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