20VC: SPACS. WHAT ARE THEY? WHY NOW? HOW DO THEY CHANGE THE VENTURE LANDSCAPE? ARE THEY BETTER THAN IPOS & DIRECT LISTINGS? HOW SHOULD FOUNDERS THINK ABOUT THEM?

Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder & Partner @ A*, a newly listed special acquisition company which raised $200M to acquire and take public a tech startup. Kevin is also the Co-Founder, former CEO, and Ch...

20VC: SAHIL LAVINGIA ON ROLLING FUNDS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF VENTURE

Sahil Lavingia is the Founder and CEO @ Gumroad, the company that helps creators do more of what they love. However, most recently Sahil has made waves launching one of the first rolling funds on An...

20VC: WHY ENTREPRENEURS CARE LESS ABOUT FIRM BRAND AT SEED, HOW LPS SHOULD THINK ABOUT GP COMMIT & HOW THE WORLD OF LPS AND FUNDRAISING WILL CHANGE POST COVID WITH APURVA MEHTA, MANAGING PARTNER @ SUMMIT PEAK INVESTMENTS

Apurva Mehta is the Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments, investing in early-stage venture capital funds and making direct co-investments. To date they have backed the likes of Raymond Tonsing...

20VC: Oren Zeev On Why Diversification Is Overrated, The Downside Of Thematic Investing, Making Quality Decisions In Uncertain Conditions & Why He Has No Reserves Allocation

Oren Zeev is the Founding Partner @ Zeev Ventures, one of the best and most under the radar firms in the early stage Silicon Valley landscape. Over the past decade, Oren has backed the likes of Trip...

20VC: How Fundraising for Funds Has Changed in the World of Covid, the Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their Gp & How to Think Through Your “minimum Viable Fund Size” With Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital

Lo Toney is the Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital, a very unique firm making both direct investments and fund investments. They have invested in Precursor, Boldstart, Female Founders Fund an...

20VC: ELAD GIL ON STARTUP OFFENSE AND DEFENCE IN A RECESSION, HOW THE VENTURE LANDSCAPE HAS SHIFTED & ALL THINGS VALUATIONS, SECONDARIES AND LAYOFFS

Elad Gil is one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and prominent angels of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Stripe, Square, Airbnb, Pinterest, Instacart, Flexport and Brex t...

20VC: SARAH KUNST ON WHY THERE IS PLENTY OF INVESTOR MONEY STILL AVAILABLE, THE MEGAN MARKLE EFFECT AND HOW IT IMPACTS HIRING AND TALENT & WHETHER GP COMMITS PREVENT DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Sarah Kunst is the Founder and Managing Director @ Cleo Capital with a portfolio including the likes of StyleSeat, Glow Bar and PlateJoy to name a few. Prior to venture, Sarah served as a senior ad...

20VC: UPFRONT’S MARK SUSTER ON COVID REDEFINING WHAT A GREAT COMPANY LOOKS LIKE AND WHAT VALUATIONS LOOK LIKE, WHY PAY-TO-PLAY IS BACK ON THE TABLE & WHY WE WILL SEE THE DEATH OF PARTY ROUNDS

Mark Suster is the Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures, one of LA’s leading and largest venture firms with a portfolio including the likes of Bird, GOAT, Maker Studios and Ring.com to name a few. ...

20VC: ARE VCS STILL “OPEN FOR BUSINESS”, HOW VCS ATTITUDE TO RISK HAS CHANGED & THE 2 MOST VALUABLE ASSETS TO FOUNDERS TODAY WITH FRED DESTIN, FOUNDING PARTNER @ STRIDE VC

Fred Destin is a Founding Partner @ Stride.VC, one of Europe’s newest and largest early-stage seed firms. Prior to co-founding Stride, Fred was a General Partner @ Accel where he was the lead inve...

20VC: MATT MOCHARY ON WHY BOARD SEATS ARE THE DEATH OF INVESTORS

Matt Mochary coaches some of the world’s leading venture capitalists and founders helping them to build the best organizations possible. On the VC side, Matt has worked with Peter Fenton @ Benchmar...

20VC: INDEX VENTURES PARTNER, MARK GOLDBERG ON THE QUESTIONS FOUNDERS MUST ASK A MULTI-STAGE FUND BEFORE TAKING THEIR MONEY AT SEED

Mark Goldberg is a Partner @ Index Ventures, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Dropbox, Revolut, Supercell, Plaid and Transferwise to name a...

20VC: VINOD KHOSLA ON WHAT VENTURE ASSISTANCE REALLY MEANS, WHY MANY VCS ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO ADVISE FOUNDERS & WHY STARTUPS CAN INNOVATE SO MUCH FASTER THAN INCUMBENTS

Vinod Khosla is the Founder Khosla Ventures, one of the valley’s most renowned firms of the last decade with a portfolio including Square, Affirm, DoorDash, Impossible Foods and OpenDoor just to nam...

20VC: LESSONS FROM 150 ANGEL INVESTMENTS INTO THE LIKES OF CARTA, GUSTO, AIRTABLE AND SUPERHUMAN, CREATING ALGORITHMS AND MODELS FOR INVESTING AT SEED

Jude Gomila is the Founder & CEO @ Golden, creating the world’s first self-constructing knowledge database built by artificial and human intelligence. To date, Jude has raised from some of th...

MEET FIRST ROUND CAPITAL’S NEWEST PARTNER, HOW TO APPROACH GENERATIONAL TRANSITION AS A VENTURE FIRM & THE DANGERS OF ATTRIBUTION IN VENTURE

Todd Jackson is First Round Capital‘s newest Partner having spent the last 2 years as a Founder-in-Residence working with the FRC portfolio. Prior to his time in venture, Todd spent close to 3 yea...

20VC: HOW TO THINK THROUGH PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION AND THE BUSINESS MODEL OF VC

Adam D’Augelli is a Partner @ True Ventures, one of the West Coast’s leading early-stage funds with a portfolio including the likes of Fitbit, Peloton, Hashicorp, Tray.io, Ring, Automattic (mak...

20VC: BOXGROUP’S DAVID TISCH ON WHETHER CONCENTRATED INVESTING AT SEED WORKS, DO FOUNDERS REALLY WANT DIRECT FEEDBACK AND IS IT GOOD FOR THEM & WHY CONSUMER SOCIAL IS INTERESTING AGAIN

David Tisch is the Founder & Managing Partner @ BoxGroup, one of the leading early-stage firms in NYC with a portfolio that includes the likes of Flexport, RigUp, Ro, Glossier, Clearbit, PillPa...

20VC: INSIDE THE MIND OF A LEADING LP: HOW LPS EVALUATE NEW FUND MANAGERS ON EVERYTHING FROM FIRST MEETING TO PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION TO FEES AND CARRY WITH LISA EDGAR, MANAGING DIRECTOR @ TOP TIER CAPITAL PARTNERS

Lisa Edgar is a Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners, one of the leading venture fund of funds over the last decade. Included in their stellar fund portfolio is the likes of Index, Initiali...

20VC: WORKLIFE VENTURES’ BRIANNE KIMMEL ON WHY MORE OPERATORS SHOULD START THEIR OWN FUND, HOW TO STRUCTURE YOUR ROUND FOR THE HIGHEST SIGNAL ROUND & WHAT THE MULTI-STAGE FUNDS PLAYING AT SEED MEANS FOR THE REST OF THE ASSET CLASS

Brianne Kimmel is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Work Life Ventures, a very new firm focused on the future of work backed by some of the best in the valley including Marc Andreesen, Chris Dixon,...

20VC: BRAD FELD ON WHY MARKET SIZE AT EARLY STAGE IS NOT HELPFUL

Brad Feld is Managing Director @ Foundry Group, one of the most successful venture firms of the last decade with a portfolio that includes the likes of Zynga, Fitbit, SendGrid and many more incredib...

20VC: HAYSTACK’S SEMIL SHAH ON HOW FUND STRATEGY CHANGES WITH FUND SCALING & WHY THE HARDEST CHALLENGE IS PRICE DISCIPLINE

Semil Shah is the Founder & General Partner @ Haystack, one of the valley’s leading seed funds of the last 5 years with a portfolio including the likes of Instacart, DoorDash, Carta, OpenDoor,...

20VC: BENCHMARK’S BILL GURLEY ON 5 TRAITS BENCHMARK LOOK FOR WHEN ADDING TO THE PARTNERSHIP, WHY THE ABUNDANCE OF CAPITAL IS TODAY’S BIGGEST CHALLENGE IN VC

Bill Gurley is a General Partner @ Benchmark Capital, one of the most successful funds of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, StitchFix,...

20VC: WHY HISTORICAL LOSS RATIOS ARE SIMPLY TOO HIGH, JONATHAN HSU, CO-FOUNDER AND GENERAL PARTNER @ TRIBE CAPITAL

Jonathan Hsu is Co-Founder & General Partner @ Tribe Capital, one of Silicon Valley’s newest funds on the block being founded by Jonathan, Arjun Sethi and Ted Maidenberg. To date, Tribe has in...

20VC: WHY PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION IS INEFFICIENT, WHY THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IN VENTURE IS PRICING & THE FUTURE OF VENTURE

Zach Coelius is Managing Partner @ Coelius Capital and in his own words, “a pretty eclectic investor who loves to see just about any deal”. To date, Zach has made investments in the likes of mPa...

20MinVC Podcast with Sarah Smith, Bain Capital Ventures

Sarah Smith is a Partner @ Bain Capital Ventures, a leading US venture fund with a portfolio that includes the likes of LinkedIn, Lime, SendGrid, Jet.com and more incredible companies. As for Sarah,...

20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers & The Current State of Seed Today

20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring As...

Twenty Minute VC Podcast: What LPs Look For In GPs

Beezer Clarkson is Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures where she leads Sapphire’s investments in venture funds domestically and internationally. Prior to joining Sapphire, Beezer managed day-to...

Twenty Minute VC Podcast: Beezer Clarkson, Sapphire Ventures

Yesterday was my second time going on The Twenty Minute VC to share my perspective as a limited partner (LP) in venture. I always love conversations with Harry Stebbings, a good friend who is always f...

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