The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation | Deel vs Rippling: WTF is Going On | Management Lessons from Ben Horowitz and Nik Storonsky | Deel's M&A Playbook: Lessons from 13 Acquisitions: What Works & What Doesn't
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Alex Bouaziz is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Deel, the $17BN global payroll juggernaut that just last week announced their latest $300M fundraise led by Ribbit, a16z and Coatue. Deel has been on the most insane journey, they do $1BN+ in ARR, they just had their first $100M revenue month and they have been profitable for over 3 years.
AGENDA:
Announcing $300M Fundraise at a $17BN Valuation
Rippling vs Deel: WTF is Going On? Where is the Lawsuit?
Why 1-1s Are BS and Leaders Should Stop Doing Them
Do Rich Leaders Make Better Leaders
Biggest Lesson from Ben Horowitz? Why Most CMOs Are Bad?
Lessons from Nik @ Revolut and Why Companies Need to Make Their Own Software
Deel's Acquisition Playbook: Lessons from 13 Acquisitions
How to Price Acquisitions? How to Align Incentives with Founders?
Deel is Profitable and Growing Fast: When is the IPO?
Best Acquisition Ever + Worst Ever: What Did We Learn?
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