The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index's Decacorn Factory | Decision-Making, Investment Process, Biggest Lessons, Biggest Misses | Why Gross Margin is a Fallacy at Seed | Never Turn Down a Deal on Price with Martin Mignot, Partner @ Index Ventures
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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Martin Mignot is a Partner at Index Ventures, the best-performing fund in the world right now. In the last three months, they have sold Wiz for $ 32 billion, sold Scale for $14.9 billion, and IPO'd Figma as the largest investor. In addition to this, they are the largest or second-largest shareholders in Roblox, Revolut, Adyen and Datadog.
Agenda for Today:
– Why Gross Margin is the Biggest Sin in the Early Days
– Why Most People Shouldn't Become VCs
– Why it is BS to Suggest the Future of VC is Boutique vs Mega Fund
– Do Multi-Stage Funds Really Give a S*** About Seed
– The Founder Trait That Trumps Market Size Every Time
– How Spotify Still Haunts Index Ventures & What They Learn From It?
– The Brutal Truth About European vs. U.S. Founders
– The Case for a European AI Giant (and Who Might Build It)
– The Return of the 7-Day Founder Work Week
– Biggest Lessons from Leading Revolut's Series A
– Betting Against Nick Storonsky? Don't.
– The One Competitor Index Ventures Admires
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