The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: VCs are Spreadsheet Monkeys and are Commoditised | Why Fees and Carry Misalign GPs and LPs | Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds | Why We Need European Sovereignty More Than Ever with Taavet Hinrikus
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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Taavet Hinrikus is a Partner at Plural, the early-stage fund that backs the most ambitious founders on a mission to change the world through technology. He co-founded Wise in 2010, where he was CEO and later Chairman, which went public in the first-ever direct listing in Europe in 2021. Prior to that, Taavet was Skype's Director of Strategy until 2008, having joined as its first employee. He's been an active investor for more than a decade,with personal investments in the likes of Bolt and Synthesia.
In Today's Show We Discuss:
VCs are Spreadsheet Monkeys
Why Banker European VCs Suck More Than The Others
Why Serial Entrepreneurs Are Better
Why the Fee and Carry Model in VC is Broken
What are the Biggest Ways VC Investment Decision-Making is Broken
Why is it BS when VC Firms Need Every Partner to Meet the Founder
When and Why Will Founders Realise Multi-Stage Firms are Bad Early Investors
Why Does Europe Need to Build it's Own Tech Now More Than Ever
Will Putin Invade More European Countries
What are the Dangers of Having US Made Tech in Europe
How Does the Change in Relationship Between the US and Europe Impact How We Build Our Tech Ecosystem?
Quick Fire Questions and Reflections
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