The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Why Traditional VC is Broken: How VCs Learned Nothing from 2021 | Why LPs are More Important than Founders & Advice to Emerging Managers | Bull Case for Bytedance & Why TikTok's Ban Doesn't Matter with Mitchell Green, Lead Edge Capital


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Mitchell Green is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lead Edge Capital. Mitchell has led or co-led investments in companies including Alibaba, Asana, Benchling, ByteDance, Duo Security, Grafana, Mindbody, and Xamarin, among several others.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

04:31 How Bessemer Taught Me The One Golden Rule of Investing

06:48 Why AI Infrastrcture is the Worst Investment to Make

08:51 Why it is Comical to think there will be $BN one person companies?

09:26 WTF Happens To The Cohort of SaaS Companies With Slow Growth, Not Yet Profitable and $50M-$200M in Revenue

16:12 What is the Biggest Problem with the IPO Market

23:24 When is the Right Time to Sell in VC and How a Generation F******* it Up

27:37 Biggest Advice to Smaller Emerging Managers

40:13 The One Question That Tells You if a Business is Good

43:01 Why LPs are More Important than Founders

45:03 One Question Every LP Should Ask Their VCs

46:03 Why TikTok Does Not Matter to ByteDance and It Is a Screaming Buy

51:30 Why We Drastically Underestimate the Power of Chinese AI?

55:18 Why Social Media is the Most Dangerous Thing in Society

01:00:07 Quick Fire Questions

 

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