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EP 18: Parker Conrad, Sequoia’s Leaked Deck, a Different Kind of Crisis and VCs vs. Hedge Funds


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(00:08) Welcome Zach Weinberg

(00:55) Andreessen Horowitz/Flow Carbon

(10:41) Crypto Litigation Risk

(16:27) Venture vs. Hedge Funds

(22:25) Sequoia’s Leaked Deck

(27:04) Different Kind of Crisis

(28:20) Tech Companies Had It Easy

(30:21) Uber vs. Lyft

(34:16) Down Rounds

(40:27) High Valuation Doesn’t Mean Good Employment

(45:31) 2008 Work Force

(49:50) Parker Conrad Intro

(50:13) Working on Harvard’s Crimson

(52:45) Left School for a Little Rock Newspaper

(55:13) Cancer Diagnosis

(57:16) Starting SigFig

(58:52) Raising Money Pre-2013

(1:05:29) Challenges in Automating

(1:08:36) The Public Narrative

(1:10:36) Forced Out of Zenefits

(1:19:50) VC’s Role in Narrative

(1:22:59) What Do Founders Want From VCs?

(1:25:46) Do VCs Increase Success?

(1:30:09) Discussing Rippling

(1:38:16) Building a Compound Company

(1:46:56) Hiring People With a Chip On Their Shoulder

(1:49:02) Most Important Job of a CEO

(1:51:05) Raised the Next Round

(1:54:47) Determining the Valuation

(1:58:09) San Francisco
 

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Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson
 

Links:

Sequoia’s Leaked Deck - https://fortune.com/2022/05/25/sequoia-capital-slide-dek-warning-to-founders-downturn/

Zack’s Twitter Battle - https://twitter.com/zachweinberg/status/1527107650911186944?s=20&t=DN_FdiP-WW6rDwmHNkJPTA

Parker Conrad Discussing Chip on Their Shoulder - https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/parker-conrad-i-like-working-with-people-who-have-a-chip-on-their-shoulder/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAqlH6GlRJ8EA-ptL8cD-XPUGeoXNRqKe9l_Qegi--qyyHZQrMTJ8bwlg47vSJ9rkc2eaJlUKyMvb3wA-Rw2PjFYJl5gUwZfO0WPMLF-tRT_lVDYq_uoEnC29d6L45AlVFRTnPJqbCPEJM0_ICBeqES_kZ8t5gUQkVg7BwMKsGs7

Chesa Boudin and San Francisco - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco-crime/629907/

Andreessen Horowitz/Flow Carbon - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2022/05/25/a16z-crypto-record-4th-fund-doubles-down-on-web3-amid-market-crash/?sh=7f704b7f34ff

VCs Driving Down Valuation Narrative - https://twitter.com/bgurley/status/1528535418076995584

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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