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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
Manage episode 473371870 series 73567
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
1299 episodes
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Manage episode 473371870 series 73567
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
1299 episodes
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