20 VC 007: The Evolution of Content and the Venture Capital Industry with Peter Csathy
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
The Twenty Minute VC
4.4 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
I am hugely excited to welcome Peter Csathy for Session 7 of The Twenty Minute VC. Peter has had an astonishing career in the media industry with an unbroken track record of success in startups and emerging growth companies. Peter is currently CEO of Manatt Digital Media, which not only offers Venture Capital but is unique in also providing legal services and business consulting. Prior to Manatt, Peter was CEO of Sorensen Media, which serves 70 of the Fortune 100 and CEO of SightSpeed, Inc in which Peter oversaw their acquisition by Logitech.
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In this episode you will learn:
- Why Peter decided to enter into the Venture Capital Industry?
- What are the unique service that Manatt offer that other VCs do not provide?
- Why are these service necessary for startups to have access to?
- What is the most important thing for a startup to have in order for you to invest?
- Does an entrepreneur's track record of failure reduce the chance of you investing?
- Where do you see the disruption of content in 2015?
- What book would you give to an aspiring entrepreneur looking to attain funding?
In the final few minutes, we delve into a quick fire round where we hear Peter's thoughts on: The importance of location for a startup, future of online video and the company Peter is most excited about.
As always we absolutely love to hear from you. If you would like to get in contact email [email protected] or visit www.thetwentyminutevc.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, you are listening to the seventh episode of the 20 minute VC with Harry Stebbings. |
| 0:05.7 | Now, on today's show, we have Peter Chardee. |
| 0:08.7 | Peter is CEO of Manat Digital Media Ventures, and their previous investments include companies such as Pinterest and Etsy. |
| 0:17.6 | Before that, Peter was CEO of Sorenon Media and Peter also has experience in the |
| 0:23.4 | startup industry with Sitespeed, which was acquired by Logitech. I know he's got some amazing |
| 0:29.2 | content today and I can't wait to share it with you. But first, let's talk about the competition. |
| 0:34.7 | Would you like the chance to win all the books mentioned in the first |
| 0:38.5 | 10 episodes of the 20 minute VC and a chance to pitch to one of the VCs interviewed? Well, all you |
| 0:46.2 | have to do is head on over to iTunes and leave a review and then email Harry at the 20 minute VC |
| 0:51.9 | with the name that you left the review under on iTunes and you'll be |
| 0:55.5 | entered into competition to win all the goodies. Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy the |
| 1:00.1 | episode with Peter. |
| 1:05.8 | You have now arrived at your destination. |
| 1:09.9 | Peter, it's a great pleasure to have you on the 20-minute VC. |
| 1:13.2 | Let's dive straight into it. |
| 1:14.9 | Sounds good. Really happy to be here. |
| 1:17.6 | Can you now tell us a little about your background and the driving force for you entering the venture capital industry? |
| 1:24.6 | Absolutely. I've been in the media tech world for 25 years, so a long time. I spent |
| 1:31.5 | half my career in the traditional media companies, so studios such as Universal, New Line |
| 1:38.1 | Cinema, and Savoy, so kind of the small, medium, and large studio system. And then in 2000, I struck out to go into the more entrepreneurial side. |
| 1:50.7 | And it was the first of many, first of four different digital media tech companies. |
| 1:55.3 | And several of which had, I'm very pleased to say, with the teams, we were able to build very successful companies, scale them, and have nice exits to them. So I've been fortunate to see that. So I've |
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