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🗓️ 14 September 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Ryan Sarver is a Partner @ Redpoint where he focuses on early stage consumer startups. He sits on the board at Luxe, where he led the seed and A rounds, and was an early investor in Memoir. Prior to joining Redpoint, Ryan was a director at Twitter, where he oversaw the Twitter Platform and its developer ecosystem. Before Twitter, Ryan was director of consumer products at Skyhook Wireless, which pioneered the Wi-Fi and cellular tower triangulation technology incorporated in the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and MacBook.
In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Ryan made his move into the world of VC?
2.) What were Ryan's biggest takeaways from seeing Twitter scale from 30 to 2,500? How does he apply those to his formative days learning the investing game?
3.) Coming from the hustle of operation, do VCs have enough hustle and grit in Ryan's opinion?
4.) What really is an EIR program? Why does Redpoint have it? What are the fundamental benefits? How do investors collaborate and work with EIR’s?
5.) Ryan has said before that AI is the next transformational platform. What does AI as a platform look like to Ryan? How does hardware and sensors integrate with this thesis? Why is it easier than ever to build these smart devices?
Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:
Ryan’s Fave Book: Sapiens
Ryan’s Most Recent Investment: Luxe
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0:00.0 | This is the 20 minute VC and I'm your host Harry Stebbings at H Stebbings on Snapchat. |
0:05.2 | And for the show today, we are back to the land of Red Point for this very special feature week of Red Point. |
0:09.9 | Now, following from our episode with Tom Tungers on Monday, I'm delighted to welcome Ryan Sava to the show today. |
0:15.1 | Now, Ryan is a partner at Red Point where he focuses on early stage consumer startups. |
0:19.6 | And he sits on the board at Lux, where he led |
0:22.0 | the seed and series A round, and he was also an early investor in memoir. And prior to joining |
0:26.8 | Red Point, Ryan was a director at Twitter, where he oversaw the Twitter platform and its developer |
0:31.4 | ecosystem. And before Twitter, Ryan was director of consumer products at Skyhook Wireless, |
0:36.2 | which pioneered the Wi-Fi and cellular |
0:38.2 | tower triangulation technology incorporated in the iPhone, iPod Touch and MacBook. But before we meet |
0:44.4 | the man himself, many things make up a great venture fund, and one of them is the highest quality |
0:49.3 | backstage operational support. And that's where Kuli come in. They are the global law firm built around |
0:54.7 | startups and venture capital funds. Since forming the first venture fund in Silicon Valley, |
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1:04.2 | years working with VCs. They also help VCs form and manage funds, make investments, and |
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