20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
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4.4 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Lynn is a Partner @ Canvas, where she focusses on Fintech, Digital Health, SaaS and mobile. Rebecca led an early stage investment in Lending Club, which was the largest US technology IPO of 2014 and the 4th largest Internet IPO since 2001. She has also led investments in the likes of Check (acquired by Intuit), RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce), Proximity, Practice Fusion and more incredible companies. Prior to being in VC, Rebecca held operational roles at NextCard where she rose to become VP of Marketing and Head of Customer Acquisition and saw the company going public with a $1.3bn market cap.
In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Rebecca made her way into the wonderful world of VC?
2.) How does Rebecca view the importance of brand and thematic focus in the world of VC today? How can a VC be focussed thematically without missing moonshots?
3.) What were Rebecca's biggest lessons from sitting on boards with the likes of Mary Meeker and Larry Summers? How did that change how Rebecca viewed being a board member?
4.) "Fintech is all about distribution and acquisition". What does Rebecca make of this statement? How have we seen evolution in both distribution and acquisition in the rising tide of new fintech startups?
5.) How does Rebecca analyse fund economics? What does she make of the mega $1Bn funds raised over the last year? What is the optimal size fund for Rebecca?
Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:
Rebecca’s Fave Blog: The Daily Shot
Rebecca’s Fave Book: Influence by Robert Cialdini
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the 20 minute VC with your host Harry Stebbings. You can find me on |
| 0:04.1 | Snapchat at H. Stebbings with two Bs or writing some hopefully rather thoughtful pieces on the new |
| 0:09.3 | blog MahitoVC.com. Now for the show today and I really am so excited for our guest. I heard her |
| 0:14.9 | first on Stanford's ETL podcast and realized that I simply had to have her on the show. Therefore |
| 0:19.9 | I'm delighted to welcome |
| 0:20.8 | Rebecca Lynn to the hot seat today. Now, Rebecca is a partner at Canvas, where she focuses on |
| 0:25.8 | FinTech, digital health, SaaS and mobile, and Rebecca led an early stage investment in Lending |
| 0:31.0 | Club, which was the largest US technology IPO of 2014, and the fourth largest internet |
| 0:35.9 | IPO since 2001. She's also led investments in the likes of |
| 0:39.1 | Czech, acquired by Intuit, Relate IQ, acquired by Salesforce, proximity, practice fusion, and many |
| 0:45.4 | more incredible companies. And prior to being in VC, Rebecca held operational roles at NextC, |
| 0:49.9 | where she rose to become VP of Marketing and head of customer acquisition and saw the company |
| 0:53.8 | going public with a $1.3 billion market cap. I do also want to say a special thanks to Matt Garrett at |
| 1:00.0 | Salesforce for the intro to Rebecca without which the interview would not have been possible today. |
| 1:04.0 | However, before we welcome Rebecca to the hot seat, what if accounting could be easy, efficient, |
| 1:08.6 | maybe even enjoyable? Well, that's where Zero come in. Zero is beautiful, |
| 1:12.5 | easy to use online accounting software for small businesses. With Zero, you can easily manage your |
| 1:17.3 | accounting anytime, anywhere from your computer or mobile device. When you add Zero to your small |
| 1:22.2 | business, you're able to send online invoices and get paid faster, get an instant view of your |
| 1:27.2 | cash flow, track your |
| 1:28.5 | payroll and keep tabs on your inventory, partner with your accountant and bookkeeper in real time |
| 1:32.9 | whenever you like, you can even customize your zero experience with over 500 business apps, |
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