20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital
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🗓️ 9 August 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Renata Quintini is a Partner @ Lux Capital, one of the leaders in the rise of deep tech investing supporting scientists and entrepreneurs providing solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time, the more ambitious the project, the better. Before Lux, Renata was a partner at Felicis Ventures, where she worked with the likes of Cruise, Dollar Shave Club, Rigetti Computing and Bonobos, just to name a few. Prior to VC, Renata was an investment manager at Stanford University’s endowment, which invests in dozens of private equity and venture capital funds.
In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Renata made her way from LP in venture with Stanford University to dominating seed VC with Felicis to now leading the deep tech investing charge with Lux Capital?
2.) How does the mentality shift from making the move of LP with Stanford to VC with Felicis and Lux? How does Renata believe being an LP made her a better VC? How has what it takes to be a successful emerging manager changed over the last 5-10 years?
3.) What are the 7 rules that Renata gives to all startups at the start of their journey to ensure they do not implode? Where do startups most often falter, from Renata's perspective? How have the requirements and demands of founders changed recently?
4.) How does Renata look to approach every investment opportunity, mentality wise? Why does Renata believe this stance is optimal over the alternative? What are the caveats that must be placed on this to ensure for realism also?
5.) What makes Renata believe that we are seeing the humanisation of technology? How does this affect how deep tech will be designed moving forward? How does this affect how technology truly interacts and integrates with consumer behaviour?
Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:
Renata’s Fave Book: Daring Greatly
Renata’s Most Recent Investment: Common Networks
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the very special deep tech feature week that we're doing here on the 20 minute |
| 0:03.9 | VC with me, Harry Stebbings, at H Stebbings with two bees on Snapchat. It'd be great to see you |
| 0:08.8 | there. But to the episode today, and you know when you instantly tell someone it's just a phenomenal |
| 0:13.0 | giver and contributor to an ecosystem. Well, today's guest is that person, having provided me with an |
| 0:18.4 | immense amount of advice and support since the show, |
| 0:21.0 | which I'm hugely grateful for. So joining us today, I'm thrilled to welcome Renata Quintini. |
| 0:25.4 | Renata is a partner at Lux Capital, one of the leaders in the rise of deep tech investing, |
| 0:29.8 | supporting scientists and entrepreneurs, providing solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time. |
| 0:35.0 | The more ambitious the project, the better. Before Lux, Renata was a partner |
| 0:38.6 | at Felicit Ventures, where she worked with some incredible companies, including the lights of |
| 0:42.4 | Cruise Automation, Dollar Shave Club, Raghetti Computing, and Bonobos, just to name a few. Prior to VC, |
| 0:48.1 | Renata was an investment manager at Stanford University's Endowment Fund, which invests in dozens |
| 0:52.8 | of private equity and venture capital funds. |
| 0:55.1 | I do also want to say a special thank you to two former guests on the show in the form of Renata's |
| 0:59.4 | partner at Lux Josh Wolff and her former partner from Felis, the wonderful Aiden Senkut, |
| 1:04.0 | for making the intro today to Renata, without which this episode would not have been possible. |
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