20VC: The Fundamentals To Creating A Successful Venture Partnership & The Optimal Investment Decision Making Process with Ryan McIntyre, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group

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🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ryan McIntyre is a Co-Founder @ Foundry Group, one of the leading VC funds of the last decade with investments in the likes of Fitbit, SendGrid and Makerbot. Prior to Foundry, Ryan started his career in VC at Mobius Venture Capital in January 2000. While at Mobius Venture Capital, Ryan led the firm’s investments in Postini (acq. GOOG) and Sling Media (acq. DISH). Prior to Mobius, Ryan co-founded Excite in 1993, which went public in 1996 and later became Excite@Home following the $6.7 billion merger of Excite and @Home in 1999. At the time this acquisition was the largest internet transaction to date and created a company that achieved peak revenues of $616 million in 2000.

In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How Ryan made his way into the wonderful world of VC and came to co-found Foundry?

2.) At what moment did Ryan realise that he wanted to be a VC rather than his previous life of an entrepreneur? What was the catalyst moment for Ryan?

3.) What does the investment decision making process look like @ Foundry Group? What are the benefits and challenges of implementing such a model?

4.) What are the fundamentals to creating a successful venture partnership? How important is differing skill sets and contrarian thinking?

5.) What makes the great board members to Ryan? How has Ryan seen his style of being a board member alter over the time he has been on boards?

Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:

Ryan’s Fave Book: Dune by Frank Herbert

Investment Ryan Is Most Excited By: Sendgrid

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to part two of our very special feature of Foundry Group this week on the 20 minute VC with me, your host Harry Stebbings, found on Snapchat at H. Stebbings.
0:09.2	And if you listen to Monday's fantastic episode with Jason at Foundry, you would have heard that Fred Destan, general partner at Excel and I are running the London Marathon in April for a charity that's very close to my heart, MSUK. Having seen my mother suffer from MS for the last
0:22.0	eight years, it means a huge amount to me, and it would be fantastic if you could support us. I've added the
0:26.2	links to the fundraising page below, and it would mean so much to have your support. However, to the show's
0:30.7	day and part two of Foundry Group. With that in mind, I'm delighted to welcome Ryan McIntyre to the show. Now, Ryan is a co-founder at Foundry Group,
0:38.2	one of the leading VC funds of the last decade, with investments in the likes of Fitbit,
0:42.5	SenGrid and MakerBot, just to name a few. And prior to Foundry, Ryan started his career in VC
0:47.5	at Mobius Venture Capital in January 2000. While at Mobius, Ryan led the firm's investments in Postini, acquired by Google, and Sling Media,
0:56.4	acquired by Dish. Prior to Mobius, Ryan co-founded at Excite in 1993, which went public in 1996,
1:03.1	and later became Excite at home, following the $6.7 billion merger of Excite and at home in
1:08.8	1999. At the time, this acquisition was the largest
1:11.6	internet transaction to date and created a company that achieved peak revenues of $616 million
1:17.3	in 2000. I'd also like to say a huge thank you to Bradfeld and Seth Levine at Foundry for the
1:22.5	intro to Ryan today. However, before we dive into the show today, you must check out Intercom. Intercom is the first to bring messaging products for marketing and customer support together on one integrated platform. With Intercom, businesses can chat directly with prospective customers on their website. They can engage current users with targeted messages based on their behaviour and provide personal support at scale with an integrated help desk and
1:45.1	knowledge base. All products are powered by live customer data, helping businesses avoid the stiff,
1:50.3	spammy status quo and have real conversations that build real connections throughout the entire
1:55.0	customer life cycle. This is perfect for businesses that want to help people visiting their
1:59.4	website become customers and marketing and growth teams that want to help people visiting their website become customers and marketing
2:01.5	and growth teams that want to onboard and retain users by sending the right messages at the right
2:06.4	time. So simply head over to intercom.com forward slash 20MVC. And speaking of serving your clients
2:12.6	better there with Intercom, I've always been a big history man. And so I want to talk about Cooley,
2:17.2	the global law firm
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