20VC: The Implications of a Biden vs a Trump Administration on Venture and Startups, How The Rise of Rolling Funds, SPACs and Solo Capitalists Will Impact Venture & What We Can Do To Swing the Race Pendulum in VC with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Ligh
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🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Barry Eggers is a Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners and currently Chair of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Board of Directors. Lightspeed is one of the premier funds of the last decade with homeruns including Snapchat, Affirm, Mulesoft, Nutanix and Stitch Fix. Prior to LSVP, Barry spent close to 6 years as @ Cisco developing Cisco's initial M&A program and leading the company's first wave of acquisitions and integrations.
In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Barry made his way into the world of venture over 20 years ago and how he came to found one of today's leaders, Lightspeed?
2.) What are the implications of a Biden administration? How does this compare to a Trump administration? What can be done to mitigate the tax concerns around Biden's policies? How does Barry think about each candidate's stance on immigration? What are the challenges here?
3.) How will SPACs change the world of venture? What will it take for them to be viewed in the same class as IPOs? Why are they often better than direct listings? How does the rise of solo capitalists change the state of venture? What does Barry make of rolling funds being born?
4.) What does Barry believe we can do to swing the race pendulum in venture? What were Barry's biggest lessons in taking the Lightspeed partnership from 1 to 10 female partners? How can this be done with ethnic minorities also? What advice does Barry give to his counterpart GPs?
5.) How would Barry describe his own style of board membership? How has it changed over time? How does Barry keep his head in boards with many around him are losing theirs? What advice does Barry give to new board members adopting board seats for the first time?
Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:
Barry’s Favourite Book: Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community
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| 0:00.0 | We are back on the 20 Minervie with me, Harry Stebbings, and today with the election tomorrow, |
| 0:04.1 | we could not have a more aptly timed show, as we are joined by something of a Silicon Valley pioneer, |
| 0:08.7 | discussing how a Biden versus a Trump administration would look, climate change, the rise of SPACs, |
| 0:13.8 | and so much more. I'm thrilled to welcome back to the show Barry Eggers, |
| 0:17.4 | founding partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and currently chair of the National |
| 0:21.0 | Venture Capital Association, or the NVCA. |
| 0:23.8 | For those that do not know, Lightspeed is one of the premier funds of the last decade, |
| 0:27.4 | with home runs including the lights of Snapchat, Affirm, Mulesoft, Nutanics and Stitchfix, to name a few. |
| 0:33.3 | Prior to Lightspeed, Barry spent close to six years at Cisco, developing Cisco's initial |
| 0:37.4 | M&A program and leading the company's first wave of acquisitions and integrations. |
| 0:41.8 | I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Jim Lim at Greenspring, Jeremy Liu, Alex Towsig and Nicole Quinn. |
| 0:47.3 | For some amazing questions suggestions today, I really do so appreciate that. |
| 0:51.2 | But before we move into the show today, I want to take a moment to mention HelloSign, a great example of a company that found success in building a product focused on |
| 0:58.2 | user experience. HelloSign is an effortless e-signature solution used by millions to securely send |
| 1:03.6 | and requests legally valid digital signatures and agreements. They raised a total of $16 million |
| 1:08.6 | in funding and recently got acquired by Dropbox for an impressive $230 million. |
| 1:13.5 | Check out HelloSign.com forward slash 20VC to join the thousands of companies and founders who value fast, secure and simple e-signatures. |
| 1:22.3 | And speaking about turning complex processes into beautiful experiences there with HelloSign. Has anyone tried to send a business |
| 1:28.3 | payment recently? Oh, it's a nightmare. You have reviews, a never-ending back and forth between |
| 1:33.8 | colleagues. It's a lot of work that continues to pile up, and that's where Routable steps in. |
| 1:38.3 | Routable not only focus on digital business payments, but the time it saves on both the accounting |
| 1:42.7 | and operation sides as well. |
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