20VC: Tyler Willis on How To Be Innovative With Customer Acquisition and The Future Of Innovation

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🗓️ 17 February 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Willis is probably one of the best angel investors around and has invested in seed stage companies that have gone on to raise from the likes of Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures and others. Some of these investments include the likes of wildly popular ride sharing app Lyft, the incredible Patreon (now delivering 2m a month to creators) and Change.org which now has over 80m users.

We would like to say a special thank you to Mattermark for providing all the data used in the show today and you can check out Mattermark Search here!

In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How Tyler made it into startups and the investing industry?

2.) Where does Tyler sit on investor specialisation? Is it best to have preferred sectors and round sizes?

3.) What elements are essential for Tyler pre investment and what can be tweaked later down the line?

4.) Question from Arielle Zuckerberg: How does Tyler evaluate customer acquisition so well? What is his approach to this with potential investments and portfolio companies?

5.) Why are people so negative on the future of innovation? Is Founders Fund's 'we expected flying cars and instead got 140 characters' fair?

Items Mentioned In Today's Episode:

Tyler's Fave Book: Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

Tyler's Fave Blog or Newsletter: Mattermark Daily

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the 20-minute VC with your host, Harry Stebbings, and following from our episode with Ariel Zuckerberg at Kleiner Perkins on Monday,
0:08.0	where Ariel stated that she learned all she knows about angel investing from the man himself, Tyler Willis. We thought, well, there's only one thing to do. We have to hear from Tyler now. So I'm delighted to welcome Tyler Willis to the show. Now, Tyler is
0:22.5	probably one of the best angel investors around, and he's invested in seed stage companies that have
0:28.4	gone on to raise from the lights of index, founders fund, Costler Ventures, and others. And some of his
0:35.2	investments include the likes of the wildly popular ride sharing app
0:38.7	Lyft, the incredible Patreon, now delivering 2 million a month to creators, and change.org, which now has
0:46.4	over 80 million users. And before we dive into the show with Tyler, and please, this is not a sponsor,
0:52.1	this is absolutely a personal recommendation that I just love.
0:55.7	I have to big it up. There are main guys and gals at Mattermark for all the data used in the show today.
1:01.5	I have to say it's so much easier having the Mattermark search tool. And best of all, it's absolutely free.
1:08.4	Also, check out Mattermark Daily for all the best articles and news sources
1:12.4	from the world of VC and startups, and you can follow at Thinker on Twitter for that masterpiece.
1:19.4	However, it's now time to dive into the show, so I'm delighted to welcome the one and only,
1:24.6	Tyler Willis.
1:29.4	You have to be a good. the one and only Tyler Willis. Three, two, one, zero.
1:33.5	You have now arrived at your destination.
1:36.1	Tyler, a huge pleasure to have you on the show.
1:39.0	Massive fan of yours, so thank you so much for joining us today.
1:40.1	Yeah, thanks for having me.
1:40.9	I'm excited about it.
1:44.7	Now, I'd love to kick off today's show by hearing where it all started for you and how you made your move into the world of startups and investing. Sure. So I've been
1:49.6	interested in investing for a long time. It had kind of a, you know, happy coincidence of things
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