20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital
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🗓️ 7 June 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Anthony Pompliano is the General Partner @ Full Tilt Capital, the firm that wants to reinvent friends and family investingby democratizing access to opportunity for the thousands of founders who are underserved. They have done 22 deals in just 90 days and shows no signs of pulling back. Prior to VC, Anthony lead the growth team at Snapchat and before that ran product and growth teams @ Facebook.
In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Anthony made his way from leading startup exec with Facebook and Snapchat to being General Partner @ Full Tilt Capital?
2.) Anthony has previously said that he likes to 'prioritize the founder over the company', is this any different to the traditional 'founder-friendly VC'? How does Anthony like to stress test the founder's ability to withstand stress *& establish comfort with unpopular decisions?
3.) How does Anthony respond to suggestions that 39 investments in 9 months is 'spray and pray'? Why does Anthony believe that cheque size and follow on allocation does not matter?
4.) How does Anthony differentiate between 'picking' and 'building' investments? Why do most VCs go wrong with their thesis around this and the belief in the 'J Curve'? Is it possible that the traditional J curve does not correspond to outsized returns?
5.) How does Anthony respond to Hunter Walk's thesis around the presence of 'dark deal flow'? With such a growing portfolio, how does Anthony scale his ability to add value with the ever scaling portfolio number?
Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:
Anthony’s Fave Book: Rich Dad Poor Dad
Anthony’s Fave Blog/Podcast: Polina Marinova: The Profile
Anthony’s Most Recent Investment: Everly Well
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 20 minute VC with me, your host, Harry Stebbings, and you can ask any questions or give me any feedback on Snapchat at H. |
| 0:06.5 | Stebbings with 2Bs. |
| 0:07.5 | It would be great to see you there, and all ads get a personal thank you from me. |
| 0:10.7 | But to the show today, and we have a very different guest for you today, outside the realms of the traditional Silicon Valley Ether. |
| 0:16.3 | And so I'm delighted to welcome Anthony Pompliano to the show today. |
| 0:19.4 | So Anthony is the general partner at |
| 0:21.1 | Full Tilt Capital, the firm that wants to reinvent friends and family investing by democratising |
| 0:26.1 | access to opportunity for the thousands of founders who are underserved. They've done 22 deals in just |
| 0:31.5 | 90 days and shown no signs of pulling back. Prior to VC, Anthony led the growth team at Snapchat, |
| 0:36.8 | and before that, ran product |
| 0:38.2 | and growth teams at Facebook. I also want to say a big thank you to the wonderful Eric Torrenberg |
| 0:42.5 | for the intro to Anthony today, without which this episode would not have been possible. |
| 0:46.4 | But before we head into the episode today, a lot of people ask me, Harry, you do so many calls |
| 0:50.7 | and interviews, but what do you use? My response, Zoom. The number one video and |
| 0:55.5 | web conferencing service providing one consistent enterprise experience that allows you to an array of |
| 1:00.5 | activities, including online meetings, video webinars, collaboration enabled conference rooms, |
| 1:05.8 | and business I am, just to name a few. And it's the easiest solution to use, buy and scale, |
| 1:10.6 | and for sure, the most straightforward pricing. But use, buy and scale, and for sure the most |
| 1:11.6 | straightforward pricing. But hey, don't take my word for it. Their partnership with Sequoy in their |
| 1:16.1 | latest 100 million funding around says it all. Zoom really is a must checkout for your business. |
| 1:20.5 | I cannot emphasize that enough. And you can find them at zoom.us. Speaking of video, though, |
| 1:25.0 | to power your company there with Zoom, you must check out VoodDit. |
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