20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
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4.4 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Christian Reber is the Founder & CEO of Pitch, the collaborative presentation software for modern teams. To date, Christian has raised over $52M for Pitch from some of the best in the business including Index, Thrive, Blueyard and then some amazing individuals including Instagram's Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Zoom's Eric Yuan, Datadog's Olivier Pomerol and Tiny's Andrew Wilkinson. Prior to Pitch, Christian was the Founder @ Wunderlist, raising $35M from the likes of Sequoia and Atomico before being acquired by Microsoft.
In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Christian Reber made his way into the world of startups? How that led to his founding te global phenomenon, Wunderlist? How his experience with Wunderlist led him to start Pitch most recently?
2.) Does Christian regret selling Wunderlist to Microsoft? What was the reasoning and logic behind it? What does Christian believe Microsoft did wrong that resulted in Wunderlist no longer being in existence today? How did Christian deal with the personal depression post the sale of Wunderlist?
3.) How does Christian assess and evaluate his personal relationship to risk? What does he do when making risky and large decisions to ensure he is comfortable? How does Christian feel about his relationship to money? How has it changed over time? How does Christian approach personal finance today between startup investing, fund investing, cash and savings?
4.) How does Christian think about what great product design means today? How does he balance gut and instinct with granular data when making product decisions today? How has this changed over time? How has Christian structured his team to make the fastest and most efficient product decisions?
5.) How would Christian reflect on his own style of board management? How has it changed over time? What element does he still to this day find most challenging? What board moment would he say is his most memorable? Who has been his favourite board member to work alongside?
Item’s Mentioned In Today’s Episode
Christian’s Favourite Book: The Unbanking Of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings. Now, I'm not sure about you, but I was probably |
| 0:03.7 | the biggest fan of Wunderlist for many years, and I've now become the biggest user of Pitch. |
| 0:07.8 | And so I couldn't be more excited to stay to welcome Christian Reber to the hot seat. |
| 0:11.2 | Christian is the founder and CEO at Pitch, the collaborative presentation software for |
| 0:15.1 | modern teams. To date, Christian has raised over $52 million for pitch from some of the very best in the business, including Index with Sarah Cannon, who made the intro today, Thrive, Blue Yard, and then some |
| 0:25.4 | amazing individuals including Instagram's Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Zooms Eric Yuan, |
| 0:30.1 | Data Docs Olivier Pomerol, and Tiny's Andrew Wilkinson. Prior to pitch, Christian was the founder |
| 0:34.7 | at Wonderlist, raising $35 million from the lights of Sequo and Atomico before being acquired by Microsoft. I'd also want to say a huge thank you to |
| 0:42.0 | Adam Renclint and Frank Thelen for some amazing questions suggestions today. They really did |
| 0:46.2 | make such a difference. But before we dive into the show today, I have to say I just love |
| 0:50.5 | using Angel List Fund admin platform to manage my investments. The team and the platform with AngelList takes care of all my back office needs |
| 0:58.0 | so that I can focus on working with great founders. |
| 1:00.6 | Leading fund managers have made over 10,000 investments into 6,000 startups via AngelList, |
| 1:06.2 | all online and all in one place. |
| 1:08.1 | And with recently announced rolling funds, you can easily find and |
| 1:11.4 | invest in these top fund managers on angelist.com forward slash rolling. And speaking of incredible |
| 1:17.2 | products that like angelist fund admin platform, you have to check out letter. The beautifully |
| 1:21.8 | designed banking experience made for high net worth individuals. They always go the extra mile, |
| 1:26.6 | providing you with more than you |
| 1:27.9 | expect, multiple physical cards, multiple checking accounts, seamless wires, virtual cards, and so much |
| 1:34.3 | more. Plus, with none of the BS fees that we all hate so much, but have become so used to, |
| 1:39.2 | if all that wasn't enough, though, every time you use your letter card, they automatically |
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