E994: All Turtles CEO Phil Libin shares his state machine that answers all growth questions; Future of Early-Stage VC w/Pete Flint (NFX), Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Ventures), Dave Samuel (Freestyle Capital); plus LAUNCH Scale Partner Talk w/Lever CTO Nate Smith

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

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4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

1:03 Jason intros Phil Libin from LAUNCH Scale 2019
1:51 Phil Libin on "The State Machine that Answers All Growth Questions"
32:40 Jason joins Phil on stage for Q&A
39:56 Jason intros Phil (NFX), Rebecca (Canvas Ventures) & Dave (Freestyle Capital)
41:34 Transitioning from founder to VC
44:08 How to let a founder know when they are headed down the wrong path
47:42 At what stage does a founder have to change their mindset?
49:49 Dave Samuel on Airtable CEO Howie Liu not taking his advice and succeeding anyway
52:21 How Rebecca Lynn recruited current LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn in the early days
55:39 Should startups still relocate to the Bay Area under any circumstances?
1:03:40 How are VCs dealing with the influx in the number of startups over the past 10 years?
1:13:23 LAUNCH Scale Partner Talk: Lever CTO Nate Smith

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1:11.6	We do this 70 angel Investor Boondoggle up in Napa. We've done it for four years
1:17.4	I think this will be the fifth year and my good friend Phil Libin from All Turtles has been working on a theory. He calls it the state machine that
1:26.7	answers all startup growth questions and it was the highest rate to talk this
1:32.0	summer or top two I think I think it was the highest rated talk this summer or top two, I think.
1:34.1	I think it was tied for top two, along with the other Phil's talk for energy.
1:38.8	And I asked Phil, and Emmiel Waterring producer Jackie asked Phil if he would formalize and then share it with the SCAL audience
1:44.9	So please welcome my good friend Phil Libman
1:50.5	Thank you my name is Phil Libbin. I'm the CEO of All Turtles. And I kept kind of having the same
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