Founders Friday 002: Balderton's James Wise interviews 20VC Founder, Harry Stebbings
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The Twenty Minute VC
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🗓️ 3 July 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today is a very special show as James Wise, Principal at Balderton Capital turns the tables on Host of The Twenty Minute VC, Harry Stebbings. In today's brilliant interview by James we delve into what has led to Harry's interest in the VC industry, why did Harry start The 20 Minute VC, how does Harry identify guests to interview, how does he approach those guests, how has Harry found his first experience in the venture industry, what has surpassed Harry about the VC industry, what traits has Harry spotted that are common among the great VCs interviewed, is Harry optimistic or not about the venture industry, what would Harry recommend for other people looking to go into venture.
Items Mentioned in Todays Show:
Harry's Favourite Books: Tim Ferris: 4 Hour Work Week, 4 Hour Body
As always you can follow Harry, James and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a very special episode of the 20 minute VC and Founders Friday. Over the last two weeks, I've had the great pleasure of interning at Balderson Capital, one of the leading VC firms in Europe. And stay, James Wise, principal at Balderson Capital and previous guest on the show, will be turning the tables on me as I become the interviewee instead of the interviewer. |
| 0:24.5 | And in stays-in-sfute, James examines me on the commonalities among all great VCs, |
| 0:29.8 | the surprises that I have encountered since entering the venture industry, |
| 0:33.4 | and the recommendations that I would give for anyone looking to enter into the industry. |
| 0:38.1 | However, none of the podcasts would have been possible without the fantastic hiring screen |
| 0:42.3 | who provided me with the godsend that is Jackie, who simply does all the work behind the scenes |
| 0:48.6 | and I really couldn't have done it without her. |
| 0:50.7 | So thank you so much to you hiring screen for providing me with Jackie. |
| 0:54.8 | But without further ado, here is James Wise turning the tables on me. |
| 0:58.7 | Three, two, one, zero. |
| 1:04.5 | You have now arrived at your destination. |
| 1:07.3 | And good afternoon. Hi, Harry. How are you doing? |
| 1:10.1 | I'm very well. Thank you, James. |
| 1:11.2 | How are you? |
| 1:11.7 | I'm well. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm very excited today to be able to reverse interview you. |
| 1:14.8 | I think slightly inspired by a President Obama's recent interview of David Attenborough. |
| 1:18.9 | Okay. your listeners and how much your audience has learned from your questions I thought it's about time to spin the tables a little bit and throw some back at you okay sounds good so we've |
| 1:32.8 | been very fortunate to have you here in Bolton Cattle's offices for last two weeks I thought |
| 1:36.9 | it'd be good to understand a little bit so how do you end up end up doing this well I was |
| 1:40.5 | actually very fortunate enough to have the pleasure of interviewing you. I think episode 23, 24, 25 range. |
| 1:49.0 | And I actually reached out to you over Twitter. |
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