S1 E11: Harry Stebbings: How I turned $50 into a $140m fund
Big Fish with Spencer Matthews
Global
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
At 18 years-old, Harry Stebbings started the Twenty Minute VC podcast with fifty dollars and not a single contact in venture capital. He’s the first person to turn a podcast into a multi-million pound fund. Across several vehicles, he’s raised over $400 million. And he’s only 26.
Harry is seriously impressive. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ll learn exactly what Harry looks for when he invests. But this episode isn’t just for those in business. He’s overcome bulimia and is now sober, and has tonnes of advice for those who want to take their life to the next level.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | 99% of the time, the only thing that matters is you've got to keep going. |
| 0:10.0 | What makes you win when others don't, they stop. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, I'm Spencer Matthews and welcome to Big Fish. |
| 0:24.6 | Join me each week as I sit down with famous CEOs, fantastic entrepreneurs, incredible designers |
| 0:30.1 | and other famous faces to discuss what it takes to be the best. |
| 0:37.5 | At 18 years old, Harry Stebbbing started the 20-minute VC podcast with $50 in his |
| 0:42.5 | back pocket and not a single contact in venture capital. |
| 0:45.4 | Across several vehicles, he's raised over $400 million and he's only 26. |
| 0:51.4 | Harry is seriously impressive. |
| 0:53.1 | He's a straight talker and you'll learn tons from him if you want to know how to take your life to that next level. |
| 1:01.9 | So Harry, you yourself are a podcaster, the 20 minute VC. Very popular business podcast. How did you start that? I started it from my bedroom. |
| 1:11.9 | I was 18 years old and I loved venture capital. |
| 1:14.8 | Venture capital is investing in early stage technology companies largely. |
| 1:18.6 | And I fell in love with it because I watched a movie. |
| 1:20.4 | I watched the social network, which is Facebook's growth story. |
| 1:23.2 | And I saw a famous VC invest in early Facebook. |
| 1:26.2 | And I was like this obese fat kid in London at |
| 1:28.4 | 13 watching this and I honestly just fell in love with venture at that moment. And then when I was |
| 1:33.0 | 18, I realized that I was a terrible law student and I wanted to do venture. Law, you say. Yeah, |
| 1:39.3 | law. I fell asleep in my first lecture. This is the thing I find so funny also with like people who |
| 1:43.8 | often see kind of maybe more successful or kind of very out there in public is succeeding. It's just |
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