20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
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This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings. Now I'm very often asked to reveal a little bit about my story and I'm always quite reserved in doing so. I think you have to really return a lot of money to investors before you think you're worthy of being interviewed. And I think too many young VCs are too out there when they haven't made a lot of money for investors. And then I get a lot of people say, we want to hear more about you, we want to hear your story.
And so I did a show with Simon Squibb, a brilliant entrepreneur in the UK. My mother said that she loved the show and that she thought that it should be heard by our community and our fans. And so today we release a very special one where Simon interviews me. You hear a little bit behind the scenes of 20VC, the fundraising strategy for a $400 million fund, how I got Mark Benny off to come on 20VC through 53 cold emails. and many, many more cool stories.
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