Harry Stebbings

Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings

Today I released our episode with @alexschultz, OG of growth and CMO @Meta. After 3,000 20VC episodes, this was the first show recorded in person and it is one of the best yet. Here are my top 7 takeaways: 🔥👇 https://t.co/OWoTzGW7TO — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want to get in touch with true ballers: Send emails when no one else is. They are always on their email. But their inbound is 95% less at certain times, massively increasing your ability to get their attention. — PolitiTweet.org

Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings

If you want to get in touch with rue ballers: Send emails when no one else is. They are always on their email. But their inbound is 95% less at certain times, massively increasing your ability to get their attention. — PolitiTweet.org

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The secret to being a freelancer: 1. Be pleasant to work with. 2. Deliver great work. 3. Deliver the work on time. And you only need two of the three. You can deliver great work and be pleasant and be late. You can be late and deliver great work and be unpleasant.… — PolitiTweet.org

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A massive problem for many Series A and B companies today: Their last round price was so over-priced, even if they hit all their goals, the next round will still be a down-round if done externally. Either down-rounds or existings have to carry the company with internal rounds. — PolitiTweet.org

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Something I always want to see in all businesses I am involved with: They have to get: Easier to run. More economically efficient. Increase pricing power. If these core traits increase not decrease with time, we have a winner. — PolitiTweet.org

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The element many early stage investors aren’t considering with their existing portfolio is the level of structure their portfolio companies have in subsequent rounds. No structure and we are good, lots of structure, there will be lots of pain. — PolitiTweet.org

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Just heard the most ridiculous thing: One fund will always re-invest in the follow-on round of a portfolio company, regardless of performance, team development, and traction. This is not being supportive, this is reckless. — PolitiTweet.org

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Think one of the biggest lost learning opportunities today is success. We always look to our failures for post-Mortems. I believe there is the same level of learning if you apply that reflective study lens to success. Don’t gloss over it. What worked? Why? How to repeat? — PolitiTweet.org

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Why now is worst time to be investing in European Seed: US firms competing for EU seeds harder than ever. Multi-stage EU firms hunting seed hard wanting to be “in market” but not writing “20M Series A” checks. Flight to safety for best talent, staying in FB, Google etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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Success in venture capital is fundamentally predicated around: Discuss… — PolitiTweet.org

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For all the former gamers now building companies, your hours in front of the Nintendo were not in vain. For all the parents with kids spending time playing video games, feel no guilt, it is good for them. 🔥 from @tobi in an episode coming soon! https://t.co/PKu45wbrsC — PolitiTweet.org

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Fascinated to know more about the business of Raya. Does anyone know anything on: User count Revenues Geo of users Would be super interesting! — PolitiTweet.org

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Spoke to a portfolio company today: Chat GPT went down the other day for a couple of hours and 25% of my team literally could not work. Appreciation turns to expectation and want turns to need much quicker than anyone can anticipate. The times they are a changing… — PolitiTweet.org

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I have so much respect for working parents. At the end of the day, I am fricking knackered, to comprehend coming home and giving it all to kids is amazing. Working parents we salute your energy. — PolitiTweet.org

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20VC Values: One person’s hope can change the world. 🔥 👇 https://t.co/llbgylkFRT — PolitiTweet.org

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95% of the time company values are BS. Hardworking, curious, and kind are not company values. Company values should force hard decisions. They should encourage dissent & discussion. Don’t be vanilla. Like brands, the best values build armies. You are either for or/against. — PolitiTweet.org

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Going to get in trouble for this but one of most professionally challenging results of COVID: Many especially young people feel they have an inherent right to “work from home”. Guess what? You don’t. It is company dependent and hell, if they ask you back in office, you go. — PolitiTweet.org

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2AM here in London and preparing the release of our 🔥 episode with @kevin @mikeyk for next Weds. No truer words than do something you love and you will never work a day in your life. 🚀 https://t.co/aHbrv69of3 — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the best pieces of advice I got when it came to prioritization: Of all the non-core process things that you do, every week, just try not doing one of them. 90% of the time, it will have no impact and no one will notice. — PolitiTweet.org

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Met three generative AI companies today. All pre-launch, two pre-product. All oversubscribed rounds priced between $25M-$40M. Let the good times roll… 🙄 — PolitiTweet.org

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To the girl that just matched with me on Bumble and said; “You have arrived at your destination”. Well played. 😂 — PolitiTweet.org

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The amount of pre-seed companies I am meeting that are building incredible verticalised solutions on top of ChatGPT is insane. 🔥 — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyone always lauds the quality of Stripe alumni spin out companies, I am sure quite rightly. Just intrigued, what would be the 3-5 most successful to date? — PolitiTweet.org

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This year I would just really like for my Valentine to be DPI… 😂 — PolitiTweet.org

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Today I heard a fascinating statement from a consumer social founder now building creator tools: Consumer social is like hosting a party. As the host, you hope it never ends. Sadly, all parties end. — PolitiTweet.org

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Working with a founder who will not meet next-round investors. Do not do this. Heads down & build, sure. But if you curate with existings a list of 5 top names, build the relationship & nurture it with a meeting a quarter. 75% more likely to close next round. — PolitiTweet.org

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How do you know VCs are reducing their deployment pace and writing fewer checks. You look at my fricking inbox. 9 requests from firms in one day for advice on starting a podcast… 🤷‍♂️ — PolitiTweet.org

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Being an interviewer is a little like being a performer at a concert. When you have super famous people on your show: It is a difficult balance of wanting them to talk about their “greatest hits” (what people want) vs what they want to chat about (their new album). — PolitiTweet.org

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Work with investors that work like founders. Speed of response, communication and execution is much of the battle. 🚀 — PolitiTweet.org