EP 18: Parker Conrad, Sequoia’s Leaked Deck, a Different Kind of Crisis and VCs vs. Hedge Funds

(00:08) Welcome Zach Weinberg(00:55) Andreessen Horowitz/Flow Carbon(10:41) Crypto Litigation Risk(16:27) Venture vs. Hedge Funds(22:25) Sequoia’s Leaked Deck(27:04) Different Kind of Crisis(28:20) Tech Companies Had It Easy(30:21) Uber vs. Lyft(34:16) Down Rounds(40:27) High Valuation Doesn’t Mean Good Employment(45:31) 2008 Work Force(49:50) Parker Conrad Intro(50:13) Working on Harvard’s Crimson(52:45) Left School for a Little Rock Newspaper(55:13) Cancer Diagnosis(57:16) Starting SigFig(58:52) Raising Money Pre-2013(1:05:29) Challenges in Automating(1:08:36) The Public Narrative(1:10:36) Forced Out of Zenefits(1:19:50) VC’s Role in Narrative(1:22:59) What Do Founders Want From VCs?(1:25:46) Do VCs Increase Success?(1:30:09) Discussing Rippling(1:38:16) Building a Compound Company(1:46:56) Hiring People With a Chip On Their Shoulder(1:49:02) Most Important Job of a CEO(1:51:05) Raised the Next Round(1:54:47) Determining the Valuation(1:58:09) San Francisco Follow the show:https://twitter.com/cartoonavatarshttps://www.instagram.com/cartoonavatars/https://www.tiktok.com/@cartoonavatars Follow the host:https://twitter.com/loganbartlett Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson Links:Sequoia’s Leaked Deck - https://fortune.com/2022/05/25/sequoia-capital-slide-dek-warning-to-founders-downturn/Zack’s Twitter Battle - https://twitter.com/zachweinberg/status/1527107650911186944?s=20&t=DN_FdiP-WW6rDwmHNkJPTAParker Conrad Discussing Chip on Their Shoulder - https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/parker-conrad-i-like-working-with-people-who-have-a-chip-on-their-shoulder/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAqlH6GlRJ8EA-ptL8cD-XPUGeoXNRqKe9l_Qegi--qyyHZQrMTJ8bwlg47vSJ9rkc2eaJlUKyMvb3wA-Rw2PjFYJl5gUwZfO0WPMLF-tRT_lVDYq_uoEnC29d6L45AlVFRTnPJqbCPEJM0_ICBeqES_kZ8t5gUQkVg7BwMKsGs7Chesa Boudin and San Francisco - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco-crime/629907/Andreessen Horowitz/Flow Carbon - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2022/05/25/a16z-crypto-record-4th-fund-doubles-down-on-web3-amid-market-crash/?sh=7f704b7f34ffVCs Driving Down Valuation Narrative - https://twitter.com/bgurley/status/1528535418076995584 Executive Producer: Rashad AssirProducer: Leah ClapperMixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow📱 X - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.Tap follow and enable notifications to stay ahead of the game.