In episode 36 Logan and Zach talk with Fivetran Co-Founder and CEO George Fraser about how entrepreneurship is evolving and whether the era of iterating on product until you find your niche still exists. Plus investors leaving major firms to start their own funds, how to choose a VC firm, and figuring out the right time to sell your company.
(0:00) Intro
(0:53) Investors starting their own funds
(10:05) Tiger
(14:16) Choosing a VC firm
(22:07) Facebook’s Yahoo offer
(25:04) Welcome George Fraser
(30:02) Plaid comparison
(39:01) Salesforce data
(42:32) Finding product/market fit
(46:52) Era of iterating to success
(51:55) What’s driving stack changes?
(56:29) Mixing family and business
(1:02:17) Academia to entrepreneurship
(1:00:28) Lawrenceville Boarding School
(1:05:56) Acquisition lessons learned
(1:10:07) Closing
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky
Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir
Executive Producer: Josh Machiz
Music: Griff Lawson
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Logan 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.
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