Harry Stebbings's Recent LinkedIn Posts

10 years ago I was an intern at a fund. I remember the first morning, one of the managing partners saw me waiting in the waiting room and took 30 mins out for a coffee and to welcome me. Today, he pinged me after 8 years of not being in touch and asked for a favour for his daughter’s business. I did it without…

For anyone with a dream that feels impossibly far away. I started 20VC from a bedroom in London, as an 18 year old with no money and no VC contacts. I wrote three names of three VCs I dreamt of having on 20VC. Last night, I ticked another of the three off the list with Marc Andreessen joining 20VC. 10 years an…

I have interviewed 100 of the best growth leaders over the past 5 years. None has impressed me as much as Elena Verna, Head of Growth at Lovable. Elena scaled Lovable's growth engine from $0 to $400M in ARR in just 2 years. Today I released our episode with Elena and have gone over it to condense my biggest lesson…

An entire generation of mid-level managers is about to lose their jobs. Spoke to a CRO of a hot Series B startup yesterday: “We don’t have the knowledge internally to implement AI and agents into our process.” Toast. You are toast. That is unacceptable. Everyone can learn. There is zero excuse for the above.…

Founders, I am sorry but press/media do not care about your $3M seed round. Don’t bother trying to convince them. They don’t care. Focus on finding PMF, making customers love your product, building a personal brand (which you own and control) and creating value. #Founder #funding #business #investing #vc #vent…

Founders, when a VC is not chasing you, they don’t want the deal. It’s that simple. Move on. Don’t bother chasing them. Don’t bother asking for feedback. They won’t be honest, they don’t want a debate or to upset you. #Founder #funding #business #investing #vc #venturecapital #entrepreneur #startup