Davor Hebel

Hanging with the great @dhebel - together working to help @redpoints & @Lurquizu rock…a little secret: Q1 the company signed its biggest deal to date - €4 million. Not bad 😉

@DavidSacks Your understanding of how dictators and dictatorships work is dismal - get someone like @Kasparov63 to the pod and learn a few things before jumping to conclusions - listeners deserve a more informed view

A WAR OF LIES The war in Ukraine is based on lies — lies about how it started, how it’s going, and how it will end. We are told that Ukraine is winning when in fact it is losing. We are told that the war makes NATO stronger when in fact it is depleting it. We are told that Ukraine’s biggest problem is a lack of funds from the U.S. Congress when in fact the West can’t produce enough ammunition — a problem that will take years to fix. We are told that Russia is suffering greater casualties when in fact Ukraine is running out of soldiers — another problem money can’t fix. We are told that the world is with us when in fact the Global Majority believes U.S. policy is the height of folly. We are told that there is no opportunity to make peace when in fact we have rejected multiple opportunities for a negotiated settlement. We are told that if Ukraine keeps fighting, it will improve its negotiating position when in fact the terms will only get much worse than what was already available and rejected. Nevertheless the lies will succeed in dragging out the war. Congress will appropriate more funds. Russia will take more territory. Ukraine will mobilize more young men and women to feed into the meat grinder. Discontent will mount. Eventually there will be a crisis in Kiev and the Zelensky government will be toppled. And then, when the war is finally lost, when the whole country lays in smoldering ruins on a funeral pyre of their own making, the liars will say “well we tried.” Having prevented any alternative, having smeared anyone who told the truth as puppets for the enemy, the liars will say “We did our best. We stood up to Putin.” In fact, they will claim, we would have succeeded but for the fifth column of Putin apologists who stabbed the Ukrainians in the back. Then, having shifted blame and patted themselves on the back, they will blithely move on to the next war, as they moved onto Ukraine after their disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq. The lies are comprehensive — but they will work.

As Charlie Munger of blessed memory advised: “Invert, always invert,” i.e, turn a situation or a problem upside down to better understand and solve it. So, let’s assume Presidents Gay, Kornbluth, and Magill were available, would any university in the world hire them as president? The answer of course is no. Why then should they remain presidents of the most prestigious universities in America? With this simple thought experiment, we have the answer. They all have to go.

Today we've launched the ‘Young Generation in Tech’ report with our portfolio company @HiBob_HR 💥 Biggest difference from last year’s results ❔ Levels of job satisfaction and job security have bounced back. Read the full report here 👇 younggenerationintech.com

(NEW EPISODE) He Sold His Last Company For $300 Million And Now Raised $425 Million To Disrupt HR cc @HiBob_HR @RonniZehavi alejandrocremades.com/he-sold-his-la… @AdamRFisher @dhebel @BessemerVP @BatteryVentures @8roadsventures @generalatlantic @localglobevc @EntreeCap @taavet @ArborVentures1 @seekjobs @ErrolDamelin #business #succes

Well done on the swift action, will benefit the whole budding ecosystem 👏 cc @8roadsventures

@cdlong97 @ChelseaFCW @thekccurrent @C_Levin @AngieKLong1 Nice - you in London? 😍

Incredible visit to @ChelseaFCW training facility outside London. Thank you Paul Green and team for the discussion and hospitality!

@Jonathan_Moules Congrats!!!

Today’s stats: One half marathon, one month to go to the real thing, 1:53hr time, 100% for Glamis Adventure Playground. Please give: justgiving.com/fundraising/Jo…

@fcourt @FelixCapital Congrats!!!

A great milestone for the ⁦@FelixCapital⁩ team today, closing our 4th fundraising at $600m, reaching $1.2bn AUM. We remain focused on investing in the transformation of the customer journey. Thanks to our community of founders & LPs for their trust! felixcapital.medium.com/felix-capital-…

@martinmignot @IndexVentures Congrats buddy! Great project and I am sure you and your family will have a blast. Hopefully can come back for a Chelsea match or two ;-)

It took me 15 yrs to get the perfect British accent but some opportunities are too good to pass on. So I'll be moving to NYC with my family over the summer to help set up the new @IndexVentures office there. See yall there! 👋🏻

Excited to share that Davor Hebel, Head of our Europe Ventures team, will be speaking at Mind the Tech in a panel discussion about perspectives of the Israeli and UK tech ecosystem with @Calcalistech 🚀 @dhebel Register here to join 👇 lnkd.in/d7-tczDH

@slpierre @ICONIQGrowth @Accel Congrats buddy!

Excited to share I’m joining @ICONIQGrowth to lead their European effort. It’s been a privilege working with the global @Accel team and their exceptionally talented portfolio of founders for the last 9 years - thank you! More on this in the coming months! bit.ly/35L442Y

@gdibner Different way of investing and might work for some funds and some entrepreneurs - will be interesting to see how it various outcomes look 10 years from now...

4/ The result of all this - as I've said before - is the total death of signal. $20M here or $50M there, it all means very very little these days. Weird times.

1/ One of the weirdest attributes of the time we are going through in VC land is the "seedification" of the late stage. Megafunds are literally "spay-and-praying" their way through the Series A, B, and even C.

The other day Davor Hebel, the Head of our Europe Ventures team, chatted to @CNBC about the roll out of our latest $450 million fund to help scale European and Israeli startups into the next global winners 👇 @dhebel #europeantech #scaleup cnbc.com/video/2021/10/…

@eileentso @mikebutcher @8roadsventures 🙏🙏🙏 thanks!

@dhebel @mikebutcher @8roadsventures sorry I’m late to this but congratulations !! 👏👏

Thanks @mikebutcher for your coverage - we continue to ride the wave of amazing European and Israeli founders! @8roadsventures

Thanks @surangac we will the same about you and your folks at @balderton 😍

V happy @dhebel @mtreskow @AlstonZecha and rest of the team @8roadsventures have just raised a great big $450M fund for #european #tech. A low ego team that invests smart and works tirelessly with founders - love working them @SmolProducts @funnel @tibbercom and hopefully more!

Huge congratulations to @dhebel and the team @8roadsventures on the Fourth Fund!

It was a great pleasure @cnbcKaren @GeoffCutmore @cnbcipr!

Thanks for the great coverage @Calcalistech - exciting times! cc @eyal_rabinovich