Video: Jeff Lawson at Post Seed 2016

Mitos Suson · December 16, 2016 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/4889

Twilio's CEO sits down with Byron Deeter of Bessemer Venture Partners

At our Post Seed 2016 event last Dec.1, Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio, sat down with Byron Deeter, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners in a Fireside Chat. Post Seed is hosted by Vator, Bullpen Capital and Haystack.

Vator (short for innovator) is an awesome business network dedicated to high-tech entrepreneurs and investors. Vator consists of Vator.co, the online network with 150,000-plus members; VatorX - a platform to help filter for great startups; Vator Investment Club - made up of Vator investor members who invest in Vator-curated startups; Vator Media, which includes VatorNews, a provider of analysis, commentary, and news about innovation and venture capital, and Vator Events, which organizers the Splash startup series and Post Seed conference.

Bullpen Capital is a second round investor that invests in companies previously seeded by the Super Angel funds. Bullpen's founders include Paul Martino, founder and former CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, Duncan Davidson, founder of Covad and former venture partner at VantagePoint, and Richard Melmon, co-founder of Electronic Arts.

Haystack is a seed-stage fund.

If you want to invest in startups selected by Vator, join the Vator Investment Club. Join by December 31 and be eligible to receive a complimentary ticket to Splash Health, Wellness & Wearables on March 23, and a round-trip flight on Surf Air.

Thanks to our amazing top-tier PostSeed 2016 sponsors: CV Brokerage Inc, Silicon Legal Strategy, Rincon Venture Partners, Bread and Butter, SurfAir, Soothe and Bixel Exchange.

Editor's Note: SplashX LA is around the corner on January 19 at TechStyle Fashion HQ in Los Angeles. Speakers include Adam Goldenberg (Founder & CEO, TechStyle Fashion), Richard Jun (Managing Partner, Bam Ventures), Brian Garett (Co-founder and Managing Director, CrossCut Ventures), Laurent Grill (Luma Launch), Mitch Thrower (Founder & CEO, Events.com) and many more. Join us! REGISTER HERE.

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In 1911, Henry Phipps founded Bessemer Securities to reinvest the proceeds of his sale of Carnegie Steel for the benefit of his descendents. The start-up investment operations were spun out into Bessemer Venture Partners, which now operates out of seven offices around the globe.