Akin Babayigit
18 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 8 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 26, 2023 by Akin Babayigit · said 8 times in 4 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (7), Danny Cohen (1)
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2023 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Stephane Kurgan: Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400; How to Find Great Talent | E1041 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2021 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Jun 26, 2023
Jun 26, 2023 negative
Babayigit: Startup Mission Statements Are Mostly Disingenuous
“I mean, money doesn't buy you happiness, but it can eliminate some forms of unhappiness, right? And a lot of people fetishize this kind of, you know, grandiose meanings in life, and, you know, what it means to have a mission statement, and you put it on the wa…”
Jun 26, 2023 neutral
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Jun 26, 2023 negative
Babayigit: Requiring domain passion is a dangerous Western startup myth
“I think it's a very Western centric view of the world To think that you have to be, you know, passionate about the domain that you're in. And I think that ends up actually in quite dangerous territory because a lot of people who are passionate for winning, who…”
Jun 26, 2023 negative
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Jun 26, 2023
Babayigit: Entrepreneurship gets easier over time like raising children
“I think it does get easier, right? Because it's, I think it changed the nature of the problems change. It's like when people ask me about kids, you know, when you have a small kid, you worry about something relatively minuscule every single day, maybe every si…”
Jun 26, 2023 negative
Jun 26, 2023 negative
Jun 26, 2023
Babayigit: Startups must slow down at critical strategic curves
“Speed of execution allows you to do more iterations than others. Right. But there are points that this is a road, and the road has curves, and you know what? When you're approaching those curves, sometimes you have to just slow down and actually think and take…”
Jun 26, 2023 positive
Babayigit: Mobile game success comes from live operations, not creative design
“And if you look at the business as a whole, the success of a mobile game has nothing to do with how you make the game. It's all about how you operate the game. And how you operate the game is not, you know, I think a lot of times people think about gaming and …”
Jun 26, 2023 negative
Babayigit Turned Down 2010 Zynga Job Offer Over Bad Corporate Culture Reports
“And that element of understanding the psychology behind that actually made me interview at Zynga, and this was in 2000 10, and back then I was told the culture at Zynga was not very good. I had classmates from HBS who were working there, so I ended up not taki…”
Jun 26, 2023 bullish
Jun 26, 2023 negative
Babayigit: Lower foreign tax rates will not tempt him to leave the UK
“It's not tempting enough to upset the settled lifestyle that I created for my children, right? My children are very British, which is hilarious thinking about it now, but they are very British, and they have friends here, they have schools here, my wife loves …”