Alex Taussig
5 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 12, 2018 by Alex Taussig · said 22 times in 13 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (14), Nicole Quinn (5), Mike Mignano (1), Jeremy Liew (1), Jana Messerschmidt (1)
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley and Orlando Bravo on "Does Price Matter"; When to Pay Up vs When to Stay Disciplined, The Biggest Lessons on Price Discipline from 8 of the World's Best Investors
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2023 5 mentions in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- 20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise
- 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
- 20VC: Why The Current VC Financing Mechanism For Consumer Brands Is Broken, Why The Infrastructure To Power Emerging Brands Is Broken and What The Re-Platforming of Retail Means For The Next Decade in Consumer with Adam Pritzker, Chairman & CEO @ Assemble
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2018 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn
- 20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- 20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
- 20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Alex Taussig, oldest first
Mar 12, 2018
Mar 30, 2018 positive
Empathetic board members can act as co-founder sounding boards
“Both Alex and Carl be the type of people that I can call. I can be a little vulnerable with, you know, I can, I will get that empathy, but they're also just wonderful sounding boards. So the decisions that one would usually make with a co-founder, I find that …”
Apr 22, 2019
Jeremy Liew averages two board meetings and seven portfolio calls weekly
“And so on average, I have two board meetings per week. And then seven, I just did a analysis of my calendar for a couple of months as did Alex Taussig and Nicole Quinn. And so, so this, these numbers are sort of top of mind, but two, two board meetings per wee…”
Feb 12, 2024 positive
Taussig: Higher interest rates benefited Vinted against discounting competitors
“The end of zero interest rates benefited us a lot. I remember when, early when I joined the board, it was still, we're still in this era of like insane discounting by some of our competitors in various regions. And we had to make these hard choices. Like, do w…”
Feb 12, 2024 positive
Taussig: Silicon Valley VC culture incentivizes fair treatment as a repeat game
“Silicon Valley has this like weird risk loving kind of culture. And we also know that it's a repeat game. We know that we're going to be playing the game with these people for decades. And so we got to treat everyone right.”