Amol Deshpande
10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 21, 2018 by Amol Deshpande · across every show →
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Deshpande: Building massive businesses requires prioritizing scale over equity dilution concerns
“Before Kleiner, I probably thought of it maybe a little more like a small business person, you know, where equity is obviously very precious and everything, but you're more worried about dilution. You're worried to raise some money and I, Take some dilution an…”
Sep 21, 2018 bullish
Sep 21, 2018 positive
Deshpande: Executives with prior financial success weather startup crises better
“A lot of times the reason that people management or others will panic when something bad happens or not be able to deal with the tough environment that a startup may go through or face is because they're worried about the financial side or they're worried abou…”
Sep 21, 2018 positive
Deshpande: Pre-revenue deep tech startups should raise hundreds of millions early
“There's plenty of companies that are pre-revenue for many years who can and should raise hundreds of millions of dollars because they're building a phenomenal new technology, and it's going to be a long time before they generate revenue.”
Sep 21, 2018 negative
Deshpande: High-IQ executives often outthink themselves and lose focus
“The highest IQ people sometimes, I would almost say outsmart themselves or outthink themselves. They think in terms of arbitrage or hedging their bets or this or that, or they've got 10 things going on. They're not focused on the task at hand.”
Sep 21, 2018
Deshpande: A massive gap separates category leaders from the next five entrants
“There's a big gap between the best company in a sector and the best entrepreneur and the best team and really the next five. And any big business and any big idea is going to have multiple entrants, multiple people in and around it. But you really Need to bet …”