Andy Rachleff
9 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2016 by Andy Rachleff · said 54 times in 18 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (38), John Vrionis (7), Mike Volpi (3), Jules Maltz (3), Julio Vasconcellos (1), Danny Rimer (1), Barry McCarthy (1)
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- 20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- 20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- 20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- 20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
- 20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
- 20VC: Why You Don't Have To Have Operational Experience To Be A Good VC, Why There Is No Optimal Stage To Invest & Why VCs Should Focus on Reputation Ahead of Cash On Cash Returns with Lyon Wong, General Partner @ Spectrum 28
- 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Andy Rachleff, oldest first
Jun 20, 2016
Rachleff: Consumer product-market fit requires exponential organic growth, not paid acquisition
“Consumer-related businesses, I think you know you found product market fit when you achieve exponential organic growth. Anyone can gain growth through paid acquisition. If you can achieve exponential organic growth, that's when you know you found product marke…”
Jun 20, 2016
Rachleff: A startup's initial idea rarely succeeds without iterating through value hypotheses
“It's very, very rare for anyone's initial idea to succeed, and the process of iterating through a series of value hypotheses is very, very difficult, and it can be very depressing if the hypotheses prove false.”
Jun 20, 2016 positive
Jun 20, 2016 negative
Mar 10, 2017
Rachleff: Executive transitions fail when CEOs are surprised or internal factions form
“I think the poor transitions were the result of the CEO being surprised with being fired. That usually created a lot of consternation. If there were two camps within the company where there were warring factions, where one camp wanted one person to run the com…”
Mar 10, 2017 positive
Rachleff: Benchmark's Bruce Dunleavy is radically more capable as a business person
“He has unbelievable judgment and is the best influencer I've ever met, and people just adore Bruce, and I try to learn from him as best as I can. He's two years older than I am, but he's radically more capable than I am as a business person, and I have benefit…”
Mar 10, 2017
Rachleff: Transparency without context leads employees to assume bad faith
“The challenge with transparency is if you let someone else set the agenda, it can work against you. So it's really, really important to provide context with transparency, because if you don't provide context, people will make up their own, and more times than …”
Sep 24, 2018
Market physics ultimately dictate startup outcomes over founder quality, says Tavel
“I absolutely agree with Andy. You know, it's so frustrating when you meet a fantastic founder. Like I'm very much someone who my first link reaction to a company is first the founders. Like that is what gets me leaning in on a potential investment. And the har…”
Dec 9, 2019 positive
Vrionis: Benchmark co-founder Andy Rachleff is the best board member ever
“Andy Reckliff. I had the pleasure of sitting on the NYSERA. Participating in those board meetings was just, I couldn't have paid enough to learn. And the why is, his whole style is to hold up the mirror to the founder, right? The board meetings are for them, H…”