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Arthur Patterson

11 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 8, 2021 by Arthur Patterson · said 15 times in 6 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Nov 8, 2021
Insight
Patterson: A venture firm's first fundraise is always its most difficult
“The first fundraise is always your most difficult”
Arthur Patterson Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 7:52 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Swartz: Accel was named to be near the alphabet's beginning
“The Accel name, both Arthur and I spent our lives at the tail end of the alphabet. We wanted something at the front end of the alphabet. Going through a dictionary, he came across, it's actually a music term. It's short for accelerando, if you're into music.”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 7:22 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 negative
Opinion
Swartz: Believing current asset bubbles are 'different this time' is bullshit
“That's the key word. It's different this time. Yeah. Bullshit. I can't believe Arthur actually said that. It's different this time. He's bought into it.”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 17:11 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Patterson: Accel partners prepared personal checks to reach $100M Fund III
“In the end, actually, we were a little bit short, and we were going to write checks ourselves to bring it over a hundred.”
Arthur Patterson Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 10:27 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021
Assertion Supported
Patterson: VC market is 100 times larger today than in 1980
“Today, the business is two orders of magnitude, what it was in those days. It's just, everybody knew everybody in those days, and today it's two orders of magnitude.”
Arthur Patterson Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 4:27 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 positive
Insight
Patterson: Specialist VC firms always win over generalists
“The specialist always wins over the generalist.”
Arthur Patterson Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 11:46 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021
Insight
Patterson: Early-stage investments are more price-protected than growth deals
“Well, I think if you're in the early stage, particularly, you're more price protected. You can still have a good idea for a startup. Your exposure, when you're putting money into things at the four billion dollar valuation, or something like that, and large am…”
Arthur Patterson Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 20:52 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 positive
Opinion
Patterson: Stock options should be taxed identically to founder shares
“I think the stock options, for example, should be taxed the same way founder shares are taxed. So if you want to take a step in the direction of equality, that's the best thing you can do in Silicon Valley.”
Arthur Patterson Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 35:16 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Swartz: Accel co-founders began relinquishing firm equity around 2000
“So we started giving up our ownership in the firm, you know, beginning around 2000 or so late nineties, early 2000 started scaling back, which allowed others to grow.”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 24:29 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021
What-if
Patterson: Accel could not have raised its inaugural fund six months later
“If we'd waited another six months, I don't think we could have.”
Arthur Patterson Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 8:19 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Patterson: Modern SaaS startups are less vulnerable to economic cycles
“This time, almost all of the companies are continuing revenue service companies. The managements are planning, you know, multi-years ahead, and they're much easier businesses to run and build And they're much more sustainable and much less vulnerable to the ec…”
Arthur Patterson Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 19:27 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
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