Austen Allred

7 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 8, 2019 by Austen Allred · said 15 times in 6 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Mar 8, 2019
Insight
Allred: Wealth Beyond Basic Survival Has Negligible Impact on Satisfaction
“After a pretty small threshold, the differences between having a lot of money and a little money are fairly negligible. I mean, it comes down to, you know, once you're making, you know, enough to survive and have a car, you know, what car you drive might be di…”
Austen Allred Mar 8, 2019 ▶ 7:10 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
Mar 8, 2019
Insight
Allred: A Small Financial Cushion Dramatically Increases Founder Risk Tolerance
“I think people vastly underestimate the psychological impact of having just a little bit of money, even if it's a couple thousand dollars between how you can think and take risks and, What your life is like from having no money to having just a little bit of m…”
Austen Allred Mar 8, 2019 ▶ 7:51 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
Sep 18, 2020
Disclosure
Allred Lived on an $18,000 Teaching Salary After Getting Married
“She was a teacher, and we were living on a first-year teacher's salary, which was like, 18 K, or something like that”
Austen Allred Sep 18, 2020 ▶ 5:32 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
Sep 18, 2020
Insight
Structure Round Docs to Avoid Chasing Every Angel Signature
“And we also set up our docs in such a way that if X percent of the seed round has signed docs, then we're good. I think that's really important. So you don't have to chase down literally every single person.”
Austen Allred Sep 18, 2020 ▶ 15:28 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
Sep 18, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Allred Has Taken Almost Zero Secondary Liquidity in Lambda School
“Transparently, I have done basically zero secondary relative to where Lambda is at”
Austen Allred Sep 18, 2020 ▶ 10:11 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
Sep 18, 2020
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Allred Slept in His Car in Palo Alto for Three Months
“I bought a two-door Honda Civic, and I drove out to Silicon Valley, and I slept on the streets of Palo Alto for about three months.”
Austen Allred Sep 18, 2020 ▶ 3:58 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
Sep 18, 2020
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Allred's Prior Startup Failed After Billionaire Investor Pulled Series A
“We had a series A close, all the docs were done, had this big billionaire investor who was leading the round, and he just called me, like, on December 23rd and said, hey, I'm not going to send a wire, and that was the end of that company.”
Austen Allred Sep 18, 2020 ▶ 4:41 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
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