Avichal Garg

10 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 20, 2018 by Avichal Garg · said 39 times in 12 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Aug 20, 2018 bearish
Opinion
Garg: Late-stage crypto token valuations in 2018 are out of whack
“And right now, what you have at the late stage is a lot of money and a lot of risk. And so you haven't really de-risked it, but there's a lot of money going in. And so as an investor, you look at that and you say, wow, that's a pretty tough place to put money.…”
Avichal Garg Aug 20, 2018 ▶ 13:14 20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
Aug 20, 2018 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Garg: Crypto dApps and computation will not create most long-term value
“Even though most of the dollars today, I think, are going towards those last two buckets of distributed computation and distributed applications, I don't think that's actually where most of the really new value will get created in the long term.”
Avichal Garg Aug 20, 2018 ▶ 11:55 20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
Apr 11, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Garg: 10% of DAOs will wildly break expectations of governance
“You'll have millions and millions of doubts created. Many of them will fail. Many of them will look very similar to what we would expect just reasoning through it. And some small percent, 10% of them will wildly break our expectations about what's possible.”
Avichal Garg Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 35:55 20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
Apr 11, 2022 neutral
Prediction Held up
Garg: DAOs will recreate traditional structures like representative government
“Is I absolutely think we will recreate a lot of the known governance structures in society. We will recreate representative government, for example, where there are experts and you sort of delegate your votes to them and then they go off and make decisions tha…”
Avichal Garg Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 35:13 20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
Apr 11, 2022 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Garg: Mid-tier venture firms face severe disruption from on-chain capital competition
“The people I think should be worried are if you're like VC firm, 15 through 1000, right? Like I think you get disrupted because capital, as it becomes a commodity, if you're a venture firm, 25 and you're like not breaking the top decile in terms of returns, An…”
Avichal Garg Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 21:55 20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
Apr 11, 2022
Insight
Avichal Garg: Technology market growth should always be extrapolated exponentially
“Our instinct is to extrapolate linearly rather than extrapolate exponentially because the conclusions that you reach to seem ludicrous in the moment. But it's turned out that every moment in time on that curve, whether you were in 1980 or 1985 or 1990 or 1995 …”
Avichal Garg Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 44:44 20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
Apr 11, 2022
Insight
Garg: Software eliminates middle markets by converting regional monopolies into power-law global markets
“It like destroys these local and regional monopolies and turns them into global markets. And once you're competing at a global scale, it tends to have this sort of concentration effect. It creates a power law and it creates concentration in the head and it unl…”
Avichal Garg Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 23:10 20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
Apr 11, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Garg: Andreessen and Sequoia Will Likely Successfully Transition to Web3
“Now, some absolutely can, and I think some will. Like, I think Andreessen and Sequoia will likely make that transition, but it's going to be extremely challenging.”
Avichal Garg Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 16:39 20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
Apr 11, 2022
Disclosure
Electric Capital grew fund sizes from $16M to $1B in three years
“Raised our first fund. It was a small fund, sixteen million, and then raised our sort of first proper institutional fund in 2020 at 110, and then just closed a billion.”
Avichal Garg Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 5:00 20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
Apr 11, 2022 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Garg: Global economy will revert to 1950s-1980s geopolitical fragmentation over 20-30 years
“I think I've recently changed my mind on the uniqueness of the period of time that we lived in from roughly 1990 to 2020. Like, I thought we were trending towards that was basically the state of the world, where we would have this sort of, like, globally stabl…”
Avichal Garg Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 49:45 20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
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