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Aydin Senkut

7 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 11, 2016 by Aydin Senkut · said 42 times in 13 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Apr 11, 2016 bearish
Opinion
Small seed funds face major headwinds as small M&A dries up
“More and more we're seeing the bigger companies, you know, focusing on only on large M&A and companies' success driven more like either they get to a scale where they can go public but there is not as much glory in kind of smaller successes. So I think there's…”
Aydin Senkut Apr 11, 2016 ▶ 12:16 20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
Apr 11, 2016
Insight
Venture capital is a derivative business like an art gallery
“I basically immediately realized that venture capital is a derivative business. It's like an art gallery. We are not building these companies, but we're creating these companies and we're supporting them.”
Aydin Senkut Apr 11, 2016 ▶ 8:12 20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
May 27, 2022
Insight
Senkut: Selecting Right People Is 100x Harder Than Picking Startups
“We think that picking companies is hard. I think picking people is like a hundred times harder, right?”
Aydin Senkut May 27, 2022 ▶ 26:33 Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2022
Insight
Senkut: Venture capital cannot scale without 100x to 1000x return bets
“Because if you don't get that hundred X or thousand X type of bets, you know, like, this is not a business that's gonna scale with, like, just two, three X type of investments, if you know what I mean.”
Aydin Senkut May 27, 2022 ▶ 37:58 Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Senkut: Passed on Airbnb at a $2.5M valuation cap in 2008
“I still have an email from 2008 from Brian Chesky. I didn't. We really like you. You sure you don't want to invest at like 2.5 million dollar cap, right? Like I just overthought the risk.”
Aydin Senkut May 27, 2022 ▶ 33:26 Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2022
Disclosure
Senkut: No venture firm would hire him before he launched Felicis
“I actually was thinking maybe I should work at a firm first and learn the ropes before I started. But I didn't really have a typical background and Nobody really wanted to give me a job”
Aydin Senkut May 27, 2022 ▶ 3:02 Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Senkut: Adyen was my largest personal venture exit
“My personal biggest exit was Adyen.”
Aydin Senkut May 27, 2022 ▶ 33:14 Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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