Byron Deeter
33 statements across 6 episodes · 14 bullish · 8 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 2, 2016 by Byron Deeter · said 87 times in 29 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (30), Ara Mahdessian (23), Jason Lemkin (14), David Cohen (3), Anna Khan (3), Rachel Carlson (2), Hans Tung (2), Tooey Courtemanche (1)
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2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 28 mentions in 3 episodes 9 per episode
- Ara Mahdessian: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier | E1175 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
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2021 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Twilio's Jeff Lawson on What It Takes To Create a Tribe, How To Create Anti-Fragile Organisations Through Decentralised Decision-Making and Why Values Are Nice But Principles Are Better
- 20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
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2020 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
- 20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor
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2019 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Guild Education's Rachel Carlson on The Benefits of Scaling Startups Outside of Silicon Valley, Why Mission and Margin Are So Tightly Integrated & Why Mums Are The Most Under-Utilised Asset In The Economy
- 20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
- 20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
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2018 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
- 20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Byron Deeter, oldest first
May 2, 2016 negative
Deeter: Outbidding competition for tech talent is an unwinnable arms race
“Really the primary job of the CEO obviously is to hire a great team, but you do that not by outbidding your competition in this market. That's an unwinnable arms race. You need to pay fair market economics, but really what you need to do is compel them by the …”
May 2, 2016
Jul 8, 2019
Public company boards should spend half their time on strategy
“Preserving the time for the strategic stuff is the most important actual use of the boardroom members, and so, for private companies, that ratio tends to be the vast majority, and the update part is very modest, and when you get to the public side, at least tr…”
Jul 8, 2019
Jul 8, 2019
Jul 8, 2019
Bessemer passed on Tesla after failing to foresee its financial viability
“Tesla is the one that is front and center for me. I'm a car geek at hard. I love hardware products, and spent a lot of time with them early on, and just couldn't see the path to viability of the high-end car in a tough automotive time, so I bought the first ca…”
Jul 8, 2019 bullish
Multiple $10B+ private cloud companies will soon transition to public markets
“You're going to see these Ten billion dollar plus caliber companies starting to flip from private to public, and the lights will turn on on this segment in a way that public market investors and, frankly, the community more broadly doesn't yet fully appreciate”
Jul 8, 2019 positive
Jul 8, 2019 positive
Capital-efficient startups pull away from competitors in down markets
“However, in the medium to down markets, you will be disproportionately rewarded, because investors will flock to quality, and you will have the ability to invest in your model when others don't. As the cost of capital spikes in the market, the efficient busine…”
Jul 8, 2019 neutral
Jul 8, 2019 bullish
Jul 8, 2019 positive
Bessemer avoids market timing to pay fair prices for visionaries
“Great companies are built in all markets, and so I've really given up trying to time markets either as a founder or as an investor, and my point of view is Find great people with big vision and pay the fair market price, and generally, really good things happe…”
Jan 10, 2020
Rathmann refused Zoom partner meetings with Bessemer and Coatue
“Byron would tell you, and I think Thomas from KOTU as well as, you know, as we were going through the partner meeting process, it was, you know, they're sending a zoom link over and saying, Hey, you know, just zoom in at this time. And that'll be that. And I s…”
May 27, 2021 positive
May 27, 2021 bullish
Twilio Built Software Layers to Avoid Becoming a Commoditized Infrastructure Pipe
“The commoditization of communications or the migration of their larger customers. So I think you asked a very insightful question along the way, which I probably didn't give enough due to, which is we worried about that very heavily. And so part of our Preempt…”
May 27, 2021 negative
Hiring a Big-Company CRO Too Early Disadvantages Early-Stage Startups
“And so hiring the big company CRO at that point is not only overkill, but it probably sets you up at a disadvantage because they're going to be disconnected. They're going to be layering in other execs. They're going to be working on process when really you ne…”
May 27, 2021 bullish
Cloud Companies Will Absorb Multiple Compression Through Strong Revenue Growth
“These companies are growing at north of 40% on the public side, and on the private side, usually growing 80 to a hundred percent plus for the best companies, and so you can absorb some multiple compression and still compound value and be a win for everyone inv…”
May 27, 2021 neutral
Startups Facing Preemptive Term Sheets Should Raise Half-Rounds Ahead
“Raise a half round ahead, not a full round ahead. So this idea of if you can envision deploying more capital and initially we are going to raise this money to get through these phases, let's think about the intermediate milestones where we can then go out and …”
May 27, 2021 bearish
May 27, 2021 bearish
May 27, 2021 negative
Jun 28, 2021
Aug 25, 2025 bearish
Deeter: Vast majority of mature private software companies won't go public
“Vast majority are not going to get public and consolidation will make sense because at the core, a lot of these businesses are very high gross margin and are run pretty inefficiently because we've got a growth mindset and we're certainly not optimizing for cos…”
Aug 25, 2025 bullish
Deeter: AI will mirror top scientists' reasoning within 18 months
“The curve is still up into the right, without a doubt, and I do believe that we will cross over this term. You know, people use you know various different terms about you know, levels of reasoning and awareness and AGI and the like. I have no doubt we're, if w…”
Aug 25, 2025 bullish
Deeter: 10-Person Micro-Businesses Will Reach Billion-Dollar Valuations
“I think we're going to see the era of the micro business. I think that we're going to have, you know, 10 person companies that are crossing billion dollar valuations and, you know, kids in schools are going to be able to launch businesses in real time in, in w…”
Aug 25, 2025 bullish
Aug 25, 2025 bullish
Aug 25, 2025 positive
Deeter: Canva and Intercom AI products generate hundreds of millions
“I look at a company like a Canva, or I look at a company like Intercom that's at a scale where in some ways they're already becoming an incumbent in those markets, and yet they're disrupting themselves at awesome rates and have AI products that are already, yo…”
Aug 25, 2025
Aug 25, 2025 bullish
Deeter: Anthropic's revenue growth trajectory is unprecedented in tech history
“Like, when you actually see the anthropic numbers that he's now sharing, and like, this is real, and, you know, their path to billions and billions in revenue, and, you know, really compelling unit economics, I just, we have never seen this in the history of o…”
Aug 25, 2025 negative
Aug 25, 2025 negative
Deeter: Passed on Tesla Over Roadster Unit Economics
“One of the most famous and most painful for me was Tesla early on. It's on my anti-portfolio. If you go to the Bessemer website, we have a page dedicated to our screw ups, and that's one of mine. And it was because I couldn't fundamentally see how the unit eco…”