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Christian Hecker

11 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2024 by Christian Hecker · said 10 times in 5 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Feb 16, 2024
Insight
Hecker: Trade Republic board meetings focus on problems, not successes
“Whenever we see something not working, that's the first thing we share with people, right? So we rarely talk about the things which work well. We most often talk about the things which don't work well.”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 38:28 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hecker pitched over 200 VCs before raising for Trade Republic
“Between, I think, 2015 and 19, I met over 200 VCs.”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 3:35 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024 negative
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Hecker: Berlin lacks experienced scale-ready engineers for distributed systems
“If we really want to hire an engineer here in Berlin, who has seen large distributed IT systems for millions of customers, we don't find them here in Berlin. We need to go to the UK. We need to go to Sweden to maybe Russia to hire these people.”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 52:48 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024
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Hecker: Trade Republic built 1-2 year relationships before adding VCs to cap table
“And I think any investor which we picked, we've built a relationship for over a year or two years, right?”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 26:06 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024
Disclosure
Brenner: Creandum required restructuring Trade Republic's cap table to increase founder equity
“This was actually a deed breaker for us in the end, because we really wanted to see Christian and the team own enough to be able to have, you know, sufficient as a founder to stay with the company long-term.”
Johan Brenner Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 13:02 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Hecker: Trade Republic refuses campaigns designed to boost trading frequency
“And actually we're not looking at it to it at all. So in any product manager It comes to me and suggest that we should an engagement campaign, helping people to invest more, more often, more frequently. We don't do it.”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 18:39 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024
Disclosure
Hecker: Trade Republic banned the term 'micromanagement' in favor of 'hands-on'
“We killed the word micromanagement in the company, right? It's not allowed anymore. We call it hands-on, right?”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 44:25 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Hecker: German law forbids insurance companies from investing in venture capital
“Take Germany, right, where insurances are forbidden by law to invest in venture and all this stuff.”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 52:37 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024
Insight
Hecker: Startup failure is always the founder's fault, not investors'
“If you fail, it's always your mistake, right? So you, you're not here to blame any other person.”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 5:46 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Hecker: Trade Republic treats employee probation as an extended interview process
“Given the labor laws in Europe, we treat the probation period as an extensive form of interviews. So you're going to be evaluated all the time. At the end of your probation period, there's a committee. To really, that you can stay.”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 56:55 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Hecker: Trade Republic evaluates staff quarterly and exits non-performers
“By now I think we own our culture, which is very performance driven. Which if you don't accelerate, if you don't push you out we evaluate you quarterly. So we don't want to be this all everybody's happy a place. We want to be a place where those people who wan…”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 56:36 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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