Clayton Christensen
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 12, 2016 by Ryan Caldbeck · said 24 times in 18 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Tom Hulme (3), Ryan Smith (2), Ryan Caldbeck (2), Harry Stebbings (2), Gaurav Jain (2), Steve Blank (1), Moisey Uretsky (1), Mark Carney (1)
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2024 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah: The Ultimate Guide to Company Culture | E896 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
- 20VC: Ramp's Eric Glyman on Why You Should Never Take The Highest Price, Working With Venture Funds vs Crossover Funds and How To Determine What To Buy vs Build as a Founder Today?
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- 20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo
- 20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2017 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations
- 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
- 20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Clayton Christensen, oldest first
Feb 12, 2016
CircleUp's 2012 seed round was rejected by over 60 investors
“And raised our seed round, which Maveron and Clayton Christensen wrote the book called the innovators dilemma through his hedge fund, Rose Park. They led that back in in 2012. That was a very hard round for us to raise, to be frank with you. And I think we wen…”
Jun 20, 2016 positive
Oct 14, 2016 negative
Uretsky: Business books deliver the same education as a $200K Harvard MBA
“And I firmly believe that that's the case. I could either, you know, try to apply to Harvard business school and get in and pay, you know, 200 grand for that education. Or I could read, you know, Clayton Christensen's, you know, Interversive Lemon, pretty much…”
Nov 15, 2021
Zaki: High performers over-index on immediate work validation over family
“One of the things he really talks about is short-term reinforcement versus long-term reinforcement. And so when you are investing in the life of your child, you might not see the fruits of labor for 12 or 18 years versus when you're working on a deal, you know…”