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Cyan Banister

17 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 19, 2020 by Cyan Banister · said 12 times in 6 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Oct 19, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Cyan Banister acknowledges an investment bias toward backing immigrant founders
“So I admit that I have a soft spot for immigrants. If anything, I lean immigrant biased. I tend to like people that come to this country who still understand why this country is so precious and understand what they're leaving behind and why there's opportunity…”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 48:36 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 positive
Insight
Cyan Banister: Spouse and sibling co-founders succeed due to shared conflict resolution
“This is why I also love husband, wife, and brother, sister, and brother, brother, sibling teams is often they've had an entire lifetime or many, many years to resolve conflicts, right?”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 26:46 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 negative
Insight
Cyan Banister: Silencing dissenting voices accelerates political radicalization to opposite extremes
“The more we try to silence other people, the more radical they're going to become. It's just going to push each other to the opposite extremes.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 33:09 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020
Disclosure
Cyan Banister refuses to Google search founders before meeting them
“I don't Google search people before I meet them. It's a hard and fast rule for me.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 11:59 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020
Disclosure
Cyan Banister reinvests almost all exit returns back into startups
“So a lot of my investment style is evergreen, even though I'm wealthy on paper. Often cash poor because I redeploy almost every dollar back into the ecosystem that I don't live off of.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 8:45 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 positive
Opinion
Cyan Banister says Founders Fund is one of few firms she'd join
“There's very few venture firms I would join, and Founders Fund is one of them.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 5:35 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cyan Banister will never demonize anyone for wanting to make money
“You'll never find me ever demonizing a single human being that wants to make money.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 15:50 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020
Disclosure
Cyan Banister asks every founder for their personal story before pitching
“The first question I ask every single founder is, tell me their story. Like, not the business. I don't want to hear about the business. I want to hear about how they got to where they are.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 12:21 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 positive
Insight
Cyan Banister: Qualitative intuition and pattern matching beat data-driven investing
“I'm more qualitative, and I'm definitely driven by pattern matching, gut instinct, watching trends, reading things constantly, but it's not necessarily data-driven. I just have hunches that things are going to work, and I have a good feeling about the people w…”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 9:56 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 positive
Insight
Cyan Banister: Uber could not build a world-changing company by being nice
“They pushed people to move fast, break things, and challenge all regulations, etc., but in order to be Literally a world-changing company, they had to do that, and they had to have those behaviors. They weren't going to be able to do it by being nice all the t…”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 17:05 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 positive
Insight
Cyan Banister: Science fiction books are among the best business books
“So I think some of the best business books, believe it or not, are science fiction books.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 42:12 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2028
Cyan Banister: High seed valuations will cause poor VC returns by 2027
“Well, what's going to happen is there's going to be a reckoning and there always is one market will work itself out where people look at their returns seven, eight years from now, and they're not going to be great.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 18:36 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 bullish
Disclosure
Cyan Banister's first angel investment check was into SpaceX
“So my first check was into SpaceX.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 4:06 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 negative
Disclosure
Cyan Banister says late-stage venture investing makes her deeply unhappy
“I also discovered that I'm not cut out for late stage investing. It makes me deeply unhappy.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 5:43 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020
Disclosure
Cyan Banister often evaluates founders within ten minutes of meeting them
“A lot of the times I make up my mind about the person before ever hearing about the product within that 1:10 minutes of them telling me their story.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 12:38 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 19, 2020 bullish
Disclosure
Cyan Banister says Uber is by far her highest-returning investment
“Well, that'd be Uber by far.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 45:05 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
Oct 28, 2022
Disclosure
Banister: Wealthy on paper, cash-poor from reinvesting all exit proceeds
“Even though I'm wealthy on paper, often cash poor because I redeploy almost every dollar back into the ecosystem that I don't live off of.”
Cyan Banister Oct 28, 2022 ▶ 13:13 20VC: Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya, Gary Vee, Brad Gerstner and more on Their Relationship To Money, How It Has Changed with Time and Wealth, How They Bring Up Their Children To Engender the Same Values of Ambition and Hard Work?
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