Dan Scheinman
10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 21, 2018 by Dan Scheinman · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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May 21, 2018 negative
May 21, 2018 bullish
May 21, 2018 negative
Overpriced seed rounds deter price-disciplined Series A investors
“There's a certain price which I think is too high because what I worry about is not that it doesn't work out numbers-wise, but I worry that it detracts or deters A-round people from actually investing. Because they are more price disciplined.”
May 21, 2018 bullish
May 21, 2018
The biggest sin in venture investing is missing outlier winners
“The biggest sin is missing that 10% deal that's the huge winner, right? Because no amount of mediocre kind of deals can make up for missing Uber or whatever, Zoom or Arista or whatever you want to say. No amount of things can make up for missing something that…”
May 21, 2018 negative
May 21, 2018 bullish
Dan Scheinman wrote a seed check to Eric Yuan before seeing a pitch
“And so at that moment, to be honest, I didn't even care what he was doing. I said, I'm going to write you a check. I'm in because you're the kind of leader that it almost doesn't matter what you're building. I believe in you. And I did write him a check”
May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018
Founders in top deals often ask angel investors to forego pro rata
“And the other thing that happens in good deals is the founder frequently doesn't want you to do your pro rata because they want to give the new investors as much room as possible. So I found that there's an alignment generally in the good deals that, hey, stic…”
May 21, 2018 bullish
Dan Scheinman predicts a return to large-scale tech M&A
“So I have, for a variety of reasons, not Participated in secondaries so far, and I believe that there will be exits, that great companies eventually will exit, that we will see a return to some larger M&A in markets where it becomes so critical for some of the…”