Dan Siroker
30 statements across 1 episodes · 13 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 15, 2024 by Dan Siroker · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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May 15, 2024
Siroker: Shipping features creates ongoing maintenance commitments, never single tasks
“I've never seen a situation where we'll ship a little feature and we're done. It's always like, oh shoot, now there's this edge case we didn't think about it. And then, oh, this other person wants to do this other thing. So you, it's like opening a commitment …”
May 15, 2024 positive
Siroker: Marquee VC brands mainly benefit talent recruiting
“I think it helps with recruiting. I think that's probably the biggest benefit. You know, great, great talent can work anywhere, and if they had the choice between a company that's got, you know, great marquee investors who, you know, who've done their homework…”
May 15, 2024 positive
Siroker: Why cutting hobbies and social life yields peak personal happiness
“I've cut out basically most of my, I don't spend much time with friends. I have basically no hobbies. You know, I, I'm reminded of this Rick Rubin quote. He's like, I have no technical skills. It's like that, but for my life, like all I do is spend time with m…”
May 15, 2024
Siroker: Cap ownership sold rather than giving raise targets to VCs
“So instead of answering the question how much you're raising, The best answer is, you know, we don't need to raise, so we don't have a budget we're driving. We want to sell no more than this percentage of the company, and we're letting the market decide the va…”
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May 15, 2024 positive
Siroker: Using founding engineer titles reduces early employee turnover risk
“To be a founding engineer is so much more meaningful to somebody, both in terms of their, you know, if, for example, if 80% of your friends are founders of companies and you are just a software engineer, but you started in your first employee, like that just p…”
May 15, 2024 negative
Siroker: Pitch decks opening with market map slides are immediate red flags
“You know, like that's what you're looking for is this founder market fit around the problem, not somebody who's like a McKinsey consultant who said like, if their first slide is here's the market map and here's the market size and, you know, here's the niche w…”
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Siroker: Giving early VP titles triggers company-wide title inflation
“Titles they're a bit weird because they're both kind of free to give in one sense, that it doesn't cost you more money, but they're expensive in that it creates this sort of, like, mutually assured destruction. You know, as soon as you give out that first VP t…”
May 15, 2024 positive
May 15, 2024 negative
Siroker: Job candidates bringing up titles in interviews is a red flag
“One thing I'll say about titles that I unequivocally believe is that if this is a something that a candidate brings up early or even during the interview process at all, it is a pretty red flag. It shows you kind of what their values are. The best people I've …”
May 15, 2024 bullish
Siroker: Limitless raised from hundreds of investors, hindering competitors
“One of the benefits side, unintended side benefits of the round we raised I do think kind of made everyone else's job. Who's a founder trying to compete with us much, much harder because first of all, we had hundreds of investors.”
May 15, 2024
Siroker: He would abandon Limitless hardware if software alone solved the problem
“We're building a hardware, we're building a wearable, If I can solve the same problems I want to solve without them, all for it. I'd be happy to do that. Hardware is hard. It's expensive. It's painful. I would happily give up hardware if I could solve the prob…”
May 15, 2024
Siroker: Limitless ran all first investor meetings within one week
“Last year, when we did this fundraise, I we did this kind of in public. We put the deck out, and then for any of the people we felt were good finalists, we gave them a calendar link for the first meetings, and those meetings are all one week, so no more than o…”
May 15, 2024 positive
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Siroker: Why he regrets not doing Y Combinator for his second startup
“I probably should have. I kind of regret not doing it. I think I was maybe too much pride and ego that I didn't need it. But YC has a lot of gifts to keep on giving, even if you're a second time founder, like work at a startup like office hours. So I am very i…”
May 15, 2024 negative
May 15, 2024 positive
Siroker: Back founders excited about smaller problems rather than social trends
“In some ways, actually, you kind of want to choose founders who are excited about smaller problems, because it tells you that they're not just falling in love with what they saw on Twitter or social media, that there's actually something they care about.”
May 15, 2024
Siroker: Saying 'yes' to raising money creates a dangerous signaling clock
“Are you raising money? And my answer almost always is, is never yes or no. They want just a yes or no. Usually it's some version of, well, no, but if over the next week we get a term sheet you can't say no to, we're probably going to take it. So that's somethi…”
May 15, 2024 positive
Siroker: Peter Fenton gave direct contact info for 12 portfolio founders
“Peter Fenton, when I asked for references on him at the time, he was this amazing luminary. I asked him for references. He gave me 12 founders and CEOs, their phone number, their email. He didn't even introduce me, just to just reach out. And then I got this g…”
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Siroker: Hone pitches via 30 back-to-back associate investor meetings
“When you have like, 30 back-to-back associate investor meetings where you're practicing your pitch and tweaking the deck every single meeting, by the end of that, you have this really, really honed product, like a stand-up meeting.”
May 15, 2024
Siroker: Optimizely tried to acquire Amplitude when it had four employees
“I tried to buy Amplitude when there are four people. In fact, they were about to raise their, I remember we're sitting at, I think at Chipotle and Soma with Spencer. And I, to this day, I'm so impressed with, I just, I was offering him insane amounts of money,…”
May 15, 2024 positive
Siroker: Second-time founders can recruit far higher-caliber talent
“The caliber of person that I can hire today is far, far better than the person I could have hired, you know, when I started optimizing. So I do think that's a huge factor as well. You can hire much better if you, and certainly if your first company did okay, d…”