Data Collective
also referred to as: dc
10 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 8, 2016 by Matt Ocko · said 10 times in 6 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Jonathan Abrams (4), Harry Stebbings (3), Paul Martino (1), Matt Ocko (1), Jason Lemkin (1)
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2017 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- 20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on Why "All Fund Size Models Are Wrong" and The Lifecycle of Current Venture Funds Is Inefficient?
- 20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- 20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- 20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Data Collective, oldest first
Aug 8, 2016
Aug 8, 2016 positive
Data Collective avoided micro-VC fund size to write larger initial checks
“We made a very conscious decision from the very beginning of our first institutional fund not to be a micro VC, not to be in the 30 to fifty million dollar fund size category, because if you disagree with conventional wisdom about a series A and you want to wr…”
Aug 8, 2016 positive
Aug 8, 2016 bullish
Tradeshift serves 1M businesses, dwarfing competitor Ariba's footprint
“They have almost a million discrete companies in a 140 countries worldwide from tiny companies in China up to a huge chunk of the fortune 100 addicted to their stuff. And they dwarf the footprint of Ariba and any other, you know, would be competitor.”
Aug 8, 2016 neutral
Aug 8, 2016 neutral
Data Collective passed on Gusto follow-ons because it wasn't deep tech
“We didn't follow on. We didn't raise our hand to be the big dog in successive rounds. And it had nothing to do with the quality of the company. And people trust us when we explain that because the company was a wonderfully engineered, great SAS company deliver…”
Aug 8, 2016 bullish
Three Scan maps tissue 1,000x faster than human pathologists
“So follow on, three scan, because they are transforming both drug development and medicine by delivering a three D map From the subcellular level all the way up to complete organ systems a thousand times faster and with essentially infinitely greater accuracy …”
Aug 8, 2016 negative
Ordinary founders cannot build high-growth startups while sleeping eight hours
“Ordinary, ordinary humans like us can't respond to the demands of a truly successful startup. One that has this hard, sharp arc of takeoff and sleep eight hours and cook our own organic breakfast and get in a brisk Six mile walk and then write a little bit of …”
Nov 21, 2016 negative
Ocko: High-growth startup founders cannot sleep eight hours a night
“Ordinary, ordinary humans like us can't respond to the demands of a truly successful startup, one that has this hard, sharp arc of takeoff and sleep eight hours and cook our own organic breakfast and get in a brisk six mile walk and then write a little bit of …”