Dave Vasen
7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 14, 2018 by Dave Vasen · said 7 times in 3 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2019 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- 20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Dave Vasen, oldest first
Dec 14, 2018 negative
Vasen: VC pattern recognition introduces systemic bias and intellectual laziness
“I would tend to agree with Finn. I think I would say it can really work, and I imagine it can help lead to success in many situations, but I also think it can tend to introduce biases, and as Finn said, I think some level of laziness”
Dec 14, 2018
Vasen: Evaluating VCs during downturns yields better signals than success stories
“The situations that I think are very telling is when it doesn't go well, when there's an outcome that folks weren't happy about or things turned in the wrong direction, how people act in those situations, I think is really telling.”
Dec 14, 2018
Dec 14, 2018 positive
Dec 14, 2018
Vasen: Founder-VC relationships can be evaluated much faster than marriage
“I just think you can condense it more when it comes to an investing relationship, maybe more than a personal relationship. I think when it's time to fundraise, then you spend the time, you do your diligence, you back channel the And you think through one of th…”
Dec 14, 2018 negative
Vasen: Founders should 'always be building' rather than always raising
“For a CEO, I would probably change it to something like always be building. Put your time where it matters most at that moment, and fundraising is a component of that, but on a day-to-day basis, week-to-week basis, there's a lot of other areas that I think wil…”
Dec 14, 2018 positive
Vasen: Startup culture must be explicitly prescribed, not organic
“When I started the company, I thought culture had to be organic, a mixture of all the best things that the early employees would bring from their prior companies, and I was wrong. I think, you know, one of the biggest lessons that I've learned is that need to …”