David Waxman
11 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 29, 2017 by David Waxman · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Nov 29, 2017 bearish
Waxman: Selling late-stage Uber stakes on secondaries makes sense to reallocate capital
“I think that there probably are some sensible situations that probably if I were an Uber now, not to pick on them, I would be ready to be liquid and figure that the, you know, maybe the next billion dollars I could catch somewhere else.”
Nov 29, 2017 bullish
Nov 29, 2017 negative
Waxman: Standard pitch deck TAM slides showing massive markets are virtually useless
“And every, you see a lot of pitch decks now, every pitch deck seems to have the same slide It's got a big circle in it with the biggest number the founder can find, and it's pretty much a useless slide, right? The number almost doesn't matter because it's real…”
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Nov 29, 2017 neutral
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Waxman: Founders underestimate their leverage when Series A VCs commit to investing
“I think that they underestimate the power of the situation that they're in, because when one of those firms really decides that they want to invest in you, it's not, as you say, it's not a couple percent that's going to push them off.”
Nov 29, 2017
Waxman: Finance is prospective and more critical to startups than retrospective accounting
“Finance and accounting are totally different disciplines. Finance is Completely prospective, and it's super important for startups. It helps guide where you're going, helps you model the future, helps keep the company on the right track. Accounting is retrospe…”
Nov 29, 2017 negative
Nov 29, 2017 neutral
Waxman: No early Uber investor imagined it growing beyond black car industry
“I doubt that if you went back, and maybe some are revising history, I don't know, but I doubt if you went back to any of the investors who looked at Uber, I doubt any of them imagined that it could be bigger than the black car industry. And maybe a few imagine…”