Dax Dasilva

7 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 9, 2024 by Dax Dasilva · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Aug 9, 2024
Assertion Supported
Dax Dasilva conducted his first layoffs in nearly 19 years at Lightspeed
“I'd never done layoffs personally at the company, and that's almost been 19 years, you know.”
Dax Dasilva Aug 9, 2024 ▶ 27:28 Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 9, 2024 positive
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Dax Dasilva: Quadrupling initial pricing transformed Lightspeed's revenue and product development
“Showed that business plan to a colleague of my father, and he was like, times four. Multiply that, that, that price times four. And I was like, that's crazy. Like, I can't ask for times four. That changed everything. We had four times the revenue. We had four …”
Dax Dasilva Aug 9, 2024 ▶ 42:12 Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 9, 2024 positive
Insight
Dax Dasilva: Writing a multi-year business plan is necessary for founders
“I think people are a little bit scared by the rigor of what Having to write an essay and then have a three year spreadsheet of what you're going to do. I don't know. I think it's necessary. I don't think we'd be the same company if we weren't forced to do that…”
Dax Dasilva Aug 9, 2024 ▶ 40:33 Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 9, 2024 positive
Insight
Dasilva: Physical retail stores are more eco-friendly than e-commerce shipping
“If you think about retail stores as like a local warehouse, they don't, they're not sending boxes to your house. You're going to a place where it's already there and you make a selection. I think that these are environmental choices and not only people thinks …”
Dax Dasilva Aug 9, 2024 ▶ 49:28 Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 9, 2024 positive
Insight
Dax Dasilva: Balancing profit and growth is a positive constraint for enterprise value
“I think that maybe because we were so growth-oriented I thought that the balancing of profit and growth sounded like something really limiting, but actually now, now I feel like it's a really positive constraint that's going to build like that long-term busine…”
Dax Dasilva Aug 9, 2024 ▶ 44:29 Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 9, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dax Dasilva: Lightspeed must refocus after overexpanding products and regions
“And I think right now, now that I've been back at Lightspeed for five months as CEO, you know, I was executive chair for two years. I think there are areas where it's going to be helpful for us to focus again, where we've decided to like spread our wings, mayb…”
Dax Dasilva Aug 9, 2024 ▶ 14:49 Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 9, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dasilva Coded Until 4 AM Daily During Lightspeed's First Two Years
“The first two years I coded literally till four in the morning every day.”
Dax Dasilva Aug 9, 2024 ▶ 0:00 Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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