early stage

“Early, by definition, you don't know the companies that you're going to see because they, you know, they were just born, you know, maybe a few weeks ago, sometimes a few months ago. So you always discover. So that's all about getting as many leads in your pipe…”

“So we think that the ability to generate venture returns, quote unquote, you have the greatest chance at the early stage.”

“Doing that, and then you're going to see a lot of spin-outs from a lot of the big firms with guys focusing on early stage.”

“The biggest problem with the big firms that have had these additions of growth and later stage things, they're the tension between early stage I think Doug said, you know, if you, once you get out of early stage, you have private equity. He's absolutely right.…”

“I think ultimately the correction will trickle down to the early stages. It's just going to take time. I mean, it's just going to be a delayed reaction at the end of the day, the micro always needs to dominate.”

“The North Star metric is not a panacea. Just defining, finding the perfect metric as your NSM is actually not necessary, right? Like you when you're, especially when you're early stage what you're mainly looking for is, is my product resonating, right?”

“Hiring to senior. They tell me, yes, I'm excited going back early stage and getting my hands dirty. That has never came out to be true.”

“In the early stage, you're taking uncorrelated business risk, and in the late stage, you're taking a hundred percent correlated valuation risk.”