early-stage venture

“And that's the nature of early stage venture is that five percent of those investments generate 95% of their turns.”

“If you're really, really good at early stage venture, that's where you want to be. You don't want to be at the Rosewood schmoozing with other VCs trying to figure out what they did and what, you know, what you can do to be a, you know, a little copy of that. Y…”

“And so I think that the notion that data is going to disrupt early-stage venture fast to me is somewhat exaggerated because I mean, we did some of that work at Accel. It is insanely hard to derive signal from the very Fuzzy nature of the early stage data we ge…”

“If you zoom out, Harry, big picture, if the company works, if it really works, it doesn't matter.”

“Well, you know, sometimes people posit it as, Customer happiness and usage versus revenue. When in fact, you know, they should be designed to work together. And the narrative, especially in an early stage venture, you know, needs to be about how one leads with…”