entrepreneur
also referred to as: entrepreneurs
152 statements across 121 episodes · 39 bullish · 38 bearish · 111 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2015 by Bob Ghoorah · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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Jan 13, 2015 positive
Jan 13, 2015 positive
Jan 22, 2015 positive
Ahmed: Founders should conduct as much due diligence on VCs as VCs do on them
“Entrepreneurs, before they take money from someone, should ask as many questions and do as, and should do as much diligence as the investors do on the entrepreneurs. It's a bi-directional relationship. It should never be unidirectional.”
Jan 26, 2015 bullish
Feb 18, 2015
Founders with empathy for investors make delivering returns their top priority
“So I'd say as an entrepreneur, you have a lot more empathy for your investors, and you really get to the point where you want to You know, do well by them, and that, that becomes a very, very high priority, if not your top priority.”
Apr 13, 2015 positive
Techstars prioritizes former founders over industry experts for Managing Director roles
“But first and foremost, Techstars looks for entrepreneurs for their MDs. He said, you know, you can find industry experts all you want, but what's actually really hard to find are people who have, you know, gone through the VC races, been rejected multiple tim…”
May 7, 2015 negative
May 7, 2015
May 11, 2015 positive
May 14, 2015 positive
Von Perger: Startup pitch follow-ups should highlight fresh traction milestones
“I would include success stories. So by the way, we've signed, you know three more clients and we've had a real good new hire. To make it really worth the while for the investor to think, ah, you know, even if I wasn't so excited the first time sort of to get r…”
Jul 29, 2015
Aug 26, 2015 positive
Levine: Financial independence makes founders more passionate, not less
“We sometimes talk about entrepreneurs who've had, you know, had their first win, and maybe they're not as worried about, you know, buying that house that they want, or, you know, the ability to send their kids to college. And in a lot of cases, they become eve…”
Aug 31, 2015 positive
Sep 6, 2015 negative
Sep 6, 2015 negative
Oct 7, 2015 neutral
Kamal Ravikant: Startup success requires unglamorous weekend work, not media glamor
“If you're doing a real, like the real entrepreneurs, everyone I've known who's succeeded, especially people who succeeded multiple times, there was nothing sexy about what they're doing. You know, you watch their weekends, you watch their time. They're just si…”
Oct 7, 2015 neutral
Oct 7, 2015 negative
Nov 4, 2015
Suster: Prior founder experience gives VCs a key coaching advantage
“I feel like you're at a great advantage if you've been an entrepreneur, because so much about being a good coach, being a good mentor, is really understanding the journey that the entrepreneur is going through psychologically, physically, emotionally, and what…”
Nov 25, 2015
Waterhouse: Entrepreneurship requires a degree of irrationality and blind belief
“If you're completely rational, then I think it's, it can be very hard to be an entrepreneur because being an entrepreneur, it requires you convincing yourself and other people that you're going to do something which frankly is highly unlikely to succeed. And s…”
Nov 25, 2015 negative
Nov 25, 2015 neutral
Waterhouse: Long-term investing experience matches direct operator backgrounds for VCs
“I think it's important to have been close enough to what it takes to build a business so that you can truly empathize with entrepreneurs as they go on that journey. Now, whether you do that by having done it yourself in one particular field, one particular sec…”
Nov 25, 2015
Waterhouse: Too much experience makes founders overly cynical and risk-averse
“And there's no perfect answer to this, and we're back to all sorts of entrepreneurs and who've been successful and they don't all look the same, but it seems to me that it's often, there's a benefit of some experience because you know, you've learned some of t…”
Dec 16, 2015
Feb 1, 2016 positive
Mignot: Personal risk as a founder builds essential VC empathy
“I think that the most important thing is really that you get to know and see the world, you know, through the eyes of an entrepreneur being on the other side of the table. And most importantly, I think really feeling the stress of and what taking risk really m…”
Feb 8, 2016 negative
Feb 22, 2016 positive
Tim Draper: Aspiring VCs do not need prior entrepreneurial experience
“Some people are become very good venture capitalists just coming straight. I think if you want to be an entrepreneur, you should just go be an entrepreneur. If you want to be a venture capitalist, you should just go be a venture capitalist.”
Mar 23, 2016 positive
Kaden: Founders must ask VCs about their follow-on capital reserve processes
“So I think more entrepreneurs should ask how firms can reserve capital. What is their process for reserving capital? What is their process for follow on investments? How are those decisions made? And understanding from the get go what the support process is go…”
May 20, 2016
Jun 13, 2016
Clarkson: LPs evaluate VCs based on why founders choose their capital
“I always want to know why you, because for me, that captures the, have you thought about who you are as an investor, what you want to invest in, and why the entrepreneur is going to pick you versus all the other sources of capital that are available in the mar…”
Jun 15, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 positive
Orloff: Failed founders learn more than employees at successful startups
“But I think, and I see now as a CEO of a fast growing company that I like entrepreneurs, even if they failed, because you learn so much through the failing process even more so than I think just being a contributor towards the success of Or just another compan…”
Jul 20, 2016 neutral
Venture capital is inverted because entrepreneurs select their fund managers
“Today, the entrepreneurs are picking the managers. This is in stark contrast to any other asset class. So in any other asset class, you can look at a great manager and you can assess their ability to pick securities. Ok, so it's a security selection. So ventur…”
Aug 29, 2016
Sep 21, 2016 positive
Skok: Blogging helps founders organize thoughts and attract relevant support
“I do encourage entrepreneurs to blog because I think rather than reading other people's blogging for yourself is actually, first of all, great therapy, and secondly, it brings people to understand how they might help you.”
Sep 21, 2016 negative
Sep 21, 2016
Sep 26, 2016 positive
Founder sentiment is the leading indicator of a VC's potency
“So we find that founders and entrepreneurs are leading opinions are the leading indicators of the relevancy and potency of a VC Find that many LPs opinion of a VC's brand is actually a lagging indicator. The most powerful form of social proof for us is the opi…”
Nov 14, 2016 neutral
Nov 14, 2016 positive
Marini: Demonstrating pre-investment value motivates founders to include investors
“So for me, I would rather prove out my expertise to an entrepreneur. I would rather contribute to the ecosystem. And hope that they see that value, and instead of cutting me out of a deal, they're more motivated to bring me in.”
Nov 28, 2016
O'Driscoll: Most Startup Founders Cannot Accurately Calculate Market Size
“Just as I don't know how to do 10 things that the VP of engineering at a company does, I've now long since recognized that most entrepreneurs calculate
Can't calculate the market size, and their estimates are invariably wrong.”
Nov 30, 2016
Dec 7, 2016 negative
Kara Nortman: Founders focusing on exits in first pitch are a red flag
“Somebody who's talking about exit in the first meeting. And I should say not, and not exit in terms of, you know, because we may ask that sometimes, hey, where does this go? What happens? Who do you think might this might be a part of someday more like they're…”
Jan 11, 2017 positive
Learning from failure predicts founder success better than early perfection
“Tell me everything that's gone wrong and what you've learned from that and how you changed, because that's going to be, that's, I think, a more important indicator of long-term success than just getting all the things right.”
Jan 30, 2017 negative
Jan 30, 2017
Mendelson: Pre-board materials transform board meetings into strategy sessions
“When you give me information ahead of time, you as the entrepreneur should hold me accountable that I've read everything. I've digested everything. If I have any questions, I ask before the board meeting so that the board meeting becomes a strategy meeting, no…”
Feb 27, 2017 neutral
Belsky: Founders struggle by prioritizing long-term gains over initial onboarding
“Entrepreneurs struggle because they are always focused on that long-term gain from using a product, and they're always trying to get people invested in the product in order to get that benefit, when in fact, they should just be focusing on the first mile.”
May 8, 2017 positive
May 12, 2017 positive
Finkelstein: Law school acts as finishing school for entrepreneurs
“In many ways, I think law school was a little bit like finishing school or etiquette school for entrepreneurs. I teach you how to write really well, which of course is really important when you're running a company. It teaches you how to be articulate and teac…”
May 17, 2017 neutral
Jun 14, 2017 neutral
Aug 2, 2017 positive
Aug 23, 2017 negative
Sep 8, 2017 negative
Raising under $150,000 is one of the biggest mistakes founders make
“So one of the biggest mistakes I hear is entrepreneurs raising so little capital. They're saying, I just need 50,000 dollars to do this, or I'm just going to raise You know, 75, 150,000 dollars, which gives very little room for error or experimentation and giv…”
Sep 8, 2017
Sep 8, 2017 negative
Founders who stretch a $1M seed round over six years are weak
“What would be the worst for me is to hear, you know, six years from now, same entrepreneur comes back. Hey, Wayne, thanks for the million dollar check. I was able to make it last for six years. That to me is the worst type of entrepreneur because they, they're…”
Sep 8, 2017
Founders should never tell VCs which other investors they are meeting
“You never reveal who you're talking to the others, because VCs will always try to back channel each other. So you says entrepreneur raising, I believe you should never reveal while you're fundraising, who else you're fundraising from. That's only to your detri…”
Sep 18, 2017
Nov 17, 2017
Barrett: Founders should work in secret until success cannot be hidden
“I think work hard in secrets because it keeps your failures private, and they're hard enough in private, but they're really hard when they're public. And so just work hard. Don't say anything to anyone until you are such a success that you just can't hide it a…”
Nov 22, 2017
Founders Should Only Take Strategic Corporate Investment in Later Rounds
“So as entrepreneurs are considering strategic investment, I think it's something that they should do in later rounds of financing, and they should only do it if they know the company pretty well and feel very comfortable that that's where they would like to be…”
Jan 26, 2018 negative
Neil Young: VCs who slow roll founders waste time and lose deals
“I would most like to see VCs respecting the time of entrepreneurs. I can tell you that when I go spend time talking to a VC, there's three types of interaction I have. There's one interaction, which is like very exciting. Holy shit. We have to work together. T…”
Feb 12, 2018
Costolo: CEOs must compartmentalize and focus strictly on high-leverage priorities
“As an entrepreneur and a CEO, you have to be able to compartmentalize. Otherwise, you know, you go insane because there are always 50 fires you can be thinking about fighting and worrying about. You have to choose what you're going to focus on. Focus on those …”
Feb 12, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 positive
Founders should pick individual VC partners over firm brands
“Vice says CEO is that ultimately an entrepreneur's relationship with VCs is with one individual of the firm. You rarely see other partners, so picking the right GP for you is the most important and not the firm, and I've seen that to be very true.”
Apr 30, 2018 negative
Jun 25, 2018 positive
Max Motschwiller: Top founders need outside lead investors to validate market pricing
“They want, for the most part, want an outside lead to come and price the round, right? If they don't take this to market at all, they just have no sense for what market is. If all they do is listen to an offer from their insiders, they don't know if their insi…”
Jul 23, 2018
Sep 21, 2018 negative
Oct 15, 2018
Oct 29, 2018 negative
Nov 9, 2018
Jan 11, 2019 negative
Meir: Investors who mistreat founders quickly lose reputation because founders talk
“We do talk, and something for investors to note, I think, is everybody knows it, but I think it's important to remind everybody that we talk between us, right? Don't screw entrepreneurs because everybody will know, right?”
Jan 15, 2019 negative
Destin: Dysfunctional boards focus on reporting over forward-looking decisions
“Dysfunctional boards tend to be reporting boards where there is distrust with the entrepreneur, usually because they don't spend enough time with the company and, or they forgot, they lost the empathy of understanding what the, what journey the company is on a…”
Apr 22, 2019
Apr 22, 2019
Liew: In venture capital, there is no prize for second place
“There's no prize for second place. If you almost got the entrepreneur to choose you, but they ended up taking a temperature from someone else, it doesn't matter. Like, it didn't matter that you identified this was a great opportunity if you didn't get to inves…”
Jun 3, 2019
Jun 10, 2019
Kupor: VCs must engage entrepreneurs 12 to 18 months before fundraising
“I think that what that means is the onus is really on us as venture capitalists to get to know entrepreneurs way earlier in the cycle. And so I think the biggest thing that we've got to do to kind of try and address that problem is we need to be talking to ent…”
Jun 28, 2019
Aug 9, 2019
Hiten Shah: Nobody in tech actually knows what they are doing
“I think the number one lesson there was basically nobody knows what they're doing. And that's not just them. That's also me. And I've also met with many investors and many other folks, even folks that worked at companies and nobody really knows what they're do…”
Sep 30, 2019 negative
Oct 28, 2019
Nov 11, 2019
Board decisions about headcount and expense cuts demand deep founder empathy
“Well, I think there's probably two things in that you don't really understand. And I was not a operator before when I was first in BC and then became an entrepreneur that you want, you understand that you have to have a deep empathy for entrepreneurs, right? W…”
Dec 30, 2019
VC incentives diverge from founders on $100 million versus billion-dollar exits
“Entrepreneurs are often surrounded by venture investors, perhaps very successful venture investors, that may have motivations that somewhat differ from that of the entrepreneur, but the entrepreneur may be going through it for the first time. The VC may have d…”
Feb 24, 2020
Feb 24, 2020
Feb 24, 2020 negative
Khosla: Most VC Board Members Are Unqualified to Advise Founders
“In fact, I would suggest that most board members, just because they went to business school and joined a venture firm, are not qualified to advise an entrepreneur. They're not qualified to challenge an entrepreneur. They're not even qualified to help them judg…”
Jul 27, 2020 negative
Brad Feld: Constant entrepreneurial striving is bullshit and causes struggle
“Stopping striving is pretty enlightening, because our programming as people, as entrepreneurs especially, Is that you must constantly be striving to achieve the next goal or the next outcome. What a load of bullshit. And the words themselves kind of make me sh…”
Aug 3, 2020 neutral
Jurvetson Asks Founders for 20-Year Vision to Weed Out Opportunists
“I like to ask every entrepreneur somewhere towards the end of the first pitch meeting, what does the company look like in 20 years? And I got to tell you, I get responses all over the map. The worst is they look at me with incredulous eyes or even laugh at the…”
Aug 17, 2020
Feb 4, 2021
Fishner-Wolfson: Great founders expand their addressable market by entering adjacent markets
“At the end of the day, you can't be bigger than your market, but you might be able to expand Expand your market by redefining it, or you may be able to move into adjacent markets, and therefore, the ultimate opportunity is much bigger, right?”
Feb 18, 2021 positive
Simkoff: Naivete is a founder's most dangerously powerful skill
“The more you know about an industry, the more reasons you have not to start a company or grow a business, right? It's too hard. Did you like understand the competitive landscape? I don't know if you remember this conversation, but we talked about how like naiv…”
Apr 8, 2021
Apr 12, 2021 positive
May 20, 2021
May 24, 2021
Jun 21, 2021
Sunak: Talent and infrastructure matter more to founders than tax rates
“I hear that more than I hear about tax when I talk to businesses or entrepreneurs. Skills and people are probably the most important thing. And then things that the government is doing to invest in, whether it's R&D, innovation, and in infrastructure, whether …”
Jul 26, 2021
Shalek: Core VC metric is whether top founders choose your firm
“A friend of mine has a theory that any decision or any investment can be whittled down to like One single most important question. And for me in venture capital, that's like, will great entrepreneurs consider working with us? You know, there are lots of good p…”
Aug 16, 2021
Founder References Are Never Stellar Because Founders Make Bad Employees
“And on the specific question about the references, we've got a bunch of cases, some of our best companies, we did references and they are Never stellar. They tend to be very good on some dimensions, but in most cases, if they were employees or managers in larg…”
Aug 30, 2021 positive
Claure: VCs should provide full capital upfront to avoid continuous fundraising
“We're believers in you have to provide an entrepreneur the right amount of capital on day one. Entrepreneurs should not be focused half their time trying to raise money and half the time trying to run a business. So why not provide the right amount of capital …”
Feb 28, 2022 negative
Avoiding loss analysis makes startup cultures fragile and dishonest
“I think one of the problems entrepreneurs have is they're great at sharing the good news, the attaboy, attagal, we won, but they're less inclined to want to open up and dig in on the losses, and it makes everybody feel fragile and dishonest.”
Jun 17, 2022 negative
Aug 8, 2022 positive
Investors Prefer Re-Backing Founders Who Shut Down Failing Startups Gracefully
“The investors are That are in your cap table today are infinitely more likely to back you again, watching you make that kind of mature decision as an entrepreneur, rather than watching you piss that money down the drain over the next two years, and actually, i…”
Oct 5, 2022 positive
Lewis: Vengeance is a crucial motivator for historic entrepreneurs
“I think the greatest entrepreneurs in history, and this is a sort of declassé thing to say, it's not really a appropriate thing to say, but I'm going to say it anyways. I think the greatest entrepreneurs in history, it's this combination of a life's work surfa…”
Oct 10, 2022
Gerstner: Having a chip on your shoulder puts chips in pockets
“I think there are a lot of people in Silicon Valley you know, and elsewhere as entrepreneurs that grew up, whether, you know, they're first generation, whether immigrant, whether they grew up poor, that chip on the shoulder puts chips in pockets, as they say, …”
Nov 7, 2022
Armstrong: Entrepreneurs face existential crisis when fear-based motivation wanes
“I've seen a lot of entrepreneurs kind of go through this existential moment of crisis after they start to lose the initial thing that was driving them like fear, anger, and then they have to move towards, you know, something that brings them actual joy or love…”
Nov 21, 2022 negative
Jan 6, 2023
Founders make a mistake by comparing customer counts with competitors
“This is, I think something entrepreneurs get wrong all the time. They compare themselves to someone else and they go, how many customers do they have? How many customers do they have? All that matters is do we have enough customers to make our own business wor…”
Mar 3, 2023 negative
Siminoff: VC Overfunding Harmed Entrepreneurs by Pushing Them Toward Wrong Goals
“It over watered the grapes and that was an unfair thing to do to entrepreneurs. It actually hurt the entrepreneurs. It gave too much money to too many people too fast and the wrong goals. And it led people who are great people into the wrong places that it rea…”
Mar 20, 2023 positive
Apr 14, 2023 positive
Marcus: Naivety is essential for founders to achieve the seemingly impossible
“Oh, of course. It's essential because if you know too much for your own good, then you know all the things that are not possible. And that basically prevents you from doing the things that everyone else think are impossible. And that's one of the hallmark of e…”
Apr 14, 2023
Marcus: Settling on candidates to fill roles fast creates mediocre companies
“It's really not to compromise. I've seen many young entrepreneurs or early entrepreneurs they need to fill a role and instead of taking another month or a couple of months to find the right candidate, just hire the person in front of them because they need som…”
Apr 28, 2023 negative
Guo: Incumbent data moats are overrated against creative founders
“Much ado has been made about this idea of like a data moat. I'm sure you've heard this term, but honestly, there's a lot of data out there and entrepreneurs are incredibly creative about collecting it and increasingly about generating it.”
Jun 2, 2023 negative
Guo: Incumbent data moats are overblown in the AI race
“Much ado has been made about this idea of a data moat, but honestly, there's a lot of data out there, and entrepreneurs are incredibly creative about collecting it, and increasingly about generating it, and I don't think it's, ah, the incumbents are gonna win …”
Jul 10, 2023 positive
Sinek: Productive dissenters who point out flaws are highly valuable team members
“There are people who are productive dissenters. Who, yeah, they have a natural inclination, and dare I call it a gift, for seeing all the things that are wrong, all the problems, and all the cracks. And all they do is talk about all the things that are wrong a…”
Aug 21, 2023
Aug 21, 2023
Huber: Advice from successful people is risky for new entrepreneurs
“And also is that everybody who gives advice is a successful person because, you know, you got to have a resume to make your advice weighted, so all the people who have the most, you know, Clout and, you know, status on Twitter, they're all successful people, a…”
Aug 21, 2023 negative
Huber: Refusing to leave an inheritance is a parenting cop-out
“A lot of entrepreneurs kind of brag about the fact that they're not going to give anything to their kids. They say it like I am going, I'm going to give all my money away and my kids will find, will get their own cash or opportunity or whatever it is. I think …”
Sep 11, 2023 positive
Velez: Fintech startups should obtain banking licenses instead of avoiding regulation
“The sense is that in a lot of our geographies, entrepreneurs try to almost do everything except embracing the space, except becoming a bank. Because of some arguments that if you became a bank, then your valuation multiple was going to be lower and you're goin…”
Sep 13, 2023
Oct 16, 2023 negative
Oct 16, 2023
Dec 1, 2023 positive
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Davis Smith: The Greatest Entrepreneurs Are Incredible Salespeople
“The greatest entrepreneurs are incredible salespeople. They know how to sell. They know how to sell a vision. They know how to sell an idea. They know how to sell a product. And so you're selling every single day as an entrepreneur. And I think that starts wit…”
Jan 22, 2024 positive
Fisher: Founders need a confidant partner, not a prescriptive investor
“One of the things that I eventually, ah, did myself when I started at Bessemer, ah, this is in 2000 and seven, was to, Take a very different approach to take this kind of partnership type of approach with the entrepreneur, because I realize what they really ne…”
Jan 22, 2024 negative
Fisher: Early venture capital was adversarial and paternalistic toward founders
“I worked back then at a time where it was much more adversarial relationship with entrepreneurs. The VCs kind of acted as if they knew what they were doing, that they knew the right way. A lot of these VCs were former Maybe entrepreneurs themselves, or at leas…”
Jan 22, 2024
Fisher: VCs act as lighthouses, not captains steering companies
“The analogy that I use is that we're not like you know, the entrepreneur is the captain of the ship, but we're not next door, you know, shouting which way to go. We're like the lighthouse. We just tell them where the rocks are so they don't crash, but we actua…”
Mar 18, 2024 negative
Raanan: Founders claiming universal customer love are misreading feedback
“Whenever entrepreneurs tell me that customers love what we do. Every customer we spoke with like to get our product, you know, like to get their hands on a product. You probably misunderstood the customer. You probably didn't listen well in a conversation. Tha…”
Mar 18, 2024 neutral
Mar 18, 2024 positive
Raanan: Seed founders should choose company-builder VCs over mere pickers
“I think that you pick early on, I mean, at the seed stages. I would go, if I'm an entrepreneur and I like to build a large business, I would go after the style of company builders. And there are many terrific investors who are not company builders. They are si…”
Apr 5, 2024
Harry Stebbings: Top entrepreneurs always show early signs of exceptionalism
“The best entrepreneurs show early signs of exceptionalism always. It could be in sport. It could be in a business. They start very, very young. It could be in designing websites for local businesses, but there's always a sign of exceptionalism early.”
Apr 22, 2024 negative
Dines: Founders Who Skip Early Operational Struggles Fail During Tough Decisions
“Abundance creates monsters. It's like you cannot have a tennis player that just go and plays Wimbledon and win Wimbledon. They have to go through junior or they have to, it's 10 years. Right? From maybe seven to 17 that makes a tennis player. I don't think the…”
May 29, 2024
Schroepfer: Passing on great founders in weak initial markets caused biggest misses
“The biggest like misses I've made Is sort of trying to outsmart the entrepreneur, and that's basically, ooh, I love that entrepreneur. They're so good, but like, I don't really like the market they're in, and then they pivot into a different market that I real…”
Jun 10, 2024
Open Internet Enables More Startup Innovation Than Gated Mobile Ecosystems
“That's always the challenge in startups, and it's one of the reasons why the internet has been much better for entrepreneurs than mobile ecosystems, because the mobile, mobile ecosystems Are controlled by solitary providers in ways that the internet is not. An…”
Jun 26, 2024 positive
Jul 3, 2024 positive
Jul 10, 2024
Oct 2, 2024
Oct 2, 2024
Oct 14, 2024 negative
Oct 14, 2024
Oct 14, 2024 negative
Dec 6, 2024
Bookman: Entrepreneurial drive is fueled by a desire to prove worthiness
“I think there's probably something like this in a lot of entrepreneurs. You would have more experience in it than me talking to so many entrepreneurs as you do, but there's the, you know, Wanting to prove that, you know, I'm good enough or I'm worthy, that kin…”
Dec 13, 2024 negative
Dec 13, 2024 positive
Feb 5, 2025
Levchin: Drive and grit cannot be taught
“Drive and grit that is the other side of that coin are rare. And people who have it end up being entrepreneurs or something resembling entrepreneurship because it is such an unstoppable force. Which is amazing. Like, if you don't have it, it's a thing you can'…”
Feb 14, 2025
Apr 7, 2025
Garcia: Entrepreneurship requires stubbornness and egomaniacal self-belief
“And so I think that there's a lot of good that comes out of being stubborn. I think there's a lot of good that comes out of self belief which could also be, you know, restated as being an egomaniac. But I do think that's what entrepreneurs are. I think it's re…”
May 12, 2025
Jul 24, 2025 positive
Aug 11, 2025 negative
Mignot: Mega VC funds benefit managers financially but not entrepreneurs
“I think this push towards larger asset gathering is very good for VCs who do it. You know, it can make a lot of sense financially. It can make a lot of sense for them. I'm not sure it makes so much sense for the entrepreneurs themselves.”
Aug 7, 2026 negative
Frankel: Mega-Fund Seed Checks Are "Call Options" Bad for 95% of Founders
“Well, the problem is the mega platforms are taking call options. So is this good for the mega platforms? Is this good for the LPs or is this good for the entrepreneurs? Well, probably for 95% of the entrepreneurs, it's not good.”