Eric Vishria
21 statements across 4 episodes · 8 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2017 by Eric Vishria · said 41 times in 17 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Logan Bartlett (8), Harry Stebbings (8), Vince Hankes (6), Everett Randle (6), Miles Grimshaw (4), Sarah Tavel (1), Sarah Guo (1), Saam Motamedi (1)
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2026 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
- Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 8 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Eric Vishria, oldest first
Sep 25, 2017 neutral
Sep 25, 2017 bullish
An infrastructure revolution will power the next wave of consumer platforms
“These things are very cyclical, and again, this is overly simplistic, but I think we're in the midst of a infrastructure revolution. Maybe it's around ML, maybe it's around cloud, maybe it's some combination of these things that are coming together, and there …”
Sep 25, 2017 neutral
Vishria: Benchmark relies on a partner advocacy and voting system for investments
“Our investment process is one of advocacy of voting. So basically, there is an advocate. So one of the five of us falls in love with something, is probably the best way to describe it gets really excited about the entrepreneur and the opportunity All five of u…”
Sep 25, 2017 positive
Vishria: Capital constraints and operational discipline benefit the startup ecosystem
“I think constraints are generally good and yield really special things. You know, it's the story of the vines, the grapevines that kind of fight the hardest to produce the best grapes. And I think we, I like to see us go back to an environment that rewards ope…”
Sep 25, 2017 bullish
Vishria: Contentful closed six-figure US deals remotely before hiring in the US
“It's a Berlin-based company at the time, but there wasn't a single employee in the US, and yet they had built this incredible enterprise customer base of US companies, and that's just something that doesn't happen very often at all. You don't see companies clo…”
Sep 25, 2017 negative
Sep 25, 2017 positive
Vishria: Context switching across investment stages hurts VC decision-making
“I think the context switching in terms of like, if you think about how you evaluate seeds or how you evaluate growth or evaluate some of these other things? Or how do you evaluate making a kind of quote unquote active investment where you take a board seat ver…”
Aug 30, 2022 positive
Logan Bartlett names Benchmark's Eric Vishria as an A++ board member
“The one that I've internalized the most from and that I just have infinite amounts of respect for is Eric Vishria from Benchmark. Eric and I worked together on the Amplitude board, and now we have a new company Acuity MD together. And Eric is just, A++ as a bo…”
Sep 18, 2023 positive
Sep 25, 2024 neutral
Vishria: AI monetization won't rely on $20 subscriptions or API calls
“And, like, it's not gonna be a 20 dollar a month subscription, that's not, like, the right way and it's not gonna be just, like, bundled API call, like, it's, there's gonna be much, much more sophistication and interesting models in that.”
Sep 25, 2024 neutral
Sep 25, 2024 positive
Sep 25, 2024
Vishria: Benchmark never considers portfolio construction or fund timing
“You know, I think one of the things that we maybe think about almost not at all Is almost never think about like fun cycle or fun timing or anything else. And we almost never think about or talk about portfolio construction or anything else.”
Sep 25, 2024 bullish
Benchmark AI startups achieve years of SaaS scale in under a year
“The quickness of the scale is, is, is unlike, it's like three, four, five years of what SAS company, like your traditional SAS companies were doing. We're seeing in under a year and we have a whole portfolio of companies that are like this.”
Sep 25, 2024 negative
Vishria: Incumbents must burn down existing businesses to execute AI platform shifts
“And in order to make the platform shift for a company, like what you're articulating, You have to kind of be willing to burn down the existing business and at least in short order. And there's a whole bunch of entrepreneurs who don't do that.”
Sep 25, 2024
Vishria: Benchmark has no sector specialists and maintains four to six partners
“I am not a sector specialist and nobody at Benchmark is. And I think the fundamental idea with Benchmark is there's a small group of people, a small group of partners who are all equal. And right now it's five of us, but sometimes it's four, sometimes it's six…”
Sep 25, 2024
Vishria: I should have broken comp rules to hire key talent
“There were a couple times or two people and specifically that I think about where like what they wanted in comp and what I was like willing to give were separate. Like they were just off and they were so far out of market in terms of what their ask was. And I …”
Sep 25, 2024 negative
Vishria: Early unit economics never extrapolate to $200M revenue scale
“I've worked on five companies that have gone from zero to more than 200 and revenue, and like, in not a single case did the economics at the very early stage, like, extrapolate all the way. Like, it's just not a thing. Not, not even the economics from when the…”
Sep 25, 2024
Sep 25, 2024
Vishria: Passes on viable startups if he cannot pitch recruits
“When you look at that, I ask myself that question. And if I answer is like, you know what, I think it's a cool business. It'll probably work, but I just don't understand how I can make that pitch. Then I don't do it. Like, that's my, like, I just, I don't do i…”
Sep 25, 2024 negative
Vishria: Rapid zero-to-$4M ARR scaling in AI holds almost no value
“I was talking to a team that had gone like this last week, I was talking to a team that had gone like zero to four million, a four person team, zero to four million in four months. Amazing. Like just amazing kind of revenue trajectory. But I put like almost no…”