Ethan Kurzweil
7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 28, 2017 by Ethan Kurzweil · said 14 times in 8 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 5 mentions in 1 episode
2021 3 mentions in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader's Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like
- 20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- 20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about Ethan Kurzweil, oldest first
Jun 28, 2017 neutral
Bessemer Passed on Dollar Shave Club by Overanalyzing Unit Economics
“It was Dollar Shave Club meeting meeting Michael, the founder there very early on, and just, I was always very, he was just an impressive guy. You could see it in his videos. You can see it in his personality. This is someone that'll just will this thing to su…”
Jun 28, 2017 negative
Jun 28, 2017 neutral
Jun 28, 2017 negative
Bessemer Passed on Yammer by Overfocusing on Technical Buyers
“Well, one early on in my career was a company called Yammer that we missed. You know, I had a number of opportunities to invest, and I think the reason we missed is we were very focused in those days, the developer platform, on selling a sort of API-like servi…”
Jun 28, 2017 bearish
Jun 28, 2017 negative
Kurzweil: Accelerators Reduce Early Founder Screening Without Making Scaling Easier
“Being an entrepreneur has become sort of trendy in recent years, as I'm sure you're aware, and it's not for everyone. And so there, there's less of a natural screening process. It just comes with the leap now because there's so many accelerators and things tha…”
Jun 28, 2017 bullish
Kurzweil: Next Developer Platforms Will Tackle AI and Deep Learning
“I think the next frontier is to take the deeper technical challenges, the data science, the artificial intelligence, which is, I know, a very hot buzzword these days, but the, you know, the practical applications of it are going to be real, as well as neural n…”