European founders

“One thing I've actually noticed is that the European founders care about having a US investor.”

“In Europe, of course, it's the antithesis of that, right? Like, they're not even aware at How good they are in particular areas, let alone the fact that they're much better than they think they are in other areas.”

“Part of the reason it's hard to do investing here is that often by the time you meet founders, they've conditioned themselves to, like, reduce the ambition in the pitch, because they're just, you know, being so used to people being like, well, that's not very …”

“I think the quality of European founders is much worse than the US”

“I'd say an average. Yes. When you speak to not only Americans also, I know you go to Tel Aviv, you also feel that that, that, that just feel smaller. And then you look at the business you have and they have not nothing to envy.”

“A lot of people say it's harder than you think, where I think it's actually easier than you think. Because I said it's hard, yes, but it's easier than in Europe. People buy faster.”

“If a young founder, European founder came to me, it's like, Hey, I have this brilliant idea of how to use AI or like a new model or something like that. What should I do? It's like a hundred percent. Go to Silicon Valley. A hundred percent. You absolutely maxi…”

“And if Europe want to be a hub for excellence and innovation, the rules and regulations we have are forcing founders to still, I think, gravitate towards the US.”

“One of my things in the firm is I say, we should back every single European founder who moves to the US. Like, we should just reflexively say yes.”